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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.
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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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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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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.
Posted by Harish Sundar A 5 years, 6 months ago
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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.
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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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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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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.
Posted by Utkarsh Pratap Singh 5 years, 6 months ago
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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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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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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
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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.
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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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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 to smile', 'terribly transient', 'Its silence silences' etc.

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