reading log of a chapter in a book

SUMMARY
In chapter 9 of the book, “Narcolepsy and Hypersomnia”, 1980, the author, Bedrich Roth, mainly introduces the narcoleptic signs and effects at the aspects of “falling asleep”, “nocturnal sleep” and “morning awakening”. In section a, the author reports that, narcoleptics are frequently easier than ordinary to fall asleep, which has evidences supported by the literatures of Roth, Ruther and others. And he also mentions that, there are also some narcoleptics almost normally get sleep or have difficulties to fall asleep. Then, besides providing a table about the proportions of the above three types of falling asleep in narcolepsy and describing the table specifically, he also lists the percentages of narcoleptics with monosymptomatic and polysymptomatic types of falling asleep in clinic. In part b, according to the reports of Daniels, Heyck, Hess, Jovanovic, Ruther and others, B. Roth primarily indicates that, there are a large amount of narcoleptics have troubles in sleeping at night. He also quotes the speech of Vein to express that, after narcoleptics experience the attacks of narcolepsy and cataplexy, there is the time when the troubles of sleep occur in a high rate during the sleeps in the evening. In addition, the author claims that, narcoleptics can’t get steady sleeps though they are faster to fall asleep. Moreover, Roth shows and describes a form about narcoleptic patients’ evaluations of their sleep at night. He also presents the proportions of the monosymptomatic and polysymptomatic form of “nocturnal sleep”. In passage c, Roth explicitly shows and explains a table about how many narcoleptics can get up as normal and how many patients awaken with sleep drukenness. Furthermore, he also mentions that, patients with idiopathic hypersomnia will exhibit more severe sleep drukenness than narcoleptics. In portion d, the author claims that, narcoleptics always have headache, mainly caused by constantly waking up in the process of sleeping, will recover after high-quality sleeps. In addition, there are some evidences provided by Daniels and Roth to show that, how many narcoleptics get headache. In the section e, Roth indicates that, a large number of narcoleptics are obesity based on the reports of Daniels, Thiele, Bernhardt, Wilder, Cave, Vein and others. He also explains that, even though narcolepsy doesn’t directly attach to highly excessive heaviness, longer time of sleep still leads patients to gain weight. In part f, the author according to the supports of Redlich, Daniels and others as well as the conclusion of Yoss and Daly to show that, over functions of the thyroid and “low basal metabolism” induced by sleepiness might take part in when patients accept examines, which often misleads the explanations of narcoleptic indications. Furthermore, Roth notes that narcolepsy also has a considerable effect on” sexual functions”. For male, narcolepsy can inclines their libido and impotence; for female, narcolepsy has large influences on the aspects of menstruates and libido. Then he gives a form to summarize the numbers of patients with the disturbances of “sexual functions”. Moreover, Roth indicates that, narcolepsy also leads to “other endocrine disorders”, such as reducing the functions of pituitary reported by Daniels and others, varying the metabolism of brain monoamines noted by Mouret, Gillin and others, over secreting diabetogenic insulin as well as decreasing glucose tolerance provided by Robert, declining some remaining substance like adrenaline in the blood, lessening excretion of urinary adrenaline and bringing down the level of serum corticosteroid presented by Vein. In part g, base on Vein’s literature, B. Roth mainly claims the negative impacts of autonomic nervous system caused by narcolepsy. In the last section, Roth presents that, although narcolepsy doesn’t vary narcoleptics’ psychology in the field of normal mind and intelligence, there is certain relation still built up between some “typical mental disturbances” and narcolepsy, in particular, schizophrenia supported by Sours. Furthermore, the author indicates that, there are a number of the reports from the literatures of Redlich, Cave, Daniels, Heyck, Hess and Klempel to evidence the closely connection between narcolepsy and depression. Then he expresses that, narcoleptics are easier feel depress than normal people through the study of depression and narcolepsy, the one which he works with Nevsimalova. In addition, he quotes the words of Broughton and Ghanem to report that, narcolepsy will give rise to huge emotion waves of patients. Furthermore, Roth mentions that, depression is compacter with hypersomnia than narcolepsy. Moreover, besides explaining “neurotic and neurasthenic symptoms”, “abnormal personality” and psychopathy all that are conjunction with narcolepsy supported by Roy, he also provides a table showing the influence of these above mental indications. Finally, he claims that, since the amount of patients tested in Roth and Nevsimalova’s survey is relatively restricted; as a result, the impacts provided in this form are more intense than the facts.

