Letters to GT students
1.
Your request for a new cheque book has not been heard properly, and now you have problems managing your finance; paying bills and doing similar transactions.
Write a letter the Manager of the back, describing your position and demanding an explanation on why your request for a cheque was not heard. You may include details on your: A/c No., type and dates of requests you had made.
Begin your letter: Sir,
2.
While checking the bill of a shopping you have had, you came to understand that some articles were charged more than MRP. This is a gross violation of consumer rights.
Write a letter to the Officer in Charge, State Consumer Rights Cell. You may include particulars of the purchase, and request action and demand compensation.
You may begin your letter as: Sir,
3.
Being one of the members of the local council, you feel that the funds allocated for waster management in your place is too inadequate, and there is need for immediate funds to meet the expense of the ongoing project.
Write a letter to the funding agency, State Local Administration Department, stating your position and requesting funds.
The Accounts officer
4.
Of late you understand that your newspaper comes late everyday. Upon enquiry you realize the the paper gets late because the newspaper boys spend a lot of time for inserting handouts and leaflets in the newspaper.
You are aware that this is against consumer rights. Write a letter to the Chief Editor requesting immediate action so that you get your paper in time.
The Chief Editor
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Sunday, December 12, 2010
1
The rich are able to enjoy all the luxuries available in the world, but the poor are becoming poorer and poorer. Some people are of the opinion that the rich should be taxed heavily to offset the needs of the poor.
• Do you endorse this view? If yes, to what extent?
• What suggestions can you have to make the poor better?
2.
There is a view that road accidents could be controlled to a greater extent if road infrastructure is streamlined to meet the rising number of vehicles on the road.
• Argue for and against this view.
3.
Controlling population is the responsibility of all for the well being of all.
• How do you look at this view?
4.
It is increasingly felt that under populated nations have the responsibility to share their extra resources with over populated economies.
• How good is this idea in your opinion?
• Do you think such an arrangement has some disadvantages?
Jaypeesdoc. 12/12/010
5.
People living close to digitally advanced environments are found to be enjoying better living conditions thanks to the opportunities such environs offer.
• How far is this true in your place?
• What effects does digital divide have on a given populace?
The rich are able to enjoy all the luxuries available in the world, but the poor are becoming poorer and poorer. Some people are of the opinion that the rich should be taxed heavily to offset the needs of the poor.
• Do you endorse this view? If yes, to what extent?
• What suggestions can you have to make the poor better?
2.
There is a view that road accidents could be controlled to a greater extent if road infrastructure is streamlined to meet the rising number of vehicles on the road.
• Argue for and against this view.
3.
Controlling population is the responsibility of all for the well being of all.
• How do you look at this view?
4.
It is increasingly felt that under populated nations have the responsibility to share their extra resources with over populated economies.
• How good is this idea in your opinion?
• Do you think such an arrangement has some disadvantages?
Jaypeesdoc. 12/12/010
5.
People living close to digitally advanced environments are found to be enjoying better living conditions thanks to the opportunities such environs offer.
• How far is this true in your place?
• What effects does digital divide have on a given populace?
Thursday, December 9, 2010
Respect quotient between parents and children: what makes it? Intelligent controls or enough freedom?
What decides the respect quotient that exists between parents and children? There are several factors of course. When it comes to intelligent controls and enough freedom, I tend to endorse the latter one based on single point. Let me prove it.
My argument favouring freedom is that it is freedom that leads to responsibility. There is a popular quote which goes like this: Freedom is responsibility” . The idea contained in such a pithy statement is exactly applicable here in this respect also, because only when there is freedom, there is room for responsibility. The sense of responsibility one comes to acquire all by oneself on the grounds that the freedom one enjoys has a serious other side, too. That is responsibility.
Obviously, this responsibility leads to obedience. Obedience gets generated out of respect. Let us take the case of our freedom of expression. When we enjoy it, we are bound to let others enjoy it too. That is, we have to respect the freedom of expression of others as well. So is the case with the freedom given to children with regard to respect quotient. This, in my opinion, is a two way process. Parents need to give enough freedom to children and children, in turn, have to respect their parents. This happens the other way round too. Parents have to respect their children and identify the amount of freedom they deserve.
All said, there is a little room for controls as well. Control, as we know, is not liked by many. So it is the case with children. However, if parents are intelligent enough, they can easily control their children without making them know that children are controlled. If at all they come to know that they are controlled, the respect quotient that exists between them, thanks to the freedom they get, will see that children simply take it as it is.
Concluding it, what I feel is that it is always wise to be free with children. However, there are times in a child’s or parents’ life when there will be need for controls. The condition is whatever controls parents impose, that need to be intelligent.
Jaypeesdoc. 10.12.010.10.55 am
What decides the respect quotient that exists between parents and children? There are several factors of course. When it comes to intelligent controls and enough freedom, I tend to endorse the latter one based on single point. Let me prove it.
My argument favouring freedom is that it is freedom that leads to responsibility. There is a popular quote which goes like this: Freedom is responsibility” . The idea contained in such a pithy statement is exactly applicable here in this respect also, because only when there is freedom, there is room for responsibility. The sense of responsibility one comes to acquire all by oneself on the grounds that the freedom one enjoys has a serious other side, too. That is responsibility.
