Cyclone Tracey – Topic question: Why was Tropical Cyclone Tracey so significant to Australia? Initial Research: Tropical Cyclone Tracey was a small but catastrophic that hit Darwin in 25th of December 1974 and lasted two days. Accounted of 65 lives and destroyed lots of infrastructure and environment. Winds going at a pace of 50km/h and then hitting speeds of at 217km/h.
‘College students are increasingly demanding protection from words and ideas they don’t like.’ Is stated in the article The Coddling of the American Mind. The authors Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt use logos, ethos, and pathos to discuss the issues and solutions for trigger warnings and macroaggressions on university campuses. The authors start the article off by giving examples and other pieces of literature written about trigger warnings on college campuses, these are examples of Logos. Logos is used throughout the document for example in the third paragraph the author observed the recent campus actions at Brandeis University.
The possible intense graphic images and the stated explicit showed how it can cause post-traumatic stress disorder. Having fear of any discomfort will “disrupt a student’s learning” because they wouldn’t be gaining the knowledge they would need to know for that particular subject and to understand that certain subject you need to know the troubles of it. The reason this sort of discomfort is taught is because it helps you understand more about the real world an example would be like victims of rape or people who served in the war. In this case trigger warning is taken too far because this limits a student education on processing to be successful on that major or field by not knowing the circumstances of upsetness, discomfort, and distress. In fact I agree with Medina with how ridiculousness the use of trigger warnings, she didn’t change my mind I am against it because I believe it's unacceptable you can’t be protected by discomfort, there is no safe place where you won't ever feel that
For instance, war veterans sometimes cannot view fireworks as it induces fear in them due to the sound of the explosions seeming like gun shots. In Slaughterhouse-Five, author Kurt Vonnegut, a former soldier in World War II, explores the concept of post-traumatic stress disorder by identifying the underlying causes, highlighting the impacts and symptoms of PTSD, and evaluating coping mechanisms. During a time period where post-traumatic stress disorder was still incredibly controversial, Vonnegut utilized the character of Billy Pilgrim to identify the causes of PTSD. The mental disorder can have many causes as explained in the article “Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder,” in which the National Institute of Mental Health states, “Not everyone with PTSD has been through a dangerous event.
A Misleading Attacks on Tigger Warnings, and Safe Spaces In the article “Trigger Warnings, Safe Spaces and Free Speech, too” by Sophie Downes, published in the New York Times. Downes argument in the letter sent out by Dean Ellison by the University of Chicago. The letter states that trigger warnings and safe spaces were an issue from deterring students from having free speech so therefore would not be supported by the University of Chicago campus anymore.
Today’s college students are becoming more sensitized to the harshness of the outside world. Instead of learning to be resilient to others’ comments, they are being taught to take offense to any little word that could in some way be connected with a bad experience they might have had, and college administrators and professors are aiding this childish behavior. They are backing this movement to make adults into children. With this new movement to rid college campuses of any speech that may make anyone feel uncomfortable, students are being treated less like adults, and more like elementary children.
School-related shootings, particularly those that are dramatic in nature, evoke strong public outcry, and justifiably so. Following an apparent spate of incidents occurring between 1997 and 2001, it seemed as if the USA was on the brink of a moral panic concerning delinquency to young youth. Since then, "Columbine has become a keyword for a complex set of emotions surrounding youth, risk, fear, and delinquency in 21st century America" (Muschert 2007). One alarmist (Stein 2000) went so far as to label Columbine as a metaphor for a contemporary crisis of youth culture.
In Europe in 1999, more than 100 students in Belgium got sick after drinking Coca-Cola. Scientists examined the beverage and saw that there wasn’t anything to cause real damage and that it was a case of mass hysteria triggered by the scare of mad cow disease and dioxin-tainted animal products (10 Incredibly Insane Cases of Mass Hysteria, 2014). Post traumatic stress disorder is often seen in soldiers that have come back from war. Commonly seen, when soldiers are back at home and hear a loud noise, they automatically take guard because they think the loud noise was a gun fire, bomb, etc (Two Stories of PTSD,
In the past few months, there have been three shootings on college campuses. As a result, over fifteen students and faculty have been killed. (Chicago Tribune, 2015) These circumstances have
Trigger Warnings We Accept Suffering as Normal – But Healing Is Asking for Too Much. I sit in my theater class and the professor says that we will be doing another play. Without any other warning, he begins reading the script. Suddenly I realize that the play is about sexual assault and rape.
According to the creator of trigger warnings herself, Bailey Loverin, argues they are, "'not talking about someone turning away from something they don't want to see,"' (Medina 92). Loverin states that trigger warnings aren't meant for students to use as a free pass to avoid a certain topic that might cause them discomfort but are suppose to use to just warn students that they will see images or read texts that might cause violent or depressing images from their pass that might cause them to have a panic attack on the middle of the class. Even professors like Angus Johnston, a history professor in Hostos college in New York, agree that trigger warning should be used in class because it, "prepare[s] the reader for what's coming so their attention isn't hijacked when it arrives" (Johnston). Professors like Johnston agree with trigger warnings for the sake of their student's attention to his lecture because if trigger warnings were not used in lectures then when students with previous traumas read or see certain things might be too distraught to focus on their lectures. Trigger warnings are suppose to be used to prepare students to confront a certain traumatic topic not completely turn them away from it but like everything else in the world most humans always find a way to distort the meaning of cause and use it for their liking.
This question, once answered, clearly proves why the fear of our decline as a nation is rational, yet also unsurprising. Trigger warnings originated with a seemingly reasonable purpose. For those suffering from PTSD, certain images, concepts, or movie scenes can recall previous trauma and cause them to experience great distress. Thus, trigger
Dorothy Siegel’s argument in the essay “What Is Behind the Growth of Violence on College Campuses?” is persuasive. Siegel persuades the reader by presenting her points and validating them with facts and statistics. One of the strongest aspects of the argument is that contrary to popular belief, students are committing a majority of the crimes that take place on college campuses; the students “themselves may become the assailants”, not persons from outside of the campus. She further supported this by pointing out that students tend to know their attackers. Another strong aspect of her argument is that campus violence is due to substance abuse.
Against opposition from the state 's own university system, a Florida Senate panel approved a bill allowing students, faculty and staff with appropriate permits to carry guns on public college campuses. This brings to 10 the number of states that are poised to consider so-called campus carry legislation this year. Nine currently allow it in some form or another. This most recent wave of legislation is buoyed by arguments that guns on campus will help address the problem of sexual assault.
Although most of us are not physically involved, our nation itself is highly affected by these incidents. Every school shootings come with a political debate between gun violence and mental health and arguing which side to blame. Whether it is because of guns, mental health, or the school’s security itself something needs to be done to limit these horrid
