Essays on Happiness

Happiness can be described as a state that involves emotional or mental well-being of a person. It is characterized by positive or charming feelings ranging from little contentment to compelling joy. Various approaches have been developed to characterize happiness and identify its various sources. Different research and exploration groups, including positive psychology, try to apply the scientific method to answer questions about happiness, what it is and how it can be achieved. It is vital and essential to the human condition that "life, freedom and the quest for happiness" were regarded to be unalienable rights by the United States

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All over the world, couples get married each single day. Families and friend come together with joy and expectation to witness them make the most important promises in their lives: loyalty and marriage vows. Loyalty always makes us think of such instances where we show unconditional love and affection to those around us. In essence, loyalty is more complex, much intense; it can either be positive or negative, and it is a virtue that we ought to show ourselves before showing it to others.
At its best, I would say loyalty implies caring for and supporting the people we

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Liam Neeson’s ‘Carriages Belong in Central Park’ is an article, which addresses horse-drawing carriage business in the Central Park. The author notes that such an activity has existed over the centuries, and sees no harm about it. However, Mayor Bill de Blasio intends to eradicate the activity. His reason for this step is that the industry was inhumane, and as a result, he suggested that he would replace the horse-drawn carriages with vintage cabs. Neeson had as his main aim the urge to argue against such abolishment, for he saw no reason for the horses to be banned

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In his article “Carriages Belong in Central Park”, appearing in the New York Times, Liam Neeson addresses the issue of horse drawn carriages in New York City. The article come from a sense of exigency created by a proposal by current New York mayor, Bill de Blasio to eradicate the horse drawn carriage business in the city of New York by the end of this year. Neeson feels the need to address this issue seeing that he is a lover of horses and as he mentions, he grew up with horses in his native land of Ireland. Neeson also

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I think the ones who leave Omelas go to far away cities and villages because they would not desire to be associated with the place where a child is imprisoned and made to suffer for the benefit of the community (Le Guin 115). It is possible that the neighboring cities are not filled with the kind of joy that is found in the Omelas. Even so, those exiting from Omela would rather stay in a place that is not as Utopia and delightful as Omelas as opposed to living happily at the expense of an unfortunate child. The Omelas

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Although psychologists have studied the reasons for happiness, they, have not been able to pinpoint any specific factor for that makes people happy. For many, there is still that underlying reason, that is unique to individuals, and which makes them happy. The fact is that, happiness differs according to the individual who is experiencing it. To some people, happiness is a state of feeling at ease. To others it is a feeling of being well, alive and having a good time. For example, some may say that married people are happier, but it is still unclear to those who

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Since the introduction of computers, human lives have been improved tremendously. Computers and computerized systems have become part of the human lives. They are used in everyday day, in almost all the industries and wings of life. The government and private sectors have endorsed the use of computers and computerized systems in all their operations. The good thing about this is that their works have been made more efficient and faster. Human labor has even been replaced in some industries by the computers and computerized systems. The performance of the employees is even monitored through computerized systems which is

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I did not know what to expect from my first visit to a nursing home in Pittsburg, Kansas. It was one snowy day and I volunteered to spend time with older folks in this home for the seniors. We sang Christmas song, prayed with them and ate ice cream.
The first thought that came to my mind was my grandfather. He had passed away only a few weeks before my visit. It gave me an idea what it must be like for him to live in a nursing home, the condition, and the company he is

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Throughout the course of American mythology and literature, there is a curious persistence of the concept of the American dream. From the very beginning of western influence on the continent, groups of people have constantly flocked to the land in search of a fabled life better than their own. Even among natural born citizens, there exists a belief that life can become whatever a person desires, as long as they work hard. Playwright Arthur Miller frequently wrote about and depicted this ideology. Through his play Death of a Salesman, Miller denounces the American dream as impossible and unrealistic for

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Everybody has something innate that is endowed upon a person without compensation and voluntarily. According to Richard and David, every person is endowed with a calling that help them to fulfill a unique purpose in this world. For me, there are various gifts that rejuvenate my determination and shape up means to achieve my goals in future. Such gifts include a gift of singing, a gift of storytelling and a gift of cooking. I realized that storytelling is my gift when my cousins and my neighbor’s kids started to beg me to tell them bed time stories especially

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Written by Huxley Aldous, Brave New World revolves around the making of a controlled world to ensure a healthy correlation among human beings. Said control is achieved through producing humans who fit at different levels in the society. With the Alphas leading and the Epsilon falling in the latter position, the world achieves a systematic classification that places people in clusters. Consequently, the text talks of two worlds that encompass the World State where the elite live and the Reservation where outcasts are controlled. Huxley informs his readers that, those living in the World State appear younger and better

