Nov 30, 2013

Biography of Shakuntala Devi the Indian Mathematician Essay

397 Words: Before starting about a mathematician , let us see few mathematicians of India with photos.

Shakuntala Devi  is popularly known as the "Human Computer". She was a child prodigy and vivid mental calculator. Ms Devi had intrinsic quality of mathematical calculation.

Shakuntala Devi was born in a simple Kannad Brahmin family November 4,1929 . Her father's name was Bishawmitra Mani.

Her unique distinctive and divine quality was showing visibility since the age of three. Her father was a circus performer. Her father was rebelled against becoming a temple priest . Ms Devi was also an astrologer and gave remedies purportedly based on date and time of birth. 

  Once she casted a spell by adding 16-digit number with another one and multiplied the result with any of numbers almost instantaneously. After that she found cube root of the the resultant with a speed of electric current. This miracle talent earned her a place in the 1982 edition of 'The Guinness Book of World Records'. She had the ingenious potential to tell the day of the week of any given date in the last century in a jiffy.

shakuntala devi mathematician

Out many example I remember one that took place at Imperial College in  in London where she answered in 28 seconds when she was asked to multiply two 13-digit numbers.

Her father noticed her powerful calculation abilities while Ms. Devi was playing cards with him. She used to beat her father not by sleight of hand but by  memorising the cards. Her father left the circus and took her on road shows that displayed her ability at calculation. The most important thing was that she did this without any formal education.

In 1944, Devi went to London with her father

at the age of 15. She returned to home country India in the mid-1960s. She  married Paritosh Bannerji, an IAS officer from Kolkata. They, however, divorced in 1979. On November 4, 2013, Devi was honored with a Google Doodle for for her 84th birthday;which she missed to celebrate.

In April 2013, Devi was admitted to a hospital in Bangalore with respiratory problems. Over the following two weeks she suffered from complications of the heart and kidneys. She died in the hospital on April 21, 2013. She was 83 years old. She is survived by her daughter, Anupama Banerji.

In her books, She described a world where marriage was obsolete and relationships were personal relationships, with no place for the term "marriage".

In her astrological text, The World of Homosexuals, she wrote:

"Homosexuals, or Homo, are a special case. They don't want to marry anyone, not even family, they don't want to have children. They are quite happy living individually; they do not have a special term for it. They are born as they wish. But they are in no hurry to settle down. They don't have any particular interest in settling down, they just let things come. If you see them living, don't ask them why they don't settle down; they will tell you that they are in no hurry to settle down and that they are in a world of their own, not their neighbour's".

She wrote books for people who wished to "live freely". She encouraged people to pursue the pleasures they wanted to experience, even if they were not approved of by their family. She wrote in The World of Homosexuals:

"There is still a place for marriage; it is a long ceremony which comes after sexual freedom has been enjoyed".

She encouraged people to make their own rules, and told people to live by their own rules. This was a contradiction to the concept of marriage. However, what she did was to give a different meaning to the word "marriage". She gave a new meaning to the word "marriage". She gave marriage a positive meaning. She wrote in one of her books:

"Marriage can be likened to a marriage certificate. It is a document which gives legal identity to a relationship, a record of the relationship, a contract between two individuals so that they have pledged allegiance to each other in life and death, and a contract with their children".

The concept of marriage and the concept of the marriage certificate had a different implication. It was a contract between two individuals who committed themselves to each other in life and death.

Marriage became a contract between two individuals, not between two families nor between two governments.

In her book, The World of Homosexuals, she wrote: "Marriage is a contract between two individuals who commit themselves to each other to enjoy life and to see both their children and their loved ones through thick and thin, for the rest of their lives, whether they like it or not".

She wrote in another book:

"In marriage, we are choosing to give our children a living record of our marital experience and experience of their childhood; and, we are pledging our loyalty to ourselves. It is a self-destructive pledge that if we do not get it right, if we are not sufficiently devoted to our children, then their future would be a waste. Finally they may well suffer unnecessarily. The marriage contract is a contract between two people who pledge allegiance to themselves and then pledge allegiance to their children in future. If we live by our contract, whether we like it or not, then our children will be blessed by what they experience of the relationship that they are blessed with through their father and mother's experience".

She concluded with a powerful and profound statement:

"If you find yourself in a relationship where the contract you agreed to is not being honoured, do not break the contract, break away. Divorce is not a response to an irredeemable defect - divorce is a response to your inability to keep the pledge you made to your children".

