For starters

Currently due to the global pandemic stakes are high, levels of mental health are elevated in adolescents due to quarantine and the lack of social interaction. I will be discussing whether or not adolescents are more prone to mental health complications, along with what contributes to those complications (not only in regards to the coronavirus and quarantine), and treatments that are found to be the most beneficial. 

Samantha Phillips Rajkumar Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), Pondicherry, 605 006, India Josh Tanguay

Arslan, G., Allen, K. & Ryan, T. Exploring the Impacts of School Belonging on Youth Wellbeing and Mental Health among Turkish Adolescents. Child Ind Res 13, 1619–1635 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12187-020-09721-z.

o I could clearly organize

Margot Putukian says

According to Gary Souter, Robin Lewis & Laura Serrant

Goal setting can be a successful tactic to improve athletic psychology.” (Laura M Miele)

. “Bad moments are part of the process” – we always hear that, and it is inevitable to feel an emotional low after, but it is about how we respond to those bad moments/performances because negative reactions result in negative outcomes. A lot can happen if a positive mindset is not established. All athletes create their own rituals and their own mindset that helps them perform but every athlete also has particular doubts, fears, and/or anxieties about their exhibition on the field. (University of Michigan Depression Center, Athletics and School of Social Work) Believe it or not even the most competent athletes can have a hard time accomplishing career objectives if they don’t have the mental capacity to move forward in the world of sports and which means strength and mental balance can interfere with an athlete’s performance and this happens not only with high-level athletes, but with anyone who practices any sport since muscle tension is a common anxiety symptom. “Athletes who can visualize themselves having success will be successful.” (Laura M Miele)

Peak Performance

It’s the mind that controls anxiety and strengthens the athlete’s confidence, f

allow you

“Human beings depend on 40% to 60% of the brain to perform daily activities” (Emilio Takase).

but how does it feel for an athlete to manage their performance in sports while they are struggling with their own mental health.

athletes mental state

Putukian, Margot. “Mind, Body and Sport: How Being Injured Affects Mental Health.” NCAA.org – The Official Site of the NCAA, 11 July 2017, www.ncaa.org/sport-science-institute/mind-body-and-sport-how-being-injured-affects-mental-health. Souter, Gary, et al. “Men, Mental Health and Elite Sport: a Narrative Review.” Open, SpringerOpen, 19 Dec. 2018, sportsmedicine-open.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40798-018-0175-7. Takase, Emilio. Neuroscience of Sport and Exercise. 2005, www.educacaocerebral.com/soft/takase.pdf. Miele, Laura M. “The Effects of Psychology on Athletic Performance.” Psychology Today, Sussex Publishers, 12 Jan. 2015, www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-whole-athlete/201501/the-effects-psychology-athletic-performance.

University of Michigan Depression Center, Athletics and School of Social Work. Athletes Connected, 2017, athletesconnected.umich.edu/for-student-athletes/mental-health-performance/.

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I used peer-reviewed articles and it was also new for me,

“Drug addiction is something that will always exist, But by eliminating the threat of criminal penalties—and along with it, a great deal of stigma—it has become easier for people to seek treatment.”

Overall, I think decriminalization could work

In America 7% of the new HIV cases were from people who inject drugs.

diseases like HIV and Hepatitis c and b, that are typically contracted by injecting drug users that share needles

As a result, the strain the prisons have been dealing with such as, over stretched prison guards, increased violence between prisoners and rising taxes

was less amounts

less people

convicted of trafficking has dropped “50 percent” (Laqueur, Hannah)

Furthermore, I think the decriminalization of drug use could possibly lower the amount of drug related crimes

So Bob, What introduced you to cocaine? “I was offered it at a party by a guy who sold it and it went on from there.” I

(Swiss Addiction

hese are places according to time magazine, where “drug users can consume drugs in safer conditions with the assistance of trained staff.”

time magazine

Altogether, decimalization tends to help more with keeping teens and young adults

European monitoring center for drugs and drug addiction)

you are

found that since 2001 two major improvements have been made “drug use is below the European average…drug use has declined among those aged 15-26 the population most at risk of initiating drug use” (Transform Drug Policy Foundation).

