...often seems pointless. For example, if you ever question what is our purpose in the world? or what are we supposed to do on earth? These are all existential questions that are asked every day. From my understanding of existentialism is making your own choices and later on having to dwell on the presumptions of that choice that you made. In such as Orwell having to dwell on the choice that he made of shooting the elephant. According to his essay, “existentialism” Sartre explains the beliefs and conditions of existentialism. The most important beliefs that Sartre had was that there is no human nature. “If existence really does precede essence, there is no explaining things away by reference to a fixed and given human nature.” (Sartre 1131.) He also believed that God does not exist. “On the other hand, if God does not exist, we find no values or commands to turn to which legitimize our conduct. (Sartre 1131.) Meaning, we are the ones to blame for our own actions and choices that we make, if God doesn’t exist were not able to put our blame on him. George Orwell is a writer that I think is an existentialist. In his essay “Shooting an Elephant” I believe that Orwell was existentialism. His central choice that he makes was, he didn’t know if he wanted to shoot the elephant or not. Orwell stated “As I saw the elephant I knew with perfect certainty I ought not to shoot him. It is a serious matter to shoot a working elephant looked no more dangerous than...
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...There has long been an ongoing debate about whether obesity is a choice or not a choice. Some may say that people can choose to be obese because, after all, a person chooses what and how much they eat. They also choose whether or not they exercise. Eating the wrong things and not exercising a lot is a cause of obesity. Others may argue that obesity is not a choice and that genetics play a major role in a person’s obesity. Genetics such as Leptin Resistance, Impaired Hunger-Hormones, Cushing’s Syndrome, and Hypothyroidism all lead to weight gain. A person cannot control their genetics so obesity is not a choice in their case. Statistics show that less than 5% of americans have ideal cardiovascular health. Statistics also show that less than 2% of americans actually consume ideal diets. Poor diet and poor exercise are major factors that lead to obesity. You can decide if you want to exercise or if you want to eat fast-food all the time. Bad habits also leads toward obesity. Smoking cigarettes or drinking alcohol are bad habits that paves the way for obesity. Smoking and drinking are both choices and as we all know you make your own choices, which means that you choose if you become obese....
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...Poetry Essay Thesis Statement “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost is designed to show readers that the choices humans make may lead them down a road that will be beneficial or make them unhappy. I. Introduction A. Theme of the poem II. The Setting A. Season 1. Fall 2. Roads 3. Symbols III. Title A. Meaning 1. The Road Not Traveled IV. Rhyme and Metrical Device A. Stanza B. Rhyme V. Conclusion Poetry Essay: The Road Not Taken The poem, “The Road Not Taken”, by Robert Frost presents an interesting take on life and the choices people make about life. The theme of the poem is focused on roads that they are traveling through life, and no matter which road people travel, humans may or may not be happy with the choices that they take in life. These choices can cause unhappiness and regret. This is a lesson that all of humanity endures at multiple times throughout life. Every decision is a choice about which road people would like to travel down. The setting of the poem is in the woods. The woods are described as a yellow wood that has grass and leaves. By the setting, one might think it is fall, as the leaves are turning color and are falling to the ground, based on Frost’s comment, “In leaves no step had trodden black (Frost, 2010, p. 610)”. Frost also states in the poem, “Because it was grassy and wanted wear” (Frost, 2010); that gives you the impression that one of the roads seems to be traveled...
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..."Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure." -Scott Adams. No words, thoughts or actions come from thin air. They are all forced on us from the day we were born, and will always be until the day we die. So with that being said, yes, I feel that free will is just an illusion. It's an illusion that is brought upon us so we don't ever realize the slaves we have become in our own world and society. We are formed by the people around us, people that portray themselves as being above us. We obey and follow rules that our society has brought to us. We agree and respect its values because they made us feel as if we do have the free will to vote and make the decisions they're actually making, In reality we...
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...EMPOWERMENT THROUGH CHOICE? A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE EFFECTS OF CHOICE IN ORGANIZATIONS Roy Yong-Joo Chua and Sheena S. Iyengar ABSTRACT The provision of choice is one of the most common vehicles through which managers empower employees in organizations. Although past psychological and organizational research persuasively suggests that choice confers personal agency, and is thus intrinsically motivating, emerging research indicates that there could be potential pitfalls. In this chapter, we examine the various factors that could influence the effects of choice. Specifically, we examine individual-level factors such as the chooser’s socioeconomic status and cultural background. We also examine situational factors such as the content of choice and the number of choices offered. We then expand our discussion on the effect of giving employees extensive choice by looking at its influence on creative performance. In the second half of this chapter, we discuss implications for future organizational behavior research and examine how emerging research on choice making can inform specific managerial practices. Research in Organizational Behavior: An Annual Series of Analytical Essays and Critical Reviews Research in Organizational Behavior, Volume 27, 41–79 Copyright r 2006 by Elsevier Ltd. All rights of reproduction in any form reserved ISSN: 0191-3085/doi:10.1016/S0191-3085(06)27002-3 41 42 ROY YONG-JOO CHUA AND SHEENA S. IYENGAR INTRODUCTION Douglas McGregor’s (1960)...
