Claims(19)–Wazoo

Posted on February 19, 2019 by wazoo1234

Suppose that there is a second-generation effect in veterans, there are a few differences that are quite significant” from children of Holocaust survivors that “might account for difference in coping mechanisms and resources.

Evaluative claim: This is an evaluative claim because the author is evaluating a situation in which there is a second generation effect in veterans.

 Holocaust survivors “had more resources and networks, wider family members and community to support them to adapt to their new circumstances after a war.” They were not, in other words, expected to man up and get over it. F

Factual Claim: this is a factual claim because it states that survivors had resources and networks which can be proven to be true.

the lead scientist, Marinus van IJzendoorn of Leiden University

Factual Claim: It is stating directly what this mans position is and who he is.

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Claims–G90

Posted on February 19, 2019 by g903254

“Hypervigilance sounds innocuous” this is a casual claim. This statement assumes that the reader believes that hypervigilance sounds innocuous. However anyone in the field of medicine, PTSD sufferer, family of said PTSD sufferer, and friends of said PTSD sufferer would most likely know what hypervigilance is, so, to assume that would be slightly disingenuous.

“Imagine there’s a murderer in your house. And it is dark outside, and the electricity is out. Imagine your nervous system spiking, readying you as you feel your way along the walls, the sensitivity of your hearing, the tautness in your muscles, the alertness shooting around inside your skull. And then imagine feeling like that all the time.” this is an analogous claim that tries to show how someone with PTSD would feel all the time compared to a normal human being in this certain scenario.

“Imagine there’s a murderer in your house.” This is a casual claim. The author is assuming that the reader can imagine. This most likely is possible, however there is condition called Aphantasia that doesn’t allow people the ability to create images within there mind. This would mean that for the people that do suffer from this condition that they wouldn’t be able to imagine such a scenario.

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Is PTSD contagious claims-HazelnutLatte

Posted on February 19, 2019 by hazelnutlatte123

Now, he’s rounder, heavier, bearded, and long-haired obviously tough even if he weren’t prone to wearing a COMBAT INFANTRYMAN cap…

  • This is an evaluative claim because the author makes a judgement of the characteristics of Caleb by describing how he looks. From this, we can infer that the author is claiming he has gained weight and grew more hair.

Even doctors can’t say for sure exactly why he has flashbacks, why he could be standing in a bookstore when all of a sudden he’s in Ramadi…

  • “Even doctors can’t say for sure…” is an evaluative claim because the author is claiming that doctors cannot figure out or understand Caleb’s injuries.

… the pictures in his brain disorienting him among the stacks, which could turn from stacks to rows of rooftops that need to be scanned for snipers.

  • “the pictures in his brain” is a causal claim because this leads us to infer that the reason he is picturing himself back in Ramadi is because of his brain creating the pictures.

Sometimes he starts yelling, and often he doesn’t remember anything about it later.

  • This is a quantitative claim because it uses words such as “sometimes”, “often”, and “later”. The word “sometimes” claims that his symptoms do not happen all the time, but they happen occasionally, and the word “often” claims that more times than not, he cannot remember what he has done.

Some hypotheses for why PTSD only tortures some trauma victims blame it on unhappily coded proteins, or a misbehaving amygdala. Family history, or maybe previous trauma.

  • This is a factual claim because it is declaring the hypotheses for the reason why PTSD occurs in trauma victims.
  • Saying “some trauma victims” or “some hypotheses” is a quantitative claim because it suggests how many victims get PTSD because of these reason and how many hypotheses there are. The word “some” suggests a few rather than many victims or many hypotheses.
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Claims- NYAJ32

Posted on February 19, 2019 by nyaj32

Paragraph 7

“The vineses’ wedding album is gorgeous, leather bound, older and dustier than you might expect given their youth.”

This first sentence is a comparative claim. They are comparing the album to something that does not age well. It says it look older than it should given it’s youth. It is a relatively new album but it still looks old.

“Brannan is 32 now, but in her portraits with the big white dress and lacy veil she’s not even old enough to drink.”

This is also a comparative claim. Brannan is actually 32 but they are comparing hat to her pictures where she is not even 21. The pictures were made at least 11 years ago.

“There were 500 people at the ceremony. Even the mayor was there.”

This is a quantitative claim. It shows how there are so many people there and that the event is a very big deal based off the number of people that are in attendance.

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Claims – Jets1313

Posted on February 19, 2019 by jets1313

Brannan Vines has never been to war. But she’s got a warrior’s skills: hyperawareness, hypervigilance, adrenaline-sharp quick-scanning for danger, for triggers. Super stimuli-sensitive. Skills on the battlefield, crazy-person behavior in a drug store, where she was recently standing behind a sweet old lady counting out change when she suddenly became so furious her ears literally started ringing.

