Clocks

The astonishing level of agony present in a person once they have lost a loved one is described in the poem, “Stop All of the Clocks, Cut off the Telephone” by W.H. Auden. In this poem, the poet describes the pain of ending an intense sensation of love when one of the partners has passed away. The inability to cope once one’s love has ended provokes the feeling that life has ended due to the thought of the inability to live alone. This is found in the poem when Auden states, “For nothing now can…

3. And BOOM you fire the pitch to repeat the whole process over again. In 2023, MLB implemented a 20-second pitch clock to speed up the pace of your everyday baseball game. In recent events before the 2024 season, they have now reduced the pitch clock time from the short time of 20 seconds to an even shorter 18 seconds. What’s the point of this? Why do we need it? The pitch clock serves a dual purpose: it shortens the length of an average baseball…

Sometimes, being a leader is not always about being popular. The movie 12 O’clock High, directed by Henry King, reflects this and other leadership themes throughout its entirety. The movie shows multiple leadership styles from different officers, but it primarily focuses on the leadership of Colonel Davenport, General Pritchard, and Brigadier General Savage. Each of these officers use diverse types of leadership tactics to ensure that the 918th Bomb Group is successful in their missions. Each of…

Film Summary The fictional film I chose this week was the 1949 film 12 O’clock High which was produced by Darryl F. Zanuck and directed by Henry King. The film was based on the United States Army’s, Eighth Air Force and its hard-nosed commander Brigadier General (BG) Frank Savage, played by the movies lead actor, Gregory Peck. Peck’s character, BG Savage, was portrayed as a hard charging, do or die pilot and commander that demanded absolute adherence to discipline and one hundred percent effort…

Leadership versus followership is a very unique discussion. I say this because a leader cannot exist without a follower and a follower cannot exist without a leader. This makes it a unique relationship. With that being said, there is many traits and characteristics that describe both a leader and a follower. Some traits that a leader must possess are honesty, accountability, delegation skills, emotional stability, communication skills, and confidence among many others. Some traits describing a…

The Tibet Monks performance at the Six O’Clock show was quite interesting and unique for numerous reasons, and I have learned significantly from it. There were a group of ten Monks who explained their history, language, communications, and dance/performances verbally and through body language, which was phenomenal. What really caught my eyes was that they were different from our culture, and it was fascinating to learn and understand other cultures. Overall, I learned many things from this show.…

Auden was one of the most influential figures on the 20th century literature. Even he was very polifacetical (he wrote novels, plays, operas, etc) today is best regarded for his poetry. The piece of work I am going to analyze is the poem “Stop all the Clocks”, which has a very traditional metrical pattern (AABB) and in which the author opted for an accessible language and concepts in consequence of the deep but totally human understandable feeling he tries to express. Henceforth, I will focus…

In the film “12 O’clock High,” leadership and followership play a significant role in the plot, and it has been used for decades by the military as a training exercise. The same principles were used in the Human Factors class to help the students determine their leadership styles and how to be a better follower. From the very first few scenes, “12 O’clock High” was a true story about how a bombing unit in World War 2 bounced back from a period of bad luck and poor training to become one of the…

inherently difficult to quantify. This begs the question as to whether or not political science can be considered a hard, quantifiable science—one based on empirical evidence. In “Clouds, Clocks, and the Study of Politics,” Gabriel Almond and Stephen Genco utilize Karl Popper’s metaphor of “clouds” and “clocks” in an attempt to place comparative politics on the spectrum of science. To do so, there must first be a better understanding of the…

dykes in Richmond I took out my notepad and sketched the beautiful sunset and thought this is what time is no one telling you a certain time, you made your own investigation of what time was. I was thinking about how back in the day there were no clocks people told time through the sunrise and sunset but can this still make the world timeless? That’s what I still want to know, this living inquiry might show me the…