...not much worse in this world than not getting an ounce of sleep! Well, unfortunately millions of people across the globe suffer from some type of sleeping disorder. Whether it is insomnia keeping you up all night, or maybe even sleep apnea preventing you from getting a solid full nights rest. Today, I will go over some of the more common sleep disorders that are plaguing people around the globe. Insomnia Not only are sleep disorders extremely common, affecting virtually everyone at some point in their lives, but they can also lead to serious stress and other health concerns. Insomnia is by far the most common sleep disorder, affecting nearly 60 percent of U.S. adults at least one night each week. Common symptoms of insomnia include difficulty falling asleep and waking up before it is time to get up. There are many factors that can contribute to insomnia including stress and undetected physical medical conditions. Studies have shown that stress is the leading cause of insomnia among the affected population. Typical treatments include sleeping pills and behavior therapy. Practicing good sleep habits can often be effective for treating mild cases of insomnia. Sleep apnea Sleep apnea is the second most common sleep disorder and affects approximately 20 million Americans. Sleep apnea affects the way you breathe when you’re sleeping. In untreated sleep apnea, breathing is briefly interrupted or becomes very shallow during sleep. These breathing pauses typically last between 10...
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...All of us, at one time or another has had a restless night sleep. We have tossed and turned and woke up the next morning feeling tired and restless. You may ask yourself if this means that you have a sleeping disorder. What kinds of sleeping disorders exist and what causes them. Some of us have heard terms like, insomnia, narcolepsy, sleep apnea, nightmares, and night terror, but how do these sleep disorders effect an individual? To understand some sleep disorders we must first understand the cycle of sleep. Most of us believe that sleep is what occurs at night when we close our eyes. This is true, but sleep is actually 5 different patterns or stages of activity in the brain. When we first lay down and close our eyes, this is the beginning of stage one sleep. In this stage you are no longer completely aware of your external environment. A slight noise or light touch could wake you. You become relaxed, your breathing becomes regular, and you have disconnected thoughts. After about 10 minutes you enter stage two of sleep. Stage two is a transitional stage, just like stage one, but on an EEG (electroencephalogram), which measures the electrical output of the brain, the brain activity is different. This stage takes a louder noise or heavier touch to wake a person from sleep. It is also at this stage when sudden jerks in your arms or legs cause you to wake suddenly. Stage one and two together usually last about thirty minutes and then you enter stage three sleep. Stage three and...
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...Sleep Disorders and Affects They Have Sleep has a major role in a person’s life, on average a person will spend a third of their life sleeping. Sleep is not only the cure to sleepiness, it is also a necessity for keeping a humans immune system functioning properly. Sleep deprivation can greatly increase the potential of a weak immune system. Sleep disorders such as sleep apnea and insomnia both affect the ability of a person to be able to sleep throughout the night causing sleep deprivation. Sleep in viewed as simply resting so that you do not feel tiered anymore. This however is not all sleep is, sleep consist of slow-wave sleep and REM sleep. Slow-wave sleep is the final sleep stages and is when a person in a very deep sleep. Rem sleep...
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...Sleep Disorder: Causes and effects to an individual Most of us have already or are experiencing trouble in sleeping every night or every time we’re trying to sleep. This might be normal and usually temporary due to stress, night terrors or some different issues. But if sleep problems are a regular occurrence and interfere with the daily life, we may be suffering from a sleep disorder. Sleep disorders cause more than just sleepiness, there are so many causes. The lack of quality of sleep can have a negative impact on our energy, emotional balance, and health to us. Sleep disorders also are serious enough to interfere with our normal physical, mental and social state. And in worst case, death because of sleepiness and mental condition cause of sleeping disorders. Sleep can affect our overall health. In many cases, people in good health tend to sleep well, whereas those suffering from repeated sleeping problems might have an underlying medical or mental health problem, it may be in minor or serious. Sleeping well is good to physical health and emotional well-being. Unfortunately, even minimal sleep loss can take a toll on mood, energy, efficiency, and ability to handle stress. People with daytime sleepiness are physically fatigue, have a tendency of falling asleep in unsuitable places at unsuitable times, and have poor concentration. Ignoring sleep problems and disorders can lead to poor health, accidents, impaired job performance, and relationship stress. It’s not normal...
