What I learned: After Christmas Break, we began our newest project, the Truth of Happiness. Our first assignment was reading the novel, "Brave New World," written by Aldous Huxley. We both annotated and wrote about the book to increase our understanding. Continuing this, we performed a seminar, asking the question, what are our new insights on the truth of happiness? After this we began on our independent research project, where we were given the ability to choose what we wanted to learn and research. While creating our annotated bibliography for the research project, we conducted individual experiments to increase our happiness. Using all the information we learned in these many mini projects, for example, (what happiness and meaning mean to us personally, the differences between happiness and meaning, and how we can increase both of these feelings), we got into groups and began working on the creations of our videos on the truth of happiness. The people in our groups were people with similar ideas on what the truth of happiness is. After this we were given free reign to work at our own pace. For two weeks we both filmed and edited videos we believed to be worthy of showing to the public. This allowed us to take control of our lives and show Sarah we were responsible. Now, after all of that Sarah assigned us to write this DP update, to reflect on our own personal journey.
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