Persuasive Speech
Madison Gross
Public Speaking
11/28/17
Why Students Should Have A Specific Time During The Day For Napping
Napping is essential to student’s health and their well being. Studies show how naps help one to be more alert and improves productivity. We all have a busy schedule as a student and often will not get the required sleep to do well. Our school needs a 45 minute period of DEAN (drop everything and sleep) instead of DEAR (drop everything and read), to improve mental and physical health, give students an energy boost, and improve our health, mood and productivity.
Naps during the school day can boost students’ productivity, memory and learning. A 2002 Harvard University study demonstrated that workers are more productive
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Taking consistent short naps will help to lower tension decreasing a student's’ risk of high cholesterol and blood pressure. Sleep deprivation leads to an excess of the hormone cortisol in the body. Cortisol, a stress hormones, is what helps students’ deal with fight or flight responses. Unfortunately, having too much cortisol in the body will increase glucose intolerance and abdominal fat, weaken the muscular and immune systems, hinders memory and learning, and decreases the level of growth hormones in students’ bodies. On the other hand, when you sleep you release a growth hormone, the opposite of cortisol, which boosts the immune system, reduces stress and anxiety, and helps with muscle repair and weight loss. A six year greek study found that people who took a 30 minute nap at least three times a week had a 37% less risk of dying from a heart-related condition. Participants of the study were asked if they took midday naps and how often . They were also asked about dietary habits and physical activity. Researchers found that the participants who took naps of any frequency and duration had a 34% lower risk of dying from heart disease than participants who did not take midday naps. The ideal hours for taking a nap are between 1:00 pm and 3:00 pm as by then it is usually subsequent to lunchtime when students’ energy and blood sugar start to dip. …show more content…
Additionally, sneaking in a nap during the day can boost student’s mood by getting rid of sleep-deprived irritability. Many students’ will drink coffee for a midday reboot, however, consuming caffeine in the afternoon can have a negative impact on your nighttime rest. Napping is a natural way to restore students energy, so why not provide student’s with the opportunity to nap for 45 minutes? Taking a nap during the day can be one option to treating sleep deprivation. According to Sara C. Mednick, a sleep expert and author, “You can get incredible benefits from 15 to 20 minutes of napping.” Also, Mednick said, “You reset the system and get a burst of alertness and increased motor performance. That’s what most people really need to stave off sleepiness and get an energy boost.” While the length and of your nap and the type of sleep can help to determine the benefits. A 20 minute power nap, or a stage 2 nap, is good for alertness and motor learning skills such as typing and playing the piano. On the other hand, napping for more than 30 to 60 minutes comes in handy for decision making skills. Getting rapid eye movement or REM sleep which is usually 60 to 90 minutes of napping plays a major role in making new connections in the brain and solving creative problems. Sleep is an important part of student's daily routine, much like having a good breakfast or a healthy
One critical factor in maintaining good health is staying active during the day. Napping can help you get rid of drowsiness during the middle of the day and help you stay active. For example, the article by Maria Allegra called “The Secret Truth About Napping” it is stated that “Winston Churchill, who helped lead the Allied Powers to victory during World War II, slept for at least an hour every afternoon. He stated that a nap could renew a person’s energy.” This statement from an expert shows the author also shares the same idea with me that, napping is a great way to renew your energy during the middle of the day if you didn’t get enough sleep overnight. Getting enough rest is a big factor for having better health and a good lifestyle.
“When the going gets tough, the tough take a nap.” This statement by Tom Hodgkinson perfectly describes the solution to the life of the average American high schooler, who wakes up early, rushes to school, and undergoes several grueling classes, only to later participate in extracurricular activities and return home to complete homework. Due to all these activities, only a vast minority of teenagers obtain the amount of sleep they need in a night; Tom Hodgkinson’s quote proposes a solution to this problem. By instituting naptime in high schools, students could simply nap to refresh themselves when the going gets tough, whether that be an excessive amount of homework, an extremely demanding test, or a sports practice that lasts long into the
Sleeping is something that is an essential part of human nature and is a must in order for one to be a functional human being. Sleep is an idea that is accompanied by many wives’ tales, including the ideas that one needs seven to eight hours of sleep each night and alcohol helps one fall asleep and sleep more soundly. One myth about sleep is that during sleeping, one is in a state of nothingness. In truth, however, it has been discovered that during sleep the brain is active, variations in heartbeat and breathing occur, and the eyes and ears are active throughout the time of sleep. These activities during a person’s sleep are important because they help that person be more aware, awake, and alert during consciousness. If all of these important activities occur during sleep, why is it that people are so willing to short themselves of this vital activity? Although much about sleep still remains a mystery, research and experiments continue to show how important sleep is to each and every person. Throughout this paper, I will discuss sleep and the effects that it has on performance and health, especially in college students. A college student’s sleeping pattern is a reliable indicator to their level of performance in the classroom and other school-affiliated activities, as a lack of sleep leads to decreased performance. Sleep is directly related the level of performance and health in an individual; the more rested a person is, the better that person will perform and feel (Dryer, 2006).
