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Cause and effect essay


 * Causes of stress **


 * Brainstorm **
 * Not sleep enough
 * Laziness
 * Economic problems
 * Work a lot
 * Not rest


 * 5 new words **
 * cortisol
 * layoffs
 * overtime
 * steroid
 * catecholamine

Stress is generated by a lot of causes such as tiredness, labo__r pr__oblems and economic instability. **//__Add serial comma.__//**
 * Thesis statement **

Work a lot <span style="font-family: 'Candara','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Job stress causes <span style="font-family: 'Candara','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Economic problems <span style="font-family: 'Candara','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Problems in homeless people <span style="font-family: 'Candara','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Lack of rest <span style="font-family: 'Candara','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Why is necessary to sleep?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Candara','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">Outline **
 * __<span style="font-family: 'Candara','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Introduction paragraph __**
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 * __<span style="font-family: 'Candara','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Conclusion paragraph __**


 * //__Follow the outline model discussed in class.__//**

**<span style="font-family: 'Candara','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Causes of stress **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Candara','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">Essay **

<span style="font-family: 'Candara','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Do you suffer stress? Do you know someone who has this problem? Stress is a problem in this century and a huge population´s percent has the disease. For most people this is the disease of the 21st century. Stress is also a change adaptation syndrome; it is the way that body tells you that your battery is almost gone. Any process of psychological adaptation results in an excess of brain hormones named ** catecholamine **. This phenomenon is easy to measure in a blood or ** urine ** analysis which you can also detect in hair. <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Candara','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Stress is generated by a lot of causes such as tiredness, labor problems and economic instability.

<span style="font-family: 'Candara','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">The overwork can affect enormously to provoke stress. The job probably is the most important place where we get stressed. Next are the most common causes of job stress: “fear of ** layoffs **; increased demand for overtime due to staff cuts; the pressure to meet rising expectations, but no increase in job satisfaction; the pressure to work at optimum levels, all the time” (Mellers, 2000). All of these factors are causes of stress, for that reason in our job people are most exposed to get stressed. The excess of work is one of the most important factors that provoke stress; but the problem is when the person, who works a lot, does not rest enough. **//__Provide a link to the next paragraph.__//**

<span style="font-family: 'candara','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Personal economic problems contribute to provoke stress. Almost all people are suffering constantly about economic problems. An article of Wood, Valdez, Burciaga, Hayashi, & Shen <span style="font-family: 'Candara','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> (1990), “Burdens of increasing housing costs and family dysfunction among housed poor families place many at risk for homelessness” (p. 68). People, especially with less economic status are more affected to be stressed most of the time, because they always think how to solve the problem. In the same article they reported that “primarily to economic pressures of housing costs, but personal and family problems frequently played a contributing role, especially for single parent families” (Am J Public Health, 1990). If the person has a family and he/she needs to support the family by him/herself, it increases the risk the person be stressed continuously. Economic problems affect enormously the personal balance, for this reason having problems with money, in all senses, provoke persons not control the situation and get stressed.

<span style="font-family: 'Candara','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">The lack of rest or sleep provokes and helps the stress be produced. Everybody needs to rest; the rest can be just lie down or sleep. Sleeping helps to you to win energy. Sleeping less than eight hours daily can mean 50% more ** cortisol ** (the stress hormone or ** steroid ** hormone) than people who sleep that time.The inadequate quantity of rest increases the risk to get stressed. So it is very recommendable to sleep or take a nap to avoid stress.

<span style="font-family: 'Candara','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Several causes provoke stress. Stress reduces physical and mental health so it is recommendable to prevent the stress; it is the best way to have a healthy life. Remember that __it is important changing__ the life style now and begin a new life. __There are a lot of factors like to work a lot__, have a lot of problems, not rest enough, etc that help __the__ stress __comes__ easier. Stress is caused by innumerable causes, but the most important is to identify and solve it. Problems in the job, do not rest enough, and having economic problems cause the stress occurs. **//__Don't overuse the word "important".__//**

<span style="font-family: 'candara','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Wood, D., Valdez, R. Burciaga., Hayashi, T. & Shen, A. (1990). Homeless and housed families in Los Angeles: A study comparing demographic, economic, and family function characteristics. //<span style="font-family: 'Candara','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">American journal of public health // <span style="font-family: 'candara','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">. 80 (9), 1049-1052. **//__See APA.__//**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Candara','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">Reference **

<span style="font-family: 'Candara','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Mellers, B. a. (2000). Causes of stress. //Phycological __b__ulletin//, 126 (6), 910-924. **//__See APA.__//**

<span style="font-family: 'Candara','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Bechara, A., Damasio, H., & Damasio A.R. (2000). Emotion, decision making and the orbitofrontal cortex. //Cerebral cortex,// 10. **//__See APA.__//**