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Haley Furguson
Professor Intawiwat
UWRT 1102
15 November 2016
Annotated Bibliography
Britt Reints. "Why Travel Makes Us Happy - In Pursuit of Happiness." In Pursuit of Happiness.
N.p., n.d. Web. 20 Oct. 2015. <http://inpursuitofhappiness.net/blog/2012/08/24/whytravel-makes-us-happy/#.Viat3H6rTIU>.
Britt Reints is a happiness expert, TED speaker, blog writer and author. She created an
entire webpage with many different articles helping people to become happier. She is
hired to coach happiness and also speaks about how to be happy across the country.
This is a general internet source: this article lists the many reasons why travel can create
happiness. Each reason is thoroughly explained and is supported through first hand
experiences. Learning, connection, and accomplishment are all some reasons why people
travel and also how it makes people happy
This article relates to why people travel because it shows the reasons travel can make a
person happy. Happiness is a very significant reason to do something and is a goal that
many people have. This article also explains a lot of Chris McCandlesss motivation
behind traveling so much before going to his final destination in Alaska in the book Into
the Wild by John Krakauer. The article also relates to my personal experiences traveling
by correlating to some of the reasons why I travel.
REFLECTION: This article covers six different reasons why travel can make a person happy;
these reasons will help me by explaining why a person would travel or the benefits of

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traveling. The author is using her own opinion to support her statements in this article;
she includes first hand experiences and pictures to support her opinion. Other than her
own personal experiences, she seems to lack academic support to her statements. The text
also seems to be a little generalized; the author lacks detail and support on each
individual reason. Overall this text helped understand a different view point on why
people travel, yet supported my view point on travel being beneficial to people. The
audience of this text is intended to be the authors blog readers, she is informing the
readers on ways to be happy and this article is one of the many subjects she informs
readers to find happiness in.