...The Last Art of Happiness exposed many religious teaching about life and to make happiness exist. In this, Dobrin compared and expressed how the relation between our modern world and the old world was distant from happiness. He tells how the environments around us have changed us in many ways from the old world that it was a great role in human thoughts and behaviors. To account it, he also tells from what he learned from the outside world about morality, wonders, obligations, and ethical philosophy of life. This book is worth of printing it, because it involves many categories of our life. The Last Art of Happiness, have teaches me a lot about meditate and how to make happiness exist in my life. It’s also like a bible for us to read and teach us the blessing of goods. This book has given me a lot more understanding of religions and the world that I have never been there. Like when he said, “In Buddhist, the first mention is to make family and friends happy.” He also tells about his visit to the East African village of Tabaka where he meets Raele and Joshua, African workers, that even though they’re not rich, they’re still happy. He also said, “Happiness is possible if you cultivate yourself in the same manner that shared by much of the world.” Also when, “Another kind of necessity is the need to experience beauty. The production of beauty may be frowned upon, it may be out lawed, it may be go out of fashion, but it always finds its way back into the lives of people, just as...
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...Emily Fagan PHIL 2020 First Draft April 7, 2016 Changing your perspective is an important part of finding happiness and showing compassion towards others. Learning to see from other points of view from different types of people expands your mind and makes you more humble and compassionate towards others, therefore expanding your happiness and creating a better life. Taking a step back and actually listening to other people and feeling their emotions as they portray them can change your perspective and visualize what it would be like to be in their shoes. The Dalai Lama has great views on how to achieve happiness by shifting perspectives and showing compassion towards others, and by reading The Art of Happiness and practicing these I have realized that a great deal of my life is changing and my happiness is gradually growing. “The ability to shift perspective can be one of the most powerful and effective tools we have to help us cope with life’s daily problems” (Dalai Lama, pg. 172-173). The Dalai Lama explains that the ability to shift your perspective to a different vantage point can be very helpful, especially when dealing with suffering and hardship. I’ve found this to be very true. For example, when my hours were cut at work and I was barely clearing a $100 paycheck every two weeks, I became infuriated and also desolate because I was broke and had bills to pay. I never thought to think of the other people at my work having their hours cut too, but with families to...
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...Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World is about an advanced society that relies on conditioning its citizens in order to achieve stability and constant universal happiness. When an outsider visits the “World State”, he reveals that true happiness is impossible without passion and individualism. The residents are conditioned from conception through manipulation of the eggs, hypnopaedic suggestion, and laboratory experiences which prepare them to grow up to be constantly happy and eager to fuel the economy. Conditioning plays a large role in depriving people of their free will. Individualism is removed entirely because the World Controllers have eliminated access to new scientific studies, art, and religious practices. Ultimately, conditioning along with the removal of these things lead to a sense of false happiness for citizens. Before people are released to be a part of society, they are conditioned in their sleep through hypnopaedia. This sleep teaching technique takes away people’s free will because the repetitions force the listener to adhere to the World State’s morals and values without their consent. For example when Bernard mentioned “arresting [his] impulses” (Huxley 81), Lenina instinctively spits out a hypnopaedic...
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...TOPIC Happiness Abstract This paper talks about what happiness is in general. How happiness is perceived among people today in various countries, cultures and religions. “Happiness is the meaning and purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.” - Aristotle. Everyone has their own meaning to happiness in the way their emotions, goals and desires play out in their everyday lives. Some people may find happiness in music, friends and family gatherings. Others may find happiness in work, movies, sports and books. But, what truly makes a person happy? I will discuss how happiness can be found by individual people, cultures and the world as a whole. Every person in one way or another is on the journey to pursue their happiness and once they find it realize their whole life is focused on that one thing that makes them happy. It takes some longer to find what truly makes them happy than others and some never really find what makes them happy before their lives end. Some people may find happiness in the Arts such as paintings, music and theatre arts. These forms of art have drawn the attention of many over the years. Inspirational paintings are sold all over the world at expensive prices to willing buyers not only for the beauty but because the paintings give a sense of happiness and joy in one’s life and it also portraits something significant such as what the person desires (passionate about) when viewing the painting. One of such paintings is the Luncheon...
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...quote from Rachels and Rachels’ The Right Thing to Do; “Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure, and the absence of pain; by unhappiness, pain, and the privation of pleasure” (29). There are two main camps of utilitarians: act and rule utilitarians. Act utilitarians believe that an act is right if and only if it results in more good than any alternative, while rule utilitarians believe that an act is right if and only if it is required by a rule that generally leads to the greatest good. Either way, utilitarianism provides a single, objective, common-sense way to understand which actions are right and which are wrong. It also promotes flourishing and reduces suffering. The primary argument for utilitarianism is this: An action is right if and only if it maximizes the consequences of whatever is considered good over whatever is considered bad. The only good is happiness. So, an action is right if and only if it maximizes happiness. Premise one is the basic theory; a decision or action is deemed “right” if it brings happiness to the most people. In premise two, happiness is defined in the same way Rachels and Rachels defined it, and can come from many sources. For example, material pleasure, like receiving a gift, is happiness (pleasures like these are sometimes referred to as “lower” pleasures). Higher pleasures...
