What Power Does Stephen King Use Or Abuse Of Power

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There is a man standing in front of you and he's aiming a gun at your head. This may sound as an extreme situation, but sadly, our society has turned into a place where people are afraid of simply going out for a while or just running to make an insignificant errand. So how would you act if you were in this position? You could use your powerful mind to control the situation without getting yourself or your attacker harmed, for example, you could put him to sleep. Maybe you could control his gun and throw it a few feet away. Being able to control people and objects could be the best and the worst power you could possibly ask for, depending on the usage you put into it. This is why I chose a power that's a combination of Stephen King's Carrie's telekinesis and Professor Xavier's vast telepathic abilities.
Having telepathic abilities means that you would be able to perceive others´ thoughts or even cooler, project your own thoughts onto others so you could manage to confuse them. This basically means that you could hear people´s thoughts and that you could communicate with them through your mind. Plus, in the case of being as fascinating as Professor X, you could read the language centers of someone´s brain and learn how to speak their language. With this, you now know that having telepathic powers doesn´t
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By manipulating their minds you could cause partial or total amnesia, pain, lead them to unconsciousness, and even paralysis. Remember that we live our lives trusting our senses, so if a person could basically control our surroundings, then that person might affect our senses too, making us completely vulnerable. Since having this power gives you the ability to make people see or not see what you want, hear or not hear anything, and countless other things, then you are manipulating the senses hence, our greatest tool, the

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