Obviously, this responsibility leads to obedience. Obedience gets generated out of respect. Let us take the case of our freedom of expression. When we enjoy it, we are bound to let others enjoy it too. That is, we have to respect the freedom of expression of others as well. So is the case with the freedom given to children with regard to respect quotient. This, in my opinion, is a two way process. Parents need to give enough freedom to children and children, in turn, have to respect their parents. This happens the other way round too. Parents have to respect their children and identify the amount of freedom they deserve.
All said, there is a little room for controls as well. Control, as we know, is not liked by many. So it is the case with children. However, if parents are intelligent enough, they can easily control their children without making them know that children are controlled. If at all they come to know that they are controlled, the respect quotient that exists between them, thanks to the freedom they get, will see that children simply take it as it is.
Concluding it, what I feel is that it is always wise to be free with children. However, there are times in a child’s or parents’ life when there will be need for controls. The condition is whatever controls parents impose, that need to be intelligent.
Jaypeesdoc. 10.12.010.10.55 am
Respect quotient between parents and children: what makes it? Intelligent controls or enough freedom?
What decides the respect quotient that exists between parents and children? There are several factors of course. When it comes to intelligent controls and enough freedom, I tend to endorse the latter one based on single point. Let me prove it.
My argument favouring freedom is that it is freedom that leads to responsibility. There is a popular quote which goes like this: Freedom is responsibility” . The idea contained in such a pithy statement is exactly applicable here in this respect also, because only when there is freedom, there is room for responsibility. The sense of responsibility one comes to acquire all by oneself on the grounds that the freedom one enjoys has a serious other side, too. That is responsibility.
Obviously, this responsibility leads to obedience. Obedience gets generated out of respect. Let us take the case of our freedom of expression. When we enjoy it, we are bound to let others enjoy it too. That is, we have to respect the freedom of expression of others as well. So is the case with the freedom given to children with regard to respect quotient. This, in my opinion, is a two way process. Parents need to give enough freedom to children and children, in turn, have to respect their parents. This happens the other way round too. Parents have to respect their children and identify the amount of freedom they deserve.
All said, there is a little room for controls as well. Control, as we know, is not liked by many. So it is the case with children. However, if parents are intelligent enough, they can easily control their children without making them know that children are controlled. If at all they come to know that they are controlled, the respect quotient that exists between them, thanks to the freedom they get, will see that children simply take it as it is.
Concluding it, what I feel is that it is always wise to be free with children. However, there are times in a child’s or parents’ life when there will be need for controls. The condition is whatever controls parents impose, that need to be intelligent.
Jaypeesdoc. 10.12.010.10.55 am
What decides the respect quotient that exists between parents and children? There are several factors of course. When it comes to intelligent controls and enough freedom, I tend to endorse the latter one based on single point. Let me prove it.
My argument favouring freedom is that it is freedom that leads to responsibility. There is a popular quote which goes like this: Freedom is responsibility” . The idea contained in such a pithy statement is exactly applicable here in this respect also, because only when there is freedom, there is room for responsibility. The sense of responsibility one comes to acquire all by oneself on the grounds that the freedom one enjoys has a serious other side, too. That is responsibility.
Obviously, this responsibility leads to obedience. Obedience gets generated out of respect. Let us take the case of our freedom of expression. When we enjoy it, we are bound to let others enjoy it too. That is, we have to respect the freedom of expression of others as well. So is the case with the freedom given to children with regard to respect quotient. This, in my opinion, is a two way process. Parents need to give enough freedom to children and children, in turn, have to respect their parents. This happens the other way round too. Parents have to respect their children and identify the amount of freedom they deserve.
All said, there is a little room for controls as well. Control, as we know, is not liked by many. So it is the case with children. However, if parents are intelligent enough, they can easily control their children without making them know that children are controlled. If at all they come to know that they are controlled, the respect quotient that exists between them, thanks to the freedom they get, will see that children simply take it as it is.
Concluding it, what I feel is that it is always wise to be free with children. However, there are times in a child’s or parents’ life when there will be need for controls. The condition is whatever controls parents impose, that need to be intelligent.
Jaypeesdoc. 10.12.010.10.55 am
Respect quotient between parents and children: what makes it? Intelligent controls or enough freedom?
What decides the respect quotient that exists between parents and children? There are several factors of course. When it comes to intelligent controls and enough freedom, I tend to endorse the latter one based on single point. Let me prove it.
My argument favouring freedom is that it is freedom that leads to responsibility. There is a popular quote which goes like this: Freedom is responsibility” . The idea contained in such a pithy statement is exactly applicable here in this respect also, because only when there is freedom, there is room for responsibility. The sense of responsibility one comes to acquire all by oneself on the grounds that the freedom one enjoys has a serious other side, too. That is responsibility.
Obviously, this responsibility leads to obedience. Obedience gets generated out of respect. Let us take the case of our freedom of expression. When we enjoy it, we are bound to let others enjoy it too. That is, we have to respect the freedom of expression of others as well. So is the case with the freedom given to children with regard to respect quotient. This, in my opinion, is a two way process. Parents need to give enough freedom to children and children, in turn, have to respect their parents. This happens the other way round too. Parents have to respect their children and identify the amount of freedom they deserve.
All said, there is a little room for controls as well. Control, as we know, is not liked by many. So it is the case with children. However, if parents are intelligent enough, they can easily control their children without making them know that children are controlled. If at all they come to know that they are controlled, the respect quotient that exists between them, thanks to the freedom they get, will see that children simply take it as it is.
