February 4 & 5, 2013

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1 February 4 & 5, 2013

2 Check Homework The Things YOU Carry Finish Reading: The Things They Carried (Chapter 1) TTTC: Chapter 1 Quiz! (Turn in Ch. 1 Notes/Worksheet) Euphemisms Notes Understanding Euphemisms Activity The Things YOU Carry PTSD Screening Snowball Reminder: Annotated Bib/Poster Project Due NEXT TIME!

3 Euphemisms are a substitution for an expression that may offend or suggest something unpleasant to the receiver, using instead an agreeable or less offensive expression, or to make it less troublesome for the speaker. Some euphemisms are intended to amuse, while others are created to mislead.

4 What it Says Armed intervention Between jobs Categorical inaccuracy Character line Collateral damage Correctional facility Disinformation Freedom fighters Full bodied Furlough employees Indisposed Inventory leakage Knocked up Neutralize Powder your nose Pre-owned Remains Revenue enhancement What it Means War Unemployed Lie Wrinkle Civilian casualties Prison Lie Rebels Obese Fire employees Sick Theft Pregnant To kill Visit the bathroom Used or second hand Dead body Taxes

5 is inadvertent firing towards one's own or otherwise friendly forces while attempting to engage enemy forces, particularly where this results in injury or death.

6 is damage that is unintended or incidental to the intended outcome. These are also civilian deaths from military ammunitions that missed their intended targets, or were targeted at civilians by mistake.

7 is a military term referring to unarmored/undefended targets needing to be destroyed. For example, a soft target would be an automobile, a house, or assembly of people (civilian area; cities) while a hard target could be a main battle tank or a well defended installation.

8 have nothing to do with the tubes used for sending letters from one place to another. It simply refers to body bags, as in those used by coroners to move a victim from a crime scene to the morgue. The fact that the term sounds so general has made it widely accepted, although no one knows exactly what it means.

9 is the violent expulsion of a certain racial group from their own land and should not to be confused with genocide. Ethnic cleansing is similar to forced deportation or 'population transfer' whereas genocide is the "intentional murder of part or all of a particular ethnic, religious, or national group. Thus, these concepts are different, but related, "literally and figuratively, ethnic cleansing bleeds into genocide, as mass murder is committed in order to rid the land of a people."

10 R2hE&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mo de=1 Monty Python came up with a few Can you think of five more?

11 shell shock (World War I) battle fatigue (World War II) operational exhaustion (Korean War) posttraumatic stress disorder (Vietnam War) PTSD

12 Following a congressional mandate in 1983, the National Vietnam Veterans Readjustment Study (NVVRS) was conducted by the U.S. government to better understand the development of PTSD from the Vietnam War, as well as other problems. The findings from this study were alarming. At the time of the study (middle to late 1980s), among Vietnam veterans, approximately 15% of men and 9% of women were found to currently have PTSD. Approximately 30% of men and 27% of women had PTSD at some point in their life following Vietnam.

13 These findings, obtained approximately a decade after the end of the Vietnam War, found that for many veterans, their PTSD had become a chronic (that is, persistent and long-lasting) condition. To examine the longer-term effects of chronic PTSD, researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health, Columbia University, The American Legion, and the State University of New York (SUNY) Downstate Medical Center surveyed 1,377 American Legionnaires who had served in Southeast Asia in the Vietnam War 14 years after their NVVRS interview in

14 Their study found that almost three decades after the Vietnam War, many veterans continued to experience problems with PTSD. At the initial interview, approximately 12% had PTSD. Fourteen years later, the rates of PTSD had dropped only slightly to approximately 11%. Those who had experienced high levels of combat exposure were most likely to have PTSD at both interviews. Veterans who continued to have PTSD 14 years after their first interview were found to have considerably more psychological and social problems. They reported lower satisfaction with their marriage and life in general. They also indicated having more parenting difficulties, higher divorce rates, lower happiness, and more physical health complaints, such as fatigue, aches, and colds. Veterans with chronic PTSD were also more likely to be smokers.

15 Let s take a quiz to see what kinds of questions are asked when determining if a person has PTSD. Take out a sheet of paper and answer the following questions for yourself. As you do this, think about some of the traumatic events that happened in Vietnam and the tragic event we talked about in The Things They Carried

16 List five (5) things you literally carry on a regular basis and five (5) things you figuratively carry during the course of your life on a separate sheet of paper. Crumple it up and throw it Grab a snowball and read the list What could infer about the person based on their list? Write your answer underneath the list Crumple it back up and toss it We will do this a few times When you get your list back: What do you think about how others see you based on what you carry? What do you think your list says about you?