...their superiority over others. But even such powers don't give happiness. With power one can force others to do certain things but there is a world of difference between the action forced and spontaneous action. In the present age, many people are striving for happiness in sex, fashion, drinks and drugs. They wish to escape from the problem-ridden world into a world of dreams. They try to derive pleasure from these areas. But thy realize that these are temporary pleasures. These things may help people to forget their worries for a limited period of time but not forever. Most of them are harmful rather than advantageous. There is a difference between happiness and what we describe as joy and pleasure. One a warm day what a glass of cold lemon juice gives you is pleasure because it is a momentary joy. On the other hand happiness is experienced in the mind and is therefore infinitely more powerful. Only a few know the secret of true happiness. It is love that makes man happy. It is love between children and parents, wife and husband, brother and sister, lover and his beloved, the teacher and the student and the master and the servant. It is a love between neighbors and between friends. It is love between man and God. Love is the storehouse of happiness. Love should be practiced...
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...between the two and even states that “if you have an unsuccessful marriage (…) you will remain significantly unfulfilled” (p. 2), But Will It Make You Happier? points out that even though happiness isn’t dependent on income, your buys will influence your mood. The Sandra Bullock Trade acknowledges that poor people are generally unhappier, but the article also claims that as long as your basic needs are fulfilled, money makes no difference. This is probably the biggest disagreement between the articles, as But Will It Make You Happier? is somewhat more capable of differ-entiating the dilemma. Instead of just having a one-tack mind, the article focuses on both the pleasure that money can bring, but it also declares how we are more likely to find joy when we buy social activities than when we buy material objects. A2: The Sandra Bullock Trade catches your attention from the very beginning. The headline itself makes you want to read it, because a celebrity like Sandra Bullock is a person that will instantly catch your attention whether you want her to or not. Another means, which The Sandra Bullock Trade uses, is to turn directly to the reader, and in the sentence “Nonetheless, if you had to take more than three se-cond to think about this question, you are absolutely crazy” (p. 2), the article does so. The article asks the reader whether he would “(…) exchange a tremendous pro-fessional triumph for a severe personal blow?” (p. 2), and hereby it is not only making the reader think...
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...without a bit of structure, good times can come with unpleasant side effects ranging from the dreaded ‘freshman 15’ to academic probation. Money concerns typically arise with the sticker shock of the price of pursuing a degree. Additionally, students may value making money working full time more than perusing their costly degree, or become discouraged with an increasing debt. First, happiness must be defined. There are numerous definitions of happiness; most which include a relatively enduring cognitive component and relatively enduring emotional component. I will however focus my definition for one which is regarding to college students and their time on campus. Nevertheless, a happy student is not one who is necessarily overwhelmed by joy every moment of every day, but one who experiences frequent positive emotions and reports an stable sense of wellbeing with his or her overall life. Secondly, before we further embark in the roll and importance that college faculties have on a student’s happiness, we must understand possible methodologies, which contribute to an individual’s happiness. Throughout this paper, the focus will include the use of positive psychology. Positive psychology is a relatively new branch of psychology and is believed to have found it’s roots in the humanistic psychology of the 20th century. Early influences include philosophical and religious sources such as ancient Greeks, Utilitarian philosophers, and even Thomas Jefferson. However, most psychologists...
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...This week’s reading topic is about happiness. However, this article is not encouraging happiness, it is the opposite. In the MM.NET article “ Stop Trying To Be Happy” by Mark Manson, it states “if you have to try to be happy, then you will never be happy.” Happiness is not something to obtain, it is an emotion that we inhabit. “A happy man does not wonder why he is happy. He simply is.” Furthermore, happiness is not something that can be achieve by itself. Rather, happiness is a following effect of a particular experience in life. People who seek for happiness are not really seeking for happiness, instead, they are seeking for pleasures mostly. Meanwhile, pleasure is amazing. However, it is not the same as happiness. Pleasure is correlated...
