Irrationality

Gatsby asserts “‘Can’t repeat the past...Why of course you can’”(106). Gatsby shows irrationality and stubbornness as he is trying to change the past, which is impossible. This mentality leads Gatsby to confront Tom, so he can have Daisy and erase the consequences of his past poor life. Which miserably fails as he is exposed, which causes many other defeats as stated previously. Therefore, stubbornness and irrationality lead to defeat, which establishes his traits as not magnificent. Traits are…

Aristotle defined virtue as achieving excellence through fulfillment of a certain function. He stated that people are born with the opportunity to have virtues but they must act accordingly throughout their function. Any function that is good and well must possess some sort of end objective which is what a person is in search of, and it’s through the activity of the soul that a function may achieve what it is searching for. Aristotle believes that anything that can move has a soul, which…

In 1955 a psychologist named Albert Ellis created a cognitive behavioral therapy called; Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy or REBT. Ellis’s therapy makes a client challenge their beliefs of irrationality with ones more rational. An example of an irrational thought is: “Everyone canceled on going to the club this weekend, everyone hates me!” Ellis noticed three things people were ignoring while he was creating REBT; people ignore positivity, people over exaggerate the negative, and people find…

Suicide has long been a hot topic throughout a variety cultures and religions. There have been debates ranging from “suicide is a sin” to “assisted suicide should be made legal”, no matter what your view on suicide there is an abundant of knowledge to be gained from previously concluded research. This paper will discuss what exactly suicide is, how prevalent is suicide and the variety of opinions taken by different cultures and people. According to the online Merriam-Webster dictionary suicide…

1.3 Rationality Assessing rationality is relatively difficult, to begin with, this section will thus attempt to assess and define rationality in terms of (1) the performed actions and what makes it rational and (2) what makes an agent rational. The assessment of the act and the agent though done distinctly, are connected, and thus necessary for the wholesome analysis of rationality. A rational act might be executed by an irrational agent or an irrational act might be executed by a rational agent…

*The potential impact of the impact bias on negotiation is straightforward. If people overall are expected to have trouble determining what they really want because of a tendency to overestimate how to achieve that item will affect their sense of well-being, the other party are also likely to have trouble identifying what they really want in the negotiation for the same reason. In negotiations, some may think that taking advantage of the other party’s mistakes is to your benefit. However, it is…

manipulates the themes in the story in multiple ways to ultimately demonstrate a unique brand of gothic literature. The wife’s gruesome murder is the story’s most central event and portrays a strong element of the classic gothics of Poe. The narrator’s irrationality is one of the first and most obvious points of the tale, yet it is not until his wife’s mutilation, that one truly sees just how twisted and bestial he is. The…

In a time of confusion and chaos spurred by the prophecies, Lady Macbeth saw a future, and her zealous ambition would not allow it to stray. When she saw inadequacy in her husband, she pulverized it promptly, beguiling, dissimulating, and manipulating him. Lady Macbeth’s persona is one filled with her ambitious needs, which at times were more fervent than those of her husband, and encompassed in hostile rhetoric, hidden with her duplicity. She begins her first lines with a plan of deceit,…

While being a powerful thread for storytelling, this kind of irrationality and distrust can be seen in every walk of life all over the world. To some, fear can be a great asset, and to many it is something that takes control of their very lives. Eleanor and the story of The Haunting of Hill House is but a microcosm for…

sometimes put them at risk. So, Shakespeare proves his point by showing that his characters can make it through hardships and have their love for one another still be true. Through the experiences of overcoming obstacles such as hypermasculinity, irrationality,…