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The report, "To Do, To Have, or To Share: The Value of Experiences Over Material Possession," tells readers that happiness is more commonly found in experiences than in material goods, and it also says that people are happier in social experiences than solitary ones. This contradicts Scrooge because he lives in a state of denial in which he is "solitary as an oyster," and he believes he is happier this way, despite the provings of the article. This article deepens my knowledge of theme in a Christmas carol because it helps me realize that happiness truly cannot be achieved in the ways of Scrooge. This text shows that Scrooge's solitary and greedy behavior are what keeps him from happiness and breaking free from the shackles of those woes will ultimately make one happy in their lives.

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Research suggests that material things do not make people as happy as experiences do. The article "Buy Experiences, Not things" by James Hamblin agrees with research by showing happiness increases with experience more so than with material things. Scrooge has always been materialistic, Scrooge has always wanted more money and more things. Abundance equals success in Scrooge's mind. When traveling with the ghosts, Scrooge sees family fun and experiences he never had the chance to live through because he chose materials over feelings. Seeing the happiness he could have lived through brings him regret on the early choices he made in life. Hamblin's article mimics the theme of Christmas Carol by emphasizing happiness in relationships and close family bonding over happiness from wealth and success.

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What does the research tell us about happiness?
A lot of the articles stated stuff towards the lines that money affects people differently like some people don't need money to be happy and would rather be happy with no money where as some people would rather be with a lot of money because money makes them happy. The articles all had one thing in similar they all said something along the lines of the experiences or the material is what will really make you happy. Some said that money can't buy happiness and some said money can buy happiness

How do the central ideas in the two articles support and/or contradict what Scrooge is learning about life? Or about how he chose to live his life?
The way Scrooge is living contradicts to what scrooge is learning about life and how he choose to live his life because he didn't care about the experience all he cared about was the money. Scrooge let himself go because all he cared about was money. He could have had everything he could've ever needed but he just neglected it. I also believe that if scrooge only cared about money he sure sucks at spending it in a way that would make him happy.

How does information gained from the articles contribute to your understanding of the theme of A Christmas Carol?
The theme of the christmas carol is that anyone have happiness but most of the articles were stating that money can buy happiness. The articles made me second guess if the theme of The Christmas Carol might be, say old or outdated. Because what if your poor then you just don't get happiness no because you don't get all the benefits and extra experiences that someone would get if they could have whatever they wanted. I feel that it improves your understanding of the theme in The Christmas Carol.

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The research gathered from the articles tell that happiness can be gained from buying things like phones, computers, etc, but happiness can also be gained through experiences. The articles talk about how happiness that can be gained depends on  what social class your in or what type of personality you have. Lastly, the articles talk about how more people prefer actual experiences over buying material goods.

The central ideas from the articles support the lessons about life that Scrooge is learning because Scrooge is learning that you should always appreciate the little things, and the central ideas of both articles are that most people prefer to experience things rather than buy things. Scrooge lived originally thinking that money can buy or solve happiness, but this is very different from what the articles say. The articles talk of how people much rather enjoy the little things rather than the buying material goods.

The information gained from reading the articles contribute to understanding the theme of "A Christmas Carol" because the articles basically spell out the theme of "A Christmas Carol". The theme of "A Christmas Carol" is that money doesn't buy happiness. Scrooge had lived his life chasing after money, and over the years he became greedy, ignorant, and bitter. The spirits show him events which teach him the lesson that you don't need to have money to be happy. The articles help to understand this because the articles show that people much rather use their money to buy experiences for them and other people who they want to spend time with rather than spending their money on material goods.

The articles used were "Materialism=Happiness?" and "Money and happiness: What can make you happier, experiences or goods?"

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The research articles include information on how money affects different people in different ways. For example, people in the higher classes gain more happiness from experiential purchases, and people in the lower classes gain more happiness from material purchases. The article "Can Money Buy Happiness?" also includes a study saying how people with a home income of $75,000 or more, have a lower increase in happiness towards different purchases compared to those of a lower income. Scrooge is a filthy rich person, so the study can help reassure the reader on why he was so bitter towards the beginning of the book, because he was so rich that he didn't gain much joy from any of the purchases he has made. Although, Scrooge is learning to find joy in other things like friends and family, instead of money. Another point on why Scrooge had such a miserable life is because he barley chose to buy things with his money, so he rarely gained the joy of working and getting something in return. The texts help the reader analyze how Scrooge's life before the spirits was so miserable because he barely purchased anything, and since he's already so rich he doesn't gain much joy anyways. The themes of the research articles and "A Christmas Carol," are both the same in the sense money cannot buy happiness, where as Scrooge is a bitter and cold old man, despite him being filthy rich, and the people in the studies also not being as happy even though they're rich as well. So, these texts help the reader understand the theme money can't buy happiness, buy including studies done on other people to show how money can buy them short lived happiness but nothing in the long run.

