Guidepost July 2009
Summary:
This is a article about Josh Hamilton life. He was a great baseball player who was moving himself up to the major leagues. He received a conract from the Tampa Bay. His parents quit their jobs and decided to move with him and take care of him. One night Josh and his parents were in a car accident that left him injured in his back. Josh ended up moving back home and trying to get hisself well. He was very depressed and started hanging out with some guys who would party really hard. He ended up doing cocaine. Josh became addicted and could not get back to his normal life. He started treatment centers and he thought he was over his addiction. He met a girl name Karen and they got married and had a child. One day he got side track on life and started using again. Karen kick him out of the house and his parents would not help him since he did not want to help hisself. The only person who would take him in was his grandmother. She started talking to him and telling him to pray and God would make things better. Josh went on with his partying and cocaine use until one day when he hit bottom he just knelt down and prayed. After several months Josh was back to his normal life and trying to be a great husband and a dad. He started back playing baseball regularley until he received a call from the Cincinnati Reds wanting to take a chance on him. In 2007 he was able to play his first game and when he appeard on the field, all the fans and family stood up and clapped for him with tears in his eyes.
Relation to Class:
In Chapter 8, p.298 it talks about motivation and emotion. Modivation is the influences that account for the initiation, direction, intensity, and persistence of behavior. There are four main sources of human motivation. First, can be motivated by biological factors, such as the need for food and water. Josh's source was cocaine. Second, emotional factors, suchas as panic, fear, anger, love, and hatred can influence behavior ranging from selfless giving to brutal murder. Hosh loved baseball and his family so he motivated hisself to getting treated. Cognitive factors is the third source . Your perception of the world, your beliefs about what you can do, and your expectations of how others will respond generate certain behaviors. In Josh's life heworked really hard to keep clean so he could injoy playing baseball and being with his love ones. Being able to play in the major leagues and having people clap for you because they were proud of you. The fourth source can be social factors, influence of parents, teachers, siblings, friends, television, and other sociocultural forces. Josh's was kicked out of his wife's house , his parents would not have anything to do with him, so his only chance of recovery was his grandmother. She feed him and made sure he had a place to sleep.
Sunday, July 12, 2009
THE CRAIGLIST KILLER
People's May 4, 2009
Summary:
Philip Markoff know as the " Criagslist Killer", was in his second year of medcial school in Boston. He had a fiancee name Megan McAllister who is also in her second year of medical school. These two were to be married in August. The craigslist is a link on the internet for people to sale things or to but personal ads. One of the victims was Julissa Brisman 26, a New York actress and model who was found shot to death in Boston's upscale Marriott hotel. Philip was posting massuese and other services on Craigsist. Julissa applied to his ad not knowing this would be her last night alive. Philip went to another hotel to meet with a stripper who advertised lapdances. He tried to kill her at gunpoint but her husband busted in and chased away the gunman. After autorities got the description of the gunman it match up with Philip. They went through his room findng evidence of several things that can lead to the investigation. People who know Philip are shock at the findings and how he could do something like this. The authorities believe Philip had a gambling problem.
Link to the Class:
In Chapter 12, it talks about Substance realted Disorders. Addiction is development of a physcial need for a pscychoactived drug. It also can be dependent on something. Philip had a gambling addiction. In Chapter 4, we learned Consciousness tha t means your awarness of the outside world and of your mental process, thoughts, feelings, and perceptions. Philip new what he was doing and he thought he would not get caught. In Chapter 12 , there are different disorders that Philip could be but his trial is still going on so they have not come up with any other verdicts.
Summary:
Philip Markoff know as the " Criagslist Killer", was in his second year of medcial school in Boston. He had a fiancee name Megan McAllister who is also in her second year of medical school. These two were to be married in August. The craigslist is a link on the internet for people to sale things or to but personal ads. One of the victims was Julissa Brisman 26, a New York actress and model who was found shot to death in Boston's upscale Marriott hotel. Philip was posting massuese and other services on Craigsist. Julissa applied to his ad not knowing this would be her last night alive. Philip went to another hotel to meet with a stripper who advertised lapdances. He tried to kill her at gunpoint but her husband busted in and chased away the gunman. After autorities got the description of the gunman it match up with Philip. They went through his room findng evidence of several things that can lead to the investigation. People who know Philip are shock at the findings and how he could do something like this. The authorities believe Philip had a gambling problem.
