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Name: John Doe

Date: March 7, 2017
EQ: Should Hawaii institute the death penalty?
Three Points to Prove: #1: The death penalty is not a deterrent to crime.
#2: The death penalty is inhumane.
#3: The death penalty is not cost effective.
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Point that this Source/Information Proves: # 1: The death penalty is not a deterrent of crime.
Excerpts (These should provide insight into the Point to Prove):
“When the smaller crimes go down--the quality of life crimes--then the murder rate goes down,” Mr. Carlisle said.
“We haven’t had the death penalty, but we have one of the lowest murder rates in the country,” he said. “The F.B.I.
statistics for 1998 showed Hawaii’s homicide rate was the fifth lowest.”
“At Michigan’s constitutional convention in 1961, the delegates heard arguments that the death penalty was not a
deterrent, that those executed were usually the poor and disadvantaged, and that innocent people had been sentenced to
death.”
“Culture and religion play a role, as well as political vagaries in each state.”
Analysis (How does this source support the Point to Prove?):
This website provides arguments against capital punishment. The author suggests the death penalty is not a
deterrent to crime. Surprisingly, the homicide rates of several different states that do not have the death penalty are
actually lower than those with the death penalty. Hawaii is one of these states. There are quotes from judges, governors,
and the prosecuting attorney from Hawaii, Peter Carlisle. Carlisle makes a reference to the Bryan Uyesugi case – where
the defendant shot seven of his co-workers at the Xerox copy machine company.
There is specific evidence against the death penalty that indicates it is not a deterrent to crime. For example, even
without the death penalty, Hawaii has the fifth lowest homicide rate in the nation. This proves, at least to some degree,
that a state without the death penalty can thrive as one of the safest states in the nation. Along these same lines of
reasoning, homicide rates in the states that do have the death penalty are still high, such as Texas and California. This
indicates that the death penalty doesn’t necessarily deter crime. To ground this in more specific data, the NY Times found
that during the last twenty years, the homicide rate in states with the death penalty has been 48% to 101% higher than
states without the death penalty!
Culture, religion, politics, and the overall ideologies that dominate a community influence whether the death
penalty will remain law. In more conservative states, the death penalty is more prevalent. Interestingly, at Michigan’s
constitutional convention in the 1960s, some argued that those who were executed were predominantly poor and of racial
minorities. If valid, this is concerning as it indicates corruption in the system (a system that can end life). If the death
penalty remains, more efforts must be taken to ensure the quality and fairness of the justice system through which they
will be punished.
EQ: How does religion impact eh
Work Cited (correct MLA format):
Bonner, Raymond and Ford Fessenden. “States With No Death Penalty Share Lower Homicide Rates.” The New York
Times. The New York Times. 22 September 2000. Web. 4 Jan 2004.
I am assuming that this is a reputable and reliable article because it was published in The New York Times Magazine.
Research Log #1
Name: Renceh B. Flojo

Date: 11 September 2017
EQ: How does sleep deprivation affect the mental, emotional, and physical well-being of a student?
Three Points to Prove: #1: Sleep deprivation causes students to have a learning gap, putting them at a disadvantage.
#2: Emotional control and response dwindles as lack of sleep increases.
#3: Lack of sleep affects overall healthy living.
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Point that this Source/Information Proves: #3 Lack of sleep affects overall healthy living

"Recent studies indicate that studies indicate that sleep duration is a significant determinant of body composition besides
conventional factors like physical activity (PA), dietary habits, and genetic inheritance," the author explained
"In the present scenario prevalence of sleep deprivation has increased in parallel with epidemics of overweight and
obesity," the author explained
"Thus the effect of sleep duration on BF% has showed a gender difference. The IASDN (inadequate sleep duration) group
of boys significantly differed in BF%, BMI and muscle mass when compared with group of boys of ASDN (adequate
sleep duration)," the author explained
"...girls may be more resilient to sleep debt girls may be more resilient to sleep debt or gender differences may exists in
sleep architecture with adolescent girls experiencing proportionately more slow-wave sleep than boys, thereby reducing
girls sleep need," the author explained
"...chronic sleep debt is associated with increased hunger and appetite, especially for calorie-dense foods with high
carbohydrate content," the author explained
"In this highly advanced era everyday life offers fewer opportunities for physical activity and the resultant sedentary
lifestyles have serious consequences on physical fitness and health of the society in general and to the young generation in
particular, which gradually alter their body composition and predisposes to obesity and its complications," the author
explained