Concluding it, what I feel is that it is always wise to be free with children. However, there are times in a child’s or parents’ life when there will be need for controls. The condition is whatever controls parents impose, that need to be intelligent.
Jaypeesdoc. 10.12.010.10.55 am
What decides the respect quotient that exists between parents and children? There are several factors of course. When it comes to intelligent controls and enough freedom, I tend to endorse the latter one based on single point. Let me prove it.
My argument favouring freedom is that it is freedom that leads to responsibility. There is a popular quote which goes like this: Freedom is responsibility” . The idea contained in such a pithy statement is exactly applicable here in this respect also, because only when there is freedom, there is room for responsibility. The sense of responsibility one comes to acquire all by oneself on the grounds that the freedom one enjoys has a serious other side, too. That is responsibility.
Obviously, this responsibility leads to obedience. Obedience gets generated out of respect. Let us take the case of our freedom of expression. When we enjoy it, we are bound to let others enjoy it too. That is, we have to respect the freedom of expression of others as well. So is the case with the freedom given to children with regard to respect quotient. This, in my opinion, is a two way process. Parents need to give enough freedom to children and children, in turn, have to respect their parents. This happens the other way round too. Parents have to respect their children and identify the amount of freedom they deserve.
All said, there is a little room for controls as well. Control, as we know, is not liked by many. So it is the case with children. However, if parents are intelligent enough, they can easily control their children without making them know that children are controlled. If at all they come to know that they are controlled, the respect quotient that exists between them, thanks to the freedom they get, will see that children simply take it as it is.
Concluding it, what I feel is that it is always wise to be free with children. However, there are times in a child’s or parents’ life when there will be need for controls. The condition is whatever controls parents impose, that need to be intelligent.
Jaypeesdoc. 10.12.010.10.55 am
Respect quotient between parents and children: what makes it? Intelligent controls or enough freedom?
What decides the respect quotient that exists between parents and children? There are several factors of course. When it comes to intelligent controls and enough freedom, I tend to endorse the latter one based on single point. Let me prove it.
My argument favouring freedom is that it is freedom that leads to responsibility. There is a popular quote which goes like this: Freedom is responsibility” . The idea contained in such a pithy statement is exactly applicable here in this respect also, because only when there is freedom, there is room for responsibility. The sense of responsibility one comes to acquire all by oneself on the grounds that the freedom one enjoys has a serious other side, too. That is responsibility.
Obviously, this responsibility leads to obedience. Obedience gets generated out of respect. Let us take the case of our freedom of expression. When we enjoy it, we are bound to let others enjoy it too. That is, we have to respect the freedom of expression of others as well. So is the case with the freedom given to children with regard to respect quotient. This, in my opinion, is a two way process. Parents need to give enough freedom to children and children, in turn, have to respect their parents. This happens the other way round too. Parents have to respect their children and identify the amount of freedom they deserve.
All said, there is a little room for controls as well. Control, as we know, is not liked by many. So it is the case with children. However, if parents are intelligent enough, they can easily control their children without making them know that children are controlled. If at all they come to know that they are controlled, the respect quotient that exists between them, thanks to the freedom they get, will see that children simply take it as it is.
Concluding it, what I feel is that it is always wise to be free with children. However, there are times in a child’s or parents’ life when there will be need for controls. The condition is whatever controls parents impose, that need to be intelligent.
Jaypeesdoc. 10.12.010.10.55 am
What decides the respect quotient that exists between parents and children? There are several factors of course. When it comes to intelligent controls and enough freedom, I tend to endorse the latter one based on single point. Let me prove it.
My argument favouring freedom is that it is freedom that leads to responsibility. There is a popular quote which goes like this: Freedom is responsibility” . The idea contained in such a pithy statement is exactly applicable here in this respect also, because only when there is freedom, there is room for responsibility. The sense of responsibility one comes to acquire all by oneself on the grounds that the freedom one enjoys has a serious other side, too. That is responsibility.
Obviously, this responsibility leads to obedience. Obedience gets generated out of respect. Let us take the case of our freedom of expression. When we enjoy it, we are bound to let others enjoy it too. That is, we have to respect the freedom of expression of others as well. So is the case with the freedom given to children with regard to respect quotient. This, in my opinion, is a two way process. Parents need to give enough freedom to children and children, in turn, have to respect their parents. This happens the other way round too. Parents have to respect their children and identify the amount of freedom they deserve.
All said, there is a little room for controls as well. Control, as we know, is not liked by many. So it is the case with children. However, if parents are intelligent enough, they can easily control their children without making them know that children are controlled. If at all they come to know that they are controlled, the respect quotient that exists between them, thanks to the freedom they get, will see that children simply take it as it is.
Concluding it, what I feel is that it is always wise to be free with children. However, there are times in a child’s or parents’ life when there will be need for controls. The condition is whatever controls parents impose, that need to be intelligent.
Jaypeesdoc. 10.12.010.10.55 am
Some social scientists say that poor nations need to enact a law enforcing minimum number of children a family can have, and thereby enabling the State to withdraw support for the additional child/children in matters like education, employment and healthcare.
Essay 010
• How far can you agree with such a law?
