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American Literature The cask of Amontillado-Edgar Allan Poe The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn-Mark Twain The Five Boons of Life Mark Twain Summary In the story "  The five boons of life" by Mark Twain a fairy comes to a young man and offers him with a gift basket with five gifts which were Fame, Love, Riches, Pleasure and Death .She asks him to take one from it and warns him to, choose wisely, for only one of them was valuable. The youth even without thinking chose pleasure. He went out into the world and sought out the pleasures that youth delights in. But each in its turn was short-lived and disappointing, vain and empty.So in the end he said that  he had wasted all those years and if he could choose again, he would choose wisely. The fairy appeared again, and asks him to choose once more from the remaining four and warns him that time was flying, and only one of them was precious.The man considered long, then chose Love; and did not mark the ...

  English Literature What I Require From Life  J.B.S.Haldane Summary In the essay "What i require from life"   Haldane begins his essay  by saying that he has to accept the universe as it is. He must not  require the impossible. According to him, he was born in a peaceful age but  in his youth as he had been living in a heroic age he says he must try to make the best of time in which he live . He then sets out a few of the things which he personally wants out of life .  According to him, he has four  major requirements  His first requirement is work with a  decent wage which is hard but interesting  of which he can see fruits.His second requirement is freedom which he enjoys vastly but still need more, particularly,  freedom of speech.His third requirement is health good enough to be fit for work .His fourth requirement is friendship of equals who criticize him and whom he can criticize. These four things he considers as genera...

  Unit 2 PERSON AL ETHICS  Introduction - Meaning - Emotional Honesty – Virtue of humility - Promote happiness - karma yoga - Proactive - flexibility and purity of mind.  Our concepts of ethics have been derived from rel i gions, philosophies and cultures. They infuse debates on topics like abortion, human r i ghts and pr ofess i onal conduct. Personal ethics It is a category of philosophy that determines what an individual believes about morality and right and wrong. This is usually distinguished from business ethics or legal ethics. T h ese branches of ethics come from outside organizations o r g overnments, not the individual's conscie nce. These branches of ethics occasionally overlap. Personal ethics can affect all areas of life, including family, finances and relationships.  The basic principles and values that govern interactions among individuals. Basically, ethics are your sense of right and wrong. Your morals and values that define how you are as a person...