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The importance of sleep for your body

 

    If the nighttime teas and custom pillows didn’t make it obvious, Americans are desperate for quality sleep. Some of the benefits are apparent — feeling more alert and not clawing at a coffee pot all day is appealing. But there are other, more subtle ways quality sleep can do the body good.

    Some hormones — the molecules moving around our bloodstream to regulate different biological processes — ride our biological rhythms mostly for the sake of making us sleepy. Others, however, rise and fall with those sleep-wake cycles even though they have different responsibilities, including regulating our immune systems.

    For example, cortisol levels increase and decrease on a day-and-night pattern. This hormone plays a role in controlling our immune systems and can reduce the pain associated with inflammation. Getting too little sleep can disturb the cortisol rhythm and keep high levels of the hormone going for longer. 

    Other biological processes increase the immune system’s line of defense, and it turns out sleep might play a role in those factors, too. In the early 2000s, researchers gave hepatitis A vaccines to two groups of people and let one sleep normally while the other had to stay awake. The well-rested group developed an immune system reaction to the vaccine that was 40 percent higher than the other group — a good thing in this case, because the response indicated the vaccine was working. The researchers concluded that the result had nothing to do with cortisol reducing the immune system response of those who were awake, since the levels of the hormone in their bodies didn’t rise significantly. Instead, other sleep immune factors stepped in for the well-rested participants.

(Leslie Nemo. www.discovermagazine.com, 13.05.2020. Adaptado.)

No trecho do segundo parágrafo “Others, however, rise and fall with those sleep-wake cycles”, o termo sublinhado refere-se a

Leia a tirinha Calvin and Hobbes, de Bill Watterson, para responder à questão.

A expressão “would rather”, presente em forma coloquial nas falas do terceiro e quarto quadrinhos, “Oh, you’d rather blow” e “If you’d rather fix”, exprime sentido de

Leia a tirinha Calvin and Hobbes, de Bill Watterson, para responder à questão.

In this comic strip, the boy can be characterized as

A Teen's View of Social Media 

 

     Instagram is made up of all photos and videos. There is the home page that showcases the posts from people you follow, an explore tab which offers posts from accounts all over the world, and your own page, with a notification tab to show who likes and comments on your posts. 

     It has some downsides though. It is known to make many people feel insecure or down about themselves because the platform showcases the highlights of everyone's lives, while rarely showing the negatives. This can make one feel like their life is not going as well as others, contributing to the growing rates of anxiety or depression in many teens today. There is an underlying desire for acceptance through the number of likes or followers one has.

Disponível em: https “cyborbuliying.org. Acesso em: 29 qui. 2021.

 

O termo “downsides” introduz a ideia de que o Instagram  é responsável por

I tend the mobile now

like an injured bird

 

We text, text, text 

our significant words.

 

I re-read your first, 

your second, your third,

Look for your small xx, 

feeling absurd.

 

The codes we send 

arrive with a broken chord. 

 

try to picture your hands, 

their image is blurred. 

Nothing my thumbs press

will ever be heard. 

DUFFY, C. Disponivel em: www. independent.co.uk, Acesso em: 27 out. 2021.

 

Nesse poema, o eu lírico evidencia um sentimento de

Nessa tirinha, o comportamento da mulher expressa