Link to the Class:
In Chapter 12, it talks about Substance realted Disorders. Addiction is development of a physcial need for a pscychoactived drug. It also can be dependent on something. Philip had a gambling addiction. In Chapter 4, we learned Consciousness tha t means your awarness of the outside world and of your mental process, thoughts, feelings, and perceptions. Philip new what he was doing and he thought he would not get caught. In Chapter 12 , there are different disorders that Philip could be but his trial is still going on so they have not come up with any other verdicts.
OF MICE AND MEN
By John Steinback
Summary:
This story is about two guys who are trying to find work in the great depression. George use to work for Lennie's aunt. Lennie was considered to be " mentally challanged". When his aunt died Lennie did not have no other family so George who worked for Lennie's aunt promised to take care of him. Lennie had a child like mine, loved animals, and was big and powerful. He never ment any harm, he just like to pet things and they usually died. George took Lennie and they went all over the country side trying to find work. When the found a ranch needing help George had to sit down and tell Lennie he was not able to pet anything that did not belong to him. Well the son of the ranch owner had a beautiful wife who Lennie like to smell her hair. One day in the barn she told Lennie to smell her hair and when he did she got frighten and tried to get away. It was to late Lennie broke her neck with his powerful strength and killed her. George had to run away with Lennie to keep him safe. Lennie did not know that his body was so strong and when he touch things he killed them. George ended up killing Lennie for his mental problem because they were going to end up going to jail and George knew Lennie did not have a chance in jail.
Relation to Class:
In Chapter 7, page 288 talks about Mental Retardation that is referred to as developmentally disabled, developentally delayed, or mentaly challenged. People within these catorgories differ greatly in their cognitive abilities and their ability to fnction independently. Like Lennie he had to have George make his decisions for him since he was not cable of making decisions for himself. Also reading in Chapter 7 talks about retardation could be cause by contact of German measles, alcohol, or other toxins before birth; oxygen deprivation durging child birth; and head injuries, brain tumors, and infectious diseases. During Lennie's life there was not a lot of immunizations back during the great depression or great medical doctors back then so any of these things could have trigger Lennie's problem.
Summary:
This story is about two guys who are trying to find work in the great depression. George use to work for Lennie's aunt. Lennie was considered to be " mentally challanged". When his aunt died Lennie did not have no other family so George who worked for Lennie's aunt promised to take care of him. Lennie had a child like mine, loved animals, and was big and powerful. He never ment any harm, he just like to pet things and they usually died. George took Lennie and they went all over the country side trying to find work. When the found a ranch needing help George had to sit down and tell Lennie he was not able to pet anything that did not belong to him. Well the son of the ranch owner had a beautiful wife who Lennie like to smell her hair. One day in the barn she told Lennie to smell her hair and when he did she got frighten and tried to get away. It was to late Lennie broke her neck with his powerful strength and killed her. George had to run away with Lennie to keep him safe. Lennie did not know that his body was so strong and when he touch things he killed them. George ended up killing Lennie for his mental problem because they were going to end up going to jail and George knew Lennie did not have a chance in jail.
Relation to Class:
In Chapter 7, page 288 talks about Mental Retardation that is referred to as developmentally disabled, developentally delayed, or mentaly challenged. People within these catorgories differ greatly in their cognitive abilities and their ability to fnction independently. Like Lennie he had to have George make his decisions for him since he was not cable of making decisions for himself. Also reading in Chapter 7 talks about retardation could be cause by contact of German measles, alcohol, or other toxins before birth; oxygen deprivation durging child birth; and head injuries, brain tumors, and infectious diseases. During Lennie's life there was not a lot of immunizations back during the great depression or great medical doctors back then so any of these things could have trigger Lennie's problem.
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Obsessed
April 24, 2009 Director:Steven Shill
Obessed
Summary:
Derek Charles is a vice president for a company who is married with a son. Derek works long hours and he chooses to have a male secretary to help him. Derek married his female assistant 2 years ago and he does not want anything to jeopardize his marriage. One day Derek arrives at work to see a female assistant in the desk of his male secretary. The company has hired Lisa to be his assistant until the other one gets back to work. Things went well until one night the company held a business party. Derek gets a little drunk and he decides it is time to go home. He enters the company's bathroom and Lisa follows behind him. She pushes herself on him and starts putting his hands up her skirt. Derek pushes her off and leaves. When he gets home he wants to tell his wife but he was afraid she would not believe him. The next day he starts getting sexy pictures of Lisa sent to his email and when he left work she was in her sexy undergarments in his car. He is so furious he wants to take it to human resources but with his past experiences he was worried that they would accuse him. Lisa's obession turn dangerous. Lisa showed up at Derek's house, put his t-shirt on, and waited for him in his bed. Sharon, Derek's wife shows up and they end up fighting. I can not tell you the end but she did go to desperate measure to protect her family.
