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    Sleep argumentative essay Sleep deprivation is a world problem,schools everywhere in the world need to start school later in the day.Here are some reasons why we should start school later:about only 9 percent of students are getting enough sleeep they need for school. About twenty percent of students are only getting about 5 hours of sleep a night.With only little segments of sleep, this causes students to be unable to learn which can leads to worse grades.One study has found that…

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    Many college students at the emerging adult stage experience difficulty managing their sleep cycle, and tend to lose more sleep than they should. First years especially experience this because of the transition from high school to college. They are expected to manage their own time, but many underestimate how demanding classes are and end up losing sleep to irregular sleep schedules, sleep disturbances and day napping (Ye, L., Hutton Johnson et al., 2015). Entering a new school environment…

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    officer’s work day. A sleep deprived officer is at risk of being ineffective while preforming daily duties (Krause, 2014). Police Officer must have an adequate amount of rest to perform their duties effectively. Police work, involves many events and activities that require an officer’s on divided attention. Police Officers work for up to 12 hours a shift, at times even more, which pinpoints to sleep deprivation and the ineffective job performance. Problem Statement Sleep deprivation, a…

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    learn from the book? Beep! Beep! Beep! Groaning, you shut the alarm off for good and roll out of bed to start the day — exhausted and cranky. Along with a majority of college students, you keep getting less sleep each night without the possibility of catching up until the weekend. Sleep deprivation among university students has become normalized in today’s demanding society, and no one is giving the terrible side effects a second thought. Many people use the term social menace to describe…

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    V. (2009). Decision-Making Under Conditions of Sleep Deprivation: Cognitive and Neural Consequences. Military Psychology (Taylor & Francis Ltd), 2136-45.Journal This study was designed to investigate how sleep deprivation affected the decision making with a sample of fifteen participants, four females and nine males. Previous studies, which focused on working memory, concluded in conflicting results; some labs have found that sleep deprivation slowed down cognitive processes whereas others…

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    In the article from the LA Times, “Sleep Deprivation Has Genetic Consequences, Study Finds”, written by Eryn Brown claims that sleep deprivation can be very unsafe for people’s health. It claims that sleep deprivation can result in gene inflammation, immunity, and protein harm which was caused by tissue harm. The text also declares that after an experiment was run, hundreds of genes in our bodies were amplified when people did not sleep for 24 hours. Brown writes in an informative tone because…

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    Sleep, it’s a wonderful thing. Whether it is the warm protection of the sheets, the engulfment of your head in the fluff of the pillow or simply the bliss dreaming the night away, sleep, it’s a beautiful thing, but too often this blissful ritual is sacrificed and ignored in the life of a college student. The number one phrase out of any college student, other than “I’m so broke,” is “I’m so tired.” Coming to class or work with dark circles under the slightly glazed over eyes, venti coffee in…

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    ultimately underachieve, what is it? Sleep. Most people know that eight hours is the minimum amount of sleep that a college student must receive to be fully alert and ready to go. What really happens is that a lot of us don’t get all the sleep we strive for and forces the body to go into what scientist call “sleep debt.” An example of sleep debt would be, sleeping for six hours instead of the minimum of eight that is recommended. That leaves two hours of sleep that you missed out on and…

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    Holly C. Lewis and Kimberly M. Fenn, aims to further the research on false memories and how they occur by looking into the role of sleep deprivation. 2 experiments were conducted; experiment one contained 193 undergraduates from the University of California, experiment 2 contained 104 undergraduates from Michigan State University. In each experiment there was a sleep deprived group and a rested group. In experiment 1 the test subjects were asked to complete questionnaires regarding video of the…

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    Police Sleep Deprivation

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    Researchers who study police officer stress disorders, sleep disorders and performance have a number of techniques to counteract sleep deprivation and stress. They fall into two categories: ◦Things managers can do. ◦Things officers can do. To counter sleep deprivation and stress managers can start by reviewing departmental policies that affect overtime, moonlighting and the number of consecutive hours a person can work. Make sure the policies keep shift rotation to a minimum and give officers…

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