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There is Help After All: An Overview of Work Stress and Ways to Cope, 2002.
This paper discusses how to cope with work stress and how to notice the signs of stress.
3,606 words (approx. 14.4 pages), 8 sources, APA, $ 100.95
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In today's fast paced world most people have to work and along with that factor most people are subjected to work stress. There are many causes related to stress such as job insecurity, working long hours, and even conflict between co-workers. This paper covers how understanding and recognizing stress can basically nip the source in the bud. It also covers the physical and emotions signs to look for and offers some stress management techniques such as journaling, meditation, excercising and aromatherapy.
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"Almost everyone has to work, and most of us don?t realize what a powerful and influential role work plays in our lives. As far back as the 1960?s, working for a living has taken up a huge amount of people?s lives. It?s true, employment can be exciting and challenging for many, but in turn, it can cause a person an enormous amount of stress. My intent in this paper is to focus on how work stress can effect our well-being, and how we can modulate and cope with that stress. Newspaper headlines worldwide have heralded an unprecedented concern about the detrimental effects of work stress. Authors Locke & Taylor attribute the source of stress to work places that are unstable, impersonal, and hostile. In line with this, Locke & Taylor have documented that researchers have been examining the psychosocial and physical demands of the work environment that trigger stress. Research has identified many organizational factors contributing to increased stress levels: job insecurity, shift work, long work hours, physical hazard exposures, and interpersonal conflicts with coworkers or supervisors. (Locke & Taylor, 1990)."
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Coping Strategies for Stress, 2002.
Presents an exploration of stress and coping strategies for stress.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 45.95
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This paper examines what stress is, both positive and negative, looks at the history of how society has typically dealt with stress, and then discusses several of the commonly recommended coping strategies that are used in the mental health field.
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"For many years, the mental health profession has studied stress and its impact on people. After watching how stress occurs, who it affects and what it means, experts have agreed that stress is an unavoidable fact of life. Following this decision, the experts then moved to define types of stress. Since it cannot be avoided, it became important to identify whether it is negative or positive and then figure out how to handle it. Today, the focus is no longer on denying its existence, but instead on developing coping strategies to lessen the negative impact it might otherwise have on one?s life."
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Coping with Stress, 2002.
A study on recognizing stress and how to cope with it.
947 words (approx. 3.8 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 33.95
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This paper discusses the issues involved with stress management. The paper outlines symptoms of stress and provides suggestions on how to avoid or deal with stressful situations. The paper describes different methods people employ for coping with stress. Various types of stress are illustrated.
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"Stress occurs whenever an individual is faced with a tense or threatening situation that requires or demands adjustment and behavioural change. When stress occurs, it is vital that an individual learns how to adjust, failing which there is the very real risk of prolonged stress ultimately leading to psychological and physical disorders. Adjustment refers to the process of coping with stress by balancing our needs and desires against the demands of the situation and making decisions based on realistic options that are available (Understanding Psychology, Chapter 11)."
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The Lazarus Model: Stress and Coping, 2008.
The author of this essay uses personal experience to evaluate the Lazarus model of stress and coping.
1,227 words (approx. 4.9 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 41.95
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This essay states that the Lazarus' model is a very concise theory that explains how individuals try to make sense of a stressful situation from the initial impact of the event forward. It details the primary and secondary appraisals implemented to assess the event and promotes the idea that coping resources held by the individual affected are utilized to assist in overcoming the experience. Through personal experience, the author shows that overall, the Lazarus Model provided a clear understanding of the experience and the coping mechanisms used, either consciously or unconsciously to cope with trauma.
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Description of the Incident
Description of My Emotional Experience
How Lazurus' Model Helps Make Sense of This Experience
The Aspects of My Experience Lazarus' Model Fails to Explain
How Lazarus' Model Could be Modified to Fit My Experience
Conclusion
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"When assessing my coping resources via the secondary appraisal phase in Lazarus' model, I discovered my coping mechanisms were quite healthy. I was able to take control of the situation and the stressors involved by realizing that future harm of this nature could be avoided by ending the toxic relationship I was in. Further, I realized the challenges faced by experiencing such a trauma could be turned into positive benefits, as from this negative transaction, I received all the strength and knowledge I could glean from this experience."
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Adjustment, Stress and Coping, 2006.
A paper on the human trait of procrastination and effective and creative ways of managing it.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 2 sources, $ 53.95
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This paper discusses and examines the human trait of procrastination and how it can become a source of stress for students. The paper discusses different ways in which psychologists refer to procrastination and looks at two ways of examining related and independent stressors in perfectionism,
achievement anxiety, and known time management problems.
