The Joy By Zadie Smith Rhetorical Analysis

Hearing your baby's heartbeat for this first time can be a life changing experience for any parent. For author, editor, and father, Brian Doyle had a somewhat different experience. His son Liam was born only three chambers, which is one less chamber than the average human has. In order to learn more about how the heart works, Doyle gives us a fact filled essay called “Joyas Voladoras” which translates to flying jewels. A jewel is very delicate, just like the humming bird. Throughout his essay he informs us about the hummingbird’s heart as a whole. In order to do this Doyle uses unconventional writing techniques to help connect his overall concept.

Throughout “Joyas Voladores”, a imaginative literature, Brian Doyle uses descriptive language, metaphors and imagery to get his point across. He compares humans to animals and animals to one another. By doing this, he illustrates how all living creatures may seem so different, but they all have at least one organism in common; the heart.

Nozick briefly discusses the nature of pleasure, as it is clearly an important element of happiness. There are pleasures of the body and mind, as well as pleasures of the emotion. They are all valued for their felt quality that what they have in common That is what a pleasure is, and is different from something like Equality, which is not valued for good feelings , but pleasure is something valued for its felt qualities.

“How ironic --- he waged war against the English for ten long years and then died in his bed like anyone else” (Dumas 2). Dantes was speaking to Monsieur Morrel about Captain Leclere’s death. I took a particular liking to this quote because no matter who we are or what we do in life, we all end up in the same place. “Joy sometimes has a strange effect: it can oppress us almost as much as sorrow” (Dumas 18). Dantes said this to Danglars and Caderousse.

In the essay Joyas Voladoras written by Brian Doyle, Doyle focuses on one of the most amazing organs in a living species’ body; the heart. The heart is a muscular organ that that pumps blood and provides circulation. Without a functioning heart, one cannot live. In his essay Doyle writes, “Every creature on earth has approximately two billion heartbeats to spend in a lifetime. You can spend them slowly, like a tortoise, and live to be one hundred years old, or you can spend them fast, like a hummingbird, and live to be two years old.” People can live their lives slow and long, or fast and youthfully. Doyle refers to hummingbirds as flying jewels. Here Doyle is connecting to his audience. Human beings can connect to this quote

As Kupperman states, although “happiness” and pleasure are used interchangeably, there is a distinct difference between the two. While pleasure has a direct source of its joy to an object and is typically short lasted at a time, happiness is a general feeling one has over a time period whether it is a season or lifetime. Someone could be happy with only few pleasures or even have experience great pleasure and still lack a positive feeling for life. People would like to experience more “pleasure” if it had the same enjoyed circumstances as before. Kupperman says to determine the most valuable life; it can either be viewed as one with the most pleasure or with the most utility (pleasure minus pain).

In “A Balanced Psychology and a Full Life,” Seligman, Parks, and Steen simply define happiness with three key components — “pleasure, engagement, and meaning” — yet it is such a broad definition. People hold different standards of pleasure, engagement, and meaning that define their own true happiness. Happiness is immeasurable. Y___ pointed out that Valerie was “at war with the size of her body, her desire to smoke

Florence Kelley a social worker and reformer that is against child labor, she pours out her deepest and inner-most feelings towards child labor. Kelley tried using different methods to convince the audience to end child labor, she uses a strong tone, repeats words, tries to make people feel guilty with the words she use and it was all to send out a message. In Kelley’s speech she made sure the audience knew who and what she was talking about, she continuously repeats the word “children” and makes sure to add their age right after by doing so she knew it would affect the audience, after all it was to a National Women Suffrage Association, meaning the audience would mainly be women. Stereotypically women tend to be the emotional and easily

Many feel that pleasure is a way for people to express their feelings in a way that is animalistic or savage. Krista Lysack, author of Come Buy, Come Buy, has a different interpretation as to what pleasure is. She views pleasure as simply “that which exceeds the norms of usefulness,” not as a greedy grab for something one desires. Pleasure is not something that really needs to be justified or explained because it possesses value within itself. Explaining why you get pleasure from specific objects or tasks is something that seems very difficult to do, other than saying that you do it because you like it. Lysack later goes on to theorize that shopping becomes less and less about what is useful, and more about what allows us to be distracted and entertained. Pleasure to her is a state of being that is anything but stagnant and instead moves around to a variety of different areas. People’s interests are bound to change over a lifetime as few people at age twenty are likely to get the same joy from tasks they performed when they were five.

“In our time together, you claimed a special place in my heart, one I’ll carry with me forever and that no one could ever replace.”-Nicholas Sparks (Dear John).

Brave New World, a dystopian novel by Aldous Huxley, is about a society that gives into pleasure to form a happy society. The society functions on the idea that everyone is happy because no one denies themselves the things that give pleasure, such as drugs and sex. However, hinging the entire structure on such an abstract concepts of happiness is dangerous and scary. Researchers today still don’t know everything they would like to about happiness health. Although there is a science to happiness, a societal happiness is a much more complicated concept than Huxley imagines.

Pleasure and Happiness are prominent themes in Herman Hesse’s Siddhartha and David Grene’s translation of The History. Both texts emphasize the struggle the characters Siddhartha and Croesus has between these two very different concepts, in an attempt to show the audience the true path to “the good life. Pleasure can be defined as the temporary state of enjoyment that is caused by self-indulgence and instant gratification; happiness is an enduring feeling of inner satisfaction with one’s state of being in spite of outward circumstances. Though initially Siddhartha and Croesus confused pleasure with happiness, they ultimately discovered that true happiness far outlives the fleeting nature of pleasure. When looking at the moral of these stories,

Everyone seems to find the joy of life in different things. In the article “The Joy of Less” lyer tries to prove to the reader happiness comes small amounts of materialistic items. For example, I find joy within others. Bonding time and a good laugh put me in my happiest state. There are millions of ways people find their happiness, and lyer uses multiple examples which support his reasoning to find happiness.

The qualitative differences between pleasures apply to me and my personal life experience, a main reason is because I have chose to dislike cats without having a wholesome understanding. I chose to not like them

One example of pleasure is I am proud after I get a perfect score on my math test. My parents buy me a teddy bear for a present. One example for happiness is I can spend a time with my family. All of my family members cares about my feeling and they are willing to support me after I decide to do