The Trigger

In an academic setting, the use of trigger warnings allow students to be exposed to new material while effectively preparing them for possibly shocking or traumatic information, enabling them to excel in academics. In college classes, students are often exposed to new concepts and material they would not have encountered in high school. For some students, the graphic subjects contained in the material may be unnerving. When students encounter uncomfortable content without warning, they are…

Since most universities provide reasonable accommodations for students with physical and learning needs—why not emotional? The concept of trigger warnings and safe spaces is a brilliant idea, that provides students with trauma, the opportunity to prepare for potentially graphic content in the classroom. Trigger warnings and safe spaces have adversely impacted the way Millennials convey information. Ultimately giving them the freedom to implement the voice of change. Equally important,…

throughout the body” (Reese 993). There are many things that may trigger a hormone to trigger different responses within the human body. This includes intracellular proteins and receptors. First, intracellular proteins act with intracellular receptors. “Intracellular receptors for lipid-soluble hormones perform the entire task of transducing a signal within a target cell” (Reese 997). When a hormone activates a receptor, that triggers a cell’s response. A signal transduction is “the linkage of…

swollen or inflamed. This makes them extra sensitive to things that you are exposed to in the environment every day. When you have asthma, it is important to know what your “triggers” are. A trigger could be a cold or the weather, or things in the environment, such as dust, chemicals, smoke and pet dander. When you breathe in a trigger, the insides of your airways swell even more. This narrows the space for the air to move in and out of the lungs. The muscles that wrap around your airways also…

Everyone has a trigger word. It is the word that sparks a thought tsunami in a person’s brain and an emotional hurricane in a person’s heart. It is a word that sparks memories that should stay repressed but float back up to the brain. My trigger word is “2009.” It was an average day. I was at soccer practice when my mother arrived to pick me up early. On our ride home, my mother informed me that we weren’t going home. We weren’t going to the home that my father built along with countless others…

Pathways and Trigger Brought to Life. This chapter talks about how frustration look different on different children. Not all children will explode the same way, with the same pathways however, across the board all the explosive child share a similarity in some way, and that is the skills they lack to help them deal with the problem. The author give an example of four different children, in different age range, and how the child show their frustration, but also how they react to the triggers.…

Trigger warnings on college campuses, as a means to warn students of course material that may be offensive or disturbing to them, should not be allowed because it does not allow professional, intellectual academic discourse to occur. College professors are staring to second think on what course material to teach, because many students become offended with what comes out of the professor’s mouth, this also applies to comedians that would perform, but now they can’t because of the immaturity of…

Why I Now Believe In Using Trigger Warnings: A Rhetorical Analysis “Why I Use Trigger Warnings” by Kate Manne was published two weeks ago to The New York Times’ Sunday Review Opinion section. She writes in response to the September cover story of The Atlantic by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt who discuss the movement of “coddling” American college students by their own request. Manne takes one of the aspects that they target and explains why she believes that trigger warnings are an…

Thanks for the Feedback Summary In chapter one, author Douglas Stone and Sheila Heen address the three triggers that block feedback. There are three common triggers. Truth, relationship, and identity. The truth triggers are caused by substance of feedback. This truth triggers leave us feeling wronged, exasperated and unhelpful. They discussed relationship triggers that are caused by a certain person who giving us gift of feedback. We all need people who will give us feedback. That’s how…

articles that have the same views as me, which is refreshing after reading a 25 page article that I find fundamentally wrong. Trigger warnings are absolutely essential for preserving the mental well-being of college students, as it is not the professor’s job to “cure” the affected student with unexpected reminders of the past. Lindsay Holmes’ article “A Quick Lesson On What Trigger Warnings Actually Do” highlights a welcome letter from the College at the University of Chicago, to their class of…