In the short story The Most Dangerous Game, the author Richard Connell shows that Rainsford needs control of his emotions, patience , and expert hunting and decision making skills in order to defeat Zaroff. Rainsford needs to gain control of his emotions to outthink Zaroff, who symbolizes Rainsfords "steep hill". When he finds that he is going to be hunted his natural instinct is to run and panic, but then he stops to look around and get a grip on the task at hand. Then at a critical moment when Zaroff finds him in a tree, Rainsford panics again because he realizes Zaroff is on his trail and is toying with him. Once again, he gains control of his emotions and formulates a plan.
In the second stave of the book Scrooge was feeling regret of what he did in the past. Evidence of regret is on pages 50-51. They are saying, “I not know your repentance and regret would surely follow? I do; and I release you. With a full heart, for the love of him you once were.”
Regardless of how each poem expresses the idea that we must learn from our mistakes, both poems capture the fact that forgetting our mistakes is ingrained in human nature. Both poems eliminate the proof of our mistakes, whether by covering them with
Regret is an incurable disease caused by lies, distortion, and falsehood. People often try to find a cure for this disease or try to believe that regret is something that is easy to cure, however, it is not. Once an individual make themselves believe in a lie they tell themselves, the pain and suffering that comes with regret will continue to linger for a lifetime. Sinclair Ross’s short story, “The Painted Door” highlights the idea that individuals who deceive themselves in the chase for happiness often create a lifetime of regret.
Nikita Khrushchev once claimed, “If you live among wolves you have to act like a wolf.” Khrushchev means that if a person lives surrounded by those who are ferocious or voracious, then that person is obligated to behave like them. Similarly, Richard Connell addresses this idea in the short story “The Most Dangerous Game” by displaying a change of mentality within a character when that individual is put into a fearful situation. Specifically, he uses conflict in order to develop the theme that the one’s will to survive outweighs one’s will to be civilized if life depends on it.
This poem is told from the perspective of an old laptop. His owner got a new computer that was faster, thinner and younger than him. In the second stanza the computer talks about his owner 's new computer, “I have information about him before he left me for his new toy, thinner, younger able to keep up with him. ”(Kaye 5-9). The purpose of the loss in this poem is that the old computer can not keep up with the new computer.
The way the world is perceived often changes as you lose innocence, Ostiker’s poem strongly represents this concept, while Kasischke’s poem barely briefs it.
The Unconscious Mind Decision-making is a process used in everyday life, and some may argue that choices are never really ours because they are influenced by our surroundings. However, what if the brain takes account everything and uses different parts of the brain to make a decision that pleases all sides of a personality. In Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card elaborates on Ender's different aspects of his character through his actions and reactions. And in the article, "Freud's Theory of the Id, Ego, and Superego" it categorizes the human mind into three subsections. In both texts, it is shown how the 3 sections of the mind can continually influence the "everyday decision makings" of a person.
However one might say society is often caught up in the past. The well known catch phrase, “we learn from our mistakes,” has also been a basis for many individuals in achieving prosperity. In the novel the question about the impact of one’s past on their destiny
Using Park’s grandparents as an example, I was able to explore why our memories are able to influence our perception. Due to the positive memories that are associated with owning a quarter acre block, they have tried to enforce the same goals upon Parks, in hope that she will experience the same privileges. Parks’ grandparents are parallel characters to Willy Loman. They all want the younger generations to uphold the same dreams, as the achievement of their respective dreams evokes joyous memories.
In the first stanza, we can already see how this poem can relate to the world today and how we feel about certain things. We as humans don't like change. Sometimes, we want something to happen so bad, that we don't consider how our life might change if this wish, this hope of something, actually happened. We sometimes may want something so bad, but fear what the consequences might be if something goes
I do think we are in control of our own happiness because I think the human controls how we feel on a day to day bases because of the actions we do so really I do think we control our own happiness just how we control our actions. So One example is our decisions that we do during the day make our happiness because if you start thinking about all this negative stuff you won't be happy therefore like say if your in school and all this negative stuff starts to happen you just got to deal with it because if you don't then that shows that your not a strong person inside and that any little thing will bother and will ruin your day and so if you just know how to deal with it and put it aside and not let it break your happiness then that shows that
If I say that we all are irrational, some of you might defend me say that not all are irrational. But I can prove that all of us have unintentionally been an part of irrational decision making, like not wearing vehicle seat belt because you thought it might spoil your amazing outfit, smoking and drinking alcohol, poor financial decision (buying unnecessary items), not attending a lecture or class, and many more. In a survey conducted in Manhattan 50% of the people had purchased an umbrella for a very high price on rainy day from street vendor. Moreover, 77% of the people said they would purchase an umbrella for a high price on a rainy day if it were necessary. However, 90% of the people will not buy the same umbrella for even half the price if it was a sunny day (Summer, 2012).
Among the Ethical Philosophy, which I find to be interesting and different from the beliefs that I have, is the Normative or Ethical Hedonism. Coming from a culture which is highly collective, this ethical philosophy is something interesting to learn as a person who strive to broaden his horizon by learning different ethical philosophy that might different from ours, yet common and acceptable by other culture. As far as our culture is concern, we believe that we must act always according to the will of our conscience and we must always follow the norms of the society for the betterment of all. Normative Hedonism is a theory which suggest that happiness must be always be given a huge importance and as much as possible “pain should be avoided.”
Happiness is a Choice There is no greater feeling in the world than being happy. Believe it or not, happiness is a choice that comes from within. According to a theory in Psychology, all humans have a happiness “set- point” that determines their overall well-being. When something positive happens to a person, he becomes happy. On the other hand, when something negative happens to him, he becomes miserable.
