- Write a 3-6 page essay (600-1200 words) based on the following prompt:
- Identify your stressors and examine their impact on your life. Reflect on your current coping mechanisms and consider their effectiveness in managing stress. Explore alternative strategies for rethinking stress, including mindfulness practices, seeking support from friends or professionals, and setting boundaries. Discuss how adopting these new approaches could empower you to better manage stress and promote your overall well-being.
- Include and highlight each of the following terms in the essay, demonstrating your understanding of them as they relate to you: Stressor, amygdala, hypothalamus, sympathetic nervous system, parasympathetic nervous system, prefrontal cortex, hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis (HPA), cortisol, adrenaline, and oxytocin.
Your essay should include:
- An introduction to what stress is and how it is commonly understood.
- Your personal experiences with stress.
- A plan for how you might rethink stress.
- Include and highlight the 10 terms.
- Include a brief definition of each key concept (1 sentence).
- Cite at least (3) three sources to support your reflections and insights.
- Sources articles from scientific journals, etc.
- Limit the use of direct quotes; try paraphrasing instead.
- Use APA or MLA formatting for your essay and references (either is fine as long as it’s consistent throughout the essay).
- Double-spaced. 12-point font.
- Submit your essay on Canvas as a Word document file.
- Follow the rubric
- To help you out with the essay about my life.. help you integrate it together.
- I used to live in Oxnard, California, and when I was around in the fifth grade, I had a teacher who did not like me for some reason. So, the way she would punish us for getting bad grades or stuff was by putting us at a desk that we could not fit in, the corner. Alternatively, she would make us get on her hands and knees and cross her legs and put her chin up against the wall and sit like that as long as she said my mom comes, and she told her it was the craziest Matilda thing you could ever think of happening. So like, in ninth grade, I got bullied, and I do not know if that is like sexual harassment, but some kid told me I should get a bra, a training bra for my titties—people in school at Palm Desert. My teacher used to call me a China man, like, here comes a China man, and it was really. I got bullied a lot, but I became a good person after that because when I saw that you were bullying people, I was the one who came up and said something about the situation, and it made me a better person; what it sucked that I had to go through it. I have terrible anxiety reading in front of people. My dad would be little me in front of my friends if I could not read a word properly and just get frustrated with me. He would not let me leave until I figured out how to say it, and he would not support me.
