A Review on Stress Management and College Guidelines

Are you the household where GMO foods are picked over organic? Well if you are or not, I am a person who lives in a household and will continue to live in my future household of GMO food. Genetically modified food (GMO) are products of specific DNA changes to modified genetic engineering. This allows new crops to grow faster and a cost is cheaper of the produce. GMO have been in our food in for over 20 years. I am only nineteen years old, meaning I been in eating GMO since I was born. There has been no health related problems from eating these food in my household. I will not change me diet when I have my own household because GMO have not effected me now and it will most like not affect me later. For example, all organic food are not organic, companies are allow to put organic on their labs if percentage of organic is high.

Hero/Bravery Article:

The Hero and Bravery article made me see, people in your everyday life are the true hero's because they are not being label as a hero. Someone who is my hero is my sister because she puts everyone before herself. She does not let people down and she knows the importance of value. Ever since we were little my sister always looked out for me and she showed me the right path in life. For example, people in the article take risk by saving others by putting themselves in harm. My sister is the type of person who will get hurt trying to help save you.

First Key to Academic Success Methods:

Researching different methods for organization was a stressful task from the beginning. Learning different methods that can help me become organized was not the easiest task to take on. I picked five different methods to try out and see if I could use these methods in the long run. The five methods are starting your most critical task first, use a calendar, use a organizer, Evernote/ Beep Me, and try to color each notebook to the textbook for the classes. The first couple of days were hard because these methods did not fit in with my life style and organizing problems. For example, Evernote/Beep Me are apps and they would tell me when my assignments were due after I put them into the app. I did not have time to put all my classes and their assignments into the apps; these apps were my first fail in organizing. The fail was not only from the time to put the assignments but how I could turn off the reminder after it goes off. My second try was, doing my most critical task first, wrong idea for me because I became stress before I could start any other work. I found this method to be for people that can held their stress and know coping styles to help them out. The last three methods I found that they were more for me.

For example, getting calendar was the most help I needed. By putting a calendar/syllabus on my wall, I get to see all my assignments due date. Unlike Evernote, Beep Me I can not turn off the reminder because it is always in my face and by adding my syllabus to the wall, all assignments do not need to be put on the calendar

Black History Month Research Paper:

Who are the Lovings and why are they more important to Black History then people may know? Richard and Mildred Loving are a married couple who were force to leave their home in Virginia because they married a different races. Mildred Loving was a African American who fell in love with a white male, named Richard Loving, at a young age. When the couple found out that they were having their first child they decided that should get married. Unfortunately their marriage would not be celebrate the way they thought it would turn out. A few days after returning home from getting married in Washington, the Loving were arrested because they broke the Virginia's Racial Integrity Act of 1924. The Virginia's Racial Integrity Act of 1924 is a law that does not allow mixed married, meaning whites married whites and blacks married blacks. This law also takes the rights away from other classifying themselves as a different race; only giving them two options. At the time of the arrest both Richard and Mildred were unaware of the law and what it meant. Instead of being spent to jail the Loving's pleaded guilty and long with the plea, they ere told to leave Virginia. The couple travel back to Virginia, however they were taking different trips because they were not allowed to be seen together. One day the Loving's decided that they wanted to travel home as a full family and they ended up getting arrested once again. After the arrest the Loving's had enough and they got help to fight their case because they wanted to come back to their home state. The Loving's got help from the America Civil Liberties Union (A.C.L.U) and they went to court. Their case got moved to Supreme Court because the Loving's lawyers showed that the Virginia Racial Integrity Act of 1924 was unconstitutional; during the case Richard simply told the court "I simply love my wife and I can't live in the state of Virginia because I love her". On June 12, 1967 the Loving's won their case and the law was taking out of affect; allowing them to move their family back to their home state. After building their dream home, Richard Loving was killed in a car accident, after being hit by a drunk driver.

"Taming the Stress Monster"

The "Discovering Your Stress" methods could be applied in other areas of your life and behavior. For example you could use the plan on a project and studying. If you take your notes a take the same method, you are relearning things you knew. If you work in a study group, you could have one person create the same layout of "Discovering Your Stress" for your class notes before a test or exam. The techniques can help others if they tend to forget thing that are important or things they think are note that important.

Guidelines for Success in College:

Strategies I am already using is attend classes and realizing your schedule will be drastically different. The new strategies I plan to start using is taking advantage of daytime free time because I do have about 45 minutes on Thursday and Friday between classes. I will also start using find a place to study because I always end up in a loud place where I could not focus. I learned that its always a option to get a study buddy or join a group to study. I always wanted to study on my own. However if you have other people there, they could help you if you do not understand things and get you back on track if you lost your focus.

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