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  Give us a role model A. P. J. Abdul Kalam 1. What helps to preserve one’s own freedom? Abundance, for it brings along with it security and confidence, and these eventually help preserve our freedom. 2. How can one spread love and joy? Whatever one do must come from the heart, express one's spirit, and thereby one will also spread love and joy around them. 3. Name Kalam’s teacher. Sivasubramania Iyer was Kalam's teacher 4. How did Kalam assess his worth? Kalam  always assessed his worth by the value of his contribution. 5. The desire for material things according to Kalam is a. Not shameful b. Spiritual c. Both a and b d. Non-spiritual 6. The relationship of Education and the teacher-student should be seen as not in business terms but  with the nation’s growth in mind. 7. Who is the first scientist according to Kalam? According to Kalam, child is the first scientist, 8. According to Kalam, Agni symbolizes a. All capabilities of India b. Our strength c. Both a and b d. F...

  HOW KACHA GOT THE SECRET Thangam Krishnan Short Answer Questions 1. Who is Shukracharya? Shukracharya,  was the learned teacher of the demons, who knows the Sanjivini Mantra,” 2. Who is Brihaspati?  Brihaspati,  was the great teacher of the Gods. 3. What is the use of Sanjivini Mantra? The use of the Sanjivini Mantra was by uttering those magic words of Sanjivini Mantra Shukra could  revive all the dead demons, and because of that  their  numbers were  never decreasing. 4. What was Kacha’s assignment? Kacha's assignment was to go to Shukra and become his student, and as soon as he teaches the Sanjivini he will come back.” 5. What was the question raised by Kacha to support his decision? The question raised by Kacha to support his decision was “Tell me, how does one win a game?” 6. Who is Devyani? Devyani was the beautiful daughter of Shukracharya. 7. What were the gods afraid of with regard to Devyani? The Gods were afraid that Kacha  may f...

  visit website  https://sugarybloom.blogspot.com/ The Hoop Feodor Sologub   About the author Feodor Sologub  is a prolific Russian author, dramatist, essayist and  poet of the Symbologist movement, his undoubted masterpiece being The Petty Demon (1907). Feodor Kuzmich Teternikov was born on 17 Feb , 1863, in St. Petersburg, Russia. He was later to adopt the  pseudonym Sologub. In 1882, after training at the St. Petersburg Teachers' Training Institute, Sologub was appointed teacher of Narvskoe municipal school and began his career, mainly teaching maths, with the Russian Ministry of Public Education. A significant date for Sologub was the 28th of January, 1884, when his poem and Hedgehog was published in the magazine literary success. Much of his ensuing poetry dealt laconically with morbid themes and death in a beautifully simplistic way, unencumbered by heavy metaphor. Great Expectations-Charles Dickens On travel by train-J.B. Priestley If-Rudyard Kipling...

        visit website  https://sugarybloom.blogspot.com/ CHAPTER – 4  HOW SOON HATH TIME  - John Milton About the author John Milton was an English poet ,polemicist,pamphleteer, and a civil servant during the commonwealth era of England.A scholarly man of letters, Milton’s prose and poetry deal with contemporary issues and reflect the religious flux and political upheaval of England of his time. He is best known for his epic poems ‘Paradise Lost’ and ‘Paradise Regained’. Writing in English, Latin, Greek and Italian, he achieved international fame and his celebrated ‘Areopagitica’ (1644) written in condemnation of pre-publication censorship is among History’s most influential and impassioned defences of freedom of speech and the press. He is regarded as one of the greatest English writers of all time. How Soon Hath Time, a Petrarchan sonnet, is believed to have been written by Milton on his birthday . Milton begins the poem in a tone of frustration and ...

  visit website   https://sugarybloom.blogspot.com/ CHAPTER – 2  PHOENIX OF BEAUTY  -Dr. Saumitra Chakravarty  Short answer Questions 1. What happened “the day after”?  The day after, the little bud opened. 2. What did the little bud see around?  When the little bud opened to a beautiful future, all that she saw was the death of the long stems or the tired petals which were very active and shining the previous day. 3. In the second stanza of the poem, the little bud looked up at the sun and uttered .............. a. a death cry    b. her birth cry     c. a cry for rescue  4. What does the little bud desire for? The bud desires for innocence to prevail in the world of guilt. The young little bud wants its  life, innocence and  beauty to prevail longer. 5. The little bud raises its head from a bed of purity. True or False?  False. Click here for  Jonathan Livingston Seagull   The Hoop    H...

  visit website  https://sugarybloom.blogspot.com/ JONATHAN LIVINGSTON SEAGULL Richard David Bach   About the author Richard David Bach is an American novelist and pilot. Richard Bach is the author of three books on the mystique of flying. During the past decade or so, he has edited a flying magazine, and written more than a hundred magazine articles and stories. A former US Air Force pilot, he is now seldom without an aeroplane.Livingston Seagull is a novella written in 1970. He has written several books of fiction such as A Gift of Wings (1974), Illusions: The Adventure of a Reluctant Messiah and non-fiction related to flying. Majority of his works are about flying that shows his great passion for it. Most of Bach's books have been semi autobiographical, using actual events from his life fiction to illustrate his philosophy. Bach's books espouse his philosophy that our physical limits and mortality are mere appearance. Give us a role model-APJ Abdul Kalam   ...