This journal provides the argument that lack of sleep has a direct correlation to increased BF %, BMI, and much
more, indicating a trend toward obesity. The author uses direct statistical analysis based on the data gathered to prove that
sleep deprivation or debt affects overall health. By having higher BF% and BMIs it could lead to obesity and eventual
problems like hypertension, hyperlipidemia, type 2 diabetes, mellitus, stroke, sleep apnoea, heart disease and much more.
The journal states the procedure and possible errors for their data collection for this given study to ensure the quality of
the data collected. This in turn guarantees that the statistical interpretation of the data is correct. Not only did they
calculate BMI to indicate overall health, they used physical activity as an indicator of healthy living. By using both
physical activity levels and BMI, they associated the two factors that can measure overall health with sleep deprivation as
the cause of decreased PA and increased BMI.

Modi, Sarita, et al. "Effect of Sleep Duration and Physical Activity on Certain Important Body Composition Parameters
among Medical Students." Asian Journal of Medical Sciences, vol. 7, no. 5, Sep/Oct2016, pp. 56-60. EBSCOhost,
doi:10.3126/ajms.v7i5.14934.
I am assuming that this is a reputable and reliable article because it was published in a medical journal
Research Log #2

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Point that this Source/Information Proves: Emotional control and response dwindles as lack of sleep
increases and Sleep deprivation causes students to have a learning gap, putting them at a disadvantage.
The author states, "recognizing facial emotions is critical for human communication success. This process involves
cognitive functions and emotional responses which can be affected by sleep deprivation."
The author states, "...sleep deprivation deteriorates the speed and accuracy of the facial emotions recognition (longer
reaction time and impairment in judgment accuracy)."
The author states, "sleep deprivation is the condition of insufficient sleep and it can either be chronic or acute"
The author states, "...sleep deprivation has been shown to disrupt the encoding and consolidation of emotional
memories."
The author states, "sleep deprivation decreased subjects’ ability to discriminate new from previously studied stimuli and
decreased the peak amplitude of the early component (N200) to the decrement of performance."
The author states, "sleep deprivation alters the functioning of front parietal, frontotemporal and front subcortical
interconnections and this may reflect changes in the recognition and perception of facial emotions through commitment of
some cognitive and emotional functions dependent on those brain regions"
"Sleep deprivation led to greater neural reactivity for the threat-related negative emotions. Therefore, it can be concluded
that facial recognition is somehow deteriorated in sleep deprivation context," the author explained.
This journal represented the relation between sleep deprivation and how that affects certain parts of the brain that
affect emotion recognition and processing. Most of the communication done between person to person is done
nonverbally but through the interpretation of physical ques. By having less sleep, the faculties controlled by the prefrontal
cortex (PFC) and those related to it deteriorate leading to increased misinterpretation of signs of emotion. Therefore the
misinterpretation of signs of nonverbal emotion can lead to the wrong response garnered by certain emotions.
For example the expression of sadness through the face could be interpreted as anger or a neutral face. This disjunction
could cause erratic actions and unexplained anger or sadness. If sleep deprivation occurs in all students, then doesn't that
mean that everyone misinterprets the physical representation of an emotion and communication is lost "in translation"?
Studies show that memory is also affected by sleep deprivation and not only the recognition and processing of
emotion. Since it does have an impact on memory, it could cause students that are sleep deprived to interpret random
useless info as information that needs to be stored in long term memory rather than short term. This can cause the
recollection of information useful for taking a test to be delayed, leading to a decrease in scores. This shows that not only
does it impact emotions it also causes a slight learning gap.

