...Christopher Munsey wrote an article about a Psychologist Professor at Harvard, Daniel Gilbert who was giving a speech at an APA convention. According to the Monitor on Psychology journal, Daniel Gilbert began his speech about marriage (2010.) While growing up, Gilbert’s mother had told him to aim for three things in life, “finding someone nice and getting married; building a fulfilling, well-paid career; and above all having children” (Munsey 2010.) Before I read this article, I used to think that getting married made things better. You would be closer to one another, trust more in one another, and build a better relationship with one another. I have been with my partner for almost four years, and even though marriage is one thing on our list, we haven’t felt that it has been something we have to do right away. I have a four and a half year old daughter from a previous relationship. Since my partner and I have been together, it seems that the more time and time goes on, the more the four of us grow together as a family. There are some things about this article that I completely agree with and some that I will definitely disagree with as well. As twenty-three women who has lived with the same man for almost four years, and have risen a little girl together seems fair enough that I can consider myself basically married. There is no paper that states that, but I believe that our history and current state very well proves that. There are three main topics that this Harvard professor...
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...The 8 Good Habits Of Highly Distinguished Students By Your Teacher This book is for free distribution. It is not for sale. The 8 good habits of highly distinguished students are: 1) Right Understanding 2) Right Thought 3) Right Speech 4) Right Action 5) Right Livelihood 6) Right Effort 7) Right Mindfulness 8) Right Concentration Good Habit # 1 – RIGHT UNDERSTANDING A bad beginning usually has a bad ending. The only good way to make a sensible start is to make a right start by trying to get RIGHT UNDERSTANDING. RIGHT UNDERSTANDING means correct understanding, the best understanding, understanding that is true, understanding that is not half-true or half-false, but is the very best and most complete understanding you can get. Let say you have a car and you have just filled the tank full with petrol. You have a road map and you know very well where you want to go. There is only one problem to keep you from starting your trip. You do not know how to drive; until you gain the proper understanding of how to drive, the car is useless to you. If you try to drive without knowing how, you place yourself in great danger. Unless you first get RIGHT UNDERSTANDING you cannot make right use of the other 7 good habits. For example, students who understand that it is to their own benefit to learn would work hard to learn more and do better. When you do well, everyone...
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...to handle conflict by peaceful means” (Ronald Regan). The Middle East is full of mixed cultures and many religions, but unlike the United States the Middle East’s melting pot never made it to the stove. As a result the Middle East is full of strife. Christianity flourished peacefully in the Middle East until the Muslim conquest, which brought persecution. Now in the Middle East many Christians don’t have the freedom of speech, the freedom of religion, nor the pursuit of happiness. Christians in the Middle East do not have the freedom of religion. “Six Coptic Christians and a security official have been killed in a drive-by shooting outside a church in southern Egypt” (BBC). These people...
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...What does Life, Liberty, and Pursuit of Happiness Mean to You? The Declaration of Independence is the most important piece of all American historical documents. Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness might ring a bell, but for others it’s a whole different story. “Freedom is Intended as a Challenge” by Naomi Wolf mentions in her reading about Thomas Jefferson who was one of the writers of “The Declaration of Independence” had two main ideas which were individually and happiness, the pursuit of happiness. As Wolf researches she comes up with the idea that Jefferson had the idea that we would live a life that was guaranteed, Wolf explains “liberation is not about a historical moment that had happened in the past it is more of a destination of the mind” (636). Life is not all about being born in America and being free, people around us must continue their happiness, and find their own meaning of liberty. Wolf is a piece that takes a deeper look into the current perception of how the Declaration of Independence. Wolf believes us present day Americans have a right sense of what really happened in the late 1700’s. Wolf explains how many American’s now just look at the Declaration of Independence as just a piece of paper, and not taken as serious as it should be. The Declaration of Independence is supposed to be looked at on how free America is, as the Declaration of Independence states, “We hold truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed...
