Elizabeth White
Instructor: Richard Samuelson
English 102
5 February 2011
Extended Bibliography 2
Unit 1
1. Choi, NG, and J Jun. "Life regrets and pride among low-income older adults: relationships with depressive symptoms, current life stressors and coping resources." Aging & Mental Health 13.2 (2009): 213-225.Web. 6 Feb. 2011.
2. According to Choi, “Regrets are both counterfactual thoughts (cognition) and negative emotions related to unattained or unfulfilled goals, unintended consequences, and regretful events, actions, or commissions, and inactions or omissions.” (Choi pg. 213) Throughout this article researchers studied the effects of early indication of depression and anxiety. The study of depression brought up many key points of how and why we’re seeing more and more adults struggle with overall mental health and happiness. Some interesting points were made about the effects that money has on a person’s well being. Unfortunately, money holds the same kind of value it did so long ago. If you have money, you have status and you have everything “you ever wanted”. Now, of course these are all thoughts that people have at one point and time, but what people don’t realize that this envy and regret among people who do have money is causing some serious damage to our psyche just because we don’t have enough money to do everything we want. This also falls under the great depression of; if you don’t have money to do what you want then you go the rest of your life never accomplishing your goals. These are some major depressants for younger people today, and the longer that money stays important, the more depressed people we’re going to see in the future.
3. I noticed a lot of similarities to Baby Steps in this article. It made me think of struggling parents and what they might feel like when first entering the program. Would they feel embarrassed, defeated, or eve proud? I know I would feel a little uncomfortable. It’s not a comfortable thing, asking for help; especially when it comes to your own family, your own child. Many of the parents that come through the program are people that probably do suffer from some form of depression, all they want to is to be a role model and give their child what they need. After looking through Baby Steps I read a couple of “success stories” from women who did feel lost, who had no money, and their goals and expectations had not been met. Baby Steps, for these women, is the answer. Baby Steps will make these parents feel better about not having all of the money they want but having the money they need. The program slowly, but surely, points these parents in the right direction for success in meeting their goals and having a happy family! I know that this source is authoritative because, well, I got this article from the universities library for one. The university only posts valid and published work on their article and database page, so it make researching much easier because I know I’m looking at a reliable source. Secondly, if I had found this source on Google, I would’ve credited it reliable because of the context of the article. Most everything stated was based off of in depth studies and research and the authors and publishers of the article are professors from a couple of universities in Texas.
4. I feel very strongly about the points that this article is proving. It’s important to me that not only I reach my goals in life, but that everyone has a chance to experience something amazing. It’s disheartening to know that more and more people are sitting idle in their own aspirations and that is continually leading to things like anxiety and depression later on. I believe everyone deserves a chance to reach their goals; Baby Steps helps people do that. Like I stated earlier, many if the people entering into the program are struggling with the same things; no money, no education, and a baby. Sadly, those who do not seek counsel when in tough spot never reach those goals and fall into a lack of mental health, and it’s very usual for the child to fall into the same pattern. It’s important for everyone to be aware of the struggles we share, some greater than others, but we as a community, can all reach our goals together.
Bibliography #2
ReplyDelete1. For your MLA works cited, you have to capitalize the first letter of each word. Other than that everything looks good.
2. I liked the fact that you related Baby Steps to the article. I don’t understand the sentence “Baby Steps will make these parents feel better about not having all of the money they want but having the money they need.” In your summary, discuss why people are depressed. I believe that goals and depression don’t go hand in hand. I also like where you relied on a valid source so it’s makes it true to believe. For your summary, are you saying that girls who have babies regret it because they have no money? What does depression have to do with pregnancies? In you last paragraph, I think that everyone can reach their goals regardless, pregnant, depressed or not. I disagree with the fact that people who don’t seek counseling never reach those goals and fall into a lack of mental health. I learned from experience because my mom was young when she had my brother and she reached her goal regardless. Do you have any questions pertaining to your article? You should add that in your last paragraph.
3. There was no quotations used in your reflection/question section of your bibliography. Your paraphrasing was well done. What you did well was apply a reading as a lens and reading for the pitch, complaint and the moment. What you wanted us to believe was to pitch-all depressed people don’t reach their goals in life. The compliant is what the piece is reacting to or worried about-women get depressed due to the fact that they don’t have money to support their baby, then they can’t reach their goals of graduating from high school and get a job. The moment is the historical and cultural context within which the piece is operating-you related the article to the agency, Baby Steps.
4. I think you used in your summary. Here’s a link for reference http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/02/ for your other paragraphs.
Actually, me trying to tell the readers that depressed people do not reach their goals in life, was not my point. So, I'll go back and better word what I was trying to get across to my audience to try to make my point clearer.
ReplyDeleteAlso, although I appreciate your comments, I typically don't write for the purpose of pleasing someone else. So it's okay if you don't agree with me. Not everyone is going to agree with everyone all the time. I was simply just taking the empirical evidence from my source and putting it into my own words, this also doesn't necessarily mean I agree with what my source is saying either. Thank you Tiana.