Essays on Trauma

Established in 1912, Erie County Medical Center (ECMC) has grown to become one of the area’s leading healthcare providers, one of the country’s most modern and operational healthcare delivery systems, and one of the best regional center’s for trauma and behavioral health. ECMC strives to...

Imagine your life not making any progress and being limited to your opportunities. The need of having to provide for yourself and your loved ones and having no means to provide makes you consider your options. Being in a country where it is filled with...

Over time, human perceptions of each other based on race have changed. Race has caused many problems throughout generations because it has divided society into specific categories. People have established certain prejudices based on beauty standards. Society opinion on beauty was whiteness. When whiteness is...

The legacy left behind from childhood trauma will continue to torment female survivors for the rest of their lives. Women with histories of childhood trauma continue to be victimized even years later as they enter into adulthood. Their health, functioning, and quality of life are...

While the National Football League is arguably one of the most lucrative sports in the world, it is leaving professional football athletes with long term brain traumas that are irreversible. The National Football League is a billion dollar industry that can provide financial freedom and...

In Speak Laurie Halse Anderson creates a fictional character, Melinda Sordino who is struggling to tell her peers and parents about her biggest secret. Melinda is 14 and she is very sensitive and intelligent. Melinda is at a party the summer before her freshman year...

Traumatic events and tragedies can heavily affect people and change the course of their lives. These traumatic events can be a result of a person’s fate or their lack of action taken to make it avoidable. Trauma can be experienced at any age, from childhood...

My essential question for this research proposal is, “How does playing football increase the likelihood in the development of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy? What can be done to prevent it/reduce the risk?” So, to answer this effectively all people must be educated on what CTE is...

The world as it plays out is not a bed of roses. Sometimes, people behave in unpredictable manners and we are tempted to judge them so fast but we fail to realize that they may be acting as a result of their childhood experiences. According...

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune disease whereby the immune system which normally protects the body from invading pathogens and foreign materials, attacks the joints between the bones. This occurs as the white blood cells of the immune system move into the joints and release...