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    Sleep Study

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    asleep? | 60 mins | 2 hours | 60 mins | 80 mins | Did you wake up during your sleep? How many times? How long? | Yes‚ about 10 times‚ about ten to fifteen mins each time | Yes‚ once‚ about an hour and a half | Yes‚ about 6 times‚ about 15 mins each | 5.67x‚ average 40 mins each time | Did you get out of bed? | Yes‚ once | yes | Yes. once | Yes | What time did you get up? | 6am | 7am | 6 am | | How much total sleep did you get? | About 7 hrs | 5 hrs | 6 hrs | 6 | Rate your restfulness on

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    The Big Sleep

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    In the books The Big Sleep and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight‚ both authors‚ Raymond Chandler (The Big Sleep) and Simon Armitage (Sir Gawain and the Green Knight)‚ create the protagonist of each story into archetypal knights. The protagonist of The Big Sleep is named Phillip Marlowe and in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight the protagonist is named Sir Gawain. The 3 knightly qualities that we will be focusing on in this essay are self-sacrifice‚ loyalty and courage. These qualities are displayed throughout

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    The big sleep

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    In the novel " The Big Sleep "‚ there’s a character by the name of Philip Marlowe. Philip Marlowe is a private investigator who is hired to work for a wealthy  man named General Strenwood‚ in the month of october. General Sternwood wants Marlowe to deal with a blackmail on his wild young daughter Carmen . Carmen is being blackmailed by a book seller named Arthur Geiger she was also previously blackmailed by Joe Brody. Carmen is clearly the femme fatal who killed her brother in law Rusty because he

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    otherwise artificial story would sustain. Chandlers statements issued in “The Simple Art of Murder” are quite contradicting to the product that he 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

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    Journal Article Critique of “Sleep Improves Memory: The Effect of Sleep on Long Term Memory in Early Adolescence” Comprehension Purpose The Purpose of “Sleep Improves Memory: The Effect of Sleep on Long Term Memory in Early Adolescence” by Katya Trudeau Potkin‚ Willsiam E. Bunney‚ JR was to assign the selected students to sleep and no sleep conditions and compare tested results about adolescents on how getting sleep and not enough sleep could affect the memory. The results were an increase

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    Sleep Apnea Disorder

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    scenery in a human’s brain (Nir Yuval and Giulio). responsible for the feeling and emotions in a person dreams. (Nir Yuval and Giulio) Some indications that back up the role of the amygdala playing in people’s dreams is prominent to the emotions that are fear‚ anxiety‚ anger‚ and confusion. The upper brain plays a huge role in human dreams whether they are having regular dreams or lucid dreams. The reason people don’t realize they are dreaming while humans are asleep is because “ … the upper brain

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    Dream of Dreams

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    FEATURE Joshua Jireh Alcala Vasquez KitKat It was early dawn. The sun was still in slumber. The cold mist of the early ‘Ber’ months added to the excitement. I woke up with all my bags packed up and my food sealed. I knew something memorable was going to happen. Although a part of me kept saying that I wouldn’t and should not enjoy‚ I still drove the pessimistic side of me away. Without a doubt‚ the fieldtrip was a go. No backing up. As I arrived just in time at the meeting place‚ which

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    The nature of sleep remains complicated‚ and mostly unexplainable. Sleep is necessary for all mammals. Sleep serves the body as energy conservation processes as well as letting the nervous system recuperate. This bodily recuperation process also allows emotional regulation for the body. The circadian rhythm‚ also known as the biological clock or circadian clock‚ regulates the sleep-wake cycle. The circadian clock is located in a group of cells just behind the optic nerve‚ called the Suprachiasmatic

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    something holding you down and you’re having an encounter with a menacing presence. You might be having sleep paralysis. About half of the population has experienced this strange phenomenon at least once in their life This episode can last anywhere from seconds to minutes‚ and may involve visual or auditory hallucinations. In 1867‚ Dr Silas Weir Mitchell was the first medical professional to study sleep paralysis. He captured the condition with the following description: “The subject awakes to consciousness

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    Sleep paralysis is a common condition characterized by transient partial or total paralysis of skeletal muscles and areflexia that occurs upon awakening from sleep or less often while falling asleep. Stimuli such as touch or sound may terminate the episode‚ which usually has a duration of seconds to minutes. This condition may occur in normal subjects or be associated with narcolepsy‚ cataplexy‚ and hypnagogic hallucinations. The pathophysiology of this condition is closely related to the normal

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