The Sleep Dealer : An Alien Body

This investigation examines is it possible for light pulses to alter the motor skills, and cardiac movements of biological life forms. Is it possible to change how biological lifeforms functions if we were to shine a light on them every hour at night? Knowing how most animals work, and from that of human experience I can say that light is what makes us stay awake; therefore if we have a light shined on us every hour would we lose sleep? These are the type of questions I will be answering throughout my extended essay. I will talk about how our sleep is affected by light, and monitor this so I can then record the data. I will also be discussing why we sleep. Which you may be wondering how this ties into light, however light does damage our skin

Preview Statement: Today I’d like to discuss and inform the audience about sleep. The first thing I want to tell you about is what sleep really is. The next thing I will explain is how sleep helps your body. Finally, I will talk about different

During the progression of the text Kelley actively mentions the reference to nighttime and sleep; the direct use of this reference is to make the audience aware that these distraught children are toiling away all night while adults lay in bed. Kelley makes this travesty obvious by stating “while we sleep little white gins will be working tonight in the mills,” which places the issue right in their lap. The underlying assertion that Kelley symbolically emphasizes through the references to sleep is that the American people are oblivious. The oblivious state of the American people in regards to the child labor crisis strongly resembles a church member sleeping during a sermon. The message of God is directly in front of the sleeping church member, yet their incognizant state is preventing them from being aware of the issues at hand, thus never purging themselves of sin. The sleep like state that the American people are in is Kelley’s method of preaching that they need to wake up and gain awareness of the child labor

I think the sleepwalker statue should be removed from the campus. The lifelike statue is an amazing artwork, but should not be on any college campus. The statue does not look presentable or appropriate for where it is now. The statue should have never been allowed to stay on the campus as long as it has; the creator of the statue did not ask for permission to place his statue on the campus. The statue should have been removed from the campus or sent to an art museum after students expressed they were uncomfortable with the statue. A petition was signed by more than 500 supporters to help the students’ argument to get rid of the “sleepwalker”. The statue might have been more acceptable at a college with both women and men.

The metaphor of naps represents the american opinion that doing anything beside work is a waste of time. She believes that we are rooted in the idea that, due to America's industrialized economy, citizens feel awkward when not being “productive” and, due to the lack of time we have for pleasure, we are unsure of what to do when it is not necessary for us to be working. As stated in the article, “American employers do not see the afternoon forty winks as refreshing the creative wellsprings of mere employees. They see it as goofing off.” What that quote is saying is that because of the constant expectation of maximum productivity throughout one’s life, one will never experience the pleasures that come in life as well.

Sleep is a beneficial necessity, both from a scientific and psychological standpoint, improving both mental and physical health. It plays an essential role in our growth and development as human beings. During sleep, our brains are growing and preparing for the day ahead so that we may be productive and attentive in every daily task. Without the recommended minimum of eight hours of sleep each night, people get agitated, distracted easily, gain health problems, make bad decisions, and acquire feelings of sadness and depression. Sleep deprivation is harmful and can cause a large amount of irreversible damage to ones brain, increasing the risk of diseases, strokes, and even diabetes. Throughout history, many authors have written about characters

Rivera’s movie is described as a “neo-realist science fiction” because he uses science fiction in order to show a world that Mexican’s could be living, in the near future. We know that science fiction movies may seem outlandish at the time, but we have learned that a with today’s science, a lot of these ideas aren’t unfathomable in the near future. Sleep Dealers by Alex Rivera is a movie based in a futuristic Mexico, and tells the story of a young boy named emo. He is from Santa Anna, a small dry farming town. America is a global power and had taken control of Mexico’s water supply, in turn taking control of Mexico. Memo’s father, a farmer who has seen a lot of change in Mexico, is killed in the beginning of the movie by an American drone attack. The city of Tijuana is where many Mexicans go to find work because it is where you can “connect” with the United States in order to work there. “Connecting” with the U.S. in this future for a Mexican it is done by hooking up to a machine and working as a robot, this is result of the border being closed. Tijuana is known as the biggest border town and attracts a lot of people looking for work. Here Memo meets a woman named Luz, a writer who sells her memories for money, who implants Memos nodes. These node workers risk their lives every day, because of the work America provides.

Through technology, the message that the movie is trying to send helps the audience understand clearer and somehow to build a connection with characters. In this response, I will discuss how Sleep Dealer portrays its message perfectly and how as an audience, myself, reacted to it. This movie can clearly represent how people that are not American, desire to

As a college student, the information David Randall presents is very intriguing due to the fact that most of us are sleep deprived due to late night studying, among other things. It is very evident that Randall relies on statistics to build and progress his argument. He tells us how over time certain statistics have increases and by how much. This opens our eyes and makes us realize that there really is an issue. By providing these sources Randall becomes trustworthy and our doubt of whether this is true or not are put to rest. The author comes into contact with our feels once he brings in true stories to the picture. He informs us of the incidents that have occurred due to sleep deprivation. At this point the issue becomes more than a statistical

I did not sleep well as a child. When I closed my eyes, I was not inundated with calming thoughts, nor fantastical images, but rather assaulted by existential anxieties which coaxed me into undesired ruminations about my being. I believed falling asleep was tantamount to relinquishing control over my ephemeral existence, as there was no guarantee of awakening. I found myself clinging to the present to the detriment of the future, desperately eschewing its hastened arrival for fear that it would not include me in its progression. And yet, every night, hour by hour, I would find myself succumbing to the physical and mental manifestations of sleep deprivation. I would come to plead for the very loss of control that I so viscerally feared, as

In the opening Walker compares our sleeping habits to those of other species and makes a sweeping generalization about how a lack of sleep is affecting our health. Gross then gives

Alex Rivera’s 2008 film, Sleep Dealer, follows a young man who finds himself submerged in a futuristic world of technology, and as he works in a factory where he is plugged in; literally and metaphorically. In this digital community, the younger generation is dependent on the advancements to improve daily life which parallels to factory work now and what could happen in the future if society continues to rely on technology. The film begins by focusing on hacker, Memo, as he leaves his impoverished household and turns to the newest technology to make a living to support his family back home. Memo’s homeland is a poor community that has to pay for its water which is regulated through a military owned dam.

Sleep was terrifying. Ever since Allie and her mother, Eva, had ran off from her murderous father, Allie had been avoiding falling into the darkness called sleep. Her father was a madman, he convinced Allie from a young age that everything he was doing was for her. Every week, Allie saw another man go into their basement, and never come out. What her father did to these men was left to question.

Refers to sleep as “knitting] up the ravell’d sleeve of care.” Its like when you've had a bad day and you pull on the yarn from your shirt and it all unravels. In the quote sleep is used as a metaphor for dying or death. In the last part the speech he states that sleep is like a bath the sooths the body after a long hard day.

Sleep is a curious occurrence. It is a process that occurs only with time, a suitable environment, and willingness to do so (Helvig). Everyone has to sleep; however, not everyone’s sleep is the same. “In adult studies, it has been pointed out that no exact amount of ‘optimal’ sleep exists” (Dewald-Kaufmann 172). This would suggest that everyone has a different length of sleep they must achieve. If they do not, they will experience negative symptoms that develop exponentially over time (Dewald-Kaufmann 179). This works conversely, also, that a good night’s rest can aid the human body in many ways. Even though this is a simple concept to understand, it is a difficult concept to explain. One huge question that no one has been able to definitively answer is: why do we sleep? Perhaps the best way to answer this question is to look at the effects of a surplus of sleep and a lack of sleep.