Drum major

For my días de los Muertos project I decided to honor my brother Tommy. My brother is 16 years old and goes to Seneca high school. During the summer he worked at Braca’s, a restaurant in Sea isle City. Some of Tommy’s interest are sports. He does a lot of sports such as baseball, basketball, and he is on the bowling team at Seneca for fun with his baseball team. This year he will be playing golf for Seneca. Also during the winter besides basketball Tommy loves to go snowboarding. He goes…

The main problems with these drugs are they do way too little with the problem at hand, such as anxiety, to have so many side effects and risks. Anxiolytics are taken to deal with anxiety and the some of the side effects of that medicine are problems with memory, dizziness, and drowsiness. Some of these prescribed medications may be good for a short term, but they can be habit-forming and even then when you are off the medications the original problem is likely to come back. Along with the…

As mentioned before, pitching requires several joints and muscles. Shoulder and elbow are two of the joints that are involved in the movement. Of the six phases of pitching, arm cocking, acceleration and deceleration are the three phases when elbow and shoulder joints experience high magnitudes of forces (Oyama 83). Windup is the phase that occurs when the pitcher places the non-throwing hand is in front of the target. In the beginning of the arm cocking phase, the non-throwing shoulder is…

Demographics are important when researching mental illnesses in individuals. These traits help professionals like epidemiologists gather data that can help decide what types of people could potentially become mentally ill. Epidemiologists will obtain demographics for surveying purposes. Information such as age, race, and marital status, to name a few, gives reliability in one’s study. (Cockerham 2014) Biological differences that men and women have, can contribute to mental illness. Women for…

Major depression consist of at least one of the symptoms of either depressed mood or loss of interest or pleasure (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). The symptoms for major depression consist of depressed mood, loss of energy, significant weight differences such as more than 5% of body weight in a month, feelings of worthlessness, inability to concentrate, recurrent thoughts of death, insomnia or hypersomnia, and psychomotor agitation. The severity of the depression is determined by the…

The World Health Organization (WHO) considers schizophrenia to be one of the world’s ten leading causes of disability (2016). This severe mental illness has an array of symptoms and affects a person’s thought, emotions, perception, and behavior. Individuals suffering from schizophrenia have the inability to separate reality from fantasies, which can play into the difficultly as to why the illness can be so hard to treat. Since there is no one cause for schizophrenia, professionals are forced to…

The novel centers on unnamed narrator who struggles with life and suffers from insomnia. Henry A. Giroux says, “Fight club portrays a society in which public space collapses and is filled by middle-class white men disoriented in the pandemonium of conflicting social forces who end up with a lot of opportunities for violence” (71-72). He works as a Product Recall Specialist for unnamed company. He is responsible for determining if product recalls or detective models meet cost benefit analysis.…

Antidepressants should be highly regulated when distributed to adolescents. The prescription of antidepressants is often a "quick fix" to a permanent or complicated situation, and is, in many cases, ineffective or harmful. Various instances of suicidal events have occurred due to hap-hazard methods used when prescribing antidepressants. However, when used properly and under adequate supervision, these drugs can be live-saving and have very positive impacts on a child or teen's life. When…

Mindfulness requires one to pay attention in a particular way, deliberately and non-judgmentally, to the present moment. Mindfulness has been applied to many different conditions such as, stress reduction, chronic pain, cancer, parenting, childbirth and anxiety, etc. While this technique is useful for many conditions the primary intention of applying mindfulness-based cognitive therapy to treatment is to teach clients mindfulness-based approaches for depression. Depression is considered to be a…

not without horrific pain. Thoughts of suicide filled my mind. Only later did I learn from a fiction book, of all things, that depression is a natural companion for those with chronic illnesses. Some become depression after surgery, some after a major loss or change, some after the birth of a child. Depression haunts those who feel abandoned by the loss of family, friends, spouse, work. Even a move away from a support system can trigger depression. Depression manifests in a feeling of aloneness…