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Happiness. Easily used in cliche settings, ideas, thoughts, phrases. Yet, many people have different definitions of the word. Some people define happiness to be the most perfect feeling where nothing is wrong, everything in the world is going their way--or so they think. The fact of the matter is, nothing can ever be perfect. There is always something going on in the world and thats how it will always be. Happiness is not defined by how many things go right, but how many things someone can prevent from going wrong. Being happy comes from changing, changing things for the better. It comes from making someone else's day better, not only from having something done for you.

February 1, 2008

“Brute” Brute – a savagely violent person or animal; a cruel, unpleasant, or insensitive person. Although the previous definition is quite straight forward and to the point, the debate goes on whether someone is always a brute, or can be one at specific moments in their life and go back to just being a normal person. When someone is a brute, they don’t just all of the sudden become some animal and have a moment of rage and blow up on someone or multiple people. A brute is always a brute, its not someone who just blows up once. This point comes to the controversial topic about who the brute is between the patient and doctor. The patient is definitely the brute between the two. He is the brute because he has clearly done animalistic things like he did because he had many previous scars from previous occurrences that he has gotten into trouble with already. Not only did he do something violent before he got to the hospital, but he continued being a brute and being violent and savage at the hospital making them have at least four people trying to restrain him. Yes, the doctor did sew his ear lobes to the table, but how else was he going to be restrained. Doctors are taught to think on their feet and do whatever they can to save the patient. Considering the fact that the patient was intoxicated so they were unable to give drugs to calm him down, the doctor did the next best thing he could by sewing down his earlobes. Again, noting the fact that the patient was under the influence, which means that his blood was much thinner than it should be, so that means that he was losing a lot more blood from the gash in his head than he would if he were sober. The doctor was only doing his professional obligations and potentially saving the patient’s life, even though the brute patient wouldn’t allow the doctor to do so at first because of his animalistic and savage behavior.

February 6, 2008

Happiness.

Happiness. Easily used in cliché settings, ideas, thoughts, and phrases. Yet, many people have different definitions of the word. Some people define happiness to be the most perfect feeling where nothing is wrong, everything in the world is going their way--or so they think. The fact of the matter is, nothing can ever be perfect. There is always something going on in the world and that is how it will always be. Happiness is not defined by how many things go right, but how many things someone can prevent from going wrong. Being happy comes from changing, changing things for the better. It comes from making someone else's day better, not only from having something done for you. It goes without saying that different things make different people happy. Yet, this obvious fact plays a role in defining happiness. Many say that someone cannot be happy if they aren’t smiling or laughing or having the time of their life. This theory is incorrect. There are plenty of people in the world that are happy without being happy. The meaning behind this comes from an example of someone doing something for someone else even if it isn’t beneficial to themselves. Going more into depth, a more specific example would be if someone were to give—or give up, depending on how it is interpreted—something to another person, so while it makes the other person happy, the person who gave is sacrificing their happiness for someone else. So, while they are sad because it is only beneficial to the other person, they are filled with happiness at the same time because they know that they made the other person happy. Therefore going back to the previous statement, someone can be happy without actually being happy. Being happy doesn’t necessarily mean the cliché thought that everything is perfect and nothing is wrong and can go wrong. Being happy is much deeper than that. Being happy comes from the inner feeling that you did something good in the world, like sacrificing your happiness in order for someone else to be happy. It comes from preventing something bad to happen so you can lighten up someone else’s day and making it better. Having said this, I take back the statement regarding to the fact that happiness is not cliché or a fairy tale, on the contraire it is cliché and a fairy tale—only in someone else’s life, not yours.

Christopher Reiter March 5, 2008 Wendt

Since I plan on going into the healthcare field, I feel this is a very good topic to choose. Many other countries already have it and they have no real major problems with their economy.
 * Whether we, the US, should have Universal Healthcare.

This is an ongoing discussion that has been going on for quite sometime now. In fact, it’s pretty much been discussed and debated since they have gone over there. The fact that we’re basically there because we’re trying to make a different country run the same way we run our country and in that regards, we shouldn’t be over there.
 * Whether the troops overseas should be pulled out of the Middle East.

I don’t know too much background on this topic but I feel like it is something that should be discussed especially since that is part of my life right now and will be for the rest of my life when I have kids as well. I think there should be more money put into education in the US.
 * Whether more money should be put into schooling and education in the US.