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...The defending of the arts 100 6/15/2015 BRENDA DURDEN The defending of the arts Recently my family went to an art gallery that had some, many different forms of art that made it so interesting. To view, many of them had much meaning, with a lot of history and culture in the mix within it. Some of the local artists came around, mingle, with the crowd, and explain their art in a more in-depth ways. An art gallery that I went to is in the location of ells square in the city market of Georgia that has a beautiful art gallery with amazing art forms. However, the art piece that stood out to me was from Irene Sainz Mayo the painting call on the lake to the composition elements description. Like the line element on the lake, two painting is curved lines, which the tree line gives off the image within the sky. Drift off towards, the sides of the canvas and the curve line show in the length within the tree line and beyond. The colors united, in the painting. Is the sky is mix with dark and light blue. Also, a combined with a yellow mix, with reddish orange the clouds look grayish black color. The tree lines in this painting are a blackish color. The lake watercolor in this painting is the dark blue mix, with light blue and blended colors of yellow, reddish orange color. The on the lake two painting movement the shape of the paint is two-dimensional space, the element in the paint are organic and geometric shapes distance within the canvas .The theme of this painting...
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...cheap route and pay for a patch job costing a couple of hundred dollars and hope that will do the trick. The next day, at the behest of Blanche, they attend an art show for artist, Jasper De Kimmel. His work hangs in museums all over the country and is worth thousands of dollars, assures Blanche. While at the show, the ladies have a most negative encounter with the rude, arrogant, insulting, ornery and curmudgeonly artist himself. They leave, totally offended. Upon returning home, a second...
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...Midterm paper In BUSAN museum of art, there are several interesting artworks and among them, what I was impressed is the artwork named ‘a presage of happiness’ made from Park Yoonhee. This artwork is huge stacked of isomorphic cubes. And on the top of this artwork, arrangement for cube looks like stair. Material for cube looks like hard and somewhat opaque. When I was in front of those, I could just see the contour of my body. And there are not any additional shapes or patterns or colors. Actually when I saw this artwork, I just thought ‘what is this?’ In other words, I didn’t know what this means. It looks like some figures which I can see in math course-book in middle school. In addition to this feeling, after looking the title, I was curious how the name and this artwork can be matched. Usually when we thought about the happiness, the expression for this feeling is something bright. After reading brochure and talking with Prof. LEE, I realized that the artist wanted to criticize our way of living. When I did first online session and project for creative practitioner, creativity is related with changing perspective within understandable context. The artist broke ‘normal’ image for happiness in our mind and looked the way in which modern people live in critical manner. I think this artist is also creative practitioner in these contexts. It means this perspective is somewhat different for usual notion of happiness and in the way that criticism, it is understandable by expressing...
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...Happiness To You And Me Leanna Hernandez Kaplan University Art and Humanity week 4 Unit 4 assignment instructions This week, our writing assignment focuses on individual definitions of happiness. For this writing assignment, you will prepare and conduct interviews with two people about their definition of happiness, how they gained this view, and whether they feel happiness is achievable. Choose two people who vary in age and experience. Only one of the subjects can be someone you know well. This is an opportunity to learn about acquaintances and strangers as well. These should be face-to-face interviews. Introduce this assignment by introducing each subject one at a time. Who are they? What is the nature of your relationship? Next, ask a variety of questions to get them to consider not just their definition of happiness, but its origins and development. You can use these sample questions to get you started, but should add more questions or change the interview as it develops: Has your definition of happiness changed over time? What experiences have influenced your definition? Do you expect the definition to change again? Follow the Unit 4 template for this assignment in DocSharing. It includes submitting a transcript of your interviews, including your questions, so take notes or record the discussion. Finally, you should draw conclusions about the process and the answers that were given. Compare and contrast the results of the interviews. Discuss what...
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...According to Aristotle, one can understand the essence of a thing only by understanding the distinctive function of that thing. Thus, leading the supreme goodness or happiness requires that a person leads a life which enables them to develop or use reason, which follows reason for its use and development. Happiness, unlike pleasure or amusement, is an activity and not a state. He projects two aspects of happiness, one being the circumstances that bring in different situations affecting us, and the other being our own effort to live life for supreme goodness, irrespective of circumstances, and that we can achieve happiness through our effort, making happiness more of a behavioral subject than one dependent on...
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...Time Capsule Holly Lara May 1, 2012 HU300: Arts and Humanities: 20th Century and Beyond Prof: Ellie Schamber My Day-to-Day Life My name is Holly Lara and I am married and have four kids, two of which are my step kids. During the day I clean my house and make breakfast lunch and dinner for my family. I like to go to the mall at times to shop and to take my kids to the park. I try not to let things in life stress me out, though sometimes it can be hard with so many expenses. At night I am a bartender, I love my job very much. I love to sing and play around with music on my spare time and even teach my kids how to play instruments. I think music is a big part of our world in the 21st century. I personally like living in the 21st century with the new technology that come in every few months. I don’t think I could have lived in a previous century where there was no technology invented. I do wish that we lived in a healthier environment though. There is too much pollution in the air and way too much littering everywhere. In the future I would like to own a house for my family, somewhere where I can have my kids visit me and bring my grandkids to. I want a huge backyard for them to play in. I would also like a plan to be made to make our environment cleaner, so it will be a safer environment for my kids and grandkids. Morality and Decision-Making The biggest morality question today and probably will be on-going for many centuries to come is should abortion be allowed...
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...SAMPLE Unit 4 Happiness Assignment Template Student Name Kaplan University HU300 – section number Unit 4 assignment instructions This week, our writing assignment focuses on individual definitions of happiness. For this writing assignment, you will prepare and conduct interviews with two people about their definition of happiness, how they gained this view, and whether they feel happiness is achievable. Choose two people who vary in age and experience. Only one of the subjects can be someone you know well. This is an opportunity to learn about acquaintances and strangers as well. These should be face-to-face interviews. Introduce this assignment by introducing each subject one at a time. Who are they? What is the nature of your relationship? Next, ask a variety of questions to get them to consider not just their definition of happiness, but its origins and development. You can use these sample questions to get you started, but should add more questions or change the interview as it develops: Has your definition of happiness changed over time? What experiences have influenced your definition? Do you expect the definition to change again? Follow the Unit 4 template for this assignment in DocSharing. It includes submitting a transcript of your interviews, including your questions, so take notes or record the discussion. Finally, you should draw conclusions about the process and the answers that were given. Compare and contrast the results of the interviews. Discuss...
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...Transcript Akeem Saunders Kaplan University HU300 Arts and Humanities Laurie Smart-Pottle 21st September, 2013 What Does Happiness Mean? The first person I choose to interview is Ms. J.Roker. She is between the ages of 30- 40 years-old and is a volunteer at the Exuma Land and Sea Park here in the Bahamas. She loves working for non-profit organizations especially those which gives back to the community and protects the environment. She has been a foreign volunteer for two years. Being enlisted in the military I am required to be deploy to various sub bases within and without the Commonwealth of The Bahamas. Thus, my interview took place on Walderick Wells, a Cay located in the Exuma Land and Sea Park. I had known Ms. Roker, little under two weeks and was intrigue as to why she choose the Bahamas to work instead of America. Every morning she would open the park office and we would start a casual conservation. Her views on life were astounding and to see how her dog Grace interacts with her is just amazing. She always seemed very happy whenever I saw her and always was giving. When I think of what happiness looks like I always think of her. My second choice is Mr. D Bonaby. He is between the ages of 40-50 years and is an active member in the military. He has been deployed to the same sub base as me and he has been my superior for the past 10 years. He is a welder in the military and hopes to open his welding business when he retires from...
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...between Poseidon and Athena for guardianship of the city of Athens” (Lahanas). The relationship between the art and the culture of the related civilization depicts through its purpose as a temple. Some articles suggest that the temple was a place where worship occurred for both Poseidon and Athena; the structure survives and reminds of the religious history by Athenians, in Classical Greece. This genre of art influenced the culture of that civilization by providing space for religious beliefs to grow and continue; the culture influenced that genre of art through their religious practices and beliefs. Hellenistic Greece The art selectiton for the Hellenistic Greece period is “Lysippos, Apoxyomenos (The Scraper),” (Benton, DiYanni, 2008, p. 77); originally a bronze sculpture and replicated in marble reveals the competitive nature and strife to succeed with greatness. The Scraper represents the relationship between art and culture of Hellenistic Greece by capturing how the civilizations interest became more individualistic rather than basing on the successes of the whole civilization. The art would have influenced the culture of that civilization by stimulating others to focus more to make higher individual achievements. The culture influenced that genre of art by the focus they placed and capturing the portrayal of individual strengths. Etruscan civilization The art piece “Wife and Husband Sarcophagus, from Cerveteri,” (Benton, DiYanni, p. 99) is...
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...love and get married; Eloisa’s family is not in favor of this and castrates Abelard. After the assault, even though Eloisa and Abelard had a child, they decided to go to monasteries. Eloisa is tortured by the separation and is constantly contemplating weather to live the simple happy life and follow God, or to follow her heart and pursue Abelard. The movie “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” is a romantic fantasy about Joel and Clementine who both have procedures to have their memory of each other erased but meet each other again and fall in love again, the movie ending says that they hear tapes of what happened in the past and they learn from their mistakes and live happily ever after. The relationship between art and happiness is that the art and happiness are more effective when Eloisa and Abelard remember each other and choose a life together. In the poem, Eloisa says “Not on the Cross my eyes were fix'd, but you: Not grace, or zeal, love only was my call, And if I lose thy love, I lose my all.” Eloisa marries Abelard because she is truly in live with him and wants the life that is natural to every human. Wanting to find someone to spend the rest of your life with is part of human genetics, healthy human genetics. She says that her eyes were not fixed on the cross, but her eyes were fixed on Abelard, this not only shows how much she loves him, but also where her priorities are. She is not interested in the religious aspects of marrage, but rather him alone. Abelard...
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