School Bully Vs. Country Dictator
Gregory Heal
Ms. Cremin
AP English Language & Composition
16 February 2010
School Bully vs. Country Dictator There’s a thin line in what defines a bully and what defines a dictator. The same line is often crossed back and forth. By definition a bully is a blustering, quarrelsome, overbearing person who habitually badgers and intimidates smaller or weaker people and a dictator is a person who uses absolute, unrestricted control to rule over a group of inferior people. These two definitions are interchangeable between the two types of rulers. Both bullies and dictators are the supreme rules of the territory they’ve chosen to name theirs. They rely on and base their thoughts on Darwinist thoughts and systems of survival of the fittest. …show more content…
Instead of being the alpha lion, a dictator is the saber tooth tiger. Just like the bully this dictator tends his pride to do as they are told in order to maintain control of his territory. The way to tell whether the person you’re looking at is a lion (bully) or saber tooth tiger (dictator) is that a dictator must be stronger. This is because he has so much more land than the bully. He has an entire country worth of land and also has a greater population in his territory compared to the bully’s school campus/minuet amount of people. The next difference that defines a dictator is that he needs more followers especially those that have more power than the average person in his country. This just ensures that he keeps the weak insecure and subservient, and the strong maintain on top of the power hierarchy. If the dictator’s followers decided to stop working and leave, dictator would cease to …show more content…
These deals with the reason that people choose to obey to them, which is fear. Why does a victim try to avoid the bully at all costs? Fear. It’s the fear of being attacked, robbed; even the simplest verbal abuse is enough motivation to obey and stay away from this tyrant. A person doesn’t rebel against a dictator is because “the last person that did vanished and was never seen or heard from again.” Unlike the school bully dictators have a tendency to take their rule and punishments a bit far and to the extremes. Instead of taking a kids lunch money when a kid looks at them a wrong way, a dictator will send him to the guillotine and put his head on the nation’s flag for all to see. Unless they’re part of these rulers’ personal inner circle of followers, they usually fear and despise them with a
Ms. Cremin
AP English Language & Composition
16 February 2010
School Bully vs. Country Dictator There’s a thin line in what defines a bully and what defines a dictator. The same line is often crossed back and forth. By definition a bully is a blustering, quarrelsome, overbearing person who habitually badgers and intimidates smaller or weaker people and a dictator is a person who uses absolute, unrestricted control to rule over a group of inferior people. These two definitions are interchangeable between the two types of rulers. Both bullies and dictators are the supreme rules of the territory they’ve chosen to name theirs. They rely on and base their thoughts on Darwinist thoughts and systems of survival of the fittest. …show more content…
Instead of being the alpha lion, a dictator is the saber tooth tiger. Just like the bully this dictator tends his pride to do as they are told in order to maintain control of his territory. The way to tell whether the person you’re looking at is a lion (bully) or saber tooth tiger (dictator) is that a dictator must be stronger. This is because he has so much more land than the bully. He has an entire country worth of land and also has a greater population in his territory compared to the bully’s school campus/minuet amount of people. The next difference that defines a dictator is that he needs more followers especially those that have more power than the average person in his country. This just ensures that he keeps the weak insecure and subservient, and the strong maintain on top of the power hierarchy. If the dictator’s followers decided to stop working and leave, dictator would cease to …show more content…
These deals with the reason that people choose to obey to them, which is fear. Why does a victim try to avoid the bully at all costs? Fear. It’s the fear of being attacked, robbed; even the simplest verbal abuse is enough motivation to obey and stay away from this tyrant. A person doesn’t rebel against a dictator is because “the last person that did vanished and was never seen or heard from again.” Unlike the school bully dictators have a tendency to take their rule and punishments a bit far and to the extremes. Instead of taking a kids lunch money when a kid looks at them a wrong way, a dictator will send him to the guillotine and put his head on the nation’s flag for all to see. Unless they’re part of these rulers’ personal inner circle of followers, they usually fear and despise them with a