...Be Greater High school is a part of every teenager’s life whether they like it or not. Although it is not a requirement; most, if not all, teenagers will experience at least one year of high school. With the experience of high school, students will also go through waking up early sometimes at five or six a.m. The starting time of high schools has been highly debated for several years. Those who debate this topic usually dispute on whether or not changing the time would be beneficial. Psychologists estimate that as many as 30% of children may have a sleep disorder at some point during childhood. Sleep disorders have implications both for social-emotional adjustment and for school performance. For this reason it is important for both parents and educators to understand how sleep works and how disruptions in normal sleep patterns can affect children and teenagers. Starting school just a half an hour later would benefit the most families and students, and also to accommodate for teens' sleep needs. One of the main beneficial topics to argue for starting school later is attendance. Schools should start later because it is proven that students will have higher attendance. If students can get more sleep, they are more likely to attend school on a regular basis. Studies have shown that after puberty, teenagers require more sleep, around nine and a half hours, and are getting less than needed, around seven hours. Mary Carskadon of Brown University performed an elaborate...
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...to drive to school, the tired student rushes to get ready and out the door, hoping to make it to first hour by 8:30. Haphazardly, the student throws the sheets and pillows on the bed, gets dressed, quickly brushes through his or her hair, and if lucky, manages to squeeze in breakfast before leaving. High school students all across the world face similar scenarios to this five mornings a week, in order to ensure that they can arrive to their first period on time. Once at school, students then find that sitting at a desk for a solid eight hours, attempting to pay attention and grasp new concepts, all while trying to stay awake and not fall victim to sleep, makes going to school a challenge both academically and physically. For many students attending Rigby High School, this scenario may sound quite familiar, due to their...
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...Sleep deprivation is the situation or condition of suffering from a lack of sleep. The CDC claims 60% of people, under the age of 16, suffer from sleep deprivation, and 15% of students in high school fall asleep at some point during the school day. The natural tendency for almost all teenagers is to stay up late, and wake up later in the morning, and obviously it can be hard to do that when you have to wake up at 5:30am to get ready for school. The CMS district should have schools start later, so that we can lower the sleep deprivation rates of students. It will make them more productive, and more safe outside of school. Imagine your kid driving to school while half asleep. Students will go to sleep late no matter what time they have to wake...
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...he is snuggled back under is covers sleeping soundly. This doesn’t typically make for a good morning for either of us. In my own rush to get ready and out the door to work, my frustration builds. It is very difficult to hide frustration at times. He picks up on the stress and is put on the defensive while he is in his own rush to get ready and out the door. My frustration always came from a very practical standpoint. This young man is 18 years old, why can he not wake up to the six alarms he has set? He used to do such a good job at getting himself up, what happened? I would compare him to myself as a teenager. I didn’t have anyone to make sure I got out of bed and to school on time, I was responsible for myself. I knew it wasn’t right to compare two people, everybody is different. I then started thinking about the situations. What things in his life are different than mine at the time? There are many, but one that really stood out. I started school at 8:30 a.m. His school starts an hour earlier. I only did a little research at the time, and it showed that teenagers, in general, require more sleep. I also talked to a few of my son’s friends and their parents. Krista Carden, a senior at Moberly High School, stated that she has to get up at 5:00 a.m. to start getting ready for school. This doesn’t leave much time for sleep after working at a convenience store in the evening or doing homework. Cindy Jenkins, the mother of a senior and sophomore, lives in the country...
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...Mary, a 16 year old high school dropout, sits alone in a pale blue darkened room illuminated by a Winnie The Pooh night light, cradling her premature two week old son and attempting to sooth him to sleep. He is wrapped in a yellow blanket with minuscule toes that rest at her wrist while the tip of his head barely reaches halfway up her forearm. She tries to comfort him over the noise of the insesent beeping from the machines which allow him to barely cling onto life. She looks down at the tiny mass in her arms, hoping to see some sort of loving miracle, but instead sees only the thing that forced her to drop out of high school, following in her mother’s footsteps of having a baby at 16 and never receiving a high school diploma. Before graduation...
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...has never been more prevalent in our everyday lives. Television, radio, internet and so many more venues, media is everywhere, from the time we wake to the time we sleep and in some cases while we sleep. How has the constant bombardment of media affected society? Whether we are speaking of youth or adults, we have to consider whether the mass media is truly influencing or lives. Many concerns have been growing in the area of behavior; seems as though people are becoming more aggressive, particularly when it comes to lascivious and violent actions. It has become a daily occurrence hearing of inappropriate actions of children and adults in the homes, schools, and communities. People appear to less caring of others and more focused on self centered interest. Why is this? I believe it’s because of what we see on a regular basis. The mass media is so consistent and prevalent in our lives, and at times people cannot distinguish from fantasy. We as a society have been brain washed, self esteem and values are truly affected. Society has embraced television, movies, and music as way of thinking, incorporating it in their everyday lives. Young and old want to look and like their favorite stars. Not realizing that they are not looking at reality. Make up, body doubles, air brushing, camera angles, plastic surgeries and more make up this image of the perfect people. They are not real but unfortunately we are so inundated that we start to believe and think that we should look, talk, and...
