CAUSE EFFECT ESSAY TOPIC: Like other abstract concepts‚ happiness is often defined differently by different people. Naturally‚ sources of happiness can also be different to different people. What are the main “ingredients” of your happiness? HAPPINESS The 14th Dalai Lama used to say:” Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.” Actually‚ there are many definitions of happiness as people get happiness in their own way‚ and what makes one person happy might not work
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About Sharing Happiness We can only share happiness with others when we ourselves know how to be happy and are happy. If we are not happy (it means we don’t know how to be happy)‚ then how can we share happiness with others and ask others to be happy‚ when we don’t have happiness in ourselves? We can share our joy and happiness with all beings without any discrimination of human beings or non-human beings‚ good beings or bad beings‚ happy beings or unhappy beings‚ wise beings or ignorant beings
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To be happy‚ what does that truly mean? Philosophers Aristotle and John Stuart Mill both had similar definitions of happiness‚ however‚ they each had different ideas and theories on what it is that constitutes happiness and what being truly happy requires. Both shared a common idea‚ that happiness is achieved by engaging in activities that are distinctively human. Mill’s idea of happiness is described as the end to which all things good for a human life should lead. There has been objection to
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EXTENDED ESSAY THE CRUCIBLE In this extended essay I will undertake a detailed analysis of some of the major themes in The Crucible by Arthur Miller. Hysteria and‚ the oppressive nature of society are all addressed by the playwright‚ However‚ the theme of the power struggle‚ principally‚ individuality vs society is paramount. I also wanted to discuss how relevant the themes and the characteristics in the crucible are in the real modern and social world. This vital theme dominates the play. In
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Conclusion VI.1 Summary VI.2 Relation VI.3 Implications and recommendations Introduction Why I choose this area of study For my Extended Essay‚ I have chosen to write about how People of the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) use language and imagery to persuade its audience’s beliefs about animal rights. As I was planning what to do for my Extended Essay I came to think‚ are PETA’s ways of persuasion too much or are they adequate? This made me realize that PETA relies a lot on people
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Peter Mehnert Rhet 105 Ms. Paterson 11/14/12 Extended Synthesis: Cigarette Smoking Tobacco has played an important role in America from the beginning. It was grown as a cash crop by the Jamestown settlers in 1612‚ but over the years the popular opinion has changed about tobacco. Tobacco is used to make cigarettes‚ which have been extremely popular‚ now known to be extremely dangerous. Even the warnings on the cigarette box have changed to a statement much more alarming. In the 1960s‚ the warning
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Benjamin Franklin‚ the first minister for the United States‚ a young taught scientist‚ and one of the most important Founding Fathers of our Nation‚ once proclaimed “The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You’ve got to catch it yourself.” Shown in popular literature‚ the American Dream is a national philosophy of the United States‚ a set of principles where freedom takes account of the opportunity for prosperity and accomplishment‚ and tries to commit a rising stasis attained
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Happiness When was the last time someone asked you what truly makes you happy? I remember the last day of high school sitting in my ninth period math class just staring at the clock counting the minutes that had gone by. All I kept thinking was how I wanted to be laying out on the beach and having fun with my friends‚ not sitting in that boring class listening to the boring teacher. Once that bell had run I was so relieved and so happy that I could now enjoy my summer down by the beach with my
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pressure we now put on ourselves to acquire the next big thing. Yes times have changed now‚ and so have we. We no longer cherish the simpler things in life and have instead replaced them with the finer things. To most people in our society today‚ happiness isn ’t defined by the people we love and the times we share with them‚ but rather the cars that we drive and the new iPod Touch that we bought. And as we ’ve changed over the years‚ so have our feelings about what makes us happy‚ and that ’s perfectly
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What is happiness? Happiness can mean different things to different people. For example‚ for one person‚ it may mean being in a relationship‚ whereas for someone else it may mean feeling you have the ability to handle whatever life throws at you. While you might think that there are certain things that make you happy (or could make you happy if you had them)‚ research has shown that there are certain common traits amongst happy people --- and it is not necessarily what you might have thought.
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