In my opinions, I agree with both Mark Twain and Baron D’Holbach that human beings are determined. The environments where we grow up have huge impact on our personalities, preferences, habits, and so forth. During the time we grow up, we absorb all kinds of information through educations and communications. These are the influences that become the forces to move our minds as well as our decisions. Since we decide our choices based on own preferences, which is moved by the outside, there is no such a thing that human beings are free. Take my decision for coming to Sophia for instance, I choose to come here because of its good reputation, because of my parents' wishes, because it is the only university that I applied for. These reasons resulted
