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    look at the board to see what the teacher wrote and look at books to see the problems. If we did not have sight‚ our possibilities for knowledge would be limited into few things. We would not know what the world is like. We would not know anything. Secondly hearing is very important too. We have to listen to know. If we did not have hearing‚ we would not know how people talk and how animals cry. We would not know how buildings collapse‚ balls hit etc. We would not know what the teacher is saying and

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    The Pursuit Of Happiness

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    the meaning of life? Is purpose of life to pursuit happiness throughout one’s life? Happiness in life is directly related to having a specific purpose and interaction with others. the pursuit of happiness is a part of the american dream‚ every American and future citizens of America from other countries dream of it. The concept of happiness come from many places‚ starting in ancient times. A English philosopher named John Locke “coining the phrase pursuit of happiness in his book in Essay Concerning

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    What Tourism Gives to Ladakh? Ladakh is an interesting subject to study but its inaccessibility to us and sort of a disinterest for it among us Kashmiri students makes it a challenging and a daunting task to have a thorough research conducted on it. It was obviously not so easy for a research scholar like me to go for a study on Ladakh. Primary focus of research was tourism and impact of tourism on Ladakhi society. Ladakh proved to be a great subject for the research program due to its potential

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    happiness vs pleasure

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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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    1037/1089-2680.9.2.111 Pursuing Happiness: The Architecture of Sustainable Change Sonja Lyubomirsky University of California‚ Riverside Kennon M. Sheldon University of Missouri—Columbia David Schkade University of California‚ San Diego The pursuit of happiness is an important goal for many people. However‚ surprisingly little scientific research has focused on the question of how happiness can be increased and then sustained‚ probably because of pessimism engendered by the concepts of genetic

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    Pursuit of Ambition

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    The Pursuit of Ambition in Macbeth Due date 15/03/2013 What fuels Malcolm ’s interest in defending Scotland? Do his actions up to the final battle indicate that he ’s prepared to be King? Is he ambitious? What is the difference between him and Macbeth‚ if they’re after the same throne? Ambition: an earnest desire for some type of achievement or distinction‚ as power‚ honor‚ fame‚ or wealth‚ and the willingness to strive for its attainment. Mainly three themes: lady Macbeth‚ Macbeth‚ Malcom

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    feminist writers such as Spender‚ Deem‚ Stanworth and Delamont pointed to the sexism of the educational system that they claimed reflected the sexism of everyday life. In general‚ until the 1980s girls were usually offered a curriculum that prepared them for life in the home whereas boys were offered practical subjects such as woodwork and metal work or were encouraged to study academic subjects. Schoolbooks were written with the focus firmly on males. Even the common style of school uniform was masculine

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    In Pursuit of Unhappiness

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    READING SELECTIONS In Pursuit of Unhappiness By Darrin M. McMahon New York Times‚ December 29‚ 2005 1 “HAPPY New Year!” We seldom think of those words as an order. But in some respects that is what they are. 2 Doesn’t every American want to be happy? And don’t most Americans yearn‚ deep down‚ to be happy all of the time? The right laid out in our nation’s Declaration of Independence - to pursue happiness to our hearts’ content - is nowhere on better display than in the rites of

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    government should give more rights to immigrants. This essay will explain for and against the opinion about immigrants rights. First of all‚ proponents who think government should give more rights to immigrants think‚ that people do not want to leave their land but they had to do for protect themselves and people should respect them and give them more rights. On the other hand‚ opponents who think government should not give more rights to immigrants say that‚ immigrants refuge our country but Turkish

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    Pursuit of Happiness

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    the right to pursue happiness but not the right to happiness. That being said‚ folks in our society need to follow what pleases them. People in different areas of the world have various ideas of what makes them happy. It is true that money does not buy happiness. Normally humans are happy with just a few of the basic living attributes. To live a prosperous life of pleasure one must surround themselves with what promotes their happiness and well-being. There is a large variation of the definition

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