Weekly 4

 Does Power Corrupt? How or How Not? Why or Why Not? Do you think Alexander was corrupted? And who influenced whom the most: Did Persia become more Greek or did Alexander becoming more Persian?




          Power does corrupt most people. Everyone wants to have power, and many people are influenced by power that they have. A good example of this is the holocaust and Hitler. Hitler used his power to kill everyone that he thought was diffrent. If you didnt have blonde hair and blue eyes you were killed. (Most Germans had blonde hair and blue eyes) This is messed up to because Adolf Hitler himself wasn't blond or have blue eyes. The holocaust although maily affected jews also affected homosexuals, people with disabilities, and many diffirent religious and political groups. He would aslo use people for empirmental and dangerous tests. Hitler was very corrupt with power.
          Another good example of someone corrupt with power is a senator, John Edwards. He seems like a perfectly nice person on the outside; he had a wife and kids and he was loved by a lot of people.  In 2007 he had an affair and the girl he had an affair with became pregnant and had a baby. This is a really bad thing.   He used his power to keep everyone who might know about the story quiet, and he even got his friend to say the baby was his!  Edwards's wife got the last laugh though when she wrote him out of her will.  He thought he could use his power to lie to all of America, including his wife and kids. This is especially wronfd because his wife was dying also. Why would you cheet on someone you new was dying. THats horribl in my opinion. He will probably end up getting indited. Just because you have power dosen't mean you can get away with everything.
         ALexander was still very currpot with power. He won so much that he would just assume everything was his. ALthough he was not as horrible as those two people he still abused his power and  didnt listin to what anyboy else thought. He however did make a name for himself and in a way he is imortal. Just like a son of gGO dwill be. It sthe future and we spent two weeks in class discussing him. Even though all the sotires about him ary in some way he did win almost every battle. SOme leaders were very noble but when you give someone power they nine out of 10 times are currpupt.
       I believe that the question about Alexander becoming more Persian or Persia becoming more Greek could be answered either way.  Persia obviously became more Greek because they were conquered by Greece and they were influenced by Alexander the Great and his decisions.  Persia was greatly influenced by Alexander.  Many of their people were killed or sold into slavery.  I'm sure that because of that Persia was changed.
        I also do think that Alexander became more Persian.  He crossed paths with tons of Persians on and off the battle field.  He learned a lot from his journey to victory there.  Alexander learned how to think on his feet and make quick intelligent decisions about the way to fight.  I think Alexander himself changed because of Persia.  He was intelligent and brave, and I now know why he is called Alexander the Great.