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In the TED called “Why Your Life is Worth Documenting,” Taylor Wandas worked to convinces the audience that journaling is important to do because it’s a beneficial way to connect and document your life.

1. In beginning, the speaker lists her reasons on why she started to journal.

2. She demonstrates the bigger purpose of journaling by listing reasons on why journaling is important to everyone.

3. She speaker engages with the audience by asking a question on where history comes from. Then she adds her own anecdote on her own history.

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Free write: I wanted to focus more on the importance of memories. I’m passionate about about how vital memories are to our daily lives. I’m passionate about the power memories hold. I feel like my audience should care about this topic because everyone can relate to how memories play a role in our lives. I feel like I know a lot about how memories are formed and play a role in our lives. For the most part my information is fresh. I can make it more fresh by relating to todays things such as music. Music and memories have a correlation. I’m sure I can get the audience to think of a song that reminds them of a favorite memory. Hence, it’ll show memories are constantly playing a role in our lives. I do know enough on my topic.

Your research journey: At first my goal was to understand the importance of memories. I wondered just how much does memories play a role in our lives. I came to wanting to know about this topic due to my relationship with memories. I love looking back at my own memories so I wanted others to look back at their memories. During my research journey I learned about how memories are formed in the brain and how they affect our lives. My research then shifted to researching on how powerful memories can be to our mental health. I also learned the significance on how memories can evoke such emotions. Hence, my research changed to finding out how music and memories can effect one’s mental health. Basically, my research changed to the mental health side of memories. The idea at the moment is memories are powerful due to all the ways memories are involved in our lives.

Questions for the audience: How much do you know about memories? What would you love to see me cover? What do you definitely not want to hear about with my topic? What would make you care about my topic?  Add any other questions you want your audience to help you answer.

Draft Throughline:

With my recent experience with my best friends, I learned something new about memories, whether it's good or bad, memories are powerful because they will always evoke strong emotions and lessons that can be helpful in our daily lives.

Looking back at my own memories, I learned something new, whether good or bad, memories are powerful because they will always evoke strong emotions and lessons that can be helpful in our daily lives.

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Guided Reading for the Throughline Chapter 

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1. How does Anderson define a Throughline?
Throughline is the connecting theme that ties together each narrative element.

2. What is one of the steps to finding your Throughline? A step to finding your Throughline is "thinking of the throughline as a strong cord or rope, onto which you will attach all the elements that are part of the idea you’re building"(Anderson).

3. What elements must a Throughline contain? Your Throughline should try to be encapsulate in no more than fifteen words. A Throughline shouldn’t be so predictable rather there should be an unexpectedness.

4. List 2 quotes or examples that stick to you. “So, a throughline requires you first to identify an idea that can be properly unpacked in the time you have available” (Anderson).
“Your throughline needs handling with special care if you have to speak on a heavy subject” (Anderson).

5. According to Anderson, what should a Throughline be? Anderson suggests that Throughline should “trace the path that the journey takes.”

6. How is a Throughline different than a “topic”?
The Throughline is worth thinking about rather than being clear.

7. Take what you know and heard about thesis statements and compare the two. Is a throughline the same as a thesis? How is different? A thesis is a proposition you’re trying to prove to an audience. A throughline is illustrating the path that journey takes. Both are trying to make the audience believe in whatever they’re talking about.

8. What are the components of the “right way” to write a TED Talk?
The right way to write a Ted talk is to cover less and make sure to focus on a single connected thread such a well-developed throughline.

9. What is the difference between an issue and an idea?
An issue leads with morality, where idea leads with curiosity.

10. What comes after you have your Throughline?
You’ll be ready to plan what you’ll attach to it. Basically, ideas will come after.

Anderson, Chris. TED Talks: The Official TED Guide to Public Speaking.  First Mariner, 2017.

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Mariah Martinez MLA Notes In-text Citations

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First most, I learned that you must began each source entry with the name of the author or creator. Furthermore, I also learned that the name of the first author is always inverted, so last name first, the first name. Lastly, I learned that you should always include the full title of the source, including subtitles in title case.

