Clocks

It was a hot summer morning and the birds were singing along with the chimes blowing in the wind. The clock had just struck 11:00 in the morning and the radio turned on. His hand slid over the alarm to shut it off and slowly get out of bed. After making the forever lasting walk down the hall to the bathroom, Trevor freshened up for the day with a soothing hot shower. As he finished up in the bathroom, he could smell the delightful pancakes and bacon his mother was preparing downstairs. His…

seemed all fine; I woke up in the morning and looked at the window; the sun is as bright as usual days and the sky is as blue as ocean; I have a basketball game at 9:30 a.m., it is at my high school, but when I looked my clock that I look every morning to check the time, and the clock is telling me that I woke up at 8:30 a.m., since I live close to the school, I do not need to wake up this early—9:00 a.m. is good enough for me— but I did not want to sleep again because once I sleep, I am pretty…

from the London based financial information company taps into the need of people for leisure and calls them to thoughtful action about investments through pathos, logos and irony. The at first glance simple arrangement of a sentence fragment and clock parts creates a competition between money and time to entice adult readers new to the investment world to use the company for financial advice; cultured and expected responses are used in a negative light to engender trust and curiosity about the…

primitive version of the alarm clock. Plenty of people say that a considerable part of Da Vinci’s success was due to his unusual sleeping habits. Rather than sleeping 8 hours and staying awake for 16 like nearly all people did, he would use the polyphasic sleeping method. This consisted of napping for half an hour every 3 and a half hours. A large number of the writings found in Da Vinci’s Codex manuscripts show the passion he had for the time therefor Da Vinci pioneering the clock is no…

¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬English Assessment- Creative Writing. Tim Jones eyed at his leather-bound watch once more, he was late for his 7:05 train to Sydney Central station and mentally urged the elderly man who was his bus driver to stop being such a dawdling individual. It was of upmost important that he make it to the city on time today, he had a major business meeting with the other board members of his company and had therefore decided to adopt a smart looking business suit, with tan shoes and a deep blue…

My dad woke me up by shouting, “WAKE UP! DO YOU KNOW WHAT TODAY IS?” I knew what day it was: the day we went on a six-hour road trip from Roselle to Minocqua, Wisconsin. I saw all of the big buildings turn into smaller buildings, then into trees as we drove north. My family had done this trip every year on the Fourth of July, for decades. The one reoccurring factor, though, was the state of protection, given by the surrounding cabins, lake and trees. First of all, the cabins that we had rented…

There are many ways elements of the universe correlate to man-made matters, such as keeping time or organizing events, in a systematic manner. A common method of maintaining events and time in order is by the use of a calendar; a chart or series of pages showing the days, weeks, and months of a particular year, or giving particular seasonal information. Not all calendars are arranged identically, as events and holidays can fall on different days each year, and time can be measured by different…

Storm Sprawled out across a modern leather couch, I dozed off at the tv thinking about what guard would be like tomorrow. I finally got accepted, but now I don't know what it would be like. “Beep; Beep; beep; Mmmmmmmmmm. THIS IS A NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EMERGENCY a thunderstorm will be passing over lonsdale Minnesota” the tv blared. Getting up I grabbed my glass of water and went to the kitchen. As the tv announcement finished the football game came back on. With my glass of water and my tv…

First day of 6th grade. My alarm clock beeped loudly and obnoxiously. I snapped awake, I spun around and looked at my alarm clock it read 7:00am. I jumped out of bed knowing that I had to go into the shower and get ready for school. I turned my show on half way between hot and cold, the room quickly filled up with steam. My shower took around 10 minutes and I got dressed. I wear basketball shorts with a bright orange shirt. “I might make it” I whispered to myself. My heart was starting to stop…

Ain’t Money Douglas speaks about “The End of Time”, physical clocks are something in “the now”. “On the analog clock, each second is a portion of a minute, and each minute a portion of the day. Time is in motion. On the digital clock, time is static. A number. A now.” (Time Ain’t Money, Douglas Rushkoff, pg. 114). Rushkoff attributes this as a “timeless” factor, as if it doesn’t exist anymore because it’s now being taken over by digital clock. “This new, a-historical experience of time changes…