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...Disney’s Portrayal of Women and Simplification of Morals For most people, the first image that comes to mind when the subject of Walt Disney’s animated movies comes up is the studio’s popular princesses. Ever since Snow White made her debut in 1937, Disney has cornered the market on princesses. One primary topic that critics have discussed in Disney’s films is the way princesses are portrayed. The roles of the female characters are especially drawing the interest of academic critics. Jack Zipes, author of Breaking the Disney Spell, believes that the Disney princesses have regressed. On the other hand, Libe Zarranz, author of Diswomen Strike Back? The Evolution of Disney’s Femmes in the 1990s, and Rebecca Do Rozario, author of The Princess and the Magic Kingdom: Beyond Nostalgia, The Function of the Disney Princess, believe that the Disney princess has progressed. Another aspect of Disney’s movies that catches the eyes of critics is the moral simplification in the films. They believe that the morals from the original fairy tales are being manipulated and simplified in the Disney films. A. Waller Hastings, author of Moral Simplification in Disney’s The Little Mermaid, and Finn Mortensen, author of The Little Mermaid: Icon and Disneyfication, both agree that Disney’s simplification of morals is giving viewers the wrong depiction of life. Disney’s portrayal of women and simplification of morals are giving viewers the wrong impression of life and women. Many critics call the process...
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...The small figurine of The Sleeping Lady is one of the major highlights that one can find at the National Museum of Archaeology at Valletta. It is one of the unique prehistoric artworks that were found in a pit at the Ħal Saflieni Hypogeum, dating back to approximately 3600-2500 B.C.E. This figurine represents a corpulent woman lying on her right side on top of a couch. The apparent size of the female that of being a corpulent woman, may be a representation of the godess of fertility. If we link this artwork with the time it was made, we can actually find that fertility was a very important issue for the people in general as it not only represents the re-generation of people but also their standard of living. Re-generation of people was a vital asset for them, as to have ancestors which will continue to flourish their culture. Being corpulent could also be considered as a symbol of prosperity, that there was food and that therefore people were strong. Additionally we can connect fertility with agriculture, which means that there’s a good crop season. It was also believed that being a corpulent woman was easier to give birth. Sleep can symbolise the eternal sleep, in other words- death. This is in fact very relevant as the figurine was found in a place which was used as a burial place. Moreover if we look closely to The Sleeping Lady we can see that her facial expression evokes serenity. It could also be a representation of a period of time when there was lack of fertility...
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...Cheyenne Savoie April 11, 2013 HIST 203 The Pullman Strike The Pullman Strike started on May 11, 1894. It was a conflict that was going on all across the nation. It included the American Railroad Union (ARU) and other railroads that occurred in America at that time. Beginning in a town called Pullman Illinois, with over four thousand employees that worked for the Pullman Palace Car Company. The strike started because the employees were upset with their current changes in reducing their pay. George Pullman was the president of the Pullman Palace Car Company. He designed the passenger railroad car, which included comfortable seats as well as sleeping cars for people to travel. He also takes credit for creating the “model” community of Pullman, Illinois. In 1894 there was a depression that led to the Pullman Palace Car Company cutting wages to almost forty percent, and lay off tons of workers. As the workers got more and more angry as bad things kept happening in this depression, they decided to join the ARU and start a strike against George Pullman as he decided to not increase his wages. Throughout the strike there were two major newspapers that kept up with the recent gossip and incidents that were occurring. The Chicago Times supported the union, and the Chicago Tribune opposed the ARU boycott. During the time of the strike both newspapers differed in regards to the violence that was happening, while the Chicago Tribune was focusing on the violence of the...
