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The Effects of Sleep Deprivation on Children, 2003.
A look at how sleep deprivation in children can lead to behavioral problems and possibly attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
1,598 words (approx. 6.4 pages), 12 sources, MLA, $ 52.95
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This paper discusses sleep deprivation in children and refers to studies conducted on the topic. The paper states that children with insufficient sleep showed a lower performance on tests associated with complex tasks as well as a significant correlation between sleep quality and neuro-behavioral functioning. The paper states that these children also had a higher rate of behavioral problems as reported by their parents. The paper continues by relating that there is a relationship linking ADHD with poor sleep since daytime symptoms of insufficient sleep in children overlap with those of ADHD. The paper questions the primary problem and further asks whether ADHD results in behavioral and other sleep disorders, or do primary sleep disorders result in ADHD? The paper concludes that a thorough evaluation of the problem and a treatment plan is required.
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" One study suggests that preteens are not getting enough sleep to meet their daily physical and mental needs. This comes from a study of 140 Israeli students in grades two, four, and six. The results show that sleep onset time in second grade was more that one hour earlier than that in sixth grade. The sixth graders reported increased morning drowsiness compared with those of the younger grades. The researchers state the reason for the later sleep onset time is not due to their physiological needs as much as psychosocial reasons. They have increased school demands, a need to feel more like adults by having a more active night life, and there are incentives to stay up later like late-night television shows and internet surfing. The study also links poor sleeping habits with lower maternal education, and adds family stress, illness, and emotional turmoil to the causes."
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Sleep Deprivation and Its Effects on Teens, 2005.
Examines how teenagers are affected by sleep deprivation.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 5 sources, $ 44.95
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The paper examines how the average teenager neglects sleep and shows the negative consequences which come about from sleep deprivation.
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"Is it really smart for adolescents to deprive themselves of sleep? It seems like a foolish question. Just because someone can survive performing an act of neglect to their bodies certainly doesn't mean that they should. In fact, most adolescents tend to neglect sleep and more and more negative consequences are being revealed because of this."
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Sleep Deprivation, 2006.
An analysis of the effects of sleep deprivation and the implications for future space travel missions.
1,915 words (approx. 7.7 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 61.95
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This paper describes a scientific experiment where the effects of sleep deprivation are observed over a four-day period in a closed environment simulating a spaceship. It looks at how sleep deprivation can have a negative influence on people's abilities to interact as a team, focus on complex tasks and react quickly and decisively to danger - thus it represents a great hazard to the safety of the crew on a long space voyage. It hypothesises that lack of sleep over a period of time may result in a severe deterioration in people's effectiveness in the workplace and interaction with other people. By utilising logic tests, surveys of emotional state of team members and tasks requiring focus and concentration it was found that sleep deprivation severely affected team member's ability to function properly.
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"Scientists do not know why we sleep. Generally sleep is studied by testing people's though processes and moods during various degrees of sleepiness and wakefulness. It is widely accepted that sleep has a positive and negative effect on the body and being deprived of it is detrimental at least in the short term to one's mental and physical health. Being involved in high stress and intensive projects such as space missions requires team members who are trained and physiologically capable of coping with less than average sleep times. Running a spacecraft on a three year return journey to Mars, with all the complex life support systems to maintain ultimately results in crew members not getting an optimum amount of sleep. However, this lack of sleep cannot be allowed to affect them too drastically as the smallest error in such a sensitive environment could spell doom for all the crew. (Pathways to Psychology, 1997) "
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Sleep Deprivation, 2006.
This paper explains the causes and effects sleep deprivation has on society today.
761 words (approx. 3.0 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 27.95
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The paper explains how important normal sleep is for the healthy development and functioning of the human body and mind and relates how a significant cause of sleep deprivation is stress in everyday life. Lack of sleep and stress can mean that the body is more vulnerable to diseases and virus attacks as well as reduced concentration and even radical mood swings. The various consequences of sleep deprivation show how prolonged loss of sleep can result not only in the impairment of mental functioning but also effects the physiological ability of the body to function correctly and to fight disease. The paper concludes that sleep deprivation is becoming a serious threat to health in our contemporary society.
