How Does Markwardt Make A Split-Second Decision

Decisions are what direct a average person's life. Some decisions are easy some are hard. But that’s the way of life and how it works.

Lysandra is justified in taking revenge on Elaine because she intentionally triggered the conflict between Lysandra and the one thing she held the most value, her intentions to become a writer. Even though Elaine may have won fair and square, her true intentions, in which she knew the consequences were what justified Lysandra’s revenge. Elaine knew how much Lysandra valued the contest, by addressing how Lysandra “devoted her entire life to it” (127) to the point where Elaine “hope[d] [she will] never love or want anything that hard” (129). In addition, Elaine understood the consequence of snatching one’s dream, such as her best friend’s through the detailed description of Lysandra’s father, a smart man whose “ambition had been snuffed out

When people make choices, they consider their past experiences and base what might happen off what already has.

Our choices influence how we live and how people see us, whatever decision we make impacts not only us, but our family as well. To start off, in the movie Forrest Gump directed by Robert Zemeckis, Forrest the main character is in love with his best friend, but when he goes to marry her, she puts him down. When Forrest asks Jenny to marry him and that he would make a good husband and she responds with “you would, Forrest” and then continues to say you don’t want to marry me. – Here Forrest is hurt that the love of his life does not want to be with him, but she is only hurting him because she is afraid of commitment and afraid to let him down. She loved him, but knows she cannot commit to something she

She never tried to be the best friend ever, not just to stand up for her, but when she wanted to become friends again, she didn't try hard enough. A while after Lysandra and Elaine stopped talking Elaine goes up to her one day and says, "Lysandra... it wasn't my fault... please be nice again" (70-71). Above all, she does not say sorry. Moreover, she would not lose her stubbornness and realize that it was her fault and even if she did, she would not accept it. Secondly, it appeared as if Lysandra was using her because when the time came, she felt Lysandra was useless and stopped playing with her. It seemed as if she was using her and only needed her to play with as she calls her useless when she uses the break to write poems by herself. When it comes to the contest, despite knowing Lysandra’s biggest dream she lets herself be stubborn and and win and show off for herself. I believe this shows how adverse and disloyal she is. Regardless of knowing the preferences of the judges she does not tell Lysandra. Elaine says herself that, "Lysandra was the only one to dedicate her entire life to it"(67), this means that Elaine percieved how much

make many decisions and if they choose wrong, it may cost them their lives or someone else’s in

Elaine knew how much winning the contest would mean to Lysandra as she claims “...Lysandra was the only one to devote her entire life, to filling out a whole shoe box with poetry...” yet she still disregards Lysandra and fails to inform her about valuable information. Elaine knew that the judges are not as sophisticated for long abstract poems and that Miss Alexander was the judge to impress. Elaine specifically tailors her poem to become more appealing for Miss Alexander as well as the other 2 male judges. She specifically says “Where could you find a subject better designed to please two men?” (130). As well as “Miss Alexander … had no truck with any kind of verse that didn’t rhyme and wasn’t the jig-a jig-a jig variety.” (129). Partially because of Elaine’s opportunistic personality she keeps this information from Lysandra, and as a result would put her at an advantage in the

Love is one of the most influential entities on Earth. Love convinces people to perform many tasks they otherwise would not have even considered performing. Some people yearn for love so deeply that love can turn people into inhumane, bitter, creatures with no mercy or compassion toward others. Other people may think that the feeling of love will last for a while and then dissipate over the time the couple spends together until the relationship becomes dull and unhealthy. These toxic relationships can be found everywhere and can greatly lower the quality of one’s life; by introducing poor decisions and hatred into their life.

Love affects what people choose to do weather it is right or wrong. “You’re going to have to make a choose, the girl said carl or us ” (Carver 785). In this example from “Everything Stuck to Him”the boy is faced with his family

Love should be born and live in fields, just like wild flowers. Love needs to be nurtured by water, with no concern about where and when the next rainfall will take place. Love needs to allow nature to take its course and trust in the sustenance that its surrounding provides. However, love refuses to take the easy path. Instead, love decides to live in kitchens alongside irritated cooks, dirty walls and screaming infants with impatient mothers. Clearly, love would be better off without concerns, growing in a field like an iris, patiently waiting for the next rainfall. However, love chooses to exist in chaotic environments filled with discontent and discord.

Every action a person takes is the result of having thought about what it is they think they should do and then doing it. Life is riddled with problems that require solving. Decisions are complex matters that require careful judgment and problem analysis especially when one is in a role where others look up to them and are affected by their decisions.

All Choices Have Consequences Choices! Everyone in the world has to make many of them every day. People make choices on what to have for breakfast, which routes to take to school, how to answer on a test, how to ask someone on a date. John Donne writes “No man is an island, entire of itself.” Like a pebble when dropped into water, creating ripples far and wide, a man’s actions may have repercussions for himself, his family and or friends, and even his society.

In “Lysandra’s poem”, Elaine wins the poetry competition and Lysandra's takes revenge by stealing Elaine’s boyfriend in the future. What Lysandra does to Elaine is justified. Firstly, Lysandra is been working a lot harder to win the competition from childhood than Elaine does. For instance, “She read all the good poets before she was twelve, and a lot of the bad ones too” (127).

While people are often able to identify when they feel the emotion love, love itself seems to defy definition.  In her polemic “Against Love”, Laura Kipnis argues that love cannot exist as traditional expressions of love such as marriage, monogamy, and mutuality.  However, in her argument, she defines love incorrectly by equating love to expressions of love. This definition lacks a component essential to understanding the abstract concept of love: emotion. Recognizing love as emotion helps us realize that, contrary to Kipnis’ argument love by nature transcends all expressions of love. Love is subjective and exists in any and all forms. In her argument that love cannot survive as conventional expressions of love, Kipnis ignores the nature of love as emotion in favor of equating love to different expressions of love. Love is a force which exists above expressions of love; a true understanding of love can only come from an assessment of how individuals, not societies, respond to the emotion.

The interplay between fear and foresight when individual’s make life-altering decisions Through the hero, Hamlet, Shakespeare suggests that there is a delicate balance between fear and foresight when an individual makes life-altering decisions. The shape in which the individual