Reasons That Mead Does Not Fit In This Society

He uses the brightness of light to show the personalities of the households. The text explains the houses as, “... the cottages and homes with their dark windows, and it was not unequal to walking through a graveyard and where only the faintest glimmers of firefly light appeared in flickers behind the windows.” This is demonstrating how little of individuality there is in the people of this city. The author says how it is like walking through a graveyard but there is a little bit of light, perhaps the light is to symbolizing how alive the people are; how joyous it is to live their lives. Compared to a graveyard technically the people are still “living” in this story to where a graveyard people are literally dead. Once they begin to talk about Leonard Mead’s house it explains the amounts of light, “They passed one house on one street a moment later, one house in an entire city of houses that were dark, but this one particular house had all of the electric lights brightly lit, every window a loud yellow illumination, square and warm in the cool darkness.” The author explains his house as bright but the rest on the city dark concluding this overwhelming idea of how different he is, how lively he is, giving an answer about why he was walking and why in the beginning in the story it was saying how he was the only one walking and that he would choose a route to take and endure this path

Edwards, Erika, and Maggie Fox. "Teens Spend 'Astounding' Nine Hours a Day in Front of Screens: Researchers." NBCNews.com. NBCUniversal News Group, 03 Nov. 2015. Web. 31 Aug. 2017.

Children in the United States have an average of 7.5 hours of screen time per day. Spending that much time watching a televison screen can be very damaging for the eyes as opposed to reading a book, creating an art project, or just going out side to get some fresh air. An article from a scientific journal says that light from the screen confuses the viewers body clock this causes the veiwer to not geta decent amout of sleep at night.

Television. Such a simple nine letter word but this word alone is most likely to be one of the most well known words in the universe. According to the latest Nielson report, on the consumption of television, the average American watches a minimum of five hours of television per day. If we were to estimate that the average American does get at least the recommended 9 hours of sleep then we can conclude that it is about 1/3 of their day being spent glued to the tube. Also if we continue to estimate that the average American lives to be 78. Then that is about 142,350 hours of television or tallied up to

The dark fact that is foreshadowed by the description of the “buckling concrete walk” is that the future world is lonely, dark and silent. The pedestrian seems to be living a lonely life with no other stimulation.

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Mead is walking alone. Both, the short story and poem present the mood of the setting as very lonely. Along with the setting, both authors use the character’s to exhibit similar moods.

According to the table, Watching TV/Videos is the most popular leisure independent of people’s age with an average of 728 hours, mainly during Teens and above 70s hours of leisure reaches peaks of 1.100 hours and 1.200 respectively.

Throughout the text “Solitary Stroller and the City,” author Rebecca Solnit explores the complex relationships between the walking individual and living in the city. The title brings together three central ideas; walking, the city, and solitariness as an individual.. These three central ideas are tied together and used to reveal deeper meanings and relationships within the text. When analyzing Solnit’s work, the reader is left to identify a complex relationship between the central ideas and how the geography of a city influences all the three of the central ideas. Solnit makes claims throughout the text that are strongly suggestive of a relationship between the ability to walk and its derivability based on the “when” and “where” concepts. The geography and or location can be explored through the comparison of rural walking versus urban walking, the comparison between the cities of London and New York, and the solitariness associated with the geography and structure in one city versus another. Spanning the entire text is the idea that the city influences the walker and their individualism among the crowd, or their perception of solitude. Solnit compares London walkers and New York walkers, exploring how their different geographical locations define their city as a whole as well as the individual. Geography plays a crucial role in one 's idea of solitude and individualism.

Evidence of media screens being like an addiction all tell-tell signs of its use being addictive is presented here from the American

In 2015, a survey by the Bureau of Labor, calculated what everyone 15 and older does on a regular basis. On an average day, more than half of them spent around 3 hours watching TV. Individuals age 75 and over spent more of their time watching TV, reading, and relaxing than individuals ages 15 to 19. Americans spend over an hour more per day online than doing other activities (“American Time Use Survey”).

Going out for a walk and being taken on a walk are two different things to author Max Beerbohm. In this essay, “Going out for a Walk,” Beerbohm challenges the definition of walking as a proactive exercise without reason opposed to staying inside with beliefs that walking without a reason is pointless. He believes going out for a walk by himself is his own choice while being taken for a walk is when someone asks him to go for a walk just for the sake of walking. This is false however, walking allows you to have a clear mind and to be with your own thoughts, but it does not make the brain less effective.

He had been walking somewhere on a road, in between buildings, he doesn’t know how long it’s been how long he has been walking. Night hauntingly shrouds his surroundings with darkness; the artificial lights seem so damn weak. They seem to only produce enough light to brighten a large moving box. The darkness stares him down, the cold presses against the bare skin of his arms. A hand squeezes his right shoulder he can feel the warmth through his shirt.

In the personal essay Going out for a Walk by Max Beerbohm, Beerbohm approaches the concept of walking with a different point of view. Beerbohm characterizes walking as an activity that impedes thoughts and a good chat, articulating that the brain "stops" during a walk. Ironically, Going out for a Walk was written during a walk. Beerbohm's conveys that walking is the soul's judgment and not logic that would make a person walk without purpose. Although, Beerbohm states that he doesn't mind if one is walking for exercise as long as it's done in moderation, but he still disapprove of people that walk without a purpose.

In the personal essay Going out for a Walk by Max Beerbohm, Beerbohm approaches the concept of walking with a different point of view. Beerbohm characterizes walking as an activity that impedes thoughts and a good chat, articulating that the brain "stops" during a walk. Ironically, Going out for a Walk was written during a walk. Beerbohm's conveys that walking is the soul's judgment and not ratiocination that would make a person walk without purpose. Although, Beerbohm states that he doesn't mind if one is walking for exercise as long as it's done in moderation, but he still disapproves of people that walk without a purpose.