...Happiness | Nicole Baker | Kaplan University HU300:23 | | 2/22/2011 | | Happiness The first person I decided to interview was my sister’s friend, Jared. He is 27 years old and has had what most would consider a hard life. The interview went as follows…. Me: What is your definition of happiness? Jared: I guess the definition would be to be being at peace with yourself and being at peace with who you are and where you are emotionally and mentally. Me: What makes you happy in life? Jared: A loud 375 hp Trans am with the top down (chuckling), being with a good woman. Me: Would you consider yourself to be a happy person, why or why not? Jared: No, some things make me happy, but still struggle with inner demons and I think too much most of the time. Me: Do you think you will ever get past your inner demons and be happy again? Jared: Yea, just personal things I have to deal with, my personal demons cannot be fixed, they are in the past and you can’t always change the past. Me: What experiences have influenced your definition of happiness? Jared: No real experiences, it is just what I think happiness is. Me: Has your definition of happiness changed over time? Jared: Yes, ten years ago I was just happy to have another party to go to, but now I see it is more about being at peace with yourself. Me: Do you expect the definition to change again? Jared: I am sure it probably will. The second person I decided to interview was someone I know very well...
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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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...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 what was...
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...study, we did not hold any explicit hypothesis for any sort of specific outcome. However, there has been previous studies and research that have concluded that there is a preference for experiential purchases over material purchases among different samples of the population. These studies have concluded that the main reason behind these findings is that people tend to feel happier from their life experience purchases rather than material goods purchases. They conclude that an experience can create long lasting happiness as opposed to a material good that tends to result in shrinking happiness as time goes by. Another reason is that material goods tend to diminish a person’s happiness when compared to other similar goods not owned by that person. Given the results for these previous studies and research, we are inclined to believe that the outcome of our own study will obtain similar results. Research Question The research question for this study was formulated as follows: What kind of consumption (experiences vs material goods) is preferred by college students...
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... 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 the military. This is the first time we are working hand in hand and he seems content with what he has accomplish in life...
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...What Happiness Means to Others For my unit 4 paper, I interviewed two people. The first was Mr. Duckworth Diaz. He is the senior electrical engineer at US Army in my brigade at Fort bliss, Texas. Although I see him once a while at work, we never chat outside the work subject. He is 59 years and he is married with 3 kids. He has a master degree in electrical engineering, and he has been in the US Amy for more than 20 years. The second person was my son’s friend his name is Mr. Guillermo Contador who I know very well for long time by spending a lot of great time with our family. He works as taxi driver now. He is 27 years old and he is married with one kid. He did not finish his school and he started to work since he was 15 years old. Interview with [Mr Duckworth Diaz] Question: To begin Mr. Duckworth, do you consider yourself a happy person? Response: Yes, I consider myself a happy person. Even through the tough time, like any others, I am always fine and happy. Question: How do you define happiness sir? Is it contentment, serenity, well-being or something else? Response: For me happiness comes from contentment and accepting everything happening to you in the life. People always facing problems and troubles a lot in the life but it will not stay forever. I believe there is always a bright side comes after the darkness. Question: What experiences have influenced your definition? Response: I think the marriage and then having the kids was a big stage in my life, my definition...
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...I will interview some American girls, international students, female professors, faculties in Miami University, ask them what they think happy is? I will tape it and make as a video. I would take a survey (voluntary) about some question about: 1. What’s your sequence of these related to the importance in your life? (Parents/Love/Career/Money/Morality/Sex) 2. Do you feel happy now? What are you most worry about now? 3. Ages and status in Miami University 4. If can, what you want mostly? 5. (…… if there’s a need) As the society developing, the pressure on woman is getting heavier. Women have the right to stand out to say no, women need get themselves relaxed somehow, women should be equal to man. Woman maybe never think about why they are so stressful, why they are unhappy, or what should be the most importance to her. Woman in different areas maybe frustrate with different situation. Poor areas mare concern the shelters and food. Developed areas focus on the business position. We live, study and work in Miami University, we need to share our difficulties and solve it. After the that, I will go with my data to find the psychology professor or woman study professor ask for advise about the current situation. I will make a list for these advise. I would also tape the most important part and make up the video. After all the survey and interviews. I would collect all the information. Compare it to the data. I would take the data to figure out general ideas to improve...
