Assignment 21 Rebekah George

Right now, somewhere in the great, big universe, someone—as you may or may not have already guessed is—yes, planning world domination. But hey, this is the universe we’re talking about, so universal domination is also a possibility. We have no evidence that can effectively deny or validate the existence of extraterrestrials, but that does not mean that other potentially existing creatures do not have evidence of our existence. Thus, domination of our planet or galaxy or the whole dang universe could be eminent. Isn’t that fun to think about? On a more “realistic” (what is reality, anyway) note, however, people on this planet are currently plotting world domination. I may or may not be one of them, but that’s not important. What is important is that, since the beginning of the modern civilization, people have wanted to rule the world. Take our much better and more pleasing sounding friend folk across the pond. The English have attempted to take over more countries than there are moons in our solar system. Only 22 countries of the more than 200 in the world have never experienced British invasion. The United States has also done its fair share of conquering and imperialism-ing. Take pre-World War Numero Uno, for example. The U.S. snatched Cuba (sort of) from Spain and gained Guam, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico in the process. That’s not mentioning the fact that we, quite literally, overthrew the government of Hawaii and voted to force them to join the United States. Russia likes to take stuff that doesn’t belong to it too. Along with Japan, China, and the Romans. The world has a long, long history of thievery and conquering. That’s how things happen, I guess. Empires and such. The fact of the matter, is that it’s still happening, too. Take terrorist organizations in the Middle East, namely ISIS. They’re conquering cities and leveling things that don’t belong to them. So, right now, yes right now, someone—lots of someones, actually—is planning world domination. Somewhere on the planet and perhaps somewhere off in outer space too.