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After they celebrated Christmas, the weather changed for the worse. On the early morning of 2 January, the waves became huge. As the ship rose to the top of each wave, they could see the vast sea rolling towards them. The wind seemed to be howling.
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Gaurav Seth 5 years ago
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They dropped the storm jib and lashed a heavy mooring rope in a loop across the stem to slow the boat, and then double-lashed everything, went through their life-raft drill, attached lifelines, put on oilskins and life jackets
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Gaurav Seth 5 years ago
What were the difficulties that they faced that night?
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The night was bitterly cold, and they were pumping water out of the ship, steering the ship and working the radio. Moreover, they were getting no replies to their calls for help, as they were in a remote comer of the world.
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Sue had bumped her head and there was a big bump above her eyes. She had two black eyes, and a deep cut on her arm. She showed remarkable maturity for a seven-year-old when she said that she didn’t want to worry them when her father was trying to save all of them
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Gaurav Seth 5 years ago
The narrator and his wife had always dreamt of sailing. They wanted to do a round-the-world voyage like Captain James Cook had done 200 years earlier. For sixteen years they spent all their leisure time improving their seafaring skills in the British waters. They took a boat, Wavewalker, that was 23 metres, and weighed 30 ton. It had been professionally built and they spent months fitting it out and testing it in the roughest weather that they could find. Finally, in July 1976, the family set out to sail from Plymouth, England.
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Gaurav Seth 5 years ago
When they reached the southern Indian Ocean, one of the world’s roughest seas, they began to encounter strong winds. Apart from the gales, the size of the waves was alarming. It was as high as the main mast. Things became worse on 2 January when the waves became huge. The ship rose to the top of each wave and they could see endless waves approaching them, and the screaming of the wind seemed horrifying to them. To slow the boat down, they dropped the storm jib and lashed a heavy mooring rope in a loop across the stem. Then they double-lashed everything, went through their life-raft drill, attached lifelines, donned oilskins and life jackets.
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What was the first indicator of rough weather?
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On their second day out of Cape Town, they encountered strong winds. For the next few weeks, the gales blew continuously. The gales did not worry the narrator but the sizes of the waves were disturbing.
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The four of them the narrator, his wife Mary, son Jonathan, and daughter Suzanne sailed for 105,000 kilometres to the west coast of Africa to Cape Town. They took on two crewmen with them an American, Larry Vigil, and a Swiss, Herb Seigler, before settling sail on the southern Indian Ocean.
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The narrator was a thirty-seven-year-old businessman, who along with his family, set from Plymouth, England, on a round-the-world voyage like Captain James Cook had done 200 years earlier in a 30-ton wooden-hulled boat.
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Gaurav Seth 5 years ago
The weather changes for the worse and on January 2, the big waves hit them. They try to slow the ship down by dropping storm jib and hit a heavy mooring rope in a loop across a stern but it doesn’t help much. They carry their life-raft drill, attach lifelines, don life jackets and oilskins.
Later, in the evening, a vertical and huge wave strikes the ship and the narrator is thrown off from the ship. He accepts his ‘approaching death’ and starts losing consciousness. When the ship is about to overturn, a huge wave hit again and turns it right back. He suffers injuries in ribs and mouth. He grabs the guard rail and sails into the ship’s main boom.
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Yogita Ingle 5 years ago
Mrs. Dorling was an extremely rude person that can be well judged by the way she treated the narrator. She faked complete ignorance when asked if she recognised the narrator. She was extremely unwilling to strike a polite decent conversation with the narrator. She chose convenience over etiquettes in inviting her inside the house. She was very discourteous and impolite.
She was a neighbour of the narrator long time ago. The narrator, a young woman, went to Mrs Dorling's house in Holland to fetch her belongings back from her house where she used to live in 1940s.
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Yogita Ingle 5 years ago
Mrs Pearson loves her husband and children too much. She does not find courage enough to discuss the problem with them. She only keeps dropping hints. She hates any unpleasantness. She does not know where to start. She doesn’t know how to begin discussion with the other members of the family.
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Yogita Ingle 5 years ago
Tut's mummy had always been the center of attraction for the researchers. First of all Tut’s mummy was taken out of its tomb in 1922 by Howard Carter in 1922; he did it to study and research on it.
Second time it was taken out in 1968 to X-ray it.
In the context of the chapter, last time it was taken out on January 5, 2005 to CT scan it.
