Final Exam: What is Power?

What is Power? Power, could be defined in many ways, and there are three different types. These powers are: Physical power, social power, and energy. I think these powers are something that is necessary for our life, and some of it, must be used very carefully for our own safety.

First of all, there is something called physical power, in other word, force. Physical power is a power that pushes or pulls. Muscle is our main body part that produces this power. As an example, push up, is an exercise that needs physical power to work. Industrial Revolution was all about this kind of power as well. As technologies developed, a lot of labors were needed in factory. These labors used their physical powers to do their jobs, such as coal mining.

Secondly, there is social power. This is a power that only certain people have to take a control over another person or people. Usually, dictator, rulers, president, has these powers, and sometime, middle school students have this as well. Social power, changes our way of thinking or how we behave. For example, our parents changes how we behave in a five star hotel, and how we behave in our home. In the book Animal Farm, Napoleon, the leader of the animal farm had a social power over all of the animals who lived there. As a result he changed all the rules that they used to follow, and changed the way how animals behaved and think.

Lastly, energy is another type of power. In this case, I mean energy by power that humans produce by using technology. For example, nuclear power is an energy produced by technology called power plant. This power is used for human’s benefit to make the life easier. Also, a lot of this power was seen throughout the year. In World War II, so many weapons that harm people by using this power were used. Nuclear bomb is a good example of this. It killed so many people in Hiroshima, Japan, by the nuclear energy and radiation. Therefore, this power, which is also same as energy, could be very useful because it makes our life very easier. However, it is dangerous enough to kill all the species in the Earth including humans, so people have to be careful with the use of this.