12-hour clock

My dad woke me up by shouting, “WAKE UP! DO YOU KNOW WHAT TODAY IS?” I knew what day it was: the day we went on a six-hour road trip from Roselle to Minocqua, Wisconsin. I saw all of the big buildings turn into smaller buildings, then into trees as we drove north. My family had done this trip every year on the Fourth of July, for decades. The one reoccurring factor, though, was the state of protection, given by the surrounding cabins, lake and trees. First of all, the cabins that we had rented…

The “Ghost Clock” is a fascinating piece of artwork, done by the modern sculptor and furniture maker Wendell Castle. While the piece may appear to just be a grandfather clock covered with a sheet, it is actually one whole piece. The Ghost Clock is completely made of mahogany. To achieve the look of a sheet draped over a clock, Castle had to bleach the wood multiple times in order to strip it of all its natural color, seen on the bottom of the sculpture. This is part of what makes the piece…

There are many ways elements of the universe correlate to man-made matters, such as keeping time or organizing events, in a systematic manner. A common method of maintaining events and time in order is by the use of a calendar; a chart or series of pages showing the days, weeks, and months of a particular year, or giving particular seasonal information. Not all calendars are arranged identically, as events and holidays can fall on different days each year, and time can be measured by different…

due to the “rude awakening” that the summer sun caused Franklin at 6:00 am in Paris. However, it wasn’t until 1905 that the first ever campaign to move the clocks forward between April and October was promoted; The “Waste of Daylight” measure was led by Englishman William Willet. One morning on horseback, Willet had the epiphany that the clocks should be moved forward by 80 minutes so that more people would be able to enjoy the abundance of sunlight. Subsequently, Willet used majority of his…

Subject: Language Arts Grade Level: Preschool Title: telling the time to the hour Objective: Student will tell the time using a digital and analog clock. Standard: 1- Physical Development 2- approaches to learning, 3) Social and emotional Development, 4) language, communication, and emergent literacy, 5) Cognitive Development and General Knowledge. Material: Clock, book: it’s about the time by Stuart Murphy, white card stock, colored card stock (two colors), scissors, and brass paper fasteners.…

For some reason, many people dread Mondays. From full-time employees to students, statuses are posted on Facebook to express one’s dislike for Mondays. By setting several alarms, drinking tons of coffee and exercising before they start their busy workweek, many students and workers pull themselves out of bed on Mondays cursing that the day arrived so soon. Every Monday, 21-year old exercise major Nyisha McNeil said she snoozes her alarm at least three times. By 8:35 a.m. the third alarm…

“Alright! Everyone, front and center!!” I groaned at the thought of having to actually get up. My bedroll was so warm, and the outside world was so cold and unforgiving. Why couldn’t I just sleep a few more minutes? “Varria!” The quartermaster yelled, “Get your ass in gear!” I groaned again but finally managed to get up and clear my eyesight enough to get a better view of the place I’d gotten so used to call home. In truth the building that the humans had set up for people like me was…

Beep! Beep! Beep! My alarm clock went off 5:00 am. I was putting my Camo hunting clothes on with my hunting jacket. I got my coffee started and got my new 243 wood grain stock with a thumb hole and a silver barrel out of the safe. My coffee was done I got one spoonful of sugar and dumped some nice warm licorice black coffee in my yeti cup. I grabbed my gun and walked out into the freezing cold morning, and started up the ranger. I set my gun in the ranger and started it up. I was letting the…

oats and some juice. Then the T.S.A agents scanned our boarding passes and we went on the plane. In thirty minutes we were up in the air. When I looked out the window in the plane, it is like I can see the sky hitting the ground. At around eight o clock we came off the plane, got our bags, and we got our rental car and went to the Nickelodeon hotel. When we arrived at the hotel and it looks breathtaking. I couldn’t wait to see everything that the hotel had to offer. We went in the room, and my…

April 22nd, 2014, it was supposed to be like any other day for James. Wake up, eat breakfast, go to his job, return home to his family, sleep, rinse and repeat. It was like this for the longest time, day after day the same process; however, today would be different. James woke up, munched on donuts with coffee, and arrived to work with just a few minutes to spare despite needing to attend an early meeting. He was unable to remember; it seemed to be a trend lately and the boss certainly was not…