Sleep Deprivation and Academic Performance Essay

“Teens need about 8 to 10 hours of sleep per day,” says the National Sleep Foundation’s website, which describes the facts and consequences of sleep deprivation for teens. We have all heard the phrase, yet to most of us this advice seems unrealistic and impossible due to students various extracurricular activities and responsibilities which cause late bedtimes to be a common occurrence for teenagers. Recent research shows that as an adolescent, our biological sleep patterns make it difficult for…

Teenage Depression One may think that the teenage years are the happiest years of a persons life. However, the pressure-packed world that we live in has made happiness very hard for teenagers today. Depression is something many teenagers struggle with everyday. Stress, a bad home-life, and peer pressure are things that can cause teenage depression. One cause of teenage depression is stress. This stress may be caused by schoolwork or even a first job. Schoolwork seems to take up much of…

It is easy to be healthy, so long as you make an effort. But it is very easy to become unhealthy and lose your balance between health and your body. A good example of this would be from a story called Jan’s New Job. Jan clearly isn’t living the healthiest life. In the picture below the story, Jan looked worried and anxious. I can tell why, and it is an easy fix. Jan’s love for babysitting did not get her enough money, so she decided to work at a fast food restaurant as an after-school job. Jan…

How excessive internet use interferes with the development of critical thinking? When my sister came to the United States, our parent allowed her to have accessed to the internet. She spent a lot of her time in her room either with her phone or computer. She made a Facebook, My Space, Histogram and Gmail account, so that she would communicate her friends. In couple of weeks, she started to go to bed around 2:00AM and woke up late. She sometimes missed out on breakfast or come to it late. In…

my first objective, I state by month 5, 10 % of students increased their hours of sleep from 5 to 6, to 7 to 8 throughout the weekday. One activity to conduct is downloading a sleep tracker app for enrolled participants. This app is able to detect how well you are sleeping at night. The app comes with a sleeping log and smart alarms. Downloading the app will help you realize what behaviors are causing you to lose sleep. For objective 2, by the end 2018, undergraduate participants that attend the…

Every week more than 28% of high school students fall asleep in school,22% will fall asleep while doing their homework,and 14% are late or miss class due to oversleeping. Nearly half of the students sleep less than eight hours on school nights. I think our nation’s school system is flawed in many ways,we make our children get up before their recommended waking time even after scientific proof that they shouldn’t,we make curriculum difficult,we have tests that are more about test scores than…

Students are being pushed too hard to be successful in their lives. Many students today are getting a limited percentage of sleep they need because students do not reach the level of having a good- night’s rest. Student’s lack of sleep is caused by stress or overwork of the student's mind which cause the student not go to sleep peacefully without thinking what needs to be done. Students push themselves too hard to be successful towards themselves because of their over-success parents are over…

Some children may already be born with a condition that will automatically affect them, diabetes or a blood condition etc.. Other children may have a predisposition towards certain diseases which may affect them later in life, an example of this is asthma. Children who live in areas where the air quality is poor or are living in conditions of damp and smoking are more likely to develop Asthma as opposed to other children living in better conditions. If a child is unwell for a long time or they…

The Fat cat and the Doggy Door: dysregulated stress response A stress response in the human body goes through something called the HPA axis. It’s a system that activates the body to fight or flee in response to a stressor. Let’s take your neighbor's fat cat, Fuzzy, and introduce an aggressive Husky that makes a bee-line for him when he’s let off his leash. When Fuzzy sees the dog he experiences a stress response to the danger. The danger is processed in hypothalamus inside fuzzy’s brain, which…

potential till about 9; 30/10; 00? So when you start school at 8:00 you are being deprived of precious learning time Furthermore if school began at at 10 you would have better rest especially because kids ages 10-18 go to sleep pretty late .myself included. If you go to sleep later than 10 you could get up later. You could get as…