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1. How far a country will go depends on the kind of leader they have chosen either someone who corrupts the country by manipulating the people for his own needs or someone who believes in the country with great devotion. A great example is the Singapore prime minister Lee Kuan Yew, he had gained the trust of his country and changed it into one of the richest countries in the world even with the odds aginst him.
If people choose the right leaders who plan to earn greater economic plan, infrastructure, government etc.. But if a country ends up with a corrupt or selfish leader it usually ends into making their country a lot worse. In other words, I believe that only if people follow great leaders with all their loyalty, then their only limit is the sky.

2.During the war people are scared and this causes them to be easily manipulated by corrupt leaders as I have said before. People usually lose focus of their main goal for their country and start to greed for more power, which also leads to more fighting. For example, France was a strong country during WW1 but lost their intentions due to Nationalism for their land Alsace- Loraine.

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1. How far we follow a leader depends on our loyalty. By definition, loyalty is our willingness to follow an order we do not see the sense in, as any order we understand we would follow. This is because one that makes sense to us we would order ourselves to do. Our loyalty depends on many things such as our belief and trust in a leader, our belief in any ideology we fight for, and our reason to fight - be it out of pure devotion to an ideology, for payment and power, recognition and fame or otherwise. These and other factors will dictate how far we will follow a leader, as they affect that leader's influence over us. If you are following a leader for a small amount of money that does not motivate you then you will not follow them far. If you are fanatically devoted to a leader or cause you may follow them to the death.

2. War makes people easy to manipulate people as it makes them desperate. Fear, desperation and other emotions make people easy to manipulate, as leaders can deliver promises to rid them of these. For example, when people are scared of immigration they may be convinced to attacking migrants and rallying against them - not out of hate, but out of fear. War changes the mentality of people and makes them much less rational. A level-headed leader can easily take advantage of this. However, this same fear can make people be the opposite, such as soldiers deserting a battlefield out of fear for their lives. The skill in being a manipulating commander is to use these emotions for gain, and this has been done many times in history. Desperate people want a cause they can rally behind with other people, and a leader offers this cause.

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1) Well how far you follow a leader depends on how loyal you are to him and his cause for war. If you believe in him and what he thinks I believe you will be loyal to him to the very end as you share the same beliefs and you would naturally do whatever you can to make that thought or action happen. However if you don't believe in your leader or do not agree with what he thinks. I believe that you will always have a thought of hesitation whenever you are asked to help or do anything that will have an impact. It is very hard to follow someone who doesn't support your thoughts or actions as you wont agree with them and you wont try your best to get his point across. You would most likely end up hating this person as they are doing the opposite of what you want.

2) People can be easily manipulated during war as a persons mind can change to certain types of information or what they see for example if they see someone die it will cause a type of trauma in their minds forever and it will most likely drive them insane and despise the person that cause that person to die. Many people can also be manipulated during war because they could lose their main intention of fighting in the war or starting it, many people forget where they came from or what they wanted to do as soon as they poses power. Power can easily manipulate people and control them.

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1)In some cases, leaders can be seen as political heroes and figures. But in other cases, they can tear a country apart. A good example would be Syria. It really depends on the leader's intentions. A good leader who has good intentions can really take his country far and inspire their people to do good. The leader would have fair laws, and good economic plan(policy). People, in turn, would have more money in their banks making them like their leader even more. A good leader would also be someone that listens to his people. Examples of good leaders are people like Nelson Mandela who fought hard for their country and shaped their country in various ways.

2) During a time of war being manipulated becomes very easy. People are desperate for help and scared. People will do anything to be safe, and the government could create so much money because of this. Not just the government could male money of this. In countries like Syria, smugglers get paid thousands of dollars to create fake id's and passports to get you out of war, completely ripping you off.

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If we follow a leader how far will we go? Why? 2. How easily might we be manipulated during a time of war?why?

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If we follow a leader how far will we go? Why? 2. How easily might we be manipulated during a time of war?why?