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"This paper refers to procrastination as a sign of poor adjustment and as a source of student stress. In many students, this is a problem that seems to grow worse, making new kinds of stress, unless stopped. Those who study Psychology refer to 'adult adjustment disorder' as often having a pattern of procrastination. (Casey: 2001) This pattern is discussed in a serious way, indeed. The person who procrastinates must deal with the stress of what has been put off, and towards new stress. The experience will stay in mind as something negative, as is..."
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An Overview of Workplace Stress., 2001.
Workplace stress its causes, consequences and why it concerns managers.
2,950 words (approx. 11.8 pages), 19 sources, MLA, $ 87.95
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This paper deals with workplace stress from many perspectives. It starts with the modern definition of stress using stimulus and response. It also examines the various causes and consequences of stress. The consequences, measured in both quantitative and qualitative terms, are analyzed from the viewpoint of employers and employees. Lastly, the paper explains why managers are concerned with workplace stress.
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"Stress is an everyday occurrence in one's life. It is the wear and tear on one's body caused by pressures and problems one experiences in day-to-day life. In general, stress is perceived to be an unpleasant effect that has a negative impact on performance. However, research showed that stress is not entirely bad (Hellriegel, Slocum & Woodman, 1995). In fact, depending on an individual's ability and method of coping, certain degree of stress is essential for survival in life. As such, stress can mean different things to different people."
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Bereavement Stress and Coping - New Dimensions., 2008.
An overview of how bereaved patients are assessed and a research project to examine the subject further.
1,861 words (approx. 7.4 pages), 7 sources, APA, $ 59.95
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This paper examines the assessment of people suffering from bereavement and stress and the reality of persons who cannot 'cope'. After a review of the literature surrounding this subject, the author describes a research project to be carried out with informal written testimony from a random sample of 40 volunteer informants.
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Abstract
Introduction
Review of Literature
Proposed Research Project
Interpreting Results
Last Remarks
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"Bereavement Stress and Coping are familiar terms in English-speaking
countries as need modification to reveal the severity of symptoms and
the reality of persons who cannot 'cope'. Stage theories distort, as can
the under-estimation of anxiety, depression or more alarming symptoms
bereaved persons experience well beyond the acute or first year aftermath of loss. One needs awareness of postmodern societies a long average lifespan but also youth, midlife and serial bereavement as common phenomena. Inductive research, as in this paper's proposed project, should harvest the testimony of persons to survive bereavement, as other research must help human services professionals to become oriented to what bereavement stress can really entail, the nature of loss in the early 21st century.
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"Ways of Dying", 2005.
A review of Zake Mda's "Ways of Dying".
1,835 words (approx. 7.3 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 58.95
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Set in South Africa, Zake Mda's famous novel "Ways of Dying" could in many ways be "Ways of Living". It is a novel written after the first free elections, which depicts apartheid and post apartheid horrors. This paper attempts to look critically at the above assertion taking into account the excessive poverty and brutality of the times during which the book was written.
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"It is during this time in South African history that we find our two central characters Toloki and Noria. Toloki, a professional mourner, lives the life of a socially isolated and Spartan-like hobo. Noria, who is Toloki's homegirl, and was known to him as 'that stuck-up bitch' (24), is his link to his rural past. Noria quickly becomes his soul mate and muse. They both have come from the countryside to live in the city, 'to search for love and fortune' (60). Separately they initially find their own misfortune and extreme poverty before they find each other. The tragedies in their lives are all related to death and dying. Noria's first son Vutha is brutally savaged by dogs, her second son Vutha is necklaced. Toloki's connection with death is somewhat different."
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Work Related Stress, 2002.
This paper discusses how stress may manifest itself in different ways and for a variety of reasons.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 5 sources, $ 44.95
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In a society in which the "bottom line" tends to be money, there seems to be little incentive on the part of the employers to address the issue of job-related stress in any meaningful way. It may be up to individual employee to diagnose their stress and to deal with it themselves.
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Stress and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), 2002.
The relationship between stress and PTSD and its effects on life.
1,691 words (approx. 6.8 pages), 11 sources, MLA, $ 54.95
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This paper examines the issue of stress in peoples lives. It shows that every person handles some levels of stress during his lifetime, but everyone deals with this is different ways. The paper discusses the issue of PTSD which is a condition experienced by some people after a very traumatic experience. The paper looks at symptoms, causes and treatment of the disorder and how people cope with its after-effects.