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...the symptoms of pregnancy. I had no idea I was pregnant for quite a while” (Currie, 2011). Stacey Currie was only fifteen years old when she got pregnant. Over recent years, the rate of teen pregnancies has declined in the United States but there are still around 850,000 teenagers who get pregnant each year. This yearly rate is still double the amount of Canada, and triples the amount of Spain (The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy, 2012). In efforts to educate teenage girls, the US cable television network, MTV, created two television series: 16 and Pregnant and Teen Mom. During 16 and Pregnant each episode followed a different teen throughout her pregnancy up to a few weeks after giving birth. Teen Mom followed some of the original mothers from 16 and Pregnant during the first few years of their child’s life. The intentions of these shows were sincere when first created but have developed into a mockery of their original message. Throughout the seasons of Teen Mom, the focus has become less about education, and more about ratings. MTV began to advertise each episode for the wild activities of the mothers rather than the struggles of being a teenage mother in today’s society. By advertising the mistakes each mother makes in gossip magazines, the wrong message is being sent to young viewers. Shows like Teen Mom and 16 and Pregnant are now glamorizing teenage pregnancy and are in turn promoting pregnancy instead of educating viewers about the...
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...Are you in high school and is it hard for you to stay concentrated throughout the whole school day or is it hard for you to get up in the morning? The reason why you can’t concentrate at school is because we may be starting school too early in the morning. Most high schools start at around 8:00 in the morning. Since the start time is 8:00am most of the students would have to get up at around 6:00-6:30am in order to make it on time. They have to get up that early because most of the would probably like to shower, have time to get dressed and make final adjustments. Then you have to eat breakfast because that is the most important meal of the day. With all of that, you are talking about an hour or so to get ready. Finally, you have the time it takes to get to school by either the bus, car, bicycles, or even walking. Everyone has complained about how early they have to get up for school. My siblings do it, my friends do it, I do it, and even my mom does it when she is a substitute teacher for our school. Dawn Wallace, whose 16-year-old daughter attends Polytech High School in Woodside states that "We have to get my daughter up at 5:30 in the morning. It takes a few alarms to get her out of bed. How do they expect children to be alert and ready to learn when they're not getting the proper amount of sleep?” It’s my junior year this year and I couldn’t be more overwhelmed with school. I have test to study for tests, do homework in pretty much every subject and then I have to try...
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...With the ever-accelerated living tempo and fiercer competition, the amount adolescents sleep has declined over the years and insomnia is on the rise (Foster, 327). Although the lack of sleep is becoming an increasingly worrisome problem, many older adolescents still find it difficult to cultivate the habit of keeping early hours (Roenneberg, 1038). The questions, then, arise: Should adolescents really get up early in the morning? Will getting up early ensure their body health and study efficiency? Although an overwhelming majority of people firmly believe that going to bed early and getting up early is of great benefit, research carried out by Dr. Paul Kelley from Oxford University indicated that getting up later is a healthier and simpler...
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...and falls fast asleep after a long drooping day. It is now early in the morning, the bus comes in thirty minutes. Payton hears her mom calling for her to get out of bed, but she is struggling to wake up. Twenty more minutes pass by and her mom calls again and Payton is forced to wake herself up and jump out of bed. The sky is still black, just like it was before Payton went to sleep....
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...Week 2, Chapter 2 1. Why are males more likely to have a sex-linked trait than females? Answer Men have only one X chromosome which makes the poor schleps chances of x linked traits bigger than women, who have two X chromosomes. Having two X chromosomes means that the trait can be cancelled out by the opposing X. 2 Characteristics such as hair color and height are called Answer 2 answers * phenotypes. * chromosomes. * genotypes. * zygotes. 3 A genotype Answer 3 answers * is a rodlike structure in the cell nucleus that transmits genetic information. * reflects an individual's physical and behavioral characteristics, determined both by environmental and genetic factors. * refers to the genetic makeup of an individual. * is a directly observable characteristic. 4 The DNA of humans and chimpanzees is between __________ percent identical. Answer 4 answers * 75 and 80 * 20 and 25 * 50 and 55 * 98 and 99 5 A person whose 23rd pair of chromosomes is XY Answer 5 answers * has PKU. * is male. * has Down syndrome. * cannot be a fraternal twin. 6 A zygote that separates into two clusters of cells instead of just one produces ...
