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I love math so much but i get scared but i love math more than all the subjects.

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Math makes me happy all the time even theirs a test

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Math makes me feel joy and some time nerves

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some times I get nervous before I have a test.by Nico

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by Gianluca.math makes me nerv

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Math makes me feel nervous and scared only a bit

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Math makes me happy but it can also a little bit hard:)

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Mathamatics makes me feel happy .  by Tushar Sasankan Sanal                

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Mathamatics makes me feel happy .  by Tushar Sasankan Sanal                

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math is sOo fUN aAThMigAa

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math make me feel happy

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By Bano Ali.

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math makes me feel happy when I do division angelo 

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math makes me feel happy when I do division angelo 

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Lilliana,

Math makes me feel happy

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math makes me feel excited

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Overview... a vivacious leader. Joy is one of the five emotions that control a preteen girl named Riley. Because of her sunny disposition, she establishes herself as the cheery leader of her co-workers, Fear, Anger, Disgust, and Sadness. Joy absolutely adores her job and strives to ensure every single moment of Riley's life is filled with happiness.

Personality... a literal ray of sunshine. Joy radiates happiness that glows around her at all times; she's peppy, upbeat, and optimistic. But while she thinks of herself as a people person, she grows easily frustrated with anyone who doesn't share her worldview. She's happiest when she's in charge, and she's confident that her way is always the right way.

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Please enable Javascript and hit the button below! try again! Overview... a vivacious leader. Joy is one of the five emotions that control a preteen girl named Riley. Because of her sunny disposition, she establishes herself as the cheery leader of her co-workers, Fear, Anger, Disgust, and Sadness.

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Joy

"All right, everyone, fresh start. We are going to have a good day, which will turn into a good week, which will turn into a good year, which turns into a good life!"

-Joy, feeling enthusiastic about Riley's future.

Joy is the main character of . She is the yellow Emotion and the main Emotion out of the five that live inside the mind of Riley Andersen with the others being Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness. She appears to be happy all the time and full of energy.

Amy Poehler describes her as follows: "Joy is the engine. She keeps everyone moving and happy. She represents the parts of Riley that are starting to change and become more complicated, and she is reluctant to let that change happen. She may be the most positive, but in many ways, she is the least flexible."

"Joy's goal has always been to make sure Riley stays happy. She is lighthearted, optimistic, and determined to find the fun in every situation. Joy sees challenges in Riley's life as opportunities, and the less happy moments as hiccups on the way back to something great. As long as Riley is happy, so is Joy."

When Riley is born, Joy is the first Emotion to materialize inside her mind. Joy finds contentment in this moment, whereas she was alone with Riley. However, starting just 33 seconds after her is Sadness, and from then on, other Emotions materialize. Nevertheless, Joy remains Riley's main Emotion, making almost all of Riley's memories joyful, including the five core memories that power the Islands of Personality. It is a time composed of "perfect days" for Joy. Joy eventually recognizes a function to each of the other Emotions, with the exception of Sadness, of whom she finds does not do any good for Riley. Because of this, she often distracts Sadness to get her away from the controls.

This all changes when Riley turns 11, and her family makes a move to San Francisco. Joy tries to keep things positive, but Riley's new situation appears less than thrilling. In this unfamiliar situation, Joy sees Riley's other Emotions suddenly become more prominent. What's more, Sadness gains the ability to turn previously joyful memories sad. Thinking Sadness is the last thing Riley needs in these difficult times, Joy keeps her away from the control panel more than ever, and forbids her from touching any memory.

The other Emotions begin to question whether Joy should still be taking the lead, considering that Riley's situation is definitively negative. But after Riley's mother thanks Riley for being happy, Joy appears as being the right emotion after all. As Riley goes to sleep, Joy takes over dream duty, but to her dismay, Dream Productions made a nightmare out of all the negative things that happened that day. Despite knowing that she's not supposed to turn off the dream, Joy does so, and plays a happy memory where Riley is skating with her family.