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"It is probably not necessary to point out that life can be stressful. Everyone faces a different mix of adjustive demands in life, and any one of us may break down if the going gets tough enough. Under conditions of overwhelming stress, even a previous stable person may develop temporary psychological problems and lose the capacity to gain pleasure from life. This breakdown may be sudden, as in the case of a person who has gone through a severe accident or fire, or it may be gradual, as in the case of a person, in a deteriorating marriage or other intimate relationship, who has been subjected to prolonged periods of tension and challenges to his or her self-esteem. Most often a person recovers once a stressful situation is over, although in some cases there may be long-lasting damage to self-concept and an increased vulnerability to certain types of stressors. Today?s stress can be tomorrow?s vulnerability. In the case of a person who is quite vulnerable to begin with, of course, a stressful situation may precipitate more serious and lasting psychopathology."
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"Ways of Seeing", 2002.
Reviews and Summarizes "Ways of Seeing" by John Berger on the perception of visual images in the media.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 1 source, $ 35.95
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John Berger's "Ways of Seeing" is, in essence, a discussion of how human perception shapes and is shaped by, our production of visual images in a variety of media. However, as this review will show, Berger argues that this process is not simply a matter of art criticism. Instead, he suggests that a sort of feedback relationship exists between how we use images to represent the world and how our perception of these images in turn shape our actions and society in general.
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"Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird", 2004.
Poetry analysis paper of "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" by Wallace Stevens.
1,364 words (approx. 5.5 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 45.95
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This paper discusses the view of perception and reality presented in each stanza of "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" by Wallace Stevens. The issues of reality and imagination, or the perceived and perception, is discussed as it was presented by Steven in each stanza. Poetical devices, images, and quotes are used too.
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"In his poem entitled ?Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird,? Wallace Stevens states that in the silent winter landscape, ?the only moving thing / Was the eye of the blackbird? (2-3). This raises an interesting question. Who is looking at who? Does Stevens see the blackbird or does the blackbird see Stevens? Stevens? poem is about the blackbird in its environment, but on a deeper level it deals with the state and mutuality of focus and context, imagination and reality, perceiving and perceived. The distinct and seemingly disjointed images provide the work with continuity and a series of paradigms depicting this relationship between thought and perception."
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"Look Both Ways", 2007.
A discussion on how the film "Look Both Ways" demonstrates that demanding situations are not necessarily detrimental to the relationships in one's life.
774 words (approx. 3.1 pages), 0 sources, MLA, $ 27.95
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This paper discusses how Sarah Watt's film "Look Both Ways" clearly shows that demanding situations can have a positive effect on the lives of many individuals and therefore are not entirely and always detrimental. It looks at how all the characters in the film share the commonality of having tragedies happen to them and how it is from these situations that new relationships are established and how characters realise the importance of their relationships which allow them to let go of their egocentric views and take chances.
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"Phil is portrayed as a hardworking man who is the newspaper editor at The Southern Mail; he is deeply affected by Nick's detrimental news in which enables him to prioritise his relationship with his family. When Nick breaks the news of his testicular cancer, Phil is uncomfortable and reacts inappropriately by blurting out a silly joke. Although Phil is unable to empathise with Nick, the audience can see he is deeply affected by Nick's cancer that he amends his relationships and his life. Phil has a realisation that a similar situation could happen to him in which he immediately gives up smoking and makes an effort to spend more time with his family. His thoughtful glances at the children's clothes on the line and his enthusiasm at the scene at his daughter's birthday shows him reassessing his family's importance in his life. It is evident that although Nick's cancer is a horrific situation of Nick, it enables Phil to prioritise his life and relationship with his family. "
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The Soft Budget Constraint and Ways to Harden It, 2001.
Examines why a Soft Budget Constraint (SBC) is a problem. Defines the concept, explains ways to harden it and looks at the outcomes.
3,015 words (approx. 12.1 pages), 14 sources, MLA, $ 88.95
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This paper examines the soft budget constraint (SBC) as a commitment problem under socialism, presents the Dewatripont and Maskin basic model of the theory behind the SBC, and explains how the SBC can be hardened. Additionally, it closely follows the transition processes in China, as well as several Central and Eastern European Countries by focusing on efficient markets, federalism, demonopolization. The paper ends with a summary of the efficiency outcomes of a hard budget constraint.
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"The soft budget constraint syndrome is an incentive dilemma that has been primarily observed in socialist centrally planned economies, and has created major problems in their transition to the market. The term ?soft budget constraint? was coined by Kornai in 1980, and can be summed up as follows: ?If the firm acts as a price maker, if the tax system it faces is soft, if it can rely on access to free state grants, if it can get credits and external financial investment on soft terms, then the budget constraint is soft; that is it will not bind the ex ante choices of the firm.? Ambrus-Lakatos (1997)"
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"Separate Ways", 2002.
An analysis of the characters' conflict in the short story "Separate Ways".
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 1 source, $ 26.95
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This paper looks at the conflict that occurs between people because of the nature of change. Some people will move on, and some will remain where they were, and this means that their relationships will be challenged, and could be destroyed because of it as can be seen in the short story in question.
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