...Happiness is defined as the state of well being characterized by emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy. Present day happiness research does not reinforce the anti materialistic theme of “The Rocking-Horse Winner.” It contradicts what D.H. Lawrence thinks about money. First, in the current day people want valuables to make them happy. In the present day people surround themselves with cars or house decoration or motorcycles but especially electronics to make them happy. David Masci writes “American society revolves around consumption to such an extent that more than two-thirds of the economy involves the buying and selling of consumer goods.” This way of life fits Paul’s mother in the story because she is the one who wants to surround her self with valuable things every time she gets the opportunity. In the story D.H. Lawrence writes “There were certain new furnishings, and Paul had a tutor. So as soon as Paul’s mother got her hands on a little money she had to live the luxurious lifestyle even though she knows they cannot afford to live in any such way. Also, Paul’s mother could have been too concerned with looking good to other people that she couldn’t even pay attention to her family. According to David Masci, “Critics say consumerism has made Americans too materialistic, seducing them into working too hard and spending too little time with their families, all because they want more money to buy more things.” Paul’s mother has this problem because she cannot...
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...Everyday in one way or another we are trying to find happiness in a complete chaos, that is what all we are struggling for. Actually, temporary happiness is everywhere if we want to find it and search for it. Sometimes it is just as close as a cute kitten to us, sometimes giving a hand to someone who is in need of us is enough. Even taking a breath may give somebody the absolute happiness at times. But what if we leave temporary happiness alone and decide to construct our lives on basic principles of permanent happiness? Certainly these principles depend on one’s characteristics and point of view. In my opinion, social relations, acceptance and independence are the most important elements of permanent happiness in life. To begin with, social relations are very important for me to be happy in the general drift of my life. I should have good relations with the people around me for peace of my mind. If I have close and intimate friends with whom I can share my troubles, worries and also my joy, then it means that I have beaten the life up to a very considerable point. In my opinion, someone who has real friends has the most valuable treasure of life. In order to obtain this treasure, I make my friends among the people whose principles resemble mine, whose characteristics best suit me and who are sincere. Besides friends I try to have good relations with the people I encounter somehow everyday, like neighbors, acquaintances, teachers, relatives and the others. ...
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...UNIVERSIDAD DE CARABOBO FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS DE LA EDUCACIÓN DIRECCIÓN DE POSTGRADO PROGRAMA: INVESTIGACIÓN EDUCATIVA CATEDRA: INVESTIGACIÓN CUALITATIVA La Educación. ¿Llave hacia la felicidad? AUTOR: SIMÓN LANDAETA SAN CARLOS, ABRIL DE 2013. En los días pasados, cuando le mencione a algunos colegas que yo estaba escribiendo un ensayo sobre la felicidad y la educación, más de uno respondió con asombro, “¿pero estos no van juntos?”. De hecho, estos dos conceptos parecen cada vez más opuestos estos días y ese es uno de los motivos para abordar este tema. La felicidad y la educación están, correctamente, íntimamente relacionados: La felicidad debe ser el propósito de la educación y una buena educación debe contribuir significativamente a la felicidad personal y colectiva. Pero, ¿qué nos hace felices? cuando se discute acerca que hace felices a las personas emergen una serie de respuestas. Entre ellas se puede mencionar que la felicidad posee fuertes conexiones con sentimientos subjetivos del ser y la efectividad en sus relaciones personales con la familia y amigos. Nosotros obtenemos la felicidad a través de la relaciones con otras personas. El afecto o desagrado, la buena o mala opinión sobre nosotros, la aprobación o el rechazo de las demás personas influye importantemente en nuestro estado de ánimo. No hay duda que la felicidad debe ser el objetivo de la educación pero en la actualidad nuestra sociedad ha decidido que el propósito de la enseñanza es meramente...
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...Children and Violence Course Project: Intervention and Prevention Programs Course Code: PSY301 Submitted by: Stefanie Pitter Date: 09/10/2011 Introduction: You will gain an insight into the types of intervention and prevention programs for the various types of violence discussed during each week of the course. You will discuss and evaluate the practices designed to eliminate the impact of violence on children while becoming more aware of efforts in their own communities to intervene on behalf of these children. You will also focus on the development of intervention programs. Week 1: Final Project Amee and Aaron are 6-year-old twins of Josh and Lacy. Josh is alcoholic and unemployed, and Lacy works two jobs to feed the family. When Lacy arrives home late from work, Josh is drunk after spending the day managing the children. Josh picks a fight with Lacy over petty issues and starts hitting her. Amee and Aaron try to protect their mother. As they tug on their father’s leg, he stops hitting Lacy, falls to the floor, and begins to cry. This has been a nightly ritual since Josh lost his job six weeks ago. Before losing his job, Josh used to hit Lacy on a sporadic basis, usually when he had too much to drink. The children have developed a morbid fear of their father, and they are extra careful not to annoy him. At a parent/teacher conference, Lacy is told that her twins’ behavior on the playground at recess is becoming an issue. Their teacher expresses concern...