The next day is Riley's first day at her new school. Joy gives every Emotion a job except Sadness, which she entrusts of staying aside. When Riley is asked to present herself to the class, Joy takes things in charge. However, the joyful memory from Minnesota that Joy recalls unexpectedly turns sad, being touched by Sadness. In the ensuing confusion, Sadness takes command of the console, without Joys' consent, and has Riley end up crying, which creates a new, sad core memory. Joy, panic stricken by the turn of the events, prevents the core memory from being used. She activates the memory evacuation system to dispose of it, but Sadness opposes herself to it. Things go haywire and all of Riley's core memories end up accidentally sucked out of Headquarters, along with Joy and Sadness.

Joy and Sadness, completely lost, are alarmed to see that without the core memories, all of Riley's Islands of Personality are down, and that in Joy's absence, Riley cannot be happy. Joy collects the core memories, and heads to Goofball Island, in hopes of reaching Headquarters through it. However, the island crumbles down, and Joy and Sadness narrowly escape. Their only choice then, is to venture into the maze-like Long Term Memory, to find another way. Joy then recruits Sadness as her "map", as the latters' knowledge from the Mind Manuals comes in handy to navigate the maze.

However, the night goes by, and the two are still lost, until they come across Bing Bong, Riley's long-forgotten imaginary friend. Bing Bong, more than happy to help them, proposes that they take the Train of Thought, which goes directly to Headquarters. Joy finds Bing Bong way more enjoyable than Sadness and follows his lead. However, Bing Bongs' childish ignorance brings them to Abstract Thought, which turns out to be extremely dangerous, only barely escaping. Following this close-call, Joy then understands she can't follow Bing Bong with a blind confidence, and that Sadness' advice is valuable.

Onward, Joy is thrilled to visit Imagination Land, but she is disgusted by the newly-formed Imaginary Boyfriend Generator, and is shocked to see more childish aspects being taken down. Bing Bong is moreso affected when his own rocket wagon is thrown into the Memory Dump. Joy tries to cheer him up by acting goofy, but her actions are in vain. Sadness then approaches Bing Bong, and gets him to express his grief tearfully. Joy is annoyed at first, but is confused when Bing Bong is comforted as a result.

The trio finally reaches the Train of Thought, only to find out that it doesn't run during night. The trio then head to Dream Productions to try to wake Riley up. Joy tries to take the lead, suggesting that they make Riley happy to wake her up, but it is only when she takes in Sadness' advice to scare her instead, that they succeed. They do so by freeing, from the Subconscious, Rileys' worst fear, Jangles the Clown. Now riding the running train, Joy acknowledges that Sadness can have good ideas, and gives her encouraging words.

However, the train is destroyed as Honesty Island crumbles. However, another way back to Headquarters presents itself, when a large recall tube is exposed in the destruction of a small section of Long-term Memory. Approaching the recall tube, Joy then realizes that Sadness cannot get in without touching the core memories, thus turning them sad. After some hesitation, Joy makes the decision to leave Sadness behind, stating that "Riley needs to be happy,", and closes the tube on herself. Unfortunately, though, the further crumbling of Family Island breaks the tube, and Joy plummets into the Memory Dump, along with Bing Bong.

With all hope of escape seemingly lost, Joy despairs as she reflects on Riley's fading childhood memories, contrasting them with the sad core memory, of which she sees as a failure of her efforts to make Riley happy. This pushes her into crying (something no one would expect her to do). However, in her tearful mourning, Joy comes across a joyful memory she had collected earlier. She realizes that the memory had a sad beginning (one of her tears fell on it and she wiped it off, rewinding it to the start), and that this sadness was what led to joy emerging shortly afterwards. Joy then has the revelation, that Sadness, is a key to Riley's happiness.

Her determination reinvigorated, Joy has the idea to use Bing Bong's wagon to rocket themselves out of the dump. However, Bing Bong and Joy can't get high enough, no matter how hard they sing. Bing Bong asks that they try again, and this time, he jumps off, sacrificing himself to make the wagon lighter. Joy successfully reaches the surface, and only then does she realize what had to happen to allow such success. She peers back into the Dump, catching eye of a rapidly-fading, though cheering, Bing Bong. Bing Bong then pleads tearfully that Joy would 'take Riley to the moon' for him as he failed to do so selflessly. Joy is saddened with this unexpected loss and tells Bing Bong, that she will try.