Portugal decriminalized drug possession for personal use in 2001. I

With this in mind, I did some research to see if there are any countries that recently legalized drug use to see if this could actually work. Sure enough,

proses

decimalization

First things first

Would Americas’ drug problem be improved if we decriminalized personal drug use?

With approximately 1.8 million people addicted to painkillers, 821 thousand addicted to cocaine, 426 thousand addicted to heroin, 400 thousand addicted to benzodiazepines, 329 thousand addicted to stimulants, 140 thousand addicted to inhalants and 63,600 deaths from overdoses there is no doubt we have room for improvement

It is no secret that America has a drug problem.

Sources:

“Décès Dus à La Consommation D’opioïdes En Suisse – Faits Et Chiffres.” Addictionsuisse.ch, 6 June 2020, faits-chiffres.addictionsuisse.ch/fr/opioides/consequences/injections-mortalite.html. “Drug Decriminalisation in Portugal: Setting the Record Straight.” Transform Drug Policy Foundation, John Ellerman Foundation, Glass-House Trust, Network for Social Change, 21 May 2020, transformdrugs.org/drug-decriminalisation-in-portugal-setting-the-record-straight/.

Caulkins, Johnathan and Sevigny, Eric. “How Many People Does The U.S. Imprison For Drug Use, And Who Are They”. 2005. PDF file. http://web.b.ebscohost.com.ezproxybrcc.helmlib.org/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=6&sid=1ebb1aec-c11a-40b9-bad7-136672d666a4%40pdc-v-sessmgr02

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defiantly

“His vision was failing, and keeping his eyes focused on a page had become exhausting and painful, often bringing on crushing headaches.”

“I can feel it, too. Over the past few years I’ve had an uncomfortable sense that someone, or something, has been tinkering with my brain, remapping the neural circuitry, reprogramming the memory. My mind isn’t going—so far as I can tell—but it’s changing.”

Why do we use google and why it could possibly be making us stupid?

Major Assignment #2 Draft #2

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/07/is-google-making-us-stupid/306868/ Nayalique

Right now, this disease caused by the novel coronavirus can other organs in the body including the heart.

Which causes illness in the respiratory system and the primary symptoms of the coronavirus disease can be developed 4 to 14 days.

infection disease.

How Does COVID-19 Affects the Body in Various Ways

Challenges and burden of the Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic for child and adolescent mental health: a narrative review for to highlight clinical and research needs in the acute phase and the long return to normality

work Cited:

“Long-Term Effects of COVID-19.” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/long-term-effects.html.

Together, we all can bring on end to this pandemic.

I believe that it’s important

w research in animals suggests.” Chronic stress is a stress that results from repeated exposure to situations that lead to the release of stress hormones, causing wear and tear on your mind and body. Stress is known to lead to inflammation which can cause neuroinflammation. “Stress is known to lead to inflammation, which prompts an immune response to protect against inflammation’s harmful effects. Based on what they already know about compromised brain signaling in rats stressed during pregnancy, the scientists suspect the immune cells in the brain responding to stress may be involved. If that’s the case, the immune changes may create circumstances in the brain that increase susceptibility to depression.”

In this article Ohio State University. “New way to think about brain’s link to postpartum depression: Research in animals shows brain’s immune system is activated by stress during pregnancy.”

https://theemilyeffect.org/emilys-story/ and https://www.ksl.com/article/39841410/the-emily-effect-family-rises-from-tragedy-in-effort-to-help-struggling-mothers.

Coming from the husband point of view.

I would like share Emily’s story

helps you re

Another source I found was https://youtu.be/BGAClqA4F04 Megan Johnson a therapist speaking on understanding and recognizing the difference between

n my Opinion to this is if this is supposed to help us with our depression then it shouldn’t e

“Both untreated and antenatal antidepressant exposure present increased risks of neurodevelopmental pathologies.” “Preliminary data indicate neurodevelopmental delays, behavioral and cardiac abnormalities, and altered levels of both the brain and the heart markers in the offspring of stressed dams. Furthermore, the preliminary data predict that maternal pregnancy during the perinatal period is likely to impact the neurodevelopmental process in a sex-dependent manner.”

ome of the sources I found on my question “how does postpartum affects the neurodevelopment and What or how it triggers depression?” Is Physiology & Behavior Volume 199, 1 February 2019, Pages 258-264 Editors-in-Chief:

What or how it triggers depression

Having said that,

Never understood why because I don’t have any history of mental health issues as well as depression.

