Organized Chaos

Time, what is time, and why is it important? Well time is a concept that humans’ brains can perceive, in fact their brains basically construct the past, the present, and the future. Basically, time is a measurement system, and without it the human race wouldn’t have ever existed. Humans have a very simple understanding of time, and they still do not understand its full potential. Humans only understand the measurement of time, and the manipulation and capturing of time overwhelms them. To this day the only way humans have captured time is their memory, and even then they still get it wrong sometimes.

Humans interact and go on about their daily life unknowingly following rules that society establishes as well as common social norms. Although this is a strange concept to grasp, this phenomenon is how society acts as a whole and how we as individuals are. Social norms are ways of acting, thinking, and feeling that exist outside a person but exert social control over each person they interact with. These are the rules that we abide by and are ingrained in our heads but what happens if one breaks that social norm.

reason or a need to keep track of time because no one follows a schedule. They eat, sleep and

Time, as viewed in this framework, is not only defined as the time on a clock, but the way culture perceives time. Time can be viewed by the calendar; furthermore, some cultures use different calendars or have varying number of days in their week. Some cultures also see clock time as less strict. There are certain cultures where it is normal to be late and others where the time decided is the time one is expected to be there.

Human beings revolve around time and base their lives off of it. Although a person has the capability to use time as little or a lot to plan out their life, time’s presence can have a different impact for everyone. In sonnet “73” when talking about someone coming to the end of their life Shakespeare says, “In me thou see’st the glowing of such fire that on the ashes of his youth doth die”

Without rules, any society could become an anarchy. For instance, rules and laws

A civilization is created by one person or a group of people that are respected enough to be listened to, in order to make laws. This is like what happens in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, where a group of young boys are stranded on an island with no adults. Some people believe that society can control people. People, however, very much so control society. People control society, by electing who leads them, or doing something to get someone into power.

Many laws have been made, but only a few are followed. Even living a carefree life requires rules. Although Christopher McCandless was in the woods around nothing but nature he still had to keep in mind rules like, which berries not to eat, or when not to eat the meat you had caught. I believe that the government was established because people saw how chaotic life was when no set amount of people was I charge. Sometimes we contribute to our own demise. Chris’s sister Carine even said that she believes that if Chris took his dog Bucky with him on his trip he would have survived because although Chris was careless with his own life he would never put Bucky into any kind of

Time remains an important key element of life. It helps us understand the way the world functions. For instance we go through life we begin to realize that time is an element which will not ever come back once it is gone. Time is a valuable gift that people take for granted until they realize that they do not have any time left. Although time is physically the same for everyone, we all experience time in a different manner. Several factors impact our encounter with time. One of those factors is fear. Fear changes the way we perceive time, because when we become overwhelmed by this emotion time appears to slow down. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge demonstrates the way that fear makes us appreciate time and not take it for granted.

Time is of the essence, yet time is always passing. Time can be taken or given, saved or spent, but is not always the same for “time only existed when a measurement was being made” (19). Stephen Kern’s The Nature of Time introduces ideas and concepts of how time is seen, represented, and spent. Two key ways of looking at time are through the perspective of Public Time, and Private Time. Public Time, is the universally understood time; the time that we experience collectively and are kept to by a clock or calendar. The calendar “expresses the rhythm of the collective activities, while at the same time its function is to assure their regularity” into what we know as the collective Public Time (20). In order to understand Public Time, however, it first had to become universal. “While the year, month, and day have a basis in nature, the week and the hour are entirely artificial;” therefore, for Public Time to become understood by all, the artificial constructs of time had to become universally joined (14). Although the world was slow to accept a universal time, which would be altered by one hour between twenty-four zones, it soon became accepted and understood. The simple measurement of time introduces issues within time itself, however. Time does not stop and is not divided into bits as it is represented by its measurement. The idea of any measurement which does not continuously flow, contradicts the very concept of Private Time.

Societies are created to have order in the civilization by leadership. Societies have always been a key element to a successful civilization. This can be proven in our past history like WW1. For instance in WW1 societies were created through order, but between alliances. (The allies included Britain, France, Russia, Italy and the United States). These countries fought against the Central Powers which included Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria). Showing how order can bring things together that you might not typically expect. This is also true in the Novel “Lord of the Flies”. The novel would reveal how the stranded boys would use a conch as a symbol of order on who will get to speak. You can see this on page (19) where Ralph would lift up the conch and says “ Seems to me we ought to have a chief to decide things.”Showing his suggestion for order

they were all in a rush to get somewhere, or running from something, but the

Rules and order are vital to our safety, governmental systems, and economy. According to Merriam-Webster, the definition of a rule is a statement that tells you what is allowed or what will happen within a particular system. According to the same source, the definition of order is the state of peace, freedom from confused or unruly behavior, and respect for law or proper authority.

Without rules and regulations all civilization would plunge into chaos, as there would be nothing protecting us from one another’s most basic self serving instincts, and sometimes self-destructive habits. Often time’s simple rules and regulations protect us from ourselves, such as not touching a hot furnace or driving through an intersection when the light is red. If we look just at laws of the road one can quickly see how many devastating accidents would occur (and how many lives would be ruined) if no one followed the rules of the road. Without the utmost care to follow these rules, things that could easily be prevented may happen, resulting in very negative things.

We plan our day around different times of the day. Time tells us when to eat, when to sleep, and how long to do things for. If time were based on these simple terms, then this mysterious enigma would not be in debate. There are the issues of space and time; what is the relationship