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...constitute the phrase of the American dream: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness”. The following text will analyses and explain the American dream. The interpretation of the American dream. Text 2 Arnold Schwarzenegger is an immigrant from Austria. When he came to America, from his difficult life in Austria, he then soon began a carrier as an actor. One may state that he had fulfilled American dream, but he did not stop there. He became the governor of California. “I have succeeded beyond my wildest imagination”, Arnold Schwarzenegger wrote. His text is very positive and optimistic. He pursued his happiness and realized his American dream. He always remembers his challenging past and is forever grateful for his present and the future. Arnold Schwarzenegger explains how appreciative he is to be able to join a nation, which helped him succeed his American dream: “To truly succeed as an American citizen, you have to do more”. Everyone has to participate in establishing a nation where you as a citizen are obligated and given the opportunity to pursuit the happiness, freedom, liberty and equality. Anya Kamenetz is a writer and a columnist, focused on the economy. Her text describes the American dream as material: “…the idea that standards of living, as measured by money and ownership of material things…”...
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...Royal” by Ralph Ellison, the two main characters are dependent on their surroundings for the happiness in their life. Before one can attract people who will support, appreciate, and acknowledge them, they must choose to do that for themselves; when one chooses to feel good, they are not dependant on other people acting in certain ways to make them feel good like the characters were in the two stories. Although Madame Loisel married a middle to low class clerk, she is very fond of expensive things. Her attention from her own life and marriage is lost in the thought of being wealthy. “She had no clothes, no jewels, nothing. And these were the only things she loved; she felt that she was made for them. She had longed so eagerly to charm, to be desired, to be wildly attractive and sought after” (Maupassant 330). Even though Madame Loisel’s husband can’t afford expensive things, she is fixated on looking high class and receiving attention for it. She wants so desperately to be accepted in the upper caste system, that she can’t be content or happy without that. Once Madame Loisel was invited to be with the rich at a party for one night, she went to the extreme. She muzzled four hundred francs from her husband for a new ball gown and borrowed a diamond necklace from a friend. She made sure she looked classy in order to be accepted by the others at the party all so she could feel good about herself. She danced madly, ecstatically, drunk with pleasure, with no thought for anything...
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...feeling long after they have turned the last page and closed the book with a sigh of either relief (at least the speech is over) or of nostalgia (oh, why did it have to end so soon). I happened to fall in the latter category. John Galt means different things to different people. To me he is a pillar of strength, a beacon in a storm, a guiding life-force. One of my favourite quotes from the infamously long John Galt speech is “I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.” At first glance, it might look like it promotes selfish conduct or is even borderline narcissistic. But the beauty of the thought lies in the fact that it embodies the very essence of ‘self’, of existence for the sake of fulfilling ‘your’ purpose. It speaks of giving it your all, of going that extra mile, not because you want to impress or beat somebody, but because you are meant to do it for your ‘own’ sake alone and as if that is your only purpose in life. Another one of Galt’s powerful quotes is “His own happiness is man’s only moral purpose, but only his own virtue can achieve it. Life is the reward of virtue- and happiness is the goal and the reward of life.” It talks about hedonism as a concept and how the sole purpose of your existence should be to attain a state of happiness. But note that the happiness he talks about can only be achieved through virtue and not by material or...
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...Luther King uses many different literary elements in his “I have a dream” speech, although the most frequently used elements were simile, metaphor, analogy, symbolism and allusion. King used these literary elements to grasp his audience and make them listen to the words he spoke. In his I have a dream speech used these literary elements to convey a message to the United States. This message was to bring America out of the current continuous abyss of segregation it was in. Dr. King uses simile, symbolism, metaphor, analogy and allusion to deliver one of the best speeches ever too an audience of millions. Firstly, two of the most continuously used literary elements were simile and metaphor. For example, King said “When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir.” in this sentence King is speaking on the Declaration of Independence in a metaphoric sense. King is comparing the constitution to a promissory note which is a metaphor. King also uses a fair amount of simile in this speech as well, although in my opinion the usage of metaphor and simile was a little unbalanced. Dr. King used an abundant amount of metaphor but not a sufficient amount of simile. I would suggest that perhaps King thought the continuous usage metaphor gave a more stern tone to his speech, in return receiving a more critical outlook by his audience. King also...
