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    A Pursuit to Compromise Happiness Everyone that is living in the world we live in today are all making their best efforts to obtain that which we all want the most‚ happiness. Many individuals will pursue that happiness‚ while others manage to compromise that happiness. Everyone has their own methods at trying to achieve happiness‚ but sometimes they just cannot pursue it and when they realize that what they want‚ they cannot have. Their happiness will become compromised. When at the same time

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    “The Futile Pursuit of Happiness” When it comes to predicting how something will make you feel in the future‚ you will most likely be wrong. In the book Discovering Pop Culture‚ edited by Anna Romasino‚ is the article “The Futile Pursuit of Happiness”. In the article‚ author Jon Gertner talks about how people think certain things bring them happiness but aren’t as fulfilling as they may think. Gertner gives examples by writing about four men that have been questioning how people predict what

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    Brandon Lobisi Lobisi - 1 The Pursuit of Happiness: Poetry In the Declaration of Independence‚ Thomas Jefferson wrote that every individual had a God-given right to pursue happiness. The next three poems all show that the persona has the right to pursue happiness. In “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost‚ the persona has two choices. One trail‚ in a yellow-wood‚ forked off into two trails never treaded on before. This poem is about making a choice and sticking to it. In “Sympathy”

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    Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel ‘The Great Gatsby’ and Gabriele Muccino’s 2006 film ‘The Pursuit Of Happyness’ both reveal that the American dream does not always reflect the ideals of the equality. In Fitzgerald’s ‘The Great Gatsby’‚ inequality in the dream is shown by the contrast between Nick and Gatsby. In Muccino’s ‘The Pursuit Of Happyness’‚ however‚ inequality is shown in the contrast between the main character Chris Gardener and his wife Linda. In Fitzgerald’s ‘The Great Gatsby’‚ there is a distinct gap

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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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    Achieve Happiness Name of Student: Course Title: Instructor’s Name: April 14‚ 2014 In the history of happiness‚ Socrates had a different place in the history of the West since he was the pioneering philosopher to reason that happiness occurred through human effort. Socrates existed in Greece around 460 BC in a place where happiness existed as a preserve of the people favored by the god only. The perception of hubris existed where one could only attain happiness through

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    me it is. Happiness is very different for everyone. My idea of happiness can potentially devastate to someone else’s life. Why It’s So Hard To Be Happy‚ by Michael Wiederman tried to explain the reasons why such a simple feeling of happiness is so difficult to attain. Are we just never satisfied? According to Wiederman we are creatures of habit and adaptation. We adapt to the good as well as the bad. We seek happiness in objects and goals but don’t look for it in front of us. Happiness is always

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    ARISTOTLE ’S EUDAIMONIA Eudaimonia stands for happiness in Greek. Aristotle argues that the highest good for human beings is happiness. He insists that every action performed by humans is to pursue happiness. Aristotle also argues that human action is always aimed at some end or good. This "good" may not be viewed as a good action or any good by others‚ but for the doer of the action ("good")‚ the activity will be perceived as good and that it will bring a favorable outcome. Aristotle also said

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    basis of particular principles which are person and political freedom‚ equality‚ and government limitation. One great Principle which helps build the US is personal and political freedom. American founding fathers believed that all men are created equal‚ that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights that among these are Life‚ Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. It’s to secure these rights — governments are instituted among Men‚ deriving their just powers from the consent

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    Defining Happiness Essay Life‚ liberty and the pursuit of happiness is a phrase that is widely recognized here in the United States of America and the world. Written in the Declaration of Independence of 1776‚ Life‚ liberty and the pursuit of happiness are three innate rights that where given to humans by their creator. It is safe to say that the right to life and freedom has one sole meaning in which we can all understand. Now if we take “The pursuit of happiness” and dissect the phrase into two

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