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Proposal +5 -alaska

Proposal:  For my research paper, I would like to look into how people are affected by others with depression. I would like to research how bad depression can be and how it can be caused. Also, ways to prevent it.

1.Depression and the response of others: Is the effect specific?

The Essential content of the Article: This article discusses an experiment they did with depressed paitents talking to college students.

What it proves: This article proves the response depression gets.

2.Depression: Causes and Treatment

The Essential content of the Article: This article gives the definition of depression and also gives the causes and some treatments they use.

What it proves: This article proves the most common causes and treatments for depression.

3.Residual symptoms at remission from depression: impact on long-term outcome

The Essential content of the Article: This article shows how the long term outcomes of depression are shown with the people around them.

What it proves: This article proves the impact depression has on the people around them.

4.Prevention of depression with primary care patients: A randomized controlled trial

The Essential content of the Article: This article talks about ways to prevent depression and how a study was done to prove their ways.

What it proves: This article proves ways to prevent depression if they see it early on.

5.The Inventory to Diagnose Depression (IDD): A self-report scale to diagnose major depressive disorder

The Essential content of the Article: The article shows how doctors scale a diagnoses and how they treat that people with the certain diagnoses.

What it proves: This article proves diagnoses of depression. Shows how they diagnose someone with depression.

Visual Rewrite- alaska

0.01 The video starts with what we assume to be an African American family of four walking down the sidewalk that has cars parked along the side. Its looks to be a big neighborhood. All four of them are looking down at their phones. The boy has earphones in and so does the girl. None of them are talking to each other; they are all quiet and in their our little world. The dad seems to be looking off to the side like he is looking for something or is reading a sign.

0.04 The family seems to be dressed casually for their outing. The women stops and points to something off screen while the camera zooms in onto her phone. The screen shows a website for discovering a park or forest near you.

0.06 They resume walking and the camera focuses on the little girl. She looks so surprised and begins to take out her earphones. The background looks to be some sort of park. It has a park sign in the back and many trees.

0.07 The camera angle changes to all of the family and shows them walking towards a pond or a lake. The parents are holding hands and the kids are a little bit in front of the parents but are also on either side of them.

0.09 The camera zooms in onto the little girl again. She is crouching down towards the lake looking at her reflection in the water. Seeing herself and smiles.

0.11 The little girl starts to make funny faces into the water. Sticking her tongue out and closing her eyes.

0.12 The next scene is of the kids crouching down on rocks across from each other while a little stream of water goes in between them. They have sticks and they are playing with the water. The area around them is very tall grass and looks a bit cornered or sectioned off. The screen then says streaming.

0.15 The camera shows the father pointing at something offscreen showing his daughter. They both look very happy. The camera shows a black bird with an orange and white wing on a tree branch. The screen then says tweet.

0.18 The little boy is crouched down looking at the ground that has a pile of leaves and sticks. He then moves a leaf and it shows a close up of a snail. The screen then says search results.

0.22 The little boy picks up the snail and shows his family. They all seem so happy and surprised.

0.23 The little boy then starts to swing his sister around by holding her hands and her flying off the ground.

0.25 The family is walking towards the camera while the mom goes and grabs the little girl by the shoulders and gives her a little hug while the father and the son laugh. The screen then says connected.

0.27 The screen shows the family walking away from the camera in an open field and the screen says find a great local park or forest. Discovertheforest.org

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uR0nOhtALHM

E03: Critical Reading- alaska

Section 1.

Brannan Vines has never been to war. But she’s got a warrior’s skills: hyperawareness, hypervigilance, adrenaline sharp quick-scanning for danger, for triggers.

  • We can assume that Brannan doesn’t want to go to war.
  • She has a good set of skills to make her aware of her surroundings.
  • These skills can be used by athletes, fighters, etc.

 

Skills on the battlefield, crazy-person behavior in a drug store, where she was recently standing behind a sweet old lady counting out change when she suddenly became so furious her ears literally started ringing.

  • “Crazy-person behavior” can be assumed that her PTSD has caught up to her and is making her freak out.
  • When she is standing in line her symptoms become worse.

 

Being too cognizant of every sound—every coin dropping an echo—she explodes inwardly, fury flash-incinerating any normal tolerance for a fellow patron with a couple of dollars in quarters and dimes.

  • Brannan is having trouble because she is too aware of the things around her so the noises make her freak out and become more agitated.

 

Her nose starts running she’s so pissed, and there she is standing in a CVS, snotty and deaf with rage, like some kind of maniac, because a tiny elderly woman needs an extra minute to pay for her dish soap or whatever.

  • “Deaf with rage” can be assumed that she is so angry that she doesn’t listen to the things around her only things that irritate her.

 

Brannan Vines has never been to war, but her husband, Caleb, was sent to Iraq twice, where he served in the infantry as a designated marksman.

  • Brannan’s husband has been to Iraq twice. So, we assume he has PTSD.
  • Caleb was in the infantry which was combat on foot.

 

He’s one of 103,200, or 228,875, or 336,000 Americans who served in Iraq or Afghanistan and came back with PTSD, depending on whom you ask, and one of 115,000 to 456,000 with traumatic brain injury.

  • Caleb came back with PTSD.
  • He has had a traumatic brain injury in the military.

 

Imagine there’s a murderer in your house. And it is dark outside, and the electricity is out. Imagine your nervous system spiking, readying you as you feel your way along the walls, the sensitivity of your hearing, the tautness in your muscles, the alertness shooting around inside your skull. And then imagine feeling like that all the time.

