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    much thought on your own happiness. Discard one’s focus on happiness, and one should be able to achieve pleasure just by enjoying life experiences. Mill’s views on happiness are arguably good reasonings on achieving happiness because helping others is proven to be beneficial to your own happiness and disregarding happiness is good because the enjoyable moments in life are already enough

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    consumed. Moreover, the bottom of the ad states, "MAKE HISTORY" which correlates with how the bourbon is "extra-aged." In other words, the ad is suggesting that consumers should make memories with Jim Beam; life is not all about work but also to create memories, have fun, and live life because life is short. The ad attempts to convey a good message when in hindsight it is capitalizing on the consumer's needs and

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    feelings affect daily life all over the world. The Science of Happiness is the advanced research on happiness and its causes, effects, and purpose in human life. The history of the Science of Happiness has happened over 2,500 years. During that period of time, theories have changed. Early on, philosophers such as Aristotle, Socrates, and Confucius said that happiness was based on "virtuous action" (Aristotle), such as feeling good after doing a righteous deed. Or in another

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    As I understood and learned, the maze was a way of life. However, Max helped me realize the maze was more of a situation, an attitude and ultimately a mindset that holds us back. Areas that I agreed with and enjoyed seeing in the book was the collective effort put forward by the characters. Zed and Max spoke to one another, and respectfully listened to one another’s thoughts and opinions on the maze. Another point that I highly enjoyed reading was the team work between Big and Max when Big threw

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    My career path for dietetics was led by my passion for disease prevention at one of the most crucial stages of human development - childhood. My curiosity with chronic non-communicable diseases began the following years after the death of both my grandmothers due to type 2 diabetes and stomach cancer. At a young age, I began to incline myself to biology in which my interest grew further for nutrition epidemiology, nutrigenetics and nutrigenomics. The fact that our diet interacts with our genes has

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    is a likely chance of not being able to live a life in a successful and happy way without it. Education helps to develop a personal opinion of the world, it can also expand many mandatory skills. Obviously, education also gives the knowledge of many things. Knowledge is power, without knowledge, what is the alphabet? What are numbers? What is mathematics? The effect of not knowing any basic knowledge about many subjects has a big impact in daily life. If a person without disabilities can’t do the

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    media, reflection, physical activity, time outdoors, and friends. In addition, the researchers also wanted to determine and clarify how leisure routine activities and attitudes influenced happiness at different life stages. To determine the influence of routine activities at different life stage, Bailey et al. (2016) sampled a student group and an alumni group (from the same university). The student group fell into Erik Erikson’s adolescent and young adult stages of development, identity versus role

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    perseverance. All of these are opportunities to connect with Lance Armstrong’s motivational statement regarding perseverance. If we take this and learn from it, we are likely to experience success in our own lives. When connecting perseverance to our personal lives, we can see success through perseverance in our careers. When the average person starts working, whether it be at a fast food chain or a job in their chosen line of work, they typically do not begin at the highest position, they start at the

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    to accomplish and experience each moment in our lives, but we need to realize everything we go through in our life time leads to a purpose in the future. Although I’m not satisfied with the decisions I have been making, in five years, I will have a better health; better attitude toured myself, better education, and being more independent. Although I have been running for most of my life; it has made me feel accomplished and willing to realize how great my future lifestyle will be. I will be ready

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    in America to surpass their former social status and further their success (Walker). “America's free-enterprise system makes possible the circumstances that allow individuals to go beyond meeting their basic needs to achieve self-actualization and personal fulfillment,” which proves that America’s society makes it easier for one to find prosperity (Walker). Furthermore, success can be “achieved through sacrifice, risk-taking and hard work not by chance” and people have “worked hard in a business or

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