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1."... and thematic foundation upon which A Midsummer Night's Dream is built." (91) This penchant to create happiness in its audience and its supposed perfection of structure have even colored the second world of Shakespeare's drama green, for myth critics, pleased..."

Source:  Conlan, J.P. "The Fey Beauty of A Midsummer Night's Dream: a Shakespearean comedy in its courtly context" Shakespeare Studies 32 Jan. 1 2004: 118-173

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2." Recently, Henderson (2000), drawing on Campbell's (1988) work on the myth of the hero's journey, used stories to examine career happiness."

Source:  Sommer, Carol A.,Cox, Jane A. "Using Greek mythology as a metaphor to enhance supervision." Counselor Education and Supervision 42.4 June 1 2003: 326-336

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3." The maniacal violence of movies, TV, and rap music; the false promises of politicians running for office; the destructive myths of advertising that promise happiness with a new car or a six-pack of..."

Source:  KERNAN, ALVIN. "Y2K America" Public Interest Mar. 22 2000: 84

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4." Still the myths live on as spiritual roots of national pride, evoked in the motto "from sea to shining sea," in contrast to the human centred "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." Attachment..."

Source:  LAXER, GORDON. "Surviving the Americanizing New Right [*]" Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology 37.1 Feb. 1 2000: 55

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5." To understand more fully why a mythic analysis is appropriate, a definition of myth is necessary."

Source:  Shepler, Sherry R.,Mattina, Anne F. ""The Revolt Against War" Jane Addams' Rhetorical Challenge to the Patriarchy" Communication Quarterly 47.2 Mar. 22 1999: 151

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6." The Founders believed "that we may not be virtuous by nature, but by practice, virtue can become 'second nature' to us." Today, she says, our definitions of happiness are based on products, career and being liked by peers. "As a result, the focus of..."

Source:  . "Pursuit of improvement; Since Colonial times, Americans have found 'happiness' in bettering themselves" Washington Times Nov. 24 2004: 02

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7."... the body and mind) may as well realize that we are objects of consumption, and that our value, as signs of happiness, is established within a field of signs hardly limited to our restrictive definitions of "professional" activity."

Source:  FRANK, ARTHUR W. "All the Things Which Do Not Fit: Baudrillard and Medical Consumerism" Families, Systems & Health 18.2 June 22 2000: 205

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8." A Tentative Definition of Longing Longing is mainly a blend of the (primary) emotions of love or happiness and sadness or depression, but different kinds of longing can also involve other primary, secondary, and higher order emotions."

Source:  HOLM, OLLE. "Analyses of Longing: Origins, Levels, and Dimensions" Journal of Psychology 133.6 Nov. 1 1999: 621

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9." Many of those responding to our survey had more spiritual or metaphysical definitions of wealth, like peace of mind, believing in God, having a solid family and professional relationships, or just plain happiness."

Source:  MEEKS, KENNETH. "the reader is always right" Black Enterprise 31.1 Aug. 1 2000: 152

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10."... necessary and expedient for the general advantage of the public." [27] Field quotes Blackstone's editor's gloss on this definition: "that state in which each individual has the power to pursue his own happiness according to his own views of his..."

Source:  Glenn, Gary D.,Stack, John. "Is American Democracy Safe for Catholicism?" Review of Politics 62.1 Jan. 1 2000: 1

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11." She uses the word legend, then, because it more adequately describes the full range of meanings a given myth might have. "Levi-Strauss's inclusive definition of a `myth' is especially..."

Source:  Gross, Jonathan. "Did Nike Say to `Just Do It" Criticism 41.2 Mar. 22 1999: 305

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12." When Burridge writes that 'the fact that the myth-dream may not have been reported as such does not means that it did not exist' (op.cit.), or that: As a concept 'myth-dream' does not lend itself to precise definition."

Source:  Dalton, Doug. "Cargo Cults and Discursive Madness" Oceania 70.4 June 1 2000: 345

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13." He deals briefly with the problems of definitions due to the semantic range of the English word "myth." However, there are somewhat worrying limits to this bibliography."

Source:  Wood, Juliette. "Theories of Myth: An Annotated Bibliography" Folklore Jan. 1 1999: 118

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14."... that HIV is per se a disability. (196) As discussed above, the third definition of the word "disability" is designed to protect individuals from the myths and fears associated with disabilities."

