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Tec Om 5 years, 5 months ago

In the story 'The summer of the beautiful white horse' when he (Aram) looked out of the window he saw a beautiful white horse and his cousin (mourad)sitting on it .he could not believe on his eyes ,he is shocked because they can not afford that horse and he think that 'he stolen that horse' after some time he convinced himself and go for a ride

Yogita Ingle 5 years, 5 months ago

In the short story 'The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse' by William Saroyan, when the narrator (Aram) looked out of the window he saw his cousin Mourad sitting on a magnificent white horse. He couldn't believe his eyes as he was extremely shocked and confused to see the horse there.

Sarthik Devel 5 years, 5 months ago

What is the answer
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Gaurav Seth 5 years, 5 months ago

Albert was punished for his ‘insolence’ that day He had to stay in for an extra period after the school that day. Albert felt miserable because he hated the school and would have to return there the next day as well.

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Vivek Kumar 5 years, 5 months ago

Learning ideas instead of facts
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Ruhi Rao 5 years, 5 months ago

A brief record of points or ideas written down as an aid to memory is called a note.

Tec Om 5 years, 5 months ago

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Ruhi Rao 5 years, 5 months ago

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Ruhi Rao 5 years, 5 months ago

Hardships teach many lessons that are useful in our future lives. A person who goes through hardship and learns from experience becomes a better person. A butterfly only becomes a moth after a lot of struggles. Qualities such as perseverance and patience can only be learned through hardships.
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Ruhi Rao 5 years, 5 months ago

The storm had affected the Wavewalker severely, as a result of which it was near capsizing with her masts almost horizontal. The decks were smashed and there was water everywhere; the author could feel that the ship had water below too. All of the ship's main rib frames were smashed down to the keel.
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Swagger_Zack_ Knight 5 years, 5 months ago

Silk road is also called a silk route.
Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow : 8 Marks In Democratic countries, any efforts to restrict the freedom of the Press are rightly condemned. However, this freedom can be easily abused. Stories about people often attract far more public attention than political events. Though we may enjoy reading about the lives of others, it is extremely doubtful whether we would equally enjoy reading about ourselves. Acting on the contention that facts are sacred, reporters can cause untold sufferings to individuals by publishing details about their private lives. Newspapers exert such tremendous influence that they can not only bring about major changes to the lives of ordinary people but can even overthrow a government. The story of a poor family that acquired fame and fortune overnight, dramatically illustrates the power of the Press. The family lived in Aberdeen, a small town of 25,000 inhabitants in South Dakota. As the parents had five children, life was a perpetual struggle against poverty. They were expecting their sixth child and were faced with even more pressing economic problems. If they had only one more child the fact would have passed unnoticed. They would have continued to struggle against economic odds and would have lived in obscurity. But they suddenly became the parents of quintuplets, four girls and a boy, an event which radically changed their lives. The day after the birth of the five children, an aeroplane arrived in Aberdeen bringing sixty reporters and photographers. The news was of national importance, for the couple had become the parents of the only quintuplets in America. The rise to fame was swift. Television cameras and newspapers carried the news to everyone in the country. Newspapers and magazines offered the family huge sums for the exclusive rights to publish their photographs. Gifts poured in not only from unknown people, but from baby food and soap manufacturers who wished to advertise their products. The old farmhouse the family lived in was to be replaced by a new $100,000 home. Reporters kept pressing for interviews so laywers had to be employed to act as the spokesmen of the family at press conferences. The event brought serious changes to the town itself. Plans were announced to build a huge new highway as Aberdeen was now likely to attract thousands of tourists. Sign posts erected on the outskirts of the town directed tourists not to Aberdeen, but to 'Quint-City U.S.A.' The local authorities discussed the possibility of erecting a 'quint museum' to satisfy the curiosity of the public and to protect the family from inquisitive tourists. While the five babies were still quietly sleeping in oxygen tents in a hospital nursery, their parents were paying the price for fame. It would never again be possible for them to lead normal lives. They had become victims of commercialisation, for their names had acquired a market value. The town itself received so much attention that almost every one of the inhabitants was affected to a greater or leis degree. (a) On the basis of your reading of the above passage make notes on it, using at least 5 recognisable abbreviations wherever necessary. Use a format you consider appropriate. Supply a suitable title. (b) Write a summary of the above passage in about 80 words.
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Gaurav Seth 5 years, 5 months ago

Notes on the contents of the Passage:

A.Freedom of the Press:

 (i) vital but can be abused

(ii) infiltration into „the personal life of individuals undesirable.