When she wrote in The World of Homosexuals:


How to Make a Successful Marriage - Six Prerequisites to a Good, Long-term, Successful Marriage

"In marriage, you don't find a record of someone's marital experience. You find a record of someone's commitment and fidelity to his or her marriage partner; and, there is no greater commitment and fidelity than when you have one spouse committed and faithful unto death". And, this is why I love marriage! A lifetime partnership. A lifetime contract. A lifelong commitment. A lifetime loyalty. A life-long commitment. Marriage is the most sacred of all long-term commitments. And, this is why the institution of marriage is not only the oldest, but also the most sacred.

Marriage is a contract for the duration the partnership and the marriage. It is a lifelong loyalty. It is a lifelong commitment. And, it is an experience and a relationship that must be lived-not just talked about!

I have no intention of belittling the love and commitment that some marriages, especially those of children, are blessed with. However, I don't subscribe to the view that love, loyalty and fidelity in a marriage are a sufficient reason to marry.   I think that there are other factors that are important to consider.  One gets married other than love and loyalty. I believe that the following factors need to be considered in deciding whether to marry:

Six Prerequisites for Successful Marriage Life are:

* Both Husband and wife should comply with the basic belief of Christianity or as per their religious belief.

* They should agree with their fundamental tenets (as it is understood and understood by the couple).

* They have to trust each other to live together happily, consistently as a couple (both with each other) .

* The couple must enhance their loyalty so that they can live together without tension, contention, discord and disagreement (and in this case, disagree).

* The love and loyalty of the partners are enhanced with each other in proportion. It confirms that they are open-minded to each other's views. Open-mindedness and consistency is the hallmark of good, mature love. This is the quality of a couple that is committed to each other needs. It is good to promote the long-term success of marriage. This is the quality that ensures the success of the marriage (of the partners, the marriage and of its offspring).

* The love and loyalty of the prospective partners are enhanced with each other in proportion to the degree to which they can accept each other's shortcomings.

Conclusion:

It is to be noted that the above principles are only relevant if the prospective husband and wife are of legal age and of sound body condition. If the above criteria are not satisfied, the long-term happiness, success, and prosperity of the marriage are unlikely.

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Nov 27, 2013

A Letter to the Editor of a Newspaper Complaining against Rash Driving

Question- A letter to editor of a newspaper drawing to attention of the  concerned department towards the reckless driving  in your locality.
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Self Address

Date: November 24, 2013, 

Address of the editor e.g.
The editor
The Times of India
Mumbai

Sir,
It is right time that drastic steps are to be taken to stop reckless driving of vehicles in the streets of Mumbai. The speed at which vehicles are now driven is a more likely
 danger to the pedestrians and public. Only yesterday, I saw a man narrowly escaped from a shocking accident. He was just crossing the road, when a car going at a very high speed suddenly turned to the wrong side of the road and missed knocking him down only by a few inches. Incidents of this kind are of almost daily occurrence. Mumbai police has taken  many good steps to check the  careless driving in  Mumbai, however, There must be more monitoring and regulation regarding rash driving careless driving. More penalties for reckless driving needs to be enforced. I would request the authorities concerned through the columns of your esteemed daily to take drastic steps to put a stop to this nuisance as well as a public danger.

 Yours truly,
 XXXXXXXX
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Nov 24, 2013

453 words Essay on Winter Vacation for Class 5

Out of many vacations, winter vacations has its own delight and enthusiasm.  Winter season is blessed with very cool weather conditions. This winter vacation forced me to select best vacation destination of India. I told my Papa about my desire. He agreed and he discussed with his friend's 'family vacation ideas'.

After that we ultimately selected best vacation destination as Rajasthan this time. It is because we've visited other vital locations of India but never tasted the magical look of Royal State of Rajasthan. Rajasthan experiences cold climatic condition during winter season similar to other states of India. Blessed with natural beauty and enriched history Rajasthan has been popular destination to attract every third foreign  tourists for it's  palaces, historical forts and  culture.

The palaces of Jaipur, lakes of Udaipur, and desert forts of Jodhpur, Bikaner & Jaisalmer are among the most preferred destination of many tourists.

winter with sunrise

Mehrangarh Fort (Click to see the images of Mehrangarh fort)  in Jodhpur usually regarded as the best fort in Rajasthan, is a must watch fort .

