First, I learned that this comma does not need to be in the middle, it can also be at the end of a sentence. 

Next, it is used to describe the noun that is being used in the sentence. 

Finally, a comma can be used more than once in a sentence, if it is describing a person. 

An example from the Khan Academy video, Appositives, “My older sister, Griselda, is going to college in the fall.”

 

RESOURCES: https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/grammar/punctuation-the-comma-and-the-apostrophe/more-ways-to-use-commas/v/appositives-the-comma-punctuation-khan-academy

 

 

Me: “Stop”

Mom: I cannot help it, you’re so beautiful, I can’t believe this is today, I am so proud and so happy. Give me a hug, a kiss, please get out of the car.”

Me: “If I get out, I won’t be able to hold back, I can’t breathe, I need to just relax so please be cool.” 

Mom: “Ok, Mija. I am cool.”

As I exit the vehicle, the wind is blowing my hair everywhere, covering my eyes, getting strands in my mouth, flop siding my hair around that I spent all morning mastering. Walking on the rocky concrete, not sure if there are pebbles on the ground or if it is my feet that cannot stand straight.

Wow, many people around but it is all but a blur, this left me frozen. My two brothers walk up to me and wrap each of their arms around mine. As they pull me forward, casual jokes are brought upon, I am lost in this moment of the heavy crowd with them. 

As I am laughing, and walking, I suddenly come to a halt and look straight ahead. I see the most handsome man, looking right at me. I can suddenly breathe normal and can walk easily on my own. I am excited to get closer and I’m eager to talk to him. Without realizing it, my brothers have left my side. 

Here we are, with wind moving my hair in all directions, over-looking the big grand sea, listening to the sounds of the waves and hearing the words from this handsome man, “I do.”

As I respond, without hesitation, “I do,” feelings ignite of true bliss.

This was such a beautiful moment in time, I know this was reality but I can't help but wonder if it were real? It always seemed to good to be true.

First, you can place a comma after a dialogue speech, then mention who was the person speaking. Example: “They are going to the store,” Bobbie said.

Next, you cannot use a period at the end of a dialogue instead of a comma, but you can use an explanation point.

Finally, you can list who was speaking in the beginning of the dialogue then adding the comma and the dialogue. 

 

RESOURCES: Video: Punctuating with Dialogue

First, if speaking of a single person, you can use the apostrophe to replace the word is in the following example: Sophie’s more overwhelmed these days. 

Next, if speaking in plural, you can use an “s” at the end of the sentence. Example: All the fishes’ swam north due to the oil spill. 

Finally, names that end in an “S,” you would add an apostrophe and the additional “S,” and pronounce the name as if it had two “S” at the end.

 

RESOURCES: Video: Apostrophes

 

LINK TO VIDEO: How to use apostrophes | Using apostrophes | English punctuation - YouTube 

I just couldn’t help it any longer and expressed, “No! You relax! I cannot think or concentrate when you are constantly yelling.” (Pause)

“I’m sorry, this is just impossible. I am trying to learn but I cannot with all the anxiousness.” 

 

My father laughed about all of this when I got home and told him what happened, he explained it was well predicted and that he’d take me for a spin tomorrow. Tomorrow came around and I am behind the wheel, my palms are sweaty, and my hands are shaking. I am trying to breathe and relax, but all I hear is my mothers screams the day before. 

He asked me questions about the vehicle and if I knew what the first steps were. This lesson was a complete 360 from the one I had the previous day. My father was untroubled, eased mind and worry free. This relaxed environment allowed me to focus and recap all that I had learned and put it into action once I was driving. 

Before I knew it, we were on the freeway ramp and all I can think is how did we get this far. I couldn’t quite understand how I made it with my father’s lesson but with the lesson my mom provided, I couldn’t get as far as down the street. We were parallel parking and entering round about and the only thing on my mind was the action at hand, along with the music we could play along but I didn’t want to push my luck. I figured, driving this good was too good to be true and I needed to stay calm and focused. 

