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    Happiness vs Unhappiness

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    “talagang hindi masaya.”) Conventionally‚ the upper two categories are Happy‚ and the lower two are Unhappy. Thus happiness and unhappiness get measured at the same time. Out of every five adult Filipinos‚ four are happy and one is not. That is probably a little over the world average‚ for those who go for international contests. For me‚ what matters more is progress over time. It so happens that the time-trend for Happy Filipinos is flat. The percentage started at 84 in July 1991. In 16 SWS surveys

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    mood‚ social interaction‚ and impulsiveness that cause distress to one experiencing them‚ as well as to other people in their lives.” (Personality Disorders) It can effect a persons daily life as they may feel like they do not belong in society. They can also feel left out in situations where others may be feeling empathy or sadness that someone suffering from the disease may not feel. Symptoms and causes Some research says that one of the main causes

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    that those traumatizing events could definitely lead somebody to be a killer‚ traumatizing events cause deep psychological scarring to one’s brain causing a person to believe killing is right. Some killers have even said that they do not understand why what they are doing is wrong‚ they think that their abnormal thoughts are normal and a person who does not kill is the person who is truly crazy. What makes a serial killer tick? A lot of psychological problems that most serial killers experience are

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    boss about you are being too emotional outside of work hours‚ and you are now about to be send to an island with “like-minded” people. The last thing you feel is happy‚ but you are not allowed to be unhappy‚ because you grew up without this emotion‚ so instead you inject pills to better your mood. This is the environment that Aldous Huxley presents in Brave New World‚ a futuristic society where humans are bred in bottles and have been manipulated to fit a certain criteria‚ or “conditioned” from the

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    Zen and the Art of Happiness

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    禅 Zen and the Art of Happiness Chris Pentris Dominique Doarte S. Gapayao Zen and the Art of Happiness “Everyone deserves to be happy.” And that is exactly why we are still here on earth‚ why we are still breathing‚ and why we are still persevering‚ this is because we want to experience happiness‚ not just it‚ but a true happiness. There are different concepts of happiness according to different kind of persons‚ and to some philosophers. I remember what our professor taught us when he

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    the Maya‚ and the Modern World)and Greer (In How Civilizations Fall: A Theory of Catabolic Collapse) have created analyzing both fallen and modern civilizations‚ both of these authors believe to some extent that a lack of resources is the beginning cause of a collapse of a civilization. There are some historians that believe that not all civilizations are doomed to collapse due to that previous civilizations were not able to properly and accurately handle their problems and as long as you sustain stability

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    Lexi Duncan TR 11:30-12:45 Jerrod Stringer 21 October 2014 What is happiness? Happiness‚ the state of being happy. A simple definition for an immeasurable idea. Happiness is not profitable or tradable. Yet‚ above all else in the world‚ it is what people seek. They want to have happiness‚ and what to know what happiness is. But happiness‚ like air or water‚ is a hard thing to grasp in one’s hand. There are plenty of definitions of happiness. Psychologists‚ philosophers‚ economists‚ and even scientists

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    The Four Causes of World War I Mary Kate Fleisher Honors Global 101 Period 7 The four main causes of World War I are nationalism‚ militarism‚ imperialism‚ and alliances. As Europe underwent extreme changes and industrialization‚ these causes began to pop up throughout Europe. The Industrial Revolution and Scientific Revolution had just ended‚ and Europe was looking for a time of peace. Although there were many movements for peace‚ concepts like nationalism‚ imperialism‚ militarism‚ and

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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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    in Lexington. These gunshots were the opening shots of the famous American Revolution. England had been situated in the Americas for over a hundred and fifty years and had maintained a dominant establishment. So why was there a revolution? There were multiple causes of the American Revolution; however‚ a primary reason for the revolution was for economic self- interest. Leading up to the American Revolution‚ there were plenty of occasions were England provoked the Colonies

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