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1)Leaders are people with power which have the ability to influence and control others. Some leaders are concern about the well being of their people such as Abraham Lincoln and others do this for their personal interest such as Robert Mugabe. Therefore it depends on the sort of leaders that is ruling. If they have good plans for their people they would thrive and would go a long way. This is because the leaders would come out with good plans and actions for their country such a good economic policy which covers plans for jobs creation, education, infrastructure and so on. Examples of a country with a good leader are Finland and Singapore. On the other hand if the leader is selfish the people of the country will go to poverty. An example of a country with a bad leader with a bad economic policy is Malawi.

2)It would be quite easy to manipulate or influence someone during a time of war. First of all, the country won't have much resources during a time of war such as food, water, medical supplies and also security. So with these type of situations it would be easy to influence someone. For example during World War 1 women would be asked to work in the factories, collect and grow food and men were asked to fight for their country. The leaders of the country influence their people by creating strong nationalism sentiments. All this could be the interest for the leaders.

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I agree with the statement because during desperation people are willing to do anything for the sake of safely, family and other resources such as food.

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1. Under the right circumstances, people will go to great lengths if they are being empowered by a important political leader and this is due to many reasons. Firstly, if the figure is well known across the country and often displayed in good light (i.e. Winston Churchill), soldiers will be more optimistic about being called up to war and this will vanquish the use of advertisement (propaganda) which usually has low success rates, and this will in turn help the country as they will have a more expansive force at their hands making wars easier to combat. Another reason is that if this leader is experienced and has led the nation's forces into war before and come out with a positive result, this will allow people to feel more relaxed as well as eager to enroll in the war as they know there is factual evidence from past wars on their side so they won't be as scared of death (even though there is a high death rate in war but people tend to ignore that because they usually focus on the brighter aesthetics of war) and will be more willing to go, thus increasing the chance of a victorious outcome.

2. Manipulation plays a key part it most wars, whether is for the opposing or the home side. In WW2 double agents were quite common (Fun fact- when double agents were exposed they kept a cyanide pill on them so they couldn't be interrogated and these pills killed them instantly. Talk about loyalty) and this resulted in countries always being 2 steps ahead of the opposition. The main reasons for this were usually corruption, bribery or scandal This made a lot of leaders untrustworthy, yet profitable. Evidence of this can still be seen today by war torn countries and developing countries.

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1) Many people think that if a leader asks his followers to do something wrong they would say no, but this is not true. The government has its ways to pursue people, they can use propaganda and commercials that lure people into a trap. This has happened before during WW2 when propaganda convinced men that going to war has heroic but all they got back was death. Sometimes it doesn't have to be the government, Hitler convinced many german men to join his beliefs and become Nazis. The population can be pursued easily because when you see someone that has more power than you, you would feel comfortable following that person. This is basically how the government works, it's just a name given to a group of people that are not different to you. The problem is that we don't know what their intentions are.

2) Like I said before, manipulating people is easy if you are as powerful as the government and when it is in the time of war manipulating people becomes easier because the people are desperate for help. If the propaganda uses the right words and thought many men would come russian to the army. All a husband or father wants to do is protect his family, so if you get the thought of going to war would protect your family in their heads than most of them would apply to the force. Propaganda work because they use phycological tricks that play with the human mind.

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1. A leader can have 2 effects on people, he may be encouraging and help his followers through troubles and make the correct decisions and protect their followers or the opposite, using followers to get what they need and abandon the purpose of being a leader. It all depends on decisions the leader may take and what he views his followers are, a leader must understand that the followers are his not only allies but friends but it their job to protect them, they must also know what their responsibilities are before taking the job. A leader must also know that it is simple to lose followers and trust, once something goes wrong not everyone will have the power to trust the leader again. A leader must listen to the ideas of others and have help in making major decisions. If a leader makes a good role model of himself and continues to do good for the followers then he will be trusted and respected for long.

2. Followers can be easily manipulated in times of war as most people want a leader they can trust, most people want someone to go to that can protect them as war is a matter of life and death. Parents and close family are willing to do anything at this time to protect the young. People want someone they can look up to for hope in desperate times like war.

