A Cold Winter Morning I am lying on a white, sandy beach with the blazing sun beating down directly on my bronzed summer body. I notice the attractive, Puerto Rican Cabana boy heading over to refill my newly empty Margarita glass. I look around my private beach and at the crystal clear, sparkling o...

Sleep is such a mysterious thing, because there is still so much research about the subject still going on. Researchers, experts, and people all over the world are still filled with questions about sleep. For example: Why do we need sleep? How much sleep does each person need? Why do we get sle...

The article that we read was titled "What's the matter with kids today? They're all asleep." I agree with this article completely. The first few paragraphs describe my life almost perfectly. I stay up late talking to my friends online and convince my mom that I'm not tired ...

The Apathetic Bored Procrastinator My name is-------and I am a apathetic bored procrastinator. Some people say admitting you have problem is the first step to recovery. Well, I have a problem. School is easy, boring, and a waste of time. No teacher has ever challenged me. From the time I st...

Punctuality is a good quality in a person. Being punctual enables one to be trustworthy. People should try to be on time so that they don't annoy their friends or risk losing their job. One would be correct in saying that with all the electronic advances such as alarm clocks, watches, and ce...

A Wake up Call There is no sound on earth more disgusting or obnoxious than that horrible Beeping sound given off by millions of alarm clocks each morning. Nothing is more relaxing than being in the arms of Morpheus. When He takes hold of a person they become unaware of everything. They know of...

Mum why do I have to go to bed so early?Its only 10pm! I cant go to sleep this early!This is when three year olds go to bed. I'm 16 I can stay up later if I want. Oh my God Mum why do I have to get up now? It's only 6.30, Let me sleep. I didn't get to sleep until 2am. I don't car...

How Are Your Sleeping Habits? American teenagers are getting far less sleep than needed for them in order to function properly. The health, behavior, and academic performance of teenagers are suffering as a result of their sleep deprivation. According to parents' reports in the 1999 nationw...

It is 9:00 A.M. on a Monday morning. By this time, many people are out and about, fully charged. I am still snug in bed, sleeping like a log. The alarm begins to beep. I press the snooze button. Nine minutes later, it beeps again. I press the snooze. One more time. Beep. Snooze. Finally, pressing th...

Breath, Eyes, Memory Sophi Caco lives with her aunt in a small village called Croix-des-Rosets in Haiti. She lives in a small two-room house and sleeps with her Aunt Atie. Sophis' mother lives in New York City. Sophi does not remember her mother much, she left when she was a small child. O...

All the students get bored of studying in the school. So they need an outing like a trip or a picnic. When I was in Class III, my school organized a trip to Manali. I was delighted and joined it. There were 77 students and 4 teachers in all. I bought tinned Cold Drinks and packets of chi...

College Students Prefer Sleeping In Most college students prefer to sleep in rather than to get up early. Getting up early can mean grumpy, irritable, and most importantly, tired students. The earlier classes are the earlier students have to wake up. Most people function better later in the day...

Drug Addiction in the School and Work Place How has work efficiency changed as a result of drug addiction in the sch a couool and work place? In the 1960 and 1970's, men and women worked long hours to support their family. For many, these strenuous hours were hard to handle without taking drugs....

Drug Addiction in the School and Work Place How has work efficiency changed as a result of drug addiction in the sch a couool and work place? In the 1960 and 1970's, men and women worked long hours to support their family. For many, these strenuous hours were hard to handle without taking drug...

Sleep Deprivation According to scientists, over 70 million Americans, 25% are children; suffer from some kind of sleeping disorder. Sleeping pill prescriptions filled in 1997 totaled $14 million, over the counter pills totaled $33 million in grocery stores alone. The number of sleep clinics has a...

Sleep is one of the most important things a person does each day. It allows the body to rest and to replenish itself so that it is better able to serve its purpose of living. Yet, many people who don't have enough hours in the day to do everything have to cut out sleep before any other activity. Th...

My morning routine is normally a very slow process it's also very painful, for me that is. I hate waking up, I'm sure we all do. I wake up when I'm called by my mother around seven thirty am it used to be eight am but I was getting late for school because I was procrastinating. Aft...

Effective time management is one of the most important factors for succeeding in college and despite my success in high school and Air Force training I had a lot of problems with it. Some of you might not think that time management is important. I was one of those some, when I first began my de...

As I went around the room to greet and ask my fellow students in the class for their list of skill or behavior that will promote academic success. I was expecting behaviors like: hardworking, paying attention in class, and do all your homework... Then I saw one item that surprises me a little. One o...

The Hunt This was it, this is the time my friends and I were waiting for all week. We were finally going to embark on our weekend of deer hunting. We left Kearney on a Friday afternoon in the late Fall. We were to drive to my hometown of Lawrence and stay with my parents who agreed to have...

While the temptation to hit the snooze bar at 4:30 a.m. would be difficult to resist for even the most disciplined early-bird, my father never flinches at answering the bell at what many consider the middle of the night. The astonishing fact is not so much the time he rises but the reason behin...

My goals for this year are to get good grades, make some new friends, and to become more active. Usually, it is very hard to achieve personal goals, especially if it involves working or some other tedious activity. I wish to get better grades this year than the grades I received last year. I hav...

I love sleep. I do some of my best think lying in my bed with three comfortable, puffy pillows by my side. That may sound strange, but ideas just come to me while I lie under my cozy down blanket with my Japanese buckwheat pillow supporting the contour of my lop sided head. Sleep gives me a sens...

"Do not forget to take your jacket or else you will catch a cold," were my mother's famous last words as I left the house on a cool spring evening. Of course being the typical teenager that I am, I responded, "It's not cold outside, I won't need it." Boy, was I wro...

People always wonder how and when they shoud write an assigned paper for one of their classes. Personally I think the best papers are the ones that are written the night before they are due. In high school, students are required to write several papers throughout the year, and eventually you wi...