Quoting + Sandwiches

If you would like to review the slide show on quotation, you can click here.

If you want to look over different citation styles for your paper, you can go here or here.

Bread (intro/orientation) + filling (your quotation) + bread (analysis/explanation/connection)

History of Happiness!

If you want to review the presentation I gave on the history of thought on happiness in Ancient Greece, you can click here.

Herodotus does not look as happy as you might expect

Helen Fisher tells us why we love + cheat | Video on TED.com

Helen Fisher tells us why we love + cheat | Video on TED.com

Is a wandering mind an unhappy one?

Is a Wandering Mind an Unhappy One?

This is a pretty great article about how - when our minds wander - we become less happy than when we focus.

For those of you with an iPhone, there's also an ap....

Thesis and Intro Powerpoint for your reference - fixed!!!

Here is the powerpoint on thesis development and introductions that the afternoon class already saw.  AM class, you could watch it ahead of time, but I'll be showing it Thursday!

New Archetypal Personality Test

Are you more like Michael Jordan or Martin Luther King Jr?
More like Tina Fey or Wonderwoman?

This link goes to is a different kind of personality test (are you a warrior or a fool?)

This link, helps you understand what it means.

Have fun!

Relationships and Happiness!!! Blog Five

Write 3 longish paragraphs - each will be about one of the following in terms of love and relationships.  You can use your life or "theoretical" examples.  If you haven't read Tal Ben-Shahar's chapter on this topic, now would be a great time to read it.

The possible topics:

• Complaining vs Fixing vs Accepting
• Real Love vs "the Ideal"
• Identity and Love (gender, sexual orientation, race, religion, etc.)
• Cultivating vs Finding
• Spending More Time with Loved Ones
• Core Self (yours or someone else's)
• Knowing vs. Validating
• Gratitude
• Sacrifice vs. Sharing

Is this bear trying to change the wolf? snuggle him? eat him?