“Borders” and “Double Happiness” Nowadays‚ many cultures are disappearing and many encounter it. In “Borders”‚ by Thomas King and the movie “Double Happiness”‚ the mother and father‚ respectively‚ try to maintain their cultural identity through out their generations. Only one of the parents succeeded. It is the mother. Both made a lot of efforts but the mother made the right choices. She was able to bring her daughter back home although the father lost his daughter. There is a big contrast between
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What Socrates is suggesting in the above statements is to live free and away from wickedness. If a person believes in virtue all the good things would come to that person. We could not buy happiness or goodness with money‚ but with going to the right way we can make money. We live in a world that going the wrong path and being bad is way much easier than being good. We saw a lot of people every day that make a lot of money with doing bad and wrong stuff‚ but we should not forget that at the end they’re
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Chapter 3‚ reading #1 Computers and the Pursuit of Happiness Summary: In the essay “Computers and the Pursuit of Happiness‚” David Gelernter explains the influence of new technology‚ especially Internet and Computers on people’s life and society. David Gelernter divides his essay in three part‚ in the first part he speaks of information age. He believes that we are not in the information age‚ therefore he considers the necessity of coal‚ steel and concrete unchanged‚ even though we are not in
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A Journey to Happiness Chris McCandless is a driven young adult that is unlike any other. By the end of his Alaskan odyssey‚ he becomes a new man nearly entirely. The most noticeable difference between the Chris that left home in his yellow Datsun and the Chris that took his last photo in the Alaskan bush‚ was that the last version of Chris was happy. The author writes that Chris McCandless first became introverted and cold during his sophomore year in college. The relationship between Chris and
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How To Find Happiness Despite The Depression mass media underwent considerable growth. Newspaper companies shut down by the thousand but circulation of papers went up a remarkable amount. In 1930 less than half of the U.S. households owned radios but ten years later over eighty percent owned them. Life during this time period was a continues struggle and for the most part extremely miserable. Unemployment grew to
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Many people spend their entire lives searching for the key to a meaningful life. But the question is which is more valuable - financial success or happiness. In A Christmas Carol‚ written by Charles Dickens‚ a greedy old miser named Scrooge endures such a search for meaning and ultimately finds the treasure of life. He needs the help of three spirits‚ who appear during the night on Christmas Eve‚ to help him see how his inconsiderate and greedy actions affect others and leave him alone. As a result
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In an argument‚ one simply does not argue blindly. In order to make the argument believable‚ there must be facts to back up your reasoning and persuasive discourse. Stumbling on Happiness delivers an intuitive way of just that‚ precisely. In the essay‚ Daniel Gilbert resides to using many techniques to create a well directed argument on the human emotions and the relationship between our minds and the future. Through the use of persuasion in rhetoric and his knowledge on making an argument‚ Gilbert
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It was Saturday morning and everyone was so excited about the outreach activity. As we gathered‚ everybody went to their selected jeepneys as we go to our destination. I was very excited as I stepped down the jeep with all the things that we needed for the activity. We need to cross at the bridge for us to go to loob‚ Gainza . I was very afraid as I stepped on the bridge. It feels like I’m going to fall into the water‚ but I still try to overcome my fear. As we go by‚ there are tricycle that’s waiting
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Happiness in Devices Recently technology has become a big part of society and will continue to advance continuously in the future. Most people consider technology a necessity for every day life‚ and fortunately it’s expanding enough to decelerate stagnation. It’s also necessary to analyze the advantages and disadvantages of technology. Technology influences minds in good and bad ways‚ and it allows people to share information which they would otherwise not be able to attain. Technology is becoming
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Computers and the Pursuit of Happiness by David Galenter In this text about computer‚ David Galenter tries to answer very widely asked questions about the computers. The question he like to answer are: 1. Are we in an IT age? 2. Has the old age ended? 3. Have computers been good or bad for the mankind? 4. What will happen in the future on computers? In the text he denies the widespread concept that we are in an IT age. In the past‚ coal steel and concrete mattered and now information counts
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