Essays Tagged: "Alarm clock"

Computers in modern society

and allow us to be lazier. These devices are in most daily activities ranging from waking up to an alarm clock that is computerized to watching the news before going to bed on a computerized televisi ...

(4 pages) 172 0 2.8 Jan/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Internet and networking

The power of dreams

ams when we suddenly wake up and move about. This happens when you are usually in a rush, when your alarm clock goes off or you are pressured to get up quickly. You remember dreams on such occasions a ...

(6 pages) 148 0 4.0 Jan/1997

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

"A Raisin in the Sun"

The movie starts off with Ruth be awoken by her alarm clock. It talks about how Ruth wakes everyone up and tries to get them ready for work or schoo ...

(3 pages) 103 0 3.9 Dec/2002

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

A Special Day

A Special DayBeep beep beep... the sound of my alarm clock went off. It was seven o'clock in the morning. I was still very sleepy. I didn't want to ...

(4 pages) 87 1 3.7 Feb/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Unexpected vampires at dawn.

I wake up. It's still dark outside. It wasn't the alarm clock that woke me up. It was some voice inside me whispering: "DANGER... DANGER..." I look ar ...

(4 pages) 34 0 4.0 Apr/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

A personification essay about being a alarm clock.

oubt that I am close to being a forgotten victim of slavery.As mentioned, I am an immigrant; I am a alarm clock born in China. There were thousands of children in my family. I didn't even know all of ...

(4 pages) 72 2 4.2 Apr/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

A basic short story containing all the necessary elements of literature.

Who?It was the beginning of another typical day for Carl. The sun shone through his window and his alarm clock went off waking him up. Through his window he saw the spring leaves starting to sprout a ... off and a reward for Carl was a trip to Main Street. He went to buy a new test tube.Ring! Ring! The alarm clock sounded again but now Carl got up right away anxious to try his new formula. Carl put th ...

(5 pages) 73 0 5.0 Jul/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Poems & Short Stories

Physics of sound.

Sound surrounds us at all times. The ring of an alarm clock or the whistle of birds may wake us up in the morning. Through out the day, we hear a va ...

(3 pages) 59 0 3.4 Nov/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Physics

Lake Tahoe, CA....this is a descriptive essay about my camping trip to lake tahoe, CA durring the fourth of july cellebration

unds of the birds chirping, mixing with the warm glow of the sun shining through my tent, act as my alarm clock for the day. As I exit the tent, I inhale a deep breath of the crisp mountain air. It fe ...

(4 pages) 145 0 4.7 Jan/2004

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

Drunk and Dead (from Alyssa's point of view)

ng based on what he had written in "Drunk and Dead." both these people are dear friends of mine.the alarm clock ring loud and disturbing. I rolled over and hit the snooze button and closed my eyes for ...

(10 pages) 23 0 3.7 Feb/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

Transitioning from High school to College

miliar setting. My mornings were no longer greeted with the sweet alto voice of my general electric alarm clock. Due to the changes that I was going through transitioning from high school to college, ...

(3 pages) 56 0 4.1 Apr/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

The Life and Accomplishments of Grace Brewster Murray Hopper

of an obsession with numbers and machines! Ironically, at the age of seven, Grace took apart every alarm clock in the house to see how they worked. When her father arrived home and saw what she had d ... t she began to work with Dr. Aiken on the Harvard Mark I Computer, which looked very similar to the alarm clocks of her youth. He immediately gave her the programming task and she couldn't wait to dis ...

(5 pages) 34 0 5.0 Jun/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science

The Use of Signs and Symbols in Everyday Life

d symbols that I never would have thought twice about. The first sign in my day was when the alarm clock went off at 6:00 a.m. This led me to crawl out of bed and peek out the window to get an ...

(4 pages) 42 1 5.0 Sep/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

Direct Marketing Plan for Campbell's Easy Heat Soup

Somebody, a middle-class, 32 year old working mother, inevitably starts off at 7 am with a blaring alarm clock. Right after she slams down the snooze button, she is subject to the incessant wailing o ...

(5 pages) 101 1 1.7 Mar/2005

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Marketing

My Big Day

My Big Day        As the alarm clock goes off, I roll out of bed to get ready for my big day. You might be asking what the b ...

(4 pages) 23 1 4.0 Apr/2005

Subjects: Humanities Essays

This is about when I found out my friend killed herself.

She slammed her hand down on the alarm clock as it sounded to remind her it was 6:30. She laid in bed reminiscing about her dream she ...

(4 pages) 38 1 5.0 Nov/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Poems & Short Stories

9/11/01: A Day to Reflect On.

r day. I arose at 4:00AM, awakened from a deep and restful slumber by an annoying buzzing sound, my alarm clock. In a slight haze, I prepared myself for another long commute to work. I climbed in my c ...

(5 pages) 83 1 5.0 Dec/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

Arachnaphobia.

Ah Sunday morning your only day off. As your eyes flutter open and focus on your alarm clock a smile crosses your face and you hit the snooze button. Just as you begin to drift back ... rain to not view the object of your fear as something to be afraid of. "When the brain sets anxiety alarms ringing, our first inclination is to find the off switch. Behavioral scientists take the oppo ...

(6 pages) 45 0 4.0 Dec/2005

Subjects: Science Essays > Mental Health

Busking.

"Beep beep, beep beep!"I rolled over to turn my alarm clock off and 'bang!' I had fallen out of bed and just lay there on the cold, sweaty, concrete ... ang!' I had fallen out of bed and just lay there on the cold, sweaty, concrete floor waiting for my alarm clock to turn itself off."Third time in a bloody row!" I said to myself.My alarm clock had sto ...

(5 pages) 16 0 3.0 Dec/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

Diabetes: A Wake Up Call

Most people have experienced the alarm clock going off. Then half awake, he pushes the snooze button in order to get another wink of ... happens to many others when they first see signs of diabetes. Like pushing the snooze button on an alarm clock they don't heed the wake up call.Being overweight doesn't necessary mean one has diabete ... as possible. Even if one doesn't have diabetes, what has he or she got to lose by being healthy?The alarm clock went off. The couch potato pushed the snooze button just for another few minutes of slee ...

(3 pages) 63 0 4.2 Feb/2006

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases