Sleep Deprivation Essay

Shortened classes would be a great alternative this school. The students could have more time for sports, extra hours to work on homework, and be able to spend more time with their family and friends. The sports programs are very important to Peoria Notre Dame. If our classes are shortened, we will have plenty of time to practice and enhance our skills in these areas. The school will get a glowing reputation, and more young people will want to come if they know that PND takes their sports…

nighter, barely functioning, or one of the few that got a good night’s sleep? About 90% of high school students across the entire US get less than eight hours of sleep per night. That would mean that in this class, only two people got a minimum of eight hours of sleep last night. Our 7:35 AM school wake up call goes against the natural clock of a teenager. With those early alarms come the dangers of being sleep deprived. Being sleep deprived can have harmful, and sometimes fatal, effects on your…

the morning trying to get ready and not to be late. People have said that some people don’t get a good breakfast or you don’t eat because you don’t have time to in the morning and you can’t wake up early then u will be tired and then u will go to sleep in school. Also is parents in the morning they there kids to the bus stop and then they get behind the bus and the bus has to stop at a lot of stops and they can’t get around it so that causes the to be late for work. In the morning you need time…

studies to show that the average teenager needs a total of 8.8-9.5 hours of rest in order for them to function properly throughout the day. These early school days are causing middle and high school students, like me, to experience shifts in our natural sleep cycles. Our bodies’ inner clocks make it hard for us to go to bed before 10:30 or 11:00 p.m. Not only due to outside distractions, but primarily due to the large amounts of homework that we receive on a daily basis. The average teenager’s…

and waking up before 8 a.m due to the hormone melatonin. This pattern causes a serious lack of sufficient sleep for students. This causes many teens to come to school not prepared for their classes and, in turn, they do not obtain the information that they need during instruction. This problem has also shown to be dangerous for students. After waking up extremely…

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…

Sleep is important for a number of reasons. Sleep allows the body and mind to rest to prepare to operate and function the next day. Some of the advantages of sleeping are that sleep allows the brain to process the day’s events and enhances one’s memory to ensure that we remember tasks that need to be completed the next day. Depriving yourself from sleep can lead up to mood swings, forgetfulness, and irritation, and that’s just to name a few of the negative traits. The most important stages of…

article, The Walking Dead, demonstrates how important sleep truly is. Maria says “Fifty to seventy million Americans have chronic sleep disorders.”(Pg. 1) Many sleep scientists, from the Harvard Medical School Media Fellowship, have come to the conclusion that the lack of sleep can affect a person greatly. If you do not get enough sleep, your sleep inertia can stay for as long as the whole day. Judith Owens, the director of the Center for Pediatric Sleep Disorders at Boston Children’s Hospital,…

Bored Out of My Mind, Body and Spirit “Boredom Comes From a Boring Mind” (Metallica) In 1975, “don’t leave home without it” referred to your American Express credit card. In 2014, it has taken on a whole new meaning, personal electronics. Cell phones, laptops, tablets, GPS, and gaming devices, our electronic tethers keep us connected, like the Star Trek Borg, we are all a part the collective. Our lives have become bound together by an entanglement of electronics. The very items intended to…

and physical effect on children, taking a toll on one 's mental abilities by increasing depression, sleep loss, and never providing the mind a chance to rest and regroup. (Tennant, 2005) These are all important factors, especially when concentrating on education due to the fact that they harm focus and impair the ability to learn new material. The physical effects of stress on students include sleep disturbances (nightmares and bedwetting), skin diseases, and infections. Also, “research suggests…