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...Happiness, it’s usually come from our heart, our mind, our situation, that will make we feel happy, satisfied, and good. In my research from the source, Prof Dr Muhaya : we have 4 levels of happiness: 1. I was not happy: this is unfortunate 2. I'm happy, but ..: there should be a drug, a dangerous thing to do 3. I'm just happy if: married, or get a property but what we want to accomplish today is a happy based on thanksgiving in fact, people who are happy are those who are happy to see others happy. In life, there are two things that can poison our minds. 1. regretting the past for example, i have one cup of coffee, then I drink it, now it become half, can I get back the half that I already drink? Cannot right? It’s same with our life, when something happen, we can’t look back, because it’s already happened. What we must do, move forward, and make all that happen is a lesson for us to be more careful and understand the meaning of life. 2. troubling about future for example, you must do your exam, but you already put the fact that you will be failed, you can’t do it. You don’t know what will happen in future so you can’t put the fact . what you must do, you must strive, you must brave, you have to be confident with your self. Three things must we do when meeting people is: 1. we learn to appreciate 2. good quotes 3. never criticize them Lastly, my advice, change ourselves, think positive, learn to forgive, and we definitely...
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...AP lang and Comp There are many differing opinions of the phrase “money can’t buy happiness”. I think the response depends on the type of person you ask, but if you ask me, I’d have to agree, money can’t buy happiness. If you asked the question “can money buy happiness” to someone who was born into a poor family they’d probably say no. They would say no because they understand that money and materialistic items can’t make you feel how family, friends, and passion make you feel like. But if you asked the same question to someone who was more fortunate they’d probably lean towards the answer yes. They would answer yes because they believe that doing the things and being around the people that money CAN buy is more emotionally satisfying than having to work to receive the things in life that would be considered the real benefit for hard work and dedication. In my opinion, I believe that money can not buy happiness because the things that I am loving towards and passionate about were not bought for or by me. I love my family and I didn’t pay for them. I love my friends but I did not pay for them, I’m passionate about soccer, running, and playing the piano but I did not pay to be talented at those things I worked to be good at them and can now feel an emotional benefit from doing them. Money can buy just about anything in life but the things that you can’t purchase are usually the things that truly make someone happy. Money can buy comfort and stability...
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...Meditation Meditation is the state achieved from intense concentration on a single object until all other thoughts vanish and all that is left is an intense awareness of the object and nothing else is there in mind for some time. Meditation is one of the Eight branches of yoga classified in Patanjali's Yoga Sutras. Called dhyana, meditation is considered the highest practice and is the final step before ultimate hapiness. Meditation definition: "meditation means sense withdrawl (pratyahara) and concentration (dharana), sustained into contemplation (dhyana), with the aim of triggering a super-conscious state (samadhi), which is one of intuitive realization of the identity of the individual soul or spirit and the cosmic soul or spirit." Benefits of meditation: Meditation helps reduce stress and anxiety, maintains blood pressure at normal levels, and improves concentrating abilities, clarity and improves creativity. - meditation calms the fluctuations of the mind. A simple way to do meditation: First, sit in a comfortable position, either on a chair or on the floor, with your back and head in a staright position parallel to each other in a straight line. Take a couple of deep breaths, which are called ujjayi pranayama or nadi shodhana. Close your eyes. Breathe easy through your nose. Focus on your breath - cool air in, warm air out. If the mind wanders about and it feels difficult to concentrate, gently bring it back to the breath. That's it. Start with...