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...soon as they were elected into the White House. As soon as they get inaugurated they still have no idea what is in store for them, the promises made to the public are suddenly pushed to the end of their priority list. Maybe they really wanted to fulfill the people’s demands but were soon faced with the reality that they probably won’t be able to do what they set out to do, due to agendas preset before they even thought about running for presidency. We’re faced with the let down of a broken promise. As a citizen you get promised many things, a lot of those promises are legal promises as in the Constitution of the United States and others that were just promised to get a reaction. In The Promise of America a book with excerpts of different promises made to the American people, Thomas Jefferson’s historical “The Declaration of Independence”, was read on July 4th 1776, and was signed by 56 members of congress. In the “Declaration”, Jefferson states our true promises that defy this great nation that we have the rights of “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” (Jefferson 36). On July 19th 1848, Elizabeth Cady Stanton a woman’s rights activist parodied Jefferson’s “Declaration of Independence” to make the point that women were not being treated as “equal” members of society or that were given our free rights that were promised in the “Declaration” (Stanton 42-46). As deprived as women...
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...for one another in a Civil Rights Movement lead by many African American activists such as Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and Eisenhower. These Americans stood up for what they knew was right not only for them but fir the good of their people. Martin Luther King Jr. immediate purpose was to convince Americans across the country to embrace racial equality and to further strengthen the resolve of those already involved in the Civil Rights Movement. Audiences could really embrace these words that Dr. King was saying in his "I Have A Dream" speech. Though audiences' purposes are not as easily summarized to the fact of the racial inequality towards the whites and African Americans. Some at the time may have sought to be inspired by Dr. King. Opponents to racial equality who heard his speech may have listened for the purpose of seeking to find ways to further argue against racial equality. Audiences since then may have used Dr. King's speech to educate or to advocate for other social justice issues. Eisenhower also having to do with acting to those same ideas of inequality. Eisenhower viewed civil rights as a local opinion. Openly and successfully defying the Federal authorities even when national opinion then seemed to support the whole theory of prohibition. Eisenhower also said that when emotions are in the mix, the logic and consideration of the human feelings or else they'll have a resulted disaster. It shaped Eisenhower's response to Arkansas by...
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...to do something because it will produce more total happiness than doing anything else would. Act utilitarianism (AU) is the moral theory that holds that the morally right action, the act that we have a moral duty to do, is the one that will (probably) maximize “utility” (happiness, welfare, well-being). AU is not to be confused with egoism. The egoist really only cares about his own happiness. AU says that everyone’s happiness counts equally. Suppose that executing Joseph would in the long run produce more total happiness than letting him live would. Then according to AU, we ought to execute Joseph. Now if Joseph is a convicted serial murderer who would probably escape and commit more murders if we tried to incarcerate him, then it’s reasonable to think that executing him would be the right thing to do. But what if he has committed no crime? What if he is simply an extremely irritating person with no friends or loved ones, and the many people with whom he has contact in his life are very sensitive and dislike him intensely? Since more total happiness is produced if Joseph dies (the increased happiness of the many who no longer have to endure him outweighs his unhappiness about dying) than if he lives, AU says that it’s right to kill him. This example illustrates what is probably the main objection to AU: it tells us to violate rights/commit injustices when doing so is necessary to produce the greatest total amount of happiness. A “utilitarian” argument in a looser sense is one...
