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When it comes to making a difficult decision, people do the unthinkable. It can be the best decision the person can make or the worst, only time can tell. Doing the unthinkable is very risky, it can even cause derangement in a person . The madness in a person will start rising as they continue thinking about how the decision can make and will affect their future. It can happen to all of us once in awhile, but it is only temporary until we have a stress reliever to face reality. However, what…

person can make nearly 35,000 different decisions, both conscious and subconsciously. The process of which these decisions are made can sometimes be complex and sometimes simple, depending on the severity of the results. However, many times, such choices can slip away, taken from a person’s control due to outside influences and societal pressures. Within the novel Age of Innocence, social conventions and adherences to the norm are what dictate daily decisions for those who subscribe to this kind…

former King Laius. D. Oedipus’ life is made of fate. He has many choices to choose from, but the events in his life caused him to come to this conclusion. At the same, if he was not given away at birth this conclusion would not still be avoided. His life is determined by fate unlike Hamlet who has the choice of free will. Body Part 2 A. Hamlet has the choice of free will even though tragic events seem to come to him. The ultimate choice he made was revenge. B. The first event that caused this…

Is the problem of free will really a problem at all? Some may take comfort in knowing that all their choices are of their own free will, and others may take comfort in knowing that everything is predetermined. The avenues we could go down in which to analyze the problem of free will are endless; I’m going to touch base on just a few key points. One point of view is that physics controls outcomes in your life. Another point of view possibility is that you have complete control. Is our free will…

quote, anecdote, explanation, and maybe a brief research study or two. The book begins with Ben-Shahar telling the reader that research findings show that at least 40 percent of happiness is based on the personal choice to be happy or not. He goes on to say that life is all about choices, and that everyone needs to realize that they almost always…

In Shapiro's "Auto Wreck," the speaker questions the role of cause and effect in human experience as opposed to random chaos. In the poem, the speaker views an “accident” as situations that seem to occur without a concise cause and effect relationship. In life, we usually see a clear relationship between what happens in our lives. However, when that order eventuates in chaos, we tend become guilty of seeing ourselves as victims of these situations. Thus, despite the uncertainty of the horrors of…

Deciding the Journey The decisions that people make in their lives determine their future. However, many teenagers struggle with determining important choices for themselves because it is usually done for them. The most common mistake people make is that they think there is only one option for each individual; anyone can have any future depending on their own decisions. In both Dorothy Livesay’s “Experience” and Robert frost’s “The Road Not Taken”, they express the difficulty in making crucial…

Our interpretations of college cannot be explained to what it is in reality, many people have different point of views of how their college life was. In society today not many students know about the college life or culture can be like and what it takes to be successful throughout your college experience. People can talk about what happened to them or other students but it will never be what you thought it would be. I think teachers could try to teach us about college culture and how to choose…

An individual’s perception of real and remembered landscapes is dependent on their past experiences and memories which reveal inextricable concepts of how landscapes are a metaphysical realm upon which we project our expectations. “The Art of Travel” by Alain de Botton and “Aquifer” by Tim Winton explore how landscapes are reflective of an individual’s needs as they are characterized by the values we lack. The abstract representation of landscapes as a realm that exists within memory or…

Expository Essay Pre-Test In life being ripped away from something you have grown to know and love affects your emotional condition whether it be by choice or by circumstance in the situation of leaving a town you are rooted and raised in or being away from the love of your life as described in line 1 and 2 of the poem “From thee, Eliza I must go, And from my native shore;” both have drastic characteristics of this. When you come to be a certain age you may want to travel, experience new things…