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thought on choices: If you are poor - then you made a bad decision sometime in your past. Maybe you chose not to finish high school or college or even grade school. Your choice! If you are "BootStrap rich" - you probably made a good decision sometime in your past. Maybe you chose to finish high school or college or trade school. Maybe you chose not to be influenced by a bad environment or chose to be influenced by a good upbringing. If you use illegal drugs - you made a poor choice the first time

The final theory is known as the Middle Theory. This is where God knows the choices any human would make under any circumstance but the human has the power and control over their actions. Even though it may sound like God has control over our actions in this theory I see it as God knowing what actions we would take under certain

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

In Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken,” the narrator of the poem analyzes his situation thoroughly prior to choosing his path. His process can be seen in several lines of the poem. For example, his decision begins, “And be one traveler, long I stood.” Similar to making any life altering decision, the narrator takes time rather than rushing in to his path. He weighs the options of each path (decision) as he “looked down one as far as [he] could…Then took the other, as just as fair.” Upon realizing

Should our school have school uniforms or not? The topic of school uniforms is an interesting topic due to the many views that people have on them. This issue is important because it could prevent the issue of bullying. It also could also make teens get to know each other based on character, rather than appearance. Many teens are judged based on how they look or what they are wearing. The students are the ones most affected by this issue. My claim is that school uniforms should be enforced because

The ability to choose is one of the most basic privileges people have. Choice determines the path set throughout life; once a choice has been made, it cannot be undone. Throughout life, people are meant to choose in order to change, however, by not choosing, it would allow for the individual’s state to be still. In the case of Hamlet, since the characters are of royalty and power, through not being decisive it would allow them to keep their current state and therefore their legacy amongst people

have acted otherwise and 3) the actor must be ‘ultimately responsible’ (Kane, 2005: 121) for his action. After I have explained them, I shall apply these conditions to three scenarios that cover most, if not any, circumstances that occur when taking choices. The purpose of this essay is to show that if my conditions are true, none of the scenarios is based on free will and thus we do not have free will. The first condition seems to be obvious. If an actor wants to act in a certain way but constraints

Aristotle once formed a compelling viewpoint, stating in his discussion on self-mastery that many individuals choose to have a weakness of will. In other words, they know what is best for them, but still choose to do something else. In an experiment done by Walter Michel, many of the individuals in the experiment have proven to make a rational decision to not do something that their basic instincts were pushing them to do. Aristotle’s engrossing point of view has shown that willpower can be achieved

When in times of danger, people must often take the actions they see best fit. In "The Rattler," the author depicts a vivid story of a man who has to make a difficult choice while facing a rattlesnake in the desert. Despite the man seeing a threat in the snake, it is him that becomes a threat to the other. By using the descriptions of the man, the snake and the specific setting, the author affects the reader by creating a sense of empathy for the narrator and sympathy for the snake. With such a connection

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