(iii) can cause serious damage not only to individuals but also to govts.

B. The story of a poor couple who had quintuplets :

(i) lived in obscurity before they had the quints.

(ii) shot into fame after the birth of quints.

(iii) their personal life commercialised.

(iv) knew no peace or rest now.

Heading: Freedom of the Press v/s Private Life

(b) Summary of the Passage :

 Freedom of the Press is, no doubt, very vital and any attempt to restrict it is condemned in a democratic country. But this freedom can be misused also. It can cause great damage and bring untold suffering to an individual when it infiltrates into his or her private chambers. The story of a poor Aberdeenian couple who had quintuplets shows how the Press can destroy the peace of an individual’s private life by commercialising it and thus exposing it to the embarrassment of public glare.

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Tanima Roy 5 years, 5 months ago

The results of the C.T.Scan were quite encouraging.1700 digital x-ray images in cross section were created. A gray head appeared on screen. Neck vertebrae were quite clear. The images of hand, ribcage and skull(?) were equally bright. These revealed that nothing had gone seriously wrong the Tut's body

Ruhi Rao 5 years, 6 months ago

The CT scan of King Tut showed that nothing had gone wrong in his body part. The results were his neck bone, hand bone, view of the rib cage, and parts of his skull.
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Yogita Ingle 5 years, 6 months ago

1. Social atmosphere refers to the immediate physical surroundings, infrastructure, cultural practices, etc. The social environment, social context, sociocultural context or milieu refers to the immediate physical and social setting in which people live or in which something happens or develops. It includes the culture that the individual was educated or lives in, and the people and institutions with whom they interact. A person is influenced by his social atmosphere comprising of the set of beliefs, customs, practices and behavior that exists within a population.

Krushna Keshaba Giri 5 years, 6 months ago

Answer khoj le book se
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Yogita Ingle 5 years, 6 months ago

Aram and Mourad are two poor Armenian boys who are cousins. Aram is nine while Mourad is 13 years old. They both belong to Garoghlanian tribe which is known for its integrity and honesty. Aram is calm and quiet and the world is still a mysterious dream to him. Mourad, on the other hand, is a daring boy who is considered crazy and a natural descendant of crazy Uncle Khosrove.

Ruhi Rao 5 years, 6 months ago

Aram is nine while Mourad is 13 years old. They both belong to the Garoghlanian tribe which is known for its integrity and honesty. Aram is calm and quiet and the world is still a mysterious dream to him. Mourad, on the other hand, is a daring boy who is considered crazy and a natural descendant of crazy Uncle Khosrove.
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Yogita Ingle 5 years, 6 months ago

The purpose of the pen portrait is to present a clear picture of the person as they were, their health and their needs, and the extent to which those needs have been met by health or other services. It needs to be clearly written, concise and factual.

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Gaurav Seth 5 years, 6 months ago

Child marriage is prohibited by law in our country. Strangely enough, this social tradition is still prevalent in society. Child marriage is a social evil. Thus, this social evil needs treatment at the social level and this responsibility lies on the shoulders of the social organisations. They should carry out intensive awareness programmes against child marriage. To fight this evil, young boys and girls should willingly come forward to oppose this tradition. They should not give consent to such marriages. Child marriage snatches away childhood and its dreams. It makes a girlchild’s life a virtual hell. Motherhood at a tender age leaves her weak physically and mentally. As she is not well educated she does not know how to look after her children efficiently. The girls who become mothers at a tender age often die a premature death.

