Prince George's County

In the excerpt from “The Prince” by Niccolo Machiavelli, Machiavelli does not make rules, but creates guidelines for those who want to be rulers in the renaissance time period. In this time period Italy did not have a central government; it consisted of city-states that each had a ruler. These city-states fought all the time to show who had the most power. This often resulted in the destruction of city-states. Princes in this time were generalized in two ways. Either the ruler was liberal or the…

Just off the top of the blue and yellow slides of Martin Tudor Splash Park, is Isaac Banuelos wearing his all red uniform. Wearing red swimming trunks and a regular red t-shirt saying lifeguard in the front with a large white cross right on the middle of his shirt and on his back silkscreen across his shoulders is lifeguard in bold white capital letters. At the top of the slides sounds of laughter are heard from children. It is Isaac making up jokes with all the kids who stand in line to rides…

Walking towards the spot where we meet to pick the tagger, Maddie and I stood silently, while we waited for the other players. It was a breezy, winter day. Everyone was dressed in sweatpants or leggings. Although I was wearing jeans. When everyone showed up we chose the tagger by putting our feet in the middle, and a person would go around saying a rhyme, and whoever it landed on was ¨it¨. ¨Okay, Katharineś it. Katharine count to forty before you come tag us.” By then I had already started…

The Villagers of Fuente Ovejuna lived a very simple life. They didn’t worry about the bigger picture around them. All most of them cared about was living a peaceful and happy life. Laurencia just wanted a happy life with Frondoso. But, once an authoritarian dares to disrupt the serenity of their society; the head must changed. With the help of the rest of Village, Laurencia and Frondoso violently murdered the Commander because of his tyrannical behavior. They lead the way to a successful…

Deep in the heart of the Icewarden's domain, frozen in place for an unknowable number of years, motionless, a dragon suddenly stirred at the approach of another. Eyes, having not seen for years, begin to crack open; scales, fused together by the unforgiving cold of ice, begin to shift; bones, immobile for so long begin to creak. The frozen dragon slowly, meticulously, raises its (previously bowed) head, bleary eyes settling on the first dragon to pass it by for what may have been centuries. The…

This summer I went to Mackinac Island and Upper penninsula With all my cousins and grandparents. I had a great time in the 4 sunny days we went there. We visited the harbor front of Mackinaw while eating hot fudge from the one of the street stores. Then, we took the 15 min ferry ride to Mackinac island and for a whole day just strolled around the island sightseeing the beautiful creations of nature. The next day, we took a 2 hour trip to Pictured Rocks in the Upper Peninsula. Which had to be one…

Have you ever experienced a day that you will always remember? Well, I have plenty of days that I will always remember, but there is this one special day that I want to share with you . One hot summer day in Mississippi, my younger sister and I were sitting outside complaining to our mom about how hot it was and how we wanted to go swimming. My mom didn’t know where she could bring us to have fun because we were the new family in town and not a lot of people lived in our neighborhood. Well,…

Niccolo Machiavelli would not have written the Prince if his life were any different. He was born in Florence, Italy in 1469. In 1494 he became an Italian diplomat for the city of Florence. He served while the medici family, who were a wealthy bankers who had high political power in Florence, were in exile. One of Machiavelli’s duties included his creation and maintenance of the Florentine militia whom he created because of his lack of trust of militia’s. However, with help from Pope Julius…

humankind is inherently bad, “a prince, therefore, who desires to maintain himself must learn not always to be good, but to be so or not as necessity may require” (Machiavelli 76). And in these two points lies the central tenants of Machiavelli’s philosophy. Machiavelli also believed that the prince “should have no other thought or object so much at heart... as the art of war and the organization and discipline of his army” (Machiavelli 73). Machiavelli also discusses how a prince should conduct…

Machiavelli's philosophy regarding government is very interesting. His statement that the good prince is not necessarily a good man and that evil acts are sometimes necessary for the good of the state is not one that I agree with or am comfortable with. In my opinion, the good of the state depends on its relationships with other nations and the health and happiness of the people. If a government is willing to assassinate dictators, use methods of mass…