How To Make Stress Your Friend: Personal Analysis

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21. How to Make Stress Your Friend

I find Kelly’s tedtalk amazing, but also sketchy. I do believe like she said if you handle stress in a different way stress can not be as bad for you. I can’t believe that stress is actually good if you handle it well. I know I am not going to be looking for more stressful situations then I have to. She did open my eyes that I can handle stress better. I generally am a happy person I volunteer and help out my community, but with that I have piles of stress. I will try to take from this video that I should try to handle stress better and look at stress from a different viewpoint.

22.Your Brain on Video Games

I found this tedtalk very interesting. It is crazy to think video games can actually be good for
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It is a sad to see what these transgendered kids go through. I am glad that there families supported them. Today’s society is starting to become more and more accepting to the transgender community which will make their lives easier. I personally believe you should be able to be whatever you want to be. Your gender and sexually is your own choice and society does not have a say. Jazz from other videos I have seen on her seems to be having a pretty great life. Aside from what I saw in the video I have never heard about the other transgender children (Riley and Jeremy) in the video. The video did show being transgender is clearly not a choice. People are born transgender and have a right to switch genders if they choice too. I hope that all the children as well as transgender people in gender can have happy lives. That is the goal for everyone and everyone has a right to …show more content…
I agree that there is a ton of sexism in games. I personally believe a lot of this has to do with many games being marketed toward men. There seems to be certain types of games where women do play, but they are dominated by men. I do believe that women gamers are looked at badly. They are looked at as lesser gamers which is completely wrong. Like Paul believes I think everyone can be a good game regardless of gender. I hope to see a change in the content we find ourself in popular games and lead toward a world with less sexism in games. This video reminded me we still have a long way before women are no longer

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