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1) It depends on the leader's intentions and purpose for the country. If the outcome of their actions are positive for the people and the country, they will be happier to listen and work alongside the leader. However, if the leader mistreats the people, and the outcome of their leadership is negative, people will hesitate to cooperate and it may end up in protests and instability.

2) It is very easy to manipulate people during a time of war because of the emotional instability that's caused by the war. When people are under the pressure of war, they would do almost anything to feel safe and secure again. This makes it very easy for others to take advantage of them and manipulate them.

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1) How far we will go is really dictated on how the leader intends to lead. Our society would not advance far or benefit from unwillingly following a leader with a cruel or malicious purpose. We'd only thrive if the animus of our leader has a positive effect on them as well as us (such as economy, political pursuits etc.), and a sense of security and humaneness within the leader; only then will we go far.

2) In general, manipulating people under emotions is easy. In this case, war brings out the desperation and vulnerability in people. We would disregard any uncertainties on security or threats as long as we can guarantee we're not in danger. If a complete stranger were to offer solace and protection to us, our response would be completely different depending on if we were in a time or war or not.

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1. It would depend on who that leader is and his ambitions and goals for the nation. If the leader has the right mindset into doing his/her county good then the country will go far with development, safety, etc... If this leader is corrupt and has a goal to wreck his country into nothing, then clearly no, we won't go far. So in conclusion, it really depends on how well the leader is willing to go to make the country succeed.

2. People when in war, would generally do anything in order to ensure their family will be safe, have enough food and have shelter. During the war periods, we would take anything offered to us and take help from anyone and not be thinking of any strings that might be attached or even the consequences resulting afterward. In conclusion,  we would do anything to keep ourselves safe.

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1. It depends on who the leader is as a person, and what he wants to do to the country; if the leader has a goal of invading other countries and bringing their country to war you will feel less likely to follow him. Although it depends on who you are as a person too. If you're a very patriotic person you would do what your leader tells you no matter what. If the leader has a goal of making the country better (Safety, better homes, etc) you would indefinably follow your leader if you know that he will make your life easier.

2. Many innocent people have turned out to do bad things in war, some may go into war with somewhat good intentions but that is hard to do. People often choose to go to war to protect their loved ones and make sure the enemy does not get to them. People are desperate for help and to survive and war and they will choose some harsh decisions to make sure that their loved ones and themselves stay alive

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1. It depends on the leader's intentions if the leader has a goal which is to make his/her country greater then you can go pretty far. But if the leader doesn't want his country to succeed, this will lead to corruption and the development of the country would be very minimal.
2.People could be manipulated in the time of war very easily. This is because during War people might need safety and shelter and food/water. So that means they would do anything for these things, to ensure their survival. So because we are desperate if anybody who offers us these things we will say yes. Not knowing anything about this person.

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1. It depends on the leader. Generally if the leader doesn't supervises and keeps control about the people of the area and the facilities, as well as improving the area then that country/area will stay the same or become worse and will not improve. But if the figurehead decides to consider the area and improve it , then this area/country will go vey far in improvement.

2. We will indisputably become manipulated. During war, there might be very harsh, difficult and offensive moments. So, the people will be desperate for help and safety. And, if anybody offered they won't trust that person as he could be bad or good they do not know his background.

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1. It depends who the leader is. If the leader does not care about the country and its people, and instead only cares about power, we won't go far. However, if the leader cares about improving the country and has the right mindset, then yes, we will go very far, and develop.
However, it can be argued that wether or not the leader has the right mindset, we will improve, and it only matters how much the leader will lead us. But if the leader has bad intentions, we will not move on, and our society will become corrupt.

2. We might easily be manipulated during a time of war. During the time of war, we might be so desperate for help, that we would trust anyone, not caring about who they are as long as they could get us out of horrible situations. However, this might even lead us to worse situations.

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1. It depends on who the leader is. If the leader truly does care then yes we will go far but in the other hand if you have a leader that is only there and does nothing at all to help his or her people then you will not go far.

2. We will be very easily manipulated during a time of war because we would be desperate for help and we would be desperate for someone to come help us get out of the situation we are in.