Siesta

ponder all the wasted opportunities I had in my life to nap that I simply turned down. One could say that you caught up on sleep and naps in college, but how good is your sleep when half the time it consists of laying on a couch with a headache and the alcohol shakes. The work week is an absolute grind for most. Once you graduate college you struggle to remember what having so much free time was like. Weekends that used to be utilized to have the time of your life are sometimes used to simply recuperate the rest you need to keep your life together. I'm here today to tell you that it's time to take back your rest. It's time to take a lunch nap. Now I understand that we aren't all working in the same places and treating yourself to a mid-day siesta may not be as feasible as it is for others. I'm fortunate enough to work at home a majority of my days, so when the clock strikes 12 I can stride over to my couch for a bit if I so wish. But I'd be a liar if I said I hadn't taken some person REM time at a desk in an office before. Whatever you gotta do, make it happen. Plant that face on your desk and start snoring. Head out to your car in the parking garage, throw on some soft tunes and drift off into a brief slumber. If your morning was nothing but slurping coffee and dragging ass, the only way to get back up to close to full speed is to get that lunch nap in your life. I once read something that said the best way to recharge is drink a full cup of coffee and then nap for…

Napping Essay Our world is becoming more and more fast-paced. I mean, there is virtually no time between anything we do, and by the end of the day, we are utterly exhausted. But what if there was a solution to all of this? What if we all took a 20 minutes to lie down and nap? On one side, people believe that naps are crucial in order to stay focused and alert, while others argue that naps are not the way to go. As a potent believer of taking naps, I believe that naps are critical to increase…

Napping can either be a good or bad thing all depending on how you slept the night before or what all you have done through out the day. if you have just got up and not put much work into your day, taking a nap is probably not the best idea. instead of going back to bed, relying on coffee or something energic like going to the gym can change your mind on the unneeded nap you were about to take. if you were to take a nap before putting in any work for the day you will most likely find yourself…

Naps have been known to help in some ways but i am going to give you some reasons why you should take them more often through the day. I think people should take naps during the day because naps could help with productivity in work and naps can also help with your health. If people don’t get enough sleep they can be groggy and not on top of things like usual. First of all, naps have been know to boost people's productivity during the day. Taking naps can help give people the encouragement to…

A relative once told me that, “ Taking naps are only for babies!”. But really, they aren’t, anyone can take a nap. People take naps for different reasons. Taking naps can benefit people in so many ways. Napping can help physical health and mental abilities, but it has to be the right kind of nap. First, napping can help with physical health. For example, a nap can revive your energy (source 2). According to source 2, you will have more energy to do things and not just being super tired.…

In “Tuesday Siesta” by Garcia Marquez, the author introduces a character and provides a flashback about the character. The flashback added more meaning to the story and a better understanding about the character’s (Carlos Centeno) personality. Additionally, the flashback helped developed a theme in the story. The flashback was a week before in the story and it was about the death of Carlos Centeno. At 3AM, a widow heard someone trying to force the front door open from the outside. She went and…

Magical Realism is heavily used by Marquez throughout his stories as a fantasy element blending magic with the real world. His stories, although very diverse, portray the beginning of an era of exaggerated reality. In his story “Tuesday Siesta,” Marquez approaches magical realism through a political lens and a personal perspective as he emphasizes the oppression of the lower class by the upper class. Marquez explains the developments in history that led to the exploitation of the “third-class”…

“Tuesday Siesta” is a short story written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez depicting the journey of a mother and daughter traveling to a town in order to pay their respects to Carlos Centeno Ayala, a man who was both a beloved son and brother. Centeno was a very good man and had a passion for boxing, “On
the
other
hand, before, when
he
used
to
box, he used
to
spend
three
days
in
bed, exhausted from being punched” (Marquez 4). His mother taught “him to never steal anything that anyone needed to eat” and…

In order to truly understand a piece of art work, one must be able to identify the emotional state in which each one lies. In both “La Sieste” (Millet, Jean Francoise, and “La Sieste”) and “Siesta” (Van Gogh, Vincent, and “Siesta”) illustrate an assumed couple resting after a long day’s work, however the emotional tones depicted by the artists are distinctly different. Millet’s painting “La Sieste” seems to display a more distressed or uneasy feeling whereas Van Goughs piece “Siesta” appears to…

In my recent discover of the Spanish life style I come to realize that they have very unique ways of life that we as Americans could benefit from. These ways of life are siesta and close family ties. Siesta is beneficial for those Americans that work long hours because it could help those regain more energy and make less rational decisions. I also believe it will benefit those that have families at home because it gives them more time to be a part of their lives instead of being full time…