Clocks

Every morning my alarm goes off with it’s usual perky and uplifting beat. I can only assume that the person who created this arousing tune had the intention of waking one up feeling fresh, revitalized, and ready to take on the day. The reality is, it does the complete opposite, it makes me want to cover myself in enough blankets and pillows until I can finally drown out the horrendous noise. Instead I reluctantly force myself out of bed at an ungodly time and drive to Oak Grove elementary school…

A little dazed and confused I rolled over to grasp my phone. It was just out of reach, which I’m sure I did on purpose. I stretched my arm out as far as I could and nudged it with my finger tips. Thump! Still ringing it fell and slid under the bed. I crawled to the floor taking my blankets and pillow with me and finally shut the lousy noise off. My eyes sprung open as I glanced at the time, “7:10? Crap Madelyn you're so going to be late for work!” I told myself as I snatched my oversized black…

This investigation’s aim was to observe the organic displacement clock reaction and see how different properties - such as concentration and temperature - affect the reaction rate. This was to enhance understanding and gain knowledge of how certain properties affect reaction mechanisms and activation energies, and how acid-base equilibria behaves. The data generally supported the hypothesis. It can be clearly seen that higher molarities of t-BuCl gave faster reaction rates, and it is an even…

idea of loss is prevalent in both “Stop all the Clocks” by W.H Auden and “Mirror” by Sylvia Plath. Auden employs the narrative voice of a distraught partner to reveal the travesty of death and the consuming emotions which accompany the devastation of physical a loss, whereas, Plath depicts the symbolic loss of identity through the inevitable process of ageing as told from the narration of a mirror. The initial stanza of Auden’s “Stop all the Clocks” introduces the idea of loss by allowing…

You get up in the morning with only ten minutes left, before, it’s time for you to walk out the door to begin your day. You haven’t a clue where to begin. The process of getting ready for work can be overwhelming if not planned correctly. Remarkably overwhelming that you desire to lay back down and go to sleep. Getting ready can be a difficult task, but, how you attack the situation; can forge the difference in your day. The key is planning ahead. Planning for a successful day begins the…

This is your local Around the Clock Crew, and today we have one outstanding story to share. Just two weeks ago Kalissa Bowey invented the very first time machine. On October 4, 2022 Kalissa traveled back to 626 BC, the beginning of the Babylonian Empire. After hearing about her remarkable invention we were joined by Kalissa herself and we just had to ask her a few questions. Our first question for Kalissa was “What interested you in wanting to build a time machine?” She gave us the response of,…

Twelve O’ Clock high is a versatile movie. This challenges about power and leadership are revealed in this movie. The commanding officer for the Bomb Group in the movie is Colonel Keith Davenport. This movie is portrayed on a US Air Force base which was in England. At the time of World War II, a squadron of pilots are attempting to prove the risk of the daylight bombing raids. General Frank Savage is sent in to replace the popular Colonel Davenport, a man who is seen to have become too close to…

and escape the red death, he was wrong. In Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Masque of the Red Death,” Poe implies the colors of the room as the clock, the stop-start movement and the placement of the clock. The first way that Poe uses the clock as a symbol is through the colors of it. When Poe is explaining the clock, he uses the colors of the rooms to represent the clock. During the time when Poe is explaining the rooms, the narrator says, “ In the western or black chamber the effect of the…

Faced against the alarm clock, people generally have two choices: to get up or to hit the snooze and go back to sleep. Adolescents often fall into the trap of just smacking the snooze button and catching a few more Z’s. Many other difficult decisions are present in teens’ days; descisions of whether to do their homework or not and whether to go to class or not are just a few teens may face. All these factors can accumulate on an adolescent and add stress to their lives. Teen stress is caused by…

people enjoy lucid dreaming because they are aware that they are dreaming and dreams offer a no consequence environment to experience. Researchers wanted to investigate if there is a correlation between lucid dreaming and pressing snooze on alarm clocks. In my article called “Lucid…