“The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” is a short story by Ursula K. Le Guin. Omelas is perfect town where everyone is happy, healthy and, carefree. There is no disease, no ugliness, or no death. However, we found out there is a catch. One child is chosen from the population to serve as a […]
I have read the article “Happiness and Meaning: Two Aspects of the good life” by Susan Wolf. The author believes that the meaning of life is difficult to define, because everyone has their own standards, which is a subjective judgment. Some people may feel that physical health is a success. Some people think that they […]
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Get startedIn his book, The Happiness Advantage, Shawn Achor explains how happiness is a tool to aid us in achieving success, and is not the result of it. He then provides us with seven applicable principles that we can use to expand both our success and happiness. The definition of happiness that Achor resonates the most […]
Everyone is constantly searching for the true concept of happiness in their lives. Many pursue fame, money and material goods in order to grain that satisfaction, but others believe that satisfaction from fame, money and material good is only temporary. Many philosophers, specifically Socrates believes that a good life is the true concept of happiness. […]
Happiness seems to come in a number of ways and number of people. It’s something money can’t buy and is priceless, and it’s something we should all fight for. In Their Eyes Were Watching God, a Harlem Renaissance classic written by Zora Neal Hurston that follows a girl named Janie Crawford and her neverending search […]
“I have lost something. I’m not exactly sure what it is but I know I didn’t always feel like this…sedated. But you know what? It’s never too late to get it back.” (Mendes) In American Beauty, the life of Lester Burnham is cut short in the midst of his hunt to rediscover true joy in […]
Money is one of the most important things in our lives, next to food to eat, a home to live in, and ways to get from here to there but with all of those things, you need money. So that’s where the “money can buy happiness” phrase comes in because people think that since money […]
What might most people on this earth value? You guessed it right, it’s Life! Life brings a lot of meaning and purpose that is I feel is an ideal answer to the society and lets just face it, what could someone value other than life? For starters, have you ever heard the greatest talents are […]
There are a plethora of resources on this earth. In this day and age, technology is constantly advancing before our eyes. Everything we could ever want is conveniently accessible at our fingertips. With home devices like Alexa and Google Home, we don’t even have to physically move to get what we want. This newfound ease […]
The American Dream is a deceivingly complex concept. For some people it is a simple as a white picket fence, two kids and a dog, and financial stability. For others, it is a long arduous journey for acceptance, by self and others. It is a journey for the attainment of power and the ability to […]
The field of social psychology is a fast growing fields which possesses a very critical vital effect on how people think about the behavior of humans, websites, magazines, newspapers, films, as well as various other forms of media that tend to report the discoveries of social psychologists, as well as the results of social psychological […]
Mark Kingwell is an award-winning social critic, essayist, and professor of the philosophy at the University of Toronto. Kingwell has written the book of In pursuit of Happiness; Better Living from Plato to Prozac (1998). The Author’s reputations Mark Kingwell is not a debatable one but simply a perfection of a competitive standards. He has […]
Money is a very essential part of life. It is what allows economies, businesses and lives to continue growing. Adults spend half their week at work or preparing for work and it’s all to receive the enormous check at the end of the day. Look around and there is actually nothing that isn’t involved with […]
During the first high school football game of my hometown, I vividly remember looking down at my tattered Chuck Taylors resting on the cracked concrete bleachers. I had just spoken to a few people my age that had come home from college for the weekend; suddenly, I was self-aware of what I viewed as a […]
Humans naturally experience an array of colorful and powerful emotions but what happens when your fixated on finding love? Both the Great Gatsby and The Love Song of TJ Prufrock convey the shared theme that the fixation om love can make people disengage with reality as they believe love is the ultimate key to happiness. […]
What would you say about an optimistic person would you say that they’re too nice ? that you don’t need an optimistic person in your life? Well this quote explain why you need an optimistic person in your life “Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants […]
The person who had the biggest impact in my life would be my father. No matter what he would always make time for our family. On the weekends he would either have barbecues with family and friends or play softball with me and my siblings. My father and I bonded over softball. At the age […]
This quote is so important in the book because it shows the society of Brave New World so clearly. Everybody is ‘happy’, everybody gets along, and nobody wants to change. In this quote it shows that the Controller Mustapha Mond understands that the society is fragile and hangs in the balance as single change could […]
The crux in The Importance Of Being Earnest struggles to keep up with their own writing and stories because Jack and Algernon strive to win the loving hearts of two women who, claim to only love men that were called Ernest. They both struggle and gets twisted in a tale of duplicity, impersonation and misfortune. […]