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In the articles, it explains how objects don't affect your happiness, and you better remember experiences. The things you experience stick in your mind, and its proven to make you happier if you see and learn new things, other than just buying physical items. This also aligns with what Scrooge is being taught because even when you get materialistic things, they will not last forever. For example, he is greedy with his money.

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After researching the articles, "The Value of Experiences Over Material Possessions Depends on the Involvement of Others" and "Buy Experiences, Not Things" we see how happiness comes from experiences. Money may buy you experiences, but it cannot buy the feeling you get from those experiences. In a way you can put a price on things that can lead toward making you happy, but never on the feeling of joy that you get from them. These articles contribute to what Scrooge is learning from the spirits. Scrooge was an incredibly rich, business loving man. He has a lust for money. He thought that money is the most important thing in life and it can buy him anything. When the spirits started showing him all of the experiences he was missing out on he learned that money could not buy the things he was missing. Money could not buy the love and laughter going on in the Cratchit house. They had absolutely nothing, and yet they were happy. The little money they had could buy them things that could add on to the happiness, but the real feeling of happiness cost nothing.  In the articles they say that money can buy you happiness, having
experiences with other creates much more happiness. The information from the articles helped us understand that the moral of "A Christmas Carol" is that experiencing things with others brings happiness far more than money.

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Money cannot buy happiness forever. The researchers in the articles "What can make you happier, experiences and goods?" and "Materialism=Happiness?" all explain the differences between happiness during experiences and happiness with money. Scrooge is learning that family and friends are more important than money. However, money can buy you experiences to fuel your happiness and give you comfort. It also aligns with what Scrooge is learning because even though you can get materialistic things and experiences, they will not last forever. The articles continue to demonstrate Scrooge's original point of view by giving evidence that experiences produce greater happiness regardless of the amount spent.

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I think money can buy you happiness for a certain amount of time but not forever. From my own experience I can say that when I get something I  am happy at first but not for long. My dad's brother, or my uncle married a author. He also has a very successful dairy farm and they live in a mansion. The more time he works the more money he makes, but that isn't what he wants. They have worked hard for what they have but now he realized that he finds more joy in being with his wife and kids then working. He spends less time on his farm because having more money isn't what makes him happy. Now he spends most of his weekends with his family and makes less money, to have a happier life.

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What does the research tell us about happiness? Happiness is a function where the body releases endorphins, giving the person a feeling of joy. Happiness can be obtained by experience, objects, people, etc.

How do the central ideas in the two articles support and/or contradict what Scrooge is learning about life? Or about how he chose to live his life?

The article "Materialism=Happiness?" says that people of higher wealth have more resources and worry less about basic needs, and would much rather spend money on experiences rather than goods. Scrooge believes that you need to work for your money, not expect to have it given to you. He works non-stop and brings in a good bit of money. The articles contradicts Scrooge because he tries to make as much money as possible and only cares about materials, not experiences.

How does information gained from the articles contribute to your  understanding of the theme of A Christmas Carol? Do these texts share a common theme?

The theme of a Christmas Carol is that  happiness is something anyone can enjoy, social class and money are small factors. The articles on happiness show that a raise in salary creates happiness until $75,000 a year then it platows, and then giving to others creates happiness. The articles also show that no matter what socioeconomic class, people can find happiness in people and experiences. This is related to A Christmas Carol.

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The central ideas in the two articles appear to contradict what Scrooge is learning about life. In the article "Here's How Money Can Really Buy You Happiness," it's apparent that it's a sort of paradox. If you buy things to make you happy, the happiness only lasts so long, and so you must buy more to keep yourself happy. It is a constant circle. What Scrooge is learning is that money cannot buy you happiness, it is already around you. In the article "Can Money Really Buy Happiness?" explains that money can, in fact, buy you happiness. It does not last for quite a while though. Scrooge is learning that Christmas is everywhere. In the little things and the big things. When he sees the Cratchit family, all happy and joyful without much money, it has quite the impact on him and his values. In the article, it somewhat contradicts this thinking. That money can, in fact buy you happiness, but it only lasts for so long. So, in reality, it really is a paradox.

