...This brings me to my research into Scientific explanation of Sleep Paralysis. My main source of this information was the Book “Sleep Paralysis- A guide to Hypnagogic Visions & Visitors of the Night” by Ryan Hurd (2011). The first thing I encountered in this book was the symptoms of Sleep Paralysis. The information gathered in the book state that these symptoms are “nearly universal and have been noted throughout history and across cultures.” Examples of these symptoms include, inability to move, feeling like being held down or experiencing a weight pushing down on the chest and throat, hearing strange noises such as buzzing, pounding heart, experiencing fear and terror, out of body experience, seeing weird creatures and difficulty in breathing....
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...One’s sense of identity is vital to who they are. It helps them connect with their family and have a place in life. Traumatic events such as war can alter one’s sense of identity. In books such as “Night”, “The Book Thief”, and “Maus”, we can see the effects of war on individuals and how it has altered their lives. War can cause one to question themselves, present day stresses, and could build one’s sense of identity. To begin with, the effect of war can make question one’s sense of identity. This is shown throughout Elie Wiesel’s “Night”. When Elie and his father are first taken into the camps, they are determined to stick together and make it out. As the conditions worsen, Elie starts questioning his religious beliefs. Once Elie saw the...
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...Throughout time, love has always affected people. In ancient Greece, love was known as “The madness of the gods”. Today, psychologists delineate love as an emotional union that is desired by another person. Even though love is unique to everyone, it can still affect people in many ways. In Jennifer Brown’s novel “Torn Away”, love causes suffering to Jersey Cameron and her stepfather after a tornado wipes out their town. In the play, “Twelfth Night” written by William Shakespeare, love causes confusion to many of the characters. For me, knowing people love me has helped me persevere through tough times. Every day, people are affected by love in good ways or bad. In the book “Torn Away”, 16-year-old Jersey Cameron lives in Elizabeth, Missouri with her mother, her stepdad Ronnie, and her 5-year-old step sister Marin. When a tornado hits Elizabeth, it kills Jersey’s mother and Marin who were at dance class. “I squeezed my eyes tighter; a tear slipped out and went down one cheek. Burying my...
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...The article I chose to write about was titled,Sleepless night, restless mind: Effects of sleep deprivation on mind wandering. This article focuses on the effects that sleep deprivation can have on the mind, and behavioral changes. Mind wandering, according to the article, results in disengagement of attention from the environment leading to reduced sensitivity to external inputs. Mind wandering has been linked to poor behavior outcomes in tasks that are very simple, and has also been linked to hindering more complex things such as reading comprehension (Jia-Hou Po, Pearlynn L. H. Chong, and Michael W. L. Chee 2016). In previous studies, the link between sleep deprivation and mind wandering has been inconclusive, with some studies showing no...
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...country. The major world cities are densely populated, and also contain towering skyscrapers. People living in these cities who venture outdoors in the evening can almost feel blinded by the intrusive outdoor lighting. One of the major cities in the world that has been affected the most by light pollution is Hong Kong, where the night skies are more than 1000 times brighter than the acceptable global levels. In order to fight the rising problem of light pollution, there is need for governments, businesses and individuals to join hands to ensure that the effects are mitigated. This paper discusses the effect of light pollution on wildlife and human beings, and provides solutions to the problem. Background Light pollution can be defined as any light that shines outdoors and has an effect on natural landscapes and/or living things (Jacobson, 2012). In modern cities, for example, lights from buildings and streets illuminate the night skies causing most stars to seem invisible. These effects can be noticed both in the urban center, as well as for several miles outside of that center. Mizon (2012) points out that when you view satellites at night, you may be able to see this kind of pollution as a glowing region around urban centres. When light creates a glow that can in any way interfere with the natural environment, we can also refer to it as light pollution. Light pollution is comprised of four components that may be overlapping, but in...
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...is the loudest sound in the night. Even when the work is finally finished, there is always more, and always another reason to stay up; to get that promotion, to improve a grade in school, or even due to a sleep disorder such as insomnia or sleep apnea, a disorder which causes a person to stop breathing briefly while they are sleeping, sometimes hundreds of times a night, depriving the brain of oxygen. This narrative is all-too familiar for many teenagers and adults. Almost everyone has had to pull an all-nighter at least once in their life...
