Are The Rich Happy?
ARE THE RICH HAPPY?
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Are the Rich Happy?
A. Talea Moore
Tremper High School
ARE THE RICH HAPPY?
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Abstract
It is often a misconception that money will relief one of their problems and an almost equally incorrect notion that the rich are unhappy. In this paper question will be given an analysis and an answer. The components that make up happiness are vast and ever changing but the dictionary definition is put to test in this paper. The true, or atleast the more original meaning of happiness and the words origins are explored and used for further proof that to be rich is to be quite happy.
ARE THE RICH HAPPY?
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Are the Rich Happy?
Happy: 1. Delighted, pleased or glad, as over a particular thing, 2. Characterized by or indicative of pleasure, contentment, or joy, 3. Favored by fortune fortunate or lucky
(Ammer, 2002). The concept that it is impossible to purchase happiness no matter how many funds you have at your disposal is a common one. Weather this is purely fact passed down from wise ancestors to ward against the pursuit of money in order to “be happy” or if this is the poor man’s way of accepting his means is a debatable topic yet whether or not the rich are indeed suffering under the weight of the world even if though they are so fabulously clothed, sheltered, and fed, is easy enough to answer. Happiness is a complicated thing. As with many words its meaning may change from person to person but, measuring it against the three definitions earlier stated the happiness of the rich, poor, and everyone in between can be analyzed.
The first definition of happiness is to be pleased over something (Ammer, 2002).
If two little boys were to get puppies from a local pet store after wishing for them for a very long time and one boy takes his puppy home to a two story threebedroom twobathroom home and the other boy returns to his four story
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Are the Rich Happy?
A. Talea Moore
Tremper High School
ARE THE RICH HAPPY?
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Abstract
It is often a misconception that money will relief one of their problems and an almost equally incorrect notion that the rich are unhappy. In this paper question will be given an analysis and an answer. The components that make up happiness are vast and ever changing but the dictionary definition is put to test in this paper. The true, or atleast the more original meaning of happiness and the words origins are explored and used for further proof that to be rich is to be quite happy.
ARE THE RICH HAPPY?
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Are the Rich Happy?
Happy: 1. Delighted, pleased or glad, as over a particular thing, 2. Characterized by or indicative of pleasure, contentment, or joy, 3. Favored by fortune fortunate or lucky
(Ammer, 2002). The concept that it is impossible to purchase happiness no matter how many funds you have at your disposal is a common one. Weather this is purely fact passed down from wise ancestors to ward against the pursuit of money in order to “be happy” or if this is the poor man’s way of accepting his means is a debatable topic yet whether or not the rich are indeed suffering under the weight of the world even if though they are so fabulously clothed, sheltered, and fed, is easy enough to answer. Happiness is a complicated thing. As with many words its meaning may change from person to person but, measuring it against the three definitions earlier stated the happiness of the rich, poor, and everyone in between can be analyzed.
The first definition of happiness is to be pleased over something (Ammer, 2002).
If two little boys were to get puppies from a local pet store after wishing for them for a very long time and one boy takes his puppy home to a two story threebedroom twobathroom home and the other boy returns to his four story
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