Narrative About Change

5. Radel and colleagues (2011) conducted a study of how feeling overly controlled makes you desire—even unconsciously—more freedom. In their study, 52 Canadian undergraduates played a video game in a laboratory and were randomly assigned to either:

Soon I had to break the news to my other family and friends. It was extremely hard for me to leave everyone. The hardest part of leaving was not being able to see my longtime friends. Everyone cried, the family, friends, neighbors. It felt as if we lost a piece of our heart. It was so sad but I knew that the best choice

Have you ever been in a situation where you tried to control someone to get your way but the complete opposite happens. A Midsummer Night's Dream by Shakespeare, is an example of control because each character tries to gain control to get what they want. One of the characters in the play is Egeus who tries to control his daughter, Hermia, into marrying Demetrius but she doesn’t love him, she loves Lysander. He is to blame, because he is the reason why this whole conflict even began. Due to this I believe that the case is made that it is not possible to control others.

To be able to have control over a situation, first you need to have control over yourself. We can use as an example Stephen King´s novel Cujo written in 1981. In the book, Donna Trenton´s four year-old son dies and the reason for that is because Donna wasn´t able to grasp control of the situation. Her desperation didn´t allow her to think clearly and she never actually stopped and tried to figure out a solid plan, she just did everything as she went along. If Donna had been able to have control over herself and stop her desperation from clouding her mind, she might have been able to

5. Radel and colleagues (2011) conducted a study of how feeling overly controlled makes you desire—even unconsciously—more freedom. In their study, 52 Canadian undergraduates played a video game in a laboratory and were randomly assigned to either:

you’re incapable of controlling. These are all different types of adversity, but in the end it all

Some people may say that having control over someone or something can bring satisfaction and a sense of power. In the an article called “Gunman Kills Himself After Hostage Drama (584)” written by Charles P. Wallace and Tim Waters loss of control and the feeling of being helplessness makes Robert B. Rose commit a last act of asserting control over himself. In another article written by Martin E.P. Seligman called “On Learned Helplessness (585)” the feeling of loosing control of oneself is something that can cause someone to do things that they thought they would never do. What is hard to understand is that some of the things the someone may commit may implicate the lives of others in a negative way and the ending result could be death.

Moving away from all of your best friends can be a real tragedy in a sixteen-year-old teenagers life. It’s hard to get up and go eight hundred miles away from everyone you know and everything you grew up around. I had this happen to me about three years ago and it is the largest change I have ever had to adjust to in my life. It wasn’t the changes around me that I was bothered by; it was that I did not know one living soul for hundreds of miles and all I wanted was a friend.     

I’ve moved several times leaving behind family and friends. At one point my husband and I were tired of moving and saying goodbye to friends. My kids were sad leaving their school and starting all over again. Our last stop was North Dakota twenty years ago. It has been a blessed we got jobs we loves and my children ended with good friends, a good education, and jobs they loved.

So, how much control do we really have over our decisions and actions? How much can you control someone else's and your decisions? In class, we discussed some different scenarios in which one person or group of people was trying to control another person or group of people. In the first scenario, a lady played a specific song for her sons whenever she served a certain meal from the time they were born. She hoped to be able to prevent them from arguing about which meal they wanted. Whenever she played the music, she then

Some people think that they would be like okay with not being in control but they arent they

I have a moved twice in my life, with the second and last being the toughest to handle. I

I am in control! Kids often feel in control of their parents. They often believe they can manipulate them to get their way. However, they soon realise they are not in control when specific events make parents step up and remind them who is really in charge. Authors usually use real experience, like this one, of power and control to enhance their stories by basing fictional stories on real life events such as natural catastrophes, conflict between different statuses, and life or death situations. Although, most authors are influenced by life experiences they do not follow the same format, each story is different, on the way the power shifts, who does it shift and when.

Moving form neighborhood to neighborhood for some could be a hard task to accomplish. The emotions of leaving a place I had been living the past seven years of my life were somewhat confusing. The feelings were all mixed between happiness, sadness and excitement. This new experience was something that not only I, but my family as well was going through and for that I was sure. We all had family members and many friends who we were not going to see for a long time but I looked at this in a good way. For me this was more of a positive experience than a negative one. Looking at the negative side of moving to a new city for a better life would be ungrateful. The time it took for us to move, the things we went through, or as I call them experiences,

Moving to another house has both gains and losses. The good thing about this move is having a fresh start on things and meeting new people. The reason this came about was that my mom had another kid so we out grew our old house. I have never moved before so it was hard packing up our stuff and moving. I had only seen the house once before we moved and it was really big, so it was overwhelming. I was very nervous and overwhelmed about the move because I didn't know how I was going to adapt to this new house. On the other hand I was excited because I had never lived in a pretty big house before and my room was huge! Moving to another neighborhood would probably change my