• Do you think it is right to withdraw support for all additional children?It is a matter of great concern that population is increasing phenomenally in third world nations. In such a state of affairs, a law on population control is timely, and I find it agreeable to a greater extent. But, I cannot support the provision that the State can deny support to extra child/children.
Rising population is no good anymore. There are several different measures being implemented to curtail population growth. But the impact of such measures is not visible either. Therefore, a law on minimum number of children is timely and worth considering. Firstly, when people come to understand that State wouldn’t support additional children, there would be change of attitude towards having more children. And there will be visible changes in all walks of life thanks to stabilizing population rates. For example, this law is already in force in China, and there are evidences to prove that it works in there.
However, I find it difficult to support State’s denying support to extra child/children. My one and only argument against this idea is this, that the factors that make a family have a certain number of children are more powerful than the provisions of a law. For example, social status, gender preferences, personal likes, family obligations and so on would make parents go for more children. Undoubtedly, such children would come to millions and no welfare State can ignore their well being. Therefore, simply cannot endorse such a provision.
So, to conclude it, a law on minimum number of children is good in many ways, but the State has to support additional children conditionally. If this is done, a law on small family norm would have greater number of takers in the days to come.
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Ajaypeesdoc
Essay 010
• How far can you agree with such a law?
• Do you think it is right to withdraw support for all additional children?It is a matter of great concern that population is increasing phenomenally in third world nations. In such a state of affairs, a law on population control is timely, and I find it agreeable to a greater extent. But, I cannot support the provision that the State can deny support to extra child/children.
Rising population is no good anymore. There are several different measures being implemented to curtail population growth. But the impact of such measures is not visible either. Therefore, a law on minimum number of children is timely and worth considering. Firstly, when people come to understand that State wouldn’t support additional children, there would be change of attitude towards having more children. And there will be visible changes in all walks of life thanks to stabilizing population rates. For example, this law is already in force in China, and there are evidences to prove that it works in there.
However, I find it difficult to support State’s denying support to extra child/children. My one and only argument against this idea is this, that the factors that make a family have a certain number of children are more powerful than the provisions of a law. For example, social status, gender preferences, personal likes, family obligations and so on would make parents go for more children. Undoubtedly, such children would come to millions and no welfare State can ignore their well being. Therefore, simply cannot endorse such a provision.
So, to conclude it, a law on minimum number of children is good in many ways, but the State has to support additional children conditionally. If this is done, a law on small family norm would have greater number of takers in the days to come.
280 words
Ajaypeesdoc
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Keeping children away from the clutches of deadly habits like drinking and smoking is primarily the responsibility of their parents.
Essay 006
• To what extent to do you agree or disagree with this?
It is parents who need to keep their children free from health hazards. But the fact remains that there are limitations for them, because, children are a lot so exposed to extreme temptations that there are chances for them to forego their parent’s controls. Still, the onus is on parents themselves.
I strongly feel that that it is parents who hold the key to keep their children away from substances. This is more so when parents these days are much more occupied with the pressures of life. This in turn leaves children with more parents-free time. The best thing they can do is that they themselves need to be free from all bad habits so as to be models for their children. Together with this, they can keep a healthy relation with their children. This way the warmth of the relation would make any child comply with their parents words. The onus thus falls on parents’ shoulders.
However, there are limitations. Even if parents are successful in convincing their children of the deadly effects of substance abuse, there are chances for taste-testing and trying-for-once instances. Children are such that many of them hardly idenitify what is right and what is wrong. Besides all these, they are vulnerable to temptations and pressures. These pressures may range from friends to heroes to peers to macho behaviours. We cannot blame children, for they are children.
In short, though the ball is the parents’ court, it many not be possible for them to strike it right always. There are other social and governmental agencies that need to work in unison so that our children are made immune to habits and health hazards.
275 words
Ajaypeesdoc
Essay 006
• To what extent to do you agree or disagree with this?
It is parents who need to keep their children free from health hazards. But the fact remains that there are limitations for them, because, children are a lot so exposed to extreme temptations that there are chances for them to forego their parent’s controls. Still, the onus is on parents themselves.
I strongly feel that that it is parents who hold the key to keep their children away from substances. This is more so when parents these days are much more occupied with the pressures of life. This in turn leaves children with more parents-free time. The best thing they can do is that they themselves need to be free from all bad habits so as to be models for their children. Together with this, they can keep a healthy relation with their children. This way the warmth of the relation would make any child comply with their parents words. The onus thus falls on parents’ shoulders.
However, there are limitations. Even if parents are successful in convincing their children of the deadly effects of substance abuse, there are chances for taste-testing and trying-for-once instances. Children are such that many of them hardly idenitify what is right and what is wrong. Besides all these, they are vulnerable to temptations and pressures. These pressures may range from friends to heroes to peers to macho behaviours. We cannot blame children, for they are children.
In short, though the ball is the parents’ court, it many not be possible for them to strike it right always. There are other social and governmental agencies that need to work in unison so that our children are made immune to habits and health hazards.
275 words
Ajaypeesdoc
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
“It’s fun; someone’s misfortune”
29/01/2004. Jayaprakash. As narrated.
She must have been a different woman. Else, how could she wade off all these men passengers and go this front and find a niche-like room for her in this crowded bus of this evening. She stood towering to the ceiling of the bus; Built like men. The whole complement of the bus was looking at her. She seemed she knew it as well. She cared not. She bothered not, and she sounded not that differentiated either.