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...Abraham Lincoln once said, “People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be”. This quotation defines the ability each person has to create his own personal happiness. Some people consider the pursuit of happiness a challenge, others a source of trouble and suffering. While, some strive all their lives to seize happiness by overcoming all kinds of roadblocks, by giving away something close to the heart or by accepting a situation that might violate their comfort zone. Three reasons people crave happiness are that they want to have a life free of discomfort, they want to feel integrated in society, and they want what they cannot always get. One reason people crave happiness is they want to have a life free of trouble. Whenever people are asked about their main goal in life, happiness is the response a majority gives. It is commonly known for people to strive for happiness, a natural instinct everybody is born with, in order to stay far away from a life submerged in unhappiness and discomfort. Craving happiness is mainly considered as a way to cope with real life, full of stress, anxiety and responsibility, to reach the impression of living an ideal and happy life, away from all kinds of roadblocks. For instance, fresh graduates are typically excited about their new career lives and are ready to work extra hard because they see their happiness in a higher position and a long lasting career. This craving of happiness gives the grads the strength to fight and eases the...
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...Happiness Project The Preparation Stage I had never really thought about what makes me happy or what makes me sad until reading this book and doing this project. It is amazing that when you take the time to sit down and think about what you can change, even if you take tiny steps, it can truly change the way you feel about yourself and others. It make be tedious and seem like is it really worth it but in the end if it makes you happier and you feel better about yourself and the way you look at the people around you it is well worth the hard work. In preparing my happiness project I really had to set down and think what truly makes me happy, what brings me joy in life. There are so many things I enjoy doing. I enjoy being with family and friends, I really enjoy being with my husband and going places together with him, being outside working in the yard or going to the beach or lake, walking, or just lounging on a chair on my porch. I enjoy sports, watching them or playing them. I enjoy playing with my animals. I like to be organized and for things to be clean. I like to work hard and achieve things for my hard work. Thinking of things that made me sad or angry was actually harder than I expected. Probably because those things usually just happen when you least expect them to so you usually do not think of them being an everyday thing. It bothers me when I think people are angry with me or do not like me. I do not like clutter or chaos. I don’t like the feeling of not being...
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...“The Story of an Hour” According to the story entitled “The Story of an Hour”, Louise Mallard is a woman with a heart disease that has many different emotions after she hears about the death of her husband. Her husband’s friend, Richard, lets her know that he died in a railroad disaster which he had knowledge of through a telegram. Richard breaks the news to her gracefully although it still sends her to her room where she can be alone. In the beginning of the story it appears that she is really upset to hear of Mr. Mallards passing and then later shows a significant amount of extreme joy by saying “And yet she had loved him-sometimes”. “Often she had not”. She also goes on to say “Free! Body and soul free!” I do believe that she loved Mr. Mallard but she seemed very self-absorbed. The story did not show any indication that he was cruel to her, which led me to wander why she was happy he was dead? Later, Josephine, Louise sister, is kneeling at her door begging her to come out and of course she denies Josephine’s request. Josephine is afraid that this news is going to make her sister ill. It seems that based on the passage instead of weeping she is rejoicing while she gazes out her open window in her bedroom. She is embracing the spring and summer days ahead of her without a mate. Once Louise comes out of her room and proceeds down the stairs Richard is waiting at the bottom. Then the front door opens and it is her husband, Brentley. He had not died in the railroad disaster...
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...Does Money Equal Happiness? Many people think money is the key to happiness. Happiness is the state of well-being characterized by emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy, which means happiness is an emotion. An emotion is what you feel. Emotions can be short lived or long term. Some emotions, like fear, can come and go. Long lasting fear usually is undesirable. Happiness, on the other hand, is an emotion that most people would like to experience over the long term. People often seek short-term ways to make them feel happy. But, long-term happiness is a bit more challenging to create. Money certainly can buy things that can make a person happy...for a while. In today’s world, IPhones, fancy cars, and nice clothes seem to have become a necessity in life. The problem is, soon there is a newer phone or a fancier car. People can get stuck in a never-ending cycle of trying to buy short-term happiness. Over a lifespan, purchases meant to provide short-term happiness can result in insufficient money for the necessities of life ultimately resulting in unhappiness. Money may actually not be necessary in the first place. There are numerous examples where people who have a lot less are happier. If you travel outside of the typical American city you can find that buying happiness with money is not always the case. I got to meet someone who was happy with having less. When my family and me went on a cruise, we had a waiter who was working on his son’s birthday. Not...