Those who try to perpetuate child marriage should be severely punished. The custodians of law, if found negligent, should be equally punished. More and more girls should be educated. Moreover, the girls must have more say when the question of their marriage crops up. Such measures can provide the only way to uproot this most heinous of the social evils.

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Chhavi Sharma 5 years, 6 months ago

The three phases of author's relationship with his grandma are: 1) The first phase was author's childhood. That was the time when they lived in village. 2) The second phase was moving to city. That was the turning point of their friendship. 3) Third phase was when author joined university. There was a five year separation between them.
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Gaurav Seth 5 years, 6 months ago

The author’s grandmother was unhappy after knowing that the things taught to him at school were related to western science and learning. Secondly, she did not believe such things that were taught at his new school. She was disturbed that there was no teaching about God and scriptures. Thirdly, she was unhappy with the idea of music lessons being given at school. She considered music suitable only for people with low dignity. The disapproval of the grandmother was visible in her silence.

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Chandnita Saini 5 years, 6 months ago

Thank you

Dipabali Kar 5 years, 6 months ago

The line refers to the sea holiday as remembered by her mother and the poet remembering her mother’s laughing face. Both these now belong to the past. Her mother is no more now. The memories in both the  cases, were beautiful yet painful to recall as time has paced away fast.
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Gaurav Seth 5 years, 6 months ago

The power of truth can be known from the fact that nobody, not even the greatest liar in the world, has the courage to say that he is telling a lie or that truth is not good. A man who tells a lie is like a thief who has stolen something. And the thing which a liar steels is, above everything else, the truth.

 

And when the truth is known, he is terribly upset and highly afraid. An ordinary thief may be afraid of fine, imprisonment or other punishment. But if the liar happens to be a well-known popular figure, he may be afraid of losing his popularity or reputation. In this respect, truth also becomes an acid test for our inner strength or bravery.

Many men may not be afraid of losing their life with a bullet but there must be few who have the courage to face the bullet of truth. A truly brave person sticks to the truth in all the circumstances. But many succumb to pressure or fear of torture or death. Joan of Arc, a young girl of eighteen, refused to bow before the church and the government and embraced death by being burnt but she stuck to what she believed to be the truth.

 

How many men and women like them are there in this world? The concept of truth sometimes becomes controversial in the whorl of philosophical quibbling. Admittedly, there is difference between truth and fact. Truth is often hidden behind the facts.

The courts often punish a criminal on the basis of facts, without bothering to unearth the truth behind the facts, the truth of the circumstances and discriminatory social and economic order which compelled the person to commit a crime.

But the courts have to administer the laws and the laws’ have loopholes and are sometimes biased. The result is that sometimes an innocent person is punished but a real culprit goes scot-free.

 

We should resort to truthful speaking and truthful living in our lives, as Guru Nanak Dev had preached to mankind.

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Yogita Ingle 5 years, 6 months ago

The narrator wanted to exploit the common human weakness—eagerness to know the future. He went to the village astrologer and told him to keep ready to read the stars. He tutored him in all that he wanted the astrologer to say when he would revisit him with Ranga.

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Yogita Ingle 5 years, 6 months ago

Albert Einstein showed the sparks of genius even at a young age. His miserable years at school revealed how a talented creative mind feels trapped and cloistered in the rigid system of education. The classroom had no place for individual aspirations brilliance or aptitude. It discouraged Albert’s genius and originality.
Albert’s defiance is misunderstood by his teacher’s. His “unthinking honesty” is seen as a refusal to confirm to the education and not the learning of facts. His maths teacher had a high opinion of him. He said. “I can’t teach you more and probably you’ll soon be able to teach me’. Albert was humble and unassuming and he was uncomfortable with the excessive praise. The teacher seems to recognize Albert’s rare intellectual genius and his aptitude for maths.