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First, I learned that Times New Roman 12 is the font you should use for MLA format. Secondly, I learned that you should always number your pages on the top right corner. Lastly, I learned you must set your margins to 1 inch.

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I started off my research journey with my own experiences with memories. I know for me, looking back at memories are important to me. I wanted to learn more about the importance of memories, so I ended up learning more about memories. For instance, I learned from my stop 4 research. Stop 4 research focused more depth into how remembering memories can lead to a better mental health. Furthermore, from my research 6 stop, I learned memories and music can ignite positive emotions. Both opened a door on just how complexed memories can affect our mind. Some questions I need to answer are what some ways are we can hold onto our memories for as long as we can. And to find out why do we hold onto our memories so tightly?  I want others to think bad memories and good memories are important because they are what makes us who we are, and they bring the best out of us.

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For my fieldwork, I decided to interview 2 family members of different ages. I asked them a few questions in regarding the importance of memories. The first person, I interviewed was my 18-year-old sister. Then the 2nd person I asked was my father who's 43 years old.  One question that particularly stood out was this question.
1) How important are memories to you from a level 1-5, 1 to being little care for memories, and 5 to caring a lot about memories? Why?

Their answers: Both answered 5. My sister answered by saying memories are important to her because it's all she'll have when everyone is gone, and memories are fun to share to others. Then my dad said memories are important to him because of his grandma. After, watching his grandma battle dementia and lose her memories, it has made him appreciate memories so much more.

From that one question, I learned even in different age groups, memories both are vital in everyday life. It's interesting both of them noted memories are important to have in the long run. It makes me wonder; do we hold onto how memories for as long as we can because we're afraid to forget them? From this, I want to continue to understand what's the reason we hold onto our memories so tightly.

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As I completed this activity I learned that while reading my article, I had to dive deep into analysis. Some things I didn’t notice when I first read this article, I ended up noticing while doing this activity. This activity helped me in understanding why memories are so powerful. From this activity, I learned when I think I tend to write fast. My thoughts are fast paced and I’m able to find the main aspects in a article pretty quickly.

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My bad I read the question wrong haha I was confused on why I had to write about poetry. Oh well if I had to tell someone what I’m  learning, I would tell them I’ve learning  how to write a detailed description in a story, how to use commas correctly, how to find credible sources, how to use screencast, and how to cite sources correctly.

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Joshua Bell is one of the greatest violinist in the world. He first played the violin at Bostons Stately Symphony hall. The thing that changed between the two scenarios is that people didn’t really want to listen to him play the violin.Compared to the halls, he’s use to performing in front of a large audience that wants to listen to him play the  violin. Yet, once he played in the subway station nobody really cared to listen to him play his violin. The title of Aristotle work is Rhetoric. Logos is that the idea makes sense from the audience’s point of view. Ethos is reputation, what are you known for;credibility. Pathos is the emotional connection. The thing that was missing from Bells seconds performance was his pathos and ethos. He didn’t necessarily create an trustworthy environment and connection with the people. I can add credibility and emotional connection by illustrating my trustworthiness and willingness to share a personal story to create a emotional bond with my audience.

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1) The most interesting thing I found from my research is probably how memories are made. I also think all the complaints in how memories are made was the most interesting part. By that I mean brain components in making a memory.
2) I need to find more information on how memories are important.

Cures I’ve heard is keto diet & magic pills that shrinks your fat. We believe these cures because they’re interesting solutions & sounds good. As you said we often don’t want to do the hard work.

Belle never had cancer, even though she made it seem like she did. Hence , she created a app on how to eat healthier/ lose weight. This example shows we like to believe such things are true, confirmation bias. We should evaluate evidence (who) and pay attention where the papers are published.

Last source was published in 2021. The source uses a study in their article. They do reference to the science magazine. My source was published by Washington Post. Purpose is persuade others music indeed helps with remembering memories.

Lateral reading: https://youtu.be/GoQG6Tin-1E

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The five important elements in poetry are imagery, rhythm, sound, density, and line. Specifically, imagery is a descriptive or figurative language. Then rhythm, is a strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound. Then sound is an auditory impression. Then density is how much is said in how little of space. Lastly, a line is a unit of language into which a poem or play is divided.