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I think that money doesn't buy happiness from my experience. If you get something you might be happy at first but after a little you won't be happy. My uncle was married and they had all the money in the world, but they weren't happy. No matter how much stuff they could buy they just weren't happy with each other. They got a divorce and now he is married again with someone that makes him happy, but they don't have the money that he had. That shows that money can't buy happiness because happiness doesn't revolve around the value of the things but on what they actually mean to you.

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The research tells us about happiness is that it can't really be bought with money. I mean you can buy things that make you happy or excited but once you get bored from that your happiness kinda goes away. i think central ideas does connect with what scrooge is learning throughout the book. Scrooge is learning how money doesn't buy happiness. Scrooge has alot of money but he isn't even happy himself. On the other hand people the are poor value the little things and are happy with what the have and are happy just being there with their family and friends. The information gathered from this article helps me understand that money doesn't buy happiness. Money buys things that may make you excited or happy for a little but but then you get bored and that happiness goes away.

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The articles we read tell us that money may bring us temporary happiness. Like Phones and toys and etc. While Activities or events we attend that we buy normally leave us with more happiness than material purchases. Scrooge has a ton of wealth but that doesn't lead him to be happy. As Well as Experiences lasting with us, when our mind thinks of randomness it mostly reminds of events we experienced. Maybe even bad events we experienced or a boring event, our minds still revert back to those while we think of events.

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Research has shown that experiences bring people more happiness than do possessions. This relates to scrooge because scrooge is very unhappy but he values possessions like money. Scrooge should really focus on the experiences that he never really gets. The spirits are trying to also teach him this. Scrooge values money which caused him to not be happy in life. The articles prove than money CAN NOT buy happiness.

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What does the research tell us about happiness?
In the article, "Materialism=Happiness?" the author talks about how material things can spark happiness for some people, but not everyone. Those of the high class find experiences to make them happier while those in lower class who need basic needs find material things better. In the article, "Can Money Buy Happiness? A Review of New Data" researchers say that money can buy money to a certain point. Wellbeing stops increasing once people reach an income of $75,000. However newer researchers say that wellbeing can rise over $75,000 per year. Their conclusion ended up being that incomes over 75,000 dollars buy life satisfaction, but not happiness. Scrooge learns that all of the money he makes will not give him happiness, being that he has always been very stingy and careful with his money. Since he is in the higher class, he wouldn't benefit from material possessions as much as he would have if he had been poorer. Scrooge can now realize that his money will never make him happy, being closer with family and being kind will make him happy. This information helps us understand the theme of "A Christmas Carol" because a theme could be that money will never help you be happier, and Scrooge experiences that.

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I sort of think that we should remember that happiness is a positive emotion coming from present circumstances. Joy is pretty much happiness not based on circumstances, rather based on something that doesn't change. I (personally) am convinced that people shouldn't be seeking happiness, but rather, joy. Money can't buy joy. I think you can get some happiness from money, but happiness doesn't compare to joy. The articles say that there is sort of an amount of money which makes most people satisfied and comfortable. But comfort and satisfaction isn't happiness. Happiness can come from the relaxation of not having to work like crazy to pay your bills. But whether you're working like crazy because you don't have enough money to get by, or whether you're a millionaire, your happiness/emotions fluctuate every hour.
Anyway, Scrooge is hopefully starting to learn that there are people around the world who aren't fixing their eyes on what they're gaining or losing. And these people are definitely more happy than he is. Again, these people are happy not because of their circumstances, but because they're together with their friends and family. I think that the articles slightly contradict this idea. They're focused on finding happiness through money and gain - not good things.

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The research articles can tell us that money can help with being happy, even for a temporary amount of time. Buying experiences often makes people more happy than buying material possessions. People in higher classes are happier when they buy experiences, but lower classes gain happiness from both experiences and material possessions. Scrooge chose to value money more than anything else, he lived his life seeking money and possessions. The articles state and prove that these things do not make people happy, going against how Scrooge lived. Just owning money and goods did not make him happy, he was a mean and miserly person. Bob Cratchit and his family were happy even though they were extremely poor, the experiences they had and the time they spent with family and friends were enough to make them happy. The articles we read and A Christmas Carol have similar themes in that money can not often buy people happiness, and living a life valuing money and possessions can lead someone down bad paths.

