Choice architecture

The poem “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost contains four stanzas of five lines. Each stanza has a rhyme scheme of ABAAB. The poem begins by saying the problem and setting that a traveler comes to a fork in the road during the fall. Frost shows the reader that the season is fall by the color of the trees’ leaves, “yellow wood.” In the first two stanzas, Frost takes the role of the traveler and begins to explain both paths. One path being full of nature and beautiful while the other looking…

Everyone must make a choice at some point in their lives. Whether it’s choosing what to have for dinner or something bigger and more significant, they all make a difference. In the case of Sanger Rainsford, the latter option is the case. He is faced with an enormous moral decision given to him by an aristocratic Cassock on an island. Rainsford’s need to make a choice reflects the Robert Frost poem The Road Not Taken and his decision takes him on a mental and physical journey, paralleling…

Decisions for a person like me, who thinks way too much about way too many things are absolute HELL!!! They also take FOREVER! You go from thinking about the options, to the consequences the, “am I going to regret this later?” sort of thing. Like I can totally see myself ten years from now, sitting in front of a table covered in bridal magazines, cake and fabric samples. Trying to choose between chocolate, or red velvet, or vanilla cake, and trying to choose between Chiffon or Taffeta. while…

Why do people make bad decisions in life? Is it because we intend doing something different than everybody else? Or maybe perhaps it's because we are human and we do make mistakes. We strive to make others happy and sometimes when that doesn't happen we give up and become and unhappy and decide to not give a care when we do something wrong. or maybe we fall in love with someone so much that they will do absolutely anything for them just to be in love with them. Mcgraw does just that in her story…

Humans only have free will when they are aware of the fact that they are making logical decisions and judgments. In order to have free will, humans must make logical decisions. Logical decisions are reaching a conclusion after careful consideration of multiple options. Examples of logical decisions are thought suppression and mental control. Though both of these have been proven to increase the thought of a certain subject in the long term, there is a slight moment after the thought of…

to be a Rhodes Scholar serving America, another aided in murder and is now serving a life sentence. Both share the same name, both grew up in similar environments, but neither ended up like the other. The lives of people are controlled by their choices. This or that, him or her, red or blue; every moment is a decision. In The Other Wes Moore, the jailed Wes Moore said, “‘We do what others expect of us[.] If they expect us to graduate, we will graduate. If they expect us to get a job, we will…

Freedom as a human, the feeling of acting through free will Being free! To lie on a beach with not a single care in the world. To not have an ounce of a guilt on a broad chest. The power of will that we give our self as people is very rare. We often as humans give our self no credit. We seem too think we are “useless” and “not good enough”. This is not the case. We are flawed and our actions are flawed, we give into what makes us seem evil or negative. This is not who we are, well unless your…

Choices are made daily, some have an insignificant impact on anyone or their lives, for example, if someone chooses to put their left sock on today first even though they had their right sock in hand, the world probably will not be affected too much. However some choices in the world have a large impact, everyone learns this as they mature and reach adulthood. These choices can be choosing to say the right or wrong thing at a certain time, possibly hurting a career or relationship. To elaborate…

In the article “Logical Choice” Gary Belsky writes about decisions and how hard they can be no matter what the circumstance is. He wrote this article to show people that it is not easy making a decisions without feeling a little guilt about the choice they made. Belsky gives a few real common life examples of choices people have to make and some they make in their daily life. A few years ago I lived with my mom and was going through some tough situations while I was there. We had financial,…

Min plays a big role in the book A Single Shared, he is an idol to Tree-ear for he is a potter and Tree-ear wants to learn how to do pottery. Min has many different traits in A Single Shared such as being a perfectionist, or being mad. The story clearly states how Min was angry and always mean in the beginning of the story. Then at the end of the story min was caring, mindful, and nice to Tree-ear. Throughout A Single Shared Min had many emotions and Traits which were stated in the story. In…