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]]> 2019-09-23 13:28:54 UTC https://padlet.com/shazrin/o76q5z1d7uuk/wish/388155063 Expository Essay ( Happiness ) shazrin https://padlet.com/shazrin/o76q5z1d7uuk/wish/391150171 1   What makes a person happy? (If people want to be happy—and few people proclaim their desire to be sad—should they seek money and professional success? Many experts in fields such as sociology, psychology, and public policy are attempting to answer this seemingly simple question of what makes people happy and how communities,social organizations, and employers can facilitate happiness by implementing a few simple strategies.
In this new field of happiness studies,some intriguing answers are beginning to emerge about what makes people happy. Surprisingly, they support the longstanding hypothesisthat money cannot buy happiness.
2   One of the chief obstacles to happiness is referred to as social comparison. When people compare themselves to other people, they
prefer to see themselves as in some way superior. In an experiment, socialscientists asked whether people would prefer earning $50,000 per year
while their peers earned $25,000 per year, or whether they would prefer earning $100,000 per year while their peers averaged $250,000 per year.
Even though people would earn more in the latter scenario, most chose the former as a consequence of their desire to see themselves as more
successful than others (Layard, 2005). In addition , a simple way to increase happiness is for people to reject the urge to compare themselves
to others based on their finances and to live within their means.
3   Another way to increase people’s sense of personal happiness is for them to be true to themselves and keep their personal sense
of integrity. While this advice may seem rather trite, people who respect and follow their authentic desires generally report being happier than people
who do not. As Martin (2012) explains,“At its core, authenticity implies discovering and pursuing what we care about most deeply.” He further
explains the reciprocal relationship between happiness and authenticity:“As much as authenticity contributes to the pursuit of happiness, then, happiness in turn contributes to identifying our authentic selves” (p. 55). When people
limit their personal desires in order to obtain certain goals, they may achieve greater financial success but actually end up unhappier.
4   Therefore ,sometimes people benefit from social rules that encourage them to improve their lives, even when these laws cost more money. While few people enjoy paying taxes, some taxes make people happier because they improve the overall quality of people’s lives. In their study of smoking and cigarette taxes, Gruber and Mullainathan (2006) conclude that“taxes may affect the happiness of former smokers (by making it easier to resist the temptation to resume smoking) or prospective smokers (by making it easierto never start smoking in the first place)” (p. 139).This
example demonstrates how a society’s rules can lead to the general happiness of its populations, even through the apparently negative practice of
increased taxation. Taxes also contribute to the funds available for other social purposes, which proves furtherjustification for their use.
5   These are merely three ways that scholars of happiness studies have determined that people can employ to enhance their personal happiness.
People should avoid comparing themselves to others financially. They should seek to live as their authentic selves in their personal and professional lives. Furthermore , they should welcome rules, laws, and even taxes that increase the general happiness of the population. Everyone says
they want to be happy, and happiness studies are helping people learn how to lead happier lives rather than to passively expect happiness to find them.


References
Gruber, J., & Mullainathan, S. (2006). Do Cigarette Taxes Make Smokers
Happier?. In Yew-Kwang Ng & Lok Sang Ho (Eds.), Happiness and
public policy: Theory, case studies, and implications (pp.109–146).
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Layard, R. (2005). Happiness: Lessons from a new science. New York: Penguin.
Martin,M.(2012).Happiness and the good life. Oxford: Oxford University Press.


QUESTIONS

(1) Type of Expository Essay : Cause - Effects Essay

(2) Topic Sentences of the essay : In this new field of happiness studies,some intriguing answers are beginning to emerge about what makes people happy.

(3) Thesis Statement for the essay : Everyone says they want to be happy, and happiness studies are helping people learn how to lead happier lives rather than to passively expect happiness to find them. ]]> 2019-09-30 05:01:00 UTC https://padlet.com/shazrin/o76q5z1d7uuk/wish/391150171 Negative Effects of Social Media on University Students shazrin https://padlet.com/shazrin/o76q5z1d7uuk/wish/394857885    Social media is a platform to mainly to interact and add knowledge using account or application in social media especially for the students to search for the enquiry. But, social media most of the time have negative impacts on students rather than the positive ones if they did not managed it well. There are few negative effects of social media in university students such as anxiety, depression and PTSD trigger.
  Firstly, negative effects of social media on university students is anxiety. Anxiety can be defined as a feeling of stress or discomfort related to the use of social media, often due to an intense focus on the level of popularity someone thinks they have achieved or failed to achieve by the students. For instance, having your phone with you 24 hours a day to check your social medias site and severe nervousness or anxiety when you are not able to check your notifications. 
    Second, negative effect of social media to the university students is depression. Depression can happen when a person posted a photo or even a post and someone or a group of people such as her/his assignment's group - will start to leave bad comments on that post. Those bad comments can give pressure to the person as she or he is surrounded by negative vibes and lead him or her to suicide.
   Thirdly, negative effect of social media to the university students is PTSD Trigger which known as Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. PTSD develops in some people after they experience or witness an event that threatens their life or safety, or that of others around them such as cyber bullying by their own friends which is their university mates. These can give a huge impact on one's student life.
    In conclusion, there are many negative impacts on students rather than the positive ones if they did not know how to handle and use social media in a good manner to prevent such anxiety, depression and PTSD Trigger from our life. This is to make sure that we undergo a healthy lifestyle.
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