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    There are a lot of similarities in the story “Hill Like White Elephants” and “A Work of Artifice”. Both stories show how men a trying to shape women. In the story “Hills” the man tries his best to convince his girlfriend that an abortion is the best option to save their relationship. He wants her to see his point of view of why a baby isn’t what they need in their lives right now, but having an abortion will get their relationship back to what it used to be. He is convinced that having an…

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    line would be cursed. This is an example of free will. It might not have been fate that this was supposed to happen it was his choice to kidnap the boy. Also, even after this curse, he went and got married and had a child, that was free will and that made his son cursed. Oedipus is cursed now, but it was not his choice, it was his fate because of his father's choice. So he has to live with his cursed fate Oedipus is also known as the pawn of fate and the victim of free will. He is a pawn…

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    Robert Frost, people call him a nature poet or an author, but no he is a man of metaphors. As a kid growing up in San Francisco, Robert Frost went through very personal hardships. At the age of 11, his father passed away. He then dropped out of college without a degree and struggled unsuccessfully with farming. Four of his six children died, including a son committing suicide, his wife went to depression. During all this personal hardship the world was going through its own troubles such as…

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    The Existence Of Free Will

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    experts in the field have difficulties defining its nature of existence. Free will is the doctrine that states that all human beings are free to make independent choices. Free will has the potential to judge the outcomes of our actions by explaining that no external force was involved in them and, therefore, we are free to make our choices. Thus, it is important to understand its significance and how we define it. Humans are blessed with the power of free will because we perform actions that are…

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    Do you feel like you are floating through life letting it take you where it wants to take you? Or, do you feel like you are making decisions in life that have a big influence over where you go? One of these life paths is living by design and the other is living by default. Which path are you on? Are You Living By Default? This path is where you put your life in other people's hands. You don't have an idea where you are going, so you don't take action on anything that you really want to…

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    Dead Poets Society Risk

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    inspires the kids to be more outgoing and to think freely and to be an individual in their school. Mr.Keating is instantly an inspiration to all of the students because unlike all of their other teachers, Mr.Keating teaches the kids to be themselves and to think outside of the box. Mr.Keating is an inspiration to the kids because he lives his life according to his own rules and he doesn't follow what the school tells him to teach which makes the students realize at it's ok to have your own…

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    Newman Summary

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    The statement by Newman in the first chapter is very precise in its diction and is well supported by sociological concepts and evidence. The daily social life to which Newman refers can be summarized into individual decision making and interactions with others. Individual decision making often appears to be (and feels like) complete free will, totally based on a bubble of individual thought, but that is not the case. Upbringing and personal opinion weigh heavily on someone’s life, but the world…

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    All Choices Have Significance It was once said that, “There is no reset button in life. You can’t take anything back, you can’t undo anything. All of your actions have consequences, and the things you say and do today will have a lasting impact on the rest of your life.” As evident in this quote, all choices big and small, have an impact. And no matter how much you might regret a decision, we can't undo our choices.. Whether it be in this world or a fictional one, our choices shape who we are.…

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    The vehicle is straight and far. Our car went straight because on our v-log our car had a consistent measurement because most of the time our car stayed 11ft. Our car stayed straight because it had a consistent distance, which means that our car went straight and didn’t veer. The vehicle went straight and far. Our car went far because on our v-log it says that our car went 6 ½ ft in 5 ½ seconds, which means our car traveled far in a short amount of time. Our car is made of coaster-car body…

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    The poem “Choices” by Nikki Giovanni shows the impact of positive thinking. An example from “Choices” would be the first stanza, “If I can’t do what I want to do then my job is to not do what I don't want to do”. The world isn’t fair and neither is life, but opportunity is. If you don’t like where you ended up it can still change if make more opportunities for yourself and avoid things that you know are harmful. Later in the second stanza of “Choices” it states, “It’s not the same but it’s the…

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