  • The first sentence is a factual claim because their beyond a doubt that bandanna vines has never been to war
  • This entire section is filled with categorical claims because it lists examples of warrior skills and PTSD symptoms

but her husband, Caleb, was sent to Iraq twice, where he served in the infantry as a designated marksman. He’s one of 103,200, or 228,875, or 336,000 Americans who served in Iraq or Afghanistan and came back with PTSD, depending on whom you ask, and one of 115,000 to 456,000 with traumatic brain injury. 

  • “her husband Caleb, was ent to Iraq twice where served in the infantry is a factual claim because we know beyond a doubt that he did go to war
  • the bottom portion is categorical claim because it provides us with actual number of Americans who served in Iraq or Afghanistan and came back with PTSD
  • this is also a comparative claim because they are comparing Caleb to other American soldiers who served in the war and came back with PTSD

under testing for the latter, underreporting, under or over-misdiagnosing of both. And as slippery as all that is, even less understood is the collateral damage, to families, to schools, to society—emotional and fiscal costs borne long after the war is over.

  • This would be a casual claim because it shows the consequences of over/under misdiagnosing PTSD

Hypervigilance sounds innocuous, but it is in fact exhaustingly distressing, a conditioned response to life-threatening situations. Imagine there’s a murderer in your house. And it is dark outside, and the electricity is out. Imagine your nervous system spiking, readying you as you feel your way along the walls, the sensitivity of your hearing, the tautness in your muscles, the alertness shooting around inside your skull. And then imagine feeling like that all the time.

  • This is an analogy claim because it is comparing brannans PTSD symptoms to life treating situations such as a murderer in the house

Caleb has been home since 2006, way more than enough time for Brannan to catch his symptoms. 

  • Factual claim because this undoubtly true

 Brannan is 32 now, but in her portraits with the big white dress and lacy veil she’s not even old enough to drink. There were 500 people at the ceremony. Even the mayor was there. And there’s Caleb, slim, in a tux, three years older than Brannan at 22, in every single picture just about the smilingest motherfucker you’ve ever seen, in a shy kind of way.

  • Factual claim bran is 32 now
  • analogy claim because they are comparing branny to her younger self in the portraits
  • also an evaluative claim because it discusses the personality of brannan and the characteristics of her

Now, he’s rounder, heavier, bearded, and long-haired, obviously tough even if he weren’t prone to wearing a COMBAT INFANTRYMAN cap, but still not the guy you picture when you see his “Disabled Veteran” license plates.

  • Categorical claim/evaluative because its lists qualities and characteristics of current Caleb

Caleb is so sensitive to light, why he can’t just watch the news like a regular person without feeling as if he might catch fire

  • analogy claim because its comparing Caleb to the average person

Whatever is happening to Caleb, it’s as old as war itself. The ancient historian Herodotus told of Greeks being honorably dismissed for being “out of heart” and “unwilling to encounter danger.” Civil War doctors, who couldn’t think of any other thing that might be unpleasant about fighting the Civil War but homesickness, diagnosed thousands with “nostalgia.”

  • analogy claim because the statement is comparing whats happening to Caleb to the age of war and other war related events in history
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Claims-biggarz7

Posted on February 19, 2019 by biggarz7

“Katie* Vines, the first time I meet her, is in trouble. “

Right off the bat the author of this entry uses an evaluative claim. By this I mean the author is saying that when she first met this girl she evaluated her situation saying that this girl “is in trouble” which in fact could mean something totally different.

“…you don’t have to be at the Vines residence for too long to hear Caleb hollering from his room…”

This sentence shows the use of a numerical claim. It is pretty simple to see that it is talking about time and how the author explains to the reader that you don’t have to stay around them too long. The question does get asked how long exactly.

“Other studies have found a “higher rate of psychiatric treatment”; “more dysfunctional social and emotional behavior”; “difficulties in establishing and maintaining friendships.”

The studies shown here are some factual claims like it causes a higher rate of treatment, however the difficulties of maintaining friendships is just a caasual claim.

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Claims(paragraph 5)- pomegranate

Posted on February 19, 2019 by pomegranate4800


“Sometimes I can’t do the laundry,” Brannan explains, reclining on her couch. “And it’s not like, ‘Oh, I’m too tired to do the laundry,’ it’s like, ‘Um, I don’t understand how to turn the washing machine on.’ I am looking at a washing machine and a pile of laundry and my brain is literally overwhelmed by trying to figure out how to reconcile them.”

