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    Wake up! Enough sleep has been talked in the past and how much a person should sleep. A goodnight's sleep is an important matter to be discussed. An article, named "But I'm Not Tired, by Alice Park, talks and shows how people, including adults and children, will behave during the day without a nice sleep. She also talks about why many kids don't go to sleep. People need enough sleep to keep awake during the day and school should set the time to a later time so kids could have more sleep time. Although

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    Importance of Good Night 's Rest Using your text book as a pillow rather than a reference can help your chances of getting a better grade. Then why do students believe that pulling an 'all-nighter ' before an exam will increase their chances of getting an 'A '? It seems that in our society, sleep has come second to our daily routine, disregarding its importance for productivity. Many people are bogged down with errands, career issues and studying that sleep becomes overlooked. However, most of

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    There is no need in explaining how important is getting a good night 's sleep for each one of us. Getting quality sleep is just as important as breathing quality air and eating quality food; it 's a crucial factor of our psychological sanity. However, we made it difficult for ourselves to have a good rest during the night: we often abuse alcohol or coffee in the evening, work till late at night, postponing the sleep, watch TV or work at the computer too much. Many of us know how it feels to be sleepy

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    article “Sleep Debt and the Mortgaged Mind” by William C. Dement and cowritten with Christopher Vaughan, appears in a chapter in The Promise of Sleep, a book reflecting on Dr. Dement’s views on the importance of sleep. The article asserts the consequences of sleep debt and the importance that it fails to receive. Dr. Dement, one of the founders of modern sleep medicine, discusses the huge impacts that sleep deprivation, or more specifically, the cumulation of not getting enough sleep, has caused

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    Why We Sleep Book Report

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    We Sleep by Matthew Walker is a fantastic book that explains why sleep is so important to us. The book is all about the science of sleep and dreams. It tells us that all living creatures need sleep, but many of us don't understand why. The book helps us understand that sleep is not just about resting when we're tired. It's actually a crucial part of our health and well-being.The book explains that there are two types of sleep: REM (Rapid Eye Movement) sleep and non-REM sleep. During REM sleep, our

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    children between the ages of 1 and 4. In adulthood, cognitive performance is correlated with the amount of sleep. Sleep allows for consolidation of memory and neural mechanisms (Bernier,2013). Therefore, an increase in sleep duration and quality should improve cognitive performance in children. Amongst college students, various links have been demonstrated to indicate that the amount of sleep reflects academic performance. Neural imagines reveal that grey and white matter in the frontal lobes increase

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    on the effect of sleep for procedural formation of memory and subsequent consolidation. The choice of procedural memory is based upon the large amount of conflicting prior research with boundless amounts of evidence for both effects of sleep in memory formations and explanations for the varying effects during stages of sleep. Sleep is composed of many different stages, with each having variable impacts on memory formation. Deprivation in some sleep stages, even during small sleep stage time windows

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    Why School Start Later?

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    Teen needs about 9 ¼ hour of sleep every night. According to the National Sleep Foundation, only 15% of teen gets the sleep needed, the rest 85% of teens are sleep deprived. The biggest cause that's keeping teens away from their sleep is school. School is starting too early for a teen to be able to function, waking them up far before they got their daily sleep needed. This problem originated back in the 1970’s, when people shift school hour to an earlier hour for various reasons. As a result teens

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    satisfied with the quality of their sleep. These numbers seem astonishing. In order to be healthy and not suffer from any sleep disorders, everybody should understand the importance of good sleep, know basic facts about common sleep disorders, and be aware of ways of their diagnosing, treatment, and preventing. Good sleep is one of the most important components of a healthy and happy life. But what is sleep? According to Dorland 's Medical Dictionary (1981), ' 'sleep is a period of rest for the body

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    boy rested his head back on the fluffy pillow because he was exhausted; the boy fell into sleep once again. Sleep is a necessity of life and has many stages, no matter if a person has a sleep disorder or is perfectly healthy. Even though some people will eat properly and exercise, without sleep their body will not be able to function properly (“Sleep” para. 2). As a person becomes older, the amount of sleep needed changes; an infant requires 16 hours a day, teenagers need 9 hours per day, while adults

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