the time. Today‚ positive psychology believes that emotions‚ such as anger and sadness‚ are harmful to a person’s life overall‚ but people need emotions to express themselves fully and protect themselves from harm. In Susan David’s article “Don’t Worry Be Gloomy‚” she reports on how negative emotions can actually be good emotions because afterward‚ people can be happier than before. In Sharon Begley’s article “Happiness: Enough Already‚” she remarks on how sadness is actually good for the human body
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Recently‚ Individual Visit Scheme (IVS) has become a controversial topic in Hong Kong. Online forums‚ newspapers and magazines are weighing the pros and cons of the scheme every day. Undoubtedly‚ it boosts the Hong Kong tourism. However‚ it has led to several drawbacks to Hong Kong in resource allocation‚ culture differentiation and livelihood. To commence with‚ for resource allocation‚ IVS greatly makes the distribution of resources in Hong Kong become chaotic. After the implementation of IVS‚
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Life is full of ups and downs. Laughter helps to keep us cheerful. ’A laugh a day keeps worries away’ is a maxim one should believe in. A hearty laugh will help you cope with the pressures in life. It will improve your social skills and of course‚ make you look younger. Scientists are actively advocating laughter therapy as a medicine to combat problems related to the mind. The stress of modern life has cost us our laughter. Cut-throat competition and undue pressures result in stress-related
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In “ What Should We Worry About‚” Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner talk about how humans beings are more afraid of the known instead of being scared of the important risks that are unknown. I understand Levitt and Dubner’s point but I disagree. I do not consider the known risks to be scary. I do fear the unknown‚ things like breast cancer‚ heart disease‚ and any form of viruses that can lead to severe sickness or death. These are things that could cause my loved ones and me great pain and
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STOP LOSING SLEEP OVER MONEY WORRIES You can quickly build tremendous streams of income resulting in a continuous money machine you can rely on‚ if you follow this prudent approach. Just develop and implement multiple marketing concepts – have them all happen at once so that one efficiently feeds the other. Test and compare one strategy with another‚ improve what is working and throw out what does not work and then move on to another technique. Far too many business owners are unwilling to
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Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner’s article‚ “SuperFreakonomics: What Should You Worry About?” is a piece that explains what we as humans worry about that aren’t as big of a deal as we think. Levitt and Dubner claim that we are terrible at assessing risk and that we focus more on things like shark attacks and lightning strikes versus things like heart disease which has a more likely chance of doing harm to us. Economics is a key term that they use to explain how we can assess the risks that
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* Write a 350- to 700-word paper in which you investigate the interrelationship between culture and the visual entertainment media‚ such as television and film. Include answers to the following questions: • In what ways have various forms of visual entertainment media shaped American culture and its values? Media has evolved constantly in the last century. There is a new source or outlet of media being invented. Our nation has moved from newspapers and radio broadcasts to internet and cell
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STRUCTURE 3 FINAL ASSIGNMENT MAKING A DISCUSSION ESSAY SHOULD WE WORRY ABOUT NUCLEAR POWER? By: MIFTAHUL JANNAH/ 12273/ 09 K1 ENGLISH DEPARTMENT STATE UNIVERSITY OF PADANG 2011 A. OUTLINE ESSAY SHOULD WE WORRY ABOUT NUCLEAR POWER? 1. Thesis Energy crisis has been important issue recently. Because of the environmental effect‚ the decrease amount of fuel oil‚ and the rapidly population growth‚ we have to find out new energy resources. One of new potential energy resources
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In modern life‚ one has to face many critical problems. Global warming is the most controversial problem. It is not also scientific problem but also common problem because it affects our lives directly. In recent researches‚ scientists have proved that global temperature raised 0.60C ± 0.2oC from 1901 to 2000 and 0.74oC ± 0.150C from 1956 to 2005‚ so the rising temperature in the world has mostly happened for the recent 50 years. According many scientific researches‚ global temperature increases
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Do you worry about what people say? Around the world‚ a lot of people worry about what others say or think of them‚ but‚ what’s the reason whereby people think a lot about what others say? So‚ according to different references‚ people want to be liked and accepted‚ and in that roll‚ it’s very important what people say about them. But‚ what’s the impact of be worry about what people say? … We’ll see that. Caring about what people say of you it’s normal because it means that you respect the different
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