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...Those of us who've been invited to participate in the first reunion on the fortieth anniversary of the Freedom Rides have been asked to write down our memories of the summer of 1961, as one part of an oral history project. Mine won't be typical, but that's alright. None of them will be, for we were a remarkably diverse group, the 300 or so of us who were arrested in Jackson in May-June of that year, convicted of "disturbing the peace", detained at the Hinds County Jail, and transported upstate to the maximum security facility at Parchman State Penitentiary to serve our six month sentences. South Carolina My road to Jackson probably began in December, 1960. Benjy Rosen, my roommate at Middlebury College in Vermont, had agreed to join me on a non-stop run to Florida for the first week of Christmas break. With the savings from a job on an oil rig the previous summer and a great deal of help from my Dad, who was a corporate executive in New York, I'd bought a new Morgan+4, a British racing car. We thought it'd be cool to use it as an airplane - straight to Florida from Vermont in 30 hours, a week in the sun, and back home to New York for Christmas. We got lost, of course, and found ourselves at a small filling station, surrounded by fields, on a back road in South Carolina. It was a two person operation - an older white man in overalls was the owner and watched us from the doorway of the station, and a young black man almost our age pumped the gas. Groggy from the overnight...
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...Being that the eleventh anniversary of the monumental date in American History, September 11, 2011, is upon us, I felt it would be fitting to discuss a song dedicated to the United States military. The song I chose is by Carrie Underwood, the title is Just a Dream. This song is not only moving for the United States military and their families; I feel that anyone can relate to these lyrics. I think this way because that dreadful day affected all of us as a nation. I love this song because the way she organized the lyrics is incredible; she begins the song with a mood and as the song progresses, the mood takes a dramatic turn. The song begins by starting with a cheerful and happy mood, and when the stage is set the mood changes to dark and depressing. The second line of the song is “all dressed in white, going to the church that night”. By these few words alone, one can clearly tell that she seems to be awaiting the walk down the aisle for her wedding. She explains that she is getting ready for her wedding, and she is marrying her fiancé that is in the United States military. Just a few lines later, it is revealed that she is not going to her wedding; she is going to her fiancé’s funeral. Her fiancé had been killed in combat, and she just can’t believe he is gone. This is where the title “Just a Dream” comes from, she wanted to be his forever and now that is now possible. Even more so than the song itself, the music video for Carrie Underwood’s “Just a Dream” is even more moving...
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...carnival rides. It shocks themselves that normal, ordinary people eagerly trade in the quietness of the ground for the chance to be tossed through the air like a bowling ball knocking out pins. It stuns the fans that at some time in history someone thought that people would enjoy this. That person who invented the Ferris wheel must have been a genius with this being the first of these terrifying machines. For the sake of the terrified people, the Ferris wheel ride would hope to have a very smoothly transition. The Ferris wheel ride outside of the Staten Island mall was going to be thrilling. The first experience on the carnival ride for the people that haven’t seen or rid the Ferris wheel before at a local fair was at the Staten Island mall. Staying still at the entrance, some of the kids has small hands which were held firmly by a larger hand belonging to a much more confidant mom or dad, but it will still be a first time experience for them and others. The flashing lights, the melody of circuited music and screaming had all the people gawking at anything and everything that they saw happened upon them. But what caught and kept the people attention was the Ferris wheel that seemed to torture their occupants every time ridden. People that were looking ahead at the horizon; the evil Ferris wheel ride was getting bigger and bigger every time you took a step. People waiting at the line felt swallowed from the fear deep inside of them. But unluckily the ride started out...
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...The Power of COMMUNICATION Talk: Who Gets Heard and Why The Power of Talk: Who Gets Heard and Why by Deborah Tannen FROM THE SEPTEMBER–OCTOBER 1995 ISSUE T he head of a large division of a multinational corporation was running a meeting devoted to performance assessment. Each senior manager stood up, reviewed the individuals in his group, and evaluated them for promotion. Although there were women in every group, not one of them made the cut. One after another, each manager declared, in effect, that every woman in his group didn’t have the self-confidence needed to be promoted. The division head began to doubt his ears. How could it be that all the talented women in the division suffered from a lack of self-confidence? In all likelihood, they didn’t. Consider the many women who have left large corporations to start their own businesses, obviously exhibiting enough confidence to succeed on their own. Judgments about confidence can be inferred only from the way people present themselves, and much of that presentation is in the form of talk. The CEO of a major corporation told me that he often has to make decisions in five minutes about matters on which others may have worked five months. He said he uses this rule: If the person making the proposal seems confident, the CEO approves it. If not, he says no. This might seem like a reasonable approach. But my field of research, socio-linguistics, suggests otherwise. The CEO obviously thinks he knows what a confident person sounds...
