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Who has the time? Time is a concept that effects almost every aspect of peoples lives. Human civilizations have used time to organize their activities and economics for thousands of years. It has now become a basic necessity for the continuation and productivity of any culture. We break time into three separate parts. The parts are the past, present, and future. The past refers to anything that has occurred before this moment or the present. All three play an important part in communicating time. We use the past to measure events that occurred before the present. Teachers educate students on past events in a class called history. Geologists base their theories and laws of science on the activity of the Earth in the past. Information that has been recorded on the Earth’s past activity is used to try and predict current or future geologic activity. Military experts use the results of past events of war to determine what tactics worked, or whether they need to create new ones. The present is sort of a pivotal point in our concept of time. It is a brief moment in time that is influenced by the past and future. Our actions are dictated by what just happened in the past, and we use our present moment to try and predict our future actions. The future is a concept of time that is more abstract than its predecessors. Its it a given that people know they can not predict the future, yet security can be found in believing expectations of future events. An example being, if we bomb a country like Russia, then they will return fire with their own bombs. Without being able to 100% know the future, we still assume that we can predict that Russia would retaliate in some form or fashion. We also try to predict the future by events in the past. Another example is that anyone would agree if you threw a ball in the air it will fall back down to the Earth. By agreeing that the ball would fall back to the Earth is to suggest you can predict the future of where the ball will end up. That assumption was made due to past accounts of witnessing a ball go into the air and then return to Earth again. St. Augustine suggests a different view of time in his novel, Saint Augustine Confessions. He under goes a series of analyzing different aspects of the past, present, and future in Book 11.
Approximate Word count = 1604
Approximate Pages = 6.4
(250 words per page double spaced)
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