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    Happiness is an immense feeling of joy‚ content‚ well-being and satisfaction when something positive happens or when there is a good outcome comes about in someone’s life. Some important things consider about happiness is that it does not need to be achieved by external factors such as wealth and status. These are temporary ways to happiness‚ where the happiness will not last. Instead‚ happiness can be found in other ways that can last longer. It can be found when building relationships with others

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    Charles Spurgeon once said‚ “It is not how much we have‚ but how much we enjoy‚ that makes happiness.” Happiness can be determined based on how much a neurotransmitter‚ such as a dopamine‚ in the brain is produced. It can be also defined as when one rewards oneself for their own achievements of their goals. There are many hardships especially throughout high school years - exams‚ GPAs and more. There are also times where I set my goal either really high or really low and many times I can’t reach

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    1.4 PERSONAL RESPONSE PRESENTATION PLANNING TEXT CHOSEN: _Pursuit of Happiness_Film THESIS: The _Pursuit of Happiness_‚ shows the idea of life as a journey. Accomplishing something is a joy but it isn’t the goal. The real joy and happiness someone receives is by the efforts that takes them to achieve that accomplishment. BRIEF OUTLINE: Never give up‚ unless you try You can achieve anything you want if you try hard enough and don’t let yourself down even when times get bad. Follow your dreams

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    Optimism is very important to a person’s physical and psychological well-being. Optimism can bring a person up when things appear down while optimism can also help a person get through the tougher times. Optimism can help a person be confident and hopeful in times when there appears to be no hope or it can be linked to depression among a few things. Many people have questioned if having optimism can help a cancer reddened person have hope or if optimism brings the person down when there is no help

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    Life‚ Liberty‚ and the pursuit of Happiness By Cyrus Datig Life‚ Liberty‚ and the pursuit of Happiness. These are the three famous words stated from The Declaration of Independence. To America hopefully these three things will be never forgotten. Same is said for The Declaration of Independence. I have two question for these three words and that is what are they and what do they mean. What is happiness and do we have it? Happiness is believed that it is the one thing that makes you smile. Now‚

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    Life‚ Liberty‚ and the Pursuit of Happiness Many people have different perspectives on what the words‚ “Life‚ Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness” mean. These three words actually do have many different meanings depending on who the person is. These words are natural rights that the thirteen colonies fought for in the Revolutionary War. The Declaration of Independence is a statement adopted by the Continental Congress that stated the thirteen American Colonies were separating from the British.

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    In class we watched the movie The Pursuit Of Happyness. We are discussing what Pursuit of happiness is in life and also in the movie. Also what achievement and attainment happened in the movie. And as well as what achievement is in life and attainment. There are many ways do discuss happiness. Happiness is state well being characterized by emotion ranging form contentment to intense joy. In the movie the pursuit of happiness Will Smith is left with his son and struggles to get by day to day with

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    The Psychological perspective of movie The Pursuit of Happiness An amazing movie‚ The Pursuit of Happiness illustrates through the examples of Chris Gardener ’s life that anyone has the opportunity to achieve their own pursuit of happiness‚ if they have self-motivation and determination. Happiness is not something that can be pursued. We already have all the capacity for happiness that we need. Happiness comes from within‚ and from being content with oneself. People can choose to be happy or choose

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    that all humans have in common is the pursuit of happiness. Everyone aspires to be happy in some aspect of their lives. Happiness is not always easy‚ but it is important. There are multiple factors that can contribute to how content people are or can be with their lives. Everyone acquires different methods in their search for happiness‚ because every individual is unique in their own way. However‚ some keys that may assist individuals in achieving happiness include taking chances and recognizing

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    The essay‚ ‘Computer and the Pursuit of Happiness‚’ written by David Gelernter‚ deals with the influence of the computer and internet on individual and on the society. In this essay‚ Gelernter addresses three questions/ issues: - Whether thanks to Computers and the Internet‚ we are now living in a new information age? Gelernter‚ addresses that we are not living in a new information age and computers and the Internet do not represent a revolutionary development in human history except in science

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