This is an evaluative claim, for she is a caught in a certain scenario, and has to evaluate its purpose. When she is about to do laundry, she suddenly cannot because she is overwhelmed with the amount of steps there are to lead up to clean clothes.

She sounds like she might start crying, not because she is, but because that’s how she always sounds, like she’s talking from the top of a clenched throat, tonally shaky and thin. She looks relaxed for the moment, though, the sun shining through the windows onto her face in this lovely leafy suburb. We raise the blinds in the afternoons, but only if we are alone.

This is a causal claim, for she is just stating that she always sounds like she is ready to cry. In the sentence it states, “…but because that’s how she always sounds…” proving that she is living in the constant fear of her PTSD triggering. However she feels relaxed when she has the sun beating on her face. She feels a sense of security.

When we hear Caleb pulling back in the driveway, we jump up and grab their strings, plunging the living room back into its usual necessary darkness.

This is an evaluative claim because when she says, “…we jump up and grab their strings…back into its usual necessary darkness.” There are many other ways they can go about this. To help Caleb with his trauma, they must help themselves too.

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Claims (Paragraph 23): Nina

Posted on February 19, 2019 by nina525

“The most important way to help the family deal with things is to ensure that the veteran gets effective treatment.”

  • This is a recommendation or proposal claim. The claim is showing possible steps and precautions to a solution.

“In cases where children themselves need treatment, these VA officials recommended that parents find psychologists themselves.”

  • This is a casual claim. Psychological services are offered as a simple solution to help children control or reduce the potential of PTSD causing issues.

 This is a good time [for the VA] to make partners with the community so we can make good referrals.”

  • The is a recommendation claim. If the community aligns with the VA, together to find a solution to help those who are diagnosed or suffer from PTSD

 Or basically: “You’re on your own,” says Brannan.

  • A casual claim that explains the effect that is the community doesn’t help find ways to contribute to helping PTSD cases, being told you are on your own is the result of a non cooperative community.
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Claims-Chavanillo

Posted on February 18, 2019 by chavanillo

All that didn’t happen until after the second tour. Brannan was in a terrible place, she says—until she talked to Danna Hughes, founder of VVW. Danna had been through much of the exact same turmoil, decades ago, and had opened a center to help get Vietnam vets benefits and educate their spouses and communities about their condition. “What choice do I have?” Brannan asks about running her own organization. “This is the only reason I am well. People care when you tell them. They just don’t know. They want to help and they want to understand, so I just have to keep going and educating.”

 In this paragraph there is analogy claim. Brannan husband Caleb because of his mental diseases because of the war mess with his wife mind too. Making her part of his illusion. Is like you leaving with the devil or enemy. They drive you crazy and pit you in a terrible situation. Brannan i this paragraph said, “Brannan was in a terrible place, she says.” In this paragraph there is also categorical claim because it shoes how PTSD turmoil people. Like it did to Donna Hughes, a founder of VVW. She has experience similar things as Brannan did. I believe this paragraph is more a factual claim then a analogy or categorical claim because behave of Donna Hughes having the same problem because of the PTSD she started a center to help Vietnam vets souses with education and conditions. Because of Donna program Brannan was better with her health and she wanted to go her own way and start her own program because as she said, “People care when you tell them” and she was feeling well. I considered this an evaluated claim because she is using something that help her to educate other people. There is some recommendation claim because you could look at this paragraph as Brannan telling us that the program does work you just have to keep going and educate yourself.  

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Claims – Halizzle

Posted on February 18, 2019 by halizzlee

“He is one of 103,200 or 228,875, or 336,000 Americans who served in Iraq or Afghanistan and came back with PTSD,”

  • This is a factual claim. The author has stated a circumstance that exists beyond doubt. This statistic is factual and can not be disputed.

“Even when everyone’s in the family room watching TV, it’s only connected to Netflix and not to cable, since news is often a trigger.”

  • This is an evaluative claim. The author is blaming the news for triggering PTSD symptoms, this raises questions of how and if the news should be monitored.

“Their German shepherd, a service dog trained to help veterans with PTSD”

  • This is a definition claim. The author introduces a concept, a service dog, and tells us what it is “a dog trained to help veterans”

“Some hypotheses for why PTSD only tortures some trauma victims blame it on unhappily coded proteins or a misbehaving amygdala. Family history, or maybe previous trauma.”

  • This is a categorical claim. These are all examples of how somebody could develop PTSD.

“In soldiers, the incidence of PTSD goes up with the number of tours and amount of combat experienced.”

  • This is a casual claim. The author is describing the cause and affect relationship between battle and PTSD.
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