CRITIQUE
Throughout the chapter, the author mainly presents the features and the influence ranges of several different conditions of narcolepsy. Furthermore, there are a considerable amount of expertise principals and profession words utilized by B. Roth. Moreover, he also provides adequate evidence from the literatures of other authors to support his demonstrations. In my opinion, since there is an increase number of people get various aliments about narcolepsy, People, whoever with narcolepsy or not should not only be cured by hospitalizing, but also ought to taking actions to this issue, setting up a series of ordered sleep hygiene and habits by themselves.

QUESTIONS
1. Do you often have nightmares when you are sleeping at night?
2. Do you always wake up when you are sleeping at night?
3. How often do you feel tired when you wake up?

VOCABULARY
1. Nocturnal---adj. happening at night
Rebecca paid a nocturnal visit to the flat.
2. Paralysis---n. the loss of ability to move all or part of your body or feel things in it
The snake’s poison causes paralysis.
3. Terrify---v. to make someone extremely afraid
Her husband’s violence terrified her.
4. Incidence---n. the number of times something happens, especially crime, disaster etc.
Smokers had the highest incidence of colds.
5. Syndrome---n. an illness which consist of a set of physical or mental problems---often used in the name of illnesses.
People who suffer from irritable bowl syndrome, will have many symptoms existing afterwards.

the modified vision of readinglog of journal

SUMMARY

In the journal” Tragedy and Insomnia” in The New English Journal of Medicine, December 20, 2001, the author, David P White, introduces several therapies to patients who get insomnia because of various exterior stresses. At the beginning of the journal, Lavie provides an example of a “terrorist attack” which occurred in America. Then base on the evidences of this issue, a number of people get troubles on sleep owing to feeling stressful after the disaster, he expands a doubt about if we should cure the troubles of sleep caused by pressure, in addition to what treatments can be exploited. Furthermore, the author explains that, stress is one of major reasons for inducing insomnia that often will be recovered without any medical treatment; however, there are also some cases of insomnia which might develop to chronic affections, due to patients’ excessive anxiety of their sleep capacities. Moreover, Lavie presents that, depression and various anxieties have been assumed by clinicians to be the signs of chronic “sleep disturbances” even though people still have no idea about how to single out which problems will expand to chronic forms. Lavie also indicates that, despite of the fact that, it is unclear whether the treatments applied to sleep troubles will be effective or not, we still have to implement them because of a number of severe results affected by insomnia. In addition, he predicts that, the therapies of insomnia will have an great effort to most insomniacs who didn’t show that, prior to getting through long processes of anxiety and depression as well as having negative emotion disorders, until the symptoms of insomnia exhibited. Furthermore, the author mainly lists the essential cure approaches. First, he claims that, clinicians ought to care patients as the instructions of “sleep hygiene” made by Lavie, second, that author reports that, clinicians could take advantage of the short period effects of some medicines containing benzodiazepine to help insomniacs. Third, he emphasizes that, particular patients with histories of abuse certain substance should not be treated by “hypnotic therapy”, for they are easier to get dependence on the drugs used in the treatment. He also explains that, clinicians should primarily according to two sides, the drugs applied to the treatments and what kind of troubles the patients have, to select the medicines that can be used to contribute to the therapies of hypnotization. Finally, Lavie suggests the treatments, from the area of actions, successfully adjust patients’ adverse emotions, and then gradually alleviate the classes of insomnia. Moreover, he indicates that, there are still many suspicions of utilizing benzodiazepines and hypnotic agent in long periods. The author also stresses that, although most insomnia caused by pressure, actual reasons must be some potential disorders exist in advance. Besides summing up all the cure methods mentioned in the journal, Lavie also concludes that, insomniacs should find out right measures, counting on their own conditions, to get proper treatments

CRITIQUE

In the journal, Lavie mainly present about insomnia induced by pressure and its relevance treatments. Even though he successfully organizes a clear structure of the therapies of insomnia and conclusion, it is obvious that, the last 2 and 3 paragraph seems like inappropriate base on the context. Throughout the journal, the author makes full use of expertise opinions and professional words. Furthermore, in my opinion, everyone will have whatever severe or mild insomnia. In spite of the fact that my instance of insomnia is not as acute as the type described in this journal, I undoubtedly have strong feelings of insomnia resulted in stresses, in particular, the nights before exams, I will be nervous and can not fall asleep, which is not only harmful for my health, but also leading me to insufficient energy in the following day’s exams. Thus, I am also a victim of insomnia.

QUESTIONS

1. Have you ever got insomnia caused by feeling stressful?
2. What kind of measures do you think they are helpful for insomnia?
3. Do you have some examples, someone has severe insomnia?

