Clocks

After each painted dial their paint brush would lose its shape, so after each time they used their brush they were encouraged to touch their radium covered paint brushes to their mouths to fix them to a perfect point once again. For fun, the young women would also paint their nails, face, and teeth with the radium they had and find a dark room to be in to make faces at each other just for laughs on their free time. Within months, the effects of the radium began to take place in them. They could…

When coach handed me the list of workouts to do on the sheet of paper, I balled up the paper with anger growling inside of me. “I can't do all these workouts in one day! That's impossible!'' I said breathing hard and fast. I felt as if my head was about to explode; my hands form into a fist and my nails dug into my skin. I shut my eyes trying to calm myself down. How can someone do all of these workout in one day? My body was shaking like a rattle snake ready to attack. When I forced my eyes to…

Waking up has always been difficult for me. I never wake up at a specified time, but I try. It's the thought that counts right? After hitting snooze about 5 times, I finally wake up around 7 everyday. I usually end up late to work and school but I like to think of it as my signature. I always skip breakfast, I'll have a coffee but I don't think that counts. I eat sparsely throughout the day because I'm so occupied with school, not to mention dealing with the stress doesn't help. I've never been…

The Kit-Cat Clock over the industrial-size orange juicer in Angelo’s 24-Hour Diner read 11:48. Mass ended a little over an hour ago. Everyone else went home. Mrs. Calvino and Tony sat in their usual booth at the corner window and ate in silence. It helped that their food came faster than usual, so they could at least pretend the quiet was justified. Mrs.Calvino only ordered coffee; her usual hefty appetite had failed her for the past two weeks. Tony still ordered scrambled eggs and white…

As I was laying in bed hugging my teddy bear looking up at the wall, I continue listening to the music echoing from outside my room. It was 8’ o'clock and even though I was already tired, the need for staying up stayed with me. I stare and see the big wooden door wondering why I had to go to sleep while everyone was awake. “Sure I was being mean and started crying, but I want to listen to music! I want to party! I’m four years old, I can do whatever I want,” I thought angrily. Suddenly, I roll…

5 Then next morning, I decide to change my routine. One, eat a small snack. Two, stretch. Three, take a jog around my neighborhood. Running, I’ve discovered, clears my mind and calms me down. It gives me a good start to the morning. Four, return home quietly and take a shower. Five, have a small conversation with Mother while eating breakfast. Six, go to school. I do this religiously for a week. I no longer put makeup on in the morning. Now that I’ve come out to Mother, I don’t feel I need to…

Report Elliott Touikan FMST-322-2173-A Instructor: Rosanna Maule Friday, December 4, 2017 Concordia University Elliott Touikan Instructor: Rosanna Maule FMST-322-2173-A 4 December 2017 Fall Written Report: A Clock Work Orange (Stanley Kubrick, 1971, 136’) A Clock Work Orange is a 1971 film directed by Stanley Kubrick adapted from the novel of the same name by Anthony Burgess. It follows the story of a teenager named Alex. He along with his three friends, which he calls droogs,…

CHML 1046 General Chemistry 2 Laboratory Experiment “The Rate Law of an Iodine Clock Reaction” Objectives: To apply method of initial rates for investigation of influence of concentrations of reactants on the rate of the reaction. Determine the rate law of a particular reaction experimentally. Observe the effect of catalyst on the reaction rate. Examine the influence of temperature on the rate of this reaction. Calculate activation energy for the reaction from rate constants at two…

Eight o’ Clock: The Effects of Dependence on America’s Most Popular Drug Each year, countless money and time is employed in educating American children about the dangers of drugs. They are taught about their prevalence, as well as the risks involved with their uses and abuses. One of the most prevalent drugs on the market is a certain psychoactive drug, a stimulant classified with cocaine and nicotine for its properties. Largely imported from countries like Brazil, Indonesia, and Colombia,…

that allows the reader to identify within themselves. The poems, Stop All the Clocks by W.H. Auden and Death of a Young Son by Drowning by Margaret Atwood, share the same realistic theme of losing someone in death. Auden and Atwood have different styles of descriptive writing, but their similar realistic theme and tone enables readers to emotionally connect and identify themselves in their work. Auden’s Stop All the Clocks is a poem that captures the emotional thoughts and perspective of…