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Utilitarianism as defined by John Mill is a theory that is based on the principles that stipulate,“One’s actions are correct in proportion to their tendency of promoting happiness and wrong if they tend to result into sadness.” According to John Stuart Mill,happiness is the lack of pain and a state of pleasure. He claims that pleasure can vary in quantity and quality. He adds that the pleasures that are implanted in someone’s upper faculties should be treated with increased weight than the lower pleasures. Mill says that people’s accomplishment of ends and goals, for

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Philosophy of Happiness: Approaches to Happiness Around the Globe (A Cultural Comparison)
Introduction
It is generally understood that everyone would like to be happy. However, how happiness should be defined is often called into question. Happiness can mean different things to different people. The way that a person defines happiness for him or herself can be based on individual goals and values. This makes the examination of happiness difficult from a philosophical standpoint. Each person’s own definition of happiness makes it hard to measure what happiness is across a cross-section of people. What makes one person happy may

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Happy couples are everywhere; we see them holding hands at the small, stealing kisses in line at the movie theaters, and buying gifts for one another in shops. It would seem that love is all around us. But what of the couples who live separately? How happy are they? Long distance relationships are becoming more common among couples than they were previously. One partner may have to go away for school or work; the two may even meet online, or one may have to move to care for a sick relative. While these motivations are noble, what is the

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Sigmund Freud uses the societal function of shaping the behaviors of individuals in the society to conform to the codes of conduct and behavior. He indicates that the society in which we live seeks to restrain our aggressive impulses. While confirming that the society installs a self-control mechanism in the individuals, which he calls the superego, Freud indicate that this internal watchdog masters the desire for aggression. Sigmund Freud also indicates that individuals in the society subdue and redirect their aggression towards their own ego once they are forbidden from expressing their desire for aggression externally. In the theory

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- Identify the research method used in accumulating the data which served as the basis for this article. What were the strengths and weaknesses of the research method?
This article is based on both theoretical research and practical research. The research has used the meta-analysis research method which is an analytical technique which aims at analyzing results of multiple analyses. The meta-analysis design relies on heterogeneity and availability of information. Its limitations are the possibility of collection of homogeneous information which is hard to compare. The accuracy of the results to be compared is also a determining factor in

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Introduction

The story “Good Country People” by Flannery O. Connor is about a wealthy woman, Mrs. Hopewell, whose daughter, Joy, is a hard headed philosopher. Mrs. Hopewell’s daughter has a PhD in philosophy, something that her mother is not proud. Mrs. Hopewell’s daughter, Joy is rude and antisocial, and has a plastic leg which she is sensitive about. The second story is titled “The Life you Save Might be your Own” by the same author. Its characters are an old woman, her retarded daughter and a stranger, Mr. Shiflet. These two homesteads are visited by intelligent conmen who

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H.L.A Hart.
“There are two minimum conditions necessary and sufficient for the existence of a legal system. On the one hand those rules of behavior which are valid according to the system's ultimate criteria of validity must be generally obeyed, and on the other hand, its rules of recognition specifying the criteria of legal validity and its rules of change and adjudication must be effectively accepted as common public standards of official behavior by its officials.” Laws are systems that may prohibit individuals to carry out a variety of actions or that may compel an assortment of responsibilities on

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What is the "Good in life" what is the end goal?

What is the "Good in life" what is the end goal is perhaps one big question that everyone will always try to find an answer from within oneself. When a person is growing the ambition to achieve one or two things at a given time in their life drives them. At the same time, they will consider themselves not to have lived up to their expectations when those goals will not have been achieved by the end of that time. As a matter of philosophy, every human being will always want to live happy in the course of their

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Gender Divide

The gender divide is apparent in these lines where the roles of the father and the daughter and the responsibilities of a wife towards her husband are juxtaposed and arranged against each other. However, the duties of a wife are already pre-ordained. Jessica, the daughter of Shylock is ashamed of the deeds of her Father who is a stingy money lender bent upon extracting the maximum profit from all his victims. Thus, where the traits of a father may normally manifest themselves in the child, Jessica is happy and almost proud to say that despite being her father’s

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When I was a child, I used to ask my mum: "What is happiness?" My mother always told me: "You will find out some day." When I gave a lollipop to a six year old girl, her satisfied smile told me that this was happiness. We supported my friend through a difficult time for her, and she was happy. It will be right to say that happiness is a feeling found deep inside in our heart. Happiness is not a result, but the way to result. People always seek for something global to be happy about, instead of looking

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In life, one of the most imperative elements is happiness. Throughout the globe, in different locations, different people engage in different mechanisms with the sole purpose of getting happiness. Most things and endeavors that human beings engage him are as a result of the urge to attain this state at the end of the day (James et al., 32). Life is strenuous. Due to this, happiness makes it bearable. It is important to note that different things and issues bring happiness to different people. As such, something that may make one person happy may not necessarily make another happy.