I didn’t find it awkward when I found this lady looking at a carry bag and smiling at it. I didn’t find anything fishy when she looked at all confidently and kept on standing. It was on, the bus, taking in and off passengers at various stops. And as it was nearing the nearest bus station, it was getting empty, or I would say, it was becoming breathable inside. Not many were to be added to the complement from that bus station.
What I did find embarrassing right after the bus left the second station was this; a lot of empty seats including the one three-seater, which got empty by two passengers leaving the side-seater comfortably day dreading notwithstanding, the lady was found undecided whether to sit and where in not to. And then this lady sat on that seat leaving that man in his own world. And she sprang up as though she was sitting accidentally on a live coal.
The towering woman started taking still more towering a proportion right after she sprang up from the seat.
Hei, what is wrong with you. Who do you think you are? Who do you think I am?
Ladies cannot travel safe in a KSRTC bus? You have no other job but this; to pinch and stroke lone and levelheaded ladies? I have been observing you since long. And the moment you got a chance to, you showed what you are and are upto. Stupid.
Do you know who I am? You don’t have someone female back home? Look aged still.
The ears and eyes of all passengers got stung on her and her tirade. The poor man, who had been sitting and daydreaming looking outside, woke up to find this lady lampooning. And he felt something fishy in the whole affair, for the lady was lurking at him.
Are you taking on me, lady?
Who the hell had been sitting in this seat when I sat in it a moment ago?
See, madam, I have nothing to do with what you point at. Ask anyone in this bus what I did. I didn’t even notice you shared this seat. I was really slumbering.
No, you stop it. I know you well. Why you? I know you folk very well. You’d sit like sleeping and slumbering, and would send your insensitive parts prying at the privates and properties of ladies. This is what you are all traveling for in these crowded buses.
Barring a few passengers’ suppressed reactions and not-so-surprised looks, there was nothing seemed to be happening. But I could not but go to the details of that lady. Because her wordings on her experience sounded calculated.
She was not that attractive. Nor was she advanceable behaviourally. The way she cut a figure inside the bus was a little short of an ordinary passenger. I thought. I had been looking at her face and expressions right from the stop she got in. And she was also seeing me. She gave me nothing as to mark her differently, barring her smiling at a carry bag, though. But this scene? Reprimanding a man of 40 plus years for nothing noticeable sounded to be a little extra-ordinary to me. I even went into checking whether she was normal. The bus had covered a lot by this time; but she seemed going straight with what she had been doing, vomiting her imaginary problem and indignation at that man of her choice. Was she making an imaginary case? I was in the dark.
Wasn’t she finding a little comfort by posing that she is, though that well-built and not-that-womanly-looked, capable of inviting the prying hands and ogles of middle aged men? Was she not telling me too that it was not that easy to be a woman among these skin-sucking men? Were these passengers not giving her the impression that she was not worth pursuing? Had she been harassed? Or Had she had a hand in this affair? My investigative faculty went out looking for clues.
Is it not psychological to be behaving like a woman inaccessible to all and sundry; all the while cutting and presenting herself to be exactly so accessible and thereby finding an auto-contact-remedial-mechanism being implemented willfully so as to become what she actually wanted herself to become; and virtually unable to be; and all the while remaining to be one and only one who knows about that inability much more than anyone else? Was she indulging herself a little by exposing herself as one who is not worth shunning?
I had got storm-brained by my own brain when the bus was about to reach its destination. And she wanted the bus stopped. While she was leaving the bus, someone was throwing a comment.
Ei, take this too with you. She is short of one like you, it seems.
I was really unlucky that I missed the rejoinder for this statement.
She walked down the bus and after responding to it. One can imagine how would she have responded to that comment. She had been responding so vociferously to no comments at all.
And then one passenger said that she had been working at Trivandrum and been traveling everyday in this route; and none of her day was different from what she had us all to have it today. She is not normal.
Really? Not normal? I came to know it with a shock. For, I had been observing her for long; her going animated with an inanimate carry bag; her standing among men; her cutting so-confident-a-figure; her sitting and not sitting when there were seats innumerable and so on. What if she took on me? It sent tremors down me.
The rest of the journey was hilarious; everyone was making this or that comment on the misfortune of that lady; a fellow being; a better half of someone; a counterpart; a mother of a few children; a good neighbour of a locale; a part of the society; a member of a workforce; a citizen; a voter obviously; a home manager and a breadwinner. And many more was she, I knew.
I felt sad. I felt disturbed. I felt my normal composure abnormal; for these so-called normals were all behaving really abnormally when they got an unfortunate being at hand. Are we, the normal, including me, really normal? Is she not better than many of us; for she has no intentions vile and vilifying?
When are we going to be normal men and women? A question easier asked than answered. “It’s fun; someone’s misfortune”. It’s commented; and I got a little relief, for I had wanted to reiterate that comment; or did I do it in between? I know not. For, I haven’t been normal since then. May God help her!
End of the text
29/01/2004. Jayaprakash. As narrated.
She must have been a different woman. Else, how could she wade off all these men passengers and go this front and find a niche-like room for her in this crowded bus of this evening. She stood towering to the ceiling of the bus; Built like men. The whole complement of the bus was looking at her. She seemed she knew it as well. She cared not. She bothered not, and she sounded not that differentiated either.
