Raed Alotaibi Instructor's name: Anna Habib; Laura Miller Class section: AC3 Chasing Slumber: Final Draft

October 29,13

Mark Wolverton is an author who studies psychology and he wrote an article called Chasing Slumber which was published in Psychology Today in 2003. Wolverton insists that people must get enough sleep and he also discuses the consequences of the lack of sleeping. The lack of sleeping has an enormous influence on ones life and the author provides an example in the beginning of his argument about the accident that occurred in New York in 2003. The author provides an exciting introduction, backed up with research, to capture the audiences attention since this is a topic that potentially can affect all people in the audience. Wolverton argument is effective because he shows how lack of sleep can lead to sleep deprivation, health issues, and genetically alter ones circadian clock. First of all, the author initiates his essay with statistics that work to grab the readers attention. These statistics state that about 6000 fatal auto accidents annually occur due to sleep deprivation. He used an example of the ferry Andrew, who was sleep deprivedand ended up killing 10 people and injuring 70 more. He says that example so that readers can know what happens if one doesnt get enough sleep or they dont know any information about some research. He proceeds to focus

on variety researches about the affect of deprivation sleep in different cases and situations as well as providing stories. He states the daily amount of sleep with providing some daily hours that one needs to get in order to feel refreshed. For example, 35 percent of adults routinely get less than seven hours of shut-eye nightly, which mean we must sleep at least eight hours. He stated that this is due to use of smart phones, or family stress, or work schedules. He hints that if we dont solve this problem maybe the number will increase as well we will get into more trouble such as truckers falling sleep on highway. Also, a new research finds that the lack of sleep has a negative impact on the body and leads to other problems, such as obesity, heart disease or even cancer. He used this evidence to inform us how to protect our lives from the lack of sleep and to tell the reader that the lack of sleep can lead to this problem. Furthermore, he talked about mortality is an alarming rate because our circadian clock improved, so the suprachiasmatic nucleus find out that bodys genetics, cells, liver, kidney and skin related and follow our circadian clock. This case means our circadian clock can affect our body naturally, so we cant change our biology. The new research by Dinges in 2003 tried to raise awareness about the causes of the lack of functioning. He made an experiment about three different group of colleague: one group slept four hours a night, second group six hours and the last group eight hours for two weeks. As a consequence the group that slept

eight hours there was no weakness in their function. However, the rest of groups have performing degenerated which mean people who gets less than eight hours can not improve the situation. They might lose time, money, and lives. In addition, the author provided different researches about some worker sleeping on company time at shift night. The researches produce that hard schedules and less sleep make huge damage in manufactory, medicine and transportation. In conclusion, this research is practiced well when the author mentions some evidence. In addition, he used an extensive, reliable research on the topic, so this article works well to inform the public about the danger of lack of sleep. At the end of his research, Mark gives some solutions that can prevent people from less sleep. He said that we must create some rules that individuals should follow to lessen the chances of any accidents. Also he mentioned creating a law about making shifts illegal so that it can suspend people from working at nighttime, which ensures productivity at work and safety on the streets.