Draft~Can you handle your stress?

Everyone has some amount of stress in life. But the question is are you able to handle it?

Stress is everywhere from making deadlines to meeting someones demands. there is no way to avoid it other than to cope with it in a positive way. You will first need to find out what causes your daily stress.

Many things can trigger stress such as family, children, relationships or deaths. Although stress isn't always bad.There are many positive ways of stress like, giving a presentation, stress will keep you on your toes. It will give you the advantage to get things done.

Earth Day

Many people are starting to think that maybe the store products are actually taking away from the the meaning of "going green". Many business's are coming out with new and improved ways of recycling.For this year’s celebration, Bahama Umbrella is advertising a specially designed umbrella, with a drain so that water “can be stored, reused and recycled"(para 1 Kaufman). But the controversy is that many people think these products are taking Earth Days original purpose away.This year, in an updated version of a teach-in, Greenpeace will team up with technology giants like Cisco and Google to hold a Web seminar focused on how the use of new technologies like videoconferencing and “cloud” computing can reduce the nation’s carbon footprint (para 8 Kaufman). More businesses are finding more ways to reduce their pollution to the environment.“Every Earth Day is a reflection of where we are as a culture,” he said. “If it has become commoditized, about green consumerism instead of systemic change, then it is a reflection of our society" (para 19 Kaufman).

Can you handle your stress?

Everyone has some amount of stress in life. But the question is are you able to handle it?

Stress is everywhere from making deadlines to meeting someones demands. there is no way to avoid it other than to cope with it in a positive way. You will first need to find out what causes your daily stress.

Many things can trigger stress such as family, children, relationships or deaths. Although stress isn't always bad. In general, stress is related to both external and internal factors (conrad, para4).There are many positive ways of stress like, giving a presentation, stress will keep you on your toes. It will give you the advantage to get things done.

Causes of Stress
Most of the life causes include : (conrad para3)
- Death of Spouse, family or friend
- Health: injury, illness and pregnancy
- Crime: Sexual molestation, mugging, burglary and pick-pocketing
- Self-abuse: drug abuse, alcoholism and self-harm
- Family change: separation, divore, new baby and marriage
- Sexual problems: getting partner, with partner
- Argument: with spouse, family, friends, co-workers or boss
- Physical Changes: lack of sleep and new work hours
- New Location: vacation or moving house
- Money: lack of it, owing it, investing it
- Enviroment Change: in school, job, house or town jail
- Responsibility Increase: new dependent or new job

Many things can influence on how you cope with your stress. One rather terrifying thing you may discover yourself experiencing is a "stress related panic attack"(conrad, para2).If your friends are supporitive then you will have an easier way of forgetting about what is putting you down. If it weren't for the loving and support of friends then you would become lonely and tend to think about your trigger of stress more often. You need to have a strong mind set that you will be able to conquer your stress. Do things that you enjoy.

If you let stress become a big obstacle in your life then it will start to engage a different outlook of how you view things. You should accept that your life has changed and try to make the most of it.

Stress mainly effects your emotions. When having a load of stress on you, your immune system tends to become weak. Lack of appetite and stomach ache are both high effects of stress.

A common stressor is your average headache. Other common stress triggers are stiff neck, back pain, sweaty palms, fast heartbeat and fast breathing.

If you're loaded with stress all the time, then you may see higher rish symptoms such as having high blood pressure, blood clots and that may even lead to a heart attack. Most of the time stress will cause your muscles to become sore such as your neck, shoulders and low back. Most people will agree that when stress is a factor in one's life, so is acne.

But most out of everthing it will effect your emotions. Most of the time you will feel cranky, frustrated, or easily irritated. Most of the time you tend to snap at the little things. Worry too much about everything and always feel like youre missing out on activities because of your actions.

There are so many ways that you can choose to relieve your stress. Its always good to let your stress out of your system. Many people take the route of exercising. It’s a great way to relieve all of the stress you have been building up. Writing is a great way to put everything down on paper that you have been stressing over and show what you have been striving through. Never let your feelings be closed in. Its always healthy to let your emotions out. Cry, let everything out to your parents or friends. Another great stress reliever is doing some community work. Usually when you’re stressed your body tends to tense up and your muscles become sore. Some ways to relax your body are taking a hot salt bath, yoga, or a message. The main thing is you need to know what your stress level is and what are some ways that you can handle it. Eat healthy, exercise, and enjoy life.

