therefore accustomed to their rule. The natural prince only has to keep past institutions intact‚ while adapting these institutions to current events. -Second‚ the natural disposition of subjects in a hereditary state is to love the ruling family‚ unless the prince commits some horrible act against his people. Even if a strong outsider succeeds in conquering a prince’s hereditary state‚ any setback the outsider encounters will allow the prince to reconquer the state. Machiavelli explains
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Tough Love “If you have to make a choice‚ to be feared is much safer than to be loved” (46). Niccolò Machiavelli declared this in The Prince while explaining how to be an extraordinary leader. If leaders are feared they will be respected by their people and other countries‚ thus keeping justice and maintaining control. If a leader is feared‚ they will receive respect from their people and other countries. People will not turn against the leader‚ but if the people love him they would
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Zichao Huang Mr. Lambert English028 March 17‚ 2015 The Story of an Hour “The Story of an Hour” is about a woman named Mrs. Mallard who is married to a man named Mr. Mallard. Mrs. Mallard does not have a very good heart‚ and she is sick. Something bad has happened‚ and people do not know how to tell her about it. Josephine is her sister‚ and she tells Mrs. Mallard that Mr. Mallard died in a train accident. Richards is Mr. Mallard’s friend‚ and he is there because he knew about the accident. Richards
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Last week‚ I described an article by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation website titled Tootsie’s Story: Medical Error Takes a Life (http://www.rwjf.org/en/culture-of-health/2013/02/tootsie_s_story_med.html). This article described an elderly woman‚ Tootsie‚ who was living with two chronic health conditions: congestive heart failure‚ in addition‚ patient only have one functioning kidney. These two conditions in addition to other growing ailments made her immobile. Tootsie was essentially placed on Synthroid
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The Prince MAJOR THEME Machiavelli had a true and abiding love for Florence. He wanted to make Florence great and also find himself a job‚ as he lost his when the Medici family came into power. He dedicated his book on political science‚ The Prince‚ to Lorenzo Medici in the hopes that Lorenzo would be impressed and offer him a job. However‚ Lorenzo ignored the book and Machiavelli. The Prince is a didactic examination of political power‚ how to achieve it‚ maintain it‚ and expand
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virtuous‚ and intern receive some positive purpose in life? In Machiavelli’s The Prince he states “A Prince (Phil) should not necessarily avoid vices such as cruelty or dishonesty if employing them will benefit the state. Cruelty and other vices should not be pursued for their own sake‚ just as virtue should not be pursued for its own sake: virtues and vices should be conceived as mean to an end. Every action the prince (Phil) takes must be considered in light of its effect on the state‚ not in terms
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Prince Hal appreciates his youth by living a life of stealing and spending much time with his companion of robbers. He also knows that he must become the responsible leader that his father wants him to be. He plans to be mature and impress those who did not believe he can be a responsible king. After he has a conversation with his father‚ the King he makes a goal to prove it to his father that he can be that mature responsible leader his father wishes to see by promises to kill the leader or the
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promises‚ and avoiding being hated. The first quality introduced by Machiavelli is the duty of prince on preparing military. This quality is important because if the prince is not willing to prepare a troop to protect himself and his country‚ he is showing the people that he does not care for his or his country’s safety‚ which will cause a great concern to his people and lose their support on him. A prince should be concerned for his safety at all times since if he dies‚ there might not be another
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The Prince‚ one of the most popular and well known doctrines of political thought was also one of the greatest works of Niccoló Machiavelli. First published in 1513‚ The Prince was written in response to the failure of the Greek-based Italian city-states. Machiavelli wrote The Prince because‚ despite being a firm Republican‚ he was also well-documented as a strong patriot. He wanted that his people live under a free but effective government‚ but he decided that if his nation has to be ruled by
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