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...very stressful situation so why not sit down and take some time to do it? Be creative, don't rush, give yourself plenty of time and really think about what interests you in life. My major is something that I will want to enjoy, something that I will be doing for the rest of my life. Why would I want to be miserable at something I do in life? In two short essays: "College? What's in It for me?" by Steven M. Richardson, and "What It Means to Be Creative", by S.I. Hayakawa, I can relate to my major very well. Athletic Training is something that takes skill, as well as being creative in your own way. No two Athletic Trainers are the same. The more creative I am at whatever I do, the better off I will be. I hold the keys to all the doors that can be opened in my life, and I will ensure that they will not be put to waste. Here at the State University at Cortland, I made the decision of choosing Athletic Training as my major. I knew I wanted to do this because I was very interested in sports my whole life. It wasn't an easy decision in choosing a school, but I think I made the best choice based on my major right now. In a short essay... [co;kgkkklj;;rdewwq...
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...much choice do we really have when we want to purchase goods? Choice is something most people just assume they have when they are picking their cable company, choosing a bank, or even walking through your local food mart. The goal of this essay is to show that while at first glance choices may seem endless, but when you do a small amount of research you can quickly realize that most brands link back to the same parent company. The majority of foods, drinks, and health products we buy trace their way back to 10 major corporations. Society today has this false idea that they have a choice in what they buy at the grocery store. For example you may not like large soda companies and decide to not buy their products. But if you buy bottled water, sports drinks, energy drinks, or fruit juice chances are you are buying a brand from a soda producing parent company. Most retailers charge a fee to get products on the most visible shelves which keeps small companies away from your line of sight. This is because large consumer good companies have a special relationship with retailers. Like an “I’ll scratch your back if you scratch mine ideology”. Many of the products that you see on store shelves are direct competitors that are linked to the same company. “ConAgra sells six varieties of popcorn” (http://www.alternet.org/food/how-big-food-creates-illusion-choice-supermarket). Different brands of products is a ploy that most parent companies use to help give you a false idea of choice. This...
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...In life, you have choices. You can decided what you eat or who you are with but in many situations it seems like you don’t have any control over the situation at face value when you actually do. In David Foster Wallace’s speech, “This is Water,” he brings out the reality we live in day to day that people ignore preventing us from seeing what we control. James Baldwin comes to a conclusion similar to Wallace in his essay, “Notes of a Native Son” when he realizes it’s his choice on how to perceive and act in society to either make change or let society stagnate. Both these works show that people have control over social circumstances that seem like there is no choice but expresses this point in their respective points of view and examples. Both...
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...Essay of ''Mule Killers'' by Lydia Peelle By growing up and entering a world of adulthood, you automatically experience both positives and negatives sides of life, you may have not known in the innocent childhood most kids have known. In “Mule Killers” by Lydia Peelle the troubles of a young man is described as well as the consequences of his actions are portrayed, and made a huge influence on the rest of his life. Throughout a lifetime everyone face situations where one has to make choices without being able to know the consequences. Sometimes people make decisions without even being aware of it.. Some choices can have an influence on life's path and the consequences of making choices can therefore be fatal and frightening. To close a door can sometimes be the opening of another – another path in life. In the story the father is a teenager and he is confused about growing up and at the same time he, like many teenage boys, has a difficult time expressing his feelings. This becomes evident in this paragraph: “She is going to walk out the door and leave them here to their sodas and silence. At this point my father, frantic, takes hold of the girl on the stool next to him, leans her in Eula’s direction, and kisses her recklessly, right on the mouth”. Here he has gotten himself into an uncomfortable situation because he has chosen to make Eula jealous instead of telling her how he feels. This disability has the consequence of making the pale-haired girl pregnant. This creates...
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...Changing Our Lives Essay My decision to go to college was based on my need to achieve a personal goal in my life. The goals I have achieved thus far have been tough yet challenging. When I was younger in high school I made a bad choice to drop out of school. I made up my mind to go back a get my GED. It made me feel like I was somebody when I did go back and receive that paper saying GED on it. I always worked my whole life and I felt like I had to go and get GED. a chef because I love to cook. A degree from Johnson & Wales was the way to go. With a degree and not just a GED, I will have better career choices in life. I wanted to be career as a chef. After a semester of attending Johnson & Wales, I was faced with going back to work to take care of my family. At the time while attending JWU I was not working. It came to me that a career as a chef is great but I really was looking for a degree to make a career choice. So going to Strayer was the way to go. I could work and still get a degree at the same time. After going through the feeling of missing something in my life, I wanted something to fill that void. I wanted a degree to feel special, to feel self-worth inside. I want a degree so badly that I work all day and school work at night. Yes I am so tired but the feeling of self-worth is so deep, so powerful I can’t fight it. I not only want a degree but I need one. No one in my family has one, and I want to be the first to achieve this...
