https://padlet.com/ethanki5694/swrryfp61r26 en-us 2018-04-03 17:33:44 UTC 2025-11-03 13:45:54 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Lovecookie.png ethanki5694 https://padlet.com/ethanki5694/swrryfp61r26/wish/248227507 2018-04-03 17:34:58 UTC https://padlet.com/ethanki5694/swrryfp61r26/wish/248227507 ethanki5694 https://padlet.com/ethanki5694/swrryfp61r26/wish/252253941 When I was in 8th Grade, we had an assignment of where we saw ourselves in the next five years. It was basically a very vague guideline of activities that I thought would make me happy. When looking over this assignment three years later, little to none of these activities make me happy now. It's interesting to see my so called "perception of my future" turn out drastically different.]]> 2018-04-16 17:15:20 UTC https://padlet.com/ethanki5694/swrryfp61r26/wish/252253941 ethanki5694 https://padlet.com/ethanki5694/swrryfp61r26/wish/252258290 "You know what would make me happy right now? My lunch." - Mrs. Wilson 4/16/18]]> 2018-04-16 17:24:15 UTC https://padlet.com/ethanki5694/swrryfp61r26/wish/252258290 ethanki5694 https://padlet.com/ethanki5694/swrryfp61r26/wish/252261986 While the things on the list pertain more towards people who live in Britain, there are many things that many people, around the world, can relate to. I feel like a lot of things on this list are mainly part of first world happiness though, not really applying to other people in drastically different situations. I'm going to have to do more contrasting research to really get a clear picture of what makes people truly happy.]]> 2018-04-16 17:31:49 UTC https://padlet.com/ethanki5694/swrryfp61r26/wish/252261986 ethanki5694 https://padlet.com/ethanki5694/swrryfp61r26/wish/254518126 It's common knowledge that "more stuff" will never make you happy, but sometimes people need a little reminder of what's truly essential to happiness. The main point of this article is that you will never be able to quench your thirst for possessions, it's never enough. Wishing and wanting for more will just leave you unsatisfied and empty. While on the other hand, I kind of believe that you can have a few objects that hold a great amount of sentiment that will make you happy every time you look at them. Maybe it was a gift from a family member or a dear friend, that you cherish or maybe just some random small object that every time you see, brings you happiness. Whatever it may be, you may be able to find happiness within small. memorable possessions, just not through the "art of hoarding."]]> 2018-04-23 17:24:48 UTC https://padlet.com/ethanki5694/swrryfp61r26/wish/254518126 ethanki5694 https://padlet.com/ethanki5694/swrryfp61r26/wish/256621940 2018-04-30 17:23:25 UTC https://padlet.com/ethanki5694/swrryfp61r26/wish/256621940 ethanki5694 https://padlet.com/ethanki5694/swrryfp61r26/wish/258635657 Well, after talking with my fellow classmate Noah, he suggested that I post my personal opinion about happiness if I was stuck. So here I am! How does one attain true happines? I believe the way to attaining true happiness is a constant battle.]]> 2018-05-07 17:24:12 UTC https://padlet.com/ethanki5694/swrryfp61r26/wish/258635657 ethanki5694 https://padlet.com/ethanki5694/swrryfp61r26/wish/260658824 "Can't repeat the past?" Gatsby cried incredulously. "Why of course you can!" Gatsby felt he could win back Daisy by going back to a past moment before Daisy married Tom. Gatsby truly believed you can go back to a happier time in a relationship, "I'm going to fix everything just the way it was before."
Gatsby talked a lot about the past, and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy (Fitzgerald, p. 110). 
This is a challenge for all friendship and relationships.  You remember the excitement of the first moment you met and it can forever change you.  Remembering happy moments is fine but you should be present in a relationship and not just live in the past to be truly happy. ]]> 2018-05-14 22:36:18 UTC https://padlet.com/ethanki5694/swrryfp61r26/wish/260658824 ethanki5694 https://padlet.com/ethanki5694/swrryfp61r26/wish/260661333 The House on Mango Street depicts the struggle of Esperanza to rise above her humble beginnings. She hopes to change her destiny from being married at a young age, to live independently from a man and have her own career. Esperanza dreams of leaving Mango Street and the restrictive role that woman play in her culture, to become a writer and create her own destiny. In the last vignette, Esperanza describes her future dream to have a house of her own. "Not a flat. Not an apartment in back. Not a man's house. Not a daddy's. A house all my own. My books and my stories. Only a house quiet as snow, a space for myself to go, clean as paper before the poem, (Cisneros, P.108). Esperanza say Goodbye to Mango Street in the last vignette. "One day I will pack my bags of books and paper. One day I will say Goodbye to Mango. I am too strong for her to keep me here forever, (Cisneros, p. 110).  Esperanza finds her happiness by dreaming of a better future for herself. A future in which she controls her own destiny and does not have to be controlled by or answer to a husband. ]]> 2018-05-14 22:59:29 UTC https://padlet.com/ethanki5694/swrryfp61r26/wish/260661333 ethanki5694 https://padlet.com/ethanki5694/swrryfp61r26/wish/260670610 Despite his struggles Santiago never gives up on his dreams and ambitions. Santiago’s body is covered with scars from the sea; but these battle scars serve as reminders of strength not weakness. In the novel, Santiago gains inspiration through reflection, “He knew no man was ever alone on the sea” (Hemingway, p.61). Life is presented as preparation for the test that proves the worth of a creature. Therefore, the physical struggle takes on battle tone since it a noble act a creature can perform in life. Santiago accepts what the trials and triumphs the sea offers. The novel “Old Man and the Sea,” is a culmination of Hemingway’s extensive travels and life experiences and should be viewed as a spiritual journey. ]]> 2018-05-15 00:10:21 UTC https://padlet.com/ethanki5694/swrryfp61r26/wish/260670610 ethanki5694 https://padlet.com/ethanki5694/swrryfp61r26/wish/260675300 "The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well," Ralph Waldo Emerson. This makes me analyze my own life's purpose. I have to think about how I can make a difference in the world and follow my dreams. ]]> 2018-05-15 00:43:51 UTC https://padlet.com/ethanki5694/swrryfp61r26/wish/260675300 ethanki5694 https://padlet.com/ethanki5694/swrryfp61r26/wish/260941594 Quote from the play "As You Like It," "I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness, glad of other men's good, content with my harm" (Shakespeare 3.2.78). ]]> 2018-05-15 17:17:14 UTC https://padlet.com/ethanki5694/swrryfp61r26/wish/260941594 ethanki5694 https://padlet.com/ethanki5694/swrryfp61r26/wish/261444004 Note: Make sure you are signed into your IPSD school e-mail account]]> 2018-05-17 03:08:01 UTC https://padlet.com/ethanki5694/swrryfp61r26/wish/261444004