...entertainment and distractions. Escaping boredom is quick and people rarely stay in that mindset for long. It has become easy to overcome boredom without even taking the time to reflect on why it happened in the first place. In his text “The Quiet Alarm”, Andrea Elpidorou tries to convince that boredom is a valuable emotional state that motivates people to seek out for more stimulating activities. To achieve that, Elpidorou uses comparison and examples In his text, Elpidorou uses comparison to prove that boredom promotes the change of habits and behaviours. He compares boredom to pain to explain that boredom makes people aware of unfulfilling situation and to show that it motivates people...
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...opportunities for games, communication, and social media. With this type of lifestyle, there is an abundance of activities to do, but when those activities are gone one might feel bored. Nowadays, people are becoming bored because of one's dislikes, environment, and their control of a situation. The dictionary definition of boredom is feeling weary because one is unoccupied or lacks interest in one's current activity. Disliking something is a main cause of boredom because someone cannot just focus and become interested in something that they are not fond of. A person might dislike a book they are...
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...Essay for english Everyone may think different reasons of why and why not boredom does or doesn't lead someone into trouble. Boredom does lead to trouble; this can be found for not only teens, but adults as well; however, boredom can lead some to find a new perspective about him/her. A kid decides to explore his family’s house, and then BAM, his mother/father is yelling at him because maybe he broke something or he wasn’t supposed to go in that room. This can bring about problems within the family and can be a result of a broken family. Lots of teens hang out with friends, and sometimes do stupid things. I think this because, since they were bored at home all day, and finally getting out with their friends, makes them want to do dumb things or act stupid and could lead them and their friends into big trouble. If teenagers are bored, they may start hanging out with the wrong group of “friends” just because it would seem to them to bring some entertainment. The same motivation can make them try and use cigarettes, alcoholic drinks or even drugs. Boredom often makes young people do something illegal to get their share of adrenaline. Boredom and peer pressure - these are the big culprits when it comes to teenage drinking, drugs, sex and violence. If they have enough knowledge they can also become very dangerous thieves and hack people’s credit cards or computers. This helps them focus their brain and get their sense of pleasure. If youths are not that intelligent, they might...
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...What is boredom and what causes it? Boredom is a mental weariness, dullness, dreariness, tedium, and a monotony. Boredom is experienced when a person lacks activity or when a person becomes uninterested in tasks that surround them. A person who has been on a job for an extended period of time often becomes bored by the repetition of doing the same thing for such a long period of time. When a person becomes bored from doing the same type job, they lose interest in what they are doing and they need a challenge to excite them and fill their need to relieve their boredom. Boredom causes people to look for something that will satisfy them and bring them a feeling of fulfilment. Anything that becomes repetitious, causes people to become bored and suffer a lack of interest in whatever they are doing. Our minds require change or we become dull and unable to take an interest in functioning in a proper manner. Boredom causes us to have difficulty concentrating on our current activities because they have become a monotony to us. Boredom occurs in people when they are doing something they have to do and are sick and tired of doing it. People who suffer from boredom are seeking stimulation and a challenge because they are tired of the same monotony and they are finding it harder and harder to perform their tasks. Many people suffer from different types of boredom, i.e., when they are not allowed to do something we desire to do; when they are doing something they are being forced to do;...
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...BOREDOM : A STUDY SUBMITTED BY: SHRIYA KALRA B10110 INTRODUCTION: “Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need” French philosopher Voltaire The word bored first was used in the English language in a private letter by the Earl of Carlisle to articulate his pity in 1768. Bore symbolizing a thing that bores made its first appearance in the English language 1778. Bore meaning a tiresome person emerged in 1812. The first citation of the noun boredom occurred in 1864, less than a century and a half ago. The word ‘boredom’ has emerged only recently in the English, which suggests that boredom experience in prior eras was not as prominent a part of the society as in the contemporary times Boredom researcher Orin Klapp has documented an enormous increase in the use of the word “boredom” between 1931 and 1961.a study of west Germany found, that between 1952 and 1978, the percentage of the population who considered boredom “a great problem” in filling leisure time showed a jump of almost 50%. The past half-century, particularly the last decade, has seen an expanding chronicling of the power of boredom in impelling and shaping behaviour. Newspaper stories and...
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... AGAINST SCHOOL Guide Questions! 1. What reason did Gatto's students give when asked why they were bored ? Gatto's students reasons was that the work was stupid , that it ain't make no sense and that they already knew it. In fact they wanted to be doing something real not just be sitting around . Additionally the student said teachers didn't seem to know much about their subject and clearly weren't interesting in learning more about the students life's 2 . What was the reason did the teachers give when asked why they were bored ? The teachers reason for why the students were bored cause lounge can vouch for the low energy the whining the dispirited attitudes to be found there. 3 . What was Gatto's grandfather's perspective on boredom? Gatto's grandfather perspective about boredom was that he was never to use that term in his presence again . Including if he was bored it was his fault and non ones else's. 4 . What happened to Gatto when he tried to help his students break out it the teapot boredom? When Gatto tried to help break the trap of being bored he found it futile to challenge the official notion that boredom and childishness was also the natural state of affairs in the classroom. For instance I often had defy custom and bend the law to help the kind break out of the trap of bored. 5 . What does Gatto feel that schools should "encourage " to improve the quality of schooling ? Gatto...