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Money cannot buy happiness. This is something we've been fed for as long as we can remember. However, the idea that money cannot buy happiness itself, but it can buy items that make us happy, isn't fully true, either. Experiences, rather than items, have been scientifically proven to make humans happier. So money can buy memories that make us happy? Also technically no. On that note, humans who have a higher income tend to be lower and sadder emotionally, then those is lower and middle class. However, despite that, the poor are still miserable, what's the middle ground? Well, it's been shown that people get happier when their income increases, to an extent. It's been proven that from an income of $10,000 per year, as their income increases their joy increases, until they reach an annual income of $75,000.
Scrooge has always reached out for more and more wealth, making him miserable. He's realizing how much money really means nothing regarding joy and his own happiness.

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The research from the articles "Buy Experiences, Not Things" and "The Value of Experiences Over Material Possessions Depends on the Involvement of Others" shows how happiness comes from experiences with other rather than with buying objects, like phones, for happiness. These ideas contribute to what Scrooge is learning because Scrooge was this rich, business loving man, but when the ghosts took him through his past and other peoples present Scrooge became extremely happy. Before the experiences with the Ghosts he was grim and sad, but when experiencing the scenes with the Ghosts he became very "gay" and happy. In the articles they say that money can buy you happiness, having experiences with other creates much more happiness. The information from the articles helps me understand that the theme of "A Christmas Carol" is that experiencing things with others brings happiness more than when your rich, have a good business, earning a ton of money, and spending that money on things you don't need.

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Research from Psychology Today shows that money can buy happiness depending on what you have to start with. If you don't have a lot of human necessities, than money could buy you happiness because you wouldn't have to worry about if you will have enough food to eat. This is the opposite for Scrooge because he has enough money to meet all his needs, but yet he is still unhappy. Sharing or giving you money to people in need might be the only way to buy happiness. If you help someone else out how might be in need of money to survive, than you helping them out would make you happy because you just saved someone from possible suffering, all because you were not selfish. If Scrooge would just give his money to others instead of being selfish, it would greatly affect how happy he will be. Giving to other people is the best way the "Buy Happiness" and make someone else's day better!

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Happiness cannot be always be bought from money. Studies show that after someone is making over $75k a year their happiness barely changes. In the article "Can Money Buy Happiness?" the author writes about how the spender can get a lot of happiness off of doing good and donating/giving money to more charitable people and things. These articles definitely have the same lesson as a Christmas Carol which is that money cannot buy you happiness. Scrooge is the definition of a person who chased money thinking it would make him very happy and he just now realized that it does not.

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The research tells us that money makes different people happier depending on social class, and what makes an individual happy. Money can bring you happiness depending on what you spend it on. You could use it to give to charity or you might blow it on things that you won't even use. This contradicts how Scrooge lives his life because he has plenty of money but won't give any away to charity or even to his hard working clerk, Bob. Bob works every single day, except he wants one day off for Christmas, and Scrooge gets upset because he doesn't want to give Bob free money even though he barely pays Bob. These articles contribute to the themes of Christmas Carol because it is proven that people who give money to others, live a happier life. These texts share a common theme because in The Christmas Carol Scrooge is greedy and doesn't give anything, and in the articles it has been proven that people who spend money on others, live a happier life than most.

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The research tells us that experiences and things can get us to be happy, even if it's for a short amount of time. The articles contradict what Scrooge thinks about money. Scrooge thinks he needs to save his money to be happy, while the articles said that you can spend money, as long as you spend it wisely. Scrooge chooses to live his life minimality, while most people choose to spend there money for comfort, while still having some left over. The articles help contribute to the understanding of the theme because having no money or lots of money doesn't mean you can't be happy.

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Happiness can depend on social classes,because being poor could be a stressful factor in someone's life. Scrooge is being shown that money can lead to ignorance and greediness. While in real life money can benefit someone happiness. Money can buy the poor food and shelter so it's not all bad. In the articles it did mention that people that strive to keep earning a large amount of money stat getting obsessed with the idea that money is everything and can get them everything.