Introduction. The point of this literature review is to gather information on my proposed research question, computer games and their relationship to sleep disturbances (nightmares) and sleep protection, by looking at online psychology databases. This study is important as it is imperative to discover if the things the majority people use on a day to day basis affect their sleep patterns. The literature being examined will be; Schredl, M., Anders, A., Hellriegel, S., & Rehm, A. (2008). Van den Bulck, J. (2004). Gackenbach, J., Ellerman, E., & Hall, C. (2011). And finally Gackenbach, J., Darlington, M., Ferguson, M., & Boyes, A. (2013). These literature pieces will attempt to support Nightmares are a type of sleep disruption, or parasomnia, characterized by frightening psychological content. Nightmares provoke a feeling of imminent physical danger with a sensation of being trapped or suffocated.
Main (2004). Had the same proposal question which was that the amount of media use, such as television watching and computer game playing related to nightmares and pleasant dreams. Along with Schredl et al (2008) Van den Bulck used a self-administrated questionnaire with a sample of first to fourth year students in fifteen secondary schools in Belgium. The final sample ended up being two thousand five hundred and forty six. During this researchers were present. The sample was asked to estimate weekly viewing by using like Van den Bulck, J. (2004) , a seven point scale number one being never and number seven being more than four times a week and then how much time they spent doing that activity. To get an estimate of an average monthly all these variables were multiplied. The same was done with television viewing using a five point scale. In relation to nightmares and pleasant dreams there wasn’t a change between the genders. 25% have nightmares monthly and 10% weekly in the first year group. The fourth year group had lower numbers of nightmares. With computer games, in the first year group 6% monthly and 6% weekly and the fourth year boys were just a bit lower in numbers. With girls they have little nightmares, 5% in first year and 4% in fourth year girls. In pleasant dreams, the boys tended to have more than girls with the girls having quite low percentages. In conclusion this study shows a positive relation towards the
children who are their own age because it helps them to build character. They find it strange that the young boy is friends with Father Flynn. They don’t come right out and say that something is wrong with this relationship, but the young boy’s nightmares reflect this idea, as well as, his dark bedroom. The next day the young boy visits Father Flynn’s home, which looks welcoming to the outside world, however the young boy describes the room where Father Flynn would have been sitting if the young…
classroom was in her spectators, who failed to engage with and challenge her provocative ideas. They were not a community in that room, but individuals, writing separate papers, to be read by a single authority, for separate grades. Frequent peer review had done nothing to alter that. This was “student-centered” to the point of narcissistic obsession. The lack of critical thinking in the individual and of a critical response in the classroom were due to the passive/absorptive mode which dominates…
Toni Morrison portrays her ways of being one of the world’s most renown American Author and female activist. Toni Morrison's novels reveal the feminist issues concerning black women, issues often forgotten in many feminist discussions in American literature today. In her novels, Morrison interrogates and deconstructs the long-held stereotypical images of black women and the world’s image of what being perfect is. Morrison was born Chloe Ardelia Wofford in Lorain, Ohio, the second of four children…
6George Orwell Literature and Totalitarianism I said at the beginning of my first talk that this is not a critical age. It is an age of partisanship and not of detachment, an age in which it is especially difficult to see literary merit in a book with whose conclusions you disagree. Politics — politics in the most general sense — have invaded literature, to an extent that does not normally happen, and this has brought to the surface of our consciousness the struggle that always goes on between…
army family. His father was Colonel J. Walker Benét. Frances Neill (Rose) Benét, Stephen's mother, was a descendant of an old Kentucky military family. Because his father was an avid reader, who especially loved poetry, Benét grew up in home, where literature was valued and enjoyed. Most of his boyhood Benét spent in Benicia, California. At the age about ten, Benét was sent to the Hitchcock Military Academy. However, he preferred reading to athletics and did not like the insensitivity of his school mates…
The Candyman: Within the Man in the Mirror Michelle Londono English 101 – Section 3914 Yvonne A. De La Cruz 2 March 2015 Table of Contents Abstract…...…………………………………………………………….….. 2 Introduction………………………………………………………………… 3 Literature Review…………………………………………………………... 4 Results……………………………………………………………………… 5 Discussion………………………………………………………………….. 6 Works Cited…………………………………………………………..……. 7 Appendices – Contents…………………………………………………....... 8 Appendix A……………………………………………………….. 22 Appendix B…………………………………………………………
of the most successful and highly paid salesmen in America. He goes on to say that anyone can succeed by an easy formula--focused goals and hard work. This is the message of hundreds of self-help books, articles, and sermons. By extension, this literature implies that those who do not succeed must face the fact that they themselves are responsible for their failure. While scientifically it is routine to dismiss the individual deficiency theory as an apology for social inequality (Fischer, et al…
between organisational strategy and HRM strategy Match HRM to organisational strategy Discuss the main perspectives on SHRM and organisational performance. What is HRM? Developments in the field of HRM are now well documented in the management literature (see e.g. Boxall, 1992; Legge, 1995; Schuler and Jackson, 2007; Sisson and Storey, 2000; Torrington et al., 2005). The roots of HRM go back as far as the 1950s, when writers like Drucker and McGregor stressed the need for visionary goal-directed…
Abortion – Moral or Immoral? I would argue that abortion is immoral. Abortion is a debate that continues day in, day out, year in, year out. We have laws that have been set into place, yet the debate continues. The opposing sides in the debate each strongly believe they are right. The pro-choice supporters see a woman's right to choose as central to the debate. The pro-choice advocates see the life of the baby as the most important concern. Very little middle ground exists on the issue…
with fantastical elements resembling those of later science fiction, the central character "makes a deliberate decision" and "turns to modern experiments in the laboratory" to achieve fantastic results.[1] It has had a considerable influence across literature and popular culture and spawned a complete genre of horror stories, films, and plays. Since publication of the novel, the name "Frankenstein" is often used to refer to the monster itself, as is done in the stage adaptation by Peggy Webling. This…
