The relationship of competitiveness motive on people's happiness through education

This paper applied data from 32 countries to find out the relationship between competitiveness motive and happiness, and results showed that competitiveness motive negatively predicted happiness through public education expenditure. Public education expenditure was found to have a mediation effect between competitiveness motive and happiness. Different variables were used, such as happiness score of 2000-2008, public health expenditure as percentage of GDP in 2001 and 2004, public education expenditure as percentage of GDP in 2001 and 2004, and competitiveness motive score. Overall, countries with high competitiveness motive had low public expenditure on education and thus countries had low happiness scores.     

Reference Question Answered: Discussion of Russian Funeral Rites As Depicted in the 2006 Film V poiskakh schast’ia (In Search of Happiness)

ABSTRACT. The author answers a reference question on the depiction of a funeral in the 2006 Russian documentary film V poiskakh schast’ia (In Search of Happiness), which takes place in the Jewish Autonomous Region in Siberia. Consultations and reference sources show that what was depicted was not Jewish, but a typical Russian civil funeral procession. Helpful publications included historical and historical‐ethnographic monographs and an ethnographic encyclopedia.     

My home is my castle – Assessment of city love in Sweden

This paper offers a novel contribution to an evidence-based assessment of the attractiveness features (or perceived qualities) of cities or urban neighbourhoods, based on a quantitative evaluation of such areas by introducing and applying what is called ‘city-love’ analysis. To put this new concept in context, we offer first a concise overview of related and complementary notions (e.g. happiness, satisfaction, well-being, quality of life, contentment). Then we propose a new departure for attractiveness research pertaining to micro-based information on residents or users of cities by introducing the notion of a ‘city-love production function’. This function expresses the ability of cities to enhance the love or appreciation for a city or its neighbourhoods through an appropriate combination of five specific ‘city capital’ constituents. We test the validity of this so-called ‘Pentagon’ approach to city love by means of the city-love production function using a multivariate econometric model based on extensive heterogeneous statistical data on municipalities in Sweden and complemented with cell phone data. Our results are confronted with empirical ‘big data’ on the appreciation of Swedish places – and their characteristics – taken from social media platforms. The study offers also interesting findings from an advanced spatial-econometric and multilevel modelling approach. Our estimations show that the concept of the city-love production function allows us to quantitatively uncover important determinants of citizens’ love for their local environment.     

Thoughts of Marriage in Jane Austen＇s Pride and Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice is a great realistic novel of the 18th century, in which Jane Austen presents us a central topic on marriage： the plots of the novels and the actions of the characters revolve around marriage.The thesis analyzes women＇s opinion on marriage in different two times-the end of the 18th century, the beginning of the 19th century and modern society. How the novel influence the people＇s views of marriage in that period, and what we can learn about marriage from it.     

加强大学生幸福观教育的探讨——以思想道德修养与法律基础课程教学为例

“思想道德修养与法律基础”课（以下简称“基础”课）是对当代大学生进行思想政治教育的主渠道,是开展幸福观教育的理想之所。在“基础”课程中加强幸福观教育,要按照“三个结合”的原则,在课程设计上,以幸福观为牵引,做好教材体系向教学体系转变的顶层设计;在课程实施上,发挥学生的主体作用,在体验式教学中认识幸福;在课程评价上,重视内在价值,在教学相长中领悟幸福。     

论郭明义的幸福观及对当代大学生幸福观教育的启示

郭明义的幸福观是社会主义核心价值体系的生动诠释,是民族精神和时代精神的有力弘扬,对当前大学生的幸福观教育具有重要启示。我们应当在郭明义幸福论的指导下,引导大学生树立追求高尚的精神自由,在劳动创造中体验幸福,在无私奉献中收获幸福等幸福观,以便更好地指导他们的实际生活。     

基于网络资源的通识教育实践探索——以宁波大学“幸福课”为例

随着优秀网络资源如名校名师视频公开课的共享,各高校积极利用这些资源进行课堂教学改革和创新。宁波大学以“幸福课”为例对基于网络资源的通识教育课程进行了实践探索,通过该课程的实践教学和对师生的调查显示,基于网络资源的通识教育实践收到了较好的教学效果,激发了学生的学习积极性,让师生成为学习共同体,是一种值得推广的教学方式。     

1990年代文学的欲望话语与道家快乐观

随着市场经济体制的确立和消费主义思潮的兴起,90年代文学的欲望话语肆意张扬,更广泛更典型的是对＂物欲＂和＂情欲＂的书写,前者表现为对物质奢华的追求,后者表现为对以性本能为主的感官享乐的追求。当把90年代文学的欲望话语同道家快乐观进行对比考察的时候,我们发现前者与后者构成了比较复杂的关系：其中与以魏晋玄学为代表的道家纵欲论快乐观形成契合关系,与以老庄哲学为代表的道家无为论快乐观则构成拆解关系,这种复杂关系同时显示着我们时代的生存方式和精神世界的深刻变化。     

《金瓶梅》中的潘金莲形象

潘金莲是一个被封建制度和封建礼教文化压抑、逼迫,从而被扭曲异化的妇女典型形象。她是中国封建社会制度下觉醒的女人,她不安于现状,她渴望得到幸福,但是在她所生活的夫权制度社会下不容许她有这样的想法和行为。她企图改变命运,追求幸福,却遭到重重阻拦,在追求中丧失了自我从而走向堕落的深渊。她为了达到目的,手段凶狠,但是在封建夫权制度下她又束手无策,必须得到男人的帮助她才会实现自己的理想,在这点上她又很懦弱。     

关于德与福的伦理思考

"德福一致"是每一个善良人的美好愿望.但当今社会出现了诸多的德福不一致的现象, "好人没好报,坏人活千年".这不禁引发了人们的思考.这里既有认识上的误区,也有社会环境的不完善使然.为了确保"德福一致", 既需要提高人的道德素质,也要营造"道德人"生存的社会环境,只有这样才能确保"德福一致".