▶ Your Answer :Minor decisions are inevitable elements of people's lives. Some people might think that small decisions do not influence their lives so much; while, others believe that the minor decisions could actually have great impact on their societies. Although small decisions such as to sit on the chair or not to give up tend to be overlooked, they actually elicit significant consequences in people's lives. Rosa Parks, Rosalind Franklin, and the Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald support this thesis.
Rosa Parks, a famous woman abolitionist, shows how her minor decision, not to give up her seat, seriously affected the American society. Rosa Parks, riding a bus, was sitting on her seat, actually devoted to only black people. However, as white people became unable to sit because of the fullness of their seats, they forced Rosa Parks to give up her seat. But, Rosa Parks did not let whites to take her seat; while, some people actually did. Her minor decision not ot give up her seat inspired other balck abolitionist and made huge impact on the success of the civil rights movement. Rosalind Franklin, a well-known female scientist in honor of the discovery of DNA structure, advocates the importance of small decision through her success in science field. Rosalind Franklin as a female scientist had gone through lots of discrimination. She sometimes got robbed her scientific discovery by other male scientists, and she had to do her job in the inferior situation. She could not have suitable equipment and healthy laboratory to do her research and experiment. But, she did not give up and finally discovered and proved that DNA has double-helix structure. Her tenacity and persistence ahd great impact on scientific society.
The Great Gatsby also demonstrates that small decisions actually bring superior impact on people's lives through Gatsby's tragic death. Jay Gatsby, to find his lover, Daisy Buchanan, held a party every day with the money he had earned through smuggling. However, his minor decision to find his love, Daisy Buchanan, brought Gatsby's death. His meeting with Daisy caused the jealousy to Tom Buchanan, Daisy's husband. At last, Tom fired a gun toward Gatsby hastily with the hatred on Gatsby. Gatsby's minor decision to meet Daisy caused the animosity from Tom and led to Gatsby's tragic death.
Likewise, minor decisions could evoke major consequences although they seem not to be that significant.
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