Wednesday, May 2, 2007

Happiness-feedback

Happiness !!!
Such a nice and interesting topic. I remember at the beginning of this topic we all have more or less one idea about what is happiness , but I didn't really know that specialists are still struggling today to find answers at this abstract subject. As we learn in the two article there are many factors that contribue or not on achieving happiness.About what I was more surprized is that my theory about happiness is stated in one of the article but in the opposite side. I always related happiness with achieving goals, but I never tryed to think more... so , if we don't achieve , how we call this , and why achieving goals is equal with happiness???
I really enjoyed this topic , the way that we work on it and the information that I got.

2 comments:

Arti said...

Hi Alina,

Somebody is living in the jungle without any property looking for the food day by day, but they are happy.

but..

I couldn't be like them. lol

mistone said...

Hi Alina, if you have always related achievement to happiness, that is simply because you are wise enough to choose appropreate goal, and wise enough to achieve that goal. Many people struggle only because they put their goal too high. I think the author of the article is talking about those people in the dillemma and never satisfied.

Skyscrapers

The term "skyscraper" was used in 1880; after the first tall buildings were build in the United States. But the history of tall buildings dates back hundreds of years in the Middle Ages were engineers have engaged in a battle for the sky.

Before there were towers made of heavy stone. Towers had thick walls and the rooms were dark and overcrowded. Windows weren’t very common, it could disadvantage the structure.

With the discovery of the steel begin the new era of modern skyscrapers. The Home Insurance Building in Chicago was the first tall building to be made on a steel skeleton of vertical columns and horizontal beams.

New structural designs made skyscrapers even lighter and stronger. As skyscrapers get taller and taller, engineers were faced with a new problem: the wind. Today's tallest skyscrapers, which are almost 1,500 feet tall, must be 50 times stronger against wind than the typical 200-foot buildings of the 1940s.

New structural designs made skyscrapers even lighter and stronger. As skyscrapers get taller and taller, engineers were faced with a new problem: the wind. Today's tallest skyscrapers, which are almost 1,500 feet tall, must be 50 times stronger against wind than the typical 200-foot buildings of the 1940s.

Skyscrapers represent the big issue for the population explosion in our days. In my opinion skyscrapers is a good think because it permits to locate a big number of people in one place into the profit of green spaces that can be saved.