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"Sleep deprivation is a common ailment in modern society and it affects 47 million American adults, or almost a quarter of the adult population. (Sleep Deprivation Symptoms) In essence sleep deprivation refers to an extended period of time in which the body and mind are deprived of normal sleep. The effects and symptoms of sleep deprivation can range from memory loss to an impairment of physical and mental functioning. Symptoms can interfere with memory, energy levels, mental abilities, and emotional mood. This ailment is often a product of our rushed and work --driven modern world. Besides the pace of modern life and work, there are a number of causes, including stress. Other causes include health and mental problems as well as the imbibing of certain foodstuffs and caffeine. The central thesis of this paper is to show, through a study of the causes and effects of sleep deprivation, how important normal sleep is for the healthily development and functioning of the human body and mind."
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Sleep Deprivation in High School Students, 2005.
A paper discussing the effects that sleep deprivation has on high school students.
1,400 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 3 sources, APA, $ 46.95
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This paper addresses the problem of sleep deprivation in high school students. The paper uses different studies conducted on high school students and studies of why schools should have later opening times in order to examine the issue of what happens when high school students don't receive sufficient hours of sleep. The paper looks at whether sleep-deprived students actually recall what they learned in school and explains some of the effects that not getting enough sleep have on the brain and the physical body.
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"This is a very important issue for many reasons, perhaps primarily being that this is a problem that needs to be recognized and corrected, because teenagers may develop sleep disorders later if they are forced by too many commitments into getting not enough sleep. It is also an important issue to bring to the attention of the school district and administrators as well as others involved in the planning process of school functions, because opening school on just a slightly-adjusted time schedule could have definite results in improving academic outcomes. Generally the educational establishment, aside from some test cases that will be mentioned in this report, has tended to view the teenager who doesn't get enough sleep as someone caught sleeping in class: they are to be punished rather than looking at the larger problem. Many students unfortunately have complicated and over committed lives in which they only have a small window to do homework."
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Sleep Deprivation in Adolescents and Students, 2001.
The effects of sleep deprivation caused by modern society.
1,965 words (approx. 7.9 pages), 7 sources, $ 62.95
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Paper deals with sleep deprivation in America?s youth and students. Sleep is defined and the process is briefly explained. Includes explanations of poor sleep habits, sleep mechanisms and past catastrophic events relating to sleep deprivation.
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"Sleep deprivation among teens and adolescents has long been an overlooked problem in this country. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, there are as many as 100,000 car crashes each year that are linked to drowsy driving. Over half of those crashes involved adolescent drivers ages 15-24. (NTSA, 1999) Furthermore, those numbers are increasing each year at an alarming rate."
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Sleep Deprivation, 2002.
An analysis of the effects of sleep deprivation and narcolepsy on memory, and ways to avoid loss of sleep.
1,335 words (approx. 5.3 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 44.95
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This paper introduces and discusses the topic of sleep deprivation. Specifically, it analyzes how narcolepsy and lack of sleep has an effect on short-term and long-term memory. The paper also provides ways of avoiding sleep deprivation. The writer emphasizes the importance of good sleeping habits to ensure a well-balanced, healthy life.
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"Sleep. We cannot live without it, but sometimes, it seems like we would like to. Sleep deprivation has become much more common in our hectic and demanding society. "Like the religious ascetics of medieval times, many people today regard sleep as 'time lost.' They regret that the day is only twenty-four hours long and that they do not have time to do all the things they should do or would like to do" (Borbaely 158). One report notes that most people would rather sleep an hour more than they usually do, and in another study, people who slept less that six hours a night displayed the tendency to fall asleep during the day, or complain of being tired during the day."
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Sleep Deprivation and Professionals, 2005.
Examines how lack of sleep affect professionals such as firefighters, doctors and those in the military.
4,783 words (approx. 19.1 pages), 13 sources, APA, $ 122.95
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Firefighters, military personnel and doctors have some of the most challenging professions in the world. As these honorable heroes fight to save lives, they often do so at the expense of one of the vital necessities of life, adequate rest. But does this affect their reactions, skills and performance in their absolute life or death duties? This paper discusses and analyzes the physical and mental affects of sleep deprivation, focusing primarily on how sleep deprivation can make skilled professionals' performance in these essential positions suffer. It is the contention of this paper that sleep deprivation has the near equivalent affect of being legally intoxicated.