We made Jodhpur as centre to cover Udaipur, Jaipur, and Jaisalmer. We decided it from very beginning with the help of Google map

In Jaipur we visited Jaswant Thada , Umaid Bhawan Palace, and the gardens at the older capital of Mandore. We also went to the village safari  saw the desert life. One day is sufficient to complete the Jodhpur main visiting spots.

Then we went to Jaisalmer by MDR 32 and NH 15 by road. It took four and half hour to reach to Jaisalmer (285 km). TheInteresting visiting spots are Kuldhara Abandoned Village, Bada Bagh, Jaisalmer Fort, Khaba Fort, Patwon-ki-Haveli , Salim Singh-ki Haveli.   It takes usually 2 nights and 3 days for jaisalmer to cover all spots. After that we came back to Jodhpur and took a night rest at Jodhpur.

After that we went to Jaipur. The main attractions of Jaipur were Hawa Mahal, Amer Fort, City Palace, Jantar Mantar Jai Mahal and Nahargarh Fort. There are also more to see, but due to shortage of time we couldn't complete rest. We completed these spots in one night two days. 

Finally we returned back to Jodhpur and on the same day we went to Udaipur (254 km by NH 65). In Udaipur we visited City Palace, Lake Pichola, Fateh Sagar Lake and Jag Mandir. Fateh Sagar Lake attracted me much. If you can spare three days and two night for Udaipur then it can be covered fully. 

We returned to Jodhpur and came back to Durgapur. Overall  conclusion is that this winter vacation was the best winter vacations we ever enjoyed in past. The Rajasthan tour spots are really very interesting to see.

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Nov 20, 2013

Essay On Winter Vacation for Grade 2

By Azra Ahmad (435 Words): Winter  vacation falls in the month of December and lasts for about twenty days from December 14 to January 7 in Indian school.  The school's yearly function is inaugurated  every year just before the commencement of the winter vacation. The highest attractions of this vacation is the winter carnivals, Christmas celebration and New Year's enthusiasm.  It is  entertaining, exotic and cherishable moments for all of the students.. We usually prepare for our group dance  program, for about five days before to deliver our best in the function. For this, special permission is granted by our principal. Dance, singing, poem a elocution and drama are the main events of my school. After the program, our teachers takes us to our respective classes. There we receive our gift packets one by one. We also receive a toy from the school. After that we return back to our home happily.
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The above sentences are kept simple  to make feel the student of class 2 that they can write an essay about winter vacation . Now i'm adding few quality sentences so that the students above average level could add more quality to their essay.
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Off-peak pricing, of the vacation packages make it very tempting to go for an outing after the school break. It is compulsory to take the students from out of  box. Their formal education process makes them dull and confined. An outing during vacation time make them to realise the physical touch of life and provide an opportunity to learn by watching  thing out of paper. This enhance their imagination and also boost their power of coordinating the physical realisation with the paper reading and theories. Winter vacation is a short holiday for a jaunt. Confining Children within books only, is detrimental for their proper mental ability. In the course of vacation preparation they learn to account everything from micro to macro need of life. Their learning is all inclusive from vacation ideas, travelling's pros and cones and their obession of knowing more the facts and reality of tangible world.

Before vacation few planning and preparation is must. First set the vacation place that should be best vacation destination out of many choices. Watch few travel sites and get a budget idea. Get general idea about the destination with the help of google map. It is a great tool to make decisions if the tour is done without travel agents. Contact travel agents to compare the package with your self budget planning, but be careful of fraud travel agents.

For my vacation experience watch this essay. A TRIP WITH YOUR FAMILY DURING THE CHRISTMAS TIME
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Nov 16, 2013

A letter to the Editor of a newspaper For Frequent Power Cuts

'Power supply in India is not an issue as India in today's time has much potential of power generation.  Today's transmission system has backup power from many grids. But due to certain local problem there are still many problems those need to be arrested and to be solved. Out of those problem one is chosen and same is raised to a newspaper editor.

You can use this as an email if the question is like:

Question:

" There is a frequent power cut in your area. Write an email to the electricity board authorities of your region complaining the inconvenience caused."


The question may be like this also.- The letter or email are written after these questions.

Question-

Write a letter to editor of a newspaper drawing to attention of the rities concerned to the problem of frequent power cuts power ( failures today  ) in your locality.

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Self Address

Date

To,


Address of the editor e.g.
The editor
The statesman
Kolkata

Sir,

Frequent power cuts in our area have become a very big problem in our day to day life. There is hardly any area which is not affected by this problem. The whole society and system are paralysed for the time being.

