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    Academy DE English Persuasive Paper Final Draft: 22 November 2017 Money Makes Everyone Happy We all have heard the phrase “money can’t buy you happiness.” That phrase is a lie because mostly everything in today’s society revolves around money. The things people like revolve around money too. What a coincidence? Let’s say a person is upset so they go buy their favorite ice cream because they know it will make them happy. That person had the money to invest in something that made them happy. Or

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    The author of the article, “You Can Buy Happiness, If It’s An Experience” stated many different ideas and thoughts on happiness. He stated that the anticipation waiting for a trip trumps buying the latest things. He proves multiple studies that show that an experience provides more happiness than the newest iphone. He also states that the build up waiting for a trip is improved due to your imagination. He disproves the saying “money can’t buy you happiness”. I agree with the author, because the points

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    transfer to the stage and everyone in the audience can keep it. In the end, everything went exactly according to plan, the Horsemen stole the money, the audience kept the money and everyone was happy. So, it is safe to conclude that money can buy someone happiness? According to professor of psychology David G. Myers, it can’t. In his article “The Funds, Friends, and Faith of Happy People”, published in

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    extent. Author’s across the discussion of happiness have tried to answer the simply stated, yet complicatedly answered question, “Can Money Buy Happiness?” Authors Ed Diener and Robert Biswas-Diner attempt to answer the question in their piece of the same name, by explaining that “Yes, money buys happiness…but it must be considered in the bigger picture of what makes people genuinely rich” (Biswas-Diener 160-161). This idea that fiscal wealth is a path to happiness

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    Money and Happiness Why most of rich people are not happy with what they have? Happiness is the feeling which people feel it when they are satisfied with what they have even though these people are poor or rich. Money is the way that people use it to bring things which they can buy it by money. Sharon Begley in her article “Why Money Doesn’t Buy Happiness” states that sometimes there are relationship between money and happiness because people always try to spend less money when they want to buy somethings

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    “That Was the Night I learned that Money can Not Buy Happiness” Ten years ago. One night I meet my friends at a coffee shop which we spend our time there weekly. It was a high-class coffee shop and expensive. Most of people there were rich. My friends are rich, so they do not care about spending their money for anything because their parents will give them more. I am from Middle class family and I collect all my money for the week to spend it with them at the coffee shop in the weekend. When I

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    Does Money Buy Happiness? Studies over the last 10 years have shown that life experiences gives people lasting happiness and memories. There are two types of happiness: the measure of the quality of one's life, and how often one experiences positive emotions such as joy and affection. People in the top quartile for annual income have self-reported higher quality of life happiness than those in the bottom quartile, but about the same emotional happiness. Money can be used to purchase things ranging

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    goal of a happy life. Many think that money is the major aspect that brings with it great pleasure and happiness but this assumption

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    Money Doesn’t Buy Happiness Edwin Arlington Robinson’s poem “Richard Cory” is a mysterious four stanza poem that tells about this wealthy gentleman who was admired throughout the town where he resided only to commit suicide at the end of the fourth stanza. Robinson shows the importance of Richard Cory through the eyes of the person speaking who is a worker of the town. Speaking to a general audience, the worker tells about the effect this man had on all of the townspeople. Richard Cory was a pleasant

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    Money can't buy happiness, so the cliche goes. Ross Gittins’ 2014 article “Money can buy happiness, but not as much as we think,” asserts that most people haven’t found happiness through money because they didn’t know “how to get more satisfaction from spending” (Gittins). I disagree, to a point. In the beginning, money can provide a short term cushion of happiness, but overtime, staying comfortable isn’t the same as being truly happy. I believe that long term happiness is not a matter of how you

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