Almondes, Katie, et al. "Sleep Deprivation and Implications for Recognition and Perception of Facial Emotions." Sleep &
Biological Rhythms, vol. 14, no. 1, Jan. 2016, pp. 13-22. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1007/s41105-015-0029-3.
I am assuming that this is a reputable and reliable article since it was a medical article that analyzed different studies and
their implications.
Research Log #3

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Point that this Source/Information Proves: Lack of sleep affects overall healthy living and that sleep deprivation causes
students to have a learning gap, putting them at a disadvantage.
"Sleep is critical for repair as well as the rejuvenation processes in the body and many of these functions are regulated via
underlying cellular metabolic homeostasis. Changes in sleep pattern are reported to alter such metabolic function resulting
in altered disease susceptibility or behavior," the author states.
With the previous knowledge about the lack of sleep the author finds that, "induction of oxidative stress and ATP
depletion with sleep deprivation."
As referenced by the author from another study, "sleep is critical for repair as well as the rejuvenation processes in the
body such as muscle repair and hormone regulation. A growing body of evidence suggests that sleep plays a critical role in
metabolic and energetic recovery. Indeed, sleep loss has been shown to result in adverse metabolic consequences,
reduction in anabolic hormones, and increased infection susceptibility."
"Acute sleep deprivation also altered the levels of cysteine and homocysteine and such altered levels are known to be a
risk factors for several neurological disorders," explaining the effects of sleep deprivation on the brain.
The author proved through the study that "sleep loss is a form of systemic cell injury that can result in uncompensated
oxidative stress," and therefore causes overall damage to the body.

Sleep deprivation could be the underlying reason towards the many neurological and biological problems we face
on the daily. Healthy living as a student, personally, is being able to be active, full of energy, and attentive to the various
classes and activities that I do constantly such as going to the gym/golf while having enough energy for homework. This
also includes getting enough sleep and eating healthy. But as proven by this study, there is a correlation between the
various levels of biological chemicals that regulate your body and the amount of sleep you get. The article proves that as
the degree of sleep deprivation increases, the less your body is able to protect against disease and other ailments. This is
caused by the lower antibody production that occurs in the state of sleep deprivation. Since we become
more susceptible to disease, the odds of living a healthy lifestyle as a student dwindles that much more. Being sick could
lead to a learning gap as well since it would equate to more time resting and recuperating rather than getting the
information taught by the teacher. This would eventually cause a learning gap for the student and he/she would be
negatively impacted. The article also proved that sleep deprivation damages the body at the cellular level and not
only macroscopically. Since we are affected on the cellular level, that would affect overall healthy living, making it even
harder for students to live healthy.

Trivedi, Malav S., et al. "Short-Term Sleep Deprivation Leads to Decreased Systemic Redox Metabolites and Altered
Epigenetic Status." Plos ONE, vol. 12, no. 7, 24 July 2017, pp. 1-13.
EBSCOhost, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0181978.
I am assuming that this is a reputable and reliable article since it's a recent study and that it was conducted by a respected
University.
Research Log #4

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Point that this Source/Information Proves: Lack of sleep affects overall healthy living, sleep deprivation
causes students to have a learning gap, putting them at a disadvantage and that it affects emotional control.

The author indicates, "Sleep deprivation increases the likelihood teens will suffer myriad negative consequences, including
an inability to concentrate, poor grades, drowsy-driving incidents, anxiety, depression, and thoughts of suicide.”
The author indicates, "According to a 2006 National Sleep Foundation poll, the organization’s most recent survey of teen
sleep, more than 87 percent of high school students in the United States get far less than the recommended eight to 10
hours, and the amount of time they sleep is decreasing — a serious threat to their health, safety and academic success."
The author indicates, "Sleep deprivation increases the likelihood teens will suffer myriad negative consequences, including
an inability to concentrate, poor grades, drowsy-driving incidents, anxiety, depression, thoughts of suicide and even
suicide attempts."
The author indicates, "when older adolescents were restricted to just five hours of sleep a night, they would become
progressively sleepier during the course of the week. The loss was cumulative, accounting for what is now commonly
known as sleep debt.
The author indicates, "The problem of sleep-phase delay is exacerbated when teens are exposed late at night to lit screens,
which send a message via the retina to the portion of the brain that controls the body’s circadian clock. The message: It’s not
nighttime yet.
The author indicates, "Many studies show students who sleep less suffer academically, as chronic sleep loss impairs the ability
to remember, concentrate, think abstractly and solve problems. In one of many studies on sleep and academic performance,
Carskadon and her colleagues surveyed 3,000 high school students and found that those with higher grades reported sleeping
more, going to bed earlier on school nights and sleeping in less on weekends than students who had lower grades."

