In a 2011 essay in The Atlantic, author and journalists Lori Gottlieb writes:
"Nowadays, it's not enough to be happy---if you can be even happier. The American
Dream and the pursuit of happiness have morphed from a quest for general
contentment to the idea that you must be happy at all times and in every way."
Gottlieb then cites Barry Schwartz, a professor of social theory: "Happiness as a
byproduct of living your life is a great thing... [b]ut happiness as a goal is a recipe for
disaster."
In a constructed response, take a position on the claim that pursuing happiness as a
goal has detrimental (negative) effects. Support your argument with evidence from
The Great Gatsby and at least one other text from this course.

Read the excerpt from "a defence of poetry.” poetry thus makes immortal all that is best and most beautiful in the world; it arrests the vanishing apparitions which haunt the interlunations of life, and veiling them, or in language or in form, sends them forth among mankind, bearing sweet news of kindred joy to those with whom their sisters abide—abide, because there is no portal of expression from the caverns of the spirit which they inhabit into the universe of things. poetry redeems from decay the visitations of the divinity in man. which details from the excerpt provide more information about shelley’s idea that poetry "makes immortal all that is best and most beautiful in the world”? check all that apply. arrests the vanishing apparitions which haunt the interlunations of life sends them forth among mankind, bearing sweet news to those with whom their sisters abide no portal of expression from the caverns of the spirit redeems from decay the visitations of the divinity in man