Students who are demanding trigger warnings and for certain books to be banned are not only negatively affecting themselves, but also students who don’t suffer from PTSD or other psychological disorders. A strong quote to support this is, “the extensive use of trigger warnings may also foster unhealthy mental habits in the vastly larger group of students who do not suffer from PTSD or other anxiety disorders.” (Lukianoff and Haidt. Pg 238). This relates to my point above about my personal experience because it states how trigger warnings encourage students and teachers to believe that there’s something wrong with discussing difficult topics in history, and like I stated above, once I got to my senior year in high school, I just stopped speaking up in discussions because I was too afraid what I was going to say would hurt someone. I remember in one of my discussions in AP Human Geography my senior year, I just sat there silent the whole time because I wasn’t sure what the right thing to say was. These trigger warnings do encourage me to participate less in class discussions.

Above is one paragraph from my first essay that demonstrates my ability to select, integrate, and explain my quotes in my essay. My intro paragraph for my first essay wasn’t the best. English classes in high school for me were only a semester long, so I hadn't been in an English class for a while until ENG-110. I wasn’t sure how to start a strong introduction paragraph, but once I got more reviews from my peers I slowly started making corrections and making it stronger. I used quotes from the essay “The Coddling of The American Mind.” I started by reading through and reflecting on which quote would best help support my point made in my introduction paragraph, which was how there should be harsh topics discussed in classrooms because it’s affecting young college students in a negative way. To select a quote I started my paragraph by introducing the point I was trying to make, and using the quote to back me up and defend my point. My first sentence in that paragraph and my quote are closely related to each other, so that demonstrates my ability to select and integrate quotes into my essay. I then explained the quote by using a personal experience of how these trigger warnings have affected me in my own classroom throughout high school and college. This relates to learning outcome number two because it shows my ability to use quotations and summarize and analyze what my quote is saying.