Sleep deprivation is an epidemic that faces everyone at all stages of life. It causes the consolidation of information
to dwindle as the degree of sleep deprivation increases. Where as sleep provides a “reboot” of sorts to process memories
and to get all your mental, emotional, and physical faculties up to standard to start a new day. With the changing times and
the impact of technology, the regular circadian clock is being pushed later and later in the night. This makes it more
difficult to get to sleep even if we wanted to at an earlier time. Studies show since sleep deprivation affects the emotional
control of a person, they are more likely to be impulsive rather than rational and more likely to entertain suicidal thoughts.
This extreme case helps to prove that sleep is truly needed to live both a healthy lifestyle while also being able to control
your thoughts and emotions. If students cannot concentrate in class, they are at a greater risk of failing their classes and
getting bad grades since the information that would be tested goes in one ear and out the other. Similarly, sleeping late and
cramming for a test is counter productive because the information you crammed most likely wouldn’t register. If students
can’t think abstractly and develop skills that would prove useful in and outside of class, they are put at a disadvantage not
only in but outside of class. Eventually, this would lead to depression due to the frequent frustration of their situation in
the vicious cycle that is sleep deprivation.

Richter, Ruthann. “Among teens, sleep deprivation an epidemic.” News Center, Stanford medicine, 8 Oct. 1970,
med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2015/10/among-teens-sleep-deprivation-an-epidemic.html. Accessed 3 Oct. 2017.
I am trusting that this is a reliable source since it came from Stanford medicine, a respected college with many credentials
and Phd's.
Research Log #5

Date: 10 October 2017
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Point that this Source/Information Proves: Sleep deprivation causes students to have a learning gap, putting them at a
disadvantage and lack of sleep affects overall healthy living.

Wendy Troxel states jokingly, “I also know that by waking him up hours before his natural biological clock tells him he's
ready, I'm literally robbing him of his dreams -- the type of sleep most associated with learning, memory
consolidation and emotional processing.”
“Around the time of puberty, teenagers experience a delay in their biological clock, which determines when we feel most
awake and when we feel most sleepy. This is driven in part by a shift in the release of the hormone melatonin. Teenagers'
bodies wait to start releasing melatonin until around 11pm, which is two hours later than what we see in adults or younger
children. This means that waking a teenager up at 6am is the biological equivalent of waking an adult up at 4am,” the
author shockingly states.
Wendy Troxel knows that “adolescence is a period of dramatic brain development, particularly in the parts of the
brain that are responsible for those higher order thinking processes, including reasoning, problem-solving and good
judgment. In other words, the very type of brain activity that's responsible for reining in those impulsive and often risky
behaviors that are so characteristic of adolescence and that are so terrifying to us parents of teenagers.”
The speaker states, “teens with sleep problems were 55 percent more likely to have used alcohol in the past month. In
another study with over 30,000 high school students, they found that for each hour of lost sleep, there was a 38 percent
increase in feeling sad or hopeless, and a 58 percent increase in teen suicide attempts.”
As schools push start times, the author finds that “standardized test scores in math and reading go up by two to three
percentage points. That's as powerful as reducing class sizes by one-third fewer students, or replacing a so-so teacher in
the classroom with a truly outstanding one. Their mental and physical health improves, and even their families are
happier… Even their communities are safer because car crash rates go down -- a 70 percent reduction in one district.”

