With the beginning of man, it can be assumed that there was time; a form of assessment in which the sun dictated how long one could remain outside, safe, and able to hunt or gather food for the night. Time is a man-made element that has orchestrated exactly what humanity does and when. It chooses what is eaten and how people act throughout the day. Time is the essence of living, and without it; there is death. However, today it is observed that the constraints time has often provided are slowly withering away as an age of impatience and everlasting dominion take place. It can be found that the people who encountered the First World War and the Second World War are dying, and in this approaching death of a generation, a great difference still transcends current recognition; that it was these people who dwelt through the greatest changes in history that had limited life spans. They are jealous of their great grandchildren who are expected to live well into their hundreds. But certainly those before our weary, decaying soldiers felt the same jealousy, as they often didn’t live past the age of fifty. Once more ancestors become jealous of the youthful generations as their time expands. Those in the Renaissance are winners of such jealousy as they died as early as thirty. The point however, is that the time granted to this generation is to be envied, as it is the greatest difference amongst all generations. Because there is prevented and prolonged exits of the Earth, it can only be expected that the ancient dwellers to come will bring drastic changes (as they already are) to the way time is perceived, and youth is explored. Everything is now. Ordering and receiving a burger at a fast food restaurant takes only a minute, today ther... ... middle of paper ... ... and the need for excess amounts of it; may create greater stress in the attempts to focus students and motivate them. Because these students will be the next generation after the one born into impatience, the future rests on the educators who must strive to evoke the learner’s attention and influence them in good work ethics and healthy time management. This once again, will be a difficult task because of the worldly influence on the children, persuading and advertising to them lives centered on the preservation of time. Not only this, but because everything is instantaneously present, patience amongst the student body may be limited which decreases the amount of attention they will provide on each subject. It is then, expected that the teacher must rise above this setback; though it will be difficult, it must be accomplished to better the future and the world.
In my opinion, I agree with the writer’s explanation on the importance of high school, and the relationship between the teachers and children, because due to the world global change the responsibilities of teachers are imperative and crucial. The teachers stand as the foundation between the teenagers and their radiance, since they encourage the teens to put in their best in whatever, they are indebted to do. Nonetheless, children are the future generation as such the teachers are to instruct them morally and ethically in order for them to be productive citizens in the society. Consequently, as teachers, their duty is to build up teenagers because whatever the teens learn from youth guides them to adulthood. The teachers also impact the knowledge which changes the life of a teenager, since they are very receptive and resourceful.
Remarque uses the contrast between the older generations of soldiers, schoolmasters, and men with higher military rank to convey how the youth at war are more negatively affected. As Barker and Last conclude, “ only the older generation, like Kat, will be able to slip back more or less unscarred into civil life....”(82) Paul argues that the older generation “represented the world of maturity” that was “associated with greater insight and a more humane wisdom.”(Remarque 12-3) However, this ideal in which their elders signified was quickly shattered by the reality of war. Remarque conveys in his book that the older generation had suffered less because the war was a mere “interruption”, the young men, in contrast, “have been gripped by it and do not know what the end maybe. We know only that in some strange and melancholy way we have become a wasteland.” (20)
Wisdom does not always relate to how many years we have lived but rather how much we have seen in this world. In All Quiet on the Western Front and They, both Erich Maria Remarque and Siegfried Sassoon created characters who were forever changed at a young age because of what they had seen. The horrors of trench warfare force men to do unimaginable things and become numb to their surroundings symbolizing the alienation of a generation.
13. Preventing Boredom and filling “free” time: To prevent students from becoming sidetracked and bored, I know it is important to have a continuous flow of activities. To ensure this, I plan all of my lessons with extra activities for unexpected “free” time. These efforts will help ensure that class time is used wisely for furthering education. I feel that the busier I keep my students the less likely they will have time for inappropriate behavior.
Paul and his generation feel separated from the rest society. Paul feels as though “[he has] been crushed without knowing it” and “[does] not belong anymore, it is a foreign world” (168). Other men “talk to much for [him]. They have worries, aims, desires, that [he] cannot comprehend” (168). His generation of men who fought in the war is “pushed aside” (249) as unpleasant reminders of a war the civilian population would like to forget. After surviving such unspeakable experiences the soldiers feel separated from everyone. Paul says, “men will not understand us” (294). “The generation that has grown up after us will be strange to us and push us aside” (294). After the war most soldiers “will be bewildered” (294) and “in the end [they] will fall into ruin” (294). The soldiers do not have concrete identities as the older generations do. “All the older men are linked up with their previous life” (19). Paul’s generation cannot even imagine any definite post-war plans. Their experiences are so shattering that they regard the prospect of functioning in a peacetime environment with vague anxiety. They have no experiences as adults that do not involve a day-to-day fight for survival and sanity. Paul has a “feeling if foreignness” and “cannot find [his] way back” (172).
