Clocks

3:24 am. A clock read so. Big, bold, hung against a blue wall. Three photographs hung beside it, including a blue-haired man on his wedding day; with his sister; and with his wife and children. These were much older pictures, but one look this man now would trick a person - he hadn't aged. Instead, this early morn, his yellow eyes glared at the clock's second hand, slack-jawed. An eyebrow twitched and he groaned. Sleep meant nothing. Not to him. While the household slumbered, he passed the…

Natural darkness is a big issue in the world. As light begins to pollute the Earth, we lose time from the natural darkness at night. Bogard listed 3 reasons why we should conserve our natural darkness. Bogard starts his argument about the natural darkness when he talks about how it has an effect on human beings. He says that the natural darkness helps the body produce melatonin. Melatonin helps keep the body free of cancer and healthy. It also helps our body not have diabetes, obesity,…

grows without ceasing, so also there is no limit to its preservation” (Bergson 173). Such a psychological time which relies on the human consciousness that gives the duration of emotions, for the system of mind is personal and subjective whereas the clock is public and objective. For Bergson, it is a different method of perceiving time and is associated with memory, compression, extension, and duration. He increasingly believes the mental and inner experience aspects of human being are neglected…

They are worried that the child will feel lost in a world of silence and unable to keep pace with the hearing realm. “Well, someone lifting curious brows/ Will take the measure of the clock” is implying that people may not understand when the child is late or feeling lost and they may treat him differently than everyone else. “And he will see the birchen boughs/ Outside sagging dark from the sky/ And the shade crawling upon the rock”…

In the case of suspensions of more than fourteen (14) days, or of discharge, any employee shall, unless otherwise provided herein, be entitled to an advance written notice of the charges against him/her and shall remain either on the job or on the clock at the option of the Employer for a period of thirty (30) days. Thereafter, the employee shall remain on the rolls (non pay status) until disposition of the case has been had either by settlement with the Union or through exhaustion of the…

years, pump in hand, waiting for a car to come down the vacant road, but one never does. He has only a clock to measure what time has passed, for his days are meaningless. he yells at his clock. “time! can you not speed up? is there not an inevitability that a car will come down this road and want gas! why make me wait for this moment, why must i be at the hands of your fate and pace?” The clock does not respond. Every day when he wakes up from his bed in the station market, the door to the…

between seven and a half to nine hours of sleep each night. An individuals natural sleep clock tells when it is time to be awake and when it’s necessary to sleep. Many high schools have considered shifting their hours to later in the morning to prevent from disrupting student’s natural sleep clocks. High school classes should not change to begin later in the day, to accommodate teenagers natural sleep clocks, because it will interfere with their schedule they have already grown accustom to. Many…

aside. I remember when I was younger and there were two things that meant the most to me and that was my alarm clock and my viola .When I would do something wrong and my parents were yelling at me and taking away my electronics those were always two things that they didn’t take. Some may ask why what an alarm clock may be important, but it was important because on that particular alarm clock there was a radio that opened a world…

The game of football has evolved in many ways, from hitting to the play clocks to turf and grass fields. The play clocks have changed because they were 45 seconds but now they are 40 seconds, usually by the time the referee sets the ball down they have about 25 seconds to snap the ball or it is a delay of game, and that is a 5 yard penalty. Hitting percussions are a big part of football, if you hit someone in the wrong way you can badly injure your opponent. Referees are very strict if you hit…

The clock on the opposite wall must have been broken; its second hand seemed to take longer and longer between each tick. Any minute now the test proctor would poke her head out the classroom door to call us back to those desks and the ITEDs (Iowa Tests of Educational Development). I would have liked to tell myself that I was not worried, that I did not care about my scores anymore, but my sweaty palms and nervous glances toward the testing room door prevented me from believing that lie.…