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his political treatise, The Prince in 1532, Machiavelli’s name has become synonymous with unprincipled, deceptive, and tyrannical tactics. In his lecture ‘Machiavelli on Republican Virtue,’ Dr. Cook argues that The Prince is grossly misinterpreted, deemed an apology for tyranny, critics have gone so far as to label it the dictatorial handbook. On the contrary, Machiavelli, through The Prince, was advocating for Republican government. Cook maintains that the Prince, needs to be read with an…

Machiavelli’s book The Prince so controversial? The prince is an analytical ‘handbook’ written by political philosopher, Niccolò Machiavelli. Within the book, Machiavelli offers advice to new princes regarding the way in which they can gain and maintain power in a state. However, since its publication in 1532, the book has been dubbed controversial due to the ideas it shared and was even banned by the Roman Catholic Church in 1559, raising the question, why was Machiavelli’s book ‘The Prince’ so…

In The Prince, Machiavelli uses fortuna to refer to the luck and opportunity that can befall a prince. In addition, he uses the word virtu when referring to the ability of a leader. A ruler who is given power through inheritance, or wealth, relies on money and family in order to sustain their power, like a crutch. Take away the crutch, and the prince will lose their ability to sustain their regime because they lack the virtu to lead alone . Through the passage a significant detail is added to…

personal narratives or texts and the intentions of their writings. Primary sources that will be explored in this essay are Marco Polo’s The Travels of Marco Polo (1298) translated by Thomas Wright and William Marsden, the Venetian, Machiavelli's The Prince (1532) translated by W.K. Marriott, Bartolome de Las Casas’s A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies (1532) translated by R.Hewson, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (1789) by Olaudah Equiano, and The…

The rise and fall of an empire will depend on the mind and intentions behind the leader. In The Count of Monte Cristo- by Alexandre Dumas and “Viva La Vida”- by Coldplay, both the author and the songwriter use imagery and allusion to convey the idea that desire and excessive power can lead to the fall of an empire. In The Count of Monte Cristo, a man by the name of Villefort, is the Royalist son of a Bonapartist. Villefort slowly made his way up the social ladder, was a trusted Royalist, and…

The thing that surprised me the most about the spring break trip was the city of Memphis. I had much higher expectations for the city. Although those expectations were not fair they were nowhere close to being met. I visited other parts of Tennessee before but never Memphis, so I had high expectations for the city since I had been down south before. The vibes I received from Memphis were poor. The food wasn't extraordinary. The people weren't open to new black people in the neighborhood. I…

We make the mistake of judge others because how they look or act, and that is it what happen in this profile, and I going to show you how wrong we can be. Michelle Rupp is my supervisor at work. I work in a company that provide mechanical parts for dealers and shop all over the Utah Valley, and my supervisor is in charge of the shipping department in the warehouse. Michelle is 45 years old, she has four kids, two sons, (Matt 21; Sam 18), and two daughters (Jenn 17; and Laura 16), and she also…

Epilogue Age Seventeen Being brandished by the King to his enemies was no easy task. Like a knife, or a spear, I had to be sharp, impeccable. Unafraid. Completely capable. And most of all, intimidating. When night fell, I was no longer a typical seventeen year old girl. I became a weapon. Now, as the servants draped shimmering black cloth over my shoulders, I stood straight before the mirror. I lifted my chin, raised my shoulders. Regality. Fear. Be what they want you to be. All in black…

Nothing made much sense in the clan. Items would go missing and would be found stuck upside down on the ceiling of the old crumbled castle rubble they called home. It was an old battlefield so ancient that some of the dragons gossiped and wondered if the grounds were cursed and haunted by unrestful spirits, rageful, and murderous. The tales and rumors that spread throughout the clan made the dragons weary and frightened. A strangely dressed Pearlcatcher wandered upon the clan one day, his…

When a change is needed, it is more beneficial to have a slow change and to work towards your goal instead of a quick or immediate change. In a revolution, a slow change is more effective because you have time to plan for all the mistakes and problems that might happen during a change in government, while with a quick change you must spend time after the revolution is complete fixing the mistakes you didn’t account for resulting in a long drawn out revolution. We see that a long revolution is…