It was a bone-chilling winter morning in Bavaria. My alarm clock rang, and I slapped it to snooze. Oh no, I was not getting up that day. I had just finished the worst school week of my life. If we zoom back to that time two years ago, I was a 14 year old foreign exchange student in southern Germany. Bullying from the kids in school had made my homesickness unbearable. But that’s not all. I eventually became so anxious throughout my exchange that I chewed all the skin around my nails, gained 15 pounds, and finally, had to book my flight back home January 1st.
But there were others having problems, too. My host mother told me she suffered from terrible migraines and depression. She told me it was because of the foehn. “Fun?” I asked her. She
Every culture affected by the winds has their own lore and legends about the madness it causes. A 1968 report titled “Santa Ana Winds and Crime” says it all. In other words, higher irritability during these times leads to more household crime, homicide, and civil unrest. Hey, now we know why University of California Berkeley students are so good at starting riots. But that’s not all. Even suicide rates and car accidents are 10% higher during the foehn, according to the university of Munich. And if that doesn’t convince you of how the wind fogs the mind, here’s what the Michigan Technic reports. Swiss surgeons refuse to operate during Föhn because “things always go
Wind is just one problem that can work its way into our minds, but even larger environmental changes like moving to a new school or country can make us go crazy. When I was in Germany for foreign exchange, I let my environment take over me and I lost my willingness to fight it, choosing to run away instead. With a greater understanding of the emotional triggers in my environment, I now have the tools to overcome those triggers, and so. do. you. Your everyday troubles from paying the bills to college applications might send you into a haze, but charging into each day with positive thoughts (and negative ions) helps us take control of our lives. Now I’m not saying life is a breeze, but just remember to ask yourself, are you having
The Santa Ana winds cause people to act more violently or unruly and makes others irritable and unhappy to a great extent. Joan Didion explains to the reader about how the Santa Ana affects human behavior in her essay “Los Angeles Notebook.” Through the use of imagery, diction, and selection of detail Didion expresses her view of the Santa Ana winds.
Have you ever wondered where the most common thing we see every day comes from? Or how it came to be? After oil, coffee is found to be the most common thing traded in the entire world. Coffee is known everywhere and developed in different ways depending on where you are. According to www.pbs.org “ it is estimated that 2.25 billion cups of coffee are consumed each day worldwide.” Ever wondered why New Yorkers live a very fast paced life and never seem to rest? Its probably because they drink seven times more coffee than any other U.S. city. There are many cool facts about coffee, but the true interesting information is found where coffee comes from and how it got traded throughout the world over time. Every place has adapted coffee and has made it their own.
First, the authors easily establish Ethos since they both have lived in California at some point. That is definitely how they developed their differing viewpoints on the Santa Ana winds. Didion believes that the winds alter human society to some degree by causing unhappiness. She goes on to cite various comparisons to France, Israel, Switzerland and the Mediterranean, which also adds to her Logos. Her reason behind why the winds make people unhappy is that they cause several problems such as headaches and allergies; in Los Angeles some teachers call off classes with the fear of children’s behavior (clearly a hyperbole). In Switzerland, suicide rates increase and blood clot does not occur. Furthermore, her purpose becomes clear when she states “the air carries an unusually high ratio of positive ions [which] . . . make people unhappy.” On the contrary, Thomas believes that the winds are in essence part of a natural cycle since they aid some plants like the chaparral since it “need[s] the heat of a flame t...
The passage goes on to narrate that the Santa Ana winds turns out to be a case in which "sciences bears out folk wisdom". The Santa Ana is a foehn wind which happens on a specific slope of a mountain and changes temperature as it glides down the mountain then turns into a hot dry wind. Didion's ambiguity makes known that doctors believe that people tend to overreact when people state they suffer from "nervousness", "depression" and other insignificant symptoms. Doctors think these symptoms come about in people because of the belief in superstition and what is supposedly supposed to happen to human health when these winds come around. Didion creates ethos through her factual evidence as stated in the last paragraph."In Switzerland the suicide rates goes up during the foehn
The weather conditions play a major influential role in a person’s daily life. Thoughts, feelings, and behaviors have be linked with different weather conditions, depending on the person. Different moods and behaviors have been correlated with different weather conditions, further proving its psychological effect. However, these same psychological influences have been examined to be more physiologically affecting. In this paper, the role of weather conditions, (positive and negative), in relation to their influence on behavioral health will be reviewed. It is hypothesized that exposure to constantly fluctuating levels of high barometric pressure will lead to negative behavior. The following literature reviews will demonstrate and support this hypothesis.
