The Power of One

Wind power has been used in Australia ever since the first wind farm was opened in Esperance, WA in 1987. Since then, an additional 76 farms have been constructed all around the country and currently provide 5% of the nation’s power (David Clarke, 2012). It is a form of renewable energy that uses a strong flow of air to rotate three large blades connected to a generator to produce electricity. Wind turbines convert the kinetic energy in the wind into mechanical power (energy.gov, 2014). Compared…

According to Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince, The first duty of a prince is to maintain power and acquire more. If the princes of Machiavelli’s time followed his advice and searched only for power, what does this mean for the people? The first priority of a prince or ruler should be to improve the kingdom and protect the citizens. Machiavelli stated that one’s duty, as a prince is to be as powerful as can be, however, as a ruler the first priority should be the people, and as a prince, to be…

reasons: first, it produces more cost effective energy than any other non-renewable resource. Second there is no release of greenhouse gasses which contribute to global warming, and finally nuclear energy is the most reliable source of power in the world today. Nuclear power produces electricity that is less expensive than coal and natural gas while providing more energy for use. The Energy Informative Organization supports this claim when the author states, “Generating electricity in…

sexuality as leading to the concept of sex. He also ties in the idea of power-knowledge-pleasure into the relationship between sex and discourse. In the opening chapter of the book Foucault states that the “object, in short, is to define the regime of power-knowledge-pleasure that sustains the discourse on human sexuality” (11). He asserts that the relationship of discourse and sex is a spiral in a sense. There is an exercise of power, when there is discourse on sex and sexuality, this discourse…

Electricity is one of the most important things in parts of today’s society, and new means of creation have been popping up all around the globe. The new, cleaner, alternate forms of energy are becoming more efficient than the old fashioned fossil fuel power plants. Not only are these new types of energy cleaner, but nine out of ten times they are more efficient and less expensive compared to the more commonly used fossil fuel power plant. As time goes on, the environment is slowly being…

I believe power can corrupt the mind; it corrupts the allowance of the urge to hold power to consume your morals. The author of “The House of the Scorpion” writes, “‘Well, Matt. Do you have any personal shortcomings you’d like to share?’ ‘No,’ said Matt… the man hurled himself across the room and struck him with a force that almost made him pass out with pain.” (Farmer 301-303). In the story, “The House of the Scorpion”, a man in a position of power brutally assaulted a child because he stole…

similar thought, Dante believed the spiritual power of God established the government for the sake of man to be judged in the “terrestrial world,” but God has the highest judgment and the only one that matters. Furthermore, Marsilius of Padua expands on Dante’s idea and concludes the church and state must be separated in order to reach happiness. Boniface tries to use the “divine law” to get more power. He writes, in his Unam Sanctum, that all power is derived from God. Hence then, the pope has…

Treatise of Government, Locke says, “To understand political power aright, we must consider what estate all men are naturally in, and that is, a state of perfect freedom to order their actions, and dispose of their possessions and persons as they think fit, within the bounds of the law of Nature, without asking leave or depending upon the will of any other man.” Therefore there was no single human or body of people that possessed more power or control over the other. All humans were born to the…

enjoyed a meteoric rise in global power during the early 1900’s. Despite a brief challenge from the Soviet Union from 1922-1991, they have remained the one constant power in the international system. To this day, they remain in control of the world due to the power they possess in the forms of military power, economic power, and soft power (Boyer et al. 36). While the United States currently operates in a unipolar world, one in which they are the true hegemon, power is beginning the shift…

One of the biggest problems the current generation of Americans face is rapid climate change, and its impact on the environment. There’s no denying the fact that human are the leading cause of carbon emissions; a problem that must be fixed for the sake of future generations. Many believe clean energy is the answer, and seemingly always point toward solar or wind. While these forms of clean energy are very effective solution to the greater problem, nuclear power isn’t nearly as relevant topic of…