Relation to Class:
Obsessed was a good movie but very over-whelming. This movie gave a good example of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Lisa who was the temp was obsessed with Derek. In Chapter 12, it talks about people who display this disorder are plaqued by persistant, upsetting, and unwanting thoughts called obsession. The obsessive thoughts motivate repetitive behaviors that can also be called compulsions. Compulsions are feelings that people believe will prevent infection ,aggressive acts, or other events associated with the obsessions. This in consider a Anxiety Disorder.
Obessed
Summary:
Derek Charles is a vice president for a company who is married with a son. Derek works long hours and he chooses to have a male secretary to help him. Derek married his female assistant 2 years ago and he does not want anything to jeopardize his marriage. One day Derek arrives at work to see a female assistant in the desk of his male secretary. The company has hired Lisa to be his assistant until the other one gets back to work. Things went well until one night the company held a business party. Derek gets a little drunk and he decides it is time to go home. He enters the company's bathroom and Lisa follows behind him. She pushes herself on him and starts putting his hands up her skirt. Derek pushes her off and leaves. When he gets home he wants to tell his wife but he was afraid she would not believe him. The next day he starts getting sexy pictures of Lisa sent to his email and when he left work she was in her sexy undergarments in his car. He is so furious he wants to take it to human resources but with his past experiences he was worried that they would accuse him. Lisa's obession turn dangerous. Lisa showed up at Derek's house, put his t-shirt on, and waited for him in his bed. Sharon, Derek's wife shows up and they end up fighting. I can not tell you the end but she did go to desperate measure to protect her family.
Relation to Class:
Obsessed was a good movie but very over-whelming. This movie gave a good example of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Lisa who was the temp was obsessed with Derek. In Chapter 12, it talks about people who display this disorder are plaqued by persistant, upsetting, and unwanting thoughts called obsession. The obsessive thoughts motivate repetitive behaviors that can also be called compulsions. Compulsions are feelings that people believe will prevent infection ,aggressive acts, or other events associated with the obsessions. This in consider a Anxiety Disorder.
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Stick Figure: A Dairy of My Former Self
Summary:
The book Stick Figure is about the author Lori Gottlieb, who is now 30 years old, discovering her journals she wrote when she was eleven years old. She decided to write the book since the diary that she found was about herself being diagnosed with anorexia nervosa. She uses her name as the little girl in the book who is precocious, strogwilled preteen who enjoys chess, being unique, and getting straight A's in school, yet who is lonely and desperate to fit in and be popular. Lori's diarys are flled with entries on obervations on adults such as teacher, parents, realatives, medical personnel, and even a television star she meets name Jaclyn Smith. Lori is surrounded by thin women or children. Every female she comes in contact with our on diets, counting calories, and avoids desserts. For these females she comes in contact with are adults who are anti-obesity, but super thin. Lori is taken out of school one day to go on a family trip to Washington, D.C. She decides to repell against her parents and her body by skipping meals and dieting. She gets the attention she craves from her parents and school classmates. Ther classmates admire her weight loss and ask for her advice on how to lose weight. Lori's parents gets really worried when she lost so much weight that they put her into the hospital. She becomes depressed, dehydrated and lonely. She attempts to run away and
makes a sucide gesture to herself. After seeing doctors for her problem and the talk with Jacklyn Smith, she finally sees herself for what she had become--an stick figure.
Relation to Class:
In Chapter 8, Motivation and Emotion, we learned about Anorexia Nervosa is known as self-starvation-induced vomiting, excessive exercise, and laxative use that results in weight loss. Most of the people who suffer from anorexia are young females. Most Anorexia people feel hungry, and may obsessed with food and its prepartion, yet the refuse it. It is estimated that 4 to 30 percent of those suffering severe anorexia eventually die of starvation. Lori, "Stick Figure", could have ended dieing of starvation. She refuse to eat alot because she want to be thin. The apperarnce of anorexia has been attributed to a combination of factors, including genetic predispositions, biochemical imbalances, social influences, and psychological characteristics. In Lori's case she was not a good role model for her classmates. They were wanting to be thin just like her. Drugs, hospitalization, and psychotherapy are al used to treat anorexia.
