Once More with Feeling

happiness? If you were to ask 100 people what makes them happy, you would get 100 different answers. We all see happiness in many unique ways. Happiness, according to the dictionary, is a feeling of pure bliss that comes from your soul. If it’s just a feeling, how can we achieve this warm and tingling feeling everyone sees to talk about? Scientist would respond that happiness involves chemical process in the brain that makes you happy. Others would say that money is driving factor that makes us…

regrets, loving others, and to express one 's emotions. One of Morrie 's first teaching was on accepting regrets and to not hold a grudge. Morrie’s opinion on regrets was that he has once held a grudge with one of his old friends and once his friend died Morrie felt regret of not saying sorry to his friend from once he died from cancer. A example of some wise words of Morrie is “The culture doesn 't encourage you to think about such things until you’re about to die” (Albom 64). I agree that…

In the chapter The Ghost Soldiers O’brien writes about his experiences as a wounded soldier in the war. He mentions being shot twice, once in the side and once in the butt. As O’brien tells his stories you can notice a significance in which injury was the hardest for him to deal with. When he got shot the first time in the side, the field Medic Rat Kiley got to him almost immediately and tended to his wounds. The second time he was shot there was a new medic, named Bobby Jorgenson and O’brien…

they aren’t afraid and how they have the guts to go on with such fear striking things. Once these people get older, it is not so satisfying once they become more mature in their mind and have different priorities in life (562). They just enjoy the feeling anymore like they did in their youth. The hangings provided the same kind of thrill people would get from watching these films.…

For the final week of the abstinence exercise, I felt very confident that I would be able to continue to resist eating large amounts of sugar in my diet after the abstinence exercise had ended. I felt very proud of the progress I had made, and I felt very grateful for the support I had received from friends and family throughout my experience. I was also very excited that I would now be able to indulge in some sugar and feel confident that I would not revert back to the unhealthy amount of…

followers to see, Once Tyler saw what his roommate had done he simply posted “Jumping off GW Bridge sorry.” On Facebook, and with that he took his life. Teen suicide has become more prevalent throughout the years. With teens feeling hopeless, lost, scared, and worthless they turn to suicide because they feel like as if there’s no other way out. If we were to get informed about the warning signs, causes, and maybe some facts about it, then together we can all work to prevent more teens from…

meant to cause changes psychologically and alter mood or feeling, recreational drugs are taken by people as forms of enjoyment and do so in order to get a feeling of euphoria referred to as a “high.” More times than not these drugs are extremely dangerous and harmful to one’s self but are taken regardless even when knowing the many dangers they pose. In my personal experience I have participated in taking the illegal substance Marijuana or more commonly referred to by several names such as weed,…

When he spoke to his men, he wanted them to be brave and fight as hard as humanly possible. He spoke with such passion, inspiration, and power that people had to listen. The use of syntax pulls you in. The diction he uses makes him feel more relatable. And the feelings he invokes with the use of Pathos are incredible. These are the things that make Patton’s speech such a memorable one. Patton’s sentence…

she goes through various of feelings; love is one of them. Robert A. Heinlein once said: “Love is that condition in which happiness of another person is essential to your own.” Love is a feeling that means different to each person because everyone experiences it differently. According to Merriam-Webster Dictionary, love is a feeling of strong or constant affection for a person. Love is an intense feeling that shows physical and emotional affection to someone; this feeling can be seen in a form…

although divorce statistics are not as high as once believed, it is still a present outcome. But what specifically causes marriages to end? There are various studies that point the finger towards certain actions such as racing to the altar, money troubles, infidelity, and lack of communication. All of which, have been common factors in why a marriage reaches its final boiling point. Before getting into the topics of lack of money and communication once someone is married, one has to analyze…