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I wrote this essay on the January 2007 SAT reasoning test. This is Page 1. This essay scored a 10/12. Page two is found http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:EssayImageAction2.png. Chinaman88 02:07, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

This was the essay prompt provided by the Collegeboard/ETS on the SAT reasoning test for this essay. Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below:

People are happy only when they have their minds fixed on some goal other than their own happiness. Happiness comes when people focus instead on the happiness of others, on the improvement of humanity, on some course of action that is followed not as a means to anything else but as an end in itself. Aiming at something other than their own happiness, they find happiness along the way. The only way to be happy is to pursue some goal external to your own happiness. Adapted from John Stuart Mill, Autobiography Assignment: Are people more likely to be happy if they focus on goals other than their own happiness? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations.