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English Literature visit sugarybloom.blogspot.com  Chapter-7 Professional Guides to Cultivating Humanity Hema Raghavan Short Answer Questions 1.Name the workers who were urgently needed? The workers who were urgently needed were- an electrician,an optician, an artist, a construction worker,a gardener and a maths teacher. 2.What does the spark look like? The spark in us seems to look like a lamp in a bushel. 3.By what has the human contact been replaced in the modern world? In this modern world of technology, human contact has been replaced by the impersonal e-mail, Twitter, SMS and Facebook. 4.The human communication through modern technology is impersonal. 5.Who said "a crowd is not a company"? Francis Bacon said  "a crowd is not a company". 6.What is Facebook according to the author? According to the author,  Facebook is one such device that has a gallery of faces that we look at without any feeling  and often without recognition. 7.How can humanity survive accord...

visit sugarybloom.blogspot.com   Chapter- 6 Learning From First Generation School-Goers Dr.R. Balasubramaniam Summary The lesson "Learning from first generation school-goers" by Dr. R. Balasubramaniam, the author explains the knowledge and values he got  from the tribal students he was teaching.The school  had its beginnings in a makeshift arrangement in a cowshed in a hamlet named Brahmagiri.  The responsibilities for preparing the mid-day meals was shared among children and adults alike.A few of them would decide the menu , a few collects the fire-wood ,few would cut the vegetables and   few moulds cooked ragi flour into small balls and others serve their friends and a couple of them had to clean up. T he usual menu for mid-day meals was ragi balls(finger millet) and sambar.  One  day it was Manju's turn to prepare food and  Manju had his kid sister Sunanda with him that day.T he narrator expected Manju to roll an extra ragi ball for her. ...