  • The author gives you a scene so the reader can understand what is going on.
  • We assume this is how Caleb feels with PTSD.
  • Feeling like he is closed off and is having trouble with his head.

Summaries-alaska

  1. It seems counterintuitive that organ donors are incorrectly announced brain-dead. California has laws that require two physicians come in and declare the condition the patient is in before the doctor handling the patient can take the patient’s organs. In a case study, Foster who was 47 died from a hemorrhage. Foster had two doctors declare him, he was brain dead but his daughter wanted a third opinion. The third doctor’s opinion was said that Fodter was not brain dead and that foster moved and coughed. Foster’s daughter was happy she got a third opinion so that the doctor’s didn’t pull the plug.

http://articles.latimes.com/2007/apr/12/local/me-transplant12

2. It seems counterintuitive that Belgium approves doctors to euthanize children. Belgium will  allow it under certain conditions. Belgium is the first country in the world to lift all age restrictions. There are concerns about abuse under euthanasia. Recent studies are that some assisted deaths aren’t being recorded or are being done without request. The extension of euthanasia to children will result in an increase of euthanasia deaths each year.

http://www.lifenews.com/2013/12/12/belgium-senate-approves-measure-allowing-doctors-to-euthanize-children/

3. It seems counterintuitive that Vancouver has a safe zone that lets heroin addicts “shoot up” under nurse’s supervision without getting arrested. It is ridiculous that the staff at this safe zone provides the instruments for this drug. Giving these addicts the drug and the instruments to use the drug is crazt to think about. The staff is literally helping these people die and not help them become clean.

https://www.pri.org/stories/2015-02-04/vancouver-combats-heroin-giving-its-addicts-best-smack-world

Visual Rhetoric—alaska

0.01 The video starts with what we assume to be a family of four walking down the sidewalk that has cars parked along the side. Its looks to be a big neighborhood. All four of them a looking down at their phones. The boy has earphones in and so does the girl. None of them are talking to each other; they are all quiet and in their our world.

0.04 The women stops and points to something off screen while the camera zooms in onto her phone. The screen shows a website for discovering a park or forest near you.

0.06 They resume walking and the camera focuses on the little girl. She looks so surprised and begins to take out her earphones. The background looks to be some sort of park. It has a park sign in the back and many trees.

0.07 The camera angle changes to all of the family and shows them walking towards a pond or a lake. The parents are holding hands and the kids are a little bit in front of the parents but are also on either side of them.

0.09 The camera zooms in onto the little girl again. She is crouching down towards the lake looking at her reflection in the water.

0.11 The little girl starts to make funny faces into the water. Sticking her tongue out and closing her eyes.

0.12 The next scene is of the kids crouching down on rocks across from each other while a little stream of water goes in between them. They have sticks and they are playing with the water. The area around them is very tall grass and looks a bit cornered or sectioned off. The screen then says streaming.

0.15 The camera shows the father pointing at something offscreen showing his daughter. They both look very happy. The camera shows a black bird with an orange and white wing on a tree branch. The screen then says tweet.

0.18 The little boy is crouched down looking at the ground that has a pile of leaves and sticks. He then moves a leaf and it shows a close up of a snail. The screen then says search results.

0.22 The little boy picks up the snail and shows his family. They all seem so happy and surprised.

0.23 The little boy then starts to swing his sister around by holding her hands and her flying off the ground.

0.25 The family is walking towards the camera while the mom goes and grabs the little girl by the shoulders and gives her a little hug while the father and the son laugh. The screen then says connected.

0.27 The screen shows the family walking away from the camera in an open field and the screen says find a great local park or forest. Discovertheforest.org

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uR0nOhtALHM

 

Stone Money–alaska

To me money is so important. We as a society need it to get by in life but money has so much power over everything we do. I have listened to the broadcast “The Invention of Money” and read the article “The Island of Stone Money” by Milton Friedman. Friedman says that The Island of Stone Money had no metal so they had to use stones. I thought that having a big stone to pay a person is kind of a ridiculous thing to do since you don’t move the stone if it’s too heavy. Everyone around you would know that you don’t have that stone anymore and it was someone else’s.

In the broadcast “The Invention of Money” the five reporters say that in the 1950’s a big limestone meant you can buy back a member that someone else has captive and trade that person for a stone. Saying you would get your member back while everyone knew the stone was not yours anymore. While a bank account is just numbers and the bank saying how much you have when the actual money isn’t there. To think a big limestone and a bank account are to mean the same thing but are so different from each other is crazy.

In The “The Invention Of ‘The Economy'” by Jacob Goldstein. Goldstein says that the GDP (Gross Domestic Product) is not a thing; it’s an idea. Also, That the U.S made the economy $500 billion dollars bigger just last year. The economy to me is just a big confusing thing. The Yap concept of money was way easier than it is today. They just had stones and you could trade them. If it could not be moved it would stay where it is all the time.

So, what is money? To society today it is just a number in your bank account and not actually in your pocket. To all of us there are many different definition of what money is. Money is just used to purchase certain items and pay our bills.

Works Cited

Friedman, Milton. “The Island of Stone Money.” Diss. Hoover Institution, Stanford University , 1991.

Goldstein, Jacob. “The Invention Of ‘The Economy’.” Npr.org, 28 Feb. 2014.

“The Invention of Stone Money.” 423: The Invention of Stone Money. This Is American Life, WBEZ. Chicago . 7 Jan. 2011.