Milner, C. E., Cote, K. A. (2008). Benefits of napping in healthy adults: Impact of nap length, time of day, age, and experience with napping. Journal of Sleep Research, 18(2), 272-281
In conclusion, the moderately enhanced results leads to think that the naps did have positive effects on all three test results, but not to the extend that was hypothesized. Perhaps a more ordered and organized napping and sleep schedule would allow for greater and more significant improvements. A further analysis in the domain of effects of napping on performance, either cognitive or physical, should strive to measure the impact of tightly arranged schedule to allow for naps to occur at relatively the same time everyday, as well as having a similar length, paired with comparable amount of sleep the night prior to engaging in napping. This would allow assessing the true effects of naps on an individual much more effectively.
In Source #3, the author states that “...studies show that taking a short nap after learning new information may help you remember that information better!” and “Nap lengths between 10-20 minutes have been shown to increase productivity, decrease fatigue, and improve mood.” Naps are vital to possess the ability to be at the top of your classes and have a good school year. They can recharge you a bit and help you feel more alert to do all the homework or volunteer work you could be doing but too tired to. Many students these days are not getting enough sleep, because we have to wake up early and are expected to be alert all day.
The main idea is that adults during the day and night naps are good for you while they're at work or at home. In my opinon, I think that when taking a nap during the day can help you think more thoughout the day and can focus more on what certain things you need acomplish. I belive that taking naps can make you feeling better and more stronger, In addition to making your mind to be more thinkful. When taking naps your brain gets to take a break from all the information its going through from the morning until the night. Many things can happend if you not able to take a nap or have a alttle time off to take a break.
Fifty six percent of students report being tired throughout the school day, which can lead to missed information and confusion (Wysong). According to this statistic, over half the students in class are not going to achieve their maximum learning potential in school. In order to avoid this problem, a teenager's brain typically needs to sleep from 11:00 pm to 8:00 am (“High schools starting later to help sleepy teens”). However, most high schools require students to be in class as early as 7:15 or 7:30 am. As a result, many adolescents simply do not have the opportunity to get enough rest. Changing the traditional school time to start later in the day will benefit adolescent sleep cycles, promote learning, and prevent disease by regulating the body. Ideally,...
Sleep is a very important factor in the human function. Our body and brain is able to reset itself and rejuvenate while we sleep. When we do not get the required amount of sleep, we start to feel lethargic and foggy minded, because our mind and body wasn’t able to replenish itself. Sleep is imperative that an insignificant rest deficiency or lack of sleep can affect our ability to remember things; decisions and can affect our temperament. Chronic sleep deficiency can get the body to feel agitated and it could lead to serious health problems such as, heart problems, stress, acne, and obesity.
Specific purpose: To persuade my audience to take care of our sleep duration as it may affect our daily life.
There has been many famous figures that have been nappers. Examples are: John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Clinton, as it says in source 1 titled ‘’Famous nappers’’. Napoleon, a French emperor, Often gave rousing speeches, because he frequently took naps and that helped him get energized and helped him think. So naps help
In source two it states,’’ that people become better at their work and make less mistakes’’. Therefore adult or kids have a greater chance at doing school work ,jobs work or just doing what the boss asked or teachers when they take naps routinely during the day .Bosses rather their employees to come to do work and be ready to fix mistakes rather than to make new ones. Than the employer would have to spend company money on mistakes that he or she hired someone to fix. Teachers on the other hand rather their students to come to school ready to learn than ready to fall asleep while they teach that leads to the student failing the class and making more mistakes than what the need to be made in the activity there being taught .Naps can recharge your brain so that people don’t make various
Opinion About Afternoon Naps Trying to find out, whether afternoon naps will benefit us. My opinion on this issue is that somewhat this is true because I have took an afternoon nap, and this lowered my tiredness from work. My work habitat is really busy and stressfull. Sometimes I have chances of ten-minute breaks, but I can say that later on work comes in heavier. In the article, "Naps Benefit Both Mind and Body"in paragraph 3, is stated that "taking naps improves people's problem solving skills".
Everybody needs proper rest in order to feel fully refreshed and focused. Throughout time, studies have shown that a human being needs a certain amount of sleep to tackle their daily responsibilities. If for whatever reason they cannot get a complete rest at night, naps are a fantastic and efficient solution to catch up on some much needed rest. As a young adult, I make an increased effort to make sure I get as much rest as I need.
Harvard University did a study on napping at work and their results were concrete. The study showed that the people who napped during the day made for more effective problem