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...it. I was up all night with my new puppy, this was just recent actually. She was sick all night, and I had to get up and go to a job interview in the morning, only being able to sleep for about 3 hours when I woke up I felt, as they say “groggy”, I was more tired when waking up than I had been going to sleep if that make sense. As the day went by I could feel the change in my mood, because I would snap very easy at things that were not pleasant. I felt emotionally drained and I was not my normal self, or how I would usually feel if I had gotten enough sleep the night before. My behavior felt as if I was trying to rush through things just to be able to get it done, because I had not had the motivation to do it, being so tired. Luckily when I went to the interview it was short, because they most likely could have told that I was sleepy. In the end I got the job, but I had felt very unmotivated and snappy all day. I think that sleep is important for one’s energy the next day. In my experience I believe that it is related to the effects that our book describes. I felt not myself in any sort, and I felt sleepier. That night I had fallen asleep very vast just as the text has described when a person is deprived of sleep. As well it may be just as described in the text that I was under stress because of my puppy, in why I had not be able to get enough sleep that night. Also the text describes that when a person is deprived of sleep too, they can have a negative effect on one’s mood,...
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...General Speech 1300 Speech Outline Format Name: Jacorey Elston Topic: The effects of getting 8-10 hours of sleep Purpose: Today I will be persuading you on why it is important to get at least 8-10 hours of sleep every night. INTRODUCTON -Attention Getter: Let me just be honest here, I go to sleep around 1 or 2 in the morning. Which causes me to be late or not even to show up for my classes in the morning. It was time for a change in my day to day routine. I decided to lay off the snacks and exercise before I go to bed and you know what it worked. Which brings me to why sleep is important or should be important to everyone. Today I will be persuading you on why it is important to get at least 8-10 hours of sleep every night. -Statement of Purpose: Today I will be persuading you on why it is important to get at least 8-10 hours of sleep every night. -Preview of Main Points: I. Getting good night sleep leads to success. II. Why not getting enough sleep is bad for your health. III. How to sleep better. -Transition: Let’s begin with……. BODY -Main Point I: “The key weapon for a successful school life is getting enough sleep! A continuing lack of sleep could cause serious health problems, like diabetes, obesity, and a heart disease. According to the National Sleep Foundation, kids are getting about a hour less of sleep each night than they did 30 years ago. The reason behind this is because too much homework, videogames, television, and the internet. All these...
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...The Negative effects of facebook So, there you are, on a Saturday morning with your favorite cup of coffee caressing your senses and relaxing your brain, sitting at your desk and browsing on Facebook. You have 34 new notifications since last night that you logged out, 5 group invitations, 1 suggested page, 2 cause invitations and 3 friend requests, one of which is of an unknown person. You are not new in Facebook. You've been using it for almost two years now. And what you do this Saturday morning is what you've been doing nearly all Saturday mornings since Facebook joined your life. When the weather is nice, you ignore half of the invitations for new apps and you quickly accept the group and the cause invitations so that you go out and enjoy life. Only later, when the weather is bad and you have to stay indoors, you start deleting apps, causes, groups and people. And this goes on and on, relentlessly. Whether you have realized it or not, Facebook is a real part of your life, is a real partner whom you have to see for good morning and kiss for good night. What changes over time is your degree of addiction; as it happens with all love-hate relationships.You don’t think you are a Facebook addict. Social networking is just a part of your generation that feels more comfortable with text messaging, chatting and online communication. But, hey! Your generation counts nearly forty years already, while Facebook is around the last five. Supposedly, social networking is addressed to the...
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...Since birth, I never stop talking. When I was a baby, the first words I ever spoke was “mommy” and “daddy.” I always was fascinated with reading and writing, due to me being constantly encouraged by mother to do so. Learning my alphabets was easy because I used to love singing the alphabet song. Furthermore, while riding in the car with my mother she played educational music that focused on counting and learning alphabets. Before I knew it, I was reading at the age of for. While I used to get ready for bed my mother read bedtimes stories to me every night. I recall it didn’t take long for me to get tired waiting for the next day to hear more stores, so I took it upon myself to read “If Animals Kissed Good Night”. My mom always recalled when...
