Only Drunks And Children Tell The Truth Essay

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Emotions are a significant part of our daily lives. They control everything from stress eating to confronting a friend. Emotions can also impact decision making abilities in varying degrees depending on your relation to the topic or situation at hand. However if emotions run every aspect and decision in your life, it is harder to remain objective and calm in certain situations. A balance of both emotion based decision making as well as unbiased/objective or fact based decision making is necessary to make decisions to better your personal life, or perhaps your company, work life, relationships, etc. In both Doubt and Only Drunks and Children Tell the Truth, varying degrees of emotion based decision making are used. This is because the characters have a deep connection with the situations at hand, and know their own morals. Emotion impacts decision making when a topic or …show more content…

They can also solve problems for the greater good, and for oneself. Grace, a character from Drew Hayden Taylor's book Only Drunks and Children Tell the Truth, let her feelings guide her, and although there were many ups and downs throughout, the story ended in closure and a lifelong bond between siblings. Because finding out more about her past and finding herself were very important to her, Grace made spur of the moment emotion based decisions to conclude her wonderings. Sister Aloysius also used her internal instincts and emotions to guide her through a rough time and solve the problem at hand. Sister Aloysius and Father Flynn had an issue with each other, moving the story along in the book, Doubt. Although she was aware no one believed her, or was on her side, Sister Aloysius persisted and let her moral compass guide the way. She knew what Father Flynn had done was wrong, and she felt strongly about protecting her school. Because she had a deep connection with it, Sister Aloysius never stopped until she got her

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