Rationale 

Reflection 

For my three writing pieces I decided to use important information that would best benefit my audience of students and parents who are interested in college but not as interested in the high cost of college therefore with that in mind I had to decipher through numerous amounts of information to find the information which best suited my writing purpose and best helped my readers in Possibly lowering the cost of college and what options they have in doing that.

WWW.CORNERSTONE.EDU/BLOGS/LIFELONG-LEARNING-MATTERS/POST/WHY-IS-COLLEGE-TUITION-RISING-SO-MUCH-AND-WHAT-CAN-YOU-DO.    

My final genre

decided to use a brochure

Have you ever Had a dream that you weren’t able to accomplish due to not having the correct finances to support your dreams and push you closer to the finish line

Genre 3-Brochure

Genre 2-Public Service Message

I mess around on Logic Pro (like garage band but better) and make unique songs and rhythms before, it helps when I have been around music for so long in my life.

. Once with that done, starting major assignment #3 with infographic, gave me not only creative freedom but some creative ideas to use to think of different genres to use as the other parts of the assignment

how did you put together the composition?

why these genres? What audience? What purpose?

While doing this project/assignment, I learned a lot more about my passion even more than I knew before. What music does to us, and how it can aid us. It is fascinating. Not only that, but I learned more about genre than before. What different types of genres there are, there are so many, the infographic, music, letter forms, podcasts etc.  I learned a lot about audience through writing a letter, directly focused on a specific audience and what to say to them. I even learned that certain types of music genres will attract certain feelings people are feeling and will attract those people feeling that way.

Hodges, Donald A., and Robin W. Wilkins. “How and Why Does Music Move Us?: Answers from Psychology and Neuroscience.” Music Educators Journal, vol. 101, no. 4, June 2015, pp. 41–47. EBSCOhost,Bristolcc.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=eric&AN=EJ1065049&site=ehost-live.

With making your own music,

Music is everywhere, think about it, the world would be silent without some kind of music.

How did that music make you feel? Did you initially like it, do you like it? If not explain why. Would it be something you would listen to with certain lyrics? How did it affect your emotions before and after?

Infographic: https://www.canva.com/design/DADIUEleS_c/SCnFd6KYbwa-FcUH3xAVlQ/view?website#2

with its own attendant set of risks and adverse effects,

eing a cancer patient means drugs.

The main psychoactive part of cannabis is tetrahydrocannabinol, one of 483 known compounds in the plant, including at least 65 other cannabinoids

Middlebrook, Hailey. “New Screen Time Rules for Kids, by Doctors.” CNN, Cable News Network, 21 Oct. 2016,

BabyCenter Staff. “Is Screen Time Bad for Babies and Toddlers?” BabyCenter, 9 Oct. 2018,

I figured this was a fun way to get my point across.

are a few very important theorist

I started by drawing out what I wanted my infographic to look like in the best case scenario and listed out tons of facts and photos that I could put into it. It looked great to me

I believe this project has helped me learn, it will inform my classmates

I am interested in giving my parents credible information on

I wondered what they were looking at and I wondered what their moods and social skills would be like if they were playing a game of dodge ball in the middle of the empty gym beside them instead

I am majoring in early childhood education, I am enrolled in my first introduction class

Wilkin, Jeff. “Town Clerk in Montgomery County Denies Marriage License to Same-Sex Couple.” The Daily Gazette, 31 July 2018, dailygazette.com/article/2018/07/31/root-town-clerk-denies-marriage-license-to-two-men.

My reasoning for picking the genres is because I think they would fit well with my topic and help me get my message across.

Genre #1 (Infographic)

Guy Fiona, Teenage Brain Development and Criminal Behavior,  July 07, 2018,  November 03, 2018, Crime Traveler, https://www.crimetraveller.org/2015/06/teenage-brain-development/ Michon Kathleen, When Juveniles Are Tried in Adult Criminal Court, April 11, 2016, November 03, 2018, www.nolo.com. https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/juveniles-youth-adult-criminal-court-32226.html Ritter Malcom, Experts link teen brains’ immaturity, juvenile crime,  November 03, 2018.  ABC News, https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=394&page=13187

any readers attention

I am trying to reach.

My audience were police, citizens, teens, and anyone who has concerns about this topic

The comic strip was defiantly more difficult then I expected.

defiantly

to an audience.

Inforgraphic

Sarris, Jerome, and Adrienne O’Neil. “Lifestyle Medicine for the Prevention and Treatment of Depression.” Lifestyle Medicine, 2016, pp. 281–289., doi:10.1007/978-3-319-24687-1_25.

