Happiness

The cost of ignorance is both a blessing and a curse: it is the one quality that can simultaneously provoke and suppress us to making discoveries because for there to be a transformative revelation there must be at least a momentary recognition of the unknown. Only then can discovery be liberating and exhilarating, empowering us…

What’s it going to take? David Myers says in the article “Don’t Worry You Can Be Happy” by John B. Thomas. “Happiness relies largely on things unrelated to money, such as meaningful activities and enriching relationships.” With that the article states that with the following ten steps you can improve your happiness. One: learn to…

“If I wanted to predict your happiness, and I could know only one thing about you, I wouldn’t want to know your gender, religion, health, or income. I’d want to know about your social network – about your friends and family and the strength of the bonds with them”. (Review, Goleman, McKee, George, and Ibarra,…

Mattie Rigsbee is the main character in Clyde Edgerton’s southern style novel, Walking Across Egypt. Mattie is a seventy-eight year old widow with two middle-aged children. Living alone in a small house, she makes sure that everything is taken care of. She cooks, cleans, mows the lawn, and takes up numerous responsibilities with the church. She…

The definitions of happiness belies both books Candide and Pride and Prejudice. But they have different meanings and are in different context. I will pick two passages, one from each book and try to analyze them. In Candide, to define happiness, I have chosen p. 119. on the last chapter. The kingly mufti, explains his…

The short film “New York To Cornakry” by Rich Mckeown is to show the people outside Guinea the true beauty of its culture. People from America got a chance to visit its wonderful country and experience to practice and view people of the country dancing and drumming expressing their happiness. This film showed the emotional…

Humanities and Social Sciences (HUMSS) strand is not for those who have no choice and nowhere to go. It really breaks my heart and triggered me so much everytime they looked down on my chosen strand with an annoying view point that you’ll end up poor. People assume that there is no opportunity in HUMSS…

The Erl King Sore trembled the father: he spurrd thro the wild. Clasping close to his bosom his shuddering child. He reaches his dwelling in doubt and in dread. But claspd to his bosom, the infant was dead. Taken from The Erl King, by Johann Wolgang von Goethe, one can certainly sense the eerie and…

It is in our human nature to do what will satisfy our basic needs as individuals to make sure our personal happiness is met, whether or not we are aware of the consequence. we are all searching for happiness some may not succeed right away but that should not stop one from seeking other methods…

To express too much anger or happiness, could be because of pressure that does not allow individuals to be themselves and results in a society that does not learn how to have unique ideas or critically think. It is difficult to believe that a government would control a society by forcing them to burn books…