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The Storm is a story Written by Kate Chopin. The time at which the story was set is in the 19th century. The story was set in Louisiana and in real sense; Louisiana is a place that is best known for violent storms. The story is about is a confrontation of the theme of femininity and complexities of the married people in the storm. The storm is used throughout the story, and it only ends after the characters, Alcee and Calixta’s sexual encounter, which brings out the theme of femininity, and sexual desires.
Kate Chopin opens her story

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When I was a child, I used to ask my mum: "What is happiness?" My mother always told me: "You will find out some day." When I gave a lollipop to a six year old girl, her satisfied smile told me that this was happiness. We supported my friend through a difficult time for her, and she was happy. It will be right to say that happiness is a feeling found deep inside in our heart. Happiness is not a result, but the way to result. People always seek for something global to be happy about, instead of looking

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The ethical theory proposed by the great German philosopher Emmanuel Kant is centered on three dimensions- goodwill, moral worth and duty. Possession of goodwill is the primary requirement of achieving morality. Goodness of one's action is not defined by its goal, reason, means and the expected desirable effects, but is solely determined by its nature. Therefore, certain actions such as theft, cheating, and murder are prohibited even if these actions will hinder man from gaining more happiness since they are naturally immoral.
Moral worth is achieved only if the actions are governed by goodwill alone. Actions will not be

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Positive psychology has been an issue of concern to the majority of psychologists who believe it guides individuals as well as the community and help them strive for meaningful and fulfilling lives. Positive psychology as a study tends to reveal the strengths and virtues of individuals within a society that can help them live a happy life. To live a purposeful and happy life, psychologists find it more important for individuals to have a positive thinking in whatever they do. In order to ensure the achievement of positive psychology, psychologists find the application of its available principles more crucial.

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Argumentative essay:

In order to understand Aristotle thoughts on live a happy life it is important to examine Nicomachean Ethics as it contains his definition of happiness as well as the requirements one needs in order to be happy. Aristotle’s definition of happiness as quoted in Nicomachean Ethics as stating that a man can only be able to achieve happiness if he performs all the tasks that he is supposed to in a positive manner (Winter, 32). According to Aristotle’s argument, happiness is the main purpose of human life; therefore, he suggests human should strive to achieve happiness in

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A Literature Review of Existing Studies

Comparing and Contrasting Urban and Rural Life: A Literature Review of Existing Studies
Within the United States, there are many pockets of rural and urban environments. Although urban living tends to garner the most positive and negative attention, plenty of parts of the United States are less inhabited and more rural. For as long as civilization has existed, the debate over whether urban living or rural life is better has taken place. While these arguments have been strongly rooted in anecdotal evidence and personal opinion, in recent years researchers have started to study the effects of urban versus rural

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Is the Experience of Happiness Gender Dependent? An Examination of Personality Traits, Happiness, and Gender

Abstract
The concept of happiness is a complex one, which can be influenced by a plethora of variables, and according to some, can be subjective to the individual or even unattainable. Since personality traits are thought to influence the level of happiness one experience, the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire Abbreviated was used to assess the levels of neuroticism, extraversion, and psychoticism among participants, with the Oxford Happiness Questionnaire Short Form used to measure happiness. While females traditionally report higher levels of happiness, the sample in the current study did not mimic the typical results found by other researchers. However, the

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What is utilitarianism?

