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Blog #3 Sleep Research

Research Question: How does getting a good nights rest affect students health/academic success?

Article title: College students: getting enough sleep is vital to academic success 

Article’s author: American Academy of Sleep Medicine (Westchester, lll)

https://aasm.org/college-students-getting-enough-sleep-is-vital-to-academic-success/

The article first talked about how the best way to do well on an exam is to get a good nights rest. It followed with studies show that students who sleep six hours or less each night perform as someone who hasn’t slept in 48 hours. It shared how studies show not getting enough sleep leads to learning and memory impairment, as well as loss of concentration. The article talked all about the different types of people who are more prone to the symptoms of sleep loss (insomnia, sleep disorders, etc). It described how if you have trouble falling asleep you should get up, designate your bed solely for sleep and don’t do your work in your bed, and include a wind down routine. 

This will help me not only for our assignment but for my own health. I always thought that if I go to bed late and sleep in then I’m making up for my sleep, but the article says otherwise. It says those who do that are more likely to perform poorly in school. I will be able to use all the tips they gave and word those into questions I can use for my survey. 

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Vultures & Tomatos

I took these photos of vultures flying around and on my house. We live in the country so seeing vultures is normal, but recently the vultures have been getting too comfortable. The vultures have been picking up our outdoor furniture pillows and dropping them in the pool. They have been non-stop flying around our house and pecking at our roof. With that being said, yes it is creepy and we’re praying and doing everything we can for them to leave. I took this photo to document what the vultures have been doing. This way we can have people look into what type of vultures they are and why they are choosing to nest on my house. Are they attracted to the water in the pool? Do they like the trees by our house best? Is there something dead in the ravines? This is only the start of my questions.

This photo was taken in my backyard in the garden. I took this photo because my moms prized possession is her garden and I love wandering around in it. I noticed that a bunch of her tomatoes she’s growing have white cracks on the side of them. Is it the deer or other wild life that have caused this? Is it from too much rain or not enough? Is it from something she could've sprayed on them? Or could it be caused by too much heat? 

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Joyland Park

Using Savini’s “Looking for Trouble” method after looking at Joyland Park..

I noticed that this was the largest amusement park for decades in Fayette County. From the description of the park, they seemed to have every activity imaginable. I also noticed that the original owners of Joyland Park made it a segregated park.

The problem I immediately noticed was the segregation of African Americans and white people at the park. African Americans could only come to the park in reserved spots on reserved days. White children could go anywhere in the park and could receive free swimming lessons at the pool in the park.

Will the segregation of African Americans and white people at Joyland Park cause it to close? If not back then, now? Was it the owners decision to enforce the racial separation?

After exploring Joyland Park on the KY History app, I looked up articles about Joyland Park. I found that it’s hard to find articles that don’t talk about  the segregation of the amusement park in the 1930s. Joyland Park avoiding being left with a negative connotation is what I found at stake.