Having to study about stress for my Extended Essay, it’s made me think start to think if we even need stress? All stress is a bunch of hormones to activate our flight or fight responses. It activates and when we get past the stressor that is stressing us out, it stops releasing those hormones and we go into a recovered phase. If the stressor is still there we continue to flight or fight until we become exhausted, however the hormones will continue to release until the stressor has been dealt with. Now that humans have evolved to have imaginative minds, able to think of hypnotical situations, that stress response has turned against us. While it is able to increase our sense perception, dilate our pupils, get more blood pumping in our body, increase in blood pressure, these all result in effects that would be useful when in the Savanna running from lions. While in today’s world such things would just never happen, yet we still get the same effects when we trigger our stress response, in conjunction with our creative minds, makes for an unhealthy mess of side effects and health problems. As with our minds we are able to think of anything as potentially stressful, which means as we’re thinking of those exams coming up, our stress is triggered because we can view that situation as alarming and something that needs to be done with now. So, our bodies activate the stress response, that’s why we get the sweaty palms, shacking hands, increase in sweat. Because our blood is pumping and getting ready for it to flight or fight. Which is not useful because we have to concentrate on writing an essay or studying yet we can’t focus because our bodies, as primitive as they are, think we’re trying to run away from a lion in the Savanna.
Yes, it's a good question, though, I think, perhaps, an academic one. I have a feeling that the best we can do is learn to manage stress because stressors, like a lion giving chase, are by definition unexpected events outside of our control. Now, on to something we can control: grammar!
ReplyDelete1. Your last two sentences are actually sentence fragments, and it's easy to see why. In "Because our blood is pumping and getting ready for it to flight or fight," you have started with the conjunction "because." This means that at some point, you have to include an "independent clause." For example, if you begin a sentence with "Because a lion is chasing me," you will have to add something like, "I feel an incredible amount of stress" in order to complete the wentence.
2. Your final sentence ("Which is not useful because we have to concentrate on writing an essay or studying ...") also introduces a fragment with the word "Which." To fix this error, just put a comma before "which" and add this part to the preceding sentence. Unless you are asking a question ("Which way should I run to escape this lion?") you should never begin a sentence with "which." //Pr