Humanities Homework Help

In the discussion thread below, I would like you to write something about a personal way you understand / interpret time. This could be about anything you do where you suspend keeping track of actual time (time on a clock) and shift into another interpretation of time. You will:

1. Explain the activity when this shift happens.

2. Explain why do you think this shift happens.

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EXAMPLE: When I am playing music my understanding of time shifts from its literal representation (the time on my watch) to some internal clock – or maybe lack thereof. Time seems to be flexible when I’m making music – an hour can feel like a minute or a day. I think this happens because my interest in performing music consumes my attention completely, as well as music (often) has a time to it (a notational time), a tempo that is different than the length of a second or minute or hour. While playing you keep count of this tempo so as to stay on the beat. But also music is durational, it has a window of time you must set aside in order to consume it. Unlike a painting, which you can “consume” entirely by looking at it for 10 seconds or 10 minutes – your choice – but you can only “consume” an entire piece of music by listening to the entire thing, which takes the literal length of the song. So instead of dividing my time into minutes and hours, it gets divided into the particular length it takes to make or listen to a piece of music. 

Please respond to the following student that answered the same discussion question as you:

I work in the Emergency Department as an RN. When a patient stops breathing or has no pulse you immediately shout out CODE BLUE. This lets staff (ED doctors, nurses, and respiratory therapists) know help is needed with a patient because if we don’t act rapidly and efficiently they will die. As the code blue is going on my adrenaline is rushing, my heart is beating fast, and I’m low-key under a lot of stress. During a code blue, time changes, what is minutes feels like seconds. Everything happens so fast! Before you know it it’s over like a blink of an eye. Staff rush into the room, ED doctor is asking you about the patient’s history, CODE status. Everyone is moving, someone is putting the patient on cardiac pads, bagging the patient, and giving medications, and the doctor puts a tube down the patient’s throat. During a code blue, it’s organized chaos. Everyone has a role and we work together focusing on saving the patient’s life. I think this happens because you know it’s a life or death situation and you have to act fast and well under pressure as the nurse. As it happens you zone out and hyper-focus on your role as a nurse. I’ve been a nurse for close to five years now and I still get that adrenaline rush and stress when a patient codes. During codes, time changes and feels so stressful and fast.