1.

) What are the roles played by televisions, mobile phones and computers in the lives of the
people? What are their similarities and differences?

- Televisions, mobile phones and computer are part of technology in which technology affects
the way individuals communicate, learn, and think. It helps society and determines how
people interact with each other on a daily basis. Technology plays an important role in
society today. It has positive and negative effects on the world and it impacts daily lives.
Technology has without a doubt become a central part of the human condition - for better
and worse. It influences us, just as much as we influence it, in our daily lives, but also as
moral and ethical beings. The similarities of desktop and laptop, mobile phones and smart
phones, and television and radio are they are all tools for communication. However, when
we talk of their uses and functions, we may still find some similarities but also few
differences. Differences is below:
- A mobile phone is a wireless handheld device that allows users to make and receive calls.
While the earliest generation of mobile phones could only make and receive calls, today’s
mobile phones do a lot more, accommodating web browsers, games, cameras, video players
and navigational systems. Also, while mobile phones used to be mainly known as “cell
phones” or cellular phones, today’s mobile phones are more commonly called
“smartphones” because of all of the extra voice and data services that they offer.
- Television, sometimes shortened to TV, is a telecommunication medium for transmitting
moving images and sound. The term can refer to a television set, or the medium of
television transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertising, entertainment, news,
and sports.
- A laptop is a personal computer that can be easily moved and used in a variety of locations.
Most laptops are designed to have all of the functionality of a desktop computer, which
means they can generally run the same software and open the same types of files. However,
laptops also tend to be more expensive than comparable desktop computers.

2.) History has given birth to different schools of thought, all of which aim for the good and happy
life. What are these schools of thought? How did they differ and similar to each other?

- Structuralism is widely regarded as the first school of thought in psychology. This outlook
focused on breaking down mental processes into the most basic components. Major
thinkers associated with structuralism include Wilhelm Wundt and Edward Titchener. The
focus of structuralism was on reducing mental processes down into their most basic
elements. The structuralists used techniques such as introspection to analyze the inner
processes of the human mind. The introspective experimental technique used by the
structuralists involved having trained observers examine their inner responses. Using this
approach, also known as experimental self-observation, experimenters like Wundt trained
people to analyze their thoughts as carefully and objectively as possible. While these
methods were understandably not the most empirically rigorous, the structuralist school of
thought played an important role in the development of experimental psychology.
- Materialism - The first materialists were the atomists in Ancient Greece. Democritus and
Leucippus led a school whose primary belief is that the world is made up of and is controlled
by the tiny indivisible units in the world called atomos or seeds. For them, the world,
including human beings, is made up of matter. As such, only material entities matter. In
terms of human flourishing, matter is what makes us attain happiness.

- Hedonism - The hedonists for their part, see the end goal of life in acquiring pleasure.
For them, pleasure has always been the priority; and life is about obtaining and indulging in
pleasure because life is limited Hedonists strongly believe in the quote “Eat, drink, and be
merry for tomorrow we die.” This philosophy, just like materialism, rejects the notion of
afterlife.

- Stoicism - The school of thought led by Epicurus, the stoics espoused the idea that in order
to be happy one must learn to distance oneself and be apathetic. Apatheia means to be
indifferent. For the, everyone should adopt the fact that some things are not within our
control. The sooner we realize this, the happier we can become.

- Theism - The ultimate basis of happiness for theists is the communication with God. They
find meaning of their lives using God as a fulcrum of their existence. The world where we
are in is only just a temporary reality where we have to maneuver around while waiting for
the ultimate return to the hands of God. They believe in afterlife.

- Humanism - Humanism promotes the freedom of man to carve his own destiny and to
legislate his own laws, free from the shackles of a God that monitors and controls. For them,
man is the holds the steering wheel as captain of his own ship. This is the spirit of most
scientists who thought that the world is a place and space for freely unearthing the world in
seeking for ways on how to improve the lives of inhabitants.