Mental Health
An emotional psychological response to horrific experiences.
Trauma
The amount of money coming into a household on a regular basis (monthly or annual salary, etc.)
INCOME
Unlike equality, this term is used to describe all people receiving specific resources so that everyone achieves equal results.
Equity
To help with readability and editing, MLA format requires all essays to be written with this type of spacing.
Double space
Exactly 20 years ago, this legendary Lakers player switched his jersey number from 8 to number 24.
Kobe Bryant
After going through traumatic experiences, instead of negative psychological symptoms, some people show signs of this positive psychological change.
Post-Traumatic Growth
The total worth of all of a person's assets including properties, savings, investments, stocks, etc.
Wealth
The act of conquering a land and dominating the indigenous people in that area.
Colonization (or Colonialism)
MLA format requires all margins to be set at this length.
One inch
As one of the longest rivalries in sports history, this basketball team (with 18 championships) is the evil villain enemy of the L.A. Lakers.
The nasty smelling, booger eating Boston Celtics
Psychologist Jonathan Haidt developed this metaphor to describe the conflict between our automatic emotional part of the brain and our conscious rational part of the brain.
The elephant and the rider
The unequal distribution of income or wealth or opportunities between different groups in society
Economic Inequality
At some point in history, this country has invaded or colonized 171 of the almost 200 countries on the planet.
Great Britain (or England)
The special type of indentation used for each source on the Works Cited page.
Hanging indentation
Before moving the team to Los Angeles, the Lakers were part of this city known as "The Land of 10,000 Lakes."
Minneapolis, MN
An enhanced state of sensitivity and constant scanning of the environment for threats, often resulting from trauma, anxiety, or chronic stress,
Hypervigilance
The lowest amount of income needed for someone to meet their basic needs of standard living
Living wage
The everyday slights, indignities, put downs and insults that people of marginalized groups experience in their day-to-day interactions with people.
Microaggressions
A brief reference within the body of a paper (written in parentheses at the end of a sentence) that indicates the source of a quote, idea, statistic, or fact.
In-text citation
Dominated by players such as Magic Johnson, Kareem Abdul Jabar, and James Worthy, this exciting time period of the 1980s Lakers was known by this name.
Showtime!
In a class lecture, we discussed resilience and growth in the form of this Japanese art form of repairing broken pottery using lacquer mixed with powdered gold.
Kintsugi
The movement of a person or household from one economic class to another
Economic mobility
Demographic shifts that occur in big cities in which upper-middle class and/or racially privileged individuals move into historically poor and/or racially oppressed neighborhoods
Gentrification
On the Works Cited page, if one of your sources has no author, then begin the entry with this instead.
The article title
This legendary Lakers player is nicknamed "The Logo" because a silhouette outline of him became the actual logo for the NBA.
Jerry West