Utilitarianism, also referred to as the greatest happiness principle, is defined as the principle that human beings should base their actions depending on the consequences of those actions. The consequence-oriented variety theory claims that people should perform acts that make them happier, or make them less unhappy. People at different ages have varying rules. The weight of every action is determined by the nature of consequence and the mounting pressure it impacts to the society. Utilitarianism falls under two categories, the classic utilitarianism and the rule utilitarianism. The classic utilitarianism defines a right act as the one that maximizes

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The aim of this essay is to present you with a theatrical analysis of the play ‘Death of a Salesman’, written by Arthur Miller in 1949. This analysis will present you with the look of a hypothetical producer. Therefore, it will focus on the summary of the play, the world it represents and the wider cultural background within which it was first produced. Finally, it will emphasize on all the details concerning a production set nowadays. The essay will give the overall look of the hypothetical producer, focusing on the aspects which are to be taken into consideration in

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The book written by Waller focuses on ethics and its relation to other subjects such as emotions and reasoning, the importance and advantages of observing ethics. The writer’s primary source of information on ethics is from different philosophers such as Susan Wolf and Catherine Wilson whose argument on morals is the main point of focus.
Wolf discusses that there are two types of saints: loving saints who care about others more than themselves and selfless and rational saints who retain some selfishness and some non-moral values. Other philosophers such as Aristole and Plato suggest that true happiness entails

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People propose moral relativism on psychological grounds. The psychological reasons include psychological conclusions while subjective personal motives normally form powerful moral relativism sources as compared to the logical considerations. People consider moral relativism as objective logical arguments. The main motive for relativism is people’s deep desire to achieve happiness. In addition, fears correspond to the fundamental desires within. It is rather probable that such fear for moral absolutism makes people unhappy through making them feel even guiltier. For this reason, moral absolutism becomes unloving and uncompassionate. This good morality component has positive consequences while bad morality bears negative

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Is the Experience of Happiness Gender Dependent? An Examination of Personality Traits, Happiness, and Gender

Abstract
The concept of happiness is a complex one, which can be influenced by a plethora of variables, and according to some, can be subjective to the individual or even unattainable. Since personality traits are thought to influence the level of happiness one experience, the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire Abbreviated was used to assess the levels of neuroticism, extraversion, and psychoticism among participants, with the Oxford Happiness Questionnaire Short Form used to measure happiness. While females traditionally report higher levels of happiness, the sample in the current study did not mimic the typical results found by other researchers. However, the

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“Customer service is a critical element of services marketing. In services companies, customer-contact employees serve as the face of the company to the consumer. Therefore, it is reasonable for these companies to mandate that customer-contact employees act “happy” when they are on the job as this is what they are hired to do”.
Rather than saying that customer service employees should act happy because the management requires them to be, it would have been better to motivate the employees to be empathetic. Internal marketing means the services company must keep their employees to be motivated to be customer oriented.

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Written by Huxley Aldous, Brave New World revolves around the making of a human controlled world to ensure correlation among the same. For instance, the world state works at producing humans who fit at different levels. With the Alphas leading and the Epsilon falling in the latter position, the world has an order that everyone follows. The text talks of two worlds, the World State where the elite live and the Reservation where outcasts are controlled. It is important to note that, those living in the World State appear younger and better looking

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In Socrates' recounting of her speech, Diotima gives an account of what she considers being the best form of love. (Nye 137). The question “what is love?”, has troubled individuals often, but Plato, in the symposium, offers a solid understanding through Socrates, the philosopher. In identifying the means of pursuing love, Diotima defines Love as a craving for happiness. According to the Greeks, Happiness was regarded as an end of its own, with much of the Greek ethics centered on it. One may criticize the scope of the word “Love” as inflated in order to embrace all forms of

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The Free Dictionary defines will as the mental faculty that enables an individual to choose of decide upon a particular course of action. It is in this light that some people hold the belief that the greatest good in view is what determines the will. This is based on the theory of utilitarianism mainly fronted by philosopher John Stuart Mill. Utilitarianism holds that an action is good if it brings maximum happiness for the greatest number of people. In essence, this means that such an action causes more happiness but less suffering. For example, politicians will pass a certain

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Shelley in Frankenstein and Goethe in The Sorrows of Young Werther wrap their stories around two characters whose mental torment and physical actions are similar to one another. Both the stories deal with characters who are struggling to find happiness in their lives in the world they live in, but they could not because of rejection. Werther was seeking to be loved, and have a family with the girl she loved. On the other hand, the creature in Frankenstein was also seeking for a companion and people to relate with and call family because he was all alone. He

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Twilight Wish Foundation is a non-profit organization that aims at granting wished to the elderly. The organization supports the seniors around the nation by helping them acquire their wishes despite being at old age. In addition, the foundation understands that the elders have minimal income that can hardly keep them awake or some seniors who reside in nursing homes but cannot make their wishes become a reality. Given the income disparity across the US, the foundation helps the elders to maintaining the physical and mental happiness through supporting them achieve some of their wishes. It

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