The book Stick Figure is about the author Lori Gottlieb, who is now 30 years old, discovering her journals she wrote when she was eleven years old. She decided to write the book since the diary that she found was about herself being diagnosed with anorexia nervosa. She uses her name as the little girl in the book who is precocious, strogwilled preteen who enjoys chess, being unique, and getting straight A's in school, yet who is lonely and desperate to fit in and be popular. Lori's diarys are flled with entries on obervations on adults such as teacher, parents, realatives, medical personnel, and even a television star she meets name Jaclyn Smith. Lori is surrounded by thin women or children. Every female she comes in contact with our on diets, counting calories, and avoids desserts. For these females she comes in contact with are adults who are anti-obesity, but super thin. Lori is taken out of school one day to go on a family trip to Washington, D.C. She decides to repell against her parents and her body by skipping meals and dieting. She gets the attention she craves from her parents and school classmates. Ther classmates admire her weight loss and ask for her advice on how to lose weight. Lori's parents gets really worried when she lost so much weight that they put her into the hospital. She becomes depressed, dehydrated and lonely. She attempts to run away and
makes a sucide gesture to herself. After seeing doctors for her problem and the talk with Jacklyn Smith, she finally sees herself for what she had become--an stick figure.
Relation to Class:
In Chapter 8, Motivation and Emotion, we learned about Anorexia Nervosa is known as self-starvation-induced vomiting, excessive exercise, and laxative use that results in weight loss. Most of the people who suffer from anorexia are young females. Most Anorexia people feel hungry, and may obsessed with food and its prepartion, yet the refuse it. It is estimated that 4 to 30 percent of those suffering severe anorexia eventually die of starvation. Lori, "Stick Figure", could have ended dieing of starvation. She refuse to eat alot because she want to be thin. The apperarnce of anorexia has been attributed to a combination of factors, including genetic predispositions, biochemical imbalances, social influences, and psychological characteristics. In Lori's case she was not a good role model for her classmates. They were wanting to be thin just like her. Drugs, hospitalization, and psychotherapy are al used to treat anorexia.
IM SICK OF BEING BIG by Michelle Tan
Summary:
Geogia Davis is only 15 years old and she weighs 462 pounds. She sawher life going no where. She was diagnosed with diabetes in 2007, and was named "Britain's fattest teen". Her mother decided to send her to Wellspring Academy , a weight-loss boarding school in Brevard, N.C. After being there for 7 weeks, she lost 62 pounds and no longer had diabetes. By December 2008, she had lost 100 lbs. She got to home for the holidays but worried she would gain her weight back by relapsing and eat what she use to eat. She used her will power that they bording school taught her and she lost 3 pounds while she was home. She now has more confidence in herself and likes to look in the mirror. The summer of 2009 , she lost 202 pounds and went from a 69 inches in waist to 38 inches. Her attitude towards life has totally changed her life. Her goal is to weigh 150 to 160 pounds. Georgia is not going to give up on her goal.
Relation to Class:
In Chapter 8, motivation and emotion we learn about obesity. Obesity is a condition in which a person's body-mass index, is greater than 30. Someone who is 5 ft 2 inches and weighs 164 pounds would be classified as obesity. About 32 percent of adults in the United States are obese and about 17 percent of children are over weight. Obesity is associated with health problems such as diabetes, high bloodpressure, an increased risk of heart attack, and possibly Alzbeimer's disease. Diabetes is what started on Georgia Davis since she gained so much weight and she could had the other problems if she would had denied going to the weight-loss school. People become obese because the body weight is determined by a combination of food intake and energy output. Obese people get more energy form food than their body metabolizes. Millions of people take anitobesity medication, but drug treatments alone are unlikely to solve the problem. The only solution are to advise people to make a huge lifestyle change in addition to drugs or surgery.
