Unit 7: Happiness
By Karin Latzer
HU300 - Art and Humanities
Prof. Beth Palmer
March 16, 2011
Unit 7: Happiness
Happiness, a very general term as to who we live and grow up with, to how our genre, environment, education, careers, travels, and so much more, gives us the ideals of our perception or actual realization to what is happiness. I have chosen my two Interviewees of entirely different genres and how they perceive happiness.
Interviewee # _1__:
First Name Only: Carol Ann
Age: 15
Occupation: Student
Acquaintance or Nature of Relationship to Interviewer: Daughter
Q: Please define what happiness is to you?
A: Being positive inside and out, ...view middle of the document...
Q: Do you feel that the environment influences your happiness, if so why or why not?
A: Yes, a quiet country environment is what makes me happy because I like the quietness and I love that the country feels like home to me. I don’t mind having to go to the city, but I don’t like it to much because of the traffic, lights, to many homes close together, so I prefer open range.
Q: Any further comments to elaborate on happiness?
A: No
Unit 7: Happiness
Interviewee # _2__:
First Name Only: Robert
Age: 66
Occupation: Retired
Acquaintance or Nature of Relationship to Interviewer: Other
Q: Please define what happiness is to you?
A: Good health and fulfillment of desires, mostly at this age being able to sexually perform and not only receive but give desire.
Q: Has your definition of happiness changed over the years, and if so why or why not?
A: Yes, probably because desires do change over time, work habits, family, providing, and we don’t think so much about health habits until later or it is too late.
Q: Do you feel your definition of happiness will change again over time, and if so why or
why not?
A: Yes, because again age does change your desires and health dwindles, even memory for some.
Q: Who or what do you...