Normally, when a student hears the word “documentary” he or she automatically signs at the thought of an educational video, but Fully Charged changed my mind on documentaries forever. Fully Charged was extremely helpful in teaching me about the health and community wellness field. When watching a documentary that I find beneficial in my future career I can’t help, but to have complete focus on the movie. I found it’s easier to focus on a documentary when a person has an interest in the subject the movie is covering. For me, Fully Charged had me feeling happy, sad, and exciting hearing the people’s different testimonies. Fully Charged is a documentary by Tom Rath. Tom Rath is a best-selling book author with his book Are You Fully Charged?, along …show more content…
In today’s society, we think our bodies don’t need sleep, which is the number one source for humans to get energy. People rely on coffee and other energy drinks for us to keep going every day. They did a study on soldier’s sleeping habits and saw that less accidents happened when the soldiers were well rested. Lieutenant General Patricia Horoho said it best when she said to treat sleep as an investment meaning don’t take sleep for granted. Lieutenant General Patricia Horoho values sleep so much she likes to call it the game changer for people, who want more energy. A company by the name, Salio, were monitored for up to 7 months, when they gave their workers treadmill desks. The study showed that the workers energy levels increased and the workers burned extra calories. I never thought it this way, but it also told us that sitting for two hours cancels out 20 minutes of working out because it creates a 90 percent decrease in enzymes that are used to burn our fat. That was super shocking to me because after working out I always shower and watch television or do something lazy because I feel like I can since I worked out. It was also founded that children that walked to school did better on tests that day. I wish I knew these things as a child because when I was younger nobody really informed me on health living styles. My favorite story of the whole
Such as making one think how did America end up with the highest rate of incarceration in the entire world? or how did our prison population now go up to almost two million? I’m sure people wouldn't just think of these questions randomly. So with this documentary, it encouraged me to do some further research. After watching a film, or documentary rather, one should leave either inspired or enlightened.
In the article "The Hunger in Our Heads", by Gretchen Reynolds, scientists from the University of Alabama experimented with thirty-eight college students to see if high blood flows could reduce the urge to overeat. The experiment found that half of the students who exercised for fifteen minutes consumed less calories than before. However, the other half of students who did not do any intensive exercise consumed more calories. The report does seem plausible. However, there were limitations such as the experiment only took place during lunch time and the exercise only involved running on treadmills.
With exceptional haste we begin to recite our knowledge of the human mind. As is stated in The Twenty-Four Hour Mind by Rosalind D. Cartwright, sleep allows our brain to consolidate our experiences and memories of the day (Cartwright 30) while we lay in a semi-vegetative state (Cartwright iix). The consequences of lack of sleep are evident in studies performed on individuals who suffer from insomnia. In “Sleep in the Workplace: What the Psychologist-Manager Should Know About Sleep”, the article highlights the cognitive effects that lack of sleep can have on an individual including impaired working memory, learning capability, and decision-making (Gaulltney & Collins-McNeil 135). Our rational mind dismisses Murakami’s obvious fictional short story and dismounts every claim that a human could survive without sleep.
This documentary was about first-generation college students at K-State University and basically how they were able to adjust to college and discover what they wanted to do which for all of them was become a teacher. There are nine different stories on nine different people listing the obstacles they had to go through and basically what lead them to discovering themselves and becoming the person that they are today. This documentary to me was very helpful to see that there are many other kids like me who are doing this for a first time and that everyone faces challenges but we have to overcome them by finding what makes them happy to keep them focused. I realized that I identified with each and every one of them in different ways and they all
Sleepless in American is a National Geographic documentary on the lack of sleep Americans are receiving each night. The film starts with the statistic that “40% of American adults are sleep deprived” and followed with different effects of sleep deprivation such as: weight gain, delayed reaction time, depression, anxiety, speeds the growth of cancer, and has been linked to Alzheimer’s disease. Although, there is no scientific evidence to support the need for sleep, it is an important process that allows our bodies to function properly. Several sleep studies have been performed to understand the effects sleep deprivation has on a person. The participants of the sleep trial only received four hours of sleep per night.
It effects emotional and behavioral functioning, overall safety, and learning development.” I have explained many reasons why getting sleep is important, but I did not explain why not getting sleep is dangerous. Many teens have fallen asleep at the wheel and gotten into major car wrecks. The car wrecks could be fatal or create disabilities in a young student, forever. Some teens hardly ever sleep, they think they have too much to do.
The victims impact panel was through, Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD). The instructor was demanding, stern, and wanted all eyes to focus their attention to the video, power point, lecture, and the victim’s impact stories. At first, the way the instructor was speaking, made her appear as rude and very unpleasant to listen too. However, once she played the video and started getting into detail about what MADD is, and all the statistics on drunk driving made her tone of voice understandable. For instance, the instructor explained the mission of MADD, which is to eliminate drunk driving, help fight drugged driving, support the victims of these violent crimes, and prevent underage drinking.
Napping is considered a global and highly prevalent phenomenon that is common in infancy and persists into adulthood for a large proportion of the world’s population. Most of those who get less than the recommended 7 or more hours of nighttime sleep often resort to napping during the day, but this ‘catch-up’ can have both a positive and negative impact on a person’s mental and physical condition. INTRODUCTION Attention getter: Remember back when you were a kid, naps were a daily occurrence?
State Thesis & Main Points: Having trouble sleeping can cause you not to function as efficiently, but there are ways to help
Sleep deprivation is the lack of sleep needed to function to full potential. While college is known for staying up all night, and cramming for exams, this term of sleep deprivation is starting to take a serious toll. Over the years the sleeping patterns of students attending college and universities has changed dramatically. Studies show that as time goes on the average night of sleep students are getting is decreasing drastically (Jensen, 2003). The way students are falling into this lack of sleep are by forming an irregular sleep-wake cycle, which consists of getting little to no sleep during the week, then on weekends catching up on all the missed sleep.
INTRODUCTION: Attention Step: According to the article “Exercise Makes You Younger,” “Research shows that physical inactivity can cause premature death as well as chronic disease and disability" (54). Establish Need/Relevance: Nowadays technology and busy work schedules have prevented many people from including exercise into their daily activities. Many people think that it is too time consuming and rather not work
Introduction Good morning everyone. I’m Nur Atiqah binti maznan and today I will deliver a speech title ‘People should care more about sleep’ Most of us in this class will say that we not get enough sleep because of all assignments, lab reports and so on like just now. So, we called this situation as sleep deprivation which means a condition where people not get enough sleep. We are in the same shoes, so no worries. A research from Brown University stated that, from a survey they conducted to a group of college student, 11% student have a good sleep but the rest which is 73% from the same study were found to have a sleep problem.
As it is apparent from this example, sleep is not my strong suit. However, this situation is not limited to just me. In fact, millions from across the nation go through the exact same process of tossing and turning to no avail every night. In consequence of this, the effects of such habits can be seen through society and our lives. It does not have
This is a problem for kids when they on the road driving to school. A study done shows that “When teens increased their sleep, crash rates declined 16.5% during a period when teen crash rates throughout the state increased by 7.8%.” (Holohan). This is a very large issue because students being tired and less attentive can lead to fatal crashes that could take their lives. This is also a very large issues because in some cases the
THE IMPORTANCE OF SLEEPING WELL Hello everybody, I’m going to speak about the most time-consuming activity in our lives: sleeping. As a matter of fact, we usually don’t pay much attention to the quality of our sleep, in spite of influencing a big deal our performance during the day, our health and well-being, in other words, our quality of life. That’s the reason why I would like to introduce some interesting material to understand better this important though disregarded necessity.