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    Although the 21st century has just begun‚ there have been many scientific inventions during the first decade of it‚ among which iPod is no doubt one of the greatest. iPod is a portable media player designed and marketed by Apple and launched on October 23‚ 2001. From then on‚ iPod has been the best digital music player in the world. iPod is one of the greatest inventions in the 21st century for many reason. First and foremost‚ the birth of iPod marked the beginning of the MP3 era. iPod‚ together

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    Time and Happiness

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    is WHAT IS HAPPINESS. Nowadays‚ many people think money can buy happiness so that they will work over ten hours to earn more money. They think that if we are rich then‚ we can do anything such as buy a fat dog‚ a big house‚ a grand car or many luxurious things LV bag‚ DOIR shoe and so on. It cannot be denied that material life is happiness because you can buy the things you want but I think material life can only give me happiness for a short period of time which is external happiness. I think cultural

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    Parks and Recreation creators Greg Daniels and Michael Schur put a humorous spin on the realistic problems management imposes on its employees through its episode “The Bubble‚” Season Three‚ Episode Fifteen. In this episode‚ Chris‚ the new manager‚ has come in and drastically changed the office‚ causing the workers to hate their jobs when before they enjoyed them. This hatred for the job came about because they were forced to perform differently than they were used to. Ron‚ someone who did not

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    Burger Machine

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    Executive Summary Burger Machine is a local burger stall business that has been present in the Filipino market since 1980. They were the first to establish a 24/7 business idea and was named the “the burger that never sleeps”. Burger Machine currently ranks 4th in the Philippine Market with the most number of stalls with 804 stalls. Aside from their wide reach in the Philippine market‚ they are also known for the taste and quality of their food. Which the Filipino`s look for – an opportunity for

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    Technology and Happiness

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    Technology and Happiness James Surowiecki In the 20th century‚ Americans‚ Europeans‚ and East Asians enjoyed material and technological advances that were unimaginable in previous eras. In the United States‚ for example‚ gross domestic product per capita tripled from 1950 to 2000. Life expectancy soared. The boom in productivity after World War II made goods better and cheaper at the same time. Things that were once luxuries‚ such as jet travel and long-distance phone calls‚ became necessities

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    Happiness Explained

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    Cheating Our Brains into Happiness Jane McGonigal is a prominent game developer who has dedicated her recent years to developing games that try to help the world out instead of just entertaining a few. In the tenth chapter of her book Reality is Broken‚ she argues that happiness levels in the United States and around the world are alarmingly low‚ and people are very depressed. She then introduces a term called “Happiness Hacking”. McGonigal herself defines it as “…the experimental design practice

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    Secrets of Happiness

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    Secrets of Happiness: It may not be what you think it is NAGC Big Event‚ 28th October 2012 Dr Shoshana Garfield‚ PhD What Makes You Happy? What Makes You Distressed? Feeling Experience T h o u g h t h o u g h t T Outside In Living T h o u g h t What is ‘Thought’? • Non-verbal: – Even infants can be clinically depressed – Physical pain is so non-verbal it even‚ in the extremity of the moment‚ may eradicate the very capacity for language • Verbal: – 12‚000 to 50‚000 thoughts per day (National

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    Aristotle and Happiness

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    professionally‚ creatively‚ and socially healthy & well rounded individual. Happiness involves being really alive and not just existing. Aristotle believes that a person should work hard doing what they love‚ they also shouldn’t devote their lives to acquiring riches since riches don’t provide happiness. One should also reject fame and public success to become happy as self sufficiency is believed to provide happiness. Happiness is a process starting from infancy. A happy life is a life where spiritual

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    Stumbling on Happiness

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    What is Happiness? People travel through life with what seems like a single goal: to be happy. This may seem like a selfish way to live‚ however this lone objective is the motivation behind nearly all actions. Even seemingly selfless deeds make people feel better about themselves. That warm feeling experienced while doing charitable acts can be described as happiness. But what is authentic happiness? There is an endless possibility of answers to this question‚ and man seems to be always searching

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    Machine Translation

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    ABSTRACT Most research in Machine translation is about having the computers completely bear the load of translating one human language into another. This paper looks at the machine translation problem afresh and observes that there is a need to share the load between man and machine‚ distinguish ‘reliable’ knowledge from the ‘heuristics’‚ provide a spectrum of outputs to serve different strata of people‚ and finally make use of existing resources instead of reinventing the wheel. This paper describes

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