What is Power???

According to Google, what power means is possession of controlling influence. This year in 8th grade humanities we learnt that power is in different forms, it never stays in one place and how power is around the world. The main topics that we focused on was Africa and slaves, The World War 1 and 2 and the book that I read The Hunger Games.


The first thing that we focused on was Africa. The different parts of Africa and slaves that were shipped to America and other parts of the world. Mostly the white people had the power to take the Africans freedom away. The slaved were miss treated and if they tried to run away would either get killed or punished brutally. In 1884, Africa was divided into 4 parts. One of the reasons why African were the idea slaves was because there was an unlimited supply of them and they were resistant to white diseases.

The second reason is The World War 1 and 2. When WW1 finished, England had to borrow supplies and soldiers from USA just to fight. France had a heavy loss of manpower and everything was destroyed. Germany was defeated, the economy and government collapsed and they also had high inflation. Austria Hungry fell apart before the war even started. Russia pulls out of WW1 but started the Russia Revolution (1917). But USA was on top of the world. They had the greatest power, the economy profited and lots of people borrowed money from them. In WW2, the causes were the Treaty of Versailles failed, the League of Nations failed, the rise of fascism, appeasement, The German Aggression and the Japanese Aggression.

The last reason is the book that I read recently, The Hunger Games. The Hunger Games was about Katniss, a 16 year old girl from District 12. The Hunger Games is a game where 24 children have to fight till death and compete against each other. The victor gets an abundance of food and money as well as supplies. Katniss ends up winning the games but on the way to victory is challenges the Gamemakers. The Gamemakers are the people who control the arena. They can change the weather, start fires, droughts, monsoons, anything to make the games more interesting.

I think that power is the ability to control someone or something.