Throughout man-kind, there have been countless situations where individuals have used power to gain control of others. By taking physical actions and using verbal speeches to gain population, people can effortlessly persuade others to fall into their trap. People who gain power of others physically, usually involve fighting, using firearms and armies. Others, who don’t use physical actions, use verbal power to get into their target’s minds and gain control of them. People who use verbal power mainly use persuasive technique to persuade their target and encourage them.
The usage of firearms, bombs, wars and armies have all been used to maintain population or even gain control of a population. An example, Kim Jong Il, who used his armies and weapons to make people follow him and look up to him, used nuclear bombs and threatened other countries to show how powerful he was. Using this skill, he created wars and gained control of other countries. With Kim Jong Il and his power and army, North Korea was forced to become communists and the North Koreans were to look up to him and rely on him. The North Koreans looked up to Kim Jong Il as a leader for their country because he had power with his enormous army and his explosive weapons. Just like Kim Jong Il using his army and weapons to maintain the Korean society, Napoleon also used terror by using his fierce dogs to protect him and frighten whoever would get in the way of his work.
One of the elder well known leaders, Adolf Hitler, used verbal power to manipulate his country. Using the power of politics, he was commonly associated with the upsurge of fascism in Europe, World War II, and the Holocaust. The Great Depression in Germany in 1930 provided an opportunity for Hitler to become the leader of Germany. After gaining control of leadership