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- 271: Teenage Years
- ... me say this, you couldnΥ t be more wrong if you had a lobotomy. There aren't that many adults around who realise what adolescence was really like. The anguish, the fear, the anxiety, the stress. People don't remember those problems because they want to forget them. The truth of the matter is, is that being a teenager is hard, right from the beginning, and it doesn't get any ... advertise using the pressure of popularity, looks and sex to force us to buy their product that, as it turns out, we never wanted or needed in the first place. Our lives are filled with stress. One of the greatest sources of pressure is school. Where we are herded like cattle from room to room, chewing on our cud, while the hay of knowledge is force fed to us as we ...
- 272: David Garrick
- ... excelled. His use of broken tones of utterance was an innovation to the theatre world of the 18th-century (Burnim 45). Garrick was often accused by his peers that he had very little understanding of stress and how to use it (Burnim 78). It could have been that it was the excellence of his physicality that drew attention away from his improper use of stress. Garricks vocal style was concerned with the characterization rather than the recitation (Stone and Kahrl 256). Garrick was considered to be the greatest actor of his time largely in part to his ability to ...
- 273: Cao Daiism
- ... In the mid-1940's, the French brought out the strongest in Vietnamese nationalism, most notably from the Cao Dai and Hoa Hao (another religious group, especially prominent in Southwest Vietnam). "South Vietnam: Nation Under Stress" describes how this came about: Although they began as purely religious institutions, the strength of Vietnamese nationalism was such that both the Cao Dai and the Hoa Hao quickly took on political coloration. They mixed ... caodai/caodaism.html Raskin, Marcus G. and Bernard B. Fall. The Vietnam Reader: Articles and Documents on American Foreign Policy and the Vietnam Crisis. New York: Random House, 1965. Scigliano, Robert. South Vietnam: Nation Under Stress. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1964.
- 274: Chinese Kinship Systems
- ... order to reproduce itself it would still be forced to import women as brides, and dispose of females born into it by marrying them off to other families. Finally, it would continue to lay heavy stress on relationships through males, and tended to play down those through females, while there was an accompanying stress on the importance of men as opposed to women (Baker, 1979).
- 275: Attention Deficit Disorder ( Add)
- ... dyes affect the hyperactivity of an ADD individual. h It has been evident that ADD individuals suffer from abnormally low levels of arousal in the nervous system. ADD children are often under high levels of stress due to their behaviour, therefore causing biochemical differences and the increase of their hyperactive behaviour. h Possible brain damage is another feature that has been shown in an ADD child. During pregnancy, toxins may have ... slower than normal development in parts of the brain. At the stage of infancy, the child may have already encountered seizures, cerebral palsy or head injuries.(Ibid,p222) PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORIES OF ADD The 1973 diathesis-stress theory proposed Bettelheim, suggests that ADD develops when a child has a disposition towards overactivity and moody behaviour coupled with unfortunate rearing by parents (Ibid. 1999,p2). Parents that become easily stressed and impatient behave ...
- 276: Gulf War Syndrome
- ... and reasoning processes such as reading, writing, and spelling: getting confused; getting disoriented when trying to locate a car in a parking lot; having problems with balance; having a physician s diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, or liver disease; and sexual impotence ( Gulf War Illnesses Broken Down Into Three Primary Syndromes 2). Syndrome-3 or Artho-myo-neuropathy Syndrome - characterized by generalized joint and muscle pains, increased difficulty lifting ... cause of the Gulf War Illness is also undefined. The possibilities of causes that Coy states are biological warfare agents, chemical warfare agents, depleted uranium, indigenous infectious diseases, and pesticides, smoke from oil well fires, stress, and vaccines. Most of these causes are being actively investigated in more than 121 research projects (Coy 51). The most accepted possibility for Gulf War Syndrome is related to a combination of multiple factors (Coy ...
- 277: The Effects of Divorce
- ... discussed are intellectual performance, juvenile delinquency and aggression, social and emotional well- being and cognition and perception, (A & J Skolnick p. 349). Most research shows that boys are more vulnerable than girls to divorce related stress and recover more slowly. A. and J. Skolnick offer the possibility that living with the opposite sex is more difficult than with the same sex and because the custodial parent is often the mother, boys ... and even though the development of masculine sex roles is slowed it is not long-term. Social and emotional functioning includes interaction with peers, emotional states of fear, anxiety, depression and capacity to cope with stress or frustration. The majority of studies show the social-emotional functioning of children of divorce is less than intact families, ( A & J Skolnick p. 351). On the average children of divorce have somewhat more negative ...
- 278: Columbine Whose Fault Is It
- ... because they do not have anything to learn from, leaving a seemingly hopeless and repetitious cycle. Hartup (1996) organized a study about friendship and its developmental significance (MP14). His study showed that normative transitions and stress seemed to be handled better by children that have friends. Not having friends to share their problems with led to abnormal development. Peer rejection by the majority of the school's population probably drove the ... the Trenchcoat Mafia, which helped to foster and encourage the rage that the boys felt. If the boys had had more healthy friendships, maybe they would have found healthier ways to release the rage and stress they felt. If they had not been exposed to such violence through the media, maybe the thought of massacring their schoolmate would never have entered their heads. Finally, if they had not had access to ...
- 279: Sports Therapy
- ... their overall game. Negative thoughts and psychological pressure from competitive moments; create many distractions for athletes who do not focus mental pictures in their minds. A vivid picture, is one that allows individuals to see stress and negative thoughts as a challenge, rather than a threat. Psychologists assist athletes in coping with many obstacles that might occur, so that when they get in a pressured dilemma, they can react quickly to ... mind as well as your body." Athletes in today's society are either suffering from tension or nervous build up. Through heavy research, sports therapists have found out that athletes who have experienced recent life stress are more likely to be injured on the playing field. Overly stressed athletes are less to observe potentially harmful objects in their peripheral vision and more likely to concentrate on irrelevant cues. Moreover anxious athletes ...
- 280: GI Jane
- ... exhaustion. Within days, she abruptly withdrew from the college, forced to admit that she could not withstand the rigors of "hell week." Ms. Faulkner, fighting back tears, explained that two and a half years of stress had "all crashed in" on her in the first days there. After not quite making the cut, and surviving the stress and trials of these places, they say that it is because the men were too hard on them. "Too hard" is not a valid sentence in the military, you are either tough enough or you ...
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