I didn’t find it awkward when I found this lady looking at a carry bag and smiling at it. I didn’t find anything fishy when she looked at all confidently and kept on standing. It was on, the bus, taking in and off passengers at various stops. And as it was nearing the nearest bus station, it was getting empty, or I would say, it was becoming breathable inside. Not many were to be added to the complement from that bus station.
What I did find embarrassing right after the bus left the second station was this; a lot of empty seats including the one three-seater, which got empty by two passengers leaving the side-seater comfortably day dreading notwithstanding, the lady was found undecided whether to sit and where in not to. And then this lady sat on that seat leaving that man in his own world. And she sprang up as though she was sitting accidentally on a live coal.
The towering woman started taking still more towering a proportion right after she sprang up from the seat.
Hei, what is wrong with you. Who do you think you are? Who do you think I am?
Ladies cannot travel safe in a KSRTC bus? You have no other job but this; to pinch and stroke lone and levelheaded ladies? I have been observing you since long. And the moment you got a chance to, you showed what you are and are upto. Stupid.
Do you know who I am? You don’t have someone female back home? Look aged still.
The ears and eyes of all passengers got stung on her and her tirade. The poor man, who had been sitting and daydreaming looking outside, woke up to find this lady lampooning. And he felt something fishy in the whole affair, for the lady was lurking at him.
Are you taking on me, lady?
Who the hell had been sitting in this seat when I sat in it a moment ago?
See, madam, I have nothing to do with what you point at. Ask anyone in this bus what I did. I didn’t even notice you shared this seat. I was really slumbering.
No, you stop it. I know you well. Why you? I know you folk very well. You’d sit like sleeping and slumbering, and would send your insensitive parts prying at the privates and properties of ladies. This is what you are all traveling for in these crowded buses.
Barring a few passengers’ suppressed reactions and not-so-surprised looks, there was nothing seemed to be happening. But I could not but go to the details of that lady. Because her wordings on her experience sounded calculated.
She was not that attractive. Nor was she advanceable behaviourally. The way she cut a figure inside the bus was a little short of an ordinary passenger. I thought. I had been looking at her face and expressions right from the stop she got in. And she was also seeing me. She gave me nothing as to mark her differently, barring her smiling at a carry bag, though. But this scene? Reprimanding a man of 40 plus years for nothing noticeable sounded to be a little extra-ordinary to me. I even went into checking whether she was normal. The bus had covered a lot by this time; but she seemed going straight with what she had been doing, vomiting her imaginary problem and indignation at that man of her choice. Was she making an imaginary case? I was in the dark.
Wasn’t she finding a little comfort by posing that she is, though that well-built and not-that-womanly-looked, capable of inviting the prying hands and ogles of middle aged men? Was she not telling me too that it was not that easy to be a woman among these skin-sucking men? Were these passengers not giving her the impression that she was not worth pursuing? Had she been harassed? Or Had she had a hand in this affair? My investigative faculty went out looking for clues.
Is it not psychological to be behaving like a woman inaccessible to all and sundry; all the while cutting and presenting herself to be exactly so accessible and thereby finding an auto-contact-remedial-mechanism being implemented willfully so as to become what she actually wanted herself to become; and virtually unable to be; and all the while remaining to be one and only one who knows about that inability much more than anyone else? Was she indulging herself a little by exposing herself as one who is not worth shunning?
I had got storm-brained by my own brain when the bus was about to reach its destination. And she wanted the bus stopped. While she was leaving the bus, someone was throwing a comment.
Ei, take this too with you. She is short of one like you, it seems.
I was really unlucky that I missed the rejoinder for this statement.
She walked down the bus and after responding to it. One can imagine how would she have responded to that comment. She had been responding so vociferously to no comments at all.
And then one passenger said that she had been working at Trivandrum and been traveling everyday in this route; and none of her day was different from what she had us all to have it today. She is not normal.
Really? Not normal? I came to know it with a shock. For, I had been observing her for long; her going animated with an inanimate carry bag; her standing among men; her cutting so-confident-a-figure; her sitting and not sitting when there were seats innumerable and so on. What if she took on me? It sent tremors down me.
The rest of the journey was hilarious; everyone was making this or that comment on the misfortune of that lady; a fellow being; a better half of someone; a counterpart; a mother of a few children; a good neighbour of a locale; a part of the society; a member of a workforce; a citizen; a voter obviously; a home manager and a breadwinner. And many more was she, I knew.
I felt sad. I felt disturbed. I felt my normal composure abnormal; for these so-called normals were all behaving really abnormally when they got an unfortunate being at hand. Are we, the normal, including me, really normal? Is she not better than many of us; for she has no intentions vile and vilifying?
When are we going to be normal men and women? A question easier asked than answered. “It’s fun; someone’s misfortune”. It’s commented; and I got a little relief, for I had wanted to reiterate that comment; or did I do it in between? I know not. For, I haven’t been normal since then. May God help her!
End of the text
Symbol of all aesthetics
06/02/2004
“Man on the Moon” was the banner heading that day and I was hardly 5 years old and my impression about moon was nothing different from Ambilimaaman (uncle moon) and his mysterious ways, which were being transported to us through our elders of old who had a rare flair for keeping kids quiet and calm by showing us this golden platter that went the way of all that was mobile, wading through patches and haystacks of frozen cloud; the show of which used to cut in our minds an impression of this ethereal personae sitting bowed on the back of that tusker of the highs and moving with his head waving majestically as if the elephant that was carrying this Ambili is smaller than the Ambilimaman; who in turn is being requested by us children to bring a few things on his way back from the highs; the unbroken crystal bangles found in the hands of that coy damsel who sits in the aerial mansion; and just for that we children simply went quiet and obedient; and onto such a personified moon did man go?