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I have backed up my Padlet.

I am successfully completing the Gatekeepers in the course.

I have left comments for my Research Team.

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Research Journey Stop 6: Gale Context Opposing Viewpoints

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Research Journey Stop 6: Gale Context Opposing Viewpoints

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From the article, “A music therapist seeks to tap into long-lost memories, “the Washington Post depicts how a music therapist uses music to reminisce long-lost memories, thus illustrating music and memories both play a role in remembering memories. The Washington Post suggest, that “from joyful celebrations to solemn ceremonies, music part of meaningful events throughout life and becomes strongly associated with memory” (The Washington Post). Music plays a vital role in people’s lives because it’s capable of bringing back memories. The Washington Post then continues, to depict a dementia study that illustrates that music evokes emotions and memories out of someone. Ultimately, the article analyzes a huge correlation between music and memories. 112 words

I would have to agree to what the article suggest about the correlation between memories and music. For instance, I could understand music does positively influence the emotions and memories of someone. I would agree, “music may be the best tool to explore, access and benefit from positive emotion activated by hidden memories” (The Washington Post). I know for me personally whenever I hear a certain song, it always reminds me of a memory. Something about music, where its memories always come rushing back to me. Music also always evokes emotions of out me. It’s beautiful the correlation between music and memories is so powerful. By simply listening to a song, it can open so many memoires from the past. Music if anything is a tool that helps you reminisce memories. I can relate to the article because music always brings out my memories. I have a lot of pf songs that remind me of my memories. 157 words

The article really made me dive deeper into the correlation of music and memories. The article also made me really appreciate the power of music and memoires. The article opened a new perspective on how memoires can correlate with various things in a person life. In this instance, illustrates memories can be evoked my music. It’s a really concept to add to my research journey. 65 words

How does music evoke your memories?

Do you have certain songs that brings back memories to you?

"A music therapist seeks to tap into long-lost memories." Washingtonpost.com, 5 Mar. 2021, p. NA. Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A654199125/OVIC?u=west59484&sid=bookmark-OVIC&xid=06856773. Accessed 11 Mar. 2022.

A music therapist seeks to tap into long-lost memories. - Document - Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints (oclc.org)

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Research Journey Stop 5: Gale in Context Opposing Viewpoints

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From the article, “How far back are your first memories? You may have been younger than you think,” CNN Wire explains memories are formed at a much younger age than most assume. For instance, CNN Wire focuses on a study from a “Newfoundland researcher suggest that our earliest memories could be from back as 2.5 years of age.” The study challenges the notion that of remembering memories at 3.4 years old, it goes back at the age of 2.5 years. CNN Wire explains, “Errors in dating memories is a phenomenon that Peterson calls “telescoping,” where individuals think a memory was closer than it really was. “Overall, CNN Wire analyzes how the evidence and study very much does suggest memories come at younger age than expected. 125 words

I would have to agree to what the article and study suggests on how far back our memories can be remembered. For instance, I could see humans “think a memory was closer than it really was” (CNN Wire).  I know when I think of my memories, I am always off by a couple of years. When I was telling my dad about this specific memory, I thought it happened when I was 7. But he told me, the theory happened when I was around 4. Just like how the study suggests, people tend to be off with their memories by a couple of years. Once again, I could agree on the idea that, “people often need a prompt or a reminder to recall what their earliest memory is.” I’ve noticed when I’m prompted with a reminder of a memory, then all the memories come back in orderly fashion. I could understand why the study suggest memories date back to much younger years. 162 words

The article made me really think just how far back our memories are formed. It’s really cool that for most of our life we have done nothing but make memories. It’s interesting we can remember our memories from as far back as 2.5 years old. It just shows how important memories are to us. 54 words

How far back can you remember your memories?

"How far back are your first memories? You may have been younger than you think." CNN Wire, 13 June 2021, p. NA. Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A665132284/OVIC?u=west59484&sid=bookmark-OVIC&xid=fb889e9f. Accessed 11 Mar. 2022.

