World Power

In The Islamic World Powers, by Sultan Selim, the excerpt takes part in the conflict between the Sunni and Shah Ismail of Persia. During the excerpt, Selim quotes the Qur’an and describes his passion towards the Islamic God. As the article continues, Selim tells Shah Ismail of Persia that he is traveling the wrong path; therefore, Selim will build an army and take his down. Selim writes, “We have entered upon the campaign, and guided by the hand of the Almighty, we hope to strike down your…

A cause of conflict in world history is power control. Dictatorships and other totalitarian governments will have a single leader that will hold most or all the power. Giving all that power to one ruler will obviously cause major conflicts like war, power abuse, and problems like starvation and unright judicial punishment to people of said country. There has been totalitarian government since there has been governments, surprisingly enough, even today there are dictatorships in places like…

World War I, one of the largest conflicts in history, saw incredible technological advances in every aspect of a state at war: citizens revolutionizing manufacturing, engineers building increasingly deadly weapons, and generals constantly devising plans to outwit the enemy. However, the field that witnessed the greatest leap in innovation was undoubtedly aviation. In the prewar world of 1910, airplanes were an amusing novelty, often ignored by government and military officials with more…

Most Powerful State: Why and how the United States military should be the powerful in the world U.S. defense budget is $612 billion and despite spending cuts, this is more money spent on defense than the next ten highest spending countries combined. (Business Insider) The United States has the Air Force, Army, Marine Corps, Navy and Coast Guard. These US Armed Forces have 298 military bases in the United States and other 900 bases are in 130 countries overseas. (Political Fact and Military…

Japan’s aggressive military state was one of the main perpetrators in the creation of the second World War, especially in the Pacific. However, it can be argued that Japan was not essentially responsible for becoming a military state during its emergence as a world power. First, Japan seems to be the main instigator in the Pacific ten years before the actual beginning of World War II. Second, the West may be held accountable for creating this industrialized beast. Nevertheless, Japan is still…

of all time? While you may be thinking it is your High School English teacher, many people would argue that it is Adolph Hitler. Hitler rose to power during World War II and is infamous for slaughtering millions (“Adolf Hitler”). What is less known is Hitler’s rise to power before World War II. (“Adolf Hitler”) Hitler’s life and experiences before World War II made him into the monster that he was. (“Adolf Hitler”) Adolf Hitler was born in Braunau am Inn, Austria-Hungary on April 20 1889.…

Respected writer, Friedrich Durrenmatt, in his play The Visit, shows how power and wealth affects all aspects of life. Durrenmatt 's purpose is to raise the question of whether it is possible and morally right to buy justice, and if murder and personal revenge can constitute this justice and also the difference between what is justice and what is revenge. The purpose of The Visit is to also elucidate and shine light on the corruption of justice by wealth. In this play, Durrenmatt produces a…

as the Second World War. The reasons why the Axis Powers were not able to win the Second World War was due to their many weaknesses that held them back from world dominance. The weaknesses that the Axis Powers faced were their inability to win major battles, Italy itself was a weakness for the Axis Powers, the Axis Powers were limited by the great distances between Germany, and Japan for the most part, both Germany, and Japan fought separate wars, the final reason why the Axis Powers lost was…

Woodrow Wilson believed that if Germany and the Central Powers won World War I, it would ultimately have negative repercussions against the other countries, not just the United States. To prevent the Central Powers from winning the war, the United States’s joined the allied powers. There are many other reasons as to why the U.S. joined the allies, but the main rationale behind joining the war was to stop the unregulated submarine warfare. When Germany sunk the RMS Lusitania, that sent the United…

authorial perspective and purpose. Aldous Huxley’s subversive novel, Brave New World centres around individual and shared political perspectives and reflects a dichotomy of perspectives in which an innate bias is interwoven into Huxley’s personal interpretation of modernity. These interpretive representations assume a manipulation of language, content, and construction to emphasise the transcending influence of power in its ability to shelter and expose surrounding perceptions of political…