Happiness

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,…

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…

Many people try to define and consider different definitions of what happiness is, and I think that Plato and Aristotle offer interesting views of happiness and what it means for one to live a good life. Both philosophers agree that happiness is an important factor in one’s life and essentially the essence of how to…

In double entendre ran rampant. During an Algebra lesson one day at the beginning of the school year, Mr. Escalante told Angel, a gang member, to “fill the hole”. Not only was he referring to the hole as an illustration, but also to the hole in the students lives as a result of lack of…

Category: Music & Movies Paper Title: Franz Josef Haydn Text: Franz Josef Haydn wrote quite a few concerti for piano, which have never really enjoyed the popularity of such pieces by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. While some accuse Haydn’s piano concerti of being too ‘light’ or having ‘no meaning’, I find those to be inaccurate surface…

Over the years, there has been and still is a great debate where a group of the populace feels money can get one joy while the other group feels, money is material and isn’t in any capacity interface with one’s happiness. Before we can move on further into the discussion, we must dig in deeper…

“A dream doesn’t become reality through magic but sweat, determination, and hard work,” (Colin Powell). Dreams are ideas, thoughts, and emotions, that can be filled with happiness or hate, they can be confusing or understandable. Without dream we have nothing to go after, or no goal to reach. Dreams may not turn out how you…

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…