Philosophy of life

other citizens. When the emperor was able to break off his controlling device, the narrator says, “She fired twice, and the Emperor and the Empress were dead before they hit the floor” (Vonnegut 4). The narrator shows that Harrison’s (the Emperor) life was harshly taken away, just because he was different from everybody else. Another example that being individual isn’t worth the risks is when Mead is arrested in “The Pedestrian” just for being outside and taking a late-night stroll, even…

In “The Tyranny of Choice”, Barry Schwartz writes about choices, the freedom of choice, and the classification of two sets of people based on their decision-making skills. As humans in a changing society, we are faced with choices on a daily basis. These choices can either make us happy or cause us misery and anxiety. How we approach these choices as individuals can better explain our own preferences. The two terms Schwartz mentions are “maximizer” and “satisficer”. He gives us an introduction…

One always has a choice but their decision whether good or bad are all based on their morals and their circumstances in life. The overall meaning to Adrienne Rich’s article is that students should not receive an education, but claim one by being active learners and not passive learners. In every individual acquires knowledge of the basic functions they need to get through life at a young age. In most cases, people learn and gain more knowledge as they get older from different sources such as…

Choices in A Modern First World Society Agency is the ability to have a choice to make and the way one acts upon that choice. So, it is being presented with a decision and carrying out that decision in a way that one deems fit. According to Jean Paul Sartre, he states that each decision one makes or does not make is still a choice that reveals an aspect of oneself to the rest of society. He links a relationship between agency and choices. The Bystander Apathy Experiment depicts conformity and…

Guilt is defined as the fact of having committed a specified or implied offense or crime by Merriam-Webster Dictionary. In the same dictionary, shame is defined as a painful feeling of humiliation or distress caused by the consciousness of wrong or foolish behavior. These two feelings go hand-in-hand. It is sometimes good to have guilt and a little shame, because not everyone is perfect. When Guilt and shame takes over, they can make us do things that we think are going to help us not feel guilt…

Alice Paul’s belief that “when you’re alone you can make any choice you want. But when someone loves you, you lose that right” is mostly true, especially since one’s decisions are influenced by those who love them, but she is also false depending on how real and unconditional the love is portrayed throughout the relationship. When alone, an individual is given the independence and freedom to follow through with whichever decision they make, such as when Alice Paul fighting her way for…

If we were to live in a world where choices are already made for us, then we would live in a world similar to the community of The Giver. The Giver is a world created by Lois Lowry. She is a two time John Newbery Medal winner. The Giver is a story about Jonas, becoming the next receiver of memory and learning the truth of the world. I believe that we should be able to make our own choices. It may lead to mistakes, but if we learn from them then we will know not to do that mistake or accident…

Science Aspect 1 – Who am I? Scientific Name: Equus Caballus Common Name: Horse Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Perissodactyla Family: Equidae Kingdom: Animalia Genus: Equus Species: Caballus (Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, 2012) (Scientific classification of horses, n.d.,) (Fredrickson, 2000) Aspect 2 – Reasons for the Introduction The story of the Brumby began in 1788 when the First Fleet arrived in Australia (Dawson, 2005). Domestic horses originated from England and were…

Sacred values and conformity drives our choice about universe of obligation, by having strong sacred values it allows us to have certain ideas higher in our universe of obligation and conformity makes us want to have the same universe of obligation as everyone else. Sacred values are the biggest driving factor about our universe of obligation, the stronger the sacred value the closer the universe of obligation will be toward yourself. The first example would be the video we watched in class…

As times change, values and ideas often change as they are invariably shaped by their context. However, some remain constant throughout time and are universal. The 1592 Shakespearean drama Richard III and Al Pacino 's 1995 docu-drama Looking for Richard [LFR] were written four hundred years apart yet both texts address perpetual values and ideas that are common to both eras. Through a simultaneous study of both texts, the responder is able to understand the influence of context on aspects of the…