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that happiness is equal to what we have (attainments) divided by what we want (aspirations). As stated by Diener, “This formula makes sense. It means that it doesn’t so much if you make $20,000 a year or $100,000, if you drive a new BMW or an old Chevrolet, what matters more is that your income is sufficient for your desires” (170). What Diener and Biswas-Diener is trying to say is that money doesn’t affect happiness, it’s one’s aspirations. Someone can make $200,000 a year but if that person’s…

winning of the race and by the last lap I was on pins and needles. Gordon held off Rusty Wallace; a seasoned veteran of the sport, for a win of a little more than three seconds. As fireworks exploded in the background, Jeff drove his multi-colored Chevrolet Lumina into victory lane. Although I was tired from watching the race that lasted more than four hours I stayed in my seat to watch the winning celebration. As champagne was sprayed Jeff emerged from his rainbow themed racing machine. He…

The mission of Tesla Motors is to accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable energy (Tesla Inc. 2016). Initially, Tesla’s mission statement focused on acceleration to ‘sustainable transport’ but the updated mission statement mission statement to ‘sustainable energy’ implies the shift in the organization’s business to a new direction, addressing renewable energy opportunities in the market (Hines 2016). Tesla’s mission statement can be broken down into three simple components: sustainable…

Route 66, yet Amy did not seem to notice this slight drift. I leaned my head against the window to get a glance at the scenery around us when the screech of tires sounded next to our car. I looked up to see our car glide towards a black midnight Chevrolet pick-up truck at 69 mph. Amy yanked the wheel to the right in a final attempt to swerve out of the way, but it was no use, our car had already…

The Situation Jack Solomon’s essay titled Masters of Desire: The culture of American Advertising was written in 1988. This piece is currently in the book Signs of Life in the USA which was edited by Sonia Maasik and Jack Solomon. This book was published in 2015 by Bedford/St. Martin’s. Jack Solomon is an English Professor at California State University, Northridge. In this essay Solomon examines the effect advertisement and advisors have on the American Dream. He started off with the paradox of…

My company selection is General Motors which comes under automobile industry. With respect to market structure, a consumer goods industry such as automobile industry is differentiated oligopolies. Oligopolies are more than one player similar to monopolies have just very few players in this auto industry co-operate to the monopoly level. Market structure that best characterizes the company you are evaluating When there are only few large competitors exists and each competitor is sensitive to the…

My Grandpa, Gary Hardin My grandpa, Gary Hardin, is one of the military veterans in my life who I am close to and likes to tell stories of the past. He was drafted for the army young and missed the birth of his first child. The hardest thing about being in the military, according to him, was being away from his family. My grandfather is still a big family man with a loving heart. He was born on January 28th, 1950 in Greenville, SC. Born to Ethel Jane Wilson and Jack Warren Hardin, he was…

The United States was forced to deal with a greater amount of terrorism as time passed and as it become an imperialistic power and threatened the security of several countries with its dominance. The most recent and most memorable act of terrorism in the United States occurred on September 11, 2001 when the twin towers were destroyed and more than 3,000 Americans were killed. Terrorism has also occurred on a smaller scale in the United States under the guise of domestic terrorism. Despite the…

The man who was convicted of the murder of Mr. Sasson was 18-year-old Kash Register. On April 6, 1979 in the middle of the afternoon, a 78-year-old white man by the name of Jack Sasson was found by his wife, Reene, gunned down in his blue Chevrolet in front of his house in West Los Angles. Mr. Sasson died three weeks later from five close range gunshot wounds. The two eyewitnesses were 18-year-old Brenda Anderson and 31-year-old Elliot Singleton…

Jesus’ Son Book Review Jesus’ Son is a novel written by Denis Johnson. The genre is Fiction. It is 133 pages long and is about 14 dollars. This novel was published in 1992. This book is a novel full of different short stories that make up the chapters. The narrator is an unknown drug user that is just shifting us through different incidents that he has either witnessed or been a part of. There is no exact theme, in my opinion. Each chapter has a different story to tell with one thing in common;…