What a common man strives for isn’t a promenade through life but true experience which will be perpetual. The thought to pacify life brings pleasure‚ pleasure provokes satisfaction and satisfaction drives desire and indeed desire keeps man alive. The basic thing that makes your life moving and on going is the pursuit of your desires. Without desires life is going to be stagnant. Desires give you a motivation force to do better and to strive for more. The journey to obtain a desire is going to be
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What gives us more satisfaction: the pursuit of our desires or the attainment of them? People have diverse definitions of happiness. Psychologists relate happiness to emotions and feelings of gratification. Economists define happiness in terms of wealth of individuals. Some people attribute happiness to attainment of desires. Some others believe that satisfaction lies in accepting the fact that human life is miserable and expectations just betray men. But where does real happiness and satisfaction
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SAT weekly assignment: What gives us more pleasure and satisfaction: the pursuit of our desires or the attainment of them? Plan your response‚ and then write your essay. Everyday we wake up with a new desire‚ new hope‚ and challenges we wish to overcome. The yearning gives us a reason to live and to strive for success. In life‚ we are encouraged to chase our desires. Usually the pursuit of our deepest desires is a lengthy one. We grow so accustomed to the chase‚ that we know nothing else. We feel
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1. Who and what gives us our identity? There are many things that make up who we are today. Which include language‚ culture‚ race‚ personal choices‚ nationality‚ tastes in music‚ food‚ etc. I believe that the most important components of our identity comes from our race‚ culture‚ religion and socio—economic status. Race and religion play an important role in formation of our identity because these factors are the roots. The beginning of the beginning. Race is something that you can’t change‚
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lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it." Clearly‚ Shaw had his heart broken once or twice. Shaw was right. As we strain to grasp the things we desire‚ the things we think will make our lives better: money‚ popularity‚ fame... we ignore what truly matters‚ the simple things‚ like friendship‚ family‚ love. The things we probably already had. This year‚ I got everything I wanted and everything I wished for. But in a way‚ I lost even more. Yes‚ losing your heart’s desire is tragic. But gaining
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Tuesdays with Harjot Athwal A) Us and them is a short story by David Sedaris. This short story is told in the first person narrative and it’s about his family’s life in North Carolina. His family moved from the New York state where he lived in the country‚ to North Carolina‚ a city. In the country‚ there were no streetlights‚ sidewalks‚ and you couldn’t see anyone for miles. Sedaris compares this life to his life in the city‚ where even in his house‚ other homes were visible‚ as well as
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and his cousin William Barak were more determined to save their land and country. They fought valiantly to save their heritage and families. This example of determination and brilliant act of courage was done not only by Wonga but his entire clan too. They had to overcome obstacles such as traveling to Melbourne and back (quite a large journey) many times. These people showed that in times of trouble amazing things can we achieved. They did amazing things and got what they could from their ability despite
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The Pleasure Principle The purpose of life has been discussed since the beginning. No one knows the meaning of life‚ and if they do‚ they’re not telling. Even trying to write off life as having no point doesn’t satisfy anyone; it doesn’t’ make a difference. Brittany doesn’t like the egocentric view that humans take as to say the answer purpose of life exists solely within themselves‚ not animals or other species. We don’t agree that religion holds the answer to the question of the purpose of
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To what extent is our ‘identity’ chosen for us? What is identity? Where does identity come from? For some identity is who we are as a whole and according to the Oxford English Dictionary identity is ‘prove or recognise who or what a person or thing is’. Oxford Dictionary of Sociology on the other hand starts off with a three page explanation on how identity came about. In this essay we will look at the issue of identity using the macro perspective‚ structural functionalism and hopefully reach
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Pleasures of Reading Some people get pleasure from picnics and tours. Others like to discuss various topics and find pleasure in it. But the reading of books provides us with such pleasure as we do not get from any other activity. Great is the blessing of books. Books are written by learned persons. They contain the best experiences and thoughts of their writers. Literature is said to mirror society. Writers put in their books not only their own ideas and feelings‚ but also what they observe and
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