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From a young age, we are taught that we should pursue our own interests and goals
in order to be happy. However society today places far too much connection
between individual happiness and benefits. In order to achieve true happiness, we
must help others and devote ourselves to our community. Although, temporary
happiness may be attained through high personal gain, but this happiness wouldnt
be true. No matter what we may receive, happiness wouldnt last long unless our
achievements benefit other people.
People achieve small, temporary happiness through personal gain. People have
always expressed happiness for the smaller things in life, such as finding a ten
dollar note on the ground to receiving a birthday gift. These things can definitely
lead to a temporary state of happiness, with the person receiving the presents
feeling better about themselves. My friend experienced this when he had been
studying for a test he was going to take, spending time and effort into the subject,
to find that after he had taken the test, he had received a high score. It wasnt hard
to see his happiness, however small. He achieved his small happiness through
receiving.
On the other hand, benefiting others also leads to happiness. With people helping
others, they can find that they can become happier from others happiness. People
find that the people they help give off an almost contagious happiness. This
happened to me when I decided to help one of my peers with their essay. She had
been consistently failing to produce results that would have resulted in a pass grade
so I did my best to help her. Upon studying with her for a few hours and seeing her
finish the essay with a passing grade, I was happy, knowing that my efforts had
gone to a good cause. This happiness was made from benefiting others.
Small happiness is only temporary, true happiness can last forever. By doing their
best to help others for the better, people can achieve true happiness that lasts.
Changing the people of the world by benefiting them is definitely grounds for
experiencing true happiness. Conducting research on diseases, solving world
hunger or creating a vaccine all benefit the world positively, resulting in an
altogether, better world. The happiness people receive from realizing a new world
would certainly be long lasting as the world would go on with its new found benefits.
Although we can pursue our own interests and goals to achieve temporary
happiness, the way to achieve true happiness is by helping others. Helping others
isnt only limited to the narrow effect of the people around you, but also the wider
effect of helping the world around you. True happiness can only come from
benefiting other people.
In turn, the author gives the impression that advertisings effect on children is not
only widespread, but also extremely negative. The author uses cold facts with a
serious frightening tone to make the point. As an opener in the first subtitles first
paragraph, the author mentions WHO as authority to bring credibility to their
article with statistical evidence. Further professional statements are made when the
author notes current statistics to show how much fast-food has affected childrens
lives. This shows the reader that the problems children face in terms of the
widespread existence of childhood obesity and lack of care for health. In the last
paragraph of the first subtitle, the final statistic A study of were deemed
unhealthy highlights the seriousness of the issue and readers are further influenced
by the fast-foods impact on children. The effect this has on the reader is to shock
them into taking the authors side in the argument. Using logic and authoritarian
evidence, the author draws more credibility into the argument, making people
believe their point of view. The effect this would have is that people would feel bad
for the children that are subject to this advertising, while also becoming more
outraged against the companies that endorse the unhealthy lifestyles. The wider
effect this would have on the issue itself is that people would feel as though they
need to protect the children rather than let them be affected by the effects of sports
advertising.