PTSD: Post Tramatic Stress Disorder in Veteran's

PTSD was not known for quite sometime...they just named these mentally distraught soliders as "crazy" or even "cowards" not knowing the real sevarity of their illness. There are three things that can happen all together or just one thing that PTSD are comprised of, relieveing, avoiding and, increased arousal. With relieveing that is when a person who has been through something tramatic is trying to go through the happenigs so they will have flashbacks, hallucinations, or even nightmares about the event. They could also feel stressed when something happens that reminds them of the horrific event. Next avoiding this is when a person with avoid places, activities, or even thoughts that remind them of the event. Because of this they will become detatched form the world around them. Another problem with PTSD or post tramatic stress disorder, is increased arousal meaning excessive emotions. These can be things such as difficulty falling or staying asleep, outbursts of anger, difficulty concentrating, and being easily startled. This can also cause physical problems such as high blood pressure/rate, muscle tension, and even nausea. People who have PTSD also deal with it differently aome are even able to calm themselves down. Anyone can have PTSD and it has been brought into about 5.2 million people annually, furthermore, they have estimated that around 7.8 million people will experience it in their lifetime. There are also many different ways PTSD can be treated from medication like antidepressants to psychotherapy to help the patient learn how to control themselves. However no matter what you do to treat PTSD it will be a long process that will be on going and may never fully be resolved. THe best thing to do for people who have PTSD it to take control of it before it can get worse and be more self harming. I believe that the military will say that they do because they don't want American people to think that there are unstable people fighing in our war however it is also the sokiders. Just like any team you are on, although you want to push yourself for what you believe in, sometimes you have to know when it isn't healthy and you have to stop, as much as it might hurt your pride just knowing you could still be the same to your family is a much better trade off.

Causes of WW1: Political Cartoons

Slide One

1) For Austria-Hungry the man is putting his boot in Italy's face showing that they did not want to be taken over. One more thing is Great Britain and Germany fighting over Belgum and Switzerland. Showing that they were fighting.

Slide Two

1) It is showing how inter connected the alliences were between all they countries, that they were like a bunch of sticks in a pile and the nationalist movements and the Arms race were just blowing smoke onto the fire.

2) That there were a lot of reasons why they war started and it only took two little things to just set all the alliences into fighting mode.

Slide Three

1) It is portraying nationalism.

2) That nationalism starts from one person and all should follow because they all should be the same.

3) Depending on the countries views it can mbe positve or negative. One example of negative is in fact Germany and their views and the Jewish religion and anyone who didn't fit their picture of what people should be, do, and act.

Slide Four

1) That they were all following eachother if they were in an allience.

2) The first and second I can't figure out but the thrid I think is Russia, the forth is Germany I believe and the last is Britan I think.

3) That all the countries were following eachother due to alliences.

Slide Five

1) That all the different countries were just getting more heated and that they were all close around eachother.

2) The message is that the countries were all getting mad at eachother and so heated however they couldn't get aways from the tension because they were all so close in vacinity to one another.

Slide Six

1) That all the countries were pointing fingers at one another and not taking blame.

2)  That after awhile none of the countries quite knew who started it but that they were just helping their allied country.

Slide Seven

1) I believe that Germany wnats to take over Europe.

2) I think is is a German soldier.

3) Just that GErmany wanted all the power and took advatage of the fighting situation and was trying to just take over all of Europe.

Nationalism

Nationalism is comprised of five major elements; language, territory, culture, economic interest, and a shared history. I believe for the most part we all share the same language. Yes when people immigrate they might not know much English but they learn it or it’s their second language. This makes our country nationalistic by having our one common language. Next is territory, this meaning we are all one nation. This is held true, our nation is comprised of the fifty states. No Alaska and Hawaii are not necessarily connected to the main area however they are still under the laws and in USA's territory. We are not all split up with different rules. Next is culture, this is where our nationalism lacks because we are a country comprised of all different cultures. America's called the "melting pot" for God's sake. On the other hand this shows that we can all live together despite different cultures and traditions. This is what makes America unique and special. The fact that we can have all different people that immigrated and brought their culture with them and how we are still influenced today. For example I'm Polish, Hungarian, German, and French. My mom's side is all Polish and at Christmas we do the Christmas wafer. It is a tradition back for the old country to signify a blessing into the New Year. No one makes fun or there is no negativity towards this tradition showing how we can all live together. Next is economic interest. An example is that we are all money motivated. Even people who are into drugs want money so they can buy it. We tend to measure success on money as well. Also because of the recession are focus has turned onto economics even harder then times before. Making sure we have our resources such as gas, and now that gas prices are going u everyone in our country is affected. One more element of nationalism is a shared history. Our countries history is pretty remarkable however everyone that lives here today's history has not all been the same. This doesn't necessarily mean we are not nationalistic though it just means that we are a country that comes from all different places. Therefore I believe that if a country can figure out how to combine all different people it’s great and nationalism has prevailed in history however if countries cannot get along then it’s not meant to be. All in all I believe history has a love hate relationship with nationalism.