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...Christina Glenn Sociology 10:15 Mary Hewitt Extra Credit Freedom Riders Extra Credit On May 4, 1961 a group of seven blacks, and six whites from the group C.O.R.E. (Congress of Racial Equality) boarded two buses in Washington DC. They planned to travel to New Orleans, Louisiana with the intentions of testing the Supreme Court’s ruling in Boynton v. Virginia which declared segregation in interstate bus and rail stations unconstitutional. The riders were a peaceful, loving group of people wanting to bring justice and freedom to the South. Initially, the riders encountered minor hostility. However, the deeper south they travelled, they were met with hostility. The police chief of Birmingham, Bull Connor saw the Freedom Ride as a challenge to his authority in the city. He ordered his officers to look the other way, while one bus of riders was severely beaten and the other bus was burned after being attacked by several dozen whites. Eventually, with the intervention of the U.S. Justice Department, most of CORE's Freedom Riders were evacuated from Birmingham, Alabama to New Orleans. The freedom riders played a pivotal role in the civil rights movement. While Rosa Parks may have initiated equal rights back in 1955, the freedom riders took it to the next level. They brought racism in the United States to the attention of the entire world. When news of The Freedom Riders stories hit the newspapers, and airway, it showed other countries the injustices that were put on African-American...
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...Springboard: A crossover world virtual reality game involving Homer Simpson and a celebrity. Setting: Springfield Backstory: Was it all a hallucination? How did this controller get in my hand? Am I going crazy? I guess I was so desperate for an Xbox 720; I imagined all of this or did I? I guess the moral of this story is that patience is a virtue. Premise: I am in a crossover world of Homerville. The characters of the game are Homer Simpson and I am the mighty Goliath fighting to gain my world back from Homerville. It will be a tough battle as I wage my destiny against Homer and his sidekicks, but Goliath is mighty and will not battle long or alone. Game-style Premise: It all begins on a Saturday night. I am playing on my Xbox 720, when suddenly a blue light flashes in your face, temporarily blinding me. I am knocked out and when I awaken, I find my neighborhood has been taken over by Homer Simpson’s neighborhood. My house is gone and replaced with all the homes and characters associated with Homer Simpson. I am Goliath, the great neighborhood protector, who will fight to the death to destroy Homerville and anyone who gets in my way. The Aliens, Kand and Kodos will help me to rebuild my neighborhood and use bulldozers and other weapons to fight the characters that stand in the way. I will personally destroy structures built by Homer that will strip Homer of his strength until he shrivels into dust. The goal of this game is to destroy Homer Simpson, his...
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...Fixing Traffic Congestion By Fixing traffic congestion is no small task. With the number of people growing, in this country and globally, the demand to reduce traffic is growing with it. There have been many proposed ideas to diminish the shear amount of traffic, such as busses, subways, and other means of public transportation. Some believe we need to add more highways or extend lanes on current highways. I have read many ideas and plans to alleviate the flow and have found some that I believe would work. One relatively inexpensive fix is using current technology to help with traffic systems. IBM is working with a few cities across the globe to add data collection and data analysis systems. The data collection systems would use camera, sensors, and possibly phone tracking to send real time information to the analysis systems. These systems would then analyze the data and use it to predict traffic flow. The traffic lights and other roadway control signal would then be able to act according to the load of traffic heading that way. Traffic lights, for example, would stay green longer if no vehicles are at the adjoining intersections. Though this would minimalize traffic congestion due to the flow of traffic, it wouldn’t be a permanent fix due to the growing amount of vehicles on the roads. Better road material and maintenance procedures would help reduce the amount of time vehicles are slowing down due to road and bridge conditions. Proper maintenance lengthens the life...
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