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...jerk and twitch. What is more, a punctured forehead, nose and cheeks, detached half of the arm and torn locks of hair left no chance to Nancy for a bright future among the Abby’s toys. And nobody wanted to get insight into her trouble, everybody was occupied by other things and mostly by her elder sister, who had recently given birth to a child, and all the household was constantly talking about her and her baby, getting ready to their soon discharge from the maternity hospital. In response to Abby’s complaints everyone only instinctively nodded and pronounced: “Not now, honey, not now”. Full of sorrow and resentment the girl had been crying for a long time before she fell asleep with her eyes being red and swollen . At night while sleeping Abby felt her mother come into the room, kiss her forehead and cover her carefully with a blanket. Next morning Abby woke up because of the sounds of fuss, whispering and exclaiming somewhere in the house, and after a while the noise broke off. Getting up from the bed the girl caught sight of Nancy. Bitter feelings came over her again and tears welled up in her eyes. Full of intention to share her distress with the family Abby left the room. Coming along the hallway she heard someone whispering in the kitchen and she quickened her steps. The door of her sister’s room was slightly open and passing by she glimpsed something strange in it. Curiosity drew her into the sister’s room. The little cot, which was kept there for about two months...
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...In my paper, I discuss the purpose that motivates how antagonists in Disney movies are portrayed visually and behaviourally, and how these portrayals are intended to engage and assist the audience’s perception of such characters. Many Disney productions are adaptations of traditional fables and fairy tales which can often be traced back to Victorian times. In particular, stories from “Kinder -und Hausmärchen” written by Jacob and Wilheim Grimm are commonly employed in producing Disney films which adapt and elongate their storylines for the big screen. Consequently, much of the original storylines are altered for theatrical and practical purposes when adopted by the Walt Disney Company, and creative liberties often distort the intended portrayals of the characters that were determined in the original stories. For instance, in Walt Disney’s film “Cinderella” (1950), Cinderella’s stepsisters are portrayed as unattractive, with boyish figures and rectangular frames as well as facial features which may be considered ‘manly’. The discrepancy between the physical traits of the stepsisters featured in Disney’s film versus Grimms’ original description, which characterized them as having “beautiful features but proud, nasty and wicked hearts” (69), illustrates how Disney employs physical attraction to convey moral shortcomings. Specifically, Putnam, author of “Mean Ladies: Transgendered Villains in Disney Films”, notes that Disney’s “…villainous female characters are masculinized in...
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...Critique of “Cinderella and Princess Culture” In Peggy Orenstein’s article, “Cinderella and Princess Culture”, she emphasizes the thought that every little girl does not have to be a princess or like the “trends” that society has titled as “girly.” Orenstein states that little girls often do not get a choice in what they like because society has created the princess trend. She does not like the fact that playing princess can cause young girls to feel pressured to be perfect. Orenstein writes about her own experience with her daughter, asserting that girls should be given a free choice in what they like and dislike, but does not recognize that she is limiting her own daughter’s choices by closing off the idea that she might actually want to be a princess. Orenstein’s article, though effective, does not provide a clear stance on where she stands with the princess debate. She switches back and forth between accepting princesses to being against them. Orenstein speaks about the moment that caused her to be in outrage over the subject of princesses. She writes that the last straw was in a dentist’s office, when the dentist told her daughter, “Would you like to sit in my special princess throne so I can sparkle your teeth?” (326) Orenstein was already fed up with checkout clerks telling her daughter “Hi, Princess” every time they saw her, a waitress calling her daughter’s pancakes her “princess meal”, and when a lady handed her daughter a pink balloon instead of letting her pick one...
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...Once upon a time… but exactly when is that time? The time is past present and future. Oh how times have changed since the time of Snow White and Cinderella now we have Rapunzel and Moana. If you have ever seen these movies then hopefully you see the differences I see not only in the quality of the movies made, but the way they portray the characters in each movie. Gender roles have changed throughout time which is clearly seen in everyday life. Women are finally able to do many to most of the things that men do. We also see a huge difference on the way Disney portrays love in their older movies compared to now where a male love interest in not even included in the story. Disney is even beginning to give credibility to the LGBTQ community through smaller roles to slowly introduce these characters and people are beginning to accept this change. For example in Finding Dory (2016) a lesbian couple is shown for a short period time and can we not forget the main character, Ellen Degeneres, is gay. This diversity is helping other people feel accepted. Coming back to how gender roles have changed let us first look at Cinderella and how she was treated as nothing but a maid until she found a man who would be her prince charming that would free her from living with her evil stepmother and stepsisters. I am going to compare this story to Tangled (2010) a tale of a young rapunzel locked in a tower waiting for her prince charming to save her. She has learned to fend for herself because her...
