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Activity 1 Reflection Paper - The Good Life-Eva Margarita Buenaobra

1. Modern society poses several challenges that can prevent living our best lives, such as deviant behavior, social conflicts, and the decline of traditional influences like family and community. 2. Science and technology have contributed to improvements in standards of living and health but also enable problems like environmental damage. 3. While technology enables innovations that could improve life, such as new fuels and space travel, humans themselves are the main factors that can destroy happiness through things like criminal behavior if living undisciplined lives. Maintaining harmony and discipline allows continuing to live happily even with technological advances.

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Activity 1 Reflection Paper - The Good Life-Eva Margarita Buenaobra

1. Modern society poses several challenges that can prevent living our best lives, such as deviant behavior, social conflicts, and the decline of traditional influences like family and community. 2. Science and technology have contributed to improvements in standards of living and health but also enable problems like environmental damage. 3. While technology enables innovations that could improve life, such as new fuels and space travel, humans themselves are the main factors that can destroy happiness through things like criminal behavior if living undisciplined lives. Maintaining harmony and discipline allows continuing to live happily even with technological advances.

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EVA MARGARITA BUENAOBRA

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ACTIVITY INSTRUCTION:
1. Upon reading the article, Answer Activity 1: Reflection Paper
Guide Question: What do you think are the challenges that the modern society (as we have now)
pose that prevent us in living our best lives? Does Science and Technology (as we are experiencing
now) contributes to our living our best lives and in attaining happiness? Or does it not? Why?

Human society has changed much over the last centuries and this process of
‘modernization’ has deeply affected the lives of individuals; currently we live quite different
lives from those forefathers lived only five generations ago. We are now living in a
convenient and comfortable world. We can now make ways to achieve our happiness and
make things possible because of the gift of science and technology. There is difference of
opinion as to whether we live better now than before and thus there is also disagreement
as to whether we should continue modernizing or rather try to slow the process down.
Quality of life in a society can be measured by how long and happy its inhabitants live.

The idea that life is getting better draws on several achievements of modern society.
One is the unique rise in the material standard of living; the average citizen lives more
comfortably now than kings did a few centuries ago. Another improvement that strikes the
eye is that the chance of an untimely death is greatly reduced; ever fewer people die in
accidents and epidemics and fewer are murdered.

One kind of challenge that pose to attaining our happiness is deviant behavior, such
as criminality, drug use and school refusal. Another group of problems seen to reduce the
quality of life is social conflicts, such as labor quarrels, ethnic troubles and political terrorism.
The decline of the influence of the church, the family and the local community are also seen
to impoverish the quality of life of modern people, as are the rising divorce rates.

New science and technology may also one day lead to mainstream alternative fuel
vehicles, space travel for civilians, virtual reality conferences, a worldwide network of
personal wireless electronics, data-transmission at the speed of thought, reversal of global
warming and too many other innovations to mention. Latest research in computer science
is not limited to medical, business, gadget, IT, space, and education. But it will mean better
health, more knowledge and more power.

To summarize, science and technology is major threads of global society to live in


enhanced way. Technological advancements have shown a large growth concerned with
each and every field including the aspect of happiness. It is us in ourselves that contribute
mainly to the destruction of our self-attained happiness. If we continue to live in a
harmonious and disciplined manner we can continue to live peacefully and happily.

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