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Yogita Ingle 5 years ago
The poem Childhood begins with the poet pondering over ‘when’ was it that he lost his childhood. He wonders if it was the time when he crossed the age of eleven or the time when he started realizing that there is no real existence of heaven and hell as they could not be geographically located in maps.
He wonders if he lost his childhood the moment he realised that adults were not all they pretended to be or when he recognised that the adults, who spoke and preached of love, themselves ‘did not act so lovingly’.
The poet asks if he lost his childhood when he realised that he has a mind of his own or that he can choose his own way, guided by his mind now capable of producing thoughts and opinions that are different from other people.
The poet speculates as to ‘where’ his childhood disappeared. Though he is not aware of the day he lost his childhood, he knows that it has gone to some forgotten place, in an infant’s innocent face.
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Gaurav Seth 5 years ago
First, mother has not got tea ready for him, as usual. Secondly, she has not got his things ready though she had promised in the morning to look through them in case there was any mending. Obviously, he is astonished at strange behaviour of the mother. Then, mother asks him whether there is any stout left in the house. He wonders why mother needs stout.
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Yogita Ingle 5 years ago
Yes, the poet seems to think that it was his first step towards adulthood. This is so because then he had become a rational human being.
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Meghna Thapar 5 years ago
The author Nick Middleton has written the piece ‘Silk Road” from the view point of a glove trotter.
He is detail in his description where the readers can get to know about geographic location as well as demography of the region.
The writer has described the route in a picturesque way, which has added the narrative element in the writing and it is the descriptive writing quality of the writer.
Gaurav Seth 5 years ago
The author undertook the hazardous journey to Mount Kailash for performing Kora. He hired Tsetan’s car and took Daniel as a companion for escorting him upto Darchen. He seems a lover of adventure who is not at all afraid of taking risks. This is evident from his ascent to undertake a short cut through high mountain passes involving the risk of slipping on snowy roads.
He is a keen observer of men and manners. He has a sharp eye for details. He describes the hilly people quite sensitively. He gives a graphic account of difficulties faced during ascent. His headache and loss of sleep are caused by the cold and high altitude. His observations about Lake Manasarovar and Hor reveal the difference between legend and reality. He dislikes dirt and shabbiness.
He faces communication problems after Tsetan leaves and before he meets Norbu. However, he waits and takes correct decisions. He approves of Norbu’s practical suggestion to hire yaks to carry luggage and decides to perform Kora with him.
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Gaurav Seth 5 years ago
Einstein was unhappy in his school because he did not like the conventional system of education. He was studied in a school in Munich and he had several other schoolmates at his age. He hated the oppressive atmosphere of the school and was sure he would fail in the examination.
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Yogita Ingle 5 years ago
Public health, sanitation, and the use of antibiotics and vaccines have decreased the ability of infectious disease to limit human population growth. In the past, diseases such as the bubonic plaque of the fourteenth century killed between 30 and 60 percent of Europe’s population and reduced the overall world population by as many as 100 million people. Today, the threat of infectious disease, while not gone, is certainly less severe. According to the World Health Organization, global death from infectious disease declined from 16.4 million in 1993 to 14.7 million in 1992.
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Yogita Ingle 5 years ago
MRS doorling was a greedy women who didn't wish to return her mother's belongings . She was so hostile towards the narrator that she didn't even ask her to sit down or even let her in . She just wanted to keep her mothers belongings .
But her daughter , a fifteen year old girl wasn't as her mother . She politely asked her to come in . She made her feel comfortable.also offered her tea and showed strong the house to her.
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Yogita Ingle 3 years, 11 months ago
Mr crocker told the students one of his classical jokes which no one in the class understood including Taplow but, Taplow laughed at Mr crocker's joke to show his common gesture of politeness .He respected and like him and he felt a bit sorry for him that is why he laughed at his classical joke though he didnt understood that joke.

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Gaurav Seth 5 years ago
The three phases of the author’s relationship with his grandmother before he left the country to study abroad are given below.
The first phase was the period of the author’s early childhood. During this phase, he used to live with his grandmother in the village. The grandmother used to take care of him from waking him up and getting him ready to accompany him to the school. Both shared a good friendship with each other.
The second phase was the time when the author and the grandmother moved to the city to live with the author’s parents. This was a turning point in their friendship because now they ‘saw less of each other’.
The third phase was the time the author joined the University. He was given a room of his own and the common link of their friendship was snapped. The grandmother turns to wheel-spinning and reciting prayers all day long. She accepts her seclusion with silence.
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