Suicide watch

WWI the servicemen wore their pocket watches in straps on their wrists instead of on a chain attached to their person. One type of these watches are popularly known as the “Trench” and they sported a pierced grilled that protected the face of the watch and prevented the glass from shattering. Although wrist…

In the short story, interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri incorporates symbols to help the reader better understand the relationships that are shown. The symbols vary from objects to actions. Often times these symbols can be overlooked and rendered meaningless, but with intent examination they can help us better understand the story and the relationships that are portrayed. Interpreter of Maladies is a story centered around a family and their tour guide. This family includes a Mrs. Das, Mr.…

relapse four times. On September 20th, my friend was watching the Korean drama, The Heirs, while our study group was doing homework. I have watched this show before, and I was extremely interested in what episode she was on and I felt the urge to watch the show at the same time she was. I ended up doing just that. I got through about the first 30 minutes of the first episode before remembering that I had just started the abstinence experience. I realized that I had relapsed when I walked away…

The Start of Something New My prominent childhood memory would start with my love for music. It all started at Mary Hooker school, when I was in fourth grade, there was a talent show for grades fourth and above. I was in class when the school security officer, named Victor, who organizes the talent show, came in with sign up sheets for the talent show. I thought to myself, “Should I sign up?” I was not quite sure what to do. At that moment I thought of the time when I saw students performing…

Sports. Sex. Screen. My dad names these “three S’s” as the most common factors of distraction for mankind, and says that they tend to make people forget about the more significant things in life. Most specifically, today’s pop culture has made screen or television broadcasting so popular that most people cannot imagine living in a world where such things do not exist. As a matter of fact, media has not only become an accessible tool, but a habit and ritual in most peoples’ lives. In the midst of…

Bentley does this by saying the watch is "The Essence of Britain." Breitling for Bentley's ad uses expensive imaging, a celebrity figure, and association to inspire consumers to rise above and distinguish themselves from "normal" citizens. By taking one look at this ad you know it is an example of wealth, and appeals most effectively…

advantage, I ‘accidentally’ skew his balance. Reaching to help him, my hand slips into his pocket, pulling out his wallet, quickly weighing it in my hand, I slide it into my back pocket. Catching his wrist I clumsily pull him forward, unclasping his watch. A Rolex. Score. I scamper away, panting and apologising, trying hard not to laugh. I stalk back through the crowd, reaching the building on the corner before I hear a loud yell. Giggling, I skip around the corner, noticing the smirks of the…

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 we came back from Winter Break, the clock in Mrs. Allen's room was a few hours behind. It had tricked her into believing that instead of being the last hour of the day, it was actually around lunchtime. Now that the clock is fixed—well, partially fixed, still being an hour behind—, it is now working properly again. A pacemaker is very similar to this. Think of the heart as the clock and the pacemaker as the remedy that fixes the clock. Like the clock still being an hour behind, the…

Timekeeping was an important variable to help progress our economic system and strengthen capitalist ideals. David Landes’ Revolution in Time and E.P. Thompson’s Time, Work-Discipline, and Industrial Capitalism were both written with obstacles of time-work discipline in mind. In Landes’ work, he focuses on the historical motives and origins of clock creation to support his claims and explains that “The clock did not create an interest in time measurement; the interest in time measurement led to…