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For the lucky people who received a winning ticket, here's some steps to follow to ensure that your happiness will be assured:

- Spend time and money doing small donations and helping the community
- Hire a financial planner so that the amount of money wouldn't be overwhelming
- Spend time with family and friends
- Exercise and be "in the zone" when doing hobbies
- Meditate or continue religious practices

Overall stay connected with the people you care about and your inner self and don't let greed overtake you.

Katy

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Gatsby is trying to create happiness in his life by “Dispensing starlight to casual moths” he is trying to fill the void and emptiness that Daisy left, when she chose Tom instead of him by throwing huge and lavish parties at his big mansion. People of all time periods can learn a lot from Gatsby’s failures. Gatsby desperately wanted something he could never and would never have. He could never turn back time and be born into wealth or relive the past by having Daisy love him again. As humans we always desire everything that we can't have it’s simply in our nature. Gatsby was a very unhappy man because he has made happiness his goal. Daisy was wealth and wealth was happiness. We cannot think of happiness as a goal, we have to perceive it as a good outcome of a goal we've been striving for. At the end of the day, happiness is just a feeling that comes and goes and Gatsby didn't understand that. Maybe if he focused less on how to get that happiness and focused more on being and feeling happy he wouldn't have the outcome that he did.
~Valeriya

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Some things that have proven to make people happy are:
- Religion if it focuses on connection
- Social interaction, cooperation and bonding is important for human beings

- Empathy makes people feel happy
- Intentional Compassion Meditation
- Acts of kindness
- Exercise/ living an active life
~Valeriya

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Abraham Shakespeare
He won $30 million in 2009. A short time later he was befriended by a man named DeeDee Moore who in 2012 killed Shakespeare. Shakespeare's brother Robert Brown said that after winning the lottery, Shakespeare kept saying "'I'd have been better off broke'" (Chan).

Sandra Hayes
She won $224 million at a Missouri lottery and split up the money with a dozen coworkers. She wrote the book, How Winning the Lottery Changed My Life, in which she talks about her close family and friends which tried to use her for the money she had won.

Richard Lustig
He won the lottery seven times now and when asked how the lottery changed his life he stated, "'I’ve been rich and I’ve been poor, and I like rich a whole lot better. We’ve lived in big, fancy houses. I drive a Jaguar. We’ve gone on cruises. I can’t complain'” (Chan). Lustig is one of the few exceptions of lottery winners. He claimed that hiring a financial planner and a financial accountant helped him manage the large sum of money.

Katy

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"DENMARK IS WORLD’S ‘HAPPIEST COUNTRY’ AND BURUNDI ‘THE LEAST HAPPY’."Tribune International. N.p., 18 Mar. 2016. Web.

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- 50% of our happiness is defined by genetics
-  40% intentional activity and socialization (family/friend relationships, nature)
- 10% is circumstance (social status, money, etc)
- Unfortunately most people focus on the category which brings 10% of happiness

Katy

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I believe the American Dream is not the path to lasting happiness because 'The American Dream' is just an ideal goal one makes up in their minds, usually that goal is dreamy like and aimed very high. A lot of that that goal is the vision to be stable and successful financially so it brings no actual feelings of happiness in the long run.
~Valeriya

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The countries/ cultures that have the happiest populations would be Denmark and Bhutan because they maximize happiness for its people. Denmark is known as the happiest country in the world for its social quality, free education, free healthcare for life, and co housing communities.
~Valeriya