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Wednesday, April 26, 2017
Hope
Friday, March 17, 2017
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
In the short story "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" it talks about how perfect life is in this place, how everything is perfect and based of happiness. Everyone that lives there is happy and joyful all the time. But there is one flaw in the society, a little boy in a basement/ cell like room where he is fed only a bowl of cornmeal so he is starving to death, he has no clothes so hes naked, and also he has to live in his own waste. it is terrible living conditions and everyone in Omelas knows about this boy that lives in the cage.He is also shown off to anyone that wishes to see him.People also are not allowed to talk to him and he himself cant really talk. He is there to show the citizens of Omelas that how precious and important happiness is and not take it for granted. Also shows how ruthless justice can be.People didn't want to rescue the boy because they were afraid it would end the happiness in Omelas. Some people in Omelas didn't like what they saw with the little boy and left and never came back. This is like our society and homeless people in many ways. When they see a homeless person on the street most people didn't want to them or even look at them and just like everyone is living a comfortable and happy life they are living in misery trying to find their next meal. The boy in Omelas is similar in our society to a homeless person from living situation, food wise, and people not really talking to them.
Thursday, March 9, 2017
Social Injustice
In the ted talk " A prosecutor's vision for a better justice system" by Adam Foss he explains how people can help not judge others based on their upbringings/ surroundings. Foss discussed that teenagers have a high percentage of committing a crime, and getting away with it. Foss talks about how the teenager does not really have a voice to speak up for them either. He also talks about how another huge factor that comes into play is the race card. Judges are more likely to have a different outcome on the situation or a different though process if the person on trial is either black,brown, or white. Also how kids who live in poverty are more likely to commit a crime such as stealing or burglary. This is very unfortunate because it takes away from their education and what they can become in the future.In these poverty areas education is bad because students don't have the interest to learn, good teachers go to good schools to teach, and many kids feel its a waste of time. This social injustice of racial profiling and education has gone on forever and many have not payed attention to it because this truth is alarming and terrible.
Friday, February 3, 2017
How to buy happiness
Thursday, January 26, 2017
The Surprising Science of Happiness
Gilbert in his TED talk "The surprising Science of Happiness" talks about synthetic happiness and natural/real happiness.He claims that synthetic happiness is the same as real happiness if not better because you can create your own happiness at any time. He explains this is also due to the fact that our brains have something called a pre-frontal cortex which allows people to create scenarios and experiences before they actually happen. Gilbert backs his claim by talking about studies done with paintings at a university. They showed that people got a painting that wasn't there favorite one were not really happy with it but after a while they became in love with it and started to lie it and this is was due to them creating a synthetic happiness.
This is very shocking and eye opening because we simulate happiness all the time without thinking about it. for example when we think about food when we are hungry , the taste, the smell , and the feel makes people joyful and happy because there hungry. Also when we think about going on a trip somewhere people get happy just thinking about how great it's going to be. synthetic happiness is in my opinion the same because its happiness, synthetic or real its happiness. They both put a smile on your face and that's all that matters.This shows that putting yourself in a "happy place" will make you feel better or picturing something/someone that brings you happiness will make you happy without them being there at the moment.Overall there isn't that much of a difference between real and synthetic happiness, in fact synthetic happiness might even be better.
This is very shocking and eye opening because we simulate happiness all the time without thinking about it. for example when we think about food when we are hungry , the taste, the smell , and the feel makes people joyful and happy because there hungry. Also when we think about going on a trip somewhere people get happy just thinking about how great it's going to be. synthetic happiness is in my opinion the same because its happiness, synthetic or real its happiness. They both put a smile on your face and that's all that matters.This shows that putting yourself in a "happy place" will make you feel better or picturing something/someone that brings you happiness will make you happy without them being there at the moment.Overall there isn't that much of a difference between real and synthetic happiness, in fact synthetic happiness might even be better.
Wednesday, January 11, 2017
Happiness
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