Socialism in our society is it enough?

I believe that the socialism in our society is just enough. When we look at things such as medicare, welfare, and food stamps, we see that our goverment is trying to give us freedom to do as we please yet assisst when needed. By our goverment providing things such as medicare we are able to get the care we need form doctors without being neglected because of low incomes. This shows because more than 30 million with medicare used it for preventitive services in 2011. This statistic is shocking to me. I didn't know much about medicare until I went on Medicare.gov. Medicare also covers early tests to find heart disease which is the number one killer in America. The next thing that by having socialism in our goverment is welfare. About 30 million U.S. citizens are on welfare right now. This is helping people who are less futunate the chance to live at least a decent life. No it doesn't mean full equality, but this also could jump start even just one of those 30 million people to turn their lives around. One more thing that is showing the right amount of socialism in our society is food stamps. Without food stamps peope with less than $2,000 in resources in their homes would not be able to pay for food for their children, their elderly parents, or even more so themselves. By our economic system having just the right amount of socialism in our society we are not bein over powered but also not under powered by our goverment. By our goverment being this way we are only being helped.

Economic Systems in a nutshell

Capitalism is a type of economic system that lets everything be and stays out of the economy.

Socialism is a type of economic system that only dabbles in some aspects of equality and production.

Communism is a type of economic system that makes everything equal.

Terrorism Artical

This artical denied as well as confirmed some of my opions on terriorism. One theory that was denied was that I believed that terrorists were more so people of low income. I thought that these horrible people we're people that were poor and wanted to make some sort of radical impact. However my theory was prven wrong when the artical stated that 47% of terrorists had actually graduated from highschool. These people also came from privalaged families as well. It said 16% came from families of wealth. This does make sense seeing that most dictators such as Fidel Castro and Ho Chi Minh held wealth. It also is all connected in that the terrorists in 9/11 held enginering degrees and knew exactly what they were doing because they had had many years of schooling. Though after reading this artical some things we're shocking but other facts were not. One fact is the all mighty of terrorism which is that terroism instills fear into people...even a whole country sometimes. It says inthe artical that terrorism "is a mesans by which to scare the pants off the living and fracture their normal lives." This statement was proven when In the random shootings in Washington, DC, everything was shut down because they were so terrified of these two people. Even though the fact is that an average American to die in a year from a terrorist attack the probability is one in five million. This is over rided in peoples minds when something like nine eleven happens. All people can think of is the fear, and the what if it happens to me? What if I was one of those three thousand people to die in those planes or even in the towers. People have even stopped taking planes and driving to their destinationin fear of planes being crashed. This showing that that fear factor is still in the back of peoples minds. So in short by reading this artical one of my theories was proven wrong however the other theory of instilling fear still holds strong in people.

Causes of French Revolution

Some of the causes of the French Revolution were the American Revolution, poor leadership, finacial problems within the country, and the most important social inequality. I belive that of all the causes social inequality was the major reason. The country of France consisted of three estates or social casts. The first consisted of clergy. The clergy were exempt from having to pay taxes and owned ten percent of the land. The second estste was comprised of the nobles. they owned 25-30 percent of all the land. They also recieved tax exemptions because they were a crucial role in society. The final and third estate were the commoners. Within the commoners there were three tiers the bourgeoisie, the workers, and the peasants. Unlike the workers and peasant the bourgeoisie's had money and steady jobs. These people were also major fans of the enlightenment era with Locke and Rousseau. At the very bottom of the tiers workers and peasants were poor and in constant starvation. In addition the thrid estate people had to pay taxes. they never even got it back because half of it went to paying of the debt of the country. The enlightenmetn era helped to insire the french third estate people to revolt against the royals. they became furious with being treated not equally and having Marie Antonette spend any money that ever did actually come in on lavish parties and such. Therefore because of the inequalities in society the people became enraged and that i believe was the biggest cause of the French Revolution.

In our country we are supposed to be under the assupmtion that all men are created equal. This theory was laid down by our forfathers and we must respect that. However looking in our past starting with slavery and to present day men have not been equal. Actually most of the time equal is not the case. Even now we see people in the news not getting a job because of the color of their skin or even now because of their gender. Our declaration states that we should not have to face these obsticles yet they are presistent. So in short I believe that we are not all created very equal and in society there are still differences based on gender and skin color.