Energy and Place Project
Happiness and Meaning
Essential Questions:
a. What is the purpose of your existence?
b. What is happiness and what makes you happy?
c. What does it mean to live a meaningful life?
d. To what extent can literature shape your personal philosophy on happiness and meaning?
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a. What is the purpose of your existence?
b. What is happiness and what makes you happy?
c. What does it mean to live a meaningful life?
d. To what extent can literature shape your personal philosophy on happiness and meaning?
Link to Project Description
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Reflection
New Insights
I have learned a lot about how you can think about life and act to make your life what you would like. There are many ways that life can be explained, with religion,personal belief, and an infinite amount. Giving your life meaning is also a very hard Idea to find and wrap your mind around. In this project I found that the outdoors and being connected with other people helps me move forward. It may also be a short term thing that I can only hold on to for now. It changes as I grow and is almost unpredictable. Human nature can change with the blink of an eye but it can also be a easily defined idea. We have predictable patterns that science is trying to find out and can not trace for all of us to see. I do believe there is an untraceable side to humans that can not be followed or traced itself. Its random unpredictability just as existentialism explains.
Further Questioning
I have learned a lot about how you can think about life and act to make your life what you would like. There are many ways that life can be explained, with religion,personal belief, and an infinite amount. Giving your life meaning is also a very hard Idea to find and wrap your mind around. In this project I found that the outdoors and being connected with other people helps me move forward. It may also be a short term thing that I can only hold on to for now. It changes as I grow and is almost unpredictable. Human nature can change with the blink of an eye but it can also be a easily defined idea. We have predictable patterns that science is trying to find out and can not trace for all of us to see. I do believe there is an untraceable side to humans that can not be followed or traced itself. Its random unpredictability just as existentialism explains.
Further Questioning
- How will I continue to push forward if I can not find something that drives me ?
- What if I find out that the things I push and strive for change so significantly that I do not want to have them around anymore ?
- How will I live a stress free life ?
- Will my career path be one that I love or will I not want to work for what makes me happy ?
- Can I find a place I belong in ?
The Morality and Politics of Justice Op-Ed
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Drafts of my Op-Ed
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Voices from the Animas
Project Reflection
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