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The poem is a legend about an old lady who angered Saint Peter because of her greed. The story goes’ on like this. One day, Saint Peter was preaching around the world and reached the door of a cottage where this woman lived. She was making cakes and baking them on a hearth. St. Peter was fainting with hunger. He asked the lady to give him a piece of cake. The cake that she was baking then appeared to be too big, so she did not give him that and instead, she baked another smaller one. That also appeared to be big so she did not give him that also. The second time she baked yet another smaller cake but found it too big to give away. In the third attempt, she took an extremely little scrap of dough and rolled it flat. She had it as thin as a wafer but was unable to part with that also. This angered St. Peter a lot. He said that she was not fit to live in human form and enjoy food and warmth. He cursed her and transformed her into a woodpecker bird who had to bore in hard, dry wood to get its scanty food. She can be seen in the trees all day boring and boring for food.

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Give summary on chapter name is My CHILDHOOD

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Vivek Dhote 6 years, 2 months ago

My Childhood” is an extract taken from the biography of APJ Abdul Kalam - ‘Wings of Fire’. He was a great scientist and also the 14th President of India. He was born in a middle - class Muslim family in 1931 in the island town of Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu. In his childhood he was greatly influenced by his parents, his teachers and his friends. His father, Jainulabdeen, was not highly educated but he was a generous and kind person. He was not rich but provided a secure childhood to Abdul and his siblings. Abdul inherited honesty and self-discipline from his father and faith in goodness and deep kindness from his mother. Kalam earned his first wages by working as a helping hand to his cousin, Samsuddin, who distributed newspapers in Rameswaram. In his childhood he had three close friends- Ramanadha Sastry,Aravindam and Sivaprakashan. Once when he was in fifth standard, a new teacher asked him not to sit in the front row along with the high caste Brahmin boys. Abdul found Ramanadha Sastry weeping as he went to the last row. This made a lasting impression on Abdul. Abdul was also greatly influenced by his science teacher, Sivasubramania Iyer. He learnt the lesson of breaking social barriers from him. Iyer invited him to his home for a meal. His wife refused to serve food to a Muslim boy in her pure kitchen. Iyer served him with his own hands and sat down beside him to eat his meal. He convinced his wife to serve meal with her own hands and thus was successful in changing her conservative attitude. For higher education, Abdul Kalam sought permission from his father to leave Rameswaram and study at the district headquarters in Ramanathapuram. His father said that Abdul had to go a long way in life just like a seagull bird which flies long distances. He calmed down APJ’s reluctant mother by quoting Kahlil Gibran’s poem ‘Your children’. He said that her children could not be dominated by her because they had their own thoughts. They did not belong to her but were a result of life’s desire for itself. He asked her to give them freedom to fulfil their thoughts.

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What did the duck promise the kangaroo and why?

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Describe the statue of happy Prince when sparrow saw it first

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Ravi Bhushan Singh 6 years, 2 months ago

When the swallow first saw the Prince, the statue was in perfect condition. His sword hilt was made out of ruby, both the eyes made up of rare sapphires and he was covered in leaves of fine gold. Hope this helped!

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Vaibhav Pandey 6 years, 2 months ago

its not spparow its swallow

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What are modals and non-modals & what are its uses?

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Discussion passage

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Uses of all forms of tenses

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Who was Ekalavya

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Question answer of reach for topof beehive

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Tushar Sahu 6 years, 3 months ago

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"Packing" notes pointwise.

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Kanishka Verma 6 years, 2 months ago

What does the phrase light-hearted mean

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Gaurav Seth 6 years, 3 months ago

Jerome, Harris and George are three friends who are about to set out on a journey. The story begins with the important task of packing stuff for this journey. Jerome, the narrator, overestimates his packing skills and tells his friends to let him handle it all by himself. However, his real intention is to make George and Harris do the packing under his supervision and guidance. But his friends take his advice seriously and to his great shock, stretch themselves comfortably, leaving him with all the running around. Though irritated with their attitude, Jerome straight away gets busy with packing. After a long-drawn packing session, he finally straps up the bag.

Both his friends watch him quietly and when he is done with packing, Harris declares that the shoes have been left unpacked. The bag has to be reopened again to accommodate the shoes. An irritated Jerome is just done with packing the shoes when he is reminded of his toothbrush.

Unsure about having packed his toothbrush, Jerome has to empty the bag and hunt through all its contents to locate the brush. After a lot of efforts, he finds the brush in one of the boots! Anyhow the bag is packed again.

The next query comes from George regarding the soap. Jerome is so irritated by this time that he does not even bother about this query and straps up the bag. But, the very next moment he has to unpack it again as he had packed in his spectacles by mistake. Eventually, it is past ten when the packing is finally done.

Keeping in mind the amount of time taken by Jerome to pack the bag, George and Harris decide to pack the hampers themselves and show Jerome the real art of packing. However, they are equally clumsy and break a cup at the very outset. This is followed by squashing a tomato, treading on the butter and smashing the pies by putting heavy things on them. Salt flies all over while they are packing.

After peeling the butter off George’s slipper, they try unsuccessfully to squeeze it into the kettle. They finally scrape it and put it down on the chair. Harris sits on it and the butter gets stuck to his back. Then both these men go about searching for the butter all over the room. Later, George locates it behind Harris’s back and it is packed in the teapot.

Montmorency, their pet dog, contributes his bit to this exercise of packing by sitting on things, climbing into the jam and crushing lemons as though they were rats.

Finally, the packing is done by 12.50 at night. This is followed by a discussion on the ‘wake up’ time and George is so tired that he sleeps off even before the time is decided upon. Jerome and Harris decide that 6.30 in the morning would be the right time to get up and then they too go off to sleep.

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Kezia decides that there are different kinds of things fathers. What kind of father was Mr Macdonald and how was he different from kezia father

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Gaurav Seth 6 years, 3 months ago

Kezia compared her father with Mr. Macdonald, who lived next to her house. He was always smiling and playing with his children. He was just opposite to the Kezia's father. Unlike Kezia's father he never punished his children. He played with them whenever he was free. Whereas Kezia's father was very harsh and a strict disciplinarian. Seeing him, Kezia could understand that there were different sorts of father.

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What sacrifice did Maria have to make to successful in the world of tennis

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How old margie and tommy were in the story the fun they had

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Anushka Mittal?????? 6 years, 2 months ago

Margie is 11 year old and Tommy is 13 year old

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Amisha Gupta 6 years, 3 months ago

Margie was 11years old and Tommy was 13years old .

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Vinit Kumar Dubey 6 years, 3 months ago

Margie was 11years old while Tommy was 13years old

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Akarsh Burande 6 years, 3 months ago

Margie was 11 and Tommy was 13

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Radha can sing a song

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How to write answers of editing in exams

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Read the outlines given below of a stroy. Write the whole story in 200—250 words.Assing a suitable tittle and moral to it. Out lines: A man has a hen which lays a golden egg everyday — the man collect ten egg in ten days — is happy at this sudden fortune — hopes to become rich soon — become impatients — wants to become rich over the night — kills the hen — moral.

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A child can not live without his parents . How has this truth been illustrated in the story The Lost Child

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What was the outcome of einstein weeding

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Shradha Suman Jena 6 years, 3 months ago

When Einstein married Mileva, his marriage faltered and they both got divorced. Einstein then married his cousin Elsa in 1915. His new personal chapter coincided with his rise to world fame.

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Khushi Jain 6 years, 3 months ago

His marrige was failed

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Fill in the suitable world. 1.Bhaivaw...... this novel yesterday morning. 2.I am not.... a hot climate.

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