Week 5 Blog 1

Grace Leung

2/22/11

Western Civilization

What compels someone to lead others?

            There are several different reasons someone might be compelled to lead others. Sometimes there are times in a person’s life when they are influenced through a hardship to lead others. An example of this is if your parent has cancer and you want to help the cause by making an organization that benefits this. Another way someone could feel compelled to lead others, is the want to make others lives better. Some people, when they see suffering feel compelled to help them. There are many different examples of this in our world today. War is one example. When one country sees that another is in need of help, they lead their army to help them. Another example is rebellion, an example of rebellion is the Revolutionary War, where different people all over the U.S felt compelled to get their own rights. This lead to a war,which later became the freedom of the U.S from Britain. These are a few different way someone can be compelled to lead a group of people, their own lives and even a nation. Someone who feels compelled to do these things can very from different situations.