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Happiness

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This article was interesting to me because i think that the feeling of happiness is something we’ve lost in our society today, we’re constantly trying to be better than one another and we do not see the bigger picture. The article talks about the book The Happiness Fantasy and interviews its’ author Carl Cederström, the interviewer Sean Illing had some very thought provoking questions for the author. They discussed the title of the book and how it relates to society in the way that there is a strong connection between popular morality and what we as a society think happiness is. They talk about the 60s, 70s and 80s and how the public viewed corporations and certain politicians pushing a consumerist lifestyle and this drove many people to live an “authentic life” driven by free love and free sexuality. This article portrays happiness as an ever evolving feeling and reveals to me at least that there is no one definition for happiness because over the last 50-100 years the concept of happiness has shifted so many times.

https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/9/4/17759590/happiness-fantasy-capitalism-culture-carl-cederstrom

Making Babies

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Little Eggo here has a few noticeable traits like, a prominent “butt chin”, freckles, dimples, big lips, brown eyes, hair and eyebrow hair however the eyebrow hair seems darker because he has thick eye brows, i love his ears, with a detached ear lobe, Darwin’s ear points and present ear pits.

  1. The coin flip is a nice representation of how a baby can look because flipping a coin is 50-50 and when making a baby there is only 2 involved partners there for its 50-50 as-well.
  2. It accurately represents life because it is like i said before 50-50 on what traits the baby will receive from its parents however it doesn’t include things such as, some sort of disease the baby might have to alter its appearance or a multitude or things that could happen during pregnancy or during birth that can alter the appearance of the baby.
  3. I cant really find any about little Eggo because he resembles myself quite a bit however i completely agree that there are prejudices about beauty and how people think you should look, and i think a lot of that comes from celebrities and people wanting to look like them. For example a guy might be expected to have a jawline, abs and big arms but this simply is not true.