Reflection: Daylight Savings Time

The argument of daylight saving time’s worth is one that has sparked controversy all over America. Some think that daylight saving time should be eliminated because it holds no value in society; however, others believe that it does good for the citizens of earth. People keep arguing back and forth, with the help of substantial evidence from both sides, and a clear winner has not been claimed. While some may argue that daylight saving time is doing more harm than good, it is beneficial in several ways.

One day you wake up glad because you got an extra hour of sleep, and just six months later you wake up sad because you lost an hour of sleep. Twice a year, every year, we face a change in time construction and in our daily schedule, causing a dramatic shift in our regular routines. Daylight Savings is a controversial topic that has caused great uprising regarding its usefulness. Despite some of its benefits, the Daylight Savings time change is unnecessary due to its direct impact on society’s well being and it’s ineffective purpose.

Daylight saving time (DST) is the time which is adjusted to achieve longer evening daylight, in summer, by setting the clocks an hour ahead of the standard time. Typically, regions with summertime adjust clocks forward one hour close to the start of spring and adjust them backward in the autumn to standard time.

The United States has used daylight saving time for about 100 years (Source A) in order to promote saving energy consumption (Source B). DST was first adopted after World War I, but then repealed a year later. Despite this, the US adopted a “war time” daylight saving time instituted during World War II. After this, many states adopted their own summer changes after the year-long shift had ended (Source A). In my mother’s sophomore year in college at Laurence Tech, she had a professor show up for class an hour late. The professor had not realized the time change, and wasted her students’ time. Today, the Department of Transportation (DOT) oversees all the time changes (Source A), including the DST change staring in March and ending in

Losing sleep is never fun, and Daylight Saving Time (DST) doesn’t help. This practice really needs to go, and there are plenty of reasons why. The most obvious one is inconvenience. Resetting clocks and fixing schedules is extremely irritating, not to mention losing that comfortable hour of sleep in the spring. Productivity is also lowered because those few minutes spent changing clocks could have been spent doing something else, like homework. Plus, the loss of sleep reduces concentration and brain processing speed, meaning tasks take longer to complete. It’s estimated that every time the clocks are changed, the US economy loses almost half a billion dollars! That lost hour of sleep does more though, as there are well documented health issues that arise due to a lack of sleep. The two most

Numerous research has shown evidence-based practice strategies to help reduce and prevent falls in hospitalized patients. According to Day et al. (2012), exercise is one approach used by Geriatric nurse practitioners to reduce and prevent falls in the elderly. Physical activities such as strength, gait, and coordination training which last for a minimum of 12 weeks has been effective in reducing falls in the elderly. The researcher further elaborated that a primary care provider such as a nurse practitioner can refer a patient who is at risk for falls to a Tai Chi program, an operative, and cost effective technique to encourage exercise and strength training in the elderly. Exercise has been revealed to decrease falls in the elderly by 22% - 37% and reduce the risk of falling by 20%-37% (Hale, Taylor, & Waters, 2012). Fuzhong, Harmer, & Fitzgerald (2016), performed a study to evaluate the effectiveness Tai Ji Quan, a form of balance exercise in fall prevention in older adults. The training focused on gait initiation, alignment, coordination, and

While proponents can tout the seemingly innumerable benefits of daylight savings time (DST), like its engrained tradition or pragmatic advantages, a deeper analysis proves that this superficial and relatively fruitless venture to be the one of extreme manifestation of popular verisimilitude perpetrated by our affinity for stability and discomfort with change. It is therefore apparent that such abstractions need be replaced with more empirical measurements so a made reasonable and balanced conclusion can actually be made. The debate over daylight savings time, like many of the other debates that plague radio waves and five-minute segments on the nightly news, comes down to simple dollar bills and numbers. David T. Wagner, assistant professor

Twice a year, most Americans adjust their clocks before bedtime to prepare for Daylight savings time. Daylight savings time is a wonder tool for mankind, it maximizes sun light in the day time second, it is safer for travel third, and Daylight savings is energy savings tool. I am going to go over a few pros so state my opposition for Daylight savings time.

High Noon is top one-hundred movie of all time. The Most Dangerous Game is a critically acclaimed short story. High Noon is about a newly wed town Marshal named Will Kane, who is waiting for the arrival of Frank Miller, a murderer who wants revenge on Kane for arresting him. The Most Dangerous Game is about a hunter named Sanger Rainsford, who falls overboard off his yacht one day and is shipwrecked to a mysterious island named Ship - Trap Island. He walks into island and finds a chateau with two Cossacks: General Zaroff and Ivan. General Zaroff is honored to meet Rainsford and Rainsford thinks it's pleasure to Zaroff. General Zaroff is a hunter who used to hunt animals, but is bored because he's a master at hunting animals.

In Heywood Broun’s “The Fifty-First Dragon,” local coward Gawaine le Cœur-Hardy evolves to an influential knight through the use of an enchanted word. Sword in hand, he traverses the land cleaving heads off of numerous dragons. Although most can’t relate to Gawaine’s achievements, slaying dragons doesn’t make one invincible to personality faults. Throughout all of this, I could find three personality traits that I could relate to, in agreeable or disagreeable ways. Gawaine and I may share similar traits such as laziness and forgetfulness, however, we contrast greatly with our athletic abilities.

Espenak (2016) observes that the Daylight Savings Time idea, which may be credited to Benjamin Franklin, had the objective of maximizing on daylight hours by forward shifting of the clock by an hour in the spring and backward shifting it again during the fall. The idea was implemented during the World War I in Canada and the United States and many other European countries. In the United States, the legislative house enacted and passed a bill where Daylight Savings Time was to commence on the last Sunday of the fourth month of a calendar year and end on the last Sunday of October. President Lyndon Johnson signed the bill into law in 1966. In 2005, a new energy bill was signed by President Bush that extended the Daytime savings by four more weeks (Monalisa, 2013). Some states, for instance, Hawaii do not observe the Daylight Savings time and any state is at

Its late and you still wanted to go to the mall but it closes at 6. You heard the people changed the time to eight o 'clock but only for people under the age of 18. So you chose not to go . Would you agree with the time changed at the mall for only people under age of 18? Or would you disagree that the time should 've never changed. Describe the dangers of the time changed, and how much time you put your effort on something. The safety department says that its more safe to close earlier than later .

The idea of recording how I spent my hours for two weeks was like watching a terrible horror/reality show in my head unfold. Without a doubt, it was not as awful as I imagined it would be, and I’m even grateful that I had the opportunity to take a step back and evaluate my life objectively for a bit. Taking my first look at my completed hourly time record caused some conflicting feelings, and breaking it up into measurable indicators actually made it a very good way to look at my progress now that I have had to create an entirely new schedule over 2,000 miles away from home. And, I would like to go back and take a baseline measurement in the exact same format to compare how exactly I spent my time then and the differences now, considering how

With the rising difficulties in common core standards many teachers are forced to place increasing effort on mathematics and english. This means that programs such as science and art are cut out of many lesson plans. I realized how influential science programs are for elementary students and so, with my club STEM Leaders of Tomorrow, created STEM Day at J.H. Gunn Elementary School. Students who wouldn’t normally get an opportunity to hear presentations were given exclusive one-on-one time to engage in activities that will shape them for the rest of their lives. My team and I changed students lives and thus, the future.

I never procrastinated when I was younger, but as I got older for some reason I began to delay my responsibilities as much as possible. I observed as my peers did the same and left important task to the very last minute. I have stayed up late at night trying to finish a project that was due the next day simply because I delayed doing it earlier. I have run around like crazy and stressed out about filling out applications a day before the deadline because I wasted my time doing other things. I also saw many of my peers doing the exact same thing. I witnessed firsthand how procrastinating had made my life and the life of those around me so much harder and stressful than it needed to be.