Wendy Troxel, a sleep scientist, presents the dangers of sleep deprivation, its impacts on the growing teen, and a
possible way to alleviate the degree of sleep deprivation faced by teens on the daily. During adolescence, teens are
growing at an accelerated rate where most of the brain development occurs. But, as the degree of sleep deprivation
increases, brain development is inhibited putting students not only at a disadvantage now but also later in life with the
need of higher thinking. Not only does sleep deprivation impact brain development, it also causes students to rely on
external help like caffeine or alcohol to compensate, further impacting higher order thinking. With the substance
abuse/use, it creates health problems that limit our attempt towards a healthy lifestyle. Along with a barrier erected to
prevent a healthy lifestyle, the negative mood swings associated with puberty could be a side effect of sleep deprivation.
These mood swings prove that a lack of sleep correlates with a lack of emotional control. Sleep deprivation has also been
associated with obesity and other health problems that can be simply fixed with a few extra hours of sleep. In order to
alleviate some of the problems generated by sleep deprivation schools are having later start time. Assuming that students
have the same bedtime, by having later start times, school are noticing that scores and attitudes are going up. This helps to
lessen the disadvantage certain students are affected by lack of sleep.
Troxel, Wendy. Wendy Troxel: Why school should start later for teens | TED Talk Subtitles and Transcript | TED, Ted,
Nov. 2016, www.ted.com/talks/wendy_troxel_why_school_should_start_later_for_teens/transcript#t-267677
I am trusting that this is a reliable source since the speaker is a sleep scientist and that Ted speakers are knowledgeable
about their topic.
Research Log #6

Date: 9 January 2018
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disadvantage.

The author states, “Exposure to sleep deprivation impairs attention on simple tasks and increases distractibility. However,
it is often necessary to divide one’s attention between multiple activities, for example during driving or while multi-
tasking at work. When more than one task is executed simultaneously, performance on one or both tasks is usually
impaired.”
“Our finding that sleep deprivation impaired divided attention performance could have implications for safety-sensitive
occupations that require shift work and long work hours. For example, air traffic controllers, military personnel, and
health care workers must process multiple streams of information simultaneously while making moment-to-moment
decisions affecting safety and health outcomes,” as stated by the author.
Preventative measure can be taken to alleviate the problem as stated by the author, “a multipronged approach may be
necessary to reduce attentional failures associated with sleep loss and fatigue, including 1) interventions that aim to
improve sleep behavior and work hours, 2) deployment of technologies that can be used to monitor and predict attentional
failure, and 3) development of systems for automating tasks to reduce the need for multi-tasking.”
While previous studies have shown that multitasking is not impaired by sleep deprivation the author found that “effort and
cognitive engagement were not enough to prevent the impairing effects of sleep deprivation.”
As stated by the author, “increasing task load resulted in more errors only after subjects were kept awake beyond their
usual bedtime

While multitasking is a skill that is desperately needed and used everyday at work and in school, studies have
shown that multitasking leaves either one or more of the tasks done to be worse than if you were to do them individually.
At school the use of multitasking is necessary when juggling all the different classes you have and what that demands of
you. Sleep deprivation makes the struggle to multitask that much harder. As shown by the findings in the experiment done
in the article, multitasking and the quality of the individual tasks dwindle with as the degree of sleep deprivation goes up.
Since students now usually get an average of 1-3 hours less than if on break (which translates to 4-6 hours of sleep), the
skill that we rely on (multitasking) leaves us giving poor quality work. If poor quality work is given, grades suffer and in
turn resulting in an inherent disadvantage (grade wise) when applying for college and much more. Although the problem
is a tough fix, there are steps that can be taken in order to alleviate the symptoms of sleep deprivation as mentioned by this
article. You can adjust your sleep schedule, reduce the use for multitasking, and much more. By doing so, this helps to
mitigate the effects and work around them. This article supports my point to prove by showing how sleep deprivation does
impact certain skills, if not all, and in turn causes a learning gap which creates a disadvantage for the student.

Chua, Eric Chern-Pin, et al. “Effects of Total Sleep Deprivation on Divided Attention Performance.” Plos ONE, vol. 12,
no. 11, 22 Nov. 2017, pp. 1-11. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0187098.
I am trusting this article as a reliable source because of the author’s credentials and that it was published in an academic
and medical journal.
Research Log #7

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Point that this Source/Information Proves: Emotional control and response dwindles as lack of sleep increases and lack
of sleep affects overall healthy living.