Then, after a moment of searching for Sadness through remembrance of Sadness' past moves (as in, turning all of the memory orbs on the bottom rack sad,), she finds Sadness, who flees her-----having come to the conclusion that she is harmful to Riley. In all urgency, Joy resorts to making a good number of imaginary boyfriends from Imagination Land, putting them all in Bing Bongs' carrying sack he had handed her. Joy then gets close to the crumbling Family Island, and turns the carrying sack upside-down, leading to her making an extremely tall ladder of imaginary boyfriends. Joy barely keeps balance with the imaginary boyfriends ladder, and only in seeing Sadness aligning with Headquarters on her cloud, does she permit the imaginary boyfriends to fall towards the trampoline on Family Island. Joy lands, and ricochets, off of the trampoline, grabbing Sadness from atop her cloud, telling her to "Hang on!". Although, hilariously, the impact of Joy, and Sadness, hitting the Headquarters' window isn't enough, and Joy almost plummets back into the Memory Dump, prevented only by Sadness, whom had grabbed the ledge with her right hand, and the strings of Joys' carrying sack, with her left. The other Emotions inside Headquarters quarrel with how to get them in, especially Anger and Disgust. The latter, seeing Angers' head flames as a hopeful tool, enrages him by making fun of him, making Angers' head flame flare accordingly. Disgust then dons a welding mask, heaves Anger sideways, and burns a giant hole in the Headquarters window, where Joy, and Sadness, are barely hanging on to the ledge below. Disgust and Fear, pull up Joy and Sadness, and explain the situation in garbled speech, as everybody was talking at once.

Much to the surprise of the other Emotions, Joy entrusts Sadness with making Riley, who is running away from home, and out of control, come to her senses and go back home. Sadness succeeds to doing so and gets her to express her feelings to her parents who are worried sick. Joy then hands over Riley's childhood core memories to Sadness, letting them turn sad and making Riley admit that she misses Minnesota, which brings her parents to hug her for comfort. Joy, as means to compensate for her earlier treatment of Sadness, offers her the sad core memory she had created much earlier. Instead of using it, however, Sadness brings Joy to the console, and they create a new, mixed, core memory, of which is both joyful and sad, which remakes Family Island into a stronger form.

Much later, as Riley turns 12, Joy remains in place as Rileys' leading Emotion, but the others now also have their own place on the new, larger, upgraded console. The islands that were previously destroyed, had been largely remade, and a lot of other, new islands, had materialized since then also. Joy then ends this whole adventure at a hockey game. Riley had retried for, and made, the San Francisco junior-hockey team some time earlier, and was competing with the opposing team.

Joy then asks "What could happen?".

Joy is smart, boisterous, hyperactive, exuberant, outgoing and fiercely optimistic. The smallest spark of positivity makes her burst with excitement. She always sees the good in everything, which, on the flip side, causes her to be somewhat oblivious to the other, sad aspect of things. She is not insensitive to negative emotions; for instance, the destruction of Riley's Islands of Personality does bring sorrow to her; but her positive nature leads her to quickly push those feelings aside, refrain from being sad or angry, and think positive instead. Since on the contrary, Sadness is compelled to see the negative aspect of things, the two have completely different outlooks on the events of Riley's life.

Joy loves Riley, and feels a special bond as the first emotion that materialized in her mind. She wishes that Riley would be always happy and considers that for this to be, Riley must be nothing but joyful. She became a leader figure for the other Emotions, who looked up to her, trusting her to know what Riley needs. At the same time, Joy tried to bury down Sadness because she represented the exact opposite of her. She does try to be supportive to Sadness, but often ends up demeaning and patronizing her because ultimately, Sadness seems to be a hopeless case to Joy. She sees no helpful function to her, and thus, actively tries to minimize Sadness' actions. And when pushed to the edge, she was ready to leave Sadness behind.

When Riley turns 11 and her life begins to change, Joy is terrified that the other emotions become more prominent, as she sees all the work she has done being destroyed; and when Riley ends up forming a sad core memory, it appears to her as a sign of utter failure. Over the course of her journey through Riley's mind, Joy comes to understand that growing up is inevitable, that to be truly happy Riley needs all of her emotions, and that she was holding Riley back by trying to suppress them. She realizes that she is meant to work not against Sadness, but in pair with her.

