The Happiness Project Essay Prompts
Choose 1 prompt to respond to in a 3-4 page essay. For each essay include minimally three (3) citations, no more than 5. 1 of the citations has to be a block quote and another has to be a free paraphrase. The last can be either a shorter citation or another free paraphrase.
The Assignment with due dates was posted last week. Check earlier posts. I handed this assignment to students. If you were absent, ask for a copy.
1. In GR’s THP, a year off contemplating how she can intentionally infuse her life with more happiness, how are her goals and objectives infused with inexplicable and unexpected results?
2. What does GR learn about herself half way through her journey that is reaffirmed at the end?
3. GR uses a particular strategy to address her project. Analytical and extremely goal orientated she develops what she calls commandments, secrets of adulthood, and splendid truths. Discuss her process of discovering the potential for perpetual or reoccurring happiness.
4. GR states at the beginning of her journey that how she tackles this phenomenon will vary from person to person, yet despite our individual differences, THP is an instructive and useful guide. Discuss how this is proven true over and over again throughout the 12 months.
5. How does GR simplify access to something most people take for granted, yet find so valuable? How is her happiness project a road map for those seeking happiness?
6. After reading THP, what conclusions support “its pursuit”? How is happiness connected not just to one’s humanity, but to one’s citizenship in this great nation?
7. Choose three chapters and discuss the principles highlighted there and how Rubin’s quest builds on each subsequent step in the process towards her goal.
8. Look at the organization and Rubin’s writing. Choose three chapters and look at the form of the writing, her inclusion of experts and the refinement of her developing argument which at the end of the book states what?
9. Rubin admits that she is happy, but is focusing on happiness to steel herself against the inevitable tragedy or catastrophe that happens in many of our lives, often when we least expect. Can one prepare for such loss? Is Rubin’s year long quest preparation for this eventual loss of her beloved husband?
10. What checkpoints rescue Rubin’s THP from narcissism?
11. Choose three (3) chapters and discuss the scholarly nature of THP. How does this establish Rubin’s credibility early on.
Student prompts doctored up (smile).
12. What does Gretchen Rubin’s work ethic say about happiness?
13. Rubin states often that personal happiness is tied to our relationships with others, not necessarily just those we are intimately connected too either. Talk about a few of these primary relationships and how Rubin uses them to push herself more closely to her goal.
14. If Gretchen Rubin’s goal for more happiness meant she had to transform in the process, illustrate her change from A to L and M to Z. Let us see a before and an in-process don’t remove the sheet yet; then shift our gaze to the perhaps not complete, yet a whole lot more happy Gretchen outcome (smile).
The Assignment with due dates was posted last week. Check earlier posts. I handed this assignment to students. If you were absent, ask for a copy.
1. In GR’s THP, a year off contemplating how she can intentionally infuse her life with more happiness, how are her goals and objectives infused with inexplicable and unexpected results?
2. What does GR learn about herself half way through her journey that is reaffirmed at the end?
3. GR uses a particular strategy to address her project. Analytical and extremely goal orientated she develops what she calls commandments, secrets of adulthood, and splendid truths. Discuss her process of discovering the potential for perpetual or reoccurring happiness.
4. GR states at the beginning of her journey that how she tackles this phenomenon will vary from person to person, yet despite our individual differences, THP is an instructive and useful guide. Discuss how this is proven true over and over again throughout the 12 months.
5. How does GR simplify access to something most people take for granted, yet find so valuable? How is her happiness project a road map for those seeking happiness?
6. After reading THP, what conclusions support “its pursuit”? How is happiness connected not just to one’s humanity, but to one’s citizenship in this great nation?
7. Choose three chapters and discuss the principles highlighted there and how Rubin’s quest builds on each subsequent step in the process towards her goal.
8. Look at the organization and Rubin’s writing. Choose three chapters and look at the form of the writing, her inclusion of experts and the refinement of her developing argument which at the end of the book states what?
9. Rubin admits that she is happy, but is focusing on happiness to steel herself against the inevitable tragedy or catastrophe that happens in many of our lives, often when we least expect. Can one prepare for such loss? Is Rubin’s year long quest preparation for this eventual loss of her beloved husband?
10. What checkpoints rescue Rubin’s THP from narcissism?
11. Choose three (3) chapters and discuss the scholarly nature of THP. How does this establish Rubin’s credibility early on.
Student prompts doctored up (smile).
12. What does Gretchen Rubin’s work ethic say about happiness?
13. Rubin states often that personal happiness is tied to our relationships with others, not necessarily just those we are intimately connected too either. Talk about a few of these primary relationships and how Rubin uses them to push herself more closely to her goal.
14. If Gretchen Rubin’s goal for more happiness meant she had to transform in the process, illustrate her change from A to L and M to Z. Let us see a before and an in-process don’t remove the sheet yet; then shift our gaze to the perhaps not complete, yet a whole lot more happy Gretchen outcome (smile).
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