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...Title Page 1. Introduction 3 1.2. Current Study 5 2.1. Means-end Chain Theory 5 2.2. The laddering technique 6 2.3.1 Recruitment of respondents for individual laddering interview 7 2.3.2 Analysis of laddering data 8 3.1 Attributes, Consequences and Values 9 3.2.1 Results: Marriage Segment 9 3.2.2 Results: Relationship Segment 10 3.2.3. Results: Single Segment 11 4. Discussion and Conclusion 12 References 13 1. Introduction The consumption of alcoholic beverages is an old habit that has been around for thousands of years. It differs in the kind of alcohol consumed from country, culture, social status, age and many other factors. Many studies have been and are still being conducted on the correlation of any of these factors with the consumption of alcohol. According to the latest statistical data from the OECD, the average pure alcohol consumption in Canada was reported at 8.2 litre per capita, compared to the 9.1 litre OECD average (Alcohol Consumption, 2011-2012). Alcoholic beverages are consumed under the main following categories: Beer, wine and spirits. The data provided by Statistics Canada shows a growing preference for wine (3.4% increase in terms of volume sold), while the consumption of beer is currently declining (1.4 % in terms of volume sold). However, beer was still the preferred and most consumed kind of alcohol in 2010 (2,4 billion litres sold). Similar to beer, spirit sales noted a slight decline (-0.7%...
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...have same opinion on what makes a hero. Many definitions of a hero is someone have superpower, strength, courage and brave. But who could considered example of heroes? Everyone has their opinion to define a hero so I also have my opinion to define a hero. “The Pursuit of Happyness” is a movie which was released in 2006. This movie is an adaptation of a real story. Chris Gardner, who is a singer father. He is homelessness and poor because he failed on his business. He also has to raise his son. For his son’s future ,he never give up and always look for changes to change his life. He believed that as long as it is hard enough, happiness will come tomorrow. In the end, he be a successful stockbroker and changes his life. For many hero’s stories, Chris Gardner is not a typical super hero. He doesn’t have any superpowers and strength. He is homelessness with his son and poor, no one can care about them. However, he is kind of a special hero. He has strong mind and the spirit of never give up when he faced to many challenges. Maybe he could not change the world and help everyone but he changed himself and he gave his son more happiness in his son life. And there are three conspicuous aspects about Chris Gardner in the hero’s journey step are listed. For hero’s departure journey, first step is “The Call to Adventure”. When Chris Gardner saw the stockbroker on the road, he found the stockbroker has fascinating smile and he felt the stockbroker has more happiness than him. He wanted...
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...The Happiness Machine How Google became such a great place to work. By Farhad Manjoo A few years ago, Google’s human resources department noticed a problem: A lot of women were leaving the company. Like the majority of Silicon Valley software firms, Google is staffed mostly by men, and executives have long made it a priority to increase the number of female employees. But the fact that women were leaving Google wasn’t just a gender equity problem—it was affecting the bottom line. Unlike in most sectors of the economy, the market for top-notch tech employees is stretched incredibly thin. Google fights for potential workers with Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, and hordes of startups, so every employee’s departure triggers a costly, time-consuming recruiting process. Then there was the happiness problem. Google monitors its employees’ well-being to a degree that can seem absurd to those who work outside Mountain View. The attrition rate among women suggested there might be something amiss in the company’s happiness machine. And if there’s any sign that joy among Googlers is on the wane, it’s the Google HR department’s mission to figure out why and how to fix it. Google calls its HR department People Operations, though most people in the firm shorten it to POPS. The group is headed by Laszlo Bock, a trim, soft-spoken 40-year-old who came to Google six years ago. Bock says that when POPS looked into Google’s woman problem, it found it was really a new mother...
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...incorrect views about life can be determined as some of the reasons that divorce is increasing in America. Couples in America are spending less time together than in the past which has lead to an increase in the divorce rate. A. Workaholism 1. Main priority is work (Young & Harding, 2007, p.7) a. Interview with a workaholic and his spouse about their divorce (Piotrowski & Vodanovich, 2008, p.103). B. TV 1. Favorite programs are so important (Young & Harding, 2007, p. 28) a. 60% having TVs in all bedrooms of the house (Young & Harding, 2007, p. 112). Another major problem that is causing the increasing divorce rate in America is people have the wrong idea about life. A. The priority of the individual 1. Individual happiness is priority (Young, 2008, p. 25) a. Divorce due to irreconcilable differences in first three years (Young, 2008, Incompatibility section, para.10) B. Love is good 1. The Cinderella story. a. Interview conducted with 500 American children about love (Smith & Westen , 2007, p.17). In conclusion, understanding the minimal amount of time couples spend together and the culture’s problematic views about life is essential if there is to be any hope of controlling the spreading epidemic of divorce in America. The Increasing...
