Prince George's County

What will 2017 be like for you? Imagine for a minute, that it 's one year from today. Where will you be? Who will you be working for? What great things have happened to you and your family? These kinds of questions were presented to me when I first started my journey of working with a professional coach and is a big reason of why I 'm writing to you today. In 2015, my girlfriend Bobbie suggested that I work with a coach that had been working with her employer. She had seen some good…

Readings in entrepreneurship was very beneficial to my experience of my knowledge of entrepreneurship as a whole. Before this class I’ve had a limited experience with entrepreneurship. The very basics of entrepreneurship was all I was taught. This paper will describe to you what I have now learned through this experience with this class and how I will use what I learned to better myself in the future. The first book Dave Ramsey: Entreleadership probably taught me the most I have ever learned…

story of how a young princess is cursed to prick her finger and die when she turns sixteen, but is saved by a fairy who turns her death into a deep sleep that lasts 100 years, until the day a prince comes to her rescue. But in the case of “ The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood,” by Charles Perrault, once the prince has woken the beautiful princess he goes back to his kingdom. Two year pass before they get married and have two beautiful children, but their story doesn’t end all happily ever after…

When is the rule by cruelty necessary, according to Machiavelli? According to Machiavelli, he claims that the prince needs to rule by cruelty, especially in terms of crime and justice. If the prince is generous at all times, including the period of disorder, people will lose trust. With courage and cruelty, the prince should abandon his personal qualities, rule by cruelty, and eliminate all possible crimes and misdeeds for the safety of the country. How can being cruel to a few lead to being…

Aristotle is largely concerned in the Politics with the idea of political virtue and the effects it has on the formation of the government. He defines political virtue as having a sense of justice, dedication to the common good, and prudence. Throughout his discussion of how various regimes see political virtue, Aristotle refuses to take sides. However, he ultimately argues that the most just regime gives political power to those with the most political virtue. Aristotle concludes that the best…

Machiavelli’s moral theory Machiavelli’s The Prince is said to be a manual for new rulers, not a philosophical text. Thus, bringing forth questions as to why one should consume their time with reading it. It is argued that The Prince is still read today due to its predominant link to consequentialism and/or amoralism. Either of these are plausible, but which moral theory did Machiavelli’s vision of politics really take on? Consequentialism can be defined as an ethical theory in which the…

The first piece of evidence to suggest Machiavelli is the prince is seen in the Dedicatory Letter. Machiavelli states, “... no greater gift could be made by me than to give you the capacity to be able to understand...all that I have learned and understood in so many years...” (Prince, dedication). This statement suggests that Machiavelli is persuading Lorenzo de Medici that his involvement in politics and his knowledge of the ancients make him an invaluable adviser. Thus proving that intellect…

Machiavelli was a well-connected diplomat in Florence during the Florentine Renaissance. When the Medici family returned to power, Machiavelli was terminated from his position, leaving him to reside outside of the city. During this time, he wrote The Prince –essentially a book written to win the favour of Lorenzo Medici, the governor of Florence, and to “advance himself as a candidate for a political role in the Medician government” (Morgan, 505). Machiavelli states that a morally virtuous ruler…

Niccolo Machiavelli’s The Prince, written in the sixteenth century, describes princedoms as well as preserving political power within those states. Machiavelli’s work not only had the intentions to inform but to please the ruler of Florence, Lorenzo de’ Medici, to whom the book was dedicated (39). With The Prince, Machiavelli had hopes to regain a position within the government. While he failed in reclaiming power, Machiavelli’s book became one of the most influential works on politics.…

Niccolo Machiavelli’s book The Prince is a guide on how a proper prince should rule his nation. Machiavelli demonstrates how the past rulers have either been successful or not. Even as his audience were that of monarchs, many of his teachings’ outcomes can be seen in present day. In chapter 12, Machiavelli comments on the usage of mercenary troops. He is able to establish the fact that a ruler can never trust men that have no fear for God and have no trust in men. Victory may come faster or is…