Yes, man went to moon, hoisted a flag up there, made somersaults and went up and down weightless, took pictures and things many that I still do not believe (there is a school that they believe that the moon mission was a make-believe catering to the American Ego, and man never went to moon); facts at times are more difficult to be digested than fiction, I feel.
What all creations we have had of this moon who is capable of deciding the destinies of the ones down; it creates and controls tides-both spring and neap- (we are taught), fluctuates the moods of the mentally challenged, dictates terms and conditions to the farmers; even the seasons take their moods and make in tune with the shape and show of this particular star of heaven; who was God to us; playmate; one with whom we went places during night; the brightest and coolest of all lights; a canoe up on the move, a dish of gold; a vehicle of those gods; the sign of strength and weakness; symbol of all aesthetics; light of all beautiful shadows; and for us children he has been a being capable of becoming whatever incarnations we wanted him to take up to satisfy our wild selves and their adventurous musings spiced up by the back up of those stories and myths we ourselves had got acquainted with by our grandmothers and elders, the main recreation for them those days was not to keep us children story-told, rather they wanted to do this or that as part of their daily life; and the same wanted them to keep us somehow settled out in the open, no matter whether it is day or night; and if the latter is moony, great, that there are stories galore all the while; stories of some mystery they seemed to have born with so as to make children of all worlds enthused by the ways of his coming, taking shape, going, and giving shapes to the very shape of their minds; the storehouse of mischief and monkey-business the children all over the worlds are still famous for and the parents all over the world are not at all fed up with. It is great to be ‘moonmooning’.
Once I was told by my father that the shades, patches and shallow places that we see on the surface of the moon were the aberrations that the chariots of Gods inflicted on it while they got engaged in holy wars waged to settle disputes of the contenders of various powers. And the lunar eclipse was the climax of one such battle fought between the forces of the heavens, the resumes of them are still Greek to me; and I have never tried to go into the details of the job descriptions, profiles and portfolios of these Gods and their retinues.
It is this wary attitude towards the ways of Gods and the inherent interest in finding this Kindest of all stars in human proportion that makes me still-in this age- not to believe that 35-year-old headline, Man on the Moon. If ever man lands on one moon, it is not going to be on the moon we children know, no matter how old we are, no matter how reasonable the explanations are and the details yet another headline of this magnitude is going to bring, no matter when. Moon is of children as he has always been. Words. 765.
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06/02/2004
“Man on the Moon” was the banner heading that day and I was hardly 5 years old and my impression about moon was nothing different from Ambilimaaman (uncle moon) and his mysterious ways, which were being transported to us through our elders of old who had a rare flair for keeping kids quiet and calm by showing us this golden platter that went the way of all that was mobile, wading through patches and haystacks of frozen cloud; the show of which used to cut in our minds an impression of this ethereal personae sitting bowed on the back of that tusker of the highs and moving with his head waving majestically as if the elephant that was carrying this Ambili is smaller than the Ambilimaman; who in turn is being requested by us children to bring a few things on his way back from the highs; the unbroken crystal bangles found in the hands of that coy damsel who sits in the aerial mansion; and just for that we children simply went quiet and obedient; and onto such a personified moon did man go?
Yes, man went to moon, hoisted a flag up there, made somersaults and went up and down weightless, took pictures and things many that I still do not believe (there is a school that they believe that the moon mission was a make-believe catering to the American Ego, and man never went to moon); facts at times are more difficult to be digested than fiction, I feel.
What all creations we have had of this moon who is capable of deciding the destinies of the ones down; it creates and controls tides-both spring and neap- (we are taught), fluctuates the moods of the mentally challenged, dictates terms and conditions to the farmers; even the seasons take their moods and make in tune with the shape and show of this particular star of heaven; who was God to us; playmate; one with whom we went places during night; the brightest and coolest of all lights; a canoe up on the move, a dish of gold; a vehicle of those gods; the sign of strength and weakness; symbol of all aesthetics; light of all beautiful shadows; and for us children he has been a being capable of becoming whatever incarnations we wanted him to take up to satisfy our wild selves and their adventurous musings spiced up by the back up of those stories and myths we ourselves had got acquainted with by our grandmothers and elders, the main recreation for them those days was not to keep us children story-told, rather they wanted to do this or that as part of their daily life; and the same wanted them to keep us somehow settled out in the open, no matter whether it is day or night; and if the latter is moony, great, that there are stories galore all the while; stories of some mystery they seemed to have born with so as to make children of all worlds enthused by the ways of his coming, taking shape, going, and giving shapes to the very shape of their minds; the storehouse of mischief and monkey-business the children all over the worlds are still famous for and the parents all over the world are not at all fed up with. It is great to be ‘moonmooning’.
Once I was told by my father that the shades, patches and shallow places that we see on the surface of the moon were the aberrations that the chariots of Gods inflicted on it while they got engaged in holy wars waged to settle disputes of the contenders of various powers. And the lunar eclipse was the climax of one such battle fought between the forces of the heavens, the resumes of them are still Greek to me; and I have never tried to go into the details of the job descriptions, profiles and portfolios of these Gods and their retinues.