How far back are your first memories? You may have been younger than you think. - Document - Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints (oclc.org)

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From the article, “The Power of Positive Memories,” Markham Heid explains that positive memories lead to a better mindset. For instance, Heid uses a 2017 Nature human Behavior study to convey positive memories indeed do protect one’s health. Heid continues to use other studies to emphasize memories play a vital role in moods. Specifically, Heid then begins to focus the completive memory theory. As Heid notes, the competitive memory theory, “hold that every person has access to both positive and negative thoughts” Heid suggest through this theory, that the power of good memories can heavily influences one’s mental health. Ultimately, Heid concludes it’s worthwhile to preserve and remember positive memories.
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After reading this source I can make connections to what the speaker was trying to explain on the power of good memories. From the studies, Heid detailed I learned memories is very influential to one’s mindsets. Particularly, when Heid explains, “All this research suggests that—redirecting one’s thoughts to better times or memories of gratify experiences may prove to be a powerful safeguard against anxiety and depression” (Heid). After reading that part, I could relate to what Heid meant by that. Whenever I feel bad about myself, I always think of my happiest memories. Whenever I do, it makes me feel so much better. Remembering the good memories in my life, really does help me push away the negative thoughts. Memories are very powerful. Memories are powerful because they can always help you in rough times. From reading this source, I can understand why the author wrote about the significance of memories. Memories really do protect and make our mental health much better in the long run.
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How often do you reminisce over your memories?
How does  reminiscing  memories make you feel?
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The Power of Positive Memories. Remembering happy times may offer… | by Markham Heid | Elemental (medium.com)

Heid, Markham. “The Power of Positive Memories - Elemental.” Medium, 12 Dec. 2021, elemental.medium.com/the-power-of-positive-memories-86c2441ffe07.

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W hen the going gets tough, the tough get nostalgic. That's the take-home lesson from a recent spate of research papers that suggests recalling happier times may be an effective bulwark against stress and depression.

For a 2017 study in the journal Nature Human Behaviour, people were observed by an expressionless white-coated scientist while attempting to keep a hand submerged in ice water - an ordeal that reliably (and understandably) produced stress. Immediately afterward, the people were instructed to recall either happy memories or "neutral" memories, all of which they'd come up with ahead of time in preparation for the study. While levels of the stress hormone cortisol rose steadily following the unsettling ice water experience among the people who recalled neutral memories, cortisol levels barely budged among those asked to recall happier times.

The research team repeated the experiment in a second group, only this time they conducted brain scans during the memory-recall portion of the experiment. They found that several areas of the brain's prefrontal cortex - areas involved in emotion regulation and "cognitive control" - became more active when people recalled positive memories. Acute stress "lessens our ability to use cognitive emotion regulation" and often triggers periods of anxiety or depression, the authors of that study wrote. But thinking about happier times seems to interrupt this cascade of negative thoughts and feelings.

This study's findings dovetail with newer research linking depression to a hampered ability to recall positive memories. A 2019 study from the University of Cambridge in England found that the ability to remember pleasant events in detail is associated with lower cortisol levels and fewer negative self-appraisals in young people at risk for depression due to early life stress. "We were interested in resilience, or why certain people do not develop depressive symptoms after stressful life events," says Adrian Askelund, the first author of the study, who is now a doctoral student in clinical psychology at the University of Oslo in Norway. "We found that those who recalled more specific positive events from their past had better mental health even after major stressors."

Askelund says a "specific" memory - as opposed to a general one - is a memory that can be fixed in time and place and that recalls an event that lasts less than a day. For example, recalling a fun meal out with friends is a specific memory. "Depressed individuals tend to recall categorical memories, which are general memories that are not fixed in time or place and lack defining characteristics," he says.

Memories of happy experiences - especially ones that involve social interaction - seem to benefit people because they reshape how we see ourselves for the better.