Both resulting in mothers suffering from depression for a period of time.

“depression affecting a woman after giving birth; postnatal depression”, and 10-15% suffer from postpartum which is more serious.

Postpartum doesn’t get the attention it needs nor talked about enough.

Work Cited:

New way to think about brain’s link to postpartum depression: Research in animals shows brain’s immune system is activated by stress during pregnancy.” ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 21 October 2019.

https://youtu.be/BGAClqA4F04 , https://theemilyeffect.org/emilys-story/  , https://www.ksl.com/article/39841410/the-emily-effect-family-rises-from-tragedy-in-effort-to-help-struggling-mothers

Dealing with the unforeseen challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has taken a significant toll on people all across the world

(Cohut 2020)

“How has the coronavirus pandemic affected the economy and life of the world as a whole?”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/05/20/pandemic-may-forever-change-worlds-cities/ https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/6/20-0251_article https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/covid-19-global-impact-how-the-coronavirus-is-affecting-the-world

used dance to pull himself out of the struggles of bipolar disorder. 

(Harvard Medical School)

In addition to releasing feel-good hormones such as serotonin, dance is also responsible for the neuroplasticity of the brain, or the ability of the brain to make new neural connections and re-map networks and synapses

Dancing regularly improves one’s mental health through the exchange and release of hormones in the brain and causes people’s thoughts to become more optimistic

dancing also improves one’s mental health through the release of hormones and the re-directing of negative thoughts.  

Not only does dancing help with physical activity, it also helps to “train your body to let go of what might be using anxiety or stress,”

n a study conducted by J.R. O’Neill, R.R. Pate, and S.P. Hooker

y’s world, therefore,

 In fact, dance “should be investigated as an alternative way for preventing overweight, obesity and other cardiovascular risk factors associated with sedentary behavior” (dos Santos, Queiroz, and Rodrigues-Krause)

Overall, dancing benefits the body by increasing physical activity and cardiovascular endurance, and helps the brain by releasing happy hormones and changing one’s way of thinking. 

Dance may also tone down the hormones in one’s brain that are caused by stress and replace them with serotonin

Breathe in, breathe out. Slide across the floor, making shapes with all four limbs that come alive with music. Heart pumping, breathing heavy as the body is pushed to its limits. 

Popp, Whitney. “Evelyn’s Ballet Interview.” Colorado Ballet Academy, 23 October 2020. 

Harvard Medical School. “Dancing and the Brain.” Neurobiology, Harvard Mahoney Neuroscience Institute, 2020, neuro.hms.harvard.edu/harvard-mahoney-neuroscience-institute/brain-newsletter/and-brain/dancing-and-brain. Accessed 19 October 2020. 

Dos Santos, Gabriela Cristina, Jéssica do Nascimento Queiroz, Josianne Rodrigues-Krause.   “Effects of dancing on physical activity levels of children and adolescents: A systematic review.” Complementary Therapies in Medicine, Vol. 54 2020, 102586. Universidad Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, School of Physical Education, Physiotherapy and Dance, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil https://www-sciencedirect-com.ezproxybrcc.helmlib.org/science/article/pii/S0965229920318537 29 March 2020. Accessed 19 October 2020.  Hanvey, Caitlin, and Callie Tepper-Lewis. “Co-Leading for Community Building: A Program   Description of a Dual-Modality Creative Arts Therapy Group in Psychiatric Emergency Care.” Arts in Psychotherapy, vol. 66, Nov. 2019, p. N.PAG. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1016/j.aip.2019.101581. Accessed 15 October 2020. 

s my topic and question clear and consistent throughout the whole essay? Do I need to cut back on some information to make my essay more concise? Is my essay too persuasive or biased for a research essay?

I also needed to reflect on my dedication to my topic, because at times I felt myself drifting from my topic and needed to re-establish my interest in my topic through reflection.

I actually liked using the databases provided for us, because I was able to find quality information that directly supported my questions.

I had to present my findings to my entire class (which was a little more stressful than this project).

Hana Pavlickova explains in an article how self-esteem is an issue when it comes to BD

There are plenty of challenges when it comes to Bipolar disorder.

It is said that many girls and women who suffer from BD attempt suicide.