VOCABULARY

1. Spontaneous---adj. something that is spontaneous has not been planned or organized, but happens by itself, or because you suddenly feel you want to do it.
My spontaneous reaction was run away.
2. Intervention---n. the act of becoming involved in an argument, fight, or other difficult situation in order to change what happens
Government take actions on intervention of regulate prices.
3. Stem from--- to develop as a result of something else.
His headache stemmed from vision problem.
4. Exacerbate---v. to make a bad situation worse.
I do not want to exacerbate the situation.
5. Therapy---n. the treatment of an illness or injury over a fairly long period of time.
Clinicians are making an experiment of a new drug therapy.

reading log of a journal

SUMMARY

In the journal” Tragedy and Insomnia” in The New English Journal of Medicine, December 20, 2001, the author, David P White, introduces several therapies of patients who get insomnia because of various stresses. At the beginning of the journal, Lavie provides an example of a terrorist attack occurred in America. Then base on the evidences of this issue, a number of people get troubles on sleep owing to feeling stressful after the disaster, he expands a doubt if we should cure the troubles of sleep caused by pressure, in addition to what treatment can be exploited. Furthermore, the author explains that, stress is one of major reasons for inducing insomnia that often will be recovered without any medical treatment; however, there are also some cases of insomnia which might develop to chronic affections, due to patients’ excessive anxiety of their sleep capacities. Moreover, Lavie presents that, depression and various anxieties have been assumed by clinicians to be the signs of chronic “sleep disturbances” even though people still have no idea about how to single out which problems will develop to chronic forms. Lavie also indicates that, despite of the fact that, it is unclear whether the treatments applied to sleep troubles will be effective or not, we still have to implement them because of a number of severes results affected by insomnia. In addition, he predicts that, the therapies of insomnia will have an great effort on most insomniacs who didn’t show that, prior to getting through long processes of anxiety and depression as well as having negative emotion disorders, until the symptoms of insomnia exhibited. Moreover, the author mainly lists the essential cure approaches. First, he claims that, clinicians ought to care patients as the instructions of “sleep hygiene” made by Lavie, second, that author reports that, clinicians could take advantage of the short period effects of some medicines containing benzodiazepine to help insomniacs. Third, he emphasizes that, particular patients with histories of abuse certain substance should not be treated by “hypnotic therapy”, for they are easier to get dependence on the drugs used in the treatment. He also explains that, clinicians should according to the drugs applied to the treatment and what kind of troubles the patients have to select the medicines used to contribute to the therapy of hypnotization. Finally, Lavie suggests the treatments, from the area of actions, successfully adjust patients’ adverse emotions, and then gradually alleviate the classes of insomnia. Moreover, the author indicates that, there are still many suspicions of utilizing benzodiazepines and hypnotic agent in long periods. He also stresses that, although most insomnia caused by pressure, actual reasons must be some potential disorders exist in advance. Besides summing up all the cure methods mentioned in the journal, Lavie also concludes that, insomniacs should find out right measures count on their own conditions to get proper treatments

CRITIQUE

In the journal, Lavie mainly present about insomnia induced by pressure and its relevance treatments. Even though he successfully organizes a clear structure of the therapies of insomnia caused by stress and conclusion, it is obvious that, the last 2 and 3 paragraph seems like inappropriate in the context. Throughout the journal, the author makes full use of expertise opinions and professional words. In my opinion, everyone will have whatever severe or mild insomnia. In spite of the fact that my instance of insomnia is not as acute as the type described in this journal, I really have strong feelings of insomnia resulted in stresses, in particular, the nights before exams, I will be nervous and can not fall asleep, which is not only harmful for my health, but also leading to an insufficient energy in exams. Thus, I am also a victim of insomnia.

QUESTIONS

Have you ever got insomnia caused by feeling stressful?
What kind of measures do you think they are helpful for insomnia?
Do you have some examples, someone has severe insomnia?

VOCABULARY

Spontaneous---adj. something that is spontaneous has not been planned or organized, but happens by itself, or because you suddenly feel you want to do it.
My spontaneous reaction was run away.
Intervention---n. the act of becoming involved in an argument, fight, or other difficult situation in order to change what happens
Government take actions on intervention of regulate prices.
Stem from--- to develop as a result of something else.
His headache stemmed from vision problem.
Exacerbate---v. to make a bad situation worse.
I do not want to exacerbate the situation.
Therapy---n. the treatment of an illness or injury over a fairly long period of time.
Clinicians are making an experiment of a new drug therapy.

