Sarvesh SJB Rana

• The story of connecting the links opens Steve Jobs’ lecture. Making links between different areas of life in order to better comprehend them is referred to as “connecting the dots.” • He tells the story of his birth, adoption, and subsequent battle to find meaning in his life as a young man. • All he wants us to take away from this narrative is that we should be concerned about even the tiniest details in life because they determine who we are and will be in the future. • Steve enrolled in a top private university named Reed College when he was 17, but he dropped out after a year because he wanted to learn calligraphy. • He enrolled in Reed College’s Calligraphy department, but 10 years later, he used his calligraphy abilities to design the first computer with attractive lettering, which he named Macintosh. • Looking back gave him the idea that many dots continued to connect and support him in achieving his actual aim. • Dropping out of college, starting a profession in his chos...

Exclamatory sentences into assertive sentences : What a rainy day this is! Oh no, the coin has rolled into the river! What a privilege it is to work with this great man! How huge this building is! What a terrible mess you have made of this dish! What a pity you didn’t come! What a happy day this is! How lovely the rose is! Alas! He is no more. How warm your hands are! Bravo! You spoke so well. What a dangerous thing a little knowledge is! How fine the weather is! Would that I were happy! What a beautiful rose it is! If only I could see my home again! Alas! My father is dead. Alas! We have lost the battle. How naughty you are! Assertive sentences into exclamatory sentences : This book is really boring. It is indeed a great tragedy. We were all very excited to meet the superstar. Santa Claus is really fat. My arm is paining very badly. This building is huge. Taj is very beautiful. It is a great fall. It is sad that I am ruined.  I wish that I were a king. I wish that I had...

Frank LaPena's "Tradition Sharing" Frank LePena discusses the value of oral tradition.  He continues to tell all of his readers about his experiences and opinions concerning oral tradition in this article.  Oral tradition, he claims, is a type of human communication in which knowledge, art, ideas, and cultural material are absorbed, kept, and passed down orally from generation to generation.  In other terms, oral tradition refers to the oral transmission of cultural and value information from generation to generation. Speech or song, folktales, ballads, chants, prose or verses, and other forms of transmission are used. Oral tradition aids in the preservation of cultural values. The task of passing down tradition is not easy. The process of passing down tradition by oral means appears simple to talk about and write about, but it is rather difficult to put into practice.  Both elderly and young people play an important role in maintaining and preserving the culture's id...

The poem’s central issue is the repercussions of human warfare. Peace, pleasure, and wealth are never brought by war. Only disparity and a bleak future can be guaranteed by war. The only things that war brings us are death, blood, agony, loss, sadness, devastation, and downfall. The poet has employed literary elements such as sarcasm, metaphor, apostrophe, anaphora, and imageries to leave an effect on the readers. The speaker, who is facing the death of her beloved in a war, addresses him directly, contrasting what she has to offer him – her lost youth and hopes – with what he has to offer her – his death, grave, medals, and shrapnel. The inhuman features of war and their impact on mankind are the central themes in this poem. The speaker has painted a dreadful image of war, which has ripped away all of her life’s happiness. Tran Mong Tu’s experiences throughout the Vietnam War are chronicled in "The Gift in Wartime." According to the author, war is a terrible event that cause...

This poem is related to nature and its effect on the speaker. Which contains only eight lines. The main theme of this poem is freshness of beautiful nature and its positive effect on the humans. This poem opens with the speaker standing near a window and looking out of it, at the end of a day. He goes to a nostalgic mood, recalling his childhood, when he used to watch a sunset thoughtfully. He remembers how he used to enjoy such a beauty when he used to be a little boy of five or six years. It is a wonder that he still has youthful presence in himself. This presence can recognize the beauty of the evening. Perhaps in his inner heart he wants to come out, but his maturity and adulthood doesn’t allow him, to do so. The poet has beautifully described a little boy, his location and his acts of peering in (looking) and feeling about beautiful and wonderful nature.  He has presented his experiences of childhood closely connected with nature. He has presented himself as a little i or...

The Brave Little Parrot (The) Buddhism Courage Folk tales Generosity of Spirit Once, long ago, the Buddha was born as a little parrot. One day a storm fell upon his forest home. Lightning flashed, thunder crashed, and a dead tree, struck by lightning, burst into flames. Sparks leapt on the wind and soon the forest was ablaze. Terrified animals ran wildly in every direction, seeking safety from the flames and smoke. "Fire! Fire!" cried the little parrot. "To the river!" Flapping his wings, he flung himself out into the fury of the storm and, rising higher, flew towards the safety of the river. But as he flew he could see that many animals were trapped, surrounded by the flames below, with no chance of escape. Suddenly a desperate idea, a way to save them, came to him. He darted to the river, dipped himself in the water, and flew back over the now raging fire. The heat rising up from the burning forest was like the heat of an oven. The thick smoke made breathing almos...

The poem teaches us to appreciate and enjoy every stage and moment of our lives, and to make the most of what we have. The poet narrates the seven ages of life by comparing the world to a stage and each one of us to actors playing an individual role on that stage of life. Our entrance is our birth and our exit is our death In a lifetime, each one of us plays many parts and each part is compared to an act in a play.  The first stage is that of an infant who cries. vomiting milk on the nurse's arms.  In the second stage, as a schoolboy, he drags himself unwillingly to school.  In the third stage. man as a lover, sighs in separation and writes poems about his beloved beauty.  As a soldier, in the fourth stage, he is ready to take strange oaths.  The poet compares him to a fierce leopard who is jealous Of others' honour and is very quick to quarrel.  He is ready to risk his life for a short-lived reputation by jumping in front of a cannon.  The fifth stage is the justice stage, wel...

'My Old Home,' by Lu Xun, is an autobiographical novel about the author's identity, Lu Xun, himself is  the narrator, and his memories of his youth in his dazzling home.  He can't express how much he enjoyed it or how happy he was to have grown up in his old home. The tension between recollections and realities is depicted in the story. In 1911, his home was built in the time of the Qin Dynasty, the narrator returns to his Old Home after a twenty-year absence; at first, he cannot believe his eyes.  His Old House, is now just a symbol, which depicts his past memories.  His mother and nephew welcome him but he did not expected so many changes have occurred, but not in a great way; rather, he now finds his house in a destroyed state due to twenty years of weather, climate, renovations, and the presence of other families.  Mrs Yang, a neighbor who accuses Lu Xun of being miserly, reconciles with his relatives and when the bean curd lady accuses Xun being stingy because he r...

Yudhisthra's Wisdom KUNTI                                   MADRI                    -Yudhisthira                         -Nakula -Bhima                                 -Sahadeva -Arjuna YAKSHA (Yama, the god of justice and righteousness)  These excerpts have been taken from the Mahabharata, one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India, recounting events that allegedly took place some 2,800 years ago. The writing of this epic took place centuries later, possibly spanning from the Vedic period (about 2,500 years ago) to the early period (about 1,700 years ago). According to Hindu tradition, the author is Vyasa. One day the Pandava brothers went far from their dwelling place in search of deer in the jungle. They saw a deer and followed it but the deer vanished abruptly.  Pandava brothers grew thirsty. Exhausted and all the brothers sits under a shadow of the tree. Yudhisthira, the eldest brother sends Sahadeva (the younger brother) to search for water. After walking for a ...