Going back 30 years, researchers have recognized that people with depression are more likely to recall negative memories as opposed to positive ones. There's also evidence that people with depression may remember unhappy times as even worse than they actually were. All of this lends support to a popular theory of depression - known as the "competitive memory theory" - which holds that every person has access to both positive and negative thoughts and "self-representations," but that people with depression tend to gravitate toward the negative ones. Over time, the activation of these negative mental pathways strengthens them; meanwhile, positive mental pathways grow weaker as they lie dormant.

Based on this competitive memory theory, some researchers have explored whether positive memory training can help protect people who are at high risk for depression. A 2018 study from a group of U.K. researchers found that training people to recall happy memories led to a significant drop in depression scores. The people in the study first learned to identify their negative self-appraisals, such as thoughts of worthlessness. Next, they recalled specific occasions when they'd demonstrated worth, or when their behavior otherwise refuted their negative self-talk. Over time, reliving these positive memories seemed to reduce the brain's tendency to fire up its negative thought pathways.

Askelund says people undergoing cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for depression are often taught techniques designed to counteract negative self-related thoughts. Recalling positive memories may be one such technique. "Recalling specific positive memories seems to be a skill that can be trained," he says.

The idea that people can train the brain to think in ways that counteract stress and depression is supported by research on gratitude. Multiple studies have found that taking time each day or week to think about the things in life for which one is grateful can improve mental health outcomes and well-being. "Whether stemming from our own internal thoughts or the daily news headlines, we are exposed to a constant drip of negativity," says Robert Emmons, a gratitude researcher and professor of psychology at the University of California, Davis. Recalling happy memories - and creating new ones through positive experiences - can fuel feelings of gratitude and turn off the spigot of negativity, he says.

His views are backed up by research on how people spend time and money. "We know from a large body of research that people derive more happiness from experiential purchases - travel, meals out, concerts - than they do from clothing or electronic goods or material possessions," says Amit Kumar, an assistant professor of marketing and psychology at the University of Texas at Austin.

Kumar says memories of novel and happy experiences - especially ones that involve social interaction - seem to benefit people because they reshape how we see ourselves for the better. "Experiences live on in our memories and in the stories we tell ourselves and other people," he explains. Recalling positive experiences also naturally kindles feelings of gratitude, he adds.

All this research suggests that a happy, mentally healthy brain is one that regularly recalls moments that inspire positivity and feelings of gratitude. Especially during times of stress or sadness, redirecting one's thoughts to better times or memories of gratifying experiences may prove to be a powerful safeguard against anxiety and depression.

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W hen the going gets tough, the tough get nostalgic. That's the take-home lesson from a recent spate of research papers that suggests recalling happier times may be an effective bulwark against stress and depression.

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How We Make Memories: Crash Course Psychology #13

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In the YouTube video, “How We Make Memories,” Crash Course depicts the why’s and how’s humans make memories. Crash Course Psychology explains to the audience the significances of how we make memories. Particularly, the crash course video introduces the audience to the focus of the video. The speaker states, “Our memory helps make us who we are.” Crash Course emphasizes memory is what makes is who we are, thus reinforcing memory very much does play a huge role to our lives. Crash course then goes in further detail in explaining how our memories are processed. Specifically, Crash Course, explains, “Our memories are typically accessed in three different ways—through recall, recognition and relearning.” Throughout, the video, Crash Course goes in deep detail in all the aspects of memory storage. The crash video then concludes that “Memory is extremely powerful.”
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Memories is essential and vital to a person’s life. For instance, from the YouTube video, I learned those memories are, “Constantly shaping and reshaping your brain, your life, and your identity.” (Crash Course). Not only are memories just a task we do every day, but it’s also a lot more complicated. Before, I watched the video I thought memories was something we do just to remember certain aspects of our lives. But little did I know, memories do a lot to our lives. As said from the video, memories are constantly reshaping, thus it’s constantly changing our perception on life. Simply, memories are forever changing on who we are as a person. As said from the video, “Our memories may haunt us or sustain us, but either way, they define us” (Crash Course.” Ultimately, making memories plays a huge role in finding ourselves. Making memories is constantly helping us find our identity. After listening to the source, it made me understand why memories make us who we are.
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How does your memories play a huge role in your life?
Has your memories made you who are you today?
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Post 2 of the research journey: "Curious about this, I decided to do some research...."