The author states that, “after only a few days of shortened sleep, adolescents experienced decreased energy and increased
fatigue and confusion. They reported feeling less alert, less efficient, and more helpless, forgetful, and exhausted. In
addition to lacking energy, during sleep restriction, the adolescents also reported increased feelings of tension, anger, and
anxiety. They had more feelings of being ‘on edge,’ nervous, and restless when sleep-restricted compared to when they
had ample opportunity to sleep (10 hr in bed).”
“Finally, both parents and teens also reported that, when sleep-restricted, the teens were less able to appropriately regulate
their emotional reactions, leading to emotional outbursts and exaggerated responses to small triggers,” the author
concludes.
Shockingly, with all the negative effects brought by lack of sleep, it doesn’t stop there, “Present findings suggest that
shortened sleep is an important, modifiable contributor to poor emotion regulation. Emotional reactivity and associated
mood problems can lead to problematic or risky behaviors, such as cigarette smoking and risky driving behavior that can
have long-term negative consequences.”
As researched and stated by the author, “previous correlational research has suggested that (a) negative mood is associated
with shortened sleep during adolescence, (b) this association may be stronger for anxiety than depression, and (c) short
sleep is also associated with wide mood swings and poor emotion regulation.”
As found through the results of the experiment, the author finds that, “several nights of sleep restriction adversely affect
adolescents’ mood and ability to regulate their emotions”

Emotional control and regulation dwindles as the degree of sleep deprivation increases. Students are greatly
affected by this because they tend to sleep less and less in an attempt to finish everything that was assigned to them. As
stated by this article and experiment, negative emotions are heightened and more prevalent but positive emotions become
less and less present. With the increase in negative emotions, it proves that sleep and emotions have some correlation
between the two. The likelihood of other psychological problems such as depression increase due to the lack of control
when sleep deprived. Outbursts of emotion like anger caused by the affected sleep deprived person to not only be the one
feeling the effects of lack of sleep but also those around him. By having it not only isolated to just you, it makes others
feel worse even if they did nothing wrong. Chances to use substances like alcohol and smoke tend to increase as a way to
cope through the stress and impact that sleep deprivation has on the body. When taking these substances, recklessness
increases as well leaving students and those affects to take more risks. These risks would impact overall healthy living
because substance use is not good for the body and if risk taking is taken to the extreme, their life may be in danger as
well. This article supports my points by showing how emotional control is impacted by lack of sleep and how that can
lead to using substances to cope with it.

Baum, Katherine T., et al. "Sleep Restriction Worsens Mood and Emotion Regulation in Adolescents." Journal of Child
Psychology & Psychiatry, vol. 55, no. 2, Feb. 2014, pp. 180-190. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1111/jcpp.12125.
I am trusting that is a reliable and trustworthy source because the experiment and data comes from a medical center and
how there are multiple people working on the paper rather than just one ensuring the quality of the work.
Research Log #8

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disadvantage.
The author states that, “Prospective memory (PM), that is, remembering to execute intended actions in the future, is
crucial in everyday life. Forgetting to do tasks can jeopardize lives in safety-critical domains such as aviation or health
care.”
The author found that, “the results are more consistent with the view that SD (sleep deprivation) affects cognition
globally. That is, SD also reduced PM performance in the focal condition, in which PM (prospective memory) retrieval is
assumed to involve fewer strategic resources and may be mediated by temporal/hippocampal brain regions.”
After testing the subjects on their recall of information, the author noticed that, “performance of SD (sleep deprivation)
individuals did initially not differ from the control group, but deteriorated in both focality conditions during the course of
the test session.”
“Successful PM (prospective memory) requires inhibition and interruption of on-going task responses to execute the PM
(prospective memory) response. SD (sleep deprivation) reduces response inhibition, which might account for the general
decline of PM (prospective memory) performance after SD (sleep deprivation),” as stated by the author.
Without a doubt, based on the results “Sleep deprivation reduced PM performance independently of PM task focality.
Prospective memory is something that is needed in everyday life, both in school and beyond. It helps to set aside
tasks for the future while you are focusing on the task you are doing now. As students, we do this every time we do
homework and how we plan out which tasks to handle first. This ability is necessary in school because if you forget to do
an assignment that you set aside because your prospective memory is affected because of sleep deprivation, your grade
suffers. With your grade suffering, you are put at a disadvantage when applying to college and beyond. This study found
that sleep deprivation affects the whole brain rather than isolated parts. With it affecting the whole brain rather than
individual parts of the brain, sleep deprivation impacts general attentiveness and retention of information. If information
can’t be retained and it’s hard to focus because of a lack of sleep, students will develop a learning gap which puts them at
a disadvantage. Chronic sleep deprivation is something that most if not all students face due to early start times and
increasing work load brought by an increasingly competitive society. Although the study found that prospective memory
is affected by sleep deprivation, future research is needed to find a solution to counteract it.