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...What is next? Marry finally completed her homework, everything is done for the moment. It is 8:00 pm, and it is very early to go bed for her. She was alone in her silent room. She completely felt bored. What a tedious moment it looks! She turned her laptop on, and she searched “How to overcome boredom?” Though she liked every single suggestion, they were more boring than she has never imagined before. Therefore, she tempted to suggest three ways to overcome boredom: Creating noise, kidding the grandmother and practicing a hobby. First, the creation of noise helps changing the atmosphere. In order to create noise, you need to go to the kitchen, handle a dish and break it down. Consequently, your mother will hear the noise and steps towards the place. It might look a childish act, but gallop away right after. As this way, the body will profit from energy, a new air will be inhaled and the surrounding will be more active than it was before. Thence, this helps changing mood and dropping away boredom. Second, try to look for you grandmother. She might be doing her habitual activity of knitting you a colorful wool sweater or socks. She must be watching her favorite TV animation series “Shaun the Sheep”. Get closer to her and scream aloud then hide yourself, as if she is just pretending to hear the voice. This is not a mocking action or a disrespectful behavior more than a beautiful disposal that might turns to an emotional scene, where your grandmother is probably going to hug...
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...is happening with solitude in these days? Why are T.V. and Internet a problem in these days? And how can they affect the ability to being alone? In wich way does social networking affect the human behaviour? What happen, when you lose the ability to being alone? Main Thesis: We are replacing the solitude to being in constant communication with people. T.V was designed to eliminate boredom, so, when you are bored then you turn on the T.V and Internet doesn’t allow solitude, because you are in constantly communication with people. The more you do social networking, the more known you are, and this happens because people are afraid to being alone. Solitude is important because, it is the moment when people can read, actually it is when people can think about everything. Supporting Elements: • I was told by one of her older relatives that a teenager I know had sent 3,000 text messages one recent month. So on average, she's never alone for more than 10 minutes at once. Which means, she is never alone. (The end of solitude, pg. 1) • The great age of boredom, I believe, came in with television, precisely because television was designed to palliate that feeling. Boredom is not a necessary consequence of having nothing to do, it is only the negative experience of that state. In fact You are terrified of being bored — so you turn on the television. (The end of solitude, pg.3) • Ten years ago we were writing e-mail messages on desktop computers...
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...directly related to individual success. Gatto believes school is more detrimental than favorable and does not teach children what is truly necessary to succeed in the world today. Students and teachers are bored with the curriculum being taught in many schools. The curriculum should change in order to appeal to both students and teachers. The curriculum being taught in many schools is the most criticized aspect of modern day schooling. According to Indiana University's High School Survey of Student Engagement, which reached more then 80,000 students, less then two percent of students said they are never bored in high school (Bryner). This was not a national survey but the statistics are rather shocking. The current curriculum is considered uninteresting, irrelevant, and to Gatto’s point, boring. After enduring 12 years of public school, I can say personally that the curriculum was in fact boring and irrelevant. The curriculum did not bring about thought provoking conversations or debates. It did not allow the students to be interactive, which leads kids to question the value of education. According to Indiana University’s survey, of the 20 percent of students that considered dropping out, 60 percent of them said, “I didn't see the value in the work I was being asked to do” (Bryner). The curriculum should be changed and one way to improve it would be to give fewer lectures and force students to interact and try to get...
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...In the article Against School, written by John Taylor Gatto, compares school to the concept of boredom. He also explores the question if school is really as necessary as we make it. Also, explains the situation with the fact that most famous people didn’t go to school and they still managed became very successful people in life. Gatto expresses how students and teachers are both bored because, students are being taught information that they already know, while teachers are bored because they feel that the students have bad attitudes and do not want to learn but just want good grades. Boredom is the common condition to everyone who spends time in school. Mandatory education serves children only incidentally; its real purpose is to turn children into servants. Well-schooled kids have a low threshold for boredom because school trains children to obey reflexively. Also, people are conditioned to dread being alone, and seek constant companionship through the TV, the computer, the cell phone, and through shallow friendships quickly acquired and quickly abandon. He supposes he can bring out the best qualities in children by giving them autonomy to make decisions and take risks from time to time, rather than confining them to schooling. Gatto’s breaks down the purposes in placing Inglis’ “six basic funtions” of school by trying to overemphasize the reason for public education. Of course, in a sense, these functions have some validity to them, but Gatto makes it seem that students...
