The Times

Time Between Times. I lounged in the same spot, an old patio chair minus the cushions on my back deck, and watched my kids come and go. They are a flurry of youthful exuberance. Fighting, screaming, yipping, laughing, and talking a mile a minute-- bare feet, bug bites, and snack-hungry tummies—they demanded and took but also gave kisses and breathless hugs. The sun shifted and changed as I watched. Shadows engulfed the yard. The sun and the moon faced one another. The time between times fell, not yet night but no longer fully day. I listened to the ocean-like tide of cars mix with the chirps of both bird and cricket. All was as it should be. Cut grass, smoke from a neighbor’s grill, nothing new or special. So I tried another time and another.…

Panther Time to Pass Confucius once said, “study the past if you would divine the future”. For our divine future a study hall like program is necessary. Panther Time should be a continued program. Teachers can benefit greatly from panther time. If a student is behind they know what class they can pull them from to help them, or they would have to search for them. In fact people get their homework done more because they have an opportunity to do it in school, and have to take little if anything…

In William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury, each main character has a unique conception of time, which either binds or liberates them. Because the majority of the novel is written from a stream-of-consciousness perspective, each character’s worldview and sense of time is revealed. Each section relates a different conception of time and reveals how much freedom or bondage each character experiences as a result. However, in the novel, the present is only understood in terms of the past, as the…

Reaction Time Definition: Reaction time is the speed at which the brain responds to a stimulus and formulates a response. This is vital in most sports. The most obvious example is responding to the gun at the start of a race, but another example is a goalkeeper saving a penalty. Importance: Sprinters need a fast reaction time so that they can react to the gun at the start of the race and begin moving as soon as they hear it. This gives them a better start and for such a short race every fraction…

The film, ‘About Time’, directed by ‘Richard Curtis’ highlights the importance of valuing time and the significance of savouring every moment. Tim, twenty one years old learns that he can travel back in time. He relives a series of moments, but learns that you can not always change what is meant to be. The film teaches viewers to not let their past define who they are because everything is meant to happen for a reason. It also adds to the concept of moving forward through tough times as dwelling…

In my book, The Time Machine, when the Time Traveler goes into the future, he meets creatures that are human, but much smaller and seem to be not very smart. However, the Time Traveler still talks to them to learn more about their home, he finds flowers and fruits he's never seen before. The creatures still seem to have the same rights, but there is no government and they don't seem to be working at all. The amendments from the Constitution still seem to apply to them, but they don't really need…

construct of time is something that tends to vary widely from culture to culture. While U.S. culture tends to favor punctuality and time consciousness over all, there are many cultures that view time as nothing more than an illusion; this phenomena can be explained by the terms “monochronic” and “polychronic”. My personal concept of time leans much closer to being monochronic. It is typical of me to always arrive on time (and expect others to do the same), wait in line without complaint and…

After completing this assignment on tracking time spent on activities I have learned the areas that the majority of my time goes to. The largest portions of my time are spent on school, socializing, and sleep. Everyday I contribute hours to attending classes and then later doing homework for those classes. Throughout the day I tend to be quite gregarious without even realizing it. I will walk down the hall of my dorm and see a friend and end up talking to her for almost half an hour. Typically,…

Svetlana Alexievich compiled Secondhand Time by amassing numerous stories about life in the Soviet Union and Russia, which were collected from former Soviet citizens of various backgrounds. The Nobel Prize winning book remarkably portrays the human condition in a way that only real stories of human life can. On the surface, Secondhand Time displays Russian life as pessimistic and death centric, however when one views the book from a deeper level they can see that Russians are driven by love,…

The theme of time is deeply rooted in its structure and characters. Faulkner discovered that time exceeded the objective. Time and subjectivity fuse together the known past with the unknown future to create a moment of the present. This idea led to Faulkner’s complex deployment of flashbacks within the flow of consciousness and his reliance of the repetition of these flashbacks (Walker 493-495). Faulkner not only incorporates time in structure and characters, but he also incorporates his own…