Imagine a world where civilization constantly walks the streets, looking down in their hands they hold tiny screens that hold the world. They follow in the same line and routine as the day before like they were in 3rd grade playing follow the leader. Working 50+ hour weeks in small boxes with crowded spaces while the phone rings for the 100th time in the next box over while the boss yells down the hall about company deadlines. Focus on the constant sound of clicking from keyboards, the stench of someone else’s lunch, and the growing migraine from staring at a large screen while shifting in your chair for the fortieth time trying to get comfortable hopefully for a few moments. For some Americans this is what to expect on a day-to-day basis while
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The brain is a complex network that controls how we function throughout the day that manages our reflex time, mood, ability to converse, and things well beyond what we know. Within the brain we have millions upon thousands of microscopic stimulators called neurons. Neurons are the reason we react to “all sensations, movements, thoughts, memories, and feelings” (Office). An easy way to picture neurons is to think of wires. Almost any style of wire has a plastic or waxy coating on the outside. If these wires were put into use and didn’t have the covering around them, or it became damaged, the signal transmitted through would either be lost completely or be sent in short burst and loose some effectiveness. Now when we think about the term “brain” we typically do not follow it up with the word “firing”. But, when the brain is triggered to do an action, voluntary or involuntary, specific neurons begin firing and send coded messages that race to the brain telling it how to react to an outside …show more content…
In today’s society people who work 40 hours are considered full time, while many of them work beyond that. When it comes to a job most people do not live right down the street. Many travel 15 minutes or longer to their place of employment and have to wake up no later than 6 o’clock in order to beat the rush of traffic and make it to work on time. Not only to do they have to get up before the sun does but most full-time employees have children under the age of 18, making school and extra curricular activities an addition to the day and a subtraction on their time. Most people living in America have a mindset of “go go go” and do not usually slow down, let alone are encouraged to. The saying “so many things to do, so little time” has become a norm for many people across the nation, but have we really lost time? As Michael Diamond states in his article “technology may be getting faster and the world may be getting smaller, but the number of house in the day hasn’t changed” (Diamond). No, time has not gone any faster or slower we have just become so accustomed to the world around us moving fast that we don’t realize how everything is passing by. Going from one place to another we do not regularly stop and think about how our brain is handling all this
The brain is a complex network that controls how we function throughout the day that manages our reflex time, mood, ability to converse, and things well beyond what we know. Within the brain we have millions upon thousands of microscopic stimulators called neurons. Neurons are the reason we react to “all sensations, movements, thoughts, memories, and feelings” (Office). An easy way to picture neurons is to think of wires. Almost any style of wire has a plastic or waxy coating on the outside. If these wires were put into use and didn’t have the covering around them, or it became damaged, the signal transmitted through would either be lost completely or be sent in short burst and loose some effectiveness. Now when we think about the term “brain” we typically do not follow it up with the word “firing”. But, when the brain is triggered to do an action, voluntary or involuntary, specific neurons begin firing and send coded messages that race to the brain telling it how to react to an outside …show more content…
In today’s society people who work 40 hours are considered full time, while many of them work beyond that. When it comes to a job most people do not live right down the street. Many travel 15 minutes or longer to their place of employment and have to wake up no later than 6 o’clock in order to beat the rush of traffic and make it to work on time. Not only to do they have to get up before the sun does but most full-time employees have children under the age of 18, making school and extra curricular activities an addition to the day and a subtraction on their time. Most people living in America have a mindset of “go go go” and do not usually slow down, let alone are encouraged to. The saying “so many things to do, so little time” has become a norm for many people across the nation, but have we really lost time? As Michael Diamond states in his article “technology may be getting faster and the world may be getting smaller, but the number of house in the day hasn’t changed” (Diamond). No, time has not gone any faster or slower we have just become so accustomed to the world around us moving fast that we don’t realize how everything is passing by. Going from one place to another we do not regularly stop and think about how our brain is handling all this