Geogia Davis is only 15 years old and she weighs 462 pounds. She sawher life going no where. She was diagnosed with diabetes in 2007, and was named "Britain's fattest teen". Her mother decided to send her to Wellspring Academy , a weight-loss boarding school in Brevard, N.C. After being there for 7 weeks, she lost 62 pounds and no longer had diabetes. By December 2008, she had lost 100 lbs. She got to home for the holidays but worried she would gain her weight back by relapsing and eat what she use to eat. She used her will power that they bording school taught her and she lost 3 pounds while she was home. She now has more confidence in herself and likes to look in the mirror. The summer of 2009 , she lost 202 pounds and went from a 69 inches in waist to 38 inches. Her attitude towards life has totally changed her life. Her goal is to weigh 150 to 160 pounds. Georgia is not going to give up on her goal.
Relation to Class:
In Chapter 8, motivation and emotion we learn about obesity. Obesity is a condition in which a person's body-mass index, is greater than 30. Someone who is 5 ft 2 inches and weighs 164 pounds would be classified as obesity. About 32 percent of adults in the United States are obese and about 17 percent of children are over weight. Obesity is associated with health problems such as diabetes, high bloodpressure, an increased risk of heart attack, and possibly Alzbeimer's disease. Diabetes is what started on Georgia Davis since she gained so much weight and she could had the other problems if she would had denied going to the weight-loss school. People become obese because the body weight is determined by a combination of food intake and energy output. Obese people get more energy form food than their body metabolizes. Millions of people take anitobesity medication, but drug treatments alone are unlikely to solve the problem. The only solution are to advise people to make a huge lifestyle change in addition to drugs or surgery.
" The Rail Road Killer"
The Summary:
On Labor Day weekend in 1997 Holly Dunn's world got flipped upside down. Holy went on a date with her boyfriend Chris Maier. He took her on a romantic midnight stroll at the railroad tracts in Lexington, Kentucky. The two love birds was kissing under the stars when a strange man appeared to them with a ice pick in his hand. Chris offered him money but the man refused and and he picked up a rock and smashed it against Chris's head ,killing him instantly. The strange man raped Holly and then beat her repeatly with a board until she was unconscious. When Holly woke up she was in a persons yard naked. The police questioned her and come to find out this man had killed 14 people. She was luckey to be alive. She spend years rebuilding her life by talking to others about rape. Holly was still terrified when she heard the train. The sound of the train brought back flashbacks of being raped at the railroad tracks. She is now married and in a support group to help her with her tragedy.
Relation to the Chapter 6:
In Chapter 6 we read about different kinds of memory. Memory plays a important role in a person's life. Our body would not know how to function wihtout memory. Researchers believe that we have a t least three types of memories. Each type of memory is used differently. One of the memories used in "the Railroad Killer", is Episodic memory. This memory recalls specific events in your life that happend while you were present. A few years later Holly used her episodic memory to relate to others who had been victoms of rape by joining a Rape and Abuse hotline. Another memory that can be used could be Flash bulb memories because this reppresses the traumatic event in her life. Flash bulb memories are memories that are forgotten because of emotional experiences.
On Labor Day weekend in 1997 Holly Dunn's world got flipped upside down. Holy went on a date with her boyfriend Chris Maier. He took her on a romantic midnight stroll at the railroad tracts in Lexington, Kentucky. The two love birds was kissing under the stars when a strange man appeared to them with a ice pick in his hand. Chris offered him money but the man refused and and he picked up a rock and smashed it against Chris's head ,killing him instantly. The strange man raped Holly and then beat her repeatly with a board until she was unconscious. When Holly woke up she was in a persons yard naked. The police questioned her and come to find out this man had killed 14 people. She was luckey to be alive. She spend years rebuilding her life by talking to others about rape. Holly was still terrified when she heard the train. The sound of the train brought back flashbacks of being raped at the railroad tracks. She is now married and in a support group to help her with her tragedy.
Relation to the Chapter 6:
In Chapter 6 we read about different kinds of memory. Memory plays a important role in a person's life. Our body would not know how to function wihtout memory. Researchers believe that we have a t least three types of memories. Each type of memory is used differently. One of the memories used in "the Railroad Killer", is Episodic memory. This memory recalls specific events in your life that happend while you were present. A few years later Holly used her episodic memory to relate to others who had been victoms of rape by joining a Rape and Abuse hotline. Another memory that can be used could be Flash bulb memories because this reppresses the traumatic event in her life. Flash bulb memories are memories that are forgotten because of emotional experiences.
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