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...connected: It wants to be visible. If not to the millions, on Survivor or Oprah, then to the hundreds, on Twitter or Facebook. This is the quality that validates us, this is how we become real to ourselves — by being seen by others. The great contemporary terror is anonymity. If Lionel Trilling was right, if the property that grounded the self, in Romanticism, was sincerity, and in modernism it was authenticity, then in postmodernism it is visibility. So we live exclusively in relation to others, and what disappears from our lives is solitude. Technology is taking away our privacy and our concentration, but it is also taking away our ability to be alone. Though I shouldn't say taking away. We are doing this to ourselves; we are discarding these riches as fast as we can. I was told by one of her older relatives that a teenager I know had sent 3,000 text messages one recent month. That's 100 a day, or about one every 10 waking minutes, morning, noon, and night, weekdays and weekends, class time, lunch time, homework time, and toothbrushing time. So on average, she's never alone for more than 10 minutes at once. Which means, she's never alone. I once asked my students about the place that solitude has in their lives. One of them admitted that she finds the prospect of being alone so unsettling that she'll sit with a friend even...
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...What does the contemporary(當代的) self-want? The camera has created a culture of celebrity; the computer is creating a culture of connectivity. As the two technologies converge — broadband(寬頻) tipping (使傾斜/輕拍) the Web from text to image, social-networking sites spreading the mesh(網絲)of interconnection(互相連)絡ever wider (前所未有的寬度發展)— the two cultures betray(露出…跡象)a common impulse(衝動). Celebrity and connectivity are both ways of becoming known. This is what the contemporary self wants. It wants to be recognized, wants to be connected: It wants to be visible. If not to the millions(數百萬), on Survivor(倖存者) or Oprah, then to the hundreds, on Twitter or Facebook. This is the quality that validates(使有效) us, this is how we become real to ourselves — by being seen by others. The great contemporary terror is anonymity匿名者. If Lionel Trilling美國文學評論家was right, if the property(财产/所有权) that grounded (打基础) the self, in Romanticism(浪漫主义 , was sincerity(真实), and in modernism it was authenticity(真实性), then in postmodernism it is visibility. * So we live exclusively(排外地) in relation to(about) others, and what disappears from(从…处消失) our lives is solitude. Technology is taking away our privacy and our concentration, but it is also taking away our ability to be alone. Though I shouldn't say taking away. We are doing this to ourselves; we are discarding(丢弃) these riches as fast as we can. I was told by one of her older relatives that a teenager I know had sent 3,000 text messages one recent month. That's...
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...In « Against School », the author John Taylor Gatto talk about his experience as a teacher in Manhattan. He explains how professors and also kids are getting bored at school. But by trying to make something to fight this system which condemns the students to be bored Gatto sets divert rules and finds itself without teaching license. He criticizes the system and its methods to be the cause of this boredom. He asks itself the interesting question: " Do we really need school? ". He answers his own question by enumerating powerful Americans who succeeded such as Carnegie, Rockefeller or Lincoln; without following the school system which he considers as a useless routine. For him if this system exists it is for the unique reason that everybody...
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...I gave the sleep IQ Test to both of my parents. It was interesting to reveal that both had missed the same questions three, seven, ten and eleven. For question three they answered true. Boredom makes you feel sleepy, even if you have had enough sleep. Their reply was that they both feel sleepy when bored. Then I asked do you think that maybe you are just tired from your daily gardening that you do. I don’t necessary see them as being bored because they are busy bodies all the time. I feel that they think they are bored when they are really just tired. As for question seven-they answered true. The older you get, the fewer hours of sleep you need. They feel that because they wake up more frequently during the night they cannot get the required 8 hours of sleep, due to their broken sleep pattern. Question ten was answered true. Sates sleep disorders are mainly due to worry and psychological problems. My mother definitely believes that her sleep pattern is due to her being a worry wart. As for my father I don’t see him as the worry wart, he handles everything in stride. At times he has insomnia and feels that it is due to his busy body nature. In question eleven they answered false–The human body never adjust to night shift work. My father is the one who worked nights and days at times and I’m not sure when he really ever slept that much. So I could understand how he might have an issue with adjusting. As for my mother she worked 9-5 for years and never worked night...
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...idea of school is “to help students realize their full potential, to equip them with the skills they’ll need to achieve success and contribute to society, or to foster the development of independence, critical thinking, and strong ethical values.” (“Against School”, 141) In reality, we are thoughtlessly going through a mandatory twelve-year education system that is strict and constraining. If you were to ask a group of students what their perspective on school is, they would most likely respond with something that relates to it being boring and pointless. Considering the general “unhappiness” of students and teachers alike, what is the purpose of our schooling system if it doesn’t have a positive affect? There are so many aspects of the schooling system that could, and in fact should, be improved but nothing seems to be done to fix these flaws. One can wonder why there haven’t been any grand gestures to reform the school system. After twelve years of being put through this strict system there must be something to gain from it, otherwise what is the point. Against School by John Taylor Gatto is a very compelling excerpt written by a teacher with experiences from working in some of the best and worst schools in Manhattan, New York City. In addition to this, Gatto is an “ardent libertarian” and “award-winning educator”. Gatto has received many awards for his teaching including New York City Teacher of the Year and New York State Teacher of the Year. His focuses involve the history...
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