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Jennifer Dela Cruz
Professor Gus Pappas
English 103
22 June 2015
On the Catalyst of Life
In his Heinrich von Kleist once said that “life itself is a contest with fate” and as a result
of the ever-flawed human desire to win these contests, any one situation can be reasoned and
argued to the fullest extent possible but “thinking something over finds its proper moment after
rather than before an act”. This is to say that while it is indeed human nature to take a situation or
dilemma and analyze it to our heart’s content, we will never truly know what we should or