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...Global Warming: Causes and Precautions By Wednesday Nights One of the biggest problems that we, the people of the world, are facing in today’s world is the rise of the Global Warming effect. If we don’t change our ways we could be facing a change in climate that will not be able to support the human life. We need to strength the laws world wide and force everyone from big business to the average person on the street to adhere to them. One of the biggest obstacles in this country is that big businesses are more concerned about the money they make than the world they live in. They do all that they can do to influence the government to keep the laws weak. We need a strong government that is looking out for the welfare of everybody, in the long tern, and not just the top 2% of people that are rich. In this paper I will discuss some of the cause of Global Warming and some of the measures that we can take to reduce it. So what is Global Warming? According to the definition giving by the United States Environment Agency (EPA): “Global warming is an average increase in the temperature of the atmosphere near the Earth's surface and in the troposphere, which can contribute to changes in global climate patterns. Global warming can occur from a variety of causes, both natural and human induced. In common usage, "global warming" often refers to the warming that can ...
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...In the novel Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya, the author sets the story during and after World War II. He does this in order to develop conflict. If the book was set in the present day, then war wouldn’t have as big of an effect on society. For all of the characters in the novel, the war completely changes the course of their lives. The war causes the character, Lupito, to have terrible PTSD that drives him to the brink of insanity. He goes so crazy that he kills a police officer. The parents of the main character and narrator, Tony, are also negatively impacted by World War II. All three of their sons have to fight in the war, which causes them to worry for their safety, changing their mindsets and their lifestyles permanently. Tony’s three...
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...Erika Sonberg Corrections In Action Assignment 10-22-12 Chapter Seven of Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing was titled “My Heart Inside Out.” Conover starts the chapter by talking about how he thought he would escape some of the effects of being in the prison life, since he was only doing “participant observation,” but that it got under his skin anyway. This is the chapter where he most talks about his life outside of the walls of Sing Sing and the tolls it takes on him and his family. He notices that he is being mean to his family because of his vulnerability sometimes. He began to question whether he could mentally continue the remainder of time he had planned to spend as a correctional officer, detailing many of the pains he had and conflicting thoughts on the matter. The hostility from a simple attempt to correct a prisoner he said could easily spread to other inmates, and in doing so to him as well trying to deal with the control of power. He gave examples of the prisoners giving out extra food to other inmates, and how even though it was not a serious situation he was taking great strides to prove he was the one who tells them what to do, exhausting himself in the process. Conover also discusses the prison sociology and some of the “untouchable inmates.” This included a man who “smelled”, several transgender inmates, and others treated deplorably by even the other inmates. He goes on to describe some of the violent acts he has seen or heard about in prison as well, which...
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...moon has not changed in 3 billion years, so a foot print on the moon from a million years ago would still be there today. Because the moon has little to no atmosphere there isn’t any water to create erosion and there is no wind. The temperatures of the moon vary from day to night. During the day the temperature is approximately +300°F and night time is -270°F. The temperature is this way due to the fact there is no atmosphere to protect against the sun and keep it warm at night (MoonPhases.Info, 2010-2011). The coolest cosmic entity in the sky is the moon. At night when the moon is out, it’s the first thing that lights up the night sky. It takes 27.3 days for the moon to turn on its axis and to orbit the earth. Due to this it makes the moons phases and orbit a mystery (Charles Q. Choi, 2013). Below is a photo of the moon. Some things in life are just beautiful. It’s interesting to know there are craters, mountain ranges, rilles, and lava plains on the moon. The moon doesn’t construct its own light, it is bright due to the mirror image from the sun (National Earth Science Teachers Association, 2012). Due to the gravitational pull between the earth and the moon, there are some fascinating effects that are produced. Like...
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...Boost our memory 2. Control weight issues Introduction Attention Getter “A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book”, which is from one of the Irish proverbs. Due to more laughter and sufficient sleep, we could live longer. As a teenager, we need to get at least 8 hours of sleep every day. So, are you getting enough sleep? Reveal Topic For your information, in average, human will spend about 20-25 years sleeping time over 75 years of life span. That is about one-third of our life time. This figure is quite shocking as we never realise that sleeping has become our essential life process. According to the National Sleep Foundation (NSF), sleeping plays a crucial role in good health and well-being throughout our life. Sleep is the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together. Moreover, sleeping will bring positive effects to our daily health, including the most important defence of our body, the immune system. Thus, getting less sleep than the recommended time per night may reduce the effectiveness of our immune system. Establish Credibility According to Professor Carlyle Smith, who do researches on psychology in Trent University; found out that students who study all day long and party hard at night in the weekend may lose a lot what they have learned. Sleep deprivation may cause a deficit in learning of about 30%. Most of the student lack of sleep during college time, especially when the final is around the corner. Student...
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