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...“For who could ever learn to love a beast?” Quoted from the Disney movie Beauty and the Beast. It best describes what Beauty and bell has to choose in both the film and the fairy tale. The story Beauty and the Beast was first created back in 1756 by Jeanne-Marie Leprince De Beaumont. The fairy tale was modified and recreated by many authors after her. However, one of the most notable adaptions to the original Beauty and the Beast would be Disney’s film created in 1991. It is said that Disney “sanitizes and simplifies“ fairytales to make it more appropriate for a child audience. When comparing Beaumont’s Beauty and the Beast to Disney’s the differences are obvious, and the fairy tale is loosely represented in the film. The Disneyfication of the fairy tale Beauty and the Beast is quite evident in all aspects in the movie, the most relevant, is the changes in the characters and the circumstances they deal with. Disney is forced to change aspects of fairytales to fit the theme they think parents and children want to see. In the film Beauty and the Beast many character were added and removed. To begin, the brothers and sisters of Beauty were not present at all in the film. The brothers were not a big part of the fairy tale, however, the two sisters were an important aspect that was not incorporated. The sisters are the one who hated Beauty in the story, they envied her and how much their father loved her. They devised a plan to get the Beast to eat Beauty, that eventually led to...
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... There is a story that is known as “A Tale as Old as Time”, and although this is a story that has been around for centuries the modern world had to find a way to incorporate this story into the 20th century. Over all there has been four versions of the tale of The Beauty and the Beast. The best known version of the tale is the Disney cartoon film of it that was released in 1991. However, 2017 was also presented with a live action film of the tale. Both are very similar in the way they were produced, but they do have some differences that can be picked out without even watching the film, one could probably tell by the movie posters presented to advertise both films. In 1989, Disney had just released the film The Little Mermaid, the film ended up being a huge success for Disney and the producers. Therefore, when Disney wanted to produce another princess movie so soon after, they really had to do it thoroughly and perfectly to ensure another Disney success. The 1991 film of Beauty and the Beast was advertised with a beautiful representation of the film. The movie poster is very colorful and simple. As soon as you look at the poster you are overwhelmed with the colors gold and blue, evidentially because of the iconic big and beautiful gold dress, Belle, the main character and princess in this film, wears. The color blue is also the color of the suit that the Beast that Belle falls in love with, wears. It pictures Belle and the Beast hand to hand dancing in a ball room. The side...
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...In “Cinderella and Princess Culture,” Peggy Orenstein debates the rising phenomenon of princess culture in today’s society, its financial success to the Disney corporation, and the potentially destructive effects it has on young women. Orenstein uses rebuttals and real-life examples to persuade the audience that princess culture is harming the progress made by feminism. Orenstein begins the article by giving numerous real-life experiences of how her daughter was referred to as “princess” or treated in a feminine manner, offering the reader with several specific instances of this occurring. Orenstein uses these examples to justify the inevitable eruption she has as a result, detailing an altercation in her daughter's dentist office. This retelling...
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...Transformation is a central concern when studying 'The Bloody Chamber' and 'The World's Wife'. How far would you agree with this observation? Transformation is a prominent theme in the 'The Bloody Chamber' and 'The World's Wife', with the transforming beast, the changing of man’s ideal of perfection and finally physical transformation occurring throughout both volumes. These 'transformations' are brought about via the chains of a patriarchal society which are imposed upon the female protagonists which causes them to have to leave their assumed role in society and assume a more independent and masculine role. Both authors use revisionism throughout their tales so as to allow both their feministic values to be expressed and to allow the female narrative voice to be heard and thus emphasise the sense of female empowerment and independence which permeates both volumes. As Sarah Gamble writes, both writers use the fairy tale as a vehicle for the perpetuation of female oppression in culture.[1] Transformation is a traditional theme of the fairy-tale with it being a key aspect of Carter's 'Cat tales.' In 'The Courtship of Mr Lyon', the love of Beauty is a catalyst for the metamorphosis of Mr Lyon which causes a transformation from his strong bestial qualities with his “unkempt” looks and his “rough, hot, stiff stubble” into the stereotype of the gentleman who walks calmly in the garden with his wife. Her enduring love for Mr Lyon develops him from the “leonine apparition” into...
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