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The human experience is filled with a constant struggle, or more correctly the human experience is a constant struggle. A battle between doing what one ought and what one desires, often two very different stations, and then again often parallel visions. Should one travel and experience art and culture and live the adventurous life, or should one settle down with spouse and children, a mortgage, and a dreaded steady job? Each decision we face has innumerable possible choices with exponentially more possible outcomes as a result of the original decision. Each choice leads to a plethora of new choices. Finding ourselves somewhere down the road of our historical choices we often ask the age-old question of “what if?” Is happiness, or life, a destination, or a journey as is so often stated? Once some measure of joy or contentment is attained, can it be maintained? Or are we doomed to constant entropy or toil to maintain our life station, or watch it crumble? In Ford’s The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance ,Ransom Stoddard, (James Stewart) finds himself recently graduated from law school. A young man with a seemingly bright future, intent on making his place in the world, armed with his law books and h
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Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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