Is driving for the first time difficult under certain conditions for everyone? I can’t help but wonder. 

Ouch! Okay, I must still be here, something definitely scrapped my foot.

“Sara! Swim this way!” I heard my husband ever so faintly. “Sara, go right! There are large rocks to grip onto!” I heard him again and just began going towards what felt was my right area. Bam! I scrap my arm this time trying to swim right and hit a large rock. 

This slip into the water while rafting really felt like entering another universe or losing all your senses and trying to survive. It all happened in a split second and there was no turning back or thinking about how this could have been avoided. The cold water really makes you think you are suffocating and that it is never ending. Catching any deep breath would need to last you about 5 minutes is what it felt. As I fell out of the boat, I didn’t realize how intense it would feel and how much I would need to do, to get back to shore. There is no rewind button or sense of direction, your survival skills really step into course, and I think the nature in human just forces you to adapt. 

If this is what falling into the freezing water feels like, what does standing in fire do to your mind and thoughts? 

2. Choose 1-2 questions from below and expound.

She explains what that outcome might be if we allow them to avoid the situation. For instance, Anne describes, “they come to believe that they are incapable of managing these situations.”

The second person I told was my mom but this time I stuck to the facts from the story the speaker used. My mom has young kids and this information could be helpful to use so I wanted to be sure to provide all the details properly.

Firstly, the secret rule to remember capitalization is the word, MINTS!

Secondly, MINTS stands for:
Months
I – the word “I”
Names
Titles
Starting words

Lastly, an example of months would be “January” or August.” An example of a name would be “California.” 

Firstly, Grammarly is a neat tool to help identify more than just misspellings, such as where the “S” should go every time you use a plural in a sentence and there is an apostrophe. 

Secondly, it will help look for any missing words that don’t complete a sentence.

Lastly, it will correct the word for you as you write. Examples: They’re, their, and they are. 

Example of the mistake: We bought nails we bought a hammer.

First way to fix a run on: You can add a semi colon in between the run on sentence. 

Second way to fix a run on: You can add a comma and add the word “and” in the middle of the run n sentence. 

Third way to fix a run on: You can use a comma and use the word “and” or “but.”

Links of resources: 

Run-On Sentences and Comma Splices - YouTube 

Example of the mistake: I love The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, it’s my favorite movie in all the Saga Collection.

 

First way to fix a comma splice: You can add a semi-colon instead of a coma

Second way to fix a comma splice: The word “and” can separate the sentence, after using a comma. 

Third way to fix a comma splice: You can use the word “therefore” but places a semi colon before using it and a comma after using the word. This will separate the sentence properly. 

Links of resources: 

Run-On Sentences and Comma Splices - YouTube 

In the research, I figured the most important start would be to define endorphins. 

1. Endorphins Definition: “any of a group of endogenous peptides (such as enkephalin) found especially in the brain that binds chiefly to opiate receptors and produce some pharmacological effects (such as pain relief) like those of opiates.” (Shown on Merriam-Webster)

I had a better understanding of what releasing endorphins do to your body. It made me further curious as to how it can occur.

The further research I found was that releasing endorphins isn’t just due to exercise. In moments of laughing, eating chocolate or drinking wine, enjoying a drama, making music, or being in the sun, all these moments also release endorphins. On my wedding day, a share of these items occurred. I can say there was plenty of laughing, listening to music, being on the sunny beach, eating tasty chocolate cake while drinking wine, and a few bits of drama here and there. It made me realize that I must have been releasing all these endorphins that day and resulted in a good feeling, looking back at it, it is the endorphins that make it feel so unreal since releasing endorphins aren’t something that happens to you every minute of the day. 