But BD is highly treatable,

plenty of treatment are known

is not cure

r persons.

Melinda Smith speaks

Works Cited: 

authors, All, and Roger S Roger S. McIntyre & Joseph R. Calabrese. “Bipolar Depression: the Clinical Characteristics and Unmet Needs of a Complex Disorder.” Taylor & Francis, 5 Aug

During the Covid-19 pandemic recent evidence has popped up that show’s us a little more about how these regimes keep control. “Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha of Thailand has assumed the authority to impose curfews and censor the news media. Journalists there have been sued and intimidated for criticizing the government’s response to the outbreak.” Gebrekidan, Selam. “For Autocrats, and Others, Coronavirus Is a Chance to Grab Even More Power.” Https://Www.Nytimes.Com/#publisher, 14 Apr. 2020, www.nytimes.com/2020/03/30/world/europe/coronavirus-governments-power.html. This evidence from the New York Times sheds some light on how these government deal with other problems too. If they are willing to censor the media now during a time where transparency between nations will help on a global scale. Then they would probably have no problem doing this for any other reason.

Which brings us to our next question:

Thus answering our previous question about the effects on the average citizen.

“Why the Rise of Authoritarianism Is a Global Catastrophe.” The Washington Post, 13 Feb. 2017, www.washingtonpost.com/news/democracy-post/wp/2017/02/13/why-the-rise-of-authoritarianism-is-a-global-catastrophe.

peoples mental

n pursuing this goal, the authoritarians have challenged the universality of democracy and sought to erode liberal-democratic norms, replacing them with new counternorms that emphasize ‘state security, civilizational diversity, and traditional values’.” Au

your not

whom

all tough’s

Authoritarian

So we now know that the economy can play a role in authoritarian regimes taking power. So what else plays a role in this takeover of ideology?

lives to better.

where desperate

Fischer, Conan. Europe Between Democracy and Dictatorship : 1900 – 1945, John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2010.

depleting for

crisis’s i

it’s

this research paper I will talk about how these governments form, what culture leads to them, the context of the world in which it could form, and the effect it has on the world and on it’s people.

Oxford Languages defines authoritarianism as “the enforcement or advocacy of strict obedience to authority at the expense of personal freedom.”

d like to define the definition

A question that historians and people all around the world have pondered.

How does Authoritarianism take hold of a society

it’s Facets

Gentile, Emilio. “Fascism and the Italian Road to Totalitarianism.” Constellations: An International Journal of Critical & Democratic Theory, vol. 15, no. 3, Sept. 2008, pp. 291–302.

“Why the Rise of Authoritarianism Is a Global Catastrophe.” The Washington Post, 13 Feb. 2017, www.washingtonpost.com/news/democracy-post/wp/2017/02/13/why-the-rise-of-authoritarianism-is-a-global-catastrophe “For Autocrats, and Others, Coronavirus Is a Chance to Grab Even More Power.” Https://Www.Nytimes.Com/#publisher, 14 Apr. 2020, www.nytimes.com/2020/03/30/world/europe/coronavirus-governments-power.html

Authoritarianism Goes Global : The Challenge to Democracy, edited by Larry Diamond, et al., Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016.

, but it is a welcomed chance nonetheless.

How Old Are You?

How has distance learning affected you emotionally? *

How Has Coronavirus Affected You?

Gloria s

he feels she needs to be a man in order to be taken seriously and heard. For example she says “The struggle is inner: Chicano, indio, American Indian, mojado, mexicano, immigrant Latino, Anglo in power, working class Anglo, Black, Asian–our psyches resemble the border towns and are populated by the same people. The struggle has always been inner, and is played out in outer terrains. Awareness of our situation must come before inner chang

How she feels their heritage has to be abandoned in order to live freely and be accepted in America

She is trying to tell the audience

literary genre is a category of literary composition. Genres may be determined by literary technique, tone, content, or length. In the piece “Letter of Birmingham Jail” King wrote while in confinement.

In “a letter from Birmingham jail” King uses ethical and emotional appeals , figurative language , and logical reasoning to appeal to his audience which was intended to be the clergymen. Along with “how to tame a wild tongue “ Gloria uses emotional appeals and figurative language in her speeches.

letter from Birmingham jail”

While you are writing something in literature you always have to have a reason behind why you are writing it. 

all connect somehow

Second the audience is the six clergymen he sent it to. In the letter it states, “My dear fellow clergymen”. This shows his letter is directed at the clergymen

his piece of writing is a letter. It is meant to be read by who it is sent to.

the audience are Chicano people and Americans.

er writing is a story.

