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    Their lunch menu is great. There are various choices to pick from. An all-time favorite of many people is the Shrimp Scampi Linguini with the Cesar Salad. To drink an ice cold sweet iced tea with a squeeze of lemon. While waiting for the order to come how about some boneless buffalo wings? Yummy just

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    The ability to choose is something that humans have been granted since the dawn of time. The decisions, or choices that individuals make, have affected and altered the way that people have lived for hundreds of years. These decisions range from the outfit that one may on a given day to more serious decisions such as the fate of a nation. While these decisions may be hard to come by at times, they are necessary in the progression of humanity. There are times, however, that these decisions can make

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    As mortal beings, our own fate is determined by the individual choices we make over the course of our lives, mainly because these selections ultimately define who we are and what we do in life. My reasons for this being, primarily, each decision we make during a lifetime has an impact upon our lives. The next being, we pay the consequences for all of the good and bad we commit in life. Finally, we decide whether to make a good life for ourselves or relinquish our opportunities to do so. While there

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    Oliverio 1 Bad Choices Life is what we make of it. Our experiences and mistakes shape us as human beings and make us who we are. How we react to bad situations and what we take from them builds our character. Since a little girl i’ve always been active and sports have always been important to me. Being the person I am when something is important to me I become obsessed with it like the sport volleyball. Also being the youngest out of four I am more mature for my age. I’ve grown up watching and learning

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    Decisions. Dilemmas. Things that we have to ponder about, weighing the choices and the outcomes, and deciding what you want yours to be. It’s a part of what makes us who we are, the choices we make. It’s actually what builds up our entire lives, so we have to be sure we choose the right pick. Mrs.Kittredge in “Cover-ups” and the Good Guy from “Good Guys Always Win” both had to make some very tough decisions, and it had consequences for both. “Cover-ups” was about two friends, Jenna and Ralph, whose

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    Decisions, decisions, decisions!!! No matter how old we are, where we live, from what religion, socio-economic background, race, or what we do in life, we face life-changing decisions every day. This is quite true for the short stories Good People by David Foster Wallace, Sonny’s Blues by James Baldwin, and Ballad of Birmingham by Dudley Randall. Decisions can sometimes cause us happiness but in these stories, decisions cause these characters mostly grief, stress, regrets, and wishing the decisions

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    Luck vs choices Luck is just a story to tell one day, but luck can be bad too. Through the stories the characters of the story “‘The Interlopers” are developed by luck and their choices. Two enemies that hate each other as soon as they see each other. But the irony is they don't kill each other, If they hated each other so much they would want to kill each other, But they try but don't succeed because one of the two men got tired of the child's play so they formed an alliance

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    themselves to death with impulsive immaturity, and demonstrate how ignorance affects more than just their own lives. Though their misfortunes could be linked to fate, I believe that fate is just an idea and sometimes even an excuse created to explain choices and occurrences. To start off, the actions some characters in the play chose to make greatly impacted and encouraged Romeo and Juliets’ and Pyramus and

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    answered. In an experiment, two groups of people, those who believe in free will and those who do not, were asked to solve a math test, and it was seen that people who do not believe in free will were more likely to cheat, saying that it was not a choice they made (Bear). Talking about free will, Saul Smilansky, a philosophy professor at the University of Haifa, said “We cannot afford for people to internalize the truth” because it will result in multitude committing crimes and not taking the blame

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    simple: choices. All people live a life full of choices, and everything people do is based off of their choices. People may take their surroundings into consideration, but ultimately, they still makes choices based on their own personal preferences. Choices lead people to what they do, think, and feel. Little everyday choices like what to eat, what to wear, and what to say impacts people in someway. The everyday choices people make that seem minor turn into lifelong, majorly impacting choices, shaping

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