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There are no doubts that power appears with both advantages and disadvantages. In this essay, power could be defined as the ability of satisfying its users¡¯ wills. It is the production of intended effects and it could be physical or spiritual. Power itself is neither good or bad, it depends on the way it to be used and once it is used, it has both advantages and disadvantages. To prove the point, four of most popular types of power, which are power of love, violence, anger and media, will be discussed with evidences from various sources include three supplementary materials, two images and also the text, ¡®The Longest Memory¡¯, a book that speaks about the life of slaves and whites on an 18th-century Virginia plantation. The book is built up by different text types with different authors or speakers and that gives different points of views from different angles about those issues that show the power between slaves and whites. Love is a type of spiritual power and the power of love can encourage people but it can also make people lose their sense. Both the effects depend on how the power is to be used. There is a typical example from the text, The Longest Memory, which is the love between Chapel and Lydia. Chapel is a slave while Lydia is the daughter of the plantation owner. The existence of their love between each other will bring them the most severe troubles especially for Chapel. However, Chapel loves Lydia so much and the power of love gives him bravery to be with Lydia without any regards of any danger even death. (P62) ¡°He said Lydia was never to see me again. We meet at night, back to back, without pen or paper.¡± The quote is from the poem that written by Chapel. At that time, Chapel and Lydia were just caught by the plantation owner, the father of Lydia when they sitting together and reading. The owner whipped Chapel severely and gave him an official warn of no more meeting with Lydia. Obviously, as a slave, Chapel would easily bring him the death penalty if he kept staying with Lydia. However, love of power lets him conquered the fear of death and motivated him to go on meeting Lydia. He chose running away to meet Lydia in the free Northern America. However, what happened at last was he was caught by the overseer and whipped to death. Power of love didn¡¯t make the welfare that he and Lydia always desire, on the contrary, it made Chapel lose his sense so that he abandoned his father alone, left his lover, Lydia endless sorrow and a worthless death to himself. He didn¡¯t get advantage from the power of love because his misuse of love. He let the power of love maddened his mind and sense and this caused all the mistakes he made. Here is another example, which is poem that written by a man called Drago7908 to his girlfriend Marsha. In his poem, he said, ¡°I have this driving force that keeps me going day after day. It pushes me, it motivates me, and it strengthens me. This driving force is called LOVE - An emotion that I have experienced while being with you.
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