Although there were many different individual and group experiences during and after the war, “the generation of 1914” may be used to collectively regard the suffering and sacrifice that all participants of this “generation” endured. Both Vera Brittain’s Testament of Youth and Robert Graves’s Good-bye to All That express a common theme of suffering, sacrifice, and the betrayal of their generation. Brittain wrote extensively about her generation’s loss and endurance of so many physical and mental hardships. Parents sacrificed sons, wives sacrificed husbands, and soldiers sacrificed their lives. Much of Europe had to endure under a constant atmosphere of death, loss, and other hardships, like food shortages, and military occupations. This suffering was an important element in Brittain’s definition of her generation. She wrote that if her fiancé had been of the postwar generation she could not have married him, because “a gulf wider than any decade divides those who experienced the War as adults...
I wanted to understand so I went to the dictionary and found that Webster?s had no less than 29 definitions for this tiny word, time. I looked on-line and found self help books that said I could manage it better and scientists who posted things regardi...
..., and without any name, other than duration-which is relative, apparent and a form of “time” that is sensible. Time in nature does not care how humans define or interpret it. We know that time cannot be “measured” because there is nothing of value to measure, but we know that the earth continues to spin and the sun continues to set and rise, and as humans we have turned those truths about the universe into measurable natural systems that we use to help us function as a society. The beauty of being human is that we can think, conceptualize and create. Mathematically, psychologically, and philosophically time has always been a subject of interest, and though it can be difficult to define and understand it is always around us in the form of a concept. Our society would function completely different without the subjective and objective forms of time we use every day.
Throughout the day we are constantly checking the time, preparing for the upcoming months, and keeping track of the year. Clocks tell us the time we use as a measurement. It’s how we keep track of those important months and events, such as holidays and birthdays. Although there are many investigations and research being done on the nature of time, many unresolved issues remain.
Time is the most elusive physical element. Despite familiarity with the concept, time is difficult to describe. Time is always the underlying assumption in our descriptions of the universe. In physics, it remains the largest barrier to the unification of relativity and quantum theory; some physicists believe time will have to be dismissed altogether if that unification is to occur (1). In more common experience, time appears to be an immutable and often lamented truth; who hasn't wished to "have more time," or to be able to "go back and do it over?"
John McTaggart in his essay “Time” presents a radical argument that claims time is unreal. While the argument is interesting and has attracted much attention for his arguments, I remain unconvinced of the argument he makes. This paper will lay out McTaggart’s argument that time in unreal, critically analyze why I believe McTaggart’s argument fails and present an alternative idea about time, utilizing aspects of McTaggart’s argument.
The Framework states that a typical lesson will consist of oral work and mental calculation with the whole class for the first five to ten minutes of the lesson. This is seen as a warm up to motivate the children to practice and sharpen mental and oral skills, in preparation for the main teaching activity. It is suggested that the teacher should maintain a brisk pace, providing varied oral and mental activities throughout each week. Teachers should ensure that each child can see the teacher easily and interruptions should be avoided, encouraging all pupils to participate in the discussion. Teachers should avoid running over time, in order to move on to the next stage of the lesson.
How do you define something as vast and infinite as time? Is time expressed as the days, weeks, or years we have left? Or is it reflected upon the triumphs and shortcomings of our former selves? This is a test you can’t fail for there is no set answer. It could be literally anything because everything you say will have took time; even just thinking of an answer. Existence is time and time is existence. A countdown had started even before life itself; a countdown that has no zero. Or does it? In the broadest spectrum, we as humans are nothing but clocks; constantly measuring time till even after death. Every decision we make, has a direct influence on time. Time is nothing yet time is everything.
There are 365 days in a year, 24 hours in a day, 60 minutes in an hour, and 60 seconds in each minute. This vital element to life is often looked over and is thought of to just pass as we go along our days. It’s not something that we usually stop for to think about and examine. To humans, time is seen as useless and easily brushed off, but many don’t realize that it is a crucial and necessary concept that affects our everyday life and could easily live without us.
There are many generations in society such as Traditionalist, Baby Boomer, Generation X, Y, and Z. Generation Z is the youngest generation in the list. However, in any work place, Generation Y, which is known as an Echo Boomers or Millenniums, is the youngest. No one knows how it emerged, but it began in 1998 and ended in 2006. The people in this era were born between 1977 and 1994, which is my generation. In the United States, there are seventy one million Generation Y-ers, which takes up the largest part of population. Unlike other generations, Generation Y has very outstanding abilities and environments to success. Those abilities and characteristics are efficient in business and companies. Also, Generation Y’s remarkable characteristics affect their social lives a lot. The Generation Y is very family centric, and able to catch up the trends. Their general cultures are pop-music, iPods, social websites, like Facebook and Twitter, and anything that relates to technology. In principle, Generation Y-ers are optimistic, social, and have high self-esteem. Those characteristics bring many pros and cons to hire them. Pros are general mostly, but cons are not true mostly because of misconceptions.