Accessed 11/29/18

“Depression among Adults by Age U.S. 2013-2016 | Statistic.” Statista, Date Accessed 11/29/18 www.statista.com/statistics/814849/depression-among-adults-us-by-age/.

Work Cited

I chose to take a photo of some of the medications I have tried and some that I am currently on for depression and anxiety.

composing the infographic

ultimately decided on a PSA

My Rationale

my audience

As long as we can still keep a little hope in our hearts, we can get through any storm, get over any obstacle and get past any issue that comes our way.

what I didn’t understand then was that him filling my head with dreams was him being hopeful for the future.

had always rose

It was my first day, and I already felt the difference in me

Some of which I felt when it first came about, and some new ones now.

it’s many

my girls and I

has only

I must lay

he wanted too

ut sometimes, it is counteractive.

She had never seen her parents together. She was raised by her grandmother in Brava, Cape Verde. She was exposed

could you

therefor

l creature that stalks you like a thief in the night, waiting to rob you of your happiness, courage, and most of all, your true self. You may not always feel the intensity of its full grip, but you know it is lurking around the corner

You will never

When you

John Souza

What I think we are missing is the government programs for criminals the second they are released from prison.

Studies have shown that prisoners who maintain consistent contact and connection with their families during their sentences have a lower recidivism rate than those who do not.”

governments shoulders,

A 2002 study of more than 200 employers in the Milwaukee area found that formerly incarcerated candidates with nearly identical professional experience as non-offenders were less than half as likely to receive job offers.(Simmons school of social work)

An article from Simmons school of social work states that ” recidivism harms both the families of inmates and society in general, as taxpayers continue to support a broken system that sets ex-offenders up to fail once they are released.”

Housing developments are rejecting them because they are criminals. This causes a reoccurring cycle in which criminals are returning to jail. Should landlords be able to reject somebody because they are an ex-con? I see both sides in this question. The landlord is obviously going to be skeptical about somebody who has been in jail over somebody who has no criminal record. Some answers truly have no right answers, and that is one that can never be solved.

you understand that homeless people actually re-offend on purpose just to have a bed to sleep in, or just simply to be inside

they

A quote from an article from Buzzfeed,

With prisons in crisis and probation services unable to cope with demand, prisoners are routinely leaving jail with nowhere to live and no prospect of employment.

with no suppor

education, family,

Marshal Project

criminals mind

“why would they go back if they know how bad it is?” this is a question that civilian people

Him being a former chief of police

Why do ex-cons return to jail?

“Recidivism.” National Institute of Justice, www.nij.gov/topics/corrections/recidivism/Pages/welcome.aspx. Interview with John Souza, CRJ 101 teacher

Works Cited:

In idea

They often “range from 40 to 700 square feet and cost $230 to $550 per square foot plus delivery” (Holbrook)

Not only does a minimalistic lifestyle cause less stress to an individual, it places less stress on the environment.

at times, however, he states feeling,

According to Braulio Ortega, a minimalist and millennial here in Fall River, minimalism has made a drastic improvement on his life

Millennials tend to strive for traveling and living their best lives, v

This is like

Thoreau found what he was searching for, similar to what minimalists are attempting to do today. 

Walden,

(“Trans.”)

Today, minimalism is “living with only the essentials and buying much, much less”

In fact, minimalistic living has been shown to have many effects; including psychologically, environmentally, and financially.  

“How Much is Enough?

Works Cited 

to synthesize my sources more than analyze them

I was asking questions for my own personal benefit, rather than an essay. 

As a result of my research there is no definitive answer

Which means not only identifying the problem but learning every detail about the problem

manor

I agree with Ting’s statement,

“Asking questions now leads to fewer assumptions later. Fewer assumptions later, lead to better results. Better results lead to fewer reoccurring issues later. Fewer reoccurring issues later lead to peace of mind.”

Engineers approach this quote much differently

The forth main idea stated in PWT’ article is becoming a “Reverse Engineer”. T

if you

Calculate the risk” is the third key aspect that is important to problem solving. “The greater the risk, the greater the reward”.

new perspective to the problem

PWT

In that same article the second tactic

“keep things simple”.

When troubleshooting, always think what’s the best way to solve this problem. Then, once you understand the best way to solve it, think about the simplest way to make that happen.”.

In an article from Power Wright Technologies there are five main ideas explained that are crucial in how engineers think

engineers have to approach a problem in many different ways to ensure the solution they found is the most effective.

[What Engineers Do]

“It takes creativity to get successfully from problem to solution, all while navigating a tangle of constraints.”