Paper Outline:
Introduction
Physiological Affects
Sleep Deprivation and Emergency Personnel
Doctors
Firefighters
Case Study
Conclusion
Bibliography
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"As stated, people find concentration, creativity, physical activity, as well as disease recovery (immune suppression from sleeplessness) more difficult as they become more sleep deprived. The body's reaction to sleep deprivation is to turn off certain essential functions of the brain, resulting in lessened efficiency in most life tasks. The question that remains is how do professionals in life saving and emergency positions deal with sleep deprivation, and why have officials not yet emphasized the importance of sleep for job function, as they have drugs and alcohol?"
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Sleep Deprivation at College, 2008.
This paper discusses poor sleeping habits as a college epidemic.
946 words (approx. 3.8 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 33.95
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In this article, the writer notes that college students all over the world spend many hours completing assignments and maintaining their social life. The writer points out that these long hours often require the student to borrow time from sleep in order to complete all their tasks and continue their social life. The writer maintains that this is unfortunate for the student, community and university because this borrowed time from sleep reduces a student's awareness and productivity. The writer discusses that what many students do not realize is that sleep deprivation can lead to serious medical issues, failing grades, mental issues and in some extreme case, even death. The writer argues that that education about sleep deprivation should be offered in universities and should also be monitored by peers and families.
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"First and foremost, it must be determined that the student is not suffering from a sleep related disorder. There is a difference between choosing to forego sleep the inability to sleep. If a student has trouble falling asleep or staying asleep without outside interruptions on a consistent basis they should seek medical treatment. There are other symptoms of sleep disorders such as headaches upon waking, loud snoring and feeling of tiredness even though a full eight hours of sleep was obtained. If the student chooses to stay at a party until 3 AM and is exhausted the next morning it can safely be assumed that the cause is not a sleep disorder but any inflicted measure. On the other hand if the student went to bed at a descendant time and woke the next morning feeling tired and un-rested the student could be suffering from a sleep disorder. There are a number of medications and treatments that can alleviate the symptoms of sleep disorders. A visit to a medical physician can confirm whether or not the student may have a sleep disorder and they can begin treatment accordingly."
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A Comprehensive Review of Sleep and Sleep Disorders, 2002.
This paper provides a discourse on the physiological and psychology issues relating to sleep.
4,593 words (approx. 18.4 pages), 17 sources, APA, $ 119.95
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This paper examines the physiological and psychology aspects of sleep. It opens with a comprehensive overview of normal sleep and its physiological basis and then details over a dozen of the most common sleep disorders (their basis, diagnosis, treatment, etc.), including insomnia, narcolepsy and sleepwalking.
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"The ancient Greeks ascribed the need for sleep to the god Hypnos ("Sleep"), the child of Darkness and Night and the brother of Death, whose power, as he swept across humanity, was so great that even the gods were forced to succumb to him. The prominent place of sleep in ancient mythology serves as a testament to the unequivocal importance it plays in everyday life. Everyone needs to sleep. Although researchers today have devised sophisticated means to define, describe, and detail sleep they still do not fully understand its function. However, when sleep is disturbed, the effects are dramatic and clear. Without sleep we become tired, disoriented, lethargic, mentally dulled, confused, or in extreme cases hallucinatory or assume a state resembling psychosis. Current research on sleep focuses on two main areas: basic sleep mechanisms and sleep physiology and sleep disorders in clinical medicine."
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Sleep Patterns Of Adolescents, 2005.
This paper is a research proposal seeking the relationship of sleep deprivation and early school starts and an extensive literature review exploring the sleep patterns of adolescents.
3,335 words (approx. 13.3 pages), 33 sources, APA, $ 95.95
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This paper explains that the tendency of adolescents to stay up later at night and sleep later in the morning, as compared to prepubescent children and adults, is not caused by choice but rather a natural circadian phase delay experienced by adolescents. The author points out that the ability to effectively interact with peers while learning and processing novel information may be diminished in many sleep-deprived adolescents. The paper states that a series of surveys and questionnaires will be used to gather relevant data will be gathered from parents, teachers and school administrators exploring the negative relationship of early start times and the health and well-being of adolescents. Chart and table.
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Introduction
Statement of the Problem
Literature Review
Methods and Procedures
Introduction
Literature Review
Data Collection
Data Analysis Procedure
Design of the Study
Research Questions
Sample and Population
Instrumentation
Conclusion
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"Approximately every 90-minute during sleep, the brain goes through four stages of sleep, from light sleep to deep sleep. The most important stage is Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep, also called "the dream stage." As you sleep, your brain become aware of the situation and take measures to solve it. Schools are to provide all students with knowledge and the opportunity to achieve regardless of limitations. Schools need to ensure good conditions in which learning takes place. If schools opened later, it would help the grades, attitudes and health of the students."
