24-hour clock

the nearest clothes I could find, slipping on my backpack to rush out the door. I didn’t have the time to put on makeup. In second period, John did a double take at me and said, “Wow, you look tired.” The irony was that I actually slept an extra hour that morning, but to him my natural under eye bags looked like exhaustion. In the moment, I didn’t find his comment that big of a deal, yet since that day I don’t think I’ve ever left the house without wearing concealer—it has become just a part…

Ain’t Money Douglas speaks about “The End of Time”, physical clocks are something in “the now”. “On the analog clock, each second is a portion of a minute, and each minute a portion of the day. Time is in motion. On the digital clock, time is static. A number. A now.” (Time Ain’t Money, Douglas Rushkoff, pg. 114). Rushkoff attributes this as a “timeless” factor, as if it doesn’t exist anymore because it’s now being taken over by digital clock. “This new, a-historical experience of time changes…

170) upon waking up. I literally hate the sound of my alarm clock, it just puts me in a bad mood knowing that, that sound woke me up. My parents watch a Latino news channel, and that channel has an advertisement that plays the exact same tone that I use for my alarm clock. I often hear it when I’m doing homework in my room and my parents watching television in the living room, that tone just annoys me and makes me…

primitive version of the alarm clock. Plenty of people say that a considerable part of Da Vinci’s success was due to his unusual sleeping habits. Rather than sleeping 8 hours and staying awake for 16 like nearly all people did, he would use the polyphasic sleeping method. This consisted of napping for half an hour every 3 and a half hours. A large number of the writings found in Da Vinci’s Codex manuscripts show the passion he had for the time therefor Da Vinci pioneering the clock is no…

• Why is it important to document risks and risk information gathered from various sources? Documenting risks is the first step in determining if a risk likely to come to pass and what kind of impact the risk will have on the project. Without having a good list of risks the project team could get blindsided by an event or issue which could have mitigated or avoided early in the process. In a similar vein, having risks from multiple sources will give a better picture or the risks which could…

¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬English Assessment- Creative Writing. Tim Jones eyed at his leather-bound watch once more, he was late for his 7:05 train to Sydney Central station and mentally urged the elderly man who was his bus driver to stop being such a dawdling individual. It was of upmost important that he make it to the city on time today, he had a major business meeting with the other board members of his company and had therefore decided to adopt a smart looking business suit, with tan shoes and a deep blue…

Beep,Beep my alarm clock wailed as I excitedly went to get ready for school. When I was ready I speed off to school, but today I was so early that I decided I was going to take a different route. The route I took was the way my parents took when I had to ride home with them and most of the time it was because doctor appointment or rainy day. Then as I started running down the new route on Gibson street I saw a garden that had looked like it had just started, and it looked like it was the…

Eleven Today starts off like any other normal school day. I wake up as normal, I get dressed, eat, brush and floss, then I go catch the bus. On my way, i remember it is Rachel’s birthday. Hi, i'm Skylar, Rachel's classmate.Today is Rachel's 11th birthday, but she does not seem excited. The school day starts like any other day, Mrs. Price takes roll, then she pulls out an old dirty sweater, she said it has been sitting in the lost and found for forever. Mrs. Price says it must belong to…

mother shouted for the fifth time, “You’re going to be late for school again!” I slowly opened my eyes looking at the clock. Great, 7:47 a.m., I thought to myself. Hurriedly, I quickly brushed my long black hair and rimming my green eyes with black eyeliner. I grabbed my bag and headed down the stairs. “Zanna you are seventeen years old, I should not be your walking alarm clock. I have to get ready too.” Rolling my eyes at her remark and replied, “It took me ten minutes to get ready; it…

“Beep, Beep, Beep!” That is the sound I woke up to on the morning. This is it, the morning! I got out of bed and went straight to my uniform. I threw it on so fast because of how thrilled I was. I quickly did my competition makeup and threw my hair into a poof and bun. I grabbed my cheer shoes and practically flew down the stairs. I ran like lightning to the car and screamed “Mom, let’s go!” We drove to Bojangles and I got my favorite breakfast. Then we headed over to AC Flora for stretching and…