Birthday by Christina Rossetti Everything in the first stanza speaks of the happiness Rossetti sees around her‚ and the repeated expression ‘My heart is like . . .’ stresses this joy‚ but she says at the end of the first stanza that her “heart is gladder than all these” which implies that what the poet is feeling is more than she can put in words. The persona compares her heart to the “singing bird” to bring out how overjoyed she felt. This may imply that the author’s heart had the same energetic
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What makes you happy? Before I answer this question I want to tell something . Do you know what really means to be happy. I think everyone will say yes. But if you don’t know the true meanings of sadness‚ pain and loneliness it means that you don’t know the real happiness. There are 6 billion people living in this world. They are all different and they all have their own lives to live. What I’m trying to say is “Happiness comes with a price”. Like after you finish some hard task successfully
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You had a bad day at the office‚ or had a fight with your spouse and are having a bad day? What to do? You have tried all means of entertainment also‚ no result. Most people also turn to food for comfort‚ in times of depression. Yes it’s true‚ some superfoods have the properties of anti depressants. But it’s very important to know which are the foods that make you happy. If you have a balanced diet‚ you are going to have good body and also a good mood. But sometimes we need something more‚ a little
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What make you happy? The answers to this is different from one to others. In my opinion‚ knowledge‚ positive thinking and self-confidence are primary factors bring me happiness. First of all‚ knowledge is increasing continuous together with fast developing life. Information is invaluable and tremendous and the more knowledge I attain‚ the more interesting I find in this world. When I do not grasp anything‚ I see how poor knowledge I have and I try to get as much as I can. I am interested in discovering
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winter Olympics that changed a lot of people’s views on both figure skating and hockey‚ and finally the price and model of the new car of the century the SAAB 9000S. I hope to inform my audience well enough that I won’t need to tell anyone when my birthday is ever again they will already be well aware. First of all the front page of the New York Times had some very fascinating stories such as Israeli Army Ending 24-hour Incursion in South Lebanon in which Sheik Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah‚ spiritual
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Benjamin Franklin said‚ “Money never made a man happy yet nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness.”Money can and in most cases does buy you everything your heart wishes. With money you would be able to live a comfortable life with everything you wanted around. You can have flat screen TV’s to expensive jewelry‚ the sky is the limit when you’re spoiling with the benefits of your hard work. But does that necessarily make you happy? Would having everything be as great as it seems
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essential standard for living is being able to be happy. Happiness can be found in many different forms. Positive people are happy people. No matter what type of hardships they have to endure‚ they try to overcome and believe the day they hope. They know what happiness is and try to forget something negative. There are three effects that make me happy which are are having energy‚ having money and having good health The first effect of being happy is having energy. There are many ways of having energy
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What makes Us Happy "Endorphins are considered the best and most legal way of achieving a high" Nathan Altman said in his Endorphins Question and Answer article. Endorphins are polypeptides that are produced in the brain. They are able to bind to the neuro-receptors in the brain to give relief from pain. Endorphins can be accredited with the affect that exercise has on the brain. The so called runner’s high is a result of endorphins being produced in the brain. Discovered in 1975 endorphins are
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	Christina Rossetti’s poem "A Birthday" and Kate Chopin’s short story "The Story of an Hour" present conflicting attitudes toward love. In particular the speaker in Rossetti’s poem is anticipating and overjoyed by the arrival of her new found love‚ whereas the character in Chopin’s story‚ after the initial shock of her new found freedom ‚ was overjoyed by the loss of her love. In the poem and short story several literary elements and techniques were used to convey these different attitudes
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Materially‚ things can make me happy but it really can’t suffice my craving for the real happiness. As a person‚ some of us wake up each and every day that whatever they have is what make them happy. Lucky to those who are rich‚ for they have fame and wealth that they can use for their everyday living. Lucky some of those who are poor that some of them can still eat at least three times a day. Ironically‚ we humans sometimes seek and find happiness on material things. And more so‚ we forgot the real
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