Response writing 1: fight-or-flight syndrome. Quest 2, p. 234, ex. A.

In her thinking ahead exercise to the general interest reading of chapter 8, Hartmann asks us to discuss some topics that are relevant to the reading "The New Science of Mind and Body" (2007, p. 234, ex. A). We are instead going to do this as a series of response writing exercises.

Response write on the following prompt:

• 1. Imagine that you are walking alone down a dark street, late at night, in a bad neighbourhood. Nobody is around. Suddenly you hear footsteps behind you, and you are certain taht someone is going to attack you. At this point, you will probably experience the fight-or-flight syndrome. How does your fear affect your body? How do you react to your fear? 

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Reference

Hartmann, P. (2007). Quest 2 Reading and Writing (2nd ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill.

Response writing 2: chronic stress. Quest 2, p. 234, ex. A.

In her thinking ahead exercise to the general interest reading of chapter 8, Hartmann asks us to discuss some topics that are relevant to the reading "The New Science of Mind and Body" (2007, p. 234, ex. A). We are instead going to do this as a series of response writing exercises.

Response write on the following prompt:

• 2. What are some causes of chronic (i.e., long term) stress in modern life?  

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Reference

Hartmann, P. (2007). Quest 2 Reading and Writing (2nd ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill.

Response writing 3: alternative therapies. Quest 2, p. 234, ex. A.

In her thinking ahead exercise to the general interest reading of chapter 8, Hartmann asks us to discuss some topics that are relevant to the reading "The New Science of Mind and Body" (2007, p. 234, ex. A). We are instead going to do this as a series of response writing exercises.

Norman Rockwell, 1958.
At the Doctor's Office.

Hot stone massage.

Response write on the following prompt:

• 3. In conventional medicine, there are blood tests, x-rays, and remedies such as prescribed medicines, chemotherapy, and surgery. In complementary medicine, there are alternative therapies such as  massage and acupuncture. Can you think of other alternative therapies? 

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Reference

Hartmann, P. (2007). Quest 2 Reading and Writing (2nd ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill.

Response writing 4 & 5: physiological - emotional. Quest 2, p. 234, ex. A.

In her thinking ahead exercise to the general interest reading of chapter 8, Hartmann asks us to discuss some topics that are relevant to the reading "The New Science of Mind and Body" (2007, p. 234, ex. A). We are instead going to do this as a series of response writing exercises.

Response write on the following prompt:

• 4. The list below is of some mental and physical conditions that are mentioned in the next reading. Which ones do you think might be physiological (concerned with the physical body)? Which ones might be emotional states? 
• alienation (feeling of not belonging to a group)
• anxiety (worry)
• hostility (unfriendliness and anger)
• hypertension (high blood pressure) 
• obesity (being overweight) 
• optimism (belief that good things will happen) 
• serenity (feeling of peacefulness)
   
• & 5. Which physiological conditions from the above list might affect a person emotionally? Which emotional states might affect a person physically? 

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Reference

Hartmann, P. (2007). Quest 2 Reading and Writing (2nd ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill.

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Since I was a child I was born in Rayong .My family send me to study in Bangkok

Apple

Thinking is hard, thinking about thinking of academic topic might not always be hard. What is the right thing to improve the way we Thinking. After I have read Danial Dennett "The Intuition Pump" It made me interest in philosophy. For me philosophy is hard to understand and very charming.

ZINN's Academic interests

when i was young, I always dream to study somewhere that can make me more smarter and wise one. However, now I realize that does not mean any thing if you graduated the high education from famous university but you do not do something to make somethings happen to your life and change the bad side of your country. So, I realize that I want to know what going on in western college, what are they doing, what are they learn and discussing. And after all, what do they want to do when they finished? and how?

Katie's academic interests

My academic interests are now just for entertaining. I had interests in history and mythology, so I read many related books with these subjects. Some of them effected from my sight of value and my style of choosing books. Most of my interesting books' category is historical fiction and epics. Nowadays fantasy literature also contains lots of historical things. Some of them are feigned history and myths, but these are more plausible than real history and myths. I always admire authors who write that kinds of things.

Ploy's academic interests

My academic interest started when I was in high school, I want to be a product designer. When I graduated from high school, my parents want me to study architecture because of my family business is engineering and construction, and they thought it was the same between architect and designer. However, it was not the same  as my parent thought at all, even though the subjects that I learn about process of design, color, and how to created things. The big scale and small scale of design are not the same process. The smaller one like production design is more fun and interesting because it is not very details as create the building. There are too many details to create building, for example, landscape, interiors, lighting, and furniture that all have to be a perfect combination. 

Ae's academic interests

Academic field that I am interested is Business Administration because I am major in Accounting and my parents have their own business. So, I want to help my parents in the near future and help them run a company.I am also interested in stock investing.and enjoy going to seminars.I study Buddhism to have a mindfulness living in daily life. When I  achieve my goal, I will help poor people.

Flora's academic interests

My most academic interest have been in Japanese, When I was in university I have been studied in this subject for 4 years. After I graduated I also want to abroad to study in Japan.. But, unluckily my parents they don't agree that.  Just because I am a girl. It was sad thing for me. Now I still study by myself through NHK website where has Japanese program with multilanguage. I choose English version to studying, it also can improve my English and Japanese,. It is good website I also want to recommend to all of you.

Peter's academic interests

My longest academic interests have been in mathematics and philosophy, although the mathematics is really the logical foundations of mathematics. This began when I was in high school, I guess around 12 years of age. I had never liked academic subjects much in primary school, but I had enjoyed reading then, and read most of the small school library. I was particularly interested in science - I liked learning about how things worked and why they worked the way they did. But none of the teachers were very good at mathematics, except for one nun who once taught geometry for a short time. That did interest me, and for similar reasons to the ones that later made mathematics a passion for many years, throughout high school and into university. Unlike everything else, the results of mathematics were not qualified by hedging words like maybe, perhaps, probably, almost certainly, possibly or such terms: the results of mathematics were absolutely certain, proven beyond any doubt. And I loved that. But then I began to worry about the foundations of mathematics: must 1+1=2? Why? And what are numbers? Do they exist? In what way do they exist? Questions like these led my mathematics and physics teachers in high school to point me towards logic and from there I moved to other branches of philosophy.

Welcome to Reading and Writing 2 D.

Thank you for joining our class, and welcome to the class blog for students in my AEP reading and writing classes.

Please feel welcome to spend a few minutes looking around to see what is here. If you look back over previous posts written by former students and myself, you will get some idea of how we use this blog, although I am planning to use it in a slightly less demanding way this term. Since we meet only twice a week, it might be useful to move some of the more general discussion exercises in Hartmann to response writing exercises here, and, at least for the first week or so, not to blog articles in the press.

In the series of blog posts whose titles begin "Response writing ...", published on Monday, October 14, you can see examples of how a discussion exercise in Hartmann (2007, p. 218, x. F) has been converted into a very productive, and quick, response writing activity on the blog.

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Reference

Hartmann, P. (2007). Quest 2 Reading and Writing (2nd ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill.