Choice architecture

doing so. Free will is by far a very beneficial aspect since if allows you to determine the outcome of an event or situation. Of course you would have to make decisions on your own, but you would not be forced to anything; you would overall make smart choice to better yourself and even others around you. The essay, Shooting an Elephant, by George Orwell vividly allows one to analyze the question, "How free is the will of the individual within society?" Orwell presents the issue of whether or…

I watched the video Fatherless Towns this past Monday during class. It was about a town in which a lot of the fathers were missing because of being in prison. Many of the fathers hadn’t been present in their children’s life. However, in the video, they get a chance to have a father and daughter dance. These men have grown up in horrible environments and this has impacted them negatively. Now in prison they are trying to get their lives and their families back. The video we watched was an…

“Some things are destined to be” is a quote from the book Lover Mine by J.R. Ward, this quote mean that sometimes fate is in control our lives and we have no choice in changing our destiny, as some things are made to be, whether we like it or not. In the novel The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, the protagonist Santiago is pushed by fate out of his comfort zone, to embark on his journey to find and fulfil his personal legend and experience “the marvels of the world” (32). His destiny is always…

Poets use various poetic devices in their pieces to express more meaning than the words do alone. Each poem is different in the way it uses these poetic devices and illustrates an idea. Alfred Lord Tennyson and Edgar Allen Poe are two great poets with very different styles of poetry. Despite using some of the same literary techniques, they each incorporate poetic devices to express meaning in their poems. Both Tennyson’s “Charge of the Light Brigade” and Poe’s “The Raven” use narrative,…

Throughout the play of Macbeth written by William Shakespeare, things always have a twist to them. Deception, which is defined as “the act of tricking someone by telling them something that is not true”, can be seen in the play through the main characters of deception, which are Macbeth, Lady Macbeth and the witches. Women characters are portrayed as manipulative and deceiving characters throughout the play. In the very first scene, it begins with the witches saying “Fair is foul, and foul is…

The choices you make in life can either lead you to great opportunities or leave you with deep regrets. It’s up to you to decide where you want to go, and how you are going to get there. A choice is the act of making a decision when faced with two or more possibilities. The possibilities may surpass your limits and get you far in life, or cause you to feel regretful and ashamed. In “Viva La Vida” and “The Road Not Taken” each author uses choices to portray similarities to “Peace Like A River”…

At the end of the story “The Bass, The River, and Shelia Mant” by W.D. Wetherell the narrator has to make a choice between probably the biggest bass he has ever had on his line and the girl he has been trying to impress all summer. Why would the narrator choose a fish over a gorgeous girl? Simple because fishing is the narrators passion, and during the summer he would spend a majority of his time fishing the river for bass. When he wasn’t doing that he would be casting his line for practice in…

of Frost’s most familiar poems. In the poem, Robert Frost looks at the choices one has in life, how one decides which choices are better, and what are the consequences of the decisions being made. The Road Not Taken was first published in 1916 as one of Frost’s first poem in his collection Mountain Interval. The poem consists of four stanzas with five lines each. The Road Not Taken begins with two roads which symbolizes choice with Frost starting his first stanza off as “Two roads diverged in a…

March 2017 Importance of Choice, Memory, and Feelings in The Giver Would you live in a preset world? What would it be like to be placed in a nameless dystopian choiceless world, where all weather is controlled, and all memories belong to one person? The truths behind why memory exists and how feelings and choice play a role in a human’s life are explained through the remarkable novel entitled The Giver. The main character Jonas discovers the importance and roles of free choice, memories, and…

Many people have difficult decisions to make in their lifetime. Choices have to be made in the life of a human being. Whatever choice is made will have an impact on how the rest of the future lays out. Like in the poem The Lady of Shalott by Alfred Lord Tennyson, the lady makes one very critical decision that ended up costing her life. There is always two paths to choose from in life. This is probably one of the most important pieces of information that the author communicates in his poem.…