Is Stress the new trend?

Five Causes of Stress

1.) Finances- Buying a home and car can be very stressful. Most college students find stress when they are having to deal with buying education.

2.) Work- Many worry about getting and keeping the job. The struggle to meet our boss's needs. Homework for students can always bring loads of stress.

3.) Family- Arguments with family members. Divorce, who gets the children.

4.) Relationships- friendship, dating, divorce, or seperation.

5.) Death- death of a beloved one, or close friend.

Creavity is a Virtue

The short video clip that was shown was very thought through and presented well by the speaker. I valued the idea when he established the fact that children have very unique, creative and developed minds. To me, I believe this is true in every way. I would also like to believe that the performing arts program puts people at ease and lets them take creativity to their own way. The speaker was right when he directed about how the teaching of dance and other arts should be raised to the top of the education scale. Many young teens have talent that many don't know about, or even they themselves don't know. By letting performing arts be equivalent to mathematics or science, kids well be able to experience new things. The kids or teens may even find something in themselves they didn't know was there. Being creative allows everyone to think outside the box in many ways. I wish dance was an option offered at school when I was young, or have my parents enrolled me into a dance studio, something other than your daily school work. Art gives you an opportunity to think freely, it allows you to step back and enjoy the beauty of life and everything in it. From dance to painting, these arts let you find the inner you that has been hiding, and let others know the something more about you..

Daisy, the Marc by Marc Jacobs Perfume

I'm kind of a big perfume lover. I spray perfume on myself everytime i leave the house. But like most girls, I can't resist browsing at the ever-interesting perfume bottles and sniff all the new scents. There are so many scents that I like, but because of this, I can't possibly buy all the scents I 'like'. Out of all the scents, there's one scent that has grown on me and I have fond memories of, the Abercrombie. And I've been meaning to buy a bottle for awhile, but I've been slightly hesistant because I wasn't sure if the smell was too strong for me to wear for too long of a time so I never got around to buying it.


I was excited when I saw the new ads of Daisy, the Marc by Marc Jacobs scent, in Macy's. It's got that sweet, everlasting smell to it. The first time I smelt it, it smelled like any other perfume out there in the market. But at the encouragement of the Marc salesgirls (who told me not to buy the Marc Jacobs perfume but try Daisy instead,) I sprayed both scents onto perfume paper and brought them home to smell for a day.


After smelling both scents at least once an hour, I've decided that on the surface, Daisy smelt only like a light, fruity, flowery scent. But later on, the scent smelt musky and most importantly, of Gardenia, the signature scent of the Marc Jacobs perfume. (Yes, I know I think too much before buying things.) According to the Daisy site, Daisy's notes include strawberry, ruby red grapefruit, violet leaves, gardenia, violet leaves, jasmine petals, musk, vanilla and white woods. Not exactly what I smelt, but close enough. And surprisingly, since I've bought it two weeks ago, I've already used it 4 times. Perhaps the reason I haven't been using much perfume before was that I haven't found my right one yet?


What do you think of Daisy? Isn't the bottle simply adorable? Has anyone smelt it or bought it yet?

Homes for the Homeless

Watching the TED Prize video clip made me realize what kind of problems have aroused in the world, and what we need to do to overcome these issues.

I love the cities. The big skyscrapers, the lights, and the entertainment. But all of this blinds my sight when I see homeless adults, and even children.

Homeless, is a huge ongoing problem in the United States. Mostly people in Africa are homeless. But in the U.S. there are three million that have no homes. Most people become homeless because of their loss of job, mental illness,drugs or natural disasters.

Many people that are homeless are without jobs. We will ask managers of factories if they will provide jobs for them. Most of these jobs will only be offered at restaurants, gas stations, and grocery stores in order for them to get back onto their own two feet again.

I would like for President Obama to send the army into taking these homeless people into shelters and caring for them. Making sure that nobody is sleeping on the streets that night,and they have enough beds for everyone. Doctors will be available to treat any wounds or diseases that may be on hand.

Knowing that there there isn't enough room in the shelters to house all of the homeless people. We will raise money to build enough to give everybody a home, a bed and food.

These three wishes aren't much to ask for when lives are being taken from us...