The pleasures of solitude (by John Cheever) John Cheever (1912—1982) is a well known American storyteller. He started on his literary career at the age of 16. In his works Cheever deals with the complexities of the life of the middle class‚ the inhabitants of small towns and suburbs of big cities. THE PLEASURES OF SOLITUDE One evening when Ellen Goodrich had just returned from the office to her room in Chelsea‚ she heard a light knock on her door. She knew no one in the city intimately; there
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me four times longer to hit the brake [while being distracted and driving]” (1). Therefore‚ LeBeau’s results matched up with the final results for Car and Driver Magazine; it took an unimpaired driver .54 seconds to break‚ yet for a person sending a text while driving‚ it took 70 more feet to break. Furthering Car and Driver Magazine’s study‚ it shows that it only
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Donna Johnson Ms. April Campbell English 111 February 17th 2013 My guilty pleasure I become so alive whenever my little ears catch a catchy beat to their liking. My feet start to mimic the beat‚ my shoulders start to do a happy dance that most outsiders looking in would think I am having a mini seizure. I close my eyes‚ slightly tilt my head back and just embrace the wave of music. I am in a blissful state of mind where I have not a care in the world. Then it hits me‚ my three brief minutes
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MOTIVATIONS FOR PLEASURE VACATION John L. Crompton Department of Recreation & Parks Texas A&M University‚ USA Crompton‚ John L.‚ "Motivations for Pleasure Vacations‚" Annals of Tourism Research‚ October/December 1979‚ VI(4):408-424. The study is concerned with identifying those motives of pleasure vacationers which influence the selection of a destination. It also seeks to develop a conceptual framework capable of encompassing such motives. Empirically nine motives were identified. Seven were classified
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Different Interpretations Dualism/Behaviorism for Pain and Pleasure People have a difficult time accepting that emotions as well as sensations exist on a continuous basis. Generally one type of emotion must exist and be experiential and the other polar opposite emotion must also exist and be experiential. This means you cannot have pleasure without pain‚ and that you cannot have pain without pleasure. People seem to be under the impression that an eternal pleasurable experience is possible without
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Audience Pleasures Pleasures of relatiblilty- The IT Crowd is set in an office building and follows the daily lives of the IT department within this company. This is relatable to the target audience‚ who would be young adults- middle aged‚ and therefore working also‚ and would probably we able to relate to working collectively with a team ‚ and the individual unique characters within the department. For example‚ the contrast between the people working on the top floor of the building‚ compared
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ALL PRAISE BE TO GOD I HAVE GREAT PLEASURE IN THIS WONDERFUL EVENING IN WELCOMING OUR CHIEF GUEST MR. OR MRS........ WHO HAS KINDLY CONSENTED TO BE THE CHEIF GUEST OF OUR ANNUAL DAY ‚AND ALSO REALLY HAPPY TO WELCOME OTHER DISTINGUISHED GUESTS WHO ALSO CONSENTED AMIDST THEIR TIGHT SCHEDULE TO SHARE EVERY MOVEMENTS OF THIS WONDERFUL FUNCTION WITH US ‚AND ALSO WELCOME OUR CORRESPONDENT‚ ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER ‚ PRINCIPAL‚ TEACHING AND NON TEACHING STAFF. IN TODAY’S CELEBRATION OUR MAIN HEROES ARE
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Epicurus and his focus on the pursuit of one’s happiness is how he talks about how that pleasure is the most great and legitimate pursuit of a person’s life. That is what he spent his life studying and speaking to others about. Epicurus invasion of pleasure is where we stay clear of unnecessary desires and try to achieve some kind of inner peace and be content with simple things. Unnecessary things would be like food‚ drinking‚ sex etc. Basically anything that you would say I want or desire. Now
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Pleasure‚ happiness and the Good Life for Siddhartha Pleasure is not happiness. After extensively analyzing Hermann Hesse’s “Siddhartha” and Richard Taylor’s “Happiness” it is clear that pleasure is not needed to have a good life. We also see how pleasure can be destructive. “It is very common for modern philosophers‚ and others too‚ to confuse happiness with pleasure.”(Taylor). Many people think that happiness and pleasure are the same‚ but really they are two completely different things. Happiness
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Habbestad English 104 2 December 2013 The Pleasure Scale As we go through life we will experience different events that will help shape the scales that we use in life. Biss talks about how pain is our own experience and no one else can feel the same intensity of pain that we feel at any given point in the day. I believe that it can also be turned around no one can feel the same type of pleasure that I feel. There is no way that I can write a scale of pleasure that fits every person that is on the earth;
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