If I could have everyone's attention. Good-morning ladies and gentlemen. For those of you who don't know me my name is Jasmine Davenport. Today I’d like to discuss traumatic brain injury also referred to as TBI. I chose this topic because traumatic brain injury is a serious and complex injury with a broad spectrum of symptoms and disabilities. Traumatic brain injury effects people of all ages and is a major cause of death and disability worldwide. A traumatic brain injury can be caused by a blow or jolt to the head that disrupts normal functions of the brain Also, traumatic brain injury can cause physical, cognitive, social, emotional, and behavioral affects.
Tweezers was invented in 3,000 BC. Think about that, that was a very long time ago and the fact that we still use it today is outstanding. If you don't know what tweezers are, you should know because they can be used many ways in everyday life. If you ever receive a piece of wood buried into your flesh, how are you going to stop the pain and get the splinter out. I bet you guessed it Tweezers. The and super thin metal utensils. If you are a female that wants to be stylish you will use Tweezers to pluck some hairs from your eyebrows. It may be a little prick , but it will be just fine. What's not to love with Tweezers you could go to your local Walgreens and for a
Introduction- 41,500,000 people in the U.S. have tried online dating at some point in their lifetime. In fact, 5 people in this room out of 12 have tried online dating.
Today Iwill be talking about the sea goblin shark and the Angelfish. I will be explaining and identifing the sea goblin and angelfish,why i think the sea goblin shark might be weird to some people and why the angelfish is a very beautiful fish. Do you know how the angelfish became so popular in the ocean or how sea goblins fight their predators?
When you have no place to go, the old Christmas song line of "Let It Snow" rings true. After all, newly fallen snow in an open field or a densely populated city makes for quite the postcard.
Hello my name is Nick and I am giving my speech on Alzheimer’s Disease. I was thinking of what I could do for a speech. Then I thought I wanted to inform people on something that little know about. Then it hit me. Alzheimer’s Disease it has affected my life so much and I know so much about it. So I am going to tell you how it has affected my life in more ways than one. Before I start I want you to imagine something. Look around you know everyone right? All these faces you see practically see everyday take all that you know about them and forget it. Can you do it? I can’t. So try to imagine now that it could happen to you years down the road and the disease gets so bad you cant remember your kids, your mother, or even your family. You probably are thinking right now, it will not happen to me. Well that is what my grandfather said about 6 years ago and now he cant even remember my name.
Reason to listen: The guitar is an instrument that can be heard in all types of music, it would be nice to know some information about the guitar.
Attention Getter: Do you know how many social media accounts the average person has? Do you know how many hours are spent using these sites? The average person spends about 1 hour and 45 minutes switching between their accounts.
I scarcely snoozed at all, the day before; incidentally, I felt insecure regarding the fact of what the unfamiliar tomorrow may bring and that was rather unnerving. After awakening from a practically restless slumber, I had a hefty breakfast expecting that by the conclusion of the day, all I wanted to do is go back home and sleep. Finally, after it was over, my dad gladly drove me to school; there, stood the place where I would spend my next four years of my life.
“Besides taking a hit on our ability to spend time outside, both in extreme and everyday cases, weather can have a real impact on our health and well-being” (Gregoire). The impact of weather upon a person goes beyond their choice of apparel or their plans for the day; it can directly affect a person’s mood, for better or for worse. Do the dark, gray skies on a rainy day actually cause someone to feel gloomy? Would someone be more prone to smiling if they were feeling the warmth of the sun against their skin? If the general public was surveyed, the majority of people would say that weather has little to no impact on a person’s mood (Grohol). However, with more in depth research and a wider spectrum of people studied, it has been found that there is a strong correlation between weather and one’s mood. Similar to the weather, peoples’ moods are constantly changing. A person’s mood can be affected in various ways, but one of the most common is by the weather. The affects can be severe; ranging from chronic depression to excessive happiness. Although these two phenomena appear to be unrelated, the fact that they are simultaneously changing in relation to each other is an indication that they are indeed associated.