The Prince

Good Idea:
These all seem to me like each idea is used to gain power through corruption but the best idea to me was that there should be no violence when taking over a country. Because everyone who helped take over for you could easily turn their back on you just like they did the last leader. I also believe that violence never solves anything so it's just an obvious choice to me.
Also using your resources and supporting the people who have supported you, agian, it's underhanded when you only help those, but I suppose it would work.

Bad Idea:
The worst idea was keeping the people in fear, even though it would work, it doesn't seem fair to just kill random people to keep in control.

NIE

The Bush Administration in this article is simpley being portrayed as a bully. It's like they are trying to hard to stick to their guns, there's no longer any logical explaination for what is happening. Its not really fair for either party. It would make sense to not use military action but to still check things out because our allies agree to check but disagree with military action. We just come off as mean if we cause more trouble, this needs to be resolved in a more mature way.

Change in Iran

Oil in Iran is it's main source of economics in trade, a lot of power struggles there because some leaders wanted to use the oil to sell to other countries and be better while others were tired of outside influences and wanted nothing to do with them. Much of the leadership in Iran is based on stark religions, leaving little room for freedom. Anyone who spoke out against the leaders were killed or tortured. When Khatami was elected he was the first step towards change. Women and young people had a voice once again. Because of the new ideas and changes taking place of liberalism vs conservatism, many college students and women began to rebel on things they believed needed to be changed. They took steps towards a more democratic government but had a strong agreement to stay peaceful. The conservatives did as much as they could to make sure their way of life stayed intact. They closed down rebellious newspapers, made arrests and shut down student demonstrations, soon all that Khatami stood for seemed to lose it's fire. Protests started to get violent with students clashing against officers. While all this was happening, the US was feeling pressure to try to fix the way the government in Iran works and see if they have nuclear bombs.

Iran Problems

I agree that we shouldn't drop a bomb because they have nothing to defend themselves with. It would be unfair and kind of make us hypocrits. Iran is so far behind in technology we don't even know if they are as far as we assue which would not be fair play. We can't just blow something up because we feel like it. Iran is one of the few countries that still are on our side, by blowing them up they will all turn on us and we will just have another enemy.

Apocalypse Now

I think that this quote goes back to the idea of someone being inherantly evil. It is a natural blood lust each of us has inside of us just waiting for it to take us completely over. When it says we want to die from it, I think it's not implying literal dying but you're own personal self dying and becoming someone completely different. Its like when you're instincts take over. As the movie goes on, we see more and more chaos as they go deeper into the jungle, this thing that is out taking and killing people is more prominent in the chaotic places. The instinct to survive has completely taken over and all reason is lost.