Works Cited

who my intended audience

Also the fact that we had to use peer reviewed sources and conduct and interview which was very new for me.

unbalanced this is when mental illness come’s into motion.

addition to fully understanding emotions and how mental illness can affect an individual, I asked a friend who deals with them daily

bout her struggle’s.

On the media outlet, TED J

Given theses points

Another change that can accrue is someone to have more trouble with their emotions such as being more likely to be stressed this can create problems not just mentally to the brain but also physically to the body itself. (WebMD)

Mayo Clinic

physical transformation’s

ust like any type of emotion’s psychological pain can be caused by multiple different factors besides neuroscience and our primal emotions.

to much psychological pain within mainly the panic system of the brain (TEDxSeattle).

grouped into seven basic emotions ( fear, rage, seeking, lust, care, panic and play) this concept is called Primal Emotions.

similar emotions Pansksepp

analyzes

required neuroscience along with discovering are ability

Pansksepp research

could benefit for the better of people lives j

motions, mood and as well with personali

under the reason f

had created

psychological

Approximately 7% of people in the U.S. that being 16 million, experiences a serious mental illness in a given year that substantially interferes with along with limited major life activities (Nami)

causes them to have negative opinions about themselves along with them struggling to be motivated in making choices as well with taking action in life activities.

emotions which

making detention

Emotions are defined

we allowed

Work Cited

“Across the 4 waves of data collection, 6.2% to 7.7% of females and 8.0% to 9.4% of males reported obtaining 9 or more hours of sleep. For all females across the 4 waves, we found a consistent pattern in which the percentage who reported obtaining 9 or more hours of sleep decreased as grade level increased (Table 1). This pattern was generally consistent when the data were disaggregated for white females, Hispanic females, and black females (Table 1). We found the same general pattern for males (Table 2). Without exception, compared with 9th graders, a significantly lower percentage of 11th and 12th graders reported obtaining 9 or more hours of sleep and, except in 2009 and 2013, a significantly higher percentage of 11th and 12th graders reported obtaining 5 or fewer hours of sleep.” (/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

We

“Researchers at Seoul National University College of Medicine found that compared to individuals who slept six to seven hours per day, men who slept fewer than six hours were more likely to have metabolic syndrome and higher waist circumference. Women who slept fewer than six hours were more likely to have higher waist circumference. Sleeping more than ten hours per day was associated with metabolic syndrome and increased levels of triglycerides in men, and with metabolic syndrome, higher waist circumference, higher levels of triglycerides and blood sugar, as well as low levels of ‘good’ cholesterol (HDL-C) in women. The authors found that nearly 11% of men and 13% of women slept less than six hours, while 1.5% of men and 1.7% of women slept more than ten hours.”

effects on your health and also can affect the way you look such as weight and height

“I never knew what was going on, I would always wake up in the middle of the night and not know why. I would always feel so tired in the morning no matter how early I went to sleep, I never knew what was wrong or what I was doing to cause this constant feeling of being tired.” says my father

he top 4 most common sleep disorders are Insomnia which is known for having poor sleep quality due to difficulty going to sleep, waking up often or waking up in the morning earlier than desired. Restless leg syndrome is a neurological disorder which is an overwhelming need to move your legs or sometimes another part of the body while resting. Narcolepsy is a neurological disorder characterized by the brain’s inability to control its sleep and Sleep Apnea is when a person’s breathing stops for several seconds during the night due to blockage in the upper respiratory system.

your sleep

journals.plos.org

Here are some facts and results of sleep deprivation “Lack of sleep is a common condition in everyday life, either related to psychosocial demands or related to working shift hours. In healthy individuals, this may induce decreased alertness and vigilance, together with a general decline in mood. Total sleep deprivation (TSD) has been associated with general psychomotor slowing and diminished cognitive performance [1,2]. In affective disorders, only one night of sleep deprivation may improve mood in 40–60% of subjects with the major depressive disorder [3], whereas bipolar patients may even turn into (hypo)mania [4]. Thus, in humans, sleep deprivation is clearly related to altered emotional and effective functioning.”

go crazy

During the day brain

It is important to let our brains recover from something major or even minor that might have happened that day, it prepares us to take on some new challenges the next day.

“Scientists simply don’t know for sure. In broad terms, researchers believe it is to enable our bodies and especially our brains to recover” (bbc.com)

Why we do it, what happens when we don’t get enough of it and different sleep disorders.

