{"id":36009,"date":"2024-10-25T18:52:53","date_gmt":"2024-10-25T18:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/the-happiness-trail-the-pill-social-media-and-your-friends-start-this-assignment-early\/"},"modified":"2024-10-25T18:52:53","modified_gmt":"2024-10-25T18:52:53","slug":"the-happiness-trail-the-pill-social-media-and-your-friends-start-this-assignment-early","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/the-happiness-trail-the-pill-social-media-and-your-friends-start-this-assignment-early\/","title":{"rendered":"The Happiness Trail &#8211; The Pill, Social Media, and Your Friends &#8211; START THIS ASSIGNMENT EARLY!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Get started early on this Growth Period so your friends have time to reflect and get back with you!<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Reflect<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 25px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">On page 10 in your textbook it states: \u201cYou cannot inhale, drink, or smoke happiness. You cannot buy it, wear it, drive it, swallow it, inject it, or travel to it.\u201d But let&#8217;s pretend for a moment that you could swallow something, such as a pill, that would make you<span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">INDEFINITELY<\/strong><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span>happy. Assuming there is only one side effect\u2014the loss of other emotions such as surprise, disgust, anger, fear, and sadness\u2014would you do it? Provide a detailed explanation of why or why not. Write a minimum of 100 words, and include your word count.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Take Action<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol style=\"margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 25px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Scientific research on happiness has made a clear association between a sense of belonging (connection to others) and the experience of happiness. Ask at least two people about their viewpoint on how social media such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, or even texting can contribute to or detract from a genuine sense of connection and belonging. Share their responses, and your analysis of their contributions.<br style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><br style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Ask at least two friends, co-workers, or acquaintances to (a) contemplate ways of generating authentic happiness on an individual level, and (b) discuss how cultivating happiness on an individual level could contribute to the quality of society. Share their responses, and your analysis of their contributions.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get started early on this Growth Period so your friends have time to reflect and get back with you! Reflect On page 10 in your textbook it states: \u201cYou cannot inhale, drink, or smoke happiness. You cannot buy it, wear it, drive it, swallow it, inject it, or travel to it.\u201d But let&#8217;s pretend for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[7],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/36009"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/36009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=36009"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=36009"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=36009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}