This is my analyzation of Billy Collins Commencement Address at Colorado College.

lly the purpose of his speech is to tell the graduates to not fear the future and to live in the present

First The genre of Billy Collins Commencement Address is a speech

Second the audience he is trying to reach with his speech are the students graduating that the speech was made for and the faculty and family attending. In his speech he said, “President Celeste, Distinguished Faculty, Staff

The first piece of writing I will be analyzing Billy Collins Commencement Address at Colorado College use of genre, audience, and purpose.

A genre is a category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter

works of literature

The 3 works

ollins, Billy. “Commencement Address at Colorado College” https://www.graduationwisdom.com/speeches/0135-Billy-Collins-Gives-Brilliant-Witty-Commencement-Speech-Address-At-Colorado-College-2008.htm Anzaldua, Gloria. “How to Tame a Wild Tongue” https://www.everettsd.org/cms/lib07/WA01920133/Centricity/Domain/965/Anzaldua-Wild-Tongue.pdf King, Martin Luther, Jr. “Letter from Birmingham Jail” http://okra.stanford.edu/transcription/document_images/undecided/630416-019.pdf

specific audience and that was the 8 cler

an essay, it is l

Her purpose is to persuade and inform her audience

an autobiography

Now it’s the turn of Gloria Anzula with

does pretty well connecting with his audience which is a group of college students he does not do that  by only telling some jokes

nd his purpose which is to motivate the recent graduates

commencement speech since he says that at a graduation ceremony like he said  “ This is not the first commencement address I have ever given. But the task of dispensing advice to a group of young strangers,

Let’s begin with Billy Collins and his commencement address,

*Genre:The type of writing or the category or how can we describe the writing. *Purpose:This is what the wring is trying to do or the message that it wants to deliver. *Audience:For whom the writing is intended in other words the public of the writing piece.

Anzula w

There are a lot of examples o

Writers make all kinds of choices and judgments; they select a  genre in which to compose, they aim to reach a particular audience, and they write with a particular purpose in mind, among other choices.” 

Anzula,Gloria “How to Tame a Wild Tongue” http://www.everettsd.org/cms/lib07/WA01920133/Centricity/Domain/965/Anzaldua-Wild-Tongue.pdfCollins,Billy “Commencement Address” http://www.graduationwisdom.com/speeches/0135-Billy-Collins-Gives-Brilliant-Witty-Commencement-Speech-Address-At-Colorado-College-2008.htm King Jr,Martin Luther “Letter from Birmingham Jail” http://okra.stanford.edu/transcription/document_images/undecided/630416-019.pdf

Major Assignment #1

Overall, through these works the theory of writing is looking at your audience to see what genre is most appro

anyone who does not understand what her language means to her

Poetry uses metaphors, alliteration, similes, and hyperboles. This genre is typically used to evoke an understanding of a powerful or controversial message to the audience by appealing to their emotions. Livingston uses many of these rhetorical devices to get his purpose across to his audience. The first instance of this is when he says “As educators, rather than raising your voices Over the rustling of our chains, Take them off” (Livingston 28-30). Li

his purpose is to show common core and standardized testing does not teach as well as creativity does

typical commencement

Collins also mentions in a funny way why commencements should not include talking about the future. He says “That dark area below you into which you are about to plummet is… the Future… Of course, many elect to simply avoid the future by going to graduate school, college is the future” (Collins, pg.2). He once again makes a joke about this due to the fact this is also a typical topic in commencement addresses.

is an entertaining speech,

He does this to catch the audience’s attention through h

Throughout each of these works, all three key terms are used together. 

category of writing that shares similar rhetorical moves.

Billy Collins Commencement

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opriate, then using the correct genre can make the author’s message more appealing to their audience, and by doing so will better help get the author’s message across.

purpose of her writing this piece of writing was to tell them of their oppression and make a realization with them.

Her audience differed though as her audience was more directed towards the Chicano Spanish peopl

Her genre was along the same line

o and also teachers past present and future,

genre of his speech