reading log 2

SUMMARY

In the article, “When zero fat is not zero fat” in Macleans, March, 27, 2006, the author, Danylo Hawaleshka exposes that, a latent problem of “0 g trans fat”, a banner labeling on the a number of the foods’ packages, is that “zero grams does not always mean zero grams”. First, Hawaleshka claims that, seeing from the surface, Oreo is a health food, but there is some problem hiding behind the icon of it. Second, the author emphasizes a loophole, in the rules of Health Canada, allows a “regulatory oversight” of certain remaining of fatty acids to be legal. That leads to manufacturers can sign “0 g trans fat per serving” on their packages if the amount of fatty acids in the products is under limit. Moreover, he also predicts that, companies may not purely take advantage of the original requirement form of the loophole, which means that, they also show the “eligible” remaining on the packages to acquire greater benefit, but shifting the forms of the total amount of fatty acids to the single one by themselves. Furthermore, the author quotes the words of Bonnie Liebman, an expert of nutrition, to condemn that, the loophole seems like a chance given by health Canada of companies producing unqualified foods. Third, Carole Saindon, a spokeswoman of Health Canada, indicates to Hawaleshka that, the regulations of Health Canada permits, “the 0 g claim” can be labeled when the remaining of the fatty acids is “round to zero”. That leads to even though the amount of other kinds of fatty acids are really high in the products, companies still labels “0 g trans fat”, that probably exhibits in one type of fatty acids, on the products. To the above phenomena, Health Canada claims to the author that, they have started to take actions to solve. Forth, Hawaleshka quotes the unclear speech of the representor of Kraft Canada, Don Blair, to reveal that, the authority doesn’t give enough concern to the problem of foods containing over amount fatty acids. Fifth, Bruce Holub explains to the author that, although companies try their best to reduce the amount of trans-fat in their foods, the foods still can be only defined as “less harmful”. Finally, D. Hawaleshka stresses that, besides Oreo, there are some other brands utilizes such similar advertisements of less trans fat to attract consumers, he also quotes liebman’s words to remind people of being careful the existing “trans-traps”

CRITIQUE

In this article, Hawaleshka mainly illustrates the problem,” zero grams does not always mean zero grams”, presented by “0 g trans fat “claim, which is popular with being used by companies to trap consumers. Throughout the article, making the overall structure messy, the author fails to construct an exactly clear layer of paragraphs to show the problem; moreover, all the support opinions are disorganized, which is difficult for readers to successfully understand the content and grasp the principal concepts. In addition, the uses of some pronouns are unclear to point to what. However, as a consumer, I strongly agree with Hawaleshka’s viewpoints of “0 g claim”, which against such cheating actions did by foods companies, implied in the article. Since foods are closely related to our health, the reliability of foods’ advertisements is extremely important. Thus the relevance authorities have responsibility of urging companies to reduce the amount of unhealthy substances in foods, monitoring as well as examining foods’ producing processes.

QUESTIONS

1. What kind of food do you like?
2. Have you ever seen the label of “0 g trans fat” on the packages of some products?
3. Do you mind whether the food, your preference, contains over amount of unhealthy substance?

VOCABULARY

1. wafer---n. a small, thin, crisp cake, biscuit, or candy.
Jimmy gave me a package of wafer.
2. prominent---adj. immediately noticeable; conspicuous.
You will be prominent if you wear a bright color clothes.
3. demolish---v. to end or ruin something completely.
These ants can demolish large area of forest.
4. loophole---n. a small mistake in a law that makes it possible to aovid doing something that the law is support to make you do.
The loophole let companies get the opportunities to product unhealthy foods.
5. exploite---v. to use something fully and effectively.
Companies are fully exploiting the loophole which Health Canada left.

the reading log of newspaper

SUMMARY

In the article “Libraries are quiet places, right?” in Excalibur, October 18,2006, the author, Laura Cicchirillo, reports that sleepers, cell phone speakers and non-academic discussions are main problems which severely affect the study atmosphere in Scott Library. First, L.Cicchirillo states that, Scott Library is relatively popular in York University, for there is a considerable amount of facilities and materials broadly available for students. Second, besides Andrew, a senior of economics major, indicates to the author that, many students don’t study in Scott Library in daytime; Cicchirillo also observes that, some students take a nap in Scott, accounting for two chairs per person, which makes trouble to other people who have to spend more time to find a seat. Furthermore, she reports the declaration from John A.Thomson, an administrant of Scott Library, to reveal that, Scott Library hasn’t had a definite rule to be the solution of “lack of seating” caused by sleepers yet. Third, Thomson claims to the author that, to reduce some socialized discusses as well as to make a quieter study area, the staffs of Scott Library relocated the study area. Moreover, Cicchirillo quotes the words of Rina Glacamo, a junior of anthropology major, to show that, although Scott has explicit rule which restricts people to speak loudly in study area, it doesn’t seem to work on controlling the noisy condition. Furthermore, the author exposes that, because Scott doesn’t exactly rule and sign about prohibiting cell phone in second floor, which result in an official silent study area is still unavailable to undergraduate. Then she also emphasizes that cell phone and non-academic discussion are major reasons which produce noise in Scott. Forth, taking advantage of her own experiences, being an “enforcer” to prevent other people from talking, Cicchirillo shows different reactions of people when they were interrupted to talk with phones or other people. Finally, the author recalls that, the rules of libraries were strict, and staff often managed students to keep silent before.

