The Foundation Of Youth May Be Closer Than You Ever Thought Analysis

Have you stayed up all night studying for an exam, thinking acing the exam is more important than sleep? Although the credibility of a 2002 experiment, mentioned in a 2017 Time Magazine article “The Sleep Cure: The Foundation of Youth May Be Closer Than You Ever Thought”, written by Alice Park, is outdated, this Time Magazine article proves sleep is more important than we ever thought it was by using persuasion and informing the audience. As this article provides quite a bit of logic and credibility to show its effectiveness, several of us can relate to the idea “if we do not acquire a decent night’s sleep, we will not feel right the next day”—feeling sluggish and tired. Including scare tactics also tries to convince a copious amount adults and teenagers to receive the right amount of sleep by using the scare tactic “if we have an irregular sleep schedule, this will lead to developing diseases, which later will lead to early death” (Park 2). With Park using scare tactics, statistics and experiments, and comparisons and similes, she is effective in making her audience believe they need a regular sleep schedule and a healthy amount of sleep. …show more content…
Park states how sleep is important for our health and why people should not skip out on sleep just as they would not skip out on meals (8). Expanding upon the idea how sleep is important for our health, Park elucidates how receiving little to no sleep can cause health and mental health problems, including heart disease, high blood pressure, stress, inflammation and PTSD, which eventually could lead to premature death (2-3). Also, Park emphasizes how people’s bodies and brain’s function while they are asleep and when they receive a decent night’s