Closing Time

orphaned children living dissatisfied life. The play is rich in time imagery, which is used for indicating the passing of time, and to emphasize the temporality of human existence and theme of the play that sheer hope with no action cannot solve one’s disillusionment towards his situation. The time imagery is intricately weaved into the structure of the play, even though it is not liner in structure. Each act takes place during different times of the day, making it seem as if the play takes…

Time Management and Attitude Determine Success Have you ever seen a Ferrari advertisement while watching television? A smart man once told me they are not shown because people who strive for Ferraris spend their free time more productively. Being successful will never come easily to an individual. It takes enormous amounts of hard work, determination and numerous other important characteristics that contribute to an individual being prosperous. Having an optimistic attitude is an extremely…

Welfare needs to stop acting on good intentions and start acting on discernment by creating a motivation to work and get out of poverty. There are two major ways to promote this strategy: to make it so that welfare is only given out with the condition that those who receive it must be in active pursuit of a job and to make it so that welfare is only given to those who become enrolled in getting some kind of education or training. For example, according to Erin Thomas, who is a social work…

Treehouse. Every now and then I would look over to my cat to make sure that she did not weasel her way out of her restraining contraption. For the most part she would just lay there in the grass very annoyed about being chained to a tree. It was the final time that I had checked up on her when the start of an event that would turn my world around in a complete one-eighty…

Group 1 of all females checked their phones about once every two minutes per person. Alternatively, each girl checked their phones about two and three quarters times in five minutes. This group had four girls. This group had a tendency of prolonged phone use. About half of the phone uses were longer than thirty seconds at a time. Also this group often included their phone uses to the other members of the group; for example, a girl would show the others a picture she found on Instagram or tell…

happiness and act with one’s own best interest in mind. It would be illogical to seek out pain or grief, especially if we assume that this is our only life to experience pleasure. If there is no afterlife, then it would make sense for us to spend the time we do have maximizing our personal well-being. The “Ring of Gyges,” an excerpt from Plato’s Republic, addresses the question of whether an unjust man experiences more happiness, or goodness, than a just man. In this excerpt, Glaucon…

As a young, single man living with his mother, who sits in his room on most days, whose biggest responsibility is waking up, and who has become accustomed to silence, I think I know a thing or two about loneliness. I’ve spent a large portion of my time mulling over the thought of loneliness, and how life should be spent with others. My mind is typically occupied by love and tends to live in the future. In the end, all I feel is a longing for a connection between days. However, it is in these…

“A time-out is a well known discipline technique used to interrupt an unacceptable behavior; it is not intended to punish, but to give children the opportunity to calm down and regain self-control”( "Discipline & Guidance"). Using time outs are a much more effective way to discipline than spanking. Time outs really force the child to think about what they are doing rather than spending their time being scared for what they have done wrong. Simply speaking…

A few months later, I began to become addicted to my phone. The only thing I wanted to do was text. I was never in the moment with my family and the situations around me. It became a real problem. My mom warned me several times that I needed to cut back on the amount of time I was spending on my phone, but I did not listen. Finally, one day my mom took away my…

(post-traumatic stress disorder) from his time serving in Vietnam War. Throughout the interview…