Source:  Mayer, Connie. "Is HIV a disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act: unanswered questions after Bragdon v. Abbott" Journal of Law and Health 14.2 June 22 1999: 179-209

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15." The earliest definition (associated with Richard Hofstadter's Social Darwinism in American Thought [1944] as well as my revisionist Social Darwinism: Science and Myth [1979]) traces..."

Source:  Bannister, Robert C. "Darwinian Myth: The Legends and Misuses of a Theory" Review of Politics 60.4 Sept. 22 1998: 815-819

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16." Of course, aspects of the postmodern critique of metanarratives, such as the myth of Progress, were already quite elaborate and powerful in the time of Twain, but metanarratives are by definition narratives that lead to some set of social and political ends."

Source:  Bush, Harold K., Jr. "Mark Twain's American Adam: humor as hope and apocalypse" Christianity and Literature 53.3 Mar. 22 2004: 291-315

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17." Lelut can be regarded as one of the "entrepreneurs de bonheur public" whom the narrator denounces, even if the former's understanding of happiness is neither utopian nor revolutionary."

Source:  Vatan, Florence. "The "Poet-Philosopher" and the "Physician-Philosopher": a Reading of Baudelaire's Prose Poem "Assommons les pauvres!"" Nineteenth-Century French Studies 33.1-2 Sept. 22 2004: 89-109

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18." In the last few decades, we have made major strides in understanding how these neurotransmitters affect sadness, happiness, clinical depression, or even our ability to experience paranoid schizophrenic hallucinations."

Source:  Garland, Eric. "Reinventing sex: new technologies and changing attitudes; New technologies will promote pleasure, simulate reality, improve performance, and thwart disease" Futurist 38.6 Nov. 1 2004: 41-47

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19."... as one of the official artists of the 1999 Special Olympics World Summer Games," said Delacroix. "It is my deepest hope that my work can bring extra happiness to the people throughout the world who recognize and understand the significant challenges that..."

Source:  . "Special Olympics" Palaestra 15.2 Mar. 22 1999: 9

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20." This concept of international adoption finds strong support in the CRC, which states in its Preamble, "[T]he child, for the full and harmonious development of his or her personality, should grow up in a family environment, in an atmosphere of happiness, love and understanding." ..."

Source:  Freundlich, Madelyn. "FAMILIES without borders - I" UN Chronicle 36.2 June 22 1999: 88

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21."... can only experience happiness when he understands himself to exist within a unified, monistic whole, a cultural constellatio n of norms, practices, and beliefs in which he can find meaning and purpose. [21] Moreover,..."

Source:  Linker, Damon. "The Reluctant Pluralism of J. G. Herder" Review of Politics 62.2 Mar. 22 2000: 268

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22." The happiness of the free man consists in the unhindered exercise of the understanding, for "he who clearly and distinctly understands himself and his emotions loves God" (Pt. V. Prop."

Source:  Wyschogrod, Edith. "Ethics as First Philosophy: Levinas Reads Spinoza" Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 40.3 Sept. 22 1999: 195-207

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23." Since Freud offered his original psychosexual developmental pathways as the key to understanding adult capacities, psychoanalysts continue to seek to understand how happiness, mental health, success, productivity, realized talent, and so on, come to be. Psychoanalysts..."

Source:  Levine, Stephen B. "Femininities, Masculinities, Sexualities: Freud andBeyond" Archives of Sexual Behavior 28.5 Oct. 1 1999: 397

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24." Contentment is also the understanding that while external conditions may be flawed and need to be corrected whenever possible, the sacred is where the focus must be because that is where happiness is found."

Source:  VRAJAPRANA, PRAVRAJIKA. "Contemporary Spirituality and the Thinning of the Sacred: A Hindu Perspective" Cross Currents Mar. 22 2000: 248

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25." The Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibet and author of The Art of Happiness, believes you can achieve happiness by training yourself to be more understanding of other people,..."

Source:  O'CONNOR, JAMES V. "Why Are We So #!&*@ MAD?" USA Today (Magazine) 129.2664 Sept. 1 2000: 56

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