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Sleep & Dreaming, 1989.
Examines the physiological & psychological interpretations of dreaming & sleeping & the consequences of sleep & dream deprivation.
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"This paper will examine the physiological and psychological interpretations of sleep and dreaming. Prior to the 1940s, scientists considered sleep to be "a passive phenomenon during which major elements of the brain rested" (Long, 1987, p. 796). It has since been discovered that the brain is actually very active during certain periods of sleep. Physiologists have noted two distinct cycles which occur in sleep: the slow wave sleep (SWS) cycle and the rapid eye movement (REM) cycle. During sleep, these two cycles alternate from one to the other approximately once every ninety minutes. During the SWS phase, the sleeper's brain wave patterns slow down dramatically. During the REM phase the brain wave patterns become so active at times that they resemble those of a person who is fully awake (Palca, 1989, p. 352)."
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Advertising to Teens, 2002.
This paper discusses the way advertisers market to teenage audiences and why these campaigns are so effective.
1,640 words (approx. 6.6 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 53.95
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This paper states that advertising to teenagers is a big business because teens buy more of many types of products than any other age group. This paper explains that most teens view advertising directed toward them very positively; they view commercials more as reality and do not always realize they are created to sell products, especially when they perceive the ads as infomercials or news, rather than advertisements. The author believes that teens are indeed heavy Internet users, but they trust many other forms of advertising before they trust ads online.
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Introduction
Advertising to Teens
Advertising to Teens on the Internet
The Effects of Advertising on Teens
How Teens View Advertising
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"Clearly, advertising to teenagers is an important and vital part of the advertising market, and the most successful advertisers recognize how and where to market to teens. An example of these successes includes the tobacco manufacturers, whose advertisements geared to teen smokers, have been banned due to health issues. There marketing campaigns were so successful, teen smoking is still on the rise, and "Joe Camel" is still a cool icon to many teenagers. One critic noted, "Considering the number of billboards and the coolness of the characters, we wonder less and less about why 90 percent of today's smokers started underage. Concerned educators and government officials have been coming up with ways to help minimize the effect of advertising on teens"."
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Cultural Dominance and Its Effects, 2006.
The paper describes the effects of cultural dominance on society through American literature, mainly Toni Morrison's novels.
2,009 words (approx. 8.0 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 63.95
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The paper explores how a dominant culture can create a devastating effect on the less dominant groups of a society in a variety of ways namely; isolation, usurpation of power and economic deprivation. The article cites American literature to qualify the view points stated.
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Power
Economic Deprivation
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"When a dominant culture exerts cultural influence so strong that it eliminates cultural influences of any segment of society, the result is isolation of the subdominant culture. This isolation is both physical and psychological.
Toni Morrison describes such a dynamic in eloquent simplicity in her book The Bluest Eye. The book opens with words familiar from early reading primers in which a white family is so strongly presented as the norm, the black children in the story are surrounded by stereotypes with no one that is remotely similar to them or to their families. The author emphasizes the constant bombardment of these "foreign" cultural influences by repeating the passage while gradually running all the sentences and, finally, even the words together to represent the effect of a virtual backdrop from which they feel completely detached."
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Teens and Drug Abuse, 2004.
This paper argues that teens today get involved with illegal drugs in many ways, but the main underlying cause is peer pressure.
840 words (approx. 3.4 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 29.95
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This paper explains that statistics show that if a teen makes it to age twenty-one without having tried drugs, that individual most likely will never try illegal drugs; but the problem is that peer pressure influences more to try drugs than it does not to try drugs. The author points out that peer pressure begins in toddlerhood; children look up to others to see what they should be doing or should not be doing. The paper relates that the most susceptible teens for illicit drug use are those teens that do not connect with their parents, school, or non-deviant peer groups.
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"Everyone in ?teen town? can be associated with one group or admonished for being in the wrong group. These groups exert peer pressure on both the members as well as the non-members. We know the smart teens called nerds, braincases, or the glee club. We also know the alienated teens known as the grits, metal heads, or burnouts. These pressure alliances and all of the peer groups that are in-between like the cheerleaders or jocks, influence through subtle acceptance pressure."
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