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The Truth of Happiness

 

Project Description:

 

In this unit, we Were to look at videos read books and articles of stubby's of happiness why? Because the man question of this unit was What is Happiness? What does it truly mean to be happy? We learn what affects happiness how happiness affects you as a person why organization and equality can also take away happiness and that the answer to being happy isn’t black and white.

   The Identity

  of   

 Happiness

My Annotated Bibliography:

Sarah O’Kane

Bibliography

Section 1

2-6-18

Class Citations:

 

Citation:

Belic, Roko, director. Happy. 2013.

 

Summary:

In The movie Happy It Show that being happy isn’t affected by you wealth if your basic human needs have been meeting. It is shown a number of time explaining that people with more money who spend it on them self-have reported to be less content with their lives were as people who live modestly report to be happier of chores this isn’t the only thing that contributes to being happy. 50% of is happiness comes from genetics.Are situation or social placement only makes up 10% leveling 40% unaccounted for? Boonen is a big factor as to make us happy it’s a chemical that is released into are Neurotransmitters that give us the emotion called happiness a way to increase the amount of bone that is Neurotransmitters are taking in is to do aerobic exercise or doing a sport contently that we enjoy. In the movie there's this feeling that they explain as the flow and people who experience this on a daily basis are happier than those who don’t. All the happiest people that they found had close family and friends showing that this is a very important fact in life is that being happier also increases you likeness to work better with people and that also has an effect on other people around you make them treat you better this is going on as a train reaction.

 

Assessment:

This source contained a lot of information. I got a lot of information. This was a great way to start getting information on happiness.I agreed with a lot of the movie being that they had a lot of evidence that supported what it was showing and saying.


 

Reflection:

The source was strange and explained a lot about happiness.

 

Evidence

  • Genetics make up 50% of happiness

  • Unknown 40%

  • Happiest people have close family and friends

 

Citation: Smith, Emily Esfahani. “There's More to Life Than Being Happy.” The Atlantic, Atlantic Media Company, 9 Jan. 2013, www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/01/theres-more-to-life-than-being-happy/266805/.

Summary: In this Article by Emily Esfahani It talks about how happiness is harder to increase when f the purpose in the individual's life is found making them feel responsible and puts them under more stress, therefore, affecting their happiness. Another thing that this article talked about was that pursuing happiness won’t work efficiently because you would be so focused on pursuing it that you would be trying to four happiness but people who are trying to find happiness are making the emotion appear but not true happiness. One o the more constant topics the article talks about is the “taker” and “giver”  wish is the people who give to be happy vs the people who buy things to make them happy. The giver tends to be happier than the taker.

 

Assessment: This source was strongly supported by college studies and a psychologist. I did see that the psychologist was in a concentration camp with a probability that the effects of the traumatic event could have affected the way he views happiness.

 

Reflection: Personally I had some different views on the article. One of the biggest topics of this article that I disagree with is the part where they say you can only be a taker or a giver but I believe that you can give to people and treat yourself out and be happy.

 

Evidence:

  • 4 out of 10 Americans have not discovered a satisfying life purpose.

  • Forty percent either do not think their lives have a clear sense of purpose or are neutral about whether their lives have the purpose.

  • Nearly a quarter of Americans feel neutral or do not have a strong sense of what makes their lives meaningful.

 

 

Citation: Light, Richard J. “How to Live Wisely.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 21 Dec. 2017, mobile.nytimes.com/2015/08/02/education/edlife/how-to-live-wisely.html?referrer=.

 

Summary: In this article, it explains that this professor gives the project to the students every year and question happiness.

 

Assessment: This article did tell me that there was a question that he asked his student every year. They would study it.

Reflection: Not a very useful source that didn’t examine what it has to do with happiness.  Nor, did it explain how this affects other people.

 

Evidence:

  • On my campus, Harvard, a small group of faculty members and deans created a noncredit seminar called “Reflecting on Your Life.” The format is simple: three 90-minute discussion sessions for groups of 12 first-year students, led by faculty members, advisers or deans.

  • Well over 100 students participate each year.

 

Citation: Rimer, Sara. “Happiness & Health.” Harvard T.H Chan School of Public Health, Harvard, 2011, www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/magazine/happiness-stress-heart-disease/.

 

Summary:  In this article, they cover multiple topics not only the topic of happiness but what stress and anxiety can do to your body how it affects your lifestyle your habits and of course your health. The most interesting thing that I’ve found about this article is the relationship of the heart and happiness.

 

Assessment: This article was very useful and interesting I believe I will dig deeper into this topic of the connection between the hearts health and happiness.

 

Reflection: This source was strong and very useful to me.

