... this day. Let us say that it is now six fifty nine in the morning and this person starts work at eight o"clock and in order to get to work on time they have to be up by seven o"clock at the latest, I suppose we should also note that being late for work is not an option, if you are late you ... go home. So our person is laying bed weighing the pros and cons of getting out of bed when their alarm goes off indicating that it is now seven ... o"clock. In this moment that person has no choice but to make a choice whether or not they are getting out of bed, the eternal demands an answer ... ...

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... who has been transformed into a dung beetle. His general lack of concern over the transformation echoes throughout act I. He goes from thinking about how he was not awoken by his alarm clock to thoughts about how he has missed his train to work. Again the thoughts about being transformed into an insect and what he should do about it are not of ... ...

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THE RUN The day began like any other Monday. My alarm sounded with the piercing buzz sharply at 5:00 a.m. I rolled out of my tiny bed onto the cold hard wood floor and proceeded to venture into the newly colored, pastel green ... itself on my socks over the weekend when I washed my cloths and put on a pair of socks that fit just in between the way I liked them to. Looking at the clock I discovered it was now almost 5:30 a.m. and I had not yet left my house. I quietly scrambled through the house, so I did not wake up the rest of my family, as I looked ... ...

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... forever. Otherwise, humans live in choice, and will analyze the pros and cons. We choose the way to compromise the expectation from other people. For example, we will set an alarm clock to get up in the morning, because we have to work to pay off the mortgage. If we say "no" in this case, we will face rejected by others. Rejected ... ...

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... . Sighing a sigh filled with anxiousness, I focused my attention back to the task at hand. Keys clacked and thoughts escaped into a meaningless menagerie of words, unstructured and confusing. Glancing at the clock heightened the pressure I put upon myself, and dread started to fill me up like a balloon. In mere hours the bin collecting papers should be filled with essays, including mine: operative ... yet again and took my fury out on the keyboard. Letters became words, words became sentences, and sentences became paragraphs. In turn those paragraphs molded my essay just as the alarm, to...

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