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While we were listening to the song "The Resistance" during today's class, I started thinking about the concept of time. I started thinking about Winston and Julia and how they never knew how much time they had left together before the Thought Police would find them. I started thinking about the Montgomery Bus Boycott and about the people who protested. I thought about all of the years of abuse that those who boycotted had endured and how much satisfaction they must have had after they outlasted the bus company. It was all a matter of time. Everything is a matter of time. The amount of time they'd endured segregation, the amount of time of the bus boycott, the amount of time it took for them to be truly equal under the law. I started thinking about how many times students refer to time during the day. My favorite time-related quotes include: "I didn't have time to do the homework, Miss" or "Do I really have to get a late pass, Miss? I'm only one minute late!" After all, what could possibly happen in a minute, right? Well, I found this interesting visual called "20 Things That Happen In A Minute." It was kind of neat, so I thought I'd share... http://www.insurance-quotes-for-you.com/20_Things_That_Happen_In_One_Minute.html Feel free to comment...
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Andrew
2/25/2010 07:47:57 am
This is a quick reminder that people are constantly dieing every minute of our lives Who knows, the next person could be you. You are never safe anywhere something could always happen to you. But i try to thing of it this way, their are people being born while that person is dieing. The world population is increasing by the minute.
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Andreina
2/25/2010 08:09:37 am
I found the list really interesting. Its amazing that Opera makes 523 dollars in a minute; that is more than what my mom makes in a week. I also found it unbelievable that 250 babies are born in a minute and almost about half of them are born into poverty. I predict that the cause of that can be teen moms or people just not having enough money to raise a baby. I also found it unbelievable that we waste so much food, we should be ashamed of ourselves. In addition we should also be ashamed of how much garbage we through away in a minute. We need to be more resourceful people.
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Randy
2/25/2010 09:18:55 am
Are the numbers accurate? Can all of those things really happen in a minute? I think it is too difficult to determine the many events that can occur in a minute, or sixty seconds, because there are too many things happening in the world. You will probably need a voluminous number of scientist to calculate the events that happen in one minute. I'm not even sure that that will work. on a lighter note, I think it is incredible to know that lightning strike Earth at least 360 times. I don't know if that's possible or accurate, but I can believe that five earthquake can occur on Earth in one minute. I can understand why one would question these numbers, but can they really happen? What can happen in the next minute? We may never know exactly what happens because things can't always turn out to what you expect them to be. After all, time will forever go forward and not backwards.
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Katherine
2/26/2010 04:17:25 am
I had the idea that maybe at least 50 babies were born in ONE DAY in the U.S not 250. That's just too many. I didn't think that so many things could happen in just one minute. By the way it is true teachers ask for late passes after just 1 minute of being late! It is very annoying, even though many things happen around the world in just that minute, it doesn't happen in class! So I think they should let us off on being one minute late!
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Regina
2/27/2010 07:14:35 am
I have the same question randy has because it's really hard to believe that so many things can happen in one minute. But i guess if you are sitting around doing nothing then it seems as if time rolls by way too fast. I just found it sad how many kids die in on minute and how many are born into poverty.
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Justin
2/28/2010 12:25:45 pm
It is amazing to me how Oprah makes $523 in a minute and an average person makes 13 cents. There are many negative things that could happen in a minute. A minute is only 60 seconds. That’s not a lot of time and these things are happening. I wonder what would happen in 60 minutes?
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7/28/2012 11:32:56 am
Glad to be 1 of many visitants on this awful web web site : D.
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