Evidence:

  • A vast scientific literature has detailed how negative emotions harm the body. Serious, sustained stress or fear can alter biological systems in a way that, over time, adds up to “wear and tear” and, eventually, illnesses such as heart disease, stroke, and diabetes.

  • Chronic anger and anxiety can disrupt cardiac function by changing the heart’s electrical stability, hastening atherosclerosis, and increasing systemic inflammation.

 

 

Personal Citations:

 

Citation: Boyles, Salynn. “Study: Happiness Good for the Heart.” Web MD, WebMD Health News, 17 Feb. 2010, www.webmd.com/heart-disease/news/20100217/study-happiness-good-heart#1.

 

Summary:

In this article, they explain that the more anxiety, depression, stress , and any other negative emotions can higher your risk for  heart disease. Where as happiness, contentment, and enthusiasm can lower your heart risk. The people who are happy constantly are 22% lower likely to develop a heart disease. It also explains being happy doesn't fully protect your heart. This article also talks about three different types of lifestyles  The Healthier lifestyle, Physiological impact, and the Genetic Influences.

 

Assessment: This article made me think about how when you stress your blood pressure goes up which would explain why happiness affects your heart. This made me think  of people who have Alexithymia wouldn’t be affected by happiness would only be affected by genetics. Which gave me a theroye what if are genetics are the foundation to are the happiness which would make happiness is a pyramid.

 

Reflection: This source was strong and made me question if happiness isn’t really mostly genetics.

 

Evidence:

  • Just as negative emotions such as depression, anger, and hostility are risk factors for heart attack and stroke, happiness seems to protect the heart.

  • This was the finding from a large study that examined the impact of positive personality traits like happiness, contentment, and enthusiasm on heart disease risk.


 

 

Citation:  Newman, Kira M. “Six Ways Happiness Is Good for Your Health.” Greater Good, 28 July 2015, greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/six_ways_happiness_is_good_for_your_health.

 

Summary: In this article, they explain that happiness helps your blood pressure, cancer, strengthens the immune system, overcomes stress, and lengthens life.prevents blood clotting. It also cover what studies were done to so this is true.

 

Assessment: I took a lot from this site Like how i can help prevent blood clots.

 

Reflection:

Very strong  source held very useful information.

 

Evidence:

  • In the study, participants rated their happiness over 30 times in one day and then again three years later. The initially happiest participants had a lower heart rate on follow-up (about six beats slower per minute), and the happiest participants during the follow-up had better blood pressure.


 

 

Citation: FLYTHE, MICHELLE. “The Biology of Happiness.” Greater Good, 1 Mar. 2005, greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/the_biology_of_happiness.

 

Summary: In this article, they explain why happiness affects your heart bing stress makes you blood pressure go up and your happiness make it go down which can help with stress this also decreases the plasma in your blood which is connected to heart disease. It also binges up that binging happy can help people with type two diabetes.

 

Assessment: This article heald some information i had but it had only a little more  knowledge that i didn’t receive from the previous two sites.

 

Reflection:

This reachech was really strong but most of the information i already had that was contained in the previous two sites so i didn’t take as much from it as other may.

 

Evidence:

  • ages 45-59, to rate their levels of happiness over a workday and a leisure day, and monitored their blood pressure and heart rate regularly.

  • Volunteers also gave saliva samples and completed a mental stress test. Study results showed that people with higher happiness ratings not only had a lower heart rate, but also had lower levels in their saliva of cortisol, a hormone associated with stress, and less concentration in their blood of a plasma that’s connected to heart disease.

 

 

Citation :“Humor Helps Your Heart? How?” Humor Helps Your Heart? How?, American Heart Association, 5 Apr. 2015, www.heart.org/HEARTORG/HealthyLiving/Humor-helps-your-heart-How_UCM_447039_Article.jsp#.Wn3BS56nGEs.

Summary: This article was short but conceded some new information for example the effects of one laugh can last up to one day. People who are low risk for heart diseases are 40% more likely to laugh then people at normal risk. It cover how humor helps you body which is different but related to happiness.

 

Assessment: This sources was useful and held different information the the previous articles which was nice seeing how something related to happiness take effect.

 

Reflection: This source was strong but short being only a page long.

 

Evidence:

  • A bonus with laughter is that its effects have been found to last 24 hours, she said. That’s a good reason to laugh every day.

  • The risk of heart disease increases in depressed post-menopausal women, Dr. Steinbaum said. She pointed to research indicating people with heart disease are 40 percent less likely to laugh than people without it.

 

 

Happiness Experiments:

Sarah O’Kane

Happiness Experiment

 

Hypothesis:

If I Meditate every for 30 minutes every day my positive energy well increases do to the fact of recognizing what i feel and adjust my life to solve this problem also recording it could be useful to look back upon.

