The Trigger

promote the same product but they also present dark themes and possibly trigger unwanted emotions to viewers that had experience a tragedy where depression played a major role in their life. The infomercial’s narrator for Cymbalta campaign opens with “Have you or a loved one suffered from depression?” this is trigger factor number one: It convinces the viewers thought process of remembrance and pain that they experienced. Trigger factor number two, the side effects of Cymbalta can be very brutal…

between the American colonies and the Britain. A lot of people might have heard about the Boston Tea Party, a bunch of Americans dumped British tea into Boston Harbor, but many do not know how important it was. In fact, the Boston Tea Party was the trigger of the American Independent War. In the year of 1767, Parliament passed the Townshend Acts, which were laws that put taxes on products which imported into the American colonies. The Britain thinks that they could take more money off from the…

John Doe is a previously homeless, sixty-year-old separated male from Reston, Virginia. The client is half Japanese from his mother’s side and Russian and Scottish from his father’s side. The client views himself as “biracial” and American cultural. His father and mother met and married in Japan when his father was stationed on a military base. When John was young, he lived with his mother after his parent's divorce and his father was no longer in his life. The client does not identify with…

breathing difficult sometimes. An asthma attack is the inflammation in the airway passages, which make the airways that carries oxygen become temporary, narrowed. People that have asthma can be especially sensitive to triggers. Often time’s airways will flare up to the simplest triggers like pollen, animal dander, dust, fumes, or poor air quality (WebMD). A second grader named Hannah Austin from Smyrna, Georgia suffers from asthma. Twice a day she has to exhale all the air from her lungs to…

I kept my triggers in place and, despite the skepticism shed by those unbelievers I spent my days with, the lucid dreams became easier and more fulfilling. I could bring people into and force them out of my dreams. I could make dream cars to drive in or events to attend…

towards certain topics before it is published out to the public. The topics are usually sensitive issues such as suicide, grief, mental health and trauma. These topics needs to be very thoroughly checked before being distribute and published to not trigger the community who have been affected by it. Identification With sensitive topics being not too commonly reported in the media it is seen to be as both a barrier and great outcome. The main barrier seen to reporting…

because of gun incidents. Gun violence is a substantial issue that should not be taken lightly. Gun violence should not be taken lightly because many people are losing their lives at faster speeds because of guns and the people who choose to pull that trigger and take off the safety. After thorough investigation we found that gun violence is a serious issue but there are other issues to worry about relating to gun violence that are important and add to the death of others. Mental health is a…

traumatic events, are all symptoms of PTSD. Children may reenact the trauma in their play or may exhibit aggressive behaviors (U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, 2015). Some may have memory lapses of the traumatic events. However, it is possible for triggers such as smells to cause a break; therefore, they are avoided at all costs (Cacioppo & Freberg, 2013). There are biological explanations behind PTSD that are being investigated such as the link between PTSD and a person’s hippocampus.…

[Double check if it also applies to swiping. If not, we can use light press / hard press to trigger shallow or deep slide]. By detecting the force applied to the touch screen, we can classify the slide gestures into two categories: shallow slide and deep slide. The interaction of this interface is similar to iPhone’s slide to unlock; however, how hard the user press at the beginning of the sliding gesture will trigger different actions. The haptic feedbacks of the two slide gestures are also…

Censorship and Schools Nowhere is the debate over censorship more heated than in schools and universities. Parents want to protect their kids, students want to be heard over others and schools want to avoid any disruptive problems. It’s a fine line that many people tread and are uncertain about what to do, but when you look deeper into the issue the answer becomes clearer. There shouldn’t be any censorship in schools because doing so undermines our rights to free speech, prevents productive…