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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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    good and evil. Take, for instance, the evening new which eradicates this fact of life. Unfortunately, the tendency for mankind to destroy rather than create is due to a certain amount of “original sin.” But there is a fundamental importance of moral choice, and that is what Burgess intends for us to learn about this free will aspect of life. When he added the controversial 21st chapter he solidified the books meaning by saying, “Eat this sweetish segment or spit it out. You are free.”      When Alex

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    Sethe's Choices

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    Beloved Everyday, people are faced with choices. Some of life’s choices are simple, such as deciding what to wear to school or choosing a television station to watch. Other choices, however, are much more serious and have life-altering consequences. Sethe, the protagonist of Beloved, and Sophie, the main focus in Sophie’s Choice, are mothers that are faced with choices that change their entire lives. While the time period and characters involved differ, the choices of Sethe and Sophie can easily be compared

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    Friar waiting on Juliet’s arrival. Friar reminds Romeo about his eagerness to get married. Then Juliet arrives and they go into the church to get married ("Scene 6."). This is an example of free will because Romeo and Juliet could have waited but ,by choice decided to go ahead and get married. In act three scene three we see that Mercutio and Tybalt are exchanging comment and they draw their swords, and start to fight. Romeo steps in the middle of them, but Mercutio stabbed Tybalt. The wound is

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    Every Day Leviathan

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    protagonist of the story bases his life on. The power to choose wisely and rightly is most of the time a matter of how the problem is posed. Even though we try to be as logical as possible in taking a decision, sometimes we end up making illogical choices. So, it’s a matter of importance to get how people decide things to avoid bad judgments. In the book Every day by David Levithan, A is neither male nor female. He is more of a soul than a human being. A has his own thoughts and memories; however

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    There are some that believe that what happens to them is not under their own control, while others believe they have the ability to make their own choices and shape their own life. This is otherwise known as believing in fate or free will. Arguably one of the most successful and well-known playwrights/poets of all time, William Shakespeare, utilizes this concept constantly, reminding us that in the end, we don’t have a say in the events that occur in our life. One of “The Bard’s” most famous pieces

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    The Road Not Taken

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    of the road to represent choices. This poem’s lesson can be used in life every day. The first stanza represents the idea that life has choices, the second and third stanzas represent the good and bad of the choices we make, and the persona of the poem chooses the harder choice that wanted wear. First, life has choices. Every day we have to make choices. Whether it be what to wear or what to eat for breakfast. Those are not very important choices. An important choice would be which college to

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    Life is most meaningful when we are free to choose what we want to do and who we want to become. Without this gift from God where would we be? We would have nothing and nothing to live for. Being an individual is a huge part of living life and without free will we would be the same as everyone else. We would have no individuality as human and would not be able to create our very own life path. From the movie, the Truman Show the director Christof claims to he gives Truman absolute free will. In

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    Choices and decisions are what shape our lives, there are many choices and decisions that affected Huckleberry Finn through the story, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Some of the choices had positive effects, while some had negative effects. Although most of Huckleberry’s choices were positive, they weren't always clear to him, he would struggle to think about what to do. He had to make choices about escaping his father, whether or not to turn in a runaway slave, and how he wanted to live his

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