Will Less Sleep Make Us Happy?

Why do we sleep? Why do we spend a third of our lives sleeping? Would we be happier if scientists find a way to let us stay awake longer? Although it is difficult to answer these questions, let us imagine that scientists developed several ways to let us stay awake longer.

            In the first place, sleep takes a third of our lives since we sleep eight hours daily. So, we spend a long part of our life without doing anything just laying on the bed. It would be nice to limit the number of hours we spend in bed and dreaming. Then we could get so more done. Busy people sometimes regard sleep as a waste of time. They take time away from sleep to tend affairs of the day. For example, Napoleon,

 Florence Nightingale

 and Margaret Thatcher

 got by on four hours a night.
Also, Thomas Edison claimed it was waste of time unless we stay awake at longer hours in night.

            In the same way, just in case sleep time is reduced, in fact, scientists would have time to find cures for cancer, diabetes and other treatments to prevent suffering and early death. As well as, we would have scientific progress, additional urban constructions, new literatures, extra arts, better music and all human needs would be resolved in shorter time. Likewise, the students would have longer time to completed their homework and do what they like to do in the rest of their time.

            Equally important, in case we get more time to stay awake, that means we can do our regular responsibilities and find time to work out, visit our friends, watch TV, and get more hours of entertainment with the family. We would also have more time to go to parties and enjoy our lives, so this would enhance our social and intimate relationships.

            Comparatively, we know that sleep is an essential life process and as important to our well- being as the food we eat, the water we drink, and the air we breathe, but we can rely on the scientist’s way to let us stay awake longer. Perhaps we would miss the wonderful lazy Saturday morning spent in bed dreaming lovely dreams.

            All things considered, we will be fortunate if scientists find way to help humans stay awake longer without feeling tired if we don’t get enough sleep. It would be nice if we could limit the amount of sleep we need to only a couple of hours a day so we would have more time to do the things we enjoy or to make money. Of course, we will be happier if we stay awake longer.

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Week 2:

In this week, I draw the first floor; the exterior and interior walls, doors, openings, windows and adding a fireplace.

 

The fireplace:

I added a fireplace to the Living Room using Mantel1 fireplace with masonry chimney-wall

  
 
 

Fireplace mantels can be the emphasis of tradition interior decoration. It offers a unique opportunity to create a personal statement unique to the room they are creating.

I picked fine wood mantel here. Though, the choice of material for the mantel includes such rich materials as marble, limestone, granite, or fine woods but the most luxurious of materials is marble. In the past only the finest of rare colored and white marbles were used, but today many of those fine materials are no longer available; however many other beautiful materials can be found worldwide. Also, a mantel offers a unique opportunity in its design for me to demonstrate the skill in carving each of the fine decorative elements, such as moldings, brackets, figurines, animals, fruits and vegetation are commonly used to decorate a mantel. it is the quality of the carving that defines the quality of the mantel piece thus highlighting the magnificence of the room.

 

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Residential Design Using Autodesk Revit 2014

Autodesk Revit (Architecture, Structure and MEP) is the world’s first fully parametric building design software.

 It can be thought of as the foundation of a large process called Building Information Modeling (BIM). Moreover, Rivet stands for Revise Instantly; a change made in one view is automatically updated in all other views and schedules. Also, it comes in three different “flavors”: Revit Architecture, Revit Structure, and Revit MEP (Mechanical, Electrical and Plumbing). All three Revit products use .RVT files for storing BIM models. Typically, a building is made using 3D objects to create walls, floors, roofs, structure, windows, doors ductwork, electrical systems and other objects as needed. These parametric objects— 3D building objects (such as windows or doors) or 2D drafting objects (such as fasteners)— are called "families" and are saved in .RFA files, and imported into the RVT database as needed (Stine).

 

Charles River Software was founded in Newton, Massachusetts, October 31, 1997 by Leonid Raiz and Irwin Jungreis, key developers of Parametric Technology's Pro/Engineer software for mechanical design, with the intent of bringing the power of parametric modeling to the building industry. The company was renamed Revit Technology Corporation in January, 2000, and Revit version 1.0 was released on April 5, 2000. In 2012, Revit LT became the newest version of Revit on the market (contributors).

My Project is to design a two- story residence located in a suburban setting.  The first step is to create a new project file and enter the basic project information, such as client name, project address, etc.

 

 

 The second step is to design the first floor plan by drawing the exterior walls first and then the interior walls.

  (Residential Design Using Autodesk Revit 2014)

Works Cited

contributors, Wikipedia. Autodesk Revit. 14 10 2013. Web. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autodesk_Revit>.

Stine, Daniel John. Residential Design Using Autodesk Revit 2014. Mission KS: Schroff Development Corporation, 2013. Textbook.