Grundgeiger, Tobias, et al. “Effects of Sleep Deprivation on Prospective Memory.” Memory, vol. 22, no. 6, Aug. 2014,
pp. 679-686. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1080/09658211.2013.812220.
I believe that this is a trustworthy and reliable article because of the author’s credentials and how there were multiple
people working on the paper to ensure its quality.
Research Log #9

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Point that this Source/Information Proves: Lack of sleep affects overall healthy living.

The author referenced a study where it found that “when you sleep your brain removes toxic proteins from its neurons that
are by-products of neural activity when you’re awake. Unfortunately, your brain can remove them adequately only while
you’re asleep. So when you don’t get enough sleep, the toxic proteins remain in your brain cells, wreaking havoc by
impairing your ability to think—something no amount of caffeine can fix.”
“Sleep deprivation is linked to a variety of serious health problems, including heart attack, stroke, type 2 diabetes, and
obesity. It stresses you out because your body overproduces the stress hormone cortisol when it’s sleep deprived. While
excess cortisol has a host of negative health effects that come from the havoc it wreaks on your immune system, it also
makes you look older, because cortisol breaks down skin collagen, the protein that keeps skin smooth and elastic,” the
author states.
Sleep deprivation impacts healthy living because it “compromises your body’s ability to metabolize carbohydrates and
control food intake. When you sleep less you eat more and have more difficulty burning the calories you consume. Sleep
deprivation makes you hungrier by increasing the appetite-stimulating hormone ghrelin and makes it harder for you to get
full by reducing levels of the satiety-inducing hormone leptin.”
Dr. Travis brings up the shocking statistic that, “people who sleep less than 6 hours a night are 30% more likely to become
obese than those who sleep 7 to 9 hours a night.”
Sleep deprivation is a silent killer that affects most if not all of the growing population today. Many health-related
problems are caused by acute and chronic lack of sleep. With the increase in the likelihood to contract such problems, it
makes it impossible to live a healthy lifestyle. Even if the degree of sleep deprivation is small, you are still exposed to
lower metabolic rates which can in turn cause obesity. With the increase in weight you are prone to have all problems that
come with obesity such as high blood pressure. Having enough sleep allows the body to recuperate, consolidate
information, and self-regulate. If the body doesn’t have enough sleep, it causes the harmful toxins that are usually
removed when sleeping. Since they stay inside the body not broken down, it affects the immune system by weakening it,
making you more prone to illness. Sickness prevents someone from being healthy. This proves that a lack of sleep affects
overall healthy living resulting worse health that usual.

Bradberry, Dr. Travis. “Sleep Deprivation Is Killing You (And Making You Fat In The Process).” The Huffington Post,
TheHuffingtonPost.com, 26 Jun 2017, www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/sleep-deprivation-is-killing-you-and-
making-you-fat_us_594c1d77e4b0f078efd97fe0
I am trusting that this is a reliable and trustworthy source because the author has a doctorate and it was published in a
respectable and reputable news site.

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Work Cited (correct MLA format):

Name: Renceh B. Flojo

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Analysis (How does this source support the Point to Prove?):

Name: Renceh B. Flojo

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Work Cited (correct MLA format):

Name: Renceh B. Flojo

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Analysis (How does this source support the Point to Prove?):

Work Cited (correct MLA format):

Name: Renceh B. Flojo

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Analysis (How does this source support the Point to Prove?):

Work Cited (correct MLA format):

Name: Renceh B. Flojo

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