...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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...It's been said that, "boredom is God's way of telling you that you are wasting time." It's an excellent matter that we are in a fantastic generation that we are never genuinely bored. We consistently have our whole week planned with our very busy schedules. We always have something to do, so we are never really bored. It states in the passage that boredom can be agony. Boredom leads to anxiety along with atrocious decision making, it can be destructive. People who can't cope with it are likely to abuse drugs and alcohol. We need to avoid boredom. It not only stinks, but leads to unacceptable ideas. We could avoid boredom by getting on electronics, hanging with friends, doing our chores, etc. Our phones...
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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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...Model Assignment Issued September 2012 OCR Level 3 Cambridge Technicals in Business Unit 12: Recruitment and selection in business Ofqual unit reference number A/502/5434 Please note: This OCR Cambridge Technical model assignment may be used to provide evidence for the unit identified above. Alternatively, centres may ‘tailor’ or modify the assignment within permitted parameters (see Information for Teachers). It is the centre’s responsibility to ensure that any modifications made to this assignment allow learners to meet all the assessment criteria and provide sufficient opportunity for learners to demonstrate achievement across the full range of grades. The assessment criteria themselves must not be changed. The OCR entry codes and Ofqual numbers associated with these qualifications are: |Qualification title |Entry code |Ofqual number | |OCR Level 3 Cambridge Technical Certificate in Business |5327 |600/4226/6 | |OCR Level 3 Cambridge Technical Introductory Diploma in Business |5329 |600/4608/9 | |OCR Level 3 Cambridge Technical Subsidiary Diploma in Business |5332 |600/4235/7 | |OCR Level 3 Cambridge Technical Diploma in Business ...
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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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...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 and transmitting them over dial-up...
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...improve your memory? If so, please share them. If not, what kinds of things might you try in the future to help improve your memory? When it comes to a specific strategy that I use to improve my memory, I would have to say I like to doodle. If I am sitting in a boring class or meeting, I start to draw hearts, flowers, peace signs, faces, retracing words or letters, etc. in my margins. It may seem like I am paying less attention or not paying attention at all, when doodling, but in reality the act of me drawing allows me to keep my brain active. Just sitting there when I am bored makes it easier for me to tune out and as a result I remember less information. Doodling in lectures and meetings seems to ease tension for me and diminishes boredom. When doodling, I am not actually spacing out, I am making my thoughts come together, congealing my own ideas. Also, being a health fanatic, I get plenty of sleep and exercise, which has been proven to help with memory. Physical activity increases alertness and oxygen supply to the brain, helping to improve memory along with numerous other things. Sleep is when it consolidates information learned into a long-term memory, so if you stay awake for long periods of time, your brain can not go through this process, therefore getting plenty of rest is essential when improving...
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...Museum is a place where rare things of past and present are kept. Those who want to have look into past visit museum. Last Friday my friends and I decided to visit a museum because the museum is a place where you can see a collection of rare things and things of historical interest. It is a store house of all wonderful and valuable things. All the things of the past and the present e can see at one place. There is a big museum in Lahore. It is situated near the Town Hall. In front of it runs the Mall Road and opposite to it stands and University Hall with its lofty clock tower. The museum is in a big building which consists of many big halls. It is managed by all officer. We bought tickets to enter the museum. To visit the museum is an education in itself and for this reason it is visited by hundreds of people every day. Travelers from foreign countries also make it a point to visit it because it enables them to peek into the arts and crafts of Pakistan. Women and children also go to the museum in large numbers every day but may be they go to kill their time. Despite it everybody learns something form the museum. When we entered the first hall we found many pictures hung on its walls. These pictures were of old kings saints and statesmen. Some of these were drawn purely from the imagination. All of them however provided a feast of colors for the eye. If we were to take a student of painting with us he would tell us many interesting things about these pictures and paintings...
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...LearnEnglish Professionals IMPROVING YOUR CONCENTRATION AUDIOSCRIPT Listen to different people talk about how noise effects their concentration. See how much you understand by trying the activity below and checking the answers below the audio script. Comprehension activity: In each case, match a summary of what was said to the speaker. The speakers are in the order in which you hear them. Speaker Martina Rachel Romesh Mark John Summary statement I have a clear policy on when I can have distractions. I was surprised to find I couldn’t work like I had expected to. It’s often difficult for me to find the ideal working conditions. My expertise makes it easier for me to listen to music while I work. Whether I listen to music or not depends on the amount of attention the task requires. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. a) b) c) d) e) Martina: “It depends what I’m doing. I can listen to music of any kind when I’m doing a translation, I like it, it helps me even, but if I’m doing some complex maths then I have to have silence. It depends on the level of concentration that’s needed, I guess.” Rachel: “No, it has to be complete silence for me. It’s a real problem actually because I live in a shared house with lots of other students in the middle of a noisy city. It’s very difficult to get real peace and quiet. When I can I go back to my parents who live out in the country. It’s good when I have lots of exams to study for because it’s so peaceful out there – no disturbances at all!” Romesh:...