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...My generation is going to help the futurewith all of us. The two topics I am going to talk about is the new technology, and how we can help stop pollution Technology is a basic role in the whole world. For one, we use the computer to talk, to get information, and to send bills in. Also, all of the video games will effect us by making all of us obes and lazy. But will effect us on how we can spend time to our familys, and to make it better. Other technology we use, like a big one is the, television. It spreads joy and hapiness, and infor mation. Since t.v. was created it made us smarter to make other ways to use it the television. Most of us use it as joy and for information. thanks to the tv it made it easier to send information around the world. Last but not least, was the telephone.since the telephone was made it was easier to talk to our friends, and to send information around the world. My second topic was how we can stop pollution. Since we where we born we were told not to throw thrash out the window, and to pick up any garbage on the ground. Also how to recycle, reuse, and reduce. Since we were born in the age of people cleaning the earth, we were taught to clean up after our selfs. One type of pollution, that we do the most, is throwing trash out the car window. If you were to throw it away just put it in the trash, not the ground. Now that we know everything, we would make stuff out of the recycleables, we could...
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...Wow! This was first reaction to answer this question. It's probably the oximoron of novel comparisons. Ban books, no reason to read." books. Inflicting pain, inflicting pleasure. There is no grey area here. It's black or white, democrat or republican. Two totally different literary masterpieces. Huxley's "Brave New World" published in 1932, portrayed a world of preiscuous sex, no war, no poverty, no crime, and everybody was using a suposively perfect drug called "Soma." The drug use and unlimted sexual freedom gave them comfort and a false sense of hapiness. Orwell's "1984" was published in 1949 and received immedaite attendtion in England and the United States. Orwell died at age 46 of TB six months after it was published, so he never got to see how his predictions would pan out....
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...HELP1. The First Assignment Student Number : 2015034366 Name : Olivier Chhuon Buntha Please, answer the question based on what you have learned on the second lecture, [Volunteering]. (1) Write down the case of global CSR and your opinion about it. (2) Present the example of domestic CSR and your opinion about it. (3) Write down the great leaders’ social service activity. (You can choose any cases although they are not mentioned on the lecture.) - Write down more than 20 lines and 220 words with font size 10 for each question (1) Write down the case of global CSR and your opinion about it. Corporate Social Responsibility is the interest that a corporation pursue for the greater good of the community, and overall society while still concentrating on sales and production. It was first introduce in 1990 in Europe when they were problems with abuse of the working environment such as child labor, poor workplace. There are many case of global CSR one prime example of it, is when a product is sold, a part of that money goes into charity. I feel like this is a fantastic idea, as not only is the company doing this helping other people out, the one buying the product is as well. Everyone gains something, and everyone is happy. Not many people have the luxury to donate directly, this method enables almost everyone to give back in a way. We always need to look at the big picture, if everyone...
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... Nr 1 beverage company 500 sparkling and still brands 15 billion dollar portfolio 200 countries 1.7 billion servings a day. Coca Cola Advertising Story 1900 Coca Cola strategy LOVEBRAND 3 A’s AVAILABILITY Distribution network AFFORDABILITY Product pricing ACCEPTABILITY convincing the customer to buy OUR ANALYSIS USA RUSSIA CHINA KENYA 1. TYPES OF MEDIA • MASS MEDIA • NON MEDIA 2. COPY STRATEGY • Values • Messages • Casting Coca Cola in the USA Symbol of America Medias for advertising ? • Mass media Advertising – Television – Billboard – Web • Non media advertising – Sponsoring – Event promotion • • ADVERTISING 1886 “Drink Coca-Cola” 1900 “Deliciously refreshing” 1904 “Coca-Cola is a delightful, palatable, healthful beverage” 1982 “The antidote for civilization” – Coke slogans for the past 100+ years SLOGANS • 1993 “Taste it all.” • 1998 “Thirsty for life? Drink Coca-Cola!” • 2000 “Coca-Cola Enjoy” • 2001 “Life tastes good” • 2009 “Open Happiness” • 2010 “Twist The Cap To Refreshment” • • • 1986 –“Like a Rock” (Inspired by the Bob Seger song “Like a Rock”) • 2011 “Life Begins Here” The advertising messages. Billboarding The american way of life… TV commercials • The opposition between good and evil http://www.cultur epub.fr/videos/c oca-colavideogame TV commercials • Happiness, peace, enjoy http://www.culturepub.fr/vi deos/coca-cola-friendlyman The advertising messages...
