IELTS Writing

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In this post, I'm trying to make an essay based on the IELTS writting test material. Everytime I make an article, I always concern about the grammatical things and the lexical words. Lately, I found out that those two components are not the most important thing in making such an essay. The most crucial thing is the organization of the article. So, I was trying to make this article as good as I can. This is what I got and I'll be waiting for your comments. 

Insomnia

Insomnia, or sleeplessness, is a sleep disorder in which there is an inability to fall asleep or stay asleep as long as desired.

There are three categories of insomnia, classified by its duration:

1. Transient Insomnia lasts less than a week. It can be caused by another disorder, by changes in the sleep environment, severe depression or stress.
2. Acute Insomnia is the inability to consequently sleep well for a period of less than a month. Acute insomnia is also known  as short term insomnia or stress related insomnia.
3. Chronic Insomnia lasts for longer than a month. It can be caused by another disorder or it can be the primary disorder. People with high levels of stress hormones are more likely to have chronic insomnia.

Insomnia symptoms may include:

• Difficulty falling asleep at night
• Awaken too early
• Awaken during the night
• Not feeling well rested after a night's sleep
• Day time fatigue and sleepiness
• Irritability, depression or anxiety
• Difficulty paying attention or focusing on tasks
• Increased errors or accidents
• Tension headache
• Gastrointestinal symptoms
• Ongoing worries about sleep

The following points explain the common causes of insomnia:

• Stress. Concern about work, school, health, or family can keep your mind active at night, making it difficult to sleep.
• Medication. Many prescription drugs can interfere with sleep including antidepressant, heart and blood pressure medications, allergy medications, stimulants, corticosteroids.
• Change in your environment or work schedule. Travel or working a late or early shifts can disturb your body's circadian ryhthms, making it difficult to sleep.
• Caffein, nicotine, and alcohol. Coffee, tea, cola, and other caffein-containing drinks are well-known stimulants. Drinking coffee in the late afternoon and later can keep you from falling asleep at night. Alcohol is a sedative that may help you fall asleep, but it prevents deeper stages of sleep and often causes you to awaken in the middle of the night.
• Eating too much late in the evening. Having a light snack before bed time is OK, but eating too much may cause you to feel physically uncomfortable when lying down. This uncomfortable feeling may keep you awake.

Here are 11 tips that might help you to reduce insomnia:

1. Exercise regulary
2. Avoid eating and drinking too much before bedtime
3. Sleep in comfortable environment
4. Reduce the consumption of stimulant-consisting products; such as tea, coffee, alcohol, ciggarate, etc
5. Eat snacks that contains little carbohydrate before bedtime; for example: a glass of milk
6. Go take shower with warm water 30minutes-1hour before bedtime
7. Stop watching TV, browsing the internet, or reading book at lease 1 hour before bedtime
8. Use your bed for sleeping
9. Perform regukar relaxation activity; like listening to music instrument, breathing practicing, etc
10.  Clear your mind
11. Sleep and wake up in a regular time period everyday

Well.. That's all I got about Insomnia! Hopefully these information may enlarge your knowledge or even help you to reduce and prevent Insomnia. Having a healthy life is the best way to live :)

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Delicia

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Sources:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insomnia

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/insomnia/DS00187

http://www.shvoong.com/medicine-and-health/alternative-medicine/2134068-11-tips-reduce-insomnia/

Myth: The Origin of Sexual Orientation

The Myth of Aristophanes

Picture by Dr Tom Stockmann

In Plato’s Symposium, Aristophanes delivers his speech in the form of a myth.

A long time ago, there were three kinds of human beings: male, descended from the sun; female, descended from the earth; and androgynous, with both male and female elements, descended from the moon. Each human being was completely round, with four arms and fours legs, two identical faces on opposite sides of a head with four ears, and all else to match. They walked both forwards and backwards and ran by turning cartwheels on their eight limbs, moving in circles like their parents the planets.

As they were powerful and unruly and threatening to scale the heavens, Zeus devised to cut them into two ‘like a sorb-apple which is halved for pickling,’ and even threatened to cut them into two again, so that they might hop on one leg. Apollo then turned their heads to make them face towards their wound, pulled their skin around to cover up the wound, and tied it together at the navel like a purse. He made sure to leave a few wrinkles on what became known as the abdomen so that they might be reminded of their punishment.

After that, human beings longed for their other half so much that they searched for it all over and, when they found it, wrapped themselves around it very tightly and did not let go. As a result, they started dying from hunger and self-neglect, and Zeus took pity on them, and moved their genitals to the front so that those who were previously androgynous could procreate, and those who were previously male could obtain satisfaction and move on to higher things.

This is the origin of our desire for other human beings; those of us who desire members of the opposite sex were previously androgynous, whereas men who desire men and women who desire women were previously male or female. When we find our other half, we are ‘lost in an amazement of love and friendship and intimacy’ that cannot be accounted for by a simple desire for sex, but rather by a desire to be whole again, and restored to our original nature. Our greatest wish, if we could have it, would then be for Hephaestus to melt us into one another so that our souls could be at one, and share in a common fate.

Adapted from Plato's Shadow
Source: http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/sciencemedicine/a/072309SoulMates.htm