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Since I was more curious about memories, I ended up finding some articles relating to my topic. From the articles I found they all had the same theme. Simply memories play a huge role in our lives. Memories are powerful and enlightening to our daily lives.  Everyday memories are affecting our lives. It was very helpful in going more depth about the importance of memories.  From the article, “How Our Memory Affected Our Lives,” I learned that memories could teach us a lot in life. Even if it’s a bad or good memory, memories are always filled with hidden lessons that help us in our life. Then from the article, “The Power of Positive Memories,” I learned memories better our mental health in the long run. Once again, I learn memories are vital to our lives. Lastly, from the last article, “Why Memories Can Boost Your Mood,” I learned memories hugely impact our moods positively. Ultimately, these articles can help me in finding the answer on why making memories is so important to our daily lives.
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How Our Memory Affects Our Lives (theodysseyonline.com)

The Power of Positive Memories. Remembering happy times may offer… | by Markham Heid | Elemental (medium.com)

Why memories can boost your mood | Psychologies

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Post 1 of the research journey: Free-write and Explore

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My 3rd origin story is called Creation of Memories. It would have to be my favorite story. It was about me, partying at my best friend’s graduation party. It was a very fun night. I’ll forever remember that night because it was nothing but positive vibes. I wrote the story because I absolutely love cherishing memories. There’s this song called memories by Kid Cudi, and I really think that song depicts how I feel about making memories. I really liked the question I asked in my origin story. The question was, “It got me to wonder, when you let go for a night, will those be the best memories?” The reason why I like the question is because of the theme behind it. It got me thinking, is making memories the best therapy for someone? Why are memories so powerful to us? Is there a correlation with dreams and memoires? How important is it to cherish memories? Overall, I want to explore more on the importance of making positive memories. 169 words

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Academic Summary

In her TED talk, “Why Students Should Have Mental Health Days,” Hailey Hardcastle explains how important and beneficial it is for students to have mental health days off. Hardcastle offers her insight on how society can help teenagers who are struggling with mental health challenges. Through her insights, she illustrates society can play a huge role in managing mental health challenges that teenagers are facing.

For instance, Hardcastle describes her own anecdotes on how she dealt her with her mental health issues when she was a student. By doing so, she props the question, “what’s going on, how did we get here and what can we do?” Hardcastle question helps to introduce the audience into understanding the why’s with the mental health crisis in teenagers. Hardcastle, then goes in further detail and explains how she created a committee called “Students for a Healthy Oregon.” She emphasizes the committee was created because she wanted to set an end to the stigma against mental health.  Moreover, she details that due to the persistent dedication of the committee, her committee was able to put down House Bill 2191 into the law. Furthermore, Hardcastle clarifies that her bill enables students being able to take mental days off from school. She stresses the importance of her bill and concludes her bill is a good example on how a society can help fighting mental health challenges in teenagers. Thus, she reinforces the idea that is very much possible for society to make real change to the mental health world.

Hailey Hardcastle: Why students should have mental health days | TED Talk

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School can be rife with stress, anxiety, panic attacks and even burnout -- but there’s often no formal policy for students who need to prioritize their well-being. Hailey Hardcastle explains why schools should offer mental health days and allow students time to practice emotional hygiene without stigma. Follow along to learn how she and a team of fellow teens transformed their advocacy into law.

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I told my friends about this ted talk. They also related to the main idea of the whole ted talk video. I told them the title of the ted talk, " Why students should have mental days off," by Hailey Hardcastle. They instantly related to the title of it. They agreed with the message that students most definitely should put their mental health first. I told them the research Hardcastle used to show the benefits of having days off due to mental health. I also told them about the bill Hardcastle got passed dealing with mental health. I then made sure to point out how Hardcastle highlighted her issues with mental health. As a group we were able to relate with her issues. My friends and I have mental health issues, so it felt familiar to relate with Hardcastle. I noticed when I summarized the main points of the video, my understanding was visibly shown. By listing all the ways Hardcastle informed the audience, I was able to make a concise summary on her main purpose on mental health.

