The Waking

Why Early To Bed, Early To Rise, Makes A Man, Healthy, Wealthy, aAnd Wise. We have all heard Benjamin Franklin’s saying, “Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.” Many today ask if that statement is true. Many young adults and teenagers swear by their late nights and enormous amounts of coffee. However, does science back them up? Science, however, says that sleeping earlier and rising earlier can provide many health benefits, social benefits, and educational…

metabolic rates than bigger ones sleep longer (Energy Conservation). However with the help of modern technology, today it has been proved that only during non-REM sleep brain consumes less energy. During REM sleep organisms use energy almost as much as waking hours. One of the opinions supports that sleeping is necessary for early brain development. It can be accepted by looking sleeping hours of people in different ages. Infants can sleep almost whole day. The need for sleep decreases with the…

consciousness when your mind comes into contact with something. SO when you go into deep sleep and cut your mind away from the world are you really even still there if you have no knowledge of yourself while you sleep? Deep sleep is the last stage of the waking states. Deep sleep falls right…

June 26th 2015, I walked outside of Marlboro High School with a grin on my face, and an excited feeling in my tummy. Schools out and summer vacation has begun! The warm summer breeze brushed against my skin. I said to myself “Oh this is perfect.” I looked at my phone as soon as my brother picked me up from the front of the school. I had already known whom had texted me, and what the message was about. It was that time to go to the Toms River house right on the bay and stay there every weekend…

There are people who I look up to for a better life. One of the people that I get inspired is my father. As a child, I would see him struggle for us to have a better life than what he had. My dad has been through a lot over the past 48 years of his life. Trying to be independent with no male role model in his life is hard since he didn’t have anyone to look up to. My father was born in a small town in Michoacán, Mexico called Capacho. He has one older sister and three younger brothers. He…

Physical, Spiritual, Social, Professional or Financial requires true effort and grit, we need those early morning hours to really focus our minds on the day ahead. There's no better habit for achieving your goals, whether personal or professional, than waking up early. Most of the world's…

In 1977 writer and theatre critic John Heilpern wrote a book he called Conference of the Birds, telling the story of director Peter Brook’s journey into the Sahara in the early 1970s in order to create a new form of theatre that would completely distance itself from any cultural assumptions of its audience. Brook and theatre artists from the Centre international de recherche théâtrale performed their pieces for the native populations in Africa with whom they shared neither language nor culture.…

Too Much T.V. is Bad for A Child’s Development Today in the United States 98% of all households, have at least one T.V. in their home (Facts and T.V. Statistics.) With technology on the rise, media and video are now accessible 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Tablets, television, computers, and cell phones are just a few examples of the technology we have that make screen viewing easily available. Parents are allowing children as early as 6 months of age, to watch television; exposing their young…

“She’s just a small town girl living in a lonely world,” these are the lyrics to the popular song, Small Town Girl, sung by the band Journey. While to many they may simply be just lyrics they are much more than that to me. Those eleven words have shaped my entire life. Culture contributes immensely to the personality and identity of an individual. An individual’s culture is based off of many characteristics. However, the ones that have had the greatest impact on my life are my geographic region…

In the Allegory of The Cave, Plato depicts a cave where prisoners are strapped into chairs facing a wall. There is a fire burning behind them, and in front of the fire there are puppets which throw shadows on the wall. The shadows on the wall are the prisoners reality, and they have no desire to leave because they know nothing better. If a prisoner were to escape from the chair, he would see the fire and it would hurt his eyes. So he would turn back to the shadows that are easy for him to look…