Archive for January, 2012

How Sleep Debt Hurts College Students

the authors main argument was how sleep-derivation or sleep debt effects college students’ lives in a negative way. i think that the authors should have collected their patients mood more often than just once for their data to be more accurate. the ideas are very relavent to current college students’ lives because many college students […]

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i thought that it was funny how jon stewart was making fun of those people for using the word “nerds” instead of experts. i think that the whole SOPA thing is stupid and i dont agree with it. i think people should be allowed to stream music and such, but in a way i do agree […]

Criterion.

  -audience: the author needs to make it clear who the audience is and express it in their essay. -information: an essay must have a certain amount of credible information in order for it to be credible. -credibility: quoting credible authors and information makes an essay more credible. -organization: the essay should flow right in order […]

Archer.

Two criteria that an essential spy should have is extreme intelligence and a spy should always carry a weapon. Archer does not live up to the standards of a good spy because he isn’t very smart and he didnt have a weapon. In the clip, Archer didn’t bring a weapon to the bomb site and he messed […]

TED : SLEEP

Jesse Gamble talks about our natural sleep cycle. She compared humans’ sleep to that of a crabs. She said that humans who sleep with no light sleep twice a night. Inbetween their sleep is a meditative quietness. Humans get tweve hours of daylight and twelve hours of darkness.

America’s Sleep-Deprived Teens Nodding Off at School, Behind the Wheel.

The article was very informative and held many different facts in it, such as all the information from the NSF’s 2006 Sleep in America poll. The article talked about how teens aren’t getting as much sleep as they should be. The author threw in a few different opinions of his and also got a little […]

A Third Of Life

I thought that the reading was somewhat interesting. The author used many different sources in his text, which seemed to be very credible. There were a lot of different interesting points that he made such as, humans spending about 25 years or more sleeping, the prescence of an alarm clock implies sleep deprivation, sleep is […]

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