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...the landscape that they deserve an in depth look. E-commerce has become such a huge piece of the life we live today in the 21st century. From Google to Amazon, Wayfair to Overstock, buying and selling on the internet has become as much of our shopping experience as walking the local shopping mall or more. Even the traditional brick and mortar stores from Wal-Mart to JcPenney have renewed their focus to the selling of merchandise online. Though online retail has taken its place in our culture as much as physical store fronts, it still presents the same challenges that traditional retail stores have faced for the last 100-plus years. How do you guarantee the best customer service experience for your customers? How do you ensure employee happiness is at its most optimal level throughout the company? How do you retain market share, while optimizing stakeholder value and customer satisfaction? Most retail companies, online or not, face these issues when building a successful organization. Companies are constantly searching for the right formula for their business to correctly answer all of these questions. One online retailer has taken an innovative approach to the many financial and ethical obstacles facing many...
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...the film. Citizen Kane is considered by many critics to be one of the best films of all time mainly because it was so innovative at the time. The film is often praised for its cinematography, sound, and narrative structure. I personally did not love the film because I found it to be a bit boring at times. It felt more like a biography of Kane’s life and not much more. I kept waiting for “it” to happen but no monumental or memorable event really ever occurred. The film begins with Charles Foster Kane on his deathbed as he whispers his last word “rosebud”, before dropping his globe and it shattering everywhere. The rest of the film is essentially a chase by a reporter named Jerry Thompson as he tries to find out what Kane meant by “rosebud”. Through a series of interviews that Thompson conducts, we get an in-depth look at Thompson’s life through flashbacks in the perspective of many people who knew him and were close to him. The setup of the movie was something I did enjoy. The film began at the end of Kane’s life and then progresses through flashbacks. I always find it interesting when movies are set up that way because traditionally a film has a conclusion at the end of a film while Citizen Kane showed us Kane’s fate right away. This film was one of the first to implement a storyline in this manner. Kane’s story unfolds in overlapping segments by different narrators who add information to Kane’s life. Another interesting aspect of the film is that every narrator may have a biased...
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...The Greek philosopher Aristippus (435–356 B.C.E.) declared happiness to be the Sum total of pleasures experienced during one’s lifetime. (Pearson Education, 2009) The first person I interviewed was a neighbor I never met and there name is Shirley. I started the interview with the question “what is your definition of happiness?” Her reply was happiness is being happy with yourself and waking up every day, and feeling good as well as personal appearance. The second question was has your definition of happiness changed overtime? The answer was yes; due to experiences overtime has caused change in my view of happiness. From teen to adult it was a big change in my view of happiness because there was a pressure to have a boyfriend in teen years and when adult hood came it was all about marriage. In my teen years I was a loner, so it was more pressure to get married. I asked her what experiences have influenced your definition. She replies with; I would like to start with marriage. Putting your trust in a person and they turn around and stab you in the back. After all the disappointment and lies I’m alone because of it. I asked do you think your definition will change. Absolutely; it will change so many years as long as I’m alive. The next question was what makes you happy? Lots of things, surviving in life, waking up every day, paying bills and a little me time. Family that’s close and shows love and being caring and giving makes me happy, because that just makes me happy helping others...
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...Pleasure and Satisfaction It is natural for us to be happy. We want to compliment or do the cool thing and share to each other. When you feel joy to the world is brilliant but you have to ask yourself that what is happiness? What the factors that determine happiness are or something that makes people happy, why different people one were happy, but the other people were not happy though they both have everything equally. What to do to make yourself happy. I firmly believe that the attainment of our desires makes us happy. Pleasure and satisfaction is kind of feeling or emotion and has several levels, a little comfort or satisfaction or the full enjoyment of fun and when it a matter of emotion is and measurements that are happy or not. The answer it depends on the individual's sense of the moment that how much they look at life satisfaction, when we are very satisfied in life we’ll very happy with it so the people that have everything equally, they might be have different happy if they had the satisfaction in life different. Incentives as a tool to encourage individual satisfaction the first thing is a material inducement including goods or money to the state of physical activities. Second, desirable physical condition is the environment in which the activity is one important aspect that contributes to physical health. Third, ideal benefaction refers to the various needs of the individual. Forth, association attractiveness is a friendly relationship with the participants. This...
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