Sidenote- I had more pages of my annotations, but it would not let me add more photos.

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In Hailey Hardcastle ted talks, she passionately informs the audience on the importance on why students should have mental days off. She eagerly uses her own anecdotes to inform the audience on how taking off personal days off was beneficial to her. She also, uses an example of a survey to convey her points. She also adds in her own research on mental health. She then uses the bill she got to passed as a point to illustrate how benefiting it is for students to take mental days off from school. Words to describe her in this video would be informative and passionate.

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1) I activated my schema by finding out when the video was uploaded. I found out it was uploaded in January 2020. I then made a connection with the year 2020. I noticed covid was much alive in the year 2020, so I know mental health wasn't the best that year. By the title, I know it's going to discuss on why it's important for students to take days off in order to better their mental health.
The link of the ted talk is Hailey Hardcastle: Why students should have mental health days | TED Talk

2) For the most part I knew a lot about the Activate schema. In my ap English class, we would always have to write concise summaries on documentaries or videos. So, I'm familiar with the steps in order to write a well-done summary. On the top of my head, I know it's important to purpose for the reading. I know it's important to use verbs and annotation while trying to find a purpose of something.

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Hailey Hardcastle: Why students should have mental health days | TED Talk

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School can be rife with stress, anxiety, panic attacks and even burnout -- but there’s often no formal policy for students who need to prioritize their well-being. Hailey Hardcastle explains why schools should offer mental health days and allow students time to practice emotional hygiene without stigma. Follow along to learn how she and a team of fellow teens transformed their advocacy into law.

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First most, I learned that Grammarly is a tool that corrects spelling grammar and syntax mistakes. Secondly, I learned that you can use the Grammarly tool at www.grammarly.com. In conclusion, I learned that you can download the program or as extension for your browser.

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Firstly, I learned that you have to capitalize months and capitalize the word “I.” Next, I learned you have to capitalize the name of people, places, and official names of things. Lastly, I learned you have to capitalize titles, and starting words of a sentence.

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I walked into the house, not caring where the night would take me. I just wanted to let go for the rest of the night. As soon as I walked into the house, chaos ran through my body. The purple and red lights were flickering intensely. The lights were soaring with so much energy that I felt like I was melting. The smell of liquor attacked my 5 senses. I quickly fell in love with the laidback environment. The music was booming and alive. For a split second, I got lost in the eyes of the music. Once I snapped back to reality, me and my best friend, Jada eagerly walked downstairs. As soon as we walked down the stairs, we threw ourselves in the crowd. Hundreds of people were yelling at each other. The crowd conversations were roaring. The traffic in the basement was alive. Liquor bottles were strewn on the floor and on the tables. The mini bar screamed endless drinks for all. Soon we found the newly graduated, Alyssa. I came up behind her and yelled, “We’re here finally.” She tumbled a bit, and came close to me and replied, “Let’s go to the car with my cousin.” I yelled over the music, and replied, “I’m down, let's go!” As a unit we all stumbled up the stairs and made our way up the front door. We got to our destination. To the naked eye, if a stranger walked by the car, they would know we were a couple of teenagers just having fun. As soon as I stepped out of the smoky car, I knew the night was going to be one of the best memories of my best friends. It got me to wonder, when you let go for a night, will those be the best memories?

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Origin story 2: Survivor of Determination

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Origin story 2: Survivor of Determination

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I was running like my life depended on it. Sweat was dripping down my neck. The sweat was resting on my skin like how rain lays on an umbrella. The heat was viciously surging all over my face. My cheeks and nose were bright red due to the intensity of my running. I was running so restlessly, I felt like I was prepping myself for a 5k run. My dress kept getting in the way every time I put one foot after another on the concrete. My heels were holding on for dear life. The sun was sucking up my every bit of my energy. I had no intention of losing; I knew I had to survive this. I was determined to beat the odds. I was the only girl willing to play tag with the boys. I was eager to show them how fast I could run. I was determined to show them how I could keep up with them. We were nearing the end of recess; I still was a survivor. Not a single soul could catch me. I was so close to the finish line, until out of nowhere I saw my nemesis. I looked him dead in the eyes, and knew he was the tagged person. I got a head start before he came zooming at me. And then boom! Somehow, someway a crack from the ground came up alive and tripped me. I tragically fell hard to the concrete. Blood splattered everywhere on the concrete, my knee was throbbing and gushing blood. I simply laughed at myself and then stood up heroically. I was so determined to win the game tag; I was willing to risk my body. It got me thinking, how far can determination take you in life?

