Power is control over a group of people, an item, or an object. There is a large variety of power, and this power can be misused by everyone, even by the leaders who started out with good intentions for society. Some examples of these would be political power, and economic power.
Economic power is an excellent way to trade and boosts the entire country. It is a way of westernizing the poor countries by trade and efficiently creating highly crafted objects. It brought in the idea of capitalism, where the division of poor and rich kicked in. The bigger countries said that they where only trying to westernize the undeveloped countries but the real reason was to benefit the rich and cause the rich to become richer. Another example is for globalization. It is evident that globalization is good because it allows us to get merchandise for the cheapest and efficient way. This is why we have McDonalds in India, and other stores. But this power also harms the others around them. It increases poverty because the rich hire cheap labor and pay insufficient wages for the workers, giving the rich a bigger profit at the end of the day.
Another type of power would be political power. Many historical events happened because of power. Some examples would be Hitler, Stalin, and Lenin. They all had a good intention for society but their ideas went wrong because they had too much power. Stalin wanted to make everyone equal; as did Lenin, but whilst doing that he lost his original intention because he had too much control over people. Hitler was a lunatic, and he had no good intentions from the start of his leadership till the end of it, his intentions to begin where to unite all Germans, get more land, and to take over the world. He went mad with the amount of power he received which is mainly why his plan had failed. More examples of political power would be Marie Antoinette, a woman who abused her power to benefit herself, Louis XV a man who cared less for the people he ruled over. Even more examples are Tsar Nicholas, a man who enjoyed the rich life and never understood the poor, and finally Sadam Hussain, a man who used brutal techniques to hurt those around him.
Power is when you know your limit, and when you know what is right. To have a good control over people, and to know when to say when, and to understand that there are always consequences for what you do to whatever you are in control of. Power can be misused easily, and it is a difficult ability to posses, but once you have it, there is no stopping what you can do with it. In the end it can either make you or break you. You can be a Hitler, or you can be someone people look up to. The choice is yours.