Topic: How to fall asleep faster
Organizational Patterns: Topical
Specific Purpose: In order to help students live healthier lives and feel better in the morning.
Primary Audience Outcome: I want my audience to learn new techniques and ways to help provide a good night’s rest.
Thesis Statement: Providing ways to show students on how they can both physically and mentally prepare themselves when they head to sleep.
Introduction
Attention Getter: Sleep is essential, especially around us college students who spend each night staying awake to do projects we should of started weeks ago.
Purpose: Well, now you can have a good rested night with these new tips and tricks!
State Thesis & Main Points: Having trouble sleeping can cause you not to function as efficiently, but there are ways to help
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Doing regular breathing exercise routines will calm your nerves and also practice progressive muscle relaxation (slowly tense and relax each of your muscles in your body) over time.
Try to give yourself acupressure (a Chinese medical theory that energy flows through certain points in your body) to restore, balance, and regulate your mind, body and spirit.
III. Main Point: For the reasons above, you should do these activities in order to gain fulfillment and feel better about yourself.
Subpoint: Having a great sleep can be important to your beneficial health.
Sleep is involved in healing and also help repairing your heart and blood vessels.
Not sleeping as much can cause an increase of heart disease, kidney disease, high blood pressure, diabetes and strokes
Conclusion
Restate Thesis & Review points: Having a stabilized mindset and physically getting ready can surely help with going to sleep at a faster rate.
Concluding Purpose: Many students and even adults need to find better strategies to sleep in order to get through their daily lives.
Closure/Clincher: With all this new information your are all on board the train to a better night’s
The Complexity of Sleep In Matt McCarthy’s Nap Time, he discusses the “most mysterious” of all needs - sleep. McCarthy uses the story of Mike Napoli to introduce this topic. Napoli’s story of his struggle with severe sleep apnea includes some abnormal elements. Firstly, he cites his “first dream in a decade” that he can actually remember (p. 49).
What I Learned in Chapters 4,5,6. 1. Sleep Problems and Disorders 2. Sleep Apnea 3. Pain Perception 4. Observational Learning Insomnia, a consistent difficulty in falling asleep or staying asleep.
The darkness of night unveils the hidden cove of possibilities that awaits us in sleep. For some, sleep provides the much needed distraction and replenishment needed to perform our daily routines. As we curl up under the security of our favorite blanket, snuggle against the fluffiness that is our pillow, and as we slowly begin to shut our eyes, we succumb to the beauty that is sleep. Without hesitation we accept and welcome our nightly slumber. We don’t question our vulnerable state as we lay down in bed.
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.
A report by Newsweek says that “Perpetual lack of sleep is tied to diabetes, heart disease, obesity, depression and a shortened life span in adults, underscoring the importance of establishing good sleep habits early in life”(1). We may be fine without sufficient sleep now, but health consequences will show later in life. Diabetes, heart disease, and obesity are already big problems in America. An article by CNN says that “Adolescents that go to sleep at midnight or later are also more likely to suffer from depression and have suicidal thoughts” (1). The mental health of students at Clarke should not be overlooked.
Response to “The Importance of Sleep” As the media develops and objects referred to as distractors become more relevant in today's world, it has become hard for us to focus on what should truly be valued in our priorities. A big mistake a lot of us offer up is our sleep, however in “The Importance of Sleep '' composed by Luke Davis, he discusses the significance of putting your personal distractors away early and getting the recommended amounts of sleep as you will learn, comes with many benefits. In this multi genre article, he discusses the stages of sleep, the benefits that come out of going to bed earlier, and his personal experience with the benefits he listed. Starting this multi genre piece, Davis begins with a letter to his readers
General Purpose: To persuade my audience to believe that children being placed in adult prisons is wrong. Specific Purpose: They number of children being housed in prisons is growing each day. Central Idea: In most cases, more than not children who are tried as adults are being placed in adult facilities are being denied they’re right to an education and are being placed in dangerous situations, these things can lead to a permenant idea of that being where they belong as well as a higher chance of reconviction. Organizational Pattern: Problem prevention Speech Title Introduction I. Are you aware that over 10,000 children are placed in adult correctional facilities, jails and prisons everyday in America.
In this article, “Sweet, Elusive Sleep”, the first paragraph stated by telling a story about a man called Mike Trevino, who is 29 years of age who didn’t sleep all because of a quest to win a 3,000-mile, cross-country bike race. When he later tried to take a nap, he can’t remember his dreams. This case raised important questions such as; “If we don't sleep (or sleep enough), what happens to our dreams? And if we don't dream, what happens to us?” Towards the end, Springen, K. told us what to do if we are having trouble sleeping.
Quarter 1 Assessment: Annotated Bibliography Thesis Statement: Due to adolescent sleep patterns, school needs to start at 10:00AM Source 1: The UCLA Health website tells how teenage sleep patterns differ from adults, due to changing bodies, and internal sleep clocks. This informational database is based on college research. The title of this page is “Sleep and Teens”.
Sleep consumes at least one third of our time every day. During sleep, our bodies will react by growing or recovering from the day. When we sleep good, we wake up feeling refreshed and alert throughout the day (National Sleep Foundation). The way we sleep can depend on what activities we have done before we went to sleep. One of the many theories of sleep stated that we sleep to rest.
Introduction: Typically, college students falling in the category of young adults should be getting anywhere from seven to nine hours of sleep per night. However, that is not the case, especially of students transitioning into their first year of college. Sleep is an essential component in our everyday lives, as much of a necessity as oxygen or water. Getting the proper amount of sleep provides many useful functions for the human body, such as the ability to retain memories and knowledge and heavily impacts our decision making (Gilbert and Weaver, 2010). Due to the fact that many students have a hard time transitioning into college, many lose the required sleep needed, thus the functions it provides resulting in a sleep deprivation.
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.
Here, is where most of our dreams occur and is where all our arm and leg muscles become paralyzed to prevent us from reenacting our dreams; not only this but brain activity flourishes (“sleep”,n.d). While this does not directly affect why individuals should sleep more, the amount you increase or restrict daily hrs, does. With such vital processes and stages occuring while sleeping, it comes as no surprise that affecting the number of yours you sleep directly affects your health, both for positive and for negative. It also lies here where the major benefits of sleeping more take place
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.
Nutrition is a primary source of energy, productivity, and wellbeing. Maintaining a healthy diet promotes good health, wellness, and healing. My personal goals to improve nutrition include: balancing calories to manage weight; decrease high amount of sugar, snack foods, and high caffeine foods; increase amount of vegetables, fruits, vitamins, and minerals; build healthy eating patterns; and increase amount of water intake. Sleep and rest are inevitable part of wellbeing. Lack of sleep can lead to physical and emotional exhaustion, and can result in serious health conditions.