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...The Mall: A Typical Teenager’s Second Home At home, Simon suffers from a severe case of boredom that is mildly treated with countless days of sitting in front of the computer playing Lineage II. To further suppress the symptoms of boredom, he goes to the mall where there are a large variety of things to do. The mall is not only his way out of boredom. It is also his way away from the “homely” atmosphere. He suffers constant reminders from his mom to do his schoolwork. Whether it is studying or doing homework, he gets it all the time. Even after summer school, he continues to be reminded. When he is elsewhere, he does not get nagged at all. Sure, he gets nagged for other things but never homework. Perhaps it is the minute sense of freedom that he feels whenever he is away from home. Whenever possible, he tries to get out, which is not often. Most of the time, his place of freedom is the mall. He would have a break from the nagging for at least an hour and a half, the time it takes to watch a movie. The mall’s function in a teenager’s life is to relinquish boredom and to get away from some of the negative feelings associated with home (Kowinski 1985). The mall provides many things that home cannot for teenagers. At home, there is a limited amount of activities, each one more boring than the next. The obvious thing to do at the mall is shopping. Whether it is for clothes or other merchandise, it will be there. Not a shopping person? No problem. One can also go play at the arcade...
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...tasks that all require their attention, and considering the time frame this will not be that much possible. Also at times multitasking will not be that much encouraged due to the fact that when multitasking we tend to divide our attention between the two tasks and thus overwhelming our thoughts which may lead to poor results on what we intended to do. To get much out of multitasking we need to reap the benefits while minimizing the drawbacks. Benefits of multitasking come in handy. We are able to do attend to different types of tasks simultaneously in a given time frame and jumping to others which require our attention, thus saving more time. Multitasking helps the student to switch between different sort of assignments and this prevents boredom and increases our creativity through brainstorming for the other project while doing the other. This becomes more inspiring and keeps us in need of more. Multitasking enables us to use our extra time prolifically. This is depicted in doing our morning jogging; we can listen to an online lecture about a particular subject through the iPods. Students need a certain level of multitasking which is much necessary needed because it allows the student to takes notes while listening to the lecturer. This...
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...Have you ever attend any talk that requires ones to speak in front of hundreds or maybe thousands of audience? Of course the answer is yes, right? What do you think about the speaker? How does he or she speak? Interesting? Not interesting? Did you being attentive? If not, why? Do we have to put the blame on the speaker for not being good enough as a public speaker? A boring speaker will definitely causes a boring speech. Thus, what does it takes for one to be a good speaker? What must you have to be a good speaker? I am here to write and to tell you the secrets to be an interesting public speaker as it will ensure you are delivering presentations that will influence, inspire, and make a meaningful impact on your audience. Do you think that being a public speaker is only about reading notes or points from your flash cards? If it is as easy as that, I would just call my 7 years old sister to present with her flash cards. One must know that, to be an effective speaker, you must first understand who you are as a speaker and as a person. What are your strongest interpersonal qualities? Do you have good interpersonal skills? How do you best connect with others? What qualities do you need to work on? The most effective speakers are constantly working to capitalize on their strengths whether that’s great storytelling or a talent for getting the audience to participate and even to improve upon their weaknesses. Tapping into your most powerful interpersonal qualities is an excellent way...
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...Brittney Chandler Dr. Teri Maddox SPEECH 1010-06 31 January 2012 “Listening is a 10 Part Skill.” Listening to another person speak can be very difficult sometimes. A lot of students might find sitting still and listening to someone lecture or saying a speech can be quiet boring. All audience should be content and pay attention. Some students tend to get distracted though. There are times when I am like that and can get distracted by my own thoughts. Good listeners focus on central ideas. Poor listeners concetrate too much on trying to commit too many facts to memory too fast. Being flexible in note taking is a very important skill. If you write too much on your notes you could easily get misplaced in your speech and things can get very unorganized. To have nice prepared notes you should write main topics and highlight the main details to keep the speeker on track. Also if a speeker over writes too much on their notes they tend to sound like reading aloud instead of saying a speech. Another problem is a lack of eye contact. Keeping your head and mind open and clear will help you be an attenative listener. A lot of students may get distracted and let their mind wonder while there is a speaker making a speech for the class. For example, students will think about what they might be doing the coming up weekend. The listener should be full focused on the speaker. They should be making eye contact and sitting up. If the listener is sitting up and leaning forward with...
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...Ongky Kurniawan 3125007/KP Y College Lecturer International Class 2012 of UBAYA lecturers have diverse characters. Couples of them have strict style in lecturing class. Time, it is sacred for the class so it has serious attention at the time this lecturer appointment. If students come late they’ll be missed on hand-signature, because this lecturer hate late person. Positively, u may join the class. Assignment, it really takes serious attention of class. Class would never be apathetic, because every single thing this lercturer gave is scored. So, if students deliberate not working the homework will missed the scoresheet and this means that students under-disturbed. Presence, this lecturer class should not missed every single week. Because this lecturer discuss books fastly. So if you missed class for once, you need to chase your missing part. Then because this lecturer score your final-score under your presence. There some percentage of score calculated by student presence. However some others have lenient style in lecturing class. They still give consideration about students arrival time, but in sense of reasonable. It means, the grace period only couples few minute from the schedule. If students come far away from class schedule, for example an hour later, he/she will got angry instead. About the assignment, they rarely given the task for some reason. Because they had finished the lesson during the class. Some others had given mini-test during the class, so it replaces the...
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