Project Description:
The purpose of this project was to be able to go more in depth on the concept of happiness. We learned through many articles, TED Talks, and from reading the book, Brave New World, that happiness is a skill to achieve, and it is also achieved differently by everyone. Going more in depth in this project I came to realize that happiness has a million different definitions, which also came to be the title for my essay. For this project we read a book that had a conditioned community, where everything was sacrificed for this idea of happiness. After reading the book, we went more in depth in our views of happiness and the book through participating in a socratic seminar, involving our whole class. After participating in the seminar, we all wrote essays on happiness, and how we felt after going more in depth into this crazy idea. My essay was on meaning, individuality, and embracing diversity, and how they all have a large intact on being happy. After writing our essay, we created an art piece to represent our ideas from our essay. We all then participated in a final seminar to conclude our ideas, and finish off the project strong. Overall, this project was very interesting. It changed my views on happiness, and opened up my mind to how I can really achieve happiness thought my life. Below you will find more about the project, as well as my essay, and an image of my art piece.
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