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...TOEFL Writing Topics Topics in the following list may appear in your actual test. You should become familiar with this list before you take the computer-based TOEFL test. Remember that when you take the test you will not have a choice of topics. You must write only on the topic that is assigned to you. People attend college or university for many different reasons (for example, new experiences, career preparation, increased knowledge). Why do you think people attend college or university? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer. Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Parents are the best teachers. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer. Nowadays, food has become easier to prepare. Has this change improved the way people live? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer. A company has announced that it wishes to build a large factory near your community. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of this new influence on your community. Do you support or oppose the factory? Explain your position. If you could change one important thing about your hometown, what would you change? Use reasons and specific examples to support your answer. How do movies or television influence people’s behavior? Use reasons and specific examples to support your answer. Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Television has destroyed communication among friends and family. Use specific reasons...
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...Rosenberg Gen 200 Personal Responsibility Essay Personal responsibility is when a person holds himself/herself accountable for their actions. It is so easy to blame others for the decision that one makes. When one maturely deals with their actions and consequences, whether it involves work, school, family, friends, etc that is personal responsibility. How many times have we heard both children and adults say, “It wasn’t me! ”? Especially when there is a big group, fingers are always pointing at someone instead of the one at fault taking responsibility. Their are several actions educators can take that will help them handle mistakes in ways that will be to their advantage in the long term, including admitting errors and talking about a problem (Glenn, 1999) . Admitting responsibility shows maturity. Every person has the opportunity to make his or her own choices. It is important to make a choice that one feels is the best for him or her. We tend to make excuses for our behaviors, which is the worst approach one can take. Sometimes people tend to let other people influence their choices, which is not always the best. No one knows more what he or she wants than himself or herself. Sometimes other people my try to influence a person’s decision or make the decision for that person and it is not okay. A person needs to confront their his or her decisions, whether the decisions good or bad. Making the right choice is not always easy, it is a long thought process...
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...would say or think this is offal, but after one finds out, he oppressed her it is obvious why she is happy. This essay reminds me of the reason my father left Jamaica, for a better chance at life. Freedom is something not everyone will have an opportunity to have but one must seize. When the protagonist, Mrs. Mallard, was told of the death of her husband, joy swept over her. It is important to notice how the author chooses to portray her happiness; she looks out a window to darkness and speaks of the beauty of it. When one thinks of happiness spring and flowers come to mind but for her anything around is enough for her to express her happiness, which is evidence of how overjoyed she was. At one point, she thinks her is not dead and her feels of happiness and freedom whittle down. Similar to Mrs. Mallard’s feels for her husband, my father had specific feelings toward Jamaica. He felt that there was no chance to advance in life and to provide for his children. In addition to this, Jamaica was still colonized by England, so there was very little option that one could go into. When the chance to go to America, the land of freedom, came to him, he wanted it immediately but that did not happen for him. It was not until the fifth time that he was finally able to come to America and be able to live out his dreams. The author, Chopin, was trying to explain sexism through her essay. The ideal woman in those times was submissive and gave her spouse her mind, body, and soul; compared today...
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...IELTS Secret Key #1 - Time is your greatest enemy |[pic] |[pic] |[pic] | | |Written by Rad Danesh | |Monday, 23 April 2007 | |To succeed on the IELTS, you must use your time wisely. Many students do not finish at least one module. The table below shows | |the time challenge you are faced with: | |Module | |Total time | |Questions | |Time for each question | | | |Listening | |30 min ...
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...The Ambiguity of the Impact of Life Choices By Stacy Tohar In the Road Not Taken by Robert Frost the reader is left with ambiguity about the personal impact on the traveler of choosing one road over the other, and therefore ambiguity about the impact on a person from making one life choice to the exclusion of another, as this poem is of course a poem about life choices. The definition of the word ambiguity is doubtfulness or uncertainty of meaning or intention.It is unclear whether the subject of the poem, the traveler, feels contentment, regret, or both about his choice of roads. However, from the poem’s conclusion, it appears that the author intended that the ambiguity remain without resolution, just as is often the case with life choices and the impact of those choices. In the Road Not Taken, the traveler stands at a fork in the road and must choose one road over the other. Of course, this is a metaphorical fork, symbolizing life choices and paths. Knowing that he must choose one road over the other, the traveler attempts to look as far down the way as possible in an attempt to see where each road will take him. This is as in life, where we must attempt to visualize the impact of choosing one life choice over another. However, as with life choices, the traveler cannot see the consequences of one choice over the other with any certainty: “And looked down one as far as I could to where it bent in the undergrowth.”(4-5). The traveler can only see that one road...
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