Works Cited

REM sleep accounts for 20%-25% of the sleep cycle.

watched a Ted Talk on what would happen if we didn’t sleep and it describes a case of a teenager who went eleven days without sleep and how it affected him. It also clarifies that adults need 7-8 hours of sleep while adolescents need 10 hours of sleep. Data shows that 30% of adults are sleep deprived and 60% of adolescents are sleep deprived. When we lose sleep learning, memory, mood and reaction time are affected. While scientists continue to explore why we sleep it is shown that it is a necessity if you want to maintain your health and sanity

Works Cited   Graham, Lawton, Why Do We Sleep, New Scientist 9/4/2004 Vol 183.  Imeri, Luca, and Mark R. Opp. “How (and Why) the Immune System Makes Us Sleep.” Nature Reviews Neuroscience, vol. 10, no. 3, Nov. 2009, pp. 199–210., doi:10.1038/nrn2576.   Sharma, Sunil, and Mani Kavuru. “Sleep and Metabolism: An Overview.” International Journal of Endocrinology 2010 (2010): 270832. PMC. Web. 15 Oct. 2018.  Sherii, Alex. “What Is Sleep Deprivation- Causes, Symptoms And Treatment.” BuzzFeed Community, BuzzFeed, 9 June 2018, www.buzzfeed.com/jerinmerina007/what-is-sleep-deprivation-causes-symptoms-and-tr-32dqh.   Aguirre, Claudia. “What Would Happen If You Didn’t Sleep?” TED: Ideas Worth Spreading, www.ted.com/talks/claudia_aguirre_what_would_happen_if_you_didn_t_sleep.  

he percentage of adults who sleep less than 6 hours a night has increased

for physical and mental health, however sleep loss can

cortisol levels, metabolism, sleep disorders and specific jobs that effect amount of sleep.  

ngoing sleep deficiency can lead to an increased risk of heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes and stroke

your

it was something that I found interesting to read about. 

My goal now in life is to continue to raise awareness and educate people on the dangers of not only toxic mold but also other environmental dangers. Never take your health for granted because one day it can be taken from you.

My whole life changed when I rented a beautiful raised ranch home, never knowing the dangers lurking in the hidden parts of it. Within four months of living here, my family, pets and myself were becoming very ill. We were getting sicker and sicker by the day, until I could no longer function

“It is estimate that 15 to 30 million people around the world have this disease. In the US where I’m from, it’s about one million people that makes it roughly twice as common as multiple schlerosis. Patients can live for decades with the physical functions of someone with congestive heart failure. 25 percent of us are homebound or bed-ridden, and 75-85 percent can’t even work part-time. Yet, doctors do not treat us and science does not study us. How could a disease this common and this devastating have been forgotten by medicine?

Traveling, working and spending time with loved ones.

Ted talk, What happens when you have a disease doctors can’t diagnose

This was a particular red flag for me because I used to be a healthy, active, nothing can stop me type of girl. That all changed after I rented a home with hidden toxic black mold in the attic that was producing mycotoxins to come through the ventilation system and poison me and my family. After only living there for four months, the rest of my family got better. I wasn’t as lucky. T

I asked her what autoimmune disease(s) she was diagnosed with

I interviewed a forty-three year old woman who has Lupus. Melane Maki-Rankin is a Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) from Minnesota.

Auto Immunity, once believed to be a sole product of a genetic deficiency, has recently become a popular topic in the medical community

“Susceptibility to autoimmune diseases is dependent on multigenic inheritance, environmental factors, and stochastic events. Although there has been substantial progress in identifying predisposing genetic variants, a significant challenge facing autoimmune disease research is the identification of the specific events that trigger loss of tolerance, autoreactivity and ultimately autoimmune disease. Accordingly, studies have indicated that a wide range of extrinsic factors including drugs, chemicals, microbes, and other environmental factors can induce autoimmunity, particularly systemic autoimmune diseases such as lupus”.

pollard

s the primary cause when in fact only 30 percent of all cases are related to genetics.

Environmental Triggers and Auto Immunity

ncbi.gov)

believe that people have a certain genetic makeup that make them predisposed to becoming auto immune but only becoming auto immune when certain triggers awaken the beast.

. “The increment in cases with different autoimmune disorders is alarming and demands urgent attention from the existing research community and medical personnel. The situation is urging the researchers and medical practitioners to come out with a better treatment regime and find remedy.” (IMEDPub.com)

that you’d

armys

Pollard, Michael K Journal of Autoimmunity,  August 2018 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468202017301213 Rattue, Grace Medical News Today, Autoimmune disease rates increasing, Published Friday 22 June 2012  Dr. Frederick Miller https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/246960.php   Vojdani, Aristo Environmental triggers and autoimmunity, 2014 Dec 24. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4290643/#__ffn_sectitle

http://autoimmunediseases.imedpub.com/

what choices did you make? Please explain.

my own personal experience

swers to my questions.

Buzzfeed states there are eleven ways for you to be “stress free”.