CRITIQUE

This article mainly presents about some problems exhibiting in Scott Library. She separately quotes the words of John A. Thomson, Andrew and Rina Glacamo to support that, how severe problems Scott has, which seriously destroys a quieter study area. Even though Thomson claims to the author that, the staffs of Scott Library have attempted to take actions to solve these problems, Cicchirillo implies that the key point is the rules of Scott Library are uncompleted. In my opinion, Scott Library is one of libraries which are familiar with me, but I don’t always go there to study also due to the above problems provided by the author. Thus I strongly agree with the standpoints of the author. If the problems of “lack of seating” and noise can be solved, Scott Library will be much more benefit for us.

QUESTIONS

1. Which libraries do you like in York University? Why?
2. Do you always go to Scott Library to study?
3. If someone really bothers you while you are studying, how will you do?

VOCABULARY

1. carefree--- adj. free of worries and responsibilities
When I live in ChangChun, I often felt carefree.
2 escalator---n. a moving stairway consisting of steps attached to a continuously circulating belt.
I will meet my mom at the first escalator of the department.
3. pad---v. to line or stuff in soft materials.
My father brought a padded chair for me.
4. cozy---adj. snug, comfortable and warm.
I have a cozy home in China.
5. banter---n. Good—humored, playful conversation.
My friends and I usually have banters online

hello! lindsey

i'm binbin wang. i come from china. my favorite food is various fruits, and i like drinking milk. i'm the only child in my family. my willingness is that,improving my english skill and getting offer from york university as soon as possible because i really miss my mom, and eager to go back china soon.

hi,Beata

i'm sorry that i failed to send an email to you on weekend. i've already finished the book, which you suggest me to do. i took some grammar from it, so it is not a whole one now. i found out several questions, i need to ask you,hehe. i will wait for the time when you are available. last week, i intended to make an apointment because i wanted to explain why i was so sleepy that day. i rent a living room of a town house in york university. it means if my roommate go out, i can't sleep. i am always waked up at night around 2~3'o clock. that day was the same situation, but i promise it 'll never happen again.

hi,Beata

i'm sorry that i failed to send an email to you on weekend. i've already finished the book, which you suggest me to do. i took some grammar from it, so it is not a whole one now. i found out several questions, i need to ask you,hehe. i will wait for the time you are avilable. last week, i intended to make an apointment because i wanted to explain why i was so sleepy that day. i rent a living room of a town house in york university. it means if my roommate go out, i can't sleep. i am always waked up at night around 2~3'o clock. that day was the same situation, but i promise it 'll never happen again.

a memory

Yesterday, I met the guy on MSN whom I miss him so much. He is my classmate in high school. The guy is not very handsome, but he is popular in our school. Many girls like him.
Recalling the matters that happened between us, I still think our relationship is so exquisite. In our first public class, he sat behind of me. During our small talk, he suddenly asked me whether I had a boyfriend. Before I gave my answer, other classmates who heard his words start to guffaw, so I said nothing. The rumor about us begins to spread out from that time; even teachers also considered that we had something. In my opinion, we do not match for each other due to the attitude of study, so I did not want to get together with him.
He is a guy who really attacks girls’ attention. Many girls gave him love letters, expressed their feeling to him and hided their love about him in their hearts. If girls still think that he and I have something, I will be ostracized by them. Thus, I decided to treat him badly. I ignored his words or fiercely cursed him. At the beginning, he beard all my rudely movements; then he had feared to talk with me. The situation kept on until his birthday, he treated four girls of our class include me. Before the birthday, he gave me a long call to invite me. Until now I still do not know myself clearly about that day I turned up because I want to value the time when my classmates and I hung out( I had planed to go aboard, but nobody knew it at that time) or that is his birthday. However, we had a good time at that day.
When I prepared for leaving school, another boy and he helped me to move my things. Then I treated them to have a dinner. During the dinner, I explained and apologized my rudely behavior, and he said a lot of his feeling. I approved him that he is a good guy and that he can always draw girls’ attention. He made a joke that if he is charming, why he still can not chase me.