Absent-mindedness

In a mpderately worthless, crumbling half-school, half-church of thirty-three students, the eighth-grade (graduating class) consisted of six students, excluding me. They were all just awful. They were terrible children with terrible attitudes and all dumb as a pile of rocks. The teacher was absent minded of genuine interest of the class. He couldn’t care less who had paid attention, completed the homework, or read the assigned chapters of the bible. However, among these careless children and this useless teacher, there was one boy who I grew fond of. His name was Alexander Meyer, he was young man with blonde hair that grew awkward tans/freckles/burns when May came. He was a bit over 5’7 and was of slim figure. He hated his name, and so did I, but I would never admit that to him. He was able to make me laugh everyday, even though it was discouraged in a place of business like a school or church. He was also an empathetic soul, who connected with everyone in our class much more efficiently than I had. He would never rank his relationships…

I have a hard time being successful in school because I have my phone to distract me, and the second thing that distracts me is I don 't really understand what the professor is saying. The third thing is my family. I 'm easily distracted by small things. I promise myself every time that I will turn off my phone while I’m studying or trying to do my homework, but I turn around and look at my phone and and my messages. The second reason why I 'm easily distracted is I don 't understand what the…

Phoebe Loehr English II 10 October 2014 Ms. Etelamaki Techniques of Learning At Dartmouth College an email went around the department about why a professor wanted laptops banned in classrooms, Dan Rockmore in his article “The Case for Banning Laptops in the Classroom” speaks about why he agrees with his colleague and his reasoning. I agree with Rockmore’s theory on the disadvantages of having laptops in the classroom because they can be the cause of distraction, disrespect, and non-integration. …

There are no reasons to doubt the concern about the ways that today’s young people use technology, especially smartphone. Most of the users of smartphone have the same characteristic, their use of it seems “out-of-control”, and this feature begin to strongly distract their daily life. This distraction always makes them lose their focus on their work problem, because smartphone provide the information can entertain them. Therefore, people begins to blame smartphone and starts to ban it in school.…

It is an awesome and fascinating book by Enid Blyton. In this book, Jack, Philip, Dinah and Lucy-Ann first became friends and find themselves spending the summer at Craggy-Tops, with Philip and Dinah's Aunt Polly and Uncle Jocelyn. We are introduced to some of the wild creatures which Philip carries about his person — including mice and a squirrel — and it's interesting, as the series progresses, to see how many different kinds of animals he manages to tame. Craggy-Tops is an isolated house, old…

July 30th 2011 my life changed forever. It seemed like a normal day. Swimming with the family, packing the car, and heading on our journey home from Leech Lake. What should have been a three and a half hour drive home turned into a night in the hospital, a petrifying drive home, and absent mindedness for weeks. We were stopped. A police car was on the right lane due to a another vehicle’s flat tire. I was asleep. Suddenly, there was a bang. My mother's instinct was to turn the wheel to prevent…

vey first steps, or the first time loosing a tooth. Older people tend to have Transience memory lose, as one get older the brain as more memories to hold and so certain ones that are not too important start to fade. Say one was in a car accident the driver hits his head on his hippocampus and temporal lobe this can cause the person to loose an extreme about of memory. The second sin of memory is Absent Mindedness, is doing one thing so much it becomes such of a habit one tends to stop…

A high agreeableness includes the traits tolerance, patience, and open-mindedness whereas a low agreeableness would contain stubbornness, quarrelsome, ill-tempered, and narrow-mindedness. This factor determines the temperament of a person, the ability to work with others, and the ability to interact with others. The other factor that is closely related to agreeableness is emotionality. Emotionality, would be similar to the neuroticism of the Five-Factor model. It measures the level of emotional…

Carey Mulligan depicted Daisy’s outward appearance as well as her character excellently, focusing on her young and fragile traits. A petite person, Mulligan looks “baby faced” throughout the movie, emphasizing Daisy’s age and the absent-mindedness which results from her limited years of experience. In Gatsby’s mansion, the audience sees Daisy’s careless and materialistic nature through the amazement and awe in her voice once she sees inside of Gatsby’s grand house, filled with lavish items. This…

With the growing Opioid and Heroin epidemic many people whose lives had never previously been affected in any way, shape, or form are now learning more about addiction and what drives an addict to use. Most of the information available to the public isn’t complete. I have seen that in the community in which I grew up in. Several years ago, when my oldest son was in high school we had some trouble with recreational drug use. It started with alcohol and marijuana, then my anxiety medication…