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...How did Deng’s policies lead to a phenomenal growth of the Chinese economy? China began the 20th century with a serious effort to modernize its economy and ended the century with a successful economic modernization. Since the early 1980s, China ranks among the world’s fastest growing economies. Using standards of measurement of the gross domestic product (GDP) based on purchasing power parity, the IMF ranks China’s economy a close third, after only the United States and Russia (Soled, 1993). In 1978, Deng Xiaoping took over the control of the communist party and abandoned the Maoist economic model. Deng Xiaoping is widely regarded as one of the most undisputed leader of all times. He initiated the transformation of the planned economy towards more market-oriented economy and decided to open China up to free market economic reforms and Western style capitalism (Chow, 2001). These reforms were a reversal of the Maoist policy of economic self-reliance. Successful economic development in other parts of Asia including Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore and South Korea, known as the four Tigers, demonstrated to the Chinese government officials and the Chinese people that a market economy works better than a planned economy (Soled, 1993). Deng realized that China needed Western technology and investment, and opened the door to foreign businesses who wanted to set up in China (Chow, 2001). China decided to accelerate the modernization process by stepping up the volume of foreign trade...
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...Are women the weaker sex and in need of constant care? Jane Austen wrote Pride and Prejudice at the end of 18th century, in a time when women were considered to be weak and without options. Many literary scholars seem to agree that in her writing Austen tries to define her personal concept of feminism and she critiques the patriarchal, social, and marriage structures of her time. Pride and Prejudice portrays a male dominated society, in which women are expected to behave in ‘lady-like’ ways and forced to depend on males for social prestige and financial support. Through the plot of the novel and its main characters, Austen indirectly presents social problems to raise awareness of the then current issues of equality, respect, and options women lacked. Austen is recognized as a critic of gender and social codes of her time. According to Susie Steinbach “she was a harsh observer of the legal, economic, and cultural limitations placed on the women of the upper-middle classes who were her main characters” (Steinbach 131). In Pride and Prejudice Austen relates the prevailing attitudes toward women of the day, for example, by presenting how Bennets’ girls are not entitled to inherit Mr. Bennet's estate because of their gender. This entitlement belongs only to a male, which in this case is their cousin, Mr. Collins. Therefore, if they do not get married to someone affluent, who would ‘take care’ of them, they would stay dependant on the charity of a male relative. As Bennets’...
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...Utilitarianism PRINCIPLE OF UTILITY Utility was defined by Bentham as “the principle which approves or disapproves of every action whatsoever according to the tendency which it appears to have to augment or diminish the happiness of the party whose interest is in question.” The principle of utility is designed to promote the happiness of the individual or the community. The community can have no interests independent of or aggressive to the interests of the individual. Bentham's theory of utilitarianism asserts that actions and institutions should be judged by their contribution to utility, which is measured by calculating the relative contribution to happiness or pleasure, as opposed to pain. It has been pointed out that not only is pleasure difficult to measure, but that utilitarianism provides neither any guarantee of individual rights against majority interests, nor any means of weighing high levels of pleasure for a few against lower levels of pleasure for greater numbers. http://www.utilitarian.org/faq.html What is the utilitarian position on monogamy vs. polygamy, marriage and adultery, capitalism vs. socialism, the legalisation of cannabis etc? It is a common mistake to suppose that utilitarians have a fixed approach to controversial political issues. While utilitarians agree on what the criteria for good social policy are (being its conformability to utility), we freely and commonly disagree on which policies are actually useful. We know which goals we...
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...Running Head: Ethical Self Reflection Ethical Self Reflection [Name] [University and Area of Study] Abstract In many cases, a person must choose between two or more “rights” that may or may not align with both one’s moral and ethical standards. The care-based, rule-based, ends-based thinking to arrive at a decision rather than rationalizing after the fact are necessary for analyzing ethical dilemmas (Hughes, Ginnett, & Curphy, 2012, pp. 164-165). The self-reflection needed to identify one’s fundamental nature, and to understand the morals, ethics and values one uses to make decisions are critical to becoming an authentic leader who is a moral manager that serves the people that follow him or her (Hughes, et.al, pp. 152-153). Ethical Self Reflection What is right? Morals define personal character related to the ideas of both right and wrong. Ethics, while inherently linked to morals and one’s moral obligations, is a set of moral principles used in a social system in which those morals are applied. In other words, ethics point to standards or codes of behavior expected by the group to which the individual belongs. These standards could be national ethics, social ethics, company ethics, professional ethics, or even family ethics. So while a person’s moral code is usually unchanging, the ethics he or she practices can be dependent on exogenous factors not controlled by the individual or the group to which the individual belongs. Care-based thinking describes what is...
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