Atomic clock

The Mercian Warrior When I woke up this morning I knew that this was the day I have been waiting for my whole entire life! I was beginning to wonder how I would make it through my first day of practice for the war against our rivals, the Wessex warriors, but then I realized that I would have people who have been through it before to help me. I looked at the sun dial to see what time it was and I realized I was about to be late for the first day of practice. As I rushed to get my shield, which

It started when I was 12. When the clock changed from 1999 to 2000, numbers appeared over everyone’s heads. I didn’t bother to tell anyone about it because I’d seen enough movies to know no one would believe me. I couldn’t ever see my own number, not in photographs or mirrors. My mother was a three and my father was a two. It took me three years to figure out what the numbers meant. When I saw the news on 9/11, it all clicked. Osama bin Laden had a seven over his head. I checked a book about

[Title] Decisions are always hard to make and I’ve never been too good at making them, but then I realise whatever you decide, things will always turn around… Most mornings, I get up at seven, the same time my alarm clock goes off. However, as I roll over to check the time, I see that I still have another fifteen or so minutes in bed. I contemplate getting ready for the day that little bit earlier, but I love lying in the warmth of my bed. The heat clings to me like honey on a honey-dipper, drawing

Beep, Beep, I reached over and hit my alarm clock until it shut off. It was only 6 o’clock in the morning and I was already getting up. I was going fishing with my Dad, Pepe and one of his friends, Harold. We were going to Milford lake which is about 45 minutes away. My dad told me that they never have any luck at all when they go fishing, and something bad always happens, and we were wishing that nothing would happen this time either. Pepe was running late and the morning was not starting

BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! Imagine waking up early one day to your alarm clock screeching like a banshee. You climb out of bed and immediately fall onto the ground, exhausted from school the day before. The coaches made you run three whole miles! I know, I can’t believe it either! You pick your lifeless body up off of the ground and stumble to the bathroom. You check your phone for the time and scream in frustration. You can practically hear the Psycho theme music playing in the back of your head. Setting

“6:28,” the clock read as I was pulling into the parking lot, “6:29”. I exited the truck, grabbing my track bag as fast as possible. My phone fell out of my pocket. I paid no attention out of haste. I bent down with my track bag in my hand. I felt the glass lightly cutting my hand as I picked up my phone. I felt like Usain Bolt as I sped walk to the bus at what felt like at least thirty miles per hour. Sweaty and Tired I entered the bus. Why must we wake up so early? The meet starts at 9:00 and it’s

SWISS WATCH MARKET In 1970s the Swiss industry produced around 75 million units per year as compared to 25 million units in 1940s. Since 1966, when the Swiss Government’s restriction on sale and acquisition of watch companies lapsed, the industry experienced a crescendo of mergers, bringing down the number of firms to around 1000.    In 1971, ‘ASUAG’, the "super-trust" combined the assembling firms selling seven different brands into the General Watch Holding Company. This move forged important

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries clock making was a vital European technology, and London was at its cutting edge. As a maritime nation, the British were concerned with one problem in particular: they could make clocks that kept very good time as long as they stayed perfectly still but not when they were shaken about, and particularly not on board a rolling ship. If you wanted to sail, it was impossible to keep a precise record of time. And at sea, if you can’t tell the time, you don’t

Token economies have been used successfully to reduce the latency of responding to instructions; Buisson, Murdock, Reynolds and Cronin (1995) used a token economy to decrease the response latency for completing headings within a set time limit in hearing impaired children and Fjellstedt and Sulzer-Azároff (1973) used a token system to reduce latency of a student who did not follow directions in a given time limit. The children received tokens, which were paired to back up reinforcers contingent

Did you know the average person will spend five years and four months of their life devoted to using social media? This is more than the time we spend eating throughout our lives, which clocks in at about three years and five months, according to Mediakix, an influencer marketing service. The unstoppable march that is the advancement of technology is so quick that it’s only a matter of time before it consumes every aspect of the average life. Some might argue that social media usage is at an appropriate