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My Annotated Bibliographies

For my research project I chose to examine the effects of stress on students, and weather the stress leads to suicide or violence. I will also look into causes of stress both specifically related to students and some outside causes of stress that students may be under. Then I will discus positive ways that students may deal with stress, and also some of the more extreme ways they have dealt with stress. Finally I will look at stress caused by students committing suicide or violent acts at school such as school bullies or the more gruesome acts such as the recent shootings at schools.

Abrams, M. (2007) Managing Stress in School. The Princeton Review. July 9, 2007, from the princetonreview.com.

http://www.princetonreview.com/grad/research/articles/life/stress.asp.

This article I found was from the Princeton Review and was also about managing stress in schools, while some of the tips were the same it also had a lot of other good information on more positive ways to deal with stress in every day life.

Carter, M. (April 20, 2007). Columbine Survivor: Expect an Emotional Roller Coaster. CNN. July 15, 2007, from CNN.com

http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/04/19/shooting.columbine.survivor/index.html.

This is another article on post traumatic stress, this time after the Columbine massacre and it takes a look back 8 years and how the survivors are dealing with it even today. It is also a good look at the long term effects of stress on people. The article focuses on one woman who now herself has a family.

Caruso, K. (2007). Suicide and Stress. Suicide.org July 14, 2007, from suicide.org

http://www.suicide.org/suicide-and-stress.html

This article talks about some positive if not drastic ways of dealing with stress and how you control your life not others. While I do not think the way the author suggests dealing with stress are positive in some extreme cases maybe it is what some people need to do to avoid something like another Virginia tech massacre.

Engar, A. (March 26, 2004). Non-Student Suicide Rates Higher than those in College. The Daily Utah Cronicle. July 14, 2007, from University of Utah.

http://media.www.dailyutahchronicle.com/media/storage/paper244/news/2004/03/26/News/NonStudent.Suicide.Rates.Higher.Than.Those.In.College-642737.shtml

This article talks about how school does have more stress for young adults but the suicide rate is lower due to it also offers a support system for those students. It also points out that after accidents suicide is the number two killer of college age young adults. Even though it shows more non-students are more likely to fall to the pressures of life.

Glasner Fines, B. (1999). Law School and Stress. University of Missouri. July 9, 2007, from law.umkc.edu.

http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/profiles/glesnerfines/bgf-strs.htm.

The next reference I found was a little different it is a speech given by a college professor about stress in law school. While I am not looking specifically at law school in my paper I think some of the key points still apply.

Scott, E. (June 21, 2007). Top 10 School Stress Relievers for Students. About.com. July 9, 2007, from about .com.

http://stress.about.com/od/studentstress/tp/school_stress.htm.

This article from a free newsletter from about.com about 10 ways students can reduce or relieve stress I think these tips are very handy and something every student should know. Some of the ways to reduce stress are also easy to do and do not take to much time out of every day life making it easy to schedule in to even the busiest persons life.

University of Cambridge Counciling Services. (Sept. 12, 2005). Reducing the risk of Suicide. University of Cambridge. July 14, 2007, from counseling.cam.ac.uk

http://www.counselling.cam.ac.uk/suiciderisk.html

This article is more about the signs of students as they may be thinking of suicide and how stress is a factor at times. It is a very good article on how to spot the warning signs of stress not only in yourself but in the people around you. I think the author wants to show that some of these signs can be very public in the way they present themselves.

Waldman, H. (July 2004) What to do if you don't like School. Kids Health. July 9, 2007, from kidshealth.org.

http://www.kidshealth.org/kid/grow/school_stuff/hate_school.html.

This article I will note is for younger kids but I think the lesson learned is universal. It discuses what to do if you don't like school and gives even more signs that a student may be under stress.

Wojtalewicz, A. (April 26, 2007). CSUF Remembers Victims of Virginia Tech. Daily Titan. July 15, 2007, from dailytitan.com. http://media.www.dailytitan.com/media/storage/paper861/news/2007/04/26/News/Csuf-Remembers.Victims.Of.Virginia.Tech-2882252.shtml.

This Article is also something I want to focus on while the shooter at Virginia Tech may have been under stress what about the stress he has caused. This is an article was wrote just one week after the shooting and gives good insight on how things are going for the survivors. The perspective is that of mourning over the loss of fellow students.

Yang, B. (2007). A Solution for Someone Like Cho Seung-Hui At Virginia Tech Massacre. Health Articles Directory. July 15, 2007, from know-your-health.com

http://www.know-your-health.com/general-health/a-solution-for-someone-like-cho-seung-hui-at-virginia-tech-massacre.html.

This article directly discuses some of the reasons the massacre happened may have been the stress that Cho was under. It is also the first article I found giving a direct link between the stress as the cause of violence. The author of this article is an MD who specializing in mind and body so I feel has some authority on the subject matter.

These articles all share a similar topic but all take a very unique view on it. I think after finding the diverse views of these authors it will serve to make my paper more complete in showing all views of the effects of stress.