We are suffering from this problem from several days. We are not getting proper electric current for our work. It has become a headache thereby obstructing our daily life routine. We are not able to use our gadgets because of this load shedding and thus we have become digitally blind. In this hot and humid summer we are frequently falling ill and also not getting a proper sleep. Students are the worst sufferers of this problem. Our annual examination is knocking at the door we are not able to study properly and also we are unable to prepare fully for coming examination.

I therefore request you to highlight this load shedding issue of our area so that the attention of the authorities of our service station can be drawn up on this problem.  I will be highly obliged.

Thanking you,

Yours faithfully

xxxxxx
Class 7
Letter to the Editor format

USE THIS ALSO AS AN EMAIL FOR QUESTION LIKE THIS- " There is a frequent power cut in your area. Write an email to the electricity board authorities of your region complaining the inconvenience caused."

Question pattern: Write a letter to the editor of a local newspaper:

This is a "letter to the editor sample". You can comment for different types of problem faced during fpower cut or load shedding. I am writing questions patter so that students can use this same letter or email for various type of questions.

To,

The Editor,

The Telegraph,

Kolkata

Respected Sir,

With the columns of your esteemed paper The Telegraph. I would like to inform you and want to draw your kind attention of the responsible authorities to the truth that there are frequent power cut of electricity in our locality Shivaji Road, Rampur. The citizens of this location have brought this truth to the concerned Department of the Electrical power Division but no outcome yet reached.

The constant load shedding causes high inconvenience and many problems to the residents of ours locality. The pupils really feel constant trouble due to the fact that they are preparing for the board examinations. Darkness dominates all-around at night because of breakdown and also thieves become more energetic throughout full darkness.

I wish you will put your kind attention to our letter and publish our important letter in your renowned paper so the authorities might recognize our troubles as well as take the essential action on the issue of load shedding.

Thanks,

Yours seriously,

xxxxx

Another short email will be written here soon... on the topic given below:

" There is a frequent power cut in your area. Write an email to the electricity board authorities of your region complaining the inconvenience caused."

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Nov 12, 2013

Diwali Festival Essay for class or Grade 2

Let before starting, first we see few photographs of Diwali cards, Diwali greetings cards and 'eco friendly diwali' images to feel the mood of this festival. 

Diwali is the festival of lamps. It is the famous festival of India. Diwali is also known as Deepavali. It is the most famous festival in north India. Diwali falls in the month of October. But exact date varies from year to year. Diwali is the home coming of Lord Rama after defeating the demon  king Ravna. People wear new dresses. Gifts are given and taken. Children buy firecrackers. They also help their parent to decorate the house with lights and Diyas ( in Hindi script рджिрдпा  ). This Diwali we enjoyed car travelling to see the evening lighting decoration. My mother cooked delicious food.

To get more points on diwali Go here-Diwali Essay for class 4.
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Nov 8, 2013

Apostrophes Punctuation Worksheet for class or grade 3

The question may be as given below.  Copy paste the worksheet and put punctuation marks in Ms Word or do it on a hard copy and after completing the worksheet see the answer given below. Repeat it until you're Geet the mastery of apostrophes.

Question: Put in the appropriate apostrophes.

a. My cats has been so sick lately that lm wondering if shes ever going to get better
b. Theyve been having lots of fun in the games period.
d. Its time to watch cricket on TV
E. My brothers  T-shirt cool. ( one brother)
f. The crows crawing in the morning wakes me up
G. The team has made its decision and theyre  happy with it.
h. It was somebody elses idea to change not mine.
I. Dhruvs been swimmin since he was three years old!
J. Ive always wanted to be able to sing well. k. Mr Banerjee taking his sons cricket gear to the school for him.
I.  she has her three daughters classes to think about.

Answer
a. My cat's has been so sick lately that l'm wondering if she's ever going to get better.
b. They've been having lots of fun in the game's period.
d. It's time to watch cartoon's on TV.
E. My brother's T-shirt cool. ( one brother )
f. The crow's crawing in the morning wakes me up.
G. The team has made its decision and they're happy with it.
h. It was somebody else's idea to change not mine.
I. Dhruv's been swimming since he was three years old.
J. I've always wanted to be able to sing well.
k. Mr. Banerjee taking his son's cricket gear to the school for him.
I. She has her three daughters' classes to think about.
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Nov 5, 2013

