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    that could be used to buy many things. One of these things money can buy is happiness. According to a Harvard professor, money can only buy happiness if you know what to do with that money. Things like TVs and phones can only bring limited happiness and will not last forever. Spending money on others can also bring happiness to a person. Giving others money and having the sense that you helped someone else and also made them happy is another reason how money can buy happiness. Also being surrounded

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    Is happiness so cheap that you can buy it with money? Economics have proved that money cannot buy happiness by performing an experiment in which they used a scenario which describe that United States average income increased. People who say they are very happy has not increased which shows that higher income does not tells you how happy you are and does not gives you guarantee for your happiness in future (Lee 385). Absolute money does not define our happiness we only get happy if our income is better

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    In the article Does Money Buy Happiness? author Robert Easterlin discusses happiness, and what contributes and detracts from it. He also addresses the socio-economic paradigms that are of great influence to happiness, and of course, the correlation between happiness and the income of individuals and the correlation between happiness and the income of an entire country. Easterlin takes data from various sources to support the claims in his article. One point that I found particularly intriguing from

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    Money is powerful in the sense that it can buy things. There are many things, materialistic and non-materialistic that people need for their satisfaction for which they risk their lives so that they can live a satisfied and blissful life. On the other hand, money may buy you happiness up to a certain level, but there are a number of other factors that have a more influential impact on the happiness of any individual, for example marriage. However, marriage again depends on money for the arrangements

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    Money Can Buy Happiness Everyone wants to live a happy life. Even those people that hate everything about everyone. The trick is how to get that wanted happiness. Is money a way to achieve this happiness? People, philosophers, professors, and ordinary, everyday people have been pondering this age-old question about the relationship between money and happiness and if money can buy happiness for a very long time. Much research and many surveys have been asked and performed by excited researchers

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    are happy for just a few hours by taking a nap, others can find happiness by in a day by going shopping and some who inherit money can be happy for a year. In the Webster dictionary happy is defined as "feeling pleasure and enjoyment because of your life, situation, etc." Many people believe that having money will get them the pleasure and enjoyment in life that will make them feel happy. They think that money can buy them happiness. This may be true but money can also brings stress, it consumes

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    Money Can Buy Happiness By MP Dunleavey Prepared by: Julie Ann Guancia Submitted to: Anne Mien  In the book “Money can buy Happiness” tells about spending money on important and substantial things that bring us long lasting happiness. It provide some helpful information and tips which can be applied in our daily living. If you want to find out how to put together the most of your money in order to get a good and happy life (good return on investment). This book also creates awareness of how

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    The essay “Does Money Buy Happiness?” by Don Peck and Ross Douthat which was originally published as the January/February 2003 issue of the Atlantic discusses how wealthier countries are happier than non wealthy countries, with some exceptions. In paragraph 2, Peck and Douthat wrote the claim as “Money does buy happiness-but only to a point” (332) and justifies by using Robert E. Lane’s argument and charts to support their claim (use of logos). In paragraph 3-4, the authors made assumptions by saying

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    Money Can Buy Happiness   Most of us are familiar with the old adage, “Money can’t buy happiness,” but few question the validity of the statement and its meaning.  The debate: ‘Can money buy you happiness?’ is a spirited debate that has been argued since currency came about.  There are those that side with the popular saying and argue that money has no relation to an individual’s happiness.  Those in support of the expression, “money can’t buy happiness,” state the claim that true happiness stems from

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    “People who try to buy their way to happiness are often disappointed.” The reason for this is because you can’t buy happiness it comes from your family, the people around you and your physical surroundings. Some people try to buy themselves happiness and at some point in time they may be happy but it eventually does backfire on them because in the end no matter what money can’t buy you happiness. Happiness is something that takes effort and only comes if you are living the life that you have dreamed

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