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...20,] 2013 Analysis Essay, Draft 2 Schools and Its Responsibility With Students In “Kenyon Commencement Speech,”David Wallace shows the purpose of a liberal-arts Education, helping] students to make better decisions. As Wallace observes, “The really significant education that we’re supposed to get in a place like this college isn’t really about the capacity to think, but rather about the choice of what to think about.”(2012 pg199). He means that colleges teach students how to think about life and how to make the right choices. Students do not like when people try to tell them how to think. He said that they should not be insulted. Colleges’ teachers know that students have the ability to think. They just want students to make conscious choices on their own free will. Wallace contends that colleges teach students how to overcome the sin of selfishness. Wallace goes and says that educations has to be more than just professors teaching classes, education is about live and knowledge. He says that “Education isn’t about filling you up with knowledge; it is about teaching you how to think” (pg 199). In other words, he is trying to inform students that in order to be considered fully educated and we have to make adjustment and as individual one must learn how to teach our self about life and how to control how and what we think. In the Kenyon Commencement speech Wallace imply that we are focusing in the wrong thing by saying “And the so-called real world will not discourage...
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...For many years, both African Americans and American women are mistreated and abused based solely on the skin and gender. As two greatest civil rights leaders and victims of racial and gender discrimination, Martin Luther King and Elizabeth Cody Stanton have effectively demonstrated to the government and audience that treating blacks and women as “slaves” are unfair and morally wrong. The two speeches they write, "I have a dream" and “Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions” are not only the greatest moving speech masterpiece, they are also the best arguments of the century. In the speech, Dr. King and Stanton have successfully employed appeal of logos and pathos to convince the audiences and objectively justify that social segregation based on the color of skin or the sex of a person must be abolished in order to live in an ideal society, respectively. Martin Luther King first incorporates logos in his speech by using vivid evidences to prove his points. In the speech, he claims “American had signed the Emancipation Proclamation, but the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and chains of discrimination after one hundred years later” (King 687). Dr. King argues that African Americans are still living in the flames of racial discrimination. This so-called Emancipation Proclamation has not been exercised by the government. Then Dr. King points out a vivid example to describe how the signs “For Whites Only” have dehumanized the black community. When thinking...
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...Kate Chopin in 1891. This story talk about a Lady named Louise Mallard, a married woman in the time where women had no rights and she is troubled by psychological conflicts. Throughout the story Kate Chopin accomplishes a method to make the readers understand the internal conflict of Mrs. Mallard, due to the figure of speeches that she uses to express all of Mrs. Mallard emotions during the death of her husband. Although the end of the story ends with a cliff hanger, it will still amaze you. The protagonist is faced with the death of her husband and is surrounded by sadness and depression at the beginning of the story. Even though the family is there to comfort her she doesn’t accept it because she was too heart broken. It is shown in this statement in the story, “There stood, facing the open window, a comfortable, roomy armchair. Into this she sank, pressed down by a physical exhaustion that haunted her body and seemed to reach into her soul”. A person could not be physically be pressed down by exhaustion. Exhaustion is a psychological feeling and the author uses this figure of speech as a personification to make the readers understand that a force is pushing down on her and making her fatigue. Also another statement used is : “She did not hear the story as many women have heard the same, with a paralyze inability to accept its significance”. The protagonist was not actually paralyzed but the author uses these figures of speech to make us the readers associate with...
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...Impact Statement of Movie: Happy We have learned that three factors that determine happiness is a genetic set point (50%), intentional activity (40%), and life circumstances (10%). If our genetic set point is determined to make up 50% of our capacity for happiness, what are the inherited traits that are responsible for that? Is it being blessed with perfect balance brain chemistry? A physical body that effortlessly responds to every demand and challenge required of it? Is it having both of these and also living in a time and place that reveres and rewards both of these? Watching the movie, I enjoyed being able to learn about individuals from other cultures and different life circumstances as to what they consider happiness. I enjoyed the reaffirmation that happiness is subjective to the person experiencing the life terms dealt to them. However, I believe is that one can find people with every degree of happiness and unhappiness, everywhere and anywhere. One could find a similar representation of each and every person featured in the movie- all in the one major city in our country. Of course this is partly due to the divergent sets of ethnic groups in American society but even so, the more diverse the growing subcultures are, the more opportunity A major point though, is that I believe how a culture (that includes the family of origin) responds to the individual member accounts for much more than 10%. A culture that is extremely “tribal” dominates and shapes an individual...
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