Flowers and its use in Our Society Essay For Class 4

By +Azra Ahmad  : flower photo image pictureLotus, Jasmine and Rose flowers have highest cultural presence in our society. Flowers are close to our heart for its delicate bloom, appearance, aroma and its beauty.  In our childhood whenever we start drawing then flowers mentally coerce us by its natural beauty to sketch it first. Three most important things close to human heart are song, child and flower. Flower is the garland of groom, bed decor of the newly married couple, honor of the leader's success, blessing indication of God , best substitute of worshiping need and many more.
Sometimes luck is wished with flower. Hindus offer flowers to Gods as a symbol of devotion and love . Lotus flower has highest value in the Hinduism. It is looked upon as purity of beauty peace and prosperity. Flower juice is an important ingredient of honey.  Flowers also have big roles in scent. Internationally every nation recognise one flower as a national flower. E.g.Lotus is the national flower of India.   Flowers opportuned poor with handsome income. Florists know the value of fresh flowers. So they started online flowers selling.

USE OF FLOWERS IN MEDICINE:
Edward Bach experimented with the essence of flowers in 1930. This belief was utilised by Homeo Pharmacy. He believed that every flower had a vibrational pattern of healing energy. As per Bach remedy walnut flowers- used to treat nervousness, clematis-given to increase concentration, star of Bethlehem -lessens shock, larch - to build confidence, cherry plum - to calm fear and white chestnut - encourages a positive outlook.

In Homeopaths diluted essences of flowers like arnica, pulsatilla, aconite and calendula in an oral solution used to deal with emotional problems.
Rose-product- Rosehips; a healthy tonic being rich with vitamin C were used during the second World War.

Flowers also have anti-inflammatory properties and are useful for relieving joint pain.
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Nov 1, 2013

Essay on School Bag for Class 5 Problems and issues

school bag photo image picture
Watching our children  back to school with overloaded school bags leaning towards front side is very disgusting and pathetic. School bag remains overloaded on each school day. Despite class routine, few teachers do not maintain standard practice of school routine. One disease has been spread throughout all the English medium school in India of recommending  book list of extra and unnecessary books.These books unnecessarily add extra unwanted load on the spine of student's backpack. Despite few teachers being inconsistent of not maintaining class routine, they often punish students if they fail to bring even a note book.
Overloaded Schoolbag has become a big issue for today education system in lndia. Despite school routine the English medium education  is heading towards wrong and confused path. You should be thinking right now that  I am a mad, no! Not at all. Actually school management and teachers are mixing two right decisions in wrong direction thereby unbalancing the goal of  children's future. Children should not carry a bag which weighs  more than 15 % of their weight (as per report of spine - health. Com) . That means if the weight of a child is 100 kilo gram then he can safely carry 15 kilo gram weight. If their back are loaded beyond this normalcy then there might be a problem in their spine. This is as per instruction of doctors. Sometime it has been noticed generally a child of 20 kilo gram weight is carrying a bag of 10 kilo gram; which is just 50 % of his body weight. He is doing wrong job for right goal   to  become an intelligent unhealthy nation wheel. 
No any school may certify itself of maintaining its school routine in proper way because in my opinion each and every child is carrying an overloaded bag nowadays. 
Bag sellers are one step more advanced than school book list. They are selling school bag of different brand name for luring students to buy a good bag viz. 
teenage school bags, school bags for girl, stylish school bags, best deal for school bag price etc. Every body of our society is busy in maintaining and enhancing their business and monetary gain is the soul fundamental. Everything is happening in scientific way.
I recommend to everyone to by a school bag which keep balance of the back of the children. You can watch photograph of varieties of school bags here.  
old school bag photo image pictureHere i am sharing one real story. I think in eighty decade, school of Utter Pradesh state in India was in different look. Children used to sit below tree shed on sack. Square size cloth was used to carry books and it was in vogue at those time.  one of our step elder brother of our family was always carrying overloaded bag. It used to take half an hour to bind this type of without stitched cloth (used as books bag).  It's prepared shape looked like a temple in which bigger dimensional books or note books were kept at bottom. The step brother of our family always used to carry maximum books . This overloaded backpack's weight was much beyond his normal carrying potential. When he grown up, it had been noticed that impact of that overloaded bag deformed his normal back posture. His spine had gotten deformed and his body had become completely inefficient to do job of normal person. He is still suffering from this problem.

I therefore advise guardian to rethink about this and if necessary unite with other parents and resist against school management to make structural and meaningful change in the school's bad practices to lighten the children's burden. 
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