 

 

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·        Summarize your source: 

Emily & Ameila Nagoski talk about their book “Burnout,” in their YouTube video. They explain the different ways to help the stress response cycle and how it can be worked through for your benefit. They explain how there is emotion and rage inside of your body and it creates stress, in return can create other help problems. First, they explain how moving your body is a way to function an active way on the stress response cycle. Moving your body can be in the form of exercise, and it is the top way to help the stress. Next, they explain how using your imagination can be another way to respond to the cycle. For instance, they describe if you are working out and just can’t get into the grove of it, imagining you’re a powerful being such as “Godzilla,” can allow a power through and a sense of accomplishment. The imagination examples continue with reading a book or watching a movie. Due to being so involved with the story line, it can be helpful to responding to the stress cycle. Thirdly, the sisters also explain that “creative self-expression,” can also be another helpful reaction. If there is a difficult situation happening, use it to your advantage. They reference a quote by Carrie Fisher, “Take your broken heart and turn it into art,” the quote is describing to try and be more optimistic and creative about a hardship, rather than depressed. Fourthly, Emily & Ameilia explain how connection is another form of response to the stress cycle. For example, affection from a loved one “long hug or kiss,” can actually help the stressful situation by believing you have now entered a safe environment. In conclusion, there are a few ways to handle the stress, by going through the different stress response cycles. 

·        Respond to the source:

I really enjoyed your video! It provided a different perspective to how our bodies work when handling stress and the benefits that come from it. The first example, “move your body,” made sense as a way to help the cycle and handle the stress. Explaining how allowing yourself to escape the stress by entering an active activity is creating a mindset of “moving your body out of an unsafe place to a sale place.” Our minds can tend to be caught up with what’s going on in the moment, but this is a great way to look at our minds being tricked for the better. Another great example, is how you explained that the body affection can be provide a sense of safeness, therefore, creating that calmness and providing a destressing environment. Another example, “holding your body against someone else’s body for that long an breathe, eventually your chemistry switches,” tis explains how it all ties to the body. Understanding that the stress correlates to your body’s chemistry, really provides a clear image to how working through the response stress cycle can be very beneficial. 

 

 

·        Update your thinking and make connections between sources:

I really think this research ties into your body’s performance and overall reaction. I was initially trying to understand how a happy moment can make the moment feel so unreal due to the endorphins being released from excitement, and I came across how handling your stress by going through the different response cycles can also help get you there to release endorphins and in example create more happiness moments. I didn’t think the two would have relation, but I see the relation in the outcome of endorphins being released and how you can create a calmer environment to allow endorphins to be released. I think these moments can allow us to both have feel that the moment is unreal once the cycles are completed through the stress response. It is interesting how they both lead back to the body and how these moments are created by being worked at from within. 

 

·        Ask questions:

o   Do you believe that handling stress by working the response stress cycle relates to the moments of such happiness that feels unreal? 

o   Think of living on a beach as an example, having a sense of calmness, do you think at some point you’d feel such happiness that the moment doesn’t feel real?

o   Do you think all of the ways to handling stress all relate to your body’s physical health?

o   Can you compare this to another source of a way it all relates to your body’s physical health/happiness?

 

·        Cite your source with an MLA citation: 

·        Summarize your source: 

Ron Gutman describes in the Ted Talk, “The hidden power of smiling,” the studies of smiling and the benefits that come with smiling. Firstly, the benefit of smiling can actually allow you to live longer. Next, Ron describes how you can even predict the chances of how long you’ll live by the photos from when you were younger. Lastly, there is a benefit with feeling better just by smiling more. For instance, he explains Darwins theory as to how, “Even the simulation of an emotion tends to arouse it in our minds.” There was another example of an MRI performed on someone smiling and the reactions that come from it stimulates a part of our brain in a way that makes us feel better. Another example relates to chocolate, chocolate has a lot of benefits within releasing endorphins and creating a happy feeling, but it has been proven that the smiling has more of a benefit in this same regard. 

