Calendars

adopted was the monthly calendar and the next actions lists. With the monthly calendar I’m able to know what I have planned for that month, when assignments are due, and when tests are so I can plan accordingly. Then with this I also use a weekly planner in order to plan more effectively and ensure that there’s no wasted time within my day. For example, I started using the monthly calendar and weekly planner mainly for school, work, and community service. The monthly calendar lets me know dates…

December 21, 2012 was said to be the end of our days because the Mayan calendar ended on that day. But we are now in February of 2016, three years after that date. So what happened? Why are we still here if the end of the world was supposed to happen a little over three years ago? There is no right answer to these questions, everyone is entitled to their own beliefs and most people will base their decision on the religion that they are practicing. Jews believed that we have been living in the…

according to a 2012 Timeanddate.com news article, many researchers had published articles regarding doomsday on the 21st of December in 2012; everyone was so sure that was the day the world would unfortunately end. According to the article, “The Mayan calendar ended one of its great cycles in December 2012, which fueled predictions about an apocalypse on December 21, 2012,…

The ancient calendar relied upon the apparent motion of these bodies through the sky to determine the seasons, months,and years. The reason why the 1582 lost ten days was by a major era in the existing julian calendar, which Julian caesar introduced in 46 b.c the way it happened was because each year was 356 ¼ days long so each time the years kept adding up. The mayan calendar does not say that the world will end in 2012. The Ancient Calendars based a lot of the day and months off of the sky.…

lifestyle, making time to write papers and complete assignments will take careful planning, a strong support system, and dedication. The use of shared calendars, clear communication, and focusing on the future (Chambers, nd) will be keys to success. Shared calendars, like Google Calendar, can be a huge benefit to students and families, alike. Calendars, if linked between two or more people, can alert each person when an assignment is due or when a child in the family has a doctor…

study became very overwhelming. I did some research on calendar systems to see what system worked best for me. The three main calendar systems I came across during my searching were; making a list of task I need to accomplish, using a schedule book to stay organized, or to use an alarm on a device for events. The best calendar system that worked best for me was using a scheduling book to stay organized to manage my time. With this calendar system I realized that I could write everything down…

helped inspire a whole culture? The Aztec Calendar Stone is an ancient artifact of Mexico from the 15th century (Discover Kids). The stone is a calendar, well, actually two calendars that are suspected to have been used to predict solar eclipses (Discover Kids). The stone itself weighs 24 tons and is three feet thick with a ten foot diameter (Discover Kids). It was carved from basalt in 1479 and was found in 1790 under the Zocalo in Mexico city (Aztec Calendar Stone). The stone is now on the…

The type of calendar that our elders experienced, and 86% of today’s schools use is the traditional school calendar (Chen). This consists of the standard holiday breaks, and an elongated summer break that ends around Labor Day. Currently, schools are transitioning to a year-round calendar, most commonly known as a “balanced calendar.” This type of calendar generally has a 45-15 day plan, meaning that school is in session for 45 days and has a 15 day break. Different school calendars may vary.…

with that we will be remembering events, always being on time, never having to miss someone’s birthday, because it all comes to the useful, convenient calendar that has been introduced to the world, millions of years ago and still utilized now Numerous people today don’t focus when and how calendars were first created. The evolution of the calendar has changed since the B.C times. Ancient civilizations determined the measurements of time with their own cultural beliefs that have developed a…

The majority of us have always wondered how this time we often talk about became what it is now. Different cultures created calendars to reflect time within their cultures. Whether it is Egyptian, Gregorian or Mayan, they are all similar in the same way that these all made time according to their culture. They all contributed an idea of what our calendar is now. These cultures helped to improve by adding the significant symbol in which they believed in, and what the cultures thought were…