Composition refers to the organization, arrangement, and combination of objects within the borders of a drawing space. For a great drawing, you want to bring the eyes of the viewer toward your center of interest within an aesthetically pleasing composition.
The idea that clockwise motion represents the forward motion of time so powerful that it's hard to look at such a watch or clock without having the slightly unsettling feeling that time is running backwards.
The earth has what we call a pro-grade SPIN. That means that the direction of spin of Earth looking down from the North pole into the plane of the ecliptic is spin anti-clockwise --- THE SAME DIRECTION the earth ORBITS the Sun (anti-clockwise).