Sophie's Choice

I knew I needed to make a choice to change my career and did so by going back to school. The options that I knew I could handle was going to school online while working around my schedules and picking an area of expertise that was suitable to my goals. Gaining a degree in psychology

The poem “The Roads Not Taken’ by Robert Frost uses tone, point of view, and plot to show/illustrate/communicate making tough decisions. This poem is very relatable to real world problems people have today whether it is in school or work. This poem is explaining the process of a person who had a tough decision to make and being content with what they chose. Plot is used in multiple ways to show the theme. In the poem in line 1-2 it says “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood and sorry I could

Our circumstances do not determine our lives. Instead, our lives our determined by the choices we make. In the novel, East of Eden, by John Steinbeck theorizes that all individuals have the freedom to make their own choices in order to triumph over evil. He demonstrates this by the use of the word “thou mayest” (Steinbeck 301) and “timshel” (601), meaning free will. The power of choice means that the lessons and values of our lives are not determined by outside influence or our ancestry, but our

The lives of every single person are directly correlated to all of the choices they have made be it big or small. In the play “Macbeth”, the fates of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth were largely caused by the decisions which they had made earlier in the story. Furthermore, the choices of Mahatma Gandhi had led him to his position as a leader of a people fighting for their independence. Moreover, in the stories of the founders of the monster company Apple, their various decisions led them to their triumph

In life, we have to make choices. We make choices on what we eat, what we wear, and how we are going to live our lives. Choices are what make us, us. As we grow older, the choices become more difficult, as we struggle to find our way on the path of life. Often we are searching for a light to lead us in the right direction. For some of us, the light shines brightly in the distance and helps us find our way along the long and bumpy path of life, while for others the light seems to never come, and we

A legacy is known as the mark you leave on the people who surround you and how they will remember you. My legacy that I would like to leave on the world will differ from every decision that I make throughout my life. There’s a poem by Robert Frost called The Road Not Taken. This poem shows how every decision that you make throughout your life can affect your legacy. Each decision that I make today can greatly affect my reputation in the future. How will the world remember me? Now that is an excellent

September 2015 Free Will Controls Fate Free will controls our destiny and our destiny is determined by the choices we make in life, but also by a higher power. In the Hunger Games, Kato stabs Peta and Katniss stumbles across blood and decides to follow it. She finds him and it was her decision to follow the trail of blood that saved his life. Everyone is born with an undecided future and the choice we make can lead us to what we are supposed to do. Our free will gives us options, which could lead to

is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure.” Even though most people have free will, they always choose the decision that will lead them to the most happiness. If one is given a choice to be courageous and happy or safe but not satisfied, the logical choice they would chose is the primary. This decision is evidently seen in John Milton’s Paradise Lost and the film The Matrix, where Eve from Paradise Lost and Neo from The Matrix face an opportunity to discover pleasure

Free Will is when you are making the decisions on your own, that nothing is meant to be unless you make it happen. Fate states that your story is already written for you. So, if your story is already written out, can you change it? The tragedy of Romeo and Juliet was the result of free will. The tragedy was mainly caused by the actions made by Romeo and Juliet leading up to their deaths. Romeo and Juliet made decisions such as, deciding to sneak out and deciding to get married. These decisions created

In the piece of literature we had this week, Eternal Quest for the Best: Sequential (vs. Simultaneous) Option Presentation Undermines Choice Commitment we found a different points in the decision making process. It takes the view of how we can look at our choices, and how that affects our satisfaction in the long run. Simultaneous gives your choices all at once, and you have your pick, while sequential gives them one at a time. When given options sequentially you saw a trend that people were less