Difficult choices

“We believe in personal choice, rather than society dictating how we must live our lives.”- Mike Peters. In the book The Giver by Lois Lowry, the citizens in the community live without choice, meaning they have no control over their own lives. Because of that they do not suffer the consequences for any choice but they do not get to experience freedom.. Lois Lowry is saying, The importance of personal choice can change a person's emotions, helps people’s abilities to be independant and, effects the

“In this life, we have to make many choices. Some are very important choices. Some are not. Many of our choices are between good and evil. The choices we make, however, determine to a large extent our happiness or our unhappiness, because we have to live with the consequences of our choices.” -James E. Faust. Lady Macbeth in Shakespeare's play Macbeth is a perfect example of this statement due to her actions throughout the play. Her lust for power makes her willing to do anything to become the Queen

Barry Schwartz, the author of “Unnatural Selections,” illustrates with reason, evidence, and a play on emotions how humans are influenced by default choices and the effect they have on an individual’s decision. With the purpose of explaining how influential default choices are, Schwartz validates his opinion with evidence. For example, to demonstrate the difference in organ donation in Europe and America, the author states, “As a 2003 study in the journal Science found, more than 90 percent of the

decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness”. In this quote, Martin Luther King Jr. demostrates that every man takes the side of either selfishness, or selflessness. Doing so may be a difficult challenge, but true fortune cannot be determined until a path is chosen. This valid quote can clearly help resemble The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. The past will never leave a person, and every decision made is final. In the novel, Amir, the

Humans make decisions that lead to many differing conflicts. They make decisions that affect their everyday life such as when to eat, sleep, what to wear, and what to say. Sometimes, decisions are made unknowingly and humans have to face the consequences. In the book Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, a king is assassinated by Brutus and other conspirators that were close friends of Julius Caesar. The book Oedipus Rex by Sophocles, tells a story of a man named Oedipus Rex who encounters a miserable

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In post-apocalyptic Chicago, the city is divided into five factions. Each faction is composed of qualities the members believe will eradicate the qualities that once led the world to destruction. The Abnegation believe in selflessness and humility, they always put others before themselves and they live to serve for the greater good. Members of Abnegation are chosen to be on the council to make decisions for the greater good of the city.The Erudite faction seeks knowledge, because they believe that

Herman Melville’s Bartleby, the Scrivener Born in New York City on August 1st, 1819, Herman Melville led a life that commenced in partial fame and success, but ended in poverty and despair. Although unjustly criticized for the “purposeless extravagance” and “disorderliness” of his writing, due to his digressions into many different topics while discussing a single one, especially in his most celebrated novel today, though most criticized and unappreciated in his time, Moby Dick, Herman Melville

The fashion choices people make should not define who they are. People should be judged based on their actions and not by their fashion choices. Passing judgement based on looks can hurt others and cause issues in society. Some people are required to dress in a certain fashion, but that does not determine whether they are good or bad. I chose this argument topic because it involves my major in fashion and also an issue for which I can relate. The study of fashion and sociology can relate in some

You are stationed onboard a ship deployed to the Persian Gulf, the temperature outside exceeds 100°. You 're standing in the lunch line, in front of you is a sailor drenched in sweat looking impossibly overheated. He is an EN and has been spending his morning in the machinery spaces maintaining the ever humming and hot machinery that keeps the ship moving through the sea. Behind you a sailor in a foul weather jacket who is nearly shivering. He is an ET and has just come from his job in the electronic