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    Some people think daylight savings time is not good. However other people think other wise. Daylight savings time or D.A.T can help increase the sunlight effect on Cardiovascular Illnesses, Prevent Vitamin D deficiency,and also Reduce Exposure to Aftificial Lighting. It's been around for years now. So why take it away. Daylight savings time can increase the sunlight effect on cardiovascular illnesses by lowering blood pressure. “ The journal of Investigative Dermatology tested 24 volunteers and found that the sun increases nitric oxide levels,a chemical linked to blood flow,and results in lowered blood pressure.” That would be great for people who have really bad high blood pressure. They wouldn't even have to pay for…

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    by Benjamin Franklin over 200 years ago, the idea of Daylight Saving Time had its foundations in energy savings. It was implemented in the United States during both world wars and was later standardized by the Uniform Time Act in 1966. Nowadays, controversy surrounding the subject has supporters claiming that Daylight Savings Time conserves energy otherwise spent on artificial light; promotes outdoor activities in the evening, reduces traffic accidents, and is beneficial for businesses. This…

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    Daylight Saving Time-- created as a way to conserve daylight and save energy is a practice that dates back to the early 1900s. Most countries have adapted to the practice of turning the clocks ahead one hour in the spring, and then turning them back an hour in the fall. Yet, there’s a lack of knowledge of how and why Daylight Saving Time came about, which has caused a lot of debate over whether it should end once and for all. Daylight Saving Time should be abolished as it has no purpose and…

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    Present Issue Daylight Saving Time is the act of setting clocks either an hour forward or backwards in the month of March and November. This biannual event was created to save energy. However, recently it has been question if Daylight Saving Time is still saving the United States energy. In fact, some claim that it is actually causing more energy to be used (Energy company petitions to eliminate daylight saving time, 2016). More argue that the time change causes sleep deprivation which leads to…

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    Daylight Savings Time is bittersweet for me. I love the extra hours of daylight in the evening, but I hate losing precious hours of beauty sleep. During this time change, it gets extremely difficult to wake up early and on time in the morning, let alone fall asleep at a decent time. I have every intention of going to sleep earlier each night, but my mind is still going a million miles an hour and it never ends up happening. I have experimented with quite a few ways to go to bed earlier over the…

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    Daylight Saving Time – March 12th 2017 Initiated by a satirical essay penned by Benjamin Franklin in 1784, the idea of changing sleep schedules came to mind due to the “rude awakening” that the summer sun caused Franklin at 6:00 am in Paris. However, it wasn’t until 1905 that the first ever campaign to move the clocks forward between April and October was promoted; The “Waste of Daylight” measure was led by Englishman William Willet. One morning on horseback, Willet had the epiphany that the…

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    Have you ever wondered why the U.S does daylight savings time and the rest of the world doesn’t? The U.S has been using daylight savings time for years while other countries have stopped after WW2. In the articles“Pros & Cons: Daylight Savings time” by Proscons.org and the article “The Curious and Contentious Story of Daylight Saving Time” by David Prerau they state that daylight savings is both good and bad. Although some argue that the U.S should eliminate daylight savings, I believe that…

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    The Downfalls of Daylight Saving Time Why do we have to do daylight saving time. The American states Hawaii and most of Arizona do not participate in daylight saving time. Losing an hour of sleep in the spring is not necessarily fun. Daylight saving time does more harm than good. On the monday after daylight saving time workers tend to cyberloaf. Daylight saving time is hard to adjust to and businesses are hurt by it. Studies in a lab showed that participants cyberloafed for more than 20% of…

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    Throughout centuries, the world has seen the need for a change in the time to accompany the change in daylight. Daylight Savings Time is an act twice a year where they change the clock an hour back or forward. It is practiced within the United States and some controversy regarding the usefulness of it. Some argue thought, that the complexity and usefulness of the Daylight Savings Time make it unwarranted. Thought another might argue that the small change of an hour gives many hidden benefits…

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    "DST", or Daylight Savings Time, is a tradition where every spring people set their clocks forward 1 hour, and in the fall people set their clocks back one year. There are several benefits to "DTS" as well as negative effects. It's in my belief that "DTS" is more helpful than not. Having that 1 extra hour of daytime can be very helpful to people that work outside like carpenters, and farmers. To begin with, one could argue that a 2007 study in California indicated that "DST" had little or no…

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