Boredom

In Transit, the main character is the unnamed narrator. He is a young twenty-seven year old man who was imprisoned in a German concentration camp for an unspecified offense “I wouldn’t put up with some of their dirty tricks.” After escaping, the narrator arrives in Paris and assumes the identity of a dead writer named Weidel. The narrator then assumes the identity of a refugee named Seidler and journeys to the port city of Marseille. To get his visa, the narrator lies and tells consuls that…

I Have Something to Say Anna Quindlen wrote an article called Doing Nothing is Something, and in it she reflects upon boredom in children, and how it affects them. In my earlier years I recall that when I was bored, I would make up a game to keep myself entertained. In the article, Quindlen emphasizes the importance boredom plays on creativity. She argues that being bored allows for a state of being able to produce original ideas, and this state doesn’t exist while participating in…

Your home alone and all of your friends are busy and you have nothing to do. You some candles and try to figure out what to do. After a while you give up and you are SO bored! Usually you don’t mind being bored, but today is different. Although boredom is not as common as it was about twenty years ago, many adolescents now struggle with being able to keep themselves entertained. While there are both pros and cons to being bored, let’s focus on some of the cons. First of all, the ability to do…

Summary of Education Cripples Our Kids In How Public Education Cripples Our Kids, and Why retired teacher, John Taylor Gatto describes it’s the boredom that effects are students and concludes there are many reasons why we are all to blame for this cause. Boredom is the common condition of schoolteachers, and often blame the kids for being rude and not interested in anything but their grades that makes them feel trapped in a structure so rigid by school personnel its not imposed with the…

these apps, teens can see and do what they choose to do, and be able to do it when they would like to. There are many teenagers involved with social media to some extent and the reasons behind this are their desperate for attention, seek drama, and boredom. At some point, a teenager is going to want to have the “spotlight” on them. They might need support after a bad moment in their life or just want somebody to tell them what they would like to hear. Some teens feel lonely because they are by…

Boredom registers and communicates feelings of social marginality, serving as a justification for nonattentiveness, lack of involvment, and ineptness (Jervis, Spicer, & Manson, 2003). Being a nomadic people, the Innu were used to travelling, hunting, and fishing as part of their lifestyle. Forcing such people onto a small island off the mainland, and therefore cutting them off from their way of life, would induce boredom. According to a study by Patrick and Schulenberg…

help us pass time. While the article “The Heady Thrill of Having Nothing to Do,” by Scott Adams debates about how our most creative thoughts and ideas come from our moments of boredom, as well as how society’s modern day influences are the culprit for our lack of boredom. Both articles vaguely share a similar topic, boredom. “The Heady Thrill of Having Nothing to Do,” by Scott Adams is a more strongly written article than “Stupid Jobs Are Good to Relax With,” by Hal Niedzviecki. “The Heady…

Volti believes that work is the “central activity in the lives of most people.” Understanding the Sociology of work is important, because work takes up so much of our lives. Where we work, what we do at work and who we work for are characteristics of our identities and determines who we make our friends. When work is boring, the workers feel undermined and this perpetuates a culture that exploits the proletariat/workers and adds value to the capitalist/firm. My subject, my mother, described…

In chapter2, Weiner conducted an informal and easy experiment that sat on the hilltop for twenty minutes to experience Swiss boredom and understand why it makes the Swiss happy. As a result, he just stated, “I fidget the entire time. It practically kills me.” To put it simply, he was just bored. To ensure his conclusion, I conducted the same experiment at my garden where I do not…

some sort of show where “the point of the show would be no show at all” (Wasik 516). Little did he know however, that his flash mobs would come to an end for that same reason — boredom. He states: “I wrote of boredom as inspiring the mob’s birth; but I suspect that boredom helped to hasten its death, as well — the boredom, that is, of the constantly distracted mind” (Wasik 527). This “constantly distracted mind” has only become worse due to the fast paced world in which we live. A…