Matthew Best course culminating activity May 22-14“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men,” quoting the historian Lord Acton. Before reading the quote, I had never noticed the relationship between power and corruption in the real world. I thought of power as a form of recognition for hard work, which in turn is a positive outcome. After thinking about it for a while, I realized my mistake: power is the ability to make people say and/or do things. It is the ability to get what you want. Power is necessary in every society, otherwise everything would go wild; leaders must be established. When taken to the extreme, power is not good. As Lord Acton said, “power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” An example of this is Adolph Hitler from Germany. He thought he couldn't be stopped and that the rules didn't apply to him. Having received absolute power, he changed the government. No one tried to stop him in the German country, because of his scam...