Happiness Enough Already
Teddy Murray
Brent Jackson
English
5 March, 2015
“Happiness: Enough Already” In respects to being a popular work, I personally find Sharon Bergley’s article, “Happiness: Enough Already,” to be rather good. Firstly, this article is easy and interesting to read. Secondly, it contains the points of views of different authors. And thirdly, its information is generic enough to be relative to almost everyone’s life. Bergley’s article is structured logically and is worded clearly to the audience. One does not feel bored while reading this piece. The author does a tremendous job capturing the reader’s attention throughout the article. However, being a popular article, the author does include very specific words that would be difficult for a reader to understand if he or she was not educated in the topic this article covers. But these words are well explained, which do make the article less scientific and more pleasurable to read. In my opinion, “good” article is based on the inclusion of multiple researchers and sources. This article does this by aquainting the reader to multiple authors and their works (Ed Diener of “Rethinking Happiness,” Eric Wilson’s “Against Happiness,” and many more). I also thought this article was well done because of the insightful message it conveys. The article explains that people must feel sad or melancholic sometimes in order to experience all aspects of human emotion, which benefits one’s quality of life. Being sad teaches people how to survive, makes them stronger and generally hardier. Moreover, the author captures the reader’s attention by pointing out evidence that suggests people who feel some kind of discontent are more ambitious and tend to be more eager to change their life for the better by pursuing their goals. The author notes how most artists created their masterpieces in the period of melancholy. Sadness can be named the muse of art. Best poems are written because of unrequited love; the most significant ideas came to
Brent Jackson
English
5 March, 2015
“Happiness: Enough Already” In respects to being a popular work, I personally find Sharon Bergley’s article, “Happiness: Enough Already,” to be rather good. Firstly, this article is easy and interesting to read. Secondly, it contains the points of views of different authors. And thirdly, its information is generic enough to be relative to almost everyone’s life. Bergley’s article is structured logically and is worded clearly to the audience. One does not feel bored while reading this piece. The author does a tremendous job capturing the reader’s attention throughout the article. However, being a popular article, the author does include very specific words that would be difficult for a reader to understand if he or she was not educated in the topic this article covers. But these words are well explained, which do make the article less scientific and more pleasurable to read. In my opinion, “good” article is based on the inclusion of multiple researchers and sources. This article does this by aquainting the reader to multiple authors and their works (Ed Diener of “Rethinking Happiness,” Eric Wilson’s “Against Happiness,” and many more). I also thought this article was well done because of the insightful message it conveys. The article explains that people must feel sad or melancholic sometimes in order to experience all aspects of human emotion, which benefits one’s quality of life. Being sad teaches people how to survive, makes them stronger and generally hardier. Moreover, the author captures the reader’s attention by pointing out evidence that suggests people who feel some kind of discontent are more ambitious and tend to be more eager to change their life for the better by pursuing their goals. The author notes how most artists created their masterpieces in the period of melancholy. Sadness can be named the muse of art. Best poems are written because of unrequited love; the most significant ideas came to