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...Literature: 1) Duration of TV Viewing: According to the A.C. Nielsen Co. the average American watches more than 4 hours of TV each day (28 hours / week) i.e. 2 months of nonstop TV watching per year. Number of minutes per week that parents spend in meaningful conversation with their children : 3.5 minutes / week. Number of minutes per week that the average child watches Television 1680 minutes (4 hours/day). 70% of day care centers use television during a typical day. Dietz WH, Strausburger VC & et al in 1991 study entitled “Children Adolescents and Television” revealed that – American children spend more time in front of TV than at any other activity, with the exception of sleep.8 The same research shows that American children spend an average of 2 & 1/2 to 4 hours per day watching television depending on their age. The amount of time spent by American youth in most investigations was around 3-5 hours /day.8 The Kaiser report found Children ages 8 to 18 spent an average of 7 hours and 38 minutes a day consuming media for fun, including TV, music, videogames and other content in 2009, according to a 2010 report from the Kaiser Family Foundation. The report was based on a survey of 2,002 third- through 12th-graders, 702 of whom completed a seven-day media use diary. That was up about an hour and 17 minutes a day from five years earlier. About two-thirds of 8- to 18-year-olds said they had no rules on the amount of time they spent watching TV, playing videogames or using...
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...Option B: Should marketers be responsible for the way their products are used by consumers? Discuss using the beer category as an example. Corporate Social Responsibility should be the first priority of marketers when promoting goods that can and may become harmful to their consumers. The World Business Council for Sustainable Development defines CSR as “the continuing commitment by business to contribute to economic development, while improving the quality of life of the workforce and their families as well as of the community and society at large.", or simply “the ethical behavior of a company toward society.” (Meeting Changing Expectations ( http://www.wbcsd.ch). Marketing is essentially getting the products out there visible to their target market so they can be purchased. Marketing can also be defined as preparing potential customers to become your customers; it is not selling; it is the preparation work to selling. Whatever your definitions, CSR and Marketing has a serious impact on the corporate’s development and both are used to build a very good image in each corporation as well as the driving forces behind the company’s profits. To answer the question, I will focus mainly on the Alcohol Companies, specifically Mike’s Hard Lemonade, who will from this moment be referred to as MHL So who are the targets for MHL? Jack is 28 year old male who steps out of his Ford F-250 in his checkered shirt and his favorite blue jeans. Greeted by his golden retriever...
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...Professor Shannon Lujan English 104 2 May 2013 Social Networking Sites The use of social networking sites have increased dramatically in the past years because of the new technology that is being introduced (Kris Gowen 245). There is a wide variety of age groups that join social networking sites but the majority are teenagers. Every parent has a rule on what age their children should be able to join a social networking site. I know a lot of parents that have allowed their 12 year old children get a Facebook but then there are some parents who do not allow it until they are 15 or 16 years old. It really depends on how responsible the child is. There are also other things parents need to take into consideration when they let their children join sites like Facebook or Twitter. The big one that a lot of parents first think about is the safety and security of their personal lives. There are so many dangerous people who pretend to be someone their not (Kim 13). This becomes a big problem for insecure teenage girls who need someone to make them feel special. It puts them in danger when someone they do not know is trying to pry into their personal lives. This will also make parents have second thoughts about letting their children get one of these sites unless they monitor them closely. My parents let me get a Facebook when I was 14 years old but they checked it every week to make sure I knew all my friends and I was not talking to anybody I was not supposed to be talking to. I think this...
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...[pic]INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY ISLAMABAD (Women Campus) PSYCHOLOGY REPORT Submitted to: MS TAMKEEN Submitted by: SUMAIRA YOUSUF LAILA FARID ERUM ASIF AMNA TAYAB BEENISH HAYAT MUZNA RAHMAN CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 2 History 2 Human Behavior and Health 2 The Parents' Approach 3 Mobile Phone Use Leading to Stress Among Teens: Study 3 METHADOLOGY 6 OPERANTITONAL DEFINITION 6 SAMPLE 6 INSTRUMENT 6 HYPOTHESIS 6 METHOD 6 RESULT 10 DISCUSSION 2 LIMITATIONS 2 INTRODUCTION A mobile phone (also known as a wireless phone or cellular phone) is a short-range, electronic device used for mobile voice or data communication over a network of specialized base stations known as cell sites. In addition to the standard voice function of a mobile phone, telephone, current mobile phones may support many additional services, and accessories, such as SMS for text messaging, email, packet switching for access to the Internet, gaming, Bluetooth, infrared, camera with video recorder and MMS for sending and receiving photos and video. Most current mobile phones connect to a cellular network of base stations (cell sites), which is in turn interconnected to the public switched telephone network (PSTN) (the exception is satellite phones). History In 1908, U.S. Patent 887,357 for a wireless telephone was issued in to Nathan B. Stubblefield of Murray, Kentucky. He applied this patent to "cave radio" telephones and not directly...
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