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          The movie that I decided to choose was The Perks of Being a Wallflower, which is a Comedy-drama. This is one of my favorite movies because it’s so deep.   The movie is about a young boy named Charlie who is a shy teenager without friends that has just started high school. He misses his best friend, who had committed suicide, and he writes letters to an imaginary friend telling his feelings. Further into the movie, we find out that Charlie had a mental illness problem in his past. Soon Charlie befriends the veterans Patrick, who is gay, and his stepsister Sam, who he falls in love with (IMDb). Charlie is played by Logan Lerman, Patrick is played by Ezra Miller, and Sam is played by Emma Watson (IMDb). The movie was directed by Stephen Chbosky and was released on September 21, 2012 (IMDb).             The opening scene of this movie starts with Charley writing to his friend, which is his journal, about how his first day of school is probably going to go. He has no friends
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Happiness   What is happiness? This question is asked a lot, but really no one has the true definition for it. According to Merriam-Webster dictionary happiness means  a state of well-being and contentment (1828)  Happiness can mean different things for different people, and I think that’s why people have such a hard time deciding what it means. Psychoanalyst and philosopher Adam Phillip stated, “Anyone who could maintain a state of happiness, given the state of this world, is living in a delusion.” This simply means that our world sucks, and if were happy living in it, then were just living a false life. I disagree strongly with this quote, honestly it makes me mad.                The world that we live in right now, has seen it’s better days. A lot of bad things are happening, but that doesn’t mean that we can’t be happy. For example, Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. A student came to school and shot 17 people and injured 17 people. I agree that this event