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I learned that apostrophes have 3 main uses. I learned the 3 main uses are missing letters, possessives, and special plurals. I learned that we use apostrophes before or after the possessive “s” ending of nouns.

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Firstly, I learned that commas in dialogue function as runaways. Next, I learned that you use a comma when the dialogue tag follows. In conclusion, if it does not end with a dialogue tag then you simply end the dialogue with punctuation.

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First most, I learned that the word appositive comes from the word ad positio, which is "putting on." Secondly, I learned that an appositive is a noun phase that clarifies or redefines it's antecedent. Lastly, appositives can come in the middle or end of a sentence.

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This picture shows my favorite flower and person that I very much love.

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Origin story 1: Deep Denial at its finest

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Origin story 1: Deep Denial at its finest

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I was surrounded by my family when I woke up from my hospital bed. I sat up dazed and confused about how I got there in the first place. My family rushed to my side as soon as I opened my eyes. My mom frantically asked me, “Mariah, how are you feeling?” She looked at me as if I were a lost puppy in the streets. At first, I thought to myself I was better than ever. Ironically, as soon as I was going to reply to my mom with my enthusiastic answer, I soon violently projected vomit everywhere in my bed. The nurses rushed into my room and gave me a bucket to continue throwing out my intestines. For what felt like an entirety, I vomited like no other. The splashing of my vomit simply echoed throughout the inky halls of the hospital. Slowly, but surely, I thought I was on my death bed, as soon, as I stopped throwing up, I pulled myself together and I wondered the daunting reality of death. I did not dare want to believe I was dying. So as any human would do, I diverted the situation. I looked at my sister and noticed the golden ticket she had in her hand, potato chips. I knew I had to get my hands on this priceless opportunity. I then took advantage of my sickness and asked my sister, If I could eat some of her potato chips. I wisely knew she would have to let me have her chips because I was dying. I knew if I were going down, I would go down with munching on my favorite chips. When I asked the question aloud, my parents looked at me as if I was nuts wanting to eat after vomiting a few minutes before. I did not see the problem of wanting to seek happiness at a vulnerable time of my life. My mom violently told me no chips. A single tear then came rushing down my cheek. Not once was I concerned about dying, all I could care about was potato chips. It brought me to the conclusion, do we ignore death until the end?

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This picture illustrates my love for tattoos. I have 6 tattoos in total. I got the heart tattoo with my best friends. My favorite form of a self-love is getting myself tattoos. I love tattoos so much!!

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This picture shows my friends and I.  I absolutely love my friends. They bring out the fun in me. If anybody knows me truly, they'd know my friends play a huge role in my life. They are my backbone when life gets hard.  I've been friends with these girls for over a decade. They know me like no other. Friendships are very important to me. I love my pals like no other. They are my favorite people to have fun with.

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"What do you think it takes to have a great idea?"

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"What do you think it takes to have a great idea?"

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I think what it takes to have a great idea is open mindedness and a willingness to ask questions.  Specifically, if you're able to step out of your comfort zone and question the why's of whatever the topic is then I think a great idea will always be generated. I also think once you have a great idea you most definitely will have to have a wide variety of evidence to enhance your great idea to an audience.

5 things you know to be true about learning, being in school, and/or learning to write.
-patience is key to seeing improvement in skills
- mistakes is inevitable but is vital to growth in learning
- time management is important in school
- Annotations is important in understanding any type of articles, essays, etc.
- in order to be successful in writing consistency is important to embrace
Question for classmates: Who is your favorite music artist?