Oxidative stress

Hazards of School-induced Stress Depressed. Anxious. Fearful. Needy. These are all symptoms of students trapped in the vicious cycle, unable to escape school-induced stress. The responsibilities of completing schoolwork constantly consume students of all ages. School is stealing the rank as the number one priority for many teens. This may be seemingly positive, but it has negative effects overall. The stress of homework and the pressure to achieve outstanding grades is causing the good health…

actual causes being unique to every individual. One of the biggest challenges for students, therefore, is finding a way to manage everyday stress in order to make their time in the school more fulfilling and to care for their own personal mental and physical health. That can manifest itself in sports, music, and even leisure reading. I found my own way of handling stress through yoga, finding a dramatic positive increase in my own physical, mental, and spiritual health. Yoga has, most obviously,…

Everyone speaks a language, but some people speak more than one language. To learn and understand a new language can be troublesome when first starting to learn said language. Both Amy Tan and Barbara Mellix experience these struggles. Tan’s multicultural Chinese- American life explains why Tan worries about the misunderstanding and stereotypes about the Chinese language. Tan explains in her essay, “The Language of Discretion”, how these misunderstandings and stereotypes affect her life. On the…

surface with every refresh of your Instagram feed (Stephen Mariani).” This quote states that social media has actually made the FOMO on something harder because you see people doing things without you. This supports my big argument because FOMO could stress you out because you feel like you should be there doing whatever you see…

for a reason, and sooner or later it will all fall into place. I hope to live in the moment as I try to not stress, take action, and enjoy the present. Stress is feeling which is embedded into every college students head. We feel the stress from the start of the semester to the very last second of finals week. This stress is sometimes carried over as we wait for our pending exam scores. Stress is an overwhelming emotion that can deteriorate one’s body. I hope to overcome this weakness of mine…

Rhetoric, the existence of persuasion in writing or speaking, a powerful tool that shapes the way writers and readers interact. Also the base of a rhetorical situation, or a situation that is brought about by communication of a want to fulfill an action. The poem above, which I wrote for a 12th grade English assignment, is a perfect example of a rhetorical situation, clearly portraying the interaction between the rhetor, audience, exigence, and constraints. I choose to review the rhetoric of…

we all encounter some sort of stress related issues. Many of you may feel like you already know what stress is, correct? Did you know that there are Different types of stress, good and bad? One of the foundations for understanding stress is the “ Stress model “ and that includes a five-step model. I will further elaborate on that model and how it applies to stress. Then I will go into detail on how exercise can help reduce stress and be helpful. What does stress mean to you? Whenever you…

of thought, figure out how to solve the problem. Everyone has a different approach as to how to tackle stress. I know people whom use stress balls. It’s a squishy, yet somewhat firm ball that you place in the palm of your hand and squeeze. This helps to relieve stress and the tension that accompanies it. Another stress relief technique is meditation. Mediation is one of the best stress relieving techniques that was founded within the Indian culture but today is accessible to…

Procrastination can help release some stress, instead of worrying about the dreaded deadline. Realizing that procrastination does let my natural creativity flow, I will actually waste less time. When writing finally hits me that is when I should begin writing. Time and time again, I try to…

Stress is around us every single day. We absorb it from others, generate it ourselves, and perpetuate this rather vicious cycle by subjecting others to our personal angst. The idea that we the average American citizen, living in a relatively "peaceful" environment are or should be free of it is laughable to me. Perhaps we aren 't experiencing the same level or degree/ quantity as a soldier on the front line fighting on foreign land, fair enough. Yet the physiological signs are undeniably present…