Choice architecture

The Road Life is all about decisions and mistakes. Have you ever been lost in the woods, is it easy to take the wrong path? Yes, and once people get so far down it and make all of these turns, its hard to find their way back when it's the wrong path. Robert Frost did not know what road was better. Sometimes in life people do not know the right path and sometimes they look equally as good, but they will have to test them. He took the one less traveled, how do you tell which one is good and…

Journeys are a key part of life, but arriving at the destination is not the part that matters, the journey itself is the key influential part of life. John Steinbeck and Robert Frost reflect this idea within their texts; Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men and Frost's 'The Road Not Taken' and 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening'. All of these texts explore journeys and different impacts of fear and regret which has lead the audience to consider that the destination and arrival doesn't, in fact, matter…

Lana Wachowski became famous as one of the Wachowski Brothers. Blockbusters including The Matrix Trilogy helped her make a name for herself in the film industry, but that name was Laurence Wachowski. As their movies rose to fame and acclaim, Wachowski directing duo sought to keep their personal lives in the shadows, avoiding the press until Cloud Atlas. A trailer for their new film allowed Laurence to make a name in the industry again, and this time it would be the proper name - Lana Wachowski.…

Conservative wisdom on whether or not to replace your old roof can be like the legal standard for a criminal trial – show proof beyond a reasonable doubt. Maybe not the best way to think about the all-important lid that protects everything inside your home. Here are three pieces of evidence you need to consider when weighing in on the verdict of whether you should convict your old roof and adjudicate that a new one needs installed. Cracks in the Evidence One cracked shingle or two is…

Choices are made on a regular basis. Some really simple choices like getting out of bed or eating breakfast are things that people do now without thinking. But there are also big choices a person makes in their life that can either be really good or horrible. In the story “The Street of the Cannon”, Josephina Niggli illustrates that one bad choice can affect the rest of a person's life by using the elements characterization and conflict. Niggli portrays how one choice can affect the rest of the…

Two worlds divided by decisions and effects they will have on one, they can be thought through or even chosen without delay. These with no thought are our rash decisions, emotion driven choices natural to human nature. It is inevitable to happen once or multiple times in a lifetime especially as a teen. In your teen years, you tend to make these decisions more casually without giving much thought to what the consequences might be going from not doing homework, or studying for an important test,…

may lead to life changing consequences. In the novel, The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini argues that one’s social status affects his/her sense of right and wrong. He introduces three characters Amir, Baba, and Assef who are being challenged with the choice of social status/validation over morality. Hosseini argues that morality is compromised for social status/validation due to the fear of judgement from…

experienced in the past, perhaps few years before. There are two roads that Frost can choose, but he is unsure which path he should take, and wishes to go in both ways. Although he finally chose the path to go after a while, he never was satisfied with his choice, and regretted and wish to go in other road. However, both path are same and the grass in both paths equally look fresh and unworn. However, after Frost chose the path he wanted to go, he wanted to keep the other path for another day…

everyone’s story is more complicated than that. There are bumps in the road that one cannot predict, and challenges along the road that people cannot even comprehend how to fix. In “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost he is presented with two clear choices, and he picks the one “less traveled by”. He expresses this with doubts saying “I shall be telling this with a sigh”. During high school, I saw this idea as a metaphor for taking the path you…

“One 's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.” Wise words spoken by Eleanor Roosevelt, furthermore validating how philosophy and/or religion can dictate one’s life, and can also play a part in decision making. The Canadian crime show, Flashpoint has been said to give new meaning to what one has grown used to in most crime shows nowadays. With that said, this show has a different angle on…