Relative deprivation

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…

Josh Byrem 3/3/16 ILA 7B Persuasive essay Bam! Your mom walks in, She says “Get ready for school”. But you’re really tired because its 6:00 AM. Because of the lack of rest you’re not very alert. If school began at 10 AM you could get up later and it would be easier to pay attention. You would have more time to get ready. Did you know according to studies your brain doesn’t use it full potential till about 9; 30/10; 00? So when you start school at 8:00 you are being…

If you’ve never felt overwhelmed before, hit up your local high school and try it out for a day! Days consist of early mornings, school, sports, going home, eating, homework, hanging out with friends maybe, and sleeping. Somehow highschoolers have to balance all of that out in 24 hours. They are given so much to complete within 24 hours, there’s simply not enough time in a day. The basic life of a high schooler typically includes balancing school, extracurriculars, homework, hanging out with…

Recent scientific developments seem to show that insomniacs may now have a chance for a better quality of life. The release in the market of different kinds of melatonin sleep aid products has given new hope for better sleep conditions for the millions of insomniacs around the world. Melatonin Synthesized from serotonin and produced by the pineal gland, Melatonin is a naturally occurring substance. Melatonin production is highest at night and naturally signals the body that it is time to sleep…

The use of misuse drugs today is often the cause to drug dependency in pharmaceutical drug therapy. Today primary care physicians, often use drugs for more than one course of treatment and or diagnoses or condition. Therefore, if clinicians do not appropriately assess patients and or clients the use of that drug may potentially be a result of misdiagnoses. Prescribing sleep aids for conditions other the primary symptom of insomnia Restless leg syndrome has been suggested as a cause to sleep…

I am writing to you on behalf of your influential book, “The Teenage Brain”. Your experience and expertise as a neurosurgeon has me confident in your abilities to understand how much sleep teenagers need for a healthy lifestyle. As a teenager myself, I am constantly in need of more sleep. Not only do my peers and I lack sleep, but also constantly stressing about school and all the tasks we must manage in such a short period of time. I am Mie Pretlow, a current junior at Niceville High School…

I am a proud Citizen of Charlotte N.C. I go to Harris Road Middle School. One of the downsides of school though is that it is to long. I am sitting in class all day for seven hours which is bad for your health. I wake up at seven in the morning and I get back home at 4:30 getting back at 4:30 is bad enough but when baseball season comes around I will be getting home around six. Then I have to do my homework, eat, shower and then it’s like time to go to bed. Then it repeats. This happens for so…