Albert has an enquiring mind and a curious nature. He had a thirst for information and he liked to study books on science. He loved music and played his violin regularly. Albert had a frank and honest temperament and was quite sensitive and emotional. He was considered a rebel by most of his teachers. He did not compromise and adjust to the system of education which encouraged learning without understanding. For him, ideas and enquiry were more important than facts or dates. He was expelled from school for his views which did not match the existing pattern.

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Dipabali Kar 5 years, 6 months ago

Cardboard’ in the poem refers to the photograph

Ruhi Rao 5 years, 6 months ago

The word cardboard denotes the photograph pasted on a hard thick paper. This word has been used to refer to a practice in the past when photographs were pasted on cardboard and framed with a glass front to preserve them.
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Gaurav Seth 5 years, 6 months ago

  1. he length of questionnaire should be proper one.
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Gaurav Seth 5 years, 6 months ago

Alliteration: Alliteration is the repetition of the initial letter (generally a consonant) of several words marking the stressed syllable in a line of poem.

Examples of alliteration in this poem are:

Stood still

Through their

My mother’s

Terribly transient

Silence silences

Ruhi Rao 5 years, 6 months ago

Alliteration: stood still to smile . terribly transient . silence silences Transferred Epithet: washed their terribly transient feet Oxymoron: laobured ease Personification: It silence silences
ASSIGNMENT: POEM 1 ìA PHOTOGRAPHî Read the extracts from the poem and answer the questions that follow A. Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow: The cardboard shows me how it was When the two girl cousins went paddling Each one holding one of my motherís hands, And she the big girl- some twelve years or so. Q1. What does the cardboard refer to? Q2. Who was the big girl and how old was she? Q3. How did the cousins go paddling with mother? B. Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow: All three stood still to smile through their hair At the uncle with the camera, A sweet face My motherís, that was before I was born Q1. Who does ëall threeí refer to here? Q2. Where are they now? Q3. Why did they smile through their hair? C Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow: ÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖ. A sweet face, My motherís, that was before I was born And the sea, which appears to have changed less Washed their terribly transient feet. Q1. Where was her mother? Q2. When did this incident take place? Q3. How is the poet able to remember her motherís childhood? Q4. What has stood the onslaught of time and what has not? D Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow: Some twenty- thirty- years later sheíd laugh at the snapshot. ìSee Betty And Dolly,î sheíd say, ìand look how they dressed us for the beach.î Q1. Who would laugh at the snapshot after twenty ñ thirty years later? Q2. How did mother remember her past? Q3. Who were Betty and Dolly?
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Gaurav Seth 5 years, 6 months ago

1. Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow: 

The cardboard shows me how it was
When the two girl cousins went paddling
Each one holding one of my mother’s hands, 
And she the big girl- some twelve years or so.

Q.  What does the cardboard refer to?

Ans. The cardboard refers to the childhood photograph of her mother.

Q. Who was the big girl and how old was she?

Ans. The big girl was the poet’s mother. She was then twelve years old.

Q. How did the cousins go paddling with mother?

Ans. The girl cousins went paddling with mother holding her hand.

Gaurav Seth 5 years, 6 months ago

2. Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow:
All three stood still to smile through their hair
At the uncle with the camera, A sweet face
My mother’s, that was before I was born
Q.  Who does ‘all three’ refer to here?
Ans. ‘all three’ refers to the poet’s mother and her two cousins.
Q. Where are they now?
Ans. They have gone to the seashore. They are paddling in the water.
Q. Why did they smile through their hair?
Ans. They smiled through their hair because they were posing for a photograph.
3. Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow:
……………………….A sweet face, 
My mother’s, that was before I was born
And the sea, which appears to have changed less
Washed their terribly transient feet.
Q. Where was her mother?
Ans. Her mother was on the sea shore with her cousins and posing for a photograph.
Q. When did this incident take place?
Ans. This incident took place when she was twelve years old.
Q. How is the poet able to remember her mother’s childhood?
Ans. The poet is able to remember her mother’s childhood when she looks into the photograph of her mother.
Q. What has stood the onslaught of time and what has not?
Ans. The sea has stood the onslaught of time. It is still the same. However, her mother and her cousins underwent changes. Her mother grew up to be an adult and now she is no more.
4. Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow:
Some twenty- thirty- years later
she’d laugh at the snapshot. “See Betty
And Dolly,” she’d say, “and look how they
dressed us for the beach.”
Q. Who would laugh at the snapshot after twenty – thirty years later?
Ans. The poet’s mother would laugh at the snapshot after twenty – thirty years later.
Q. How did mother remember her past?
Ans. Mother remembered her past with nostalgia.
Q. Who were Betty and Dolly?
Ans. Betty and Dolly were her cousins who had gone with her to the beach for paddling.

