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    sleep and technology

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    interrupt our sleep in a negative way. But technology is probobly the worst. Our phones emit small amounts of radiation‚ none that can kill us‚ but harm the way we sleep and certain functions of the body. "Prolonged exposure to the radio frequency (RF) energy that cell phones emit adversely affects sleep and severely disrupts sleep patterns" (Better Health News). Even when our phones are not in their active state they can give off electromagnetic radiation that can put off our sleep up to 3 hours

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    Sleep Disorders

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    Sleeping Disorder Nightmares are bad dreams occurring during REM sleep. Children experience nightmares more than adults because they spend most of their sleep in REM sleep. Nightmares can be physical such as sleeping in an uncomfortable position‚ having a fever‚ or psychological causes such as stress‚ anxiety‚ and ingestion of drugs used in pain killers such as oxycodone and hydrocodone. REM behavior disorder is a disorder where the mechanism that blocks the movement of the voluntary muscles

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    The Big Sleep

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    provides for his readers in his “realistic” detective agendas. While the characters of the story The Big Sleep can be seen as very real individually‚ it is when Chandler brings the characters together for the purposes of the story itself that his plot becomes moderately artificial. The exaggerations presented by Chandler serve as social criticisms and the reader see’s this through the private thoughts of Marlowe about the socially abnormal characters and situations. Raymond Chandler is plagued by the

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    L.S. Vygotsky’s Thought & Word vs. Suzanne K. Langer’s Language & Thought (A comparative summary) Commonly‚ we know thought by the meaning of an idea which is produced by mental activity. It can be a plan‚ a concept‚ an opinion‚ or anything else that we think of. A language additionally is a system of communication or one place’s/group of people’s speech. Moreover‚ word is a meaningful unit of language sounds or an utterance. We know all this basic meaning of these words through the dictionary

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    Sleep Deprivation

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    Points and Losing Your Zzz’s Sleep is becoming a popular topic of research in today’s world of healthcare and psychology. Sleep affects how we function throughout the day and both mental and physical aspects of our health. On average‚ most people need 7 to 9 hours of sleep every night; but how much of the population actually meet this criteria? A study by the Center for Disease Control in 2009 shows that 35.3% of young adult respondents reported less than 7 hours of sleep in a 24 hour period‚ and that

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    A Few Good Men

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    A Few Good Men As a civilian‚ many take for granted a lot of choices and decisions that they have the opportunity to make everyday. They usually look down upon them as inconveniences and everyday annoyances. I used to do the same thing‚ but then I went to boot camp. There are many differences between being a civilian and being in the military. However there are some surprising similarities. Most civilians have a warped concept of the changes incurred by enlisting. Many of these discrepancies are

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    Nature Of Thought

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    Nature of Thought Bryan Hunter PHL/251 January 26‚ 2015 Jeanette Jensen Nature of Thought Thinking has many definitions. However they all have certain traits they share. The most common trait they all share is the ability to use reason to move beyond the acquisition of facts to uncover deep meaning (Weissberg‚ 2013). Chapter one of our text defines thinking as the activity of the brain that can potentially be communicated (Kirby &Goodpaster‚ 2007). Humans can communicate thought with language

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    Sacrificing Sleep

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    Statement How important is it for students to get a good night’s sleep? Sleep is the activity that occupies the most of our spare time more than anything. Next to food‚ water‚ and shelter‚ sleep is one of the most important necessities for human survival. Even though humans need sleep to function properly and in the extreme cases live‚ most people choose to ignore their need for sleep. In an article called Sacrificing Sleep For Study Time Doesn’t Make The Grade‚ author Michael Breus states students

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    sleep apnea

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    The Not So Silent Killer Sleep apnea is a serious‚ potentially life-threatening condition that is far more common than generally understood. First described in 1965‚ sleep apnea is a breathing disorder characterized by brief interruptions of breathing during sleep. It owes its name to a Greek word‚ apnea‚ meaning “want of breath.” There are two types of sleep apnea: central and obstructive. Central sleep apnea‚ which is less common‚ occurs when the brain fails to send the appropriate signals to

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    Lack of Sleep

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    of lack of sleep is bad judgment and Forgetfulness. 1) Subpoint 1 : Bad judgment is caused by lack of sleep. i. Sub-sub point * Science daily (Mar ‚ 2 ‚2007)-research has shown that bad sleep can adversely affect a person’s physical health and emotional well-being. However‚ the amount of sleep one gets can also influence his or her decision-making. A study published in the March 1st issue of the journal SLEEP finds that

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