·        Respond to the source:

An interesting perspective on how our brain works with smiling, the reaction from a smile that comes with living longer and this being predicted. An example of how there were records pulled on people and how life went whom smiled in their school photos, such as Barack Obama having a big smile and lived long and happy. Another interesting understanding of the power of a smile is just gaining an overall happy feeling. For instance, the brain works all together with the body and smiling can react a certain part of your brain “of emotional content in the brain in the way that helps us feel better.” Knowing that chocolate has been compared to smiling and chocolate has many benefits with being proven to releasing endorphins once eaten but a smile is no match since eating multiple chocolate bars does not equal out one smile for the parts that are worked in the brain’s activity. 

 

·        Update your thinking and make connections between sources:

Knowing a simple smile has plenty of benefits is a great way to act it out and gain these benefits also. I would not have thought it can create a much higher benefit compared to some of the other reasons to brin g happiness while releasing endorphins. I also enjoyed the fact it can be predicted based on a photo that you can live happier or longer. It’s interesting how smiling more can add more time to your life span based on the research studies found. I found this relating to my initial research based on it is the same outcome as releasing endorphins. 

 

 

·        Ask questions:

o   Would you want to also smile more knowing the benefits that it comes with?

o   Does smiling to much have a negative outcome in anyway?

o   Could you feel so overwhelmed by smiling too much that your moments begin to feel unreal?

 

 

·        Cite your source with an MLA citation: 

Gutman, Ron. “The hidden power of smiling” Ted Talk. 

            2011, Ted Talk,

            https://youtu.be/BOaCn9nptN8

I found this article interesting in the sense our endorphins are released based on the odds of an individuals when we are actively running. For example, Anderson describes “people fit into four different categories when it comes to producing and releasing endorphins.” I also found it interesting how the endorphins being released are similar to a drug usage effect, in the idea that it relates to pain blockage in the brain. For instance, the article informs of research completed in 1975, “discovered that the brain produces its own pain-suppressing, mood-elevating drugs.” The article also informed that the endorphins release level decreases as we get older, but this shouldn’t stop us from working at releasing endorphins, as there are many benefits. A benefit explained is the side effects to releasing endorphins, can improve memory loss as we are older. For instance, “eventually be used to treat memory loss in the elderly and lessen the overall impact of aging on brain function.”

Ask questions:

What additional benefits come into endorphin releasing? How can this “unreal” moments allow us to have more memorable moments in life? How can I make releasing endorphins easier when I am older, since it is more hard to do when we are older?

Anderson, Owen. “The inside dope on runner’s high.” FRCC Database, MasterFILE Premier. Source: Runner's World. Aug94, Vol. 29 Issue 8, p60. 5p. 4 Color Photographs.

Desantis explains the many benefits that occur to your skin when endorphins are released in the article, “Your skin on endorphins.” The different types of activities that can release endorphins are listed examples as, “exercising, meditating, getting a massage, eating dark chocolate and chili peppers, laughing and drinking wine.” In these activities, you can reduce your overall stress and in return this is better for your skin. For instance, Desantis explains, “endorphins can lead to a decrease in the stress hormone, cortisol.” Desantis also discusses how less cortisol will better the outcome to prevent “wrinkles and acne flare-ups.”  The overall benefits relate to stress reduction for better skin and wellness.  

 

Ask questions:

Does your skin have any negative reaction to the endorphins being released too much? How soon do the benefits happen, is it overnight? 

Desantis, Lisa. “Your Skin on Endorphins.” FRCC Database, CINAHL Plus with Full Text.

Source: (HEALTH (TIME INC)), Jul/Aug2021; 35(6): 23-23. (1p)

 

Guillen, Samuel D. Personal Interview. 24 October 2021.

I want to get others to think that endorphin releasing is important and try to implement activities to help release more endorphins, because I think it would make living life more beneficial. 

I have learned that researching topics you are curious on, can really help you understand feelings or situations better, and help explain them better with facts.

          - The connecting theme that ties together each narrative element. 

        - More choice actually makes us less happy.

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