 

Procedures

I will use a table recording my happiness before the meditation and after recorded in my happiness -10 ~ 10  being -10 as very depressed 10 being Thinking I could never be happier buy the end of the week i will add up my datas from before and after Seeing if Meditation has

Increased my happiness. This table well as also include what may have affected my happiness.

 

 

 

Reflection

 

What have you discovered your truth of happiness is?

 

I have personally feel like my personal happiness comes from the comfort of knowing that I can support and take care of myself. Turely Looking back my happiest moment were based of self accomplishment and me knowing I could do it and something that also brought this to my attention was how proud my friends and family were for me not holding me back but pushing me forward.One instance in my life that i remember being truly happy is when I learned that I was a finalist in a summer program called ms2 I knew that i was the one who did the test and used what i learned to advance in this position and that work was me giving me confidence this also happened at regionals science fair in 6th grade and regionals history day in 8th grade when i got the job at boys and girls club as peer leaders when i won my first basketball game when i won a volleyball game for the first time all this thing are because i completed something strange and did it with passion and heart just knowing i can do things on my own makes me feel very accomplished and alive.

 

What was your greatest challenge you face in this project and how did you work through it ?

The greatest challenge I face was making up and trying to keep up with the class in work because i was sick for a lot of class time we ended up talking and figuring out how to handle the workload because humanities wasn’t the only classed i missed and it did seem overwhelming and so it really help knowing that my teachers were there to support me and i think the biggest thing that  stood out about this project for me is in this unit it really showed me what kind of school animas is. It’s not just a school the staff and community really do care about you and how you feel and what you have to say. So throughout this project i found myself and it really showed me how much i can enjoy my school and feel like i fit here.

 

How have you grown as a group worker in this project ?If you did this individually,

Why did you choose to and how did this choice impact your project ?

I choose to work alone because i was really into how happiness affect you health and know else was as into it as me i really want to share that happiness affect the heart because it reminded me of kindergarten and how we would cut out the little hearts saying that that's where happiness and love come from and the fact that heart health and happiness are actually connected felt like something we could all connect with and see that being happy isn’t just being happy it is actually living it can affect you life and i think that this made my project mean more to me and helped me connect to this project. I feel as if this project helped me find out what makes me happy and see peoples as not just people but unique individuals with there own story to tell.

 

If you could refine your project , think back through the enter project , Brave New world through experiments to videos, what would you refine, and how would you refine it?

 

If i could refine this project i think i would do a better audio for the video just to make at audience feel unique more connected and get people to walk away say to themselves who i never just stop to take in me who i am and how much i love that about me give the dance a chance to reflect and ask hacking the wrong question is who am i and where is my happiness  to different questions with the same answer? And just make them see they can be anything they want to be.

Sarah O’Kane

Project Reflection

Section 1

12-7-12

How I did Change and How I Will Change

 

I learned a lot about this topics and identity groups because before i read the articles and books about socialization and the impact it has on us i did see a lot of judgement being that the color of my skin and gender aren’t considered to be agent and I act pretty modest so unless you talked to me or really got to know me you wouldn’t think that I was middle class or if i was religious so most people would just think I am mostly  in the target groups. So I really didn’t notice that i was not really in a target group i started noticing it in the fifth or fourth grade being i switched to a private school with all white kid except maybe three kids in my grade. Even then i am a really accepting person so i just ignored it and through this project i guess it open a lot of people's eyes yes there are some things i would change in this project but’ i know if i did i wouldn't have learned something that i could improve on in the next exhibition.

 

I know that I grew as a writer because at first, I knew was a tea paragraph was but not really how to make it flow and then so I wrote on paper like how I wanted to originally write about race gender and how the community effects. While I was writing my second draft I change the first draft to make more sense but then I wasn’t really connecting. On the third draft, I used more evidence and connected to the writing. I had Sara edit it. I changed it and reworded some sentences. Then I had a final edit by one of my peers and after I made changes to that paper and then turned it in. After I turned it in I realized that I forgot the masks paragraph.  

 

My greatest take away is that we are under the pressure of society we act and change to fit in with in our community. The only way to do something is as a community to stop it. As  in my essay, i explain that we can not go past are limits if society holds us back from achieving.What i learned from my mask and essay is that your work can always improve your work.

 

I have grown as a project work by learning how to manage and organize a big project like this.That was the great thing about being a project manager you can help all the groups and see how an event is set up.

As a group member, I made a poster came organized the classes original ideas happed with the bakes sale, helped clear the hallway so that it looked nicer and had more room. I work to origins and helped groups stay on track and find more way to raise money and publicize. The group i was working with were the project managers the most important part of being a project manager's group is communication. If i could change my project in any way i would write my paragraph and use the sharpie to refine my mask.

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