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Ruhi Rao 5 years, 6 months ago

The story, ‘We’re Not afraid to Die-if We Can All Be Together’ is a story of extreme courage and skill exhibited by Gordon Cook, his family, and crewmen in a war with water and waves for survival. In July 197 6, the narrator, his wife Mary, son Jonathan and daughter Suzanne set sail from Plymouth, England to duplicate the round-the-world voyage made 200 years earlier by Captain James Cook. They took the voyage in their professionally built ship, the Wavewalker, accompanied by two experienced sailors – Larry Vigil, an American and Herb Seigler, a Swiss, to tackle one of the world’s roughest seas – the Southern Indian Ocean. The first part of the journey, that is, about 105,000 kilometers up to Cape Town passed off very, pleasantly. On the second day out of Cape Town, -they began to encounter strong gales. Gales did not worry about the narrator. But the size of the waves was alarming – up to 15 meters, as high as the mainmast. On 25th December, the writer’s ship was in the southern Indian Ocean, 3500 kilometers to the east of Cape Town. The family celebrated their new year onboard the ship. At dawn on January 2, the waves were gigantic. Unfriendly weather and gigantic waves compelled the sailors to slow their speed, drop storm jib, and take other precautions. The danger was so obvious that the sailors completed a life-raft drill, attached lifelines, and life jackets. Suddenly at 6 pm, a tremendous explosion shook the Wavewalker and the author was thrown overboard. The ship was about to capsize when another gigantic wave hit it tossing it upright once again. The author was thrown back onto the deck, his head and ribs smashing against the walls. Despite his injuries, the narrator took charge of the situation. Somehow he found the wheel, lined up the stem for the next wave, and hung on till Mary appeared and took charge of the wheel. Larry and Herb started pumping out water like madmen. The whole starboard side bulged inwards. The narrator managed to cover the canvas across the gaps to prevent water from entering the ship. Then came more problems. Their hand pumps stopped working and electric pumps were short-circuited. Fortunately, the narrator found a spare electric pump under the chartroom that worked. The entire night was spent in pumping, steering, repairing, and sending radio signals. The narrator checked charts and calculated that He Amsterdam, a French scientific base was their only hope. Sue and Jon were injured but they said that they were not afraid to die if they could all be together. Sue’s head was swollen and she had a deep injury. The narrator became more determined to see his children’s courage. Finally, they reached lie Amsterdam, a volcanic island where they were welcomed by 28 inhabitants. Thus, the collective strength and never-failing optimism of the sailors made it possible for them to come out of the jaws of death. Though Jonathan and Suzanne did not do anything to save Wavewalker their courage, forbearance, faith, and optimism gave extra strength and persistence to the narrator and his team. The bravery of the strong-willed children is noteworthy in the story.

Saloni ? 5 years, 6 months ago

@sahil. Bhai padha h mane lakin aache se smjh nhi aaya mujhe..? isliye pucha..

Sahil Singh 5 years, 6 months ago

Phadlo Pta lag jayega
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Yogita Ingle 5 years, 6 months ago

AlliterationAlliteration is the repetition of the initial letter (generally a consonant) of several words marking the stressed syllable in a line of poem. Examples of alliteration in this poem are 'stood still to smile', 'terribly transient', 'Its silence silences' etc.

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