Joy has light amber skin, sky-blue hair in a pixie cut and large azure blue eyes. She wears a light chartreuse summer dress adorned with blue flower-like motifs and is the only emotion not wearing pants or shoes, but her barefeet do not have toes. She is surrounded by a blue halo and emits a bright, golden light, which is brighter than any of the other emotions.

According to Pete Docter, her appearance is based on that of a star/burst of energy. This can be seen in Abstract Thought, as during the fourth stage, Joy and Sadness were reduced to a single shape and color - Joy was a yellow star, Sadness was a blue teardrop, and Bing Bong was a pink triangle.
Also, Joy is the first Pixar main character that lives within a human being.

There are several things that make Joy stand out from the other Emotions:

She is the only Emotion not wearing pants or shoes.

She is the only Emotion without a shadow due to constantly glowing.

In her final design, Joy's costume originally consisted of blue overalls (and that can be seen in early versions of the film in deleted scenes and concept art). But with the change of the version and the story, her attire became the characteristic lime-colored summer dress that she wears in the film.
This is because the creative team sought to steer clear of stereotypical "girly" interests, such as the color pink or dresses. Ironically, she ended up wearing said garment in the final version.

Joy was the most complex character to write as she illustrates a wide range of "happy feelings." And the creators had a hard time getting the tone right for the movie.

In early stages of development, Joy was going to be the main source of narrative tension as she wouldn't let Riley grow up.
Kevin Nolting said they changed the character arc as "the essence of the problem was, Joy wasn't likable, She was putting Riley in embarrassing situations; Riley was in middle school, but Joy was making her act like a child. As an audience member, you weren't rooting for Joy."

Throughout the movie, Joy experiences all five basic emotions; joy being her main outlook, anger toward Sadness's actions and the TripleDent Gum commercial, disgust toward the imaginary boyfriend, fear in the Subconscious, and finally sadness in the Memory Dump.

Joy is born out of pure light - no parents, no upbringing, she just appears, as all the other Emotions do, although they were unseen when doing so.

Joy has a habit of talking to herself, as seen when she told herself that she has a nice dress and when she was mimicking Sadness in order to find her.

Joy and Fear were originally supposed to get lost in Long-Term Memory, but Fear was later replaced by Sadness.

Her favorite personality island is Goofball Island.

Joy's appearance takes inspiration from the famous actress Audrey Hepburn.

In the trailer, Joy says, "Come on, group hug!", a reference to Anchor's quote from Finding Nemo.

Joy and Sadness currently do Meet and Greets at Epcot's Character Spot at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida.

Joy's voice actress, Amy Poehler, now judges the new 2018 NBC show Making It.

The soundtrack that plays during Joy's tearful reminiscing is called "Tears of Joy."
Not only is the title used as a pun, but it's also ironic since "tears of joy" means to tear up from happiness, but Joy was crying from pure sorrow.

Joy emits four light beams of different colors: blue, purple, white, and gold, unlike other emotions, which emit only one. Interestingly, these colors are used as "good colors" worn by traditional Disney Heroes in the Disney Classics.

In , Joy's name is implied in one of the snack brands sold at The Fireplace. This brand is called "SparkJoy", a pastiche of the "Wrigley's Spearmint" gum brand, at first glance. The reason for this double reference is because Inside Out 2 is the next film to be released.

Joy is the first character in the Inside Out franchise to be promoted by McDonald's, as the first film had previously been promoted by Subway as a bag set; while the rest of the Emotions, as well as the Subconscious Guards Frank and Dave, would be included in the toy set promoting the second film.

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All right, everyone, fresh start. We are going to have a good day, which will turn into a good week, which will turn into a good year, which turns into a good life!Joy, feeling enthusiastic about Riley's future. Joy is the main character of Inside Out.

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Math makes me feel a bit anxious

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Math makes me feel a bit anxious but it is okay.

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Math is one of my favourite subjects:).

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Math makes me feel nervous.

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Math makes my feel happy.

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Math makes me feel really very happy FOLARIN !!!

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Math makes me feel really very happy FOLARIN !!!

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Math make me feel happy

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Math makes me feel happy and it makes me feel happy especially when I am doing long division.