It is this wary attitude towards the ways of Gods and the inherent interest in finding this Kindest of all stars in human proportion that makes me still-in this age- not to believe that 35-year-old headline, Man on the Moon. If ever man lands on one moon, it is not going to be on the moon we children know, no matter how old we are, no matter how reasonable the explanations are and the details yet another headline of this magnitude is going to bring, no matter when. Moon is of children as he has always been. Words. 765.
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Letters five
1.
You have had several bad experiences from your cable provider: and your requests for remedy remain unanswered.
Write a letter to the service provided stating this, and warning him that you are going to snap the connection unless the problem is addressed immediately.
You may write:
Poor cable connectivity: Registering complaint
Dear service provider,
2.
You have plans to visit a distant place of which you have no idea. Write a letter to your friend who you met in your schooldays, and request him to help you out in your trip.
Begin like
Dear friend,
3.
Imagine that you are a member of an environmental organization. Write a letter to GREEN, the global environmental organization seeking certification for your small organization. You may include details like, history, activities, major achieve- ments etc.
You may begin like
The CEO, GREEN India chapter
Sir,
4.
Of late, you understand that many small children are turning towards unhealthy habits. Write a letter to the health authorities, citing a few examples of such cases, and requesting the ministry to run an urgent awareness campaign on health hazards of bad habits.
Begin the letter
Hon: Minister,
1.
You have had several bad experiences from your cable provider: and your requests for remedy remain unanswered.
Write a letter to the service provided stating this, and warning him that you are going to snap the connection unless the problem is addressed immediately.
You may write:
Poor cable connectivity: Registering complaint
Dear service provider,
2.
You have plans to visit a distant place of which you have no idea. Write a letter to your friend who you met in your schooldays, and request him to help you out in your trip.
Begin like
Dear friend,
3.
Imagine that you are a member of an environmental organization. Write a letter to GREEN, the global environmental organization seeking certification for your small organization. You may include details like, history, activities, major achieve- ments etc.
You may begin like
The CEO, GREEN India chapter
Sir,
4.
Of late, you understand that many small children are turning towards unhealthy habits. Write a letter to the health authorities, citing a few examples of such cases, and requesting the ministry to run an urgent awareness campaign on health hazards of bad habits.
Begin the letter
Hon: Minister,
Dear friend,
Letter 2
How are you doing? Do you remember me? I am your old friend Carl writing from far end of this world. How are things up there Carl?
Carl, this letter is to make a rain check if it would be possible for you spare me a little effort in connection with my trip to your place where I happen to have an interview in the second week of next month.
Since your place is absolutely alien to me, It would be a great help if you could brief of the place I am going to be. By the way please not that I am traveling alone and I have to return on that day itself.
Kindly arrange in such a way that you meet at the nearest railhead and take me to a decent hotel, and, of course, you could direct me to the office I am supposed to be in for the interview. I will be traveling by Island express on 15/12/010, and the arrival time at your station is 8 am the following day.
I hope you wouldn’t mind my request for this favour.
Bye, see you soon.
With kind regards
Jay carry
Letter 3
Sir,
Let me introduce myself first. I am the secretary to our local environment club called ALL-IS-WELL This club is going to celebrate its third anniversary this month and we would like to make it a great event wit a lot of action.
As part of the same we would like to get our club certified an environmental organization of global repute. We are aware that the India chapter of GREEN is the right certifying authority, and it is great ambition that a representative of GREEN visits our club and evaluate the activities we are engaged in.
We have been actively engaged in several awareness campaigns, education programmes and road-shows on a regular basis. I am proud to record here that our club has been adjudged the best by the State Ministry for Environment. Needless to say, our club has come of age to be certified by an international authority.
Therefore, as Secretary to the club and I am honoured to have written this letter of invitation requesting you to certify our Club. Please do make it. Our address, contact numbers and route map are attached.
Looking forward to meeting you in person
With regards
For
ALL IS WELL
Secretary
Hon: Minister,
Let me introduce myself. My name is Radson Ray, a resident of a busy township in the state of Rambo.
I am writing this letter inform you of a very serious social problem that, I am afraid, is going to grip the youth of our place sooner than later.
Of late, children and youth of this township are turning towards unhealthy practices like drinking and smoking. This has been going on for some time. For example, now it has come to a disturbing stage that they have a hang out downtown where they can avail all types of habit forming substances. I am sorry to say the local police are unable to do anything against it.
You would agree that it is a dangerous development. Therefore, I request you to take immediate measures to run an awareness campaign aimed at the youth of the place. This may be held at schools, public places and through the media too.
I strongly believe that education is the best way out. Please do the needful.
Looking forward to hearing from you positively at the earliest.
Faithfully,
S/d.
Letter 2
How are you doing? Do you remember me? I am your old friend Carl writing from far end of this world. How are things up there Carl?
Carl, this letter is to make a rain check if it would be possible for you spare me a little effort in connection with my trip to your place where I happen to have an interview in the second week of next month.
Since your place is absolutely alien to me, It would be a great help if you could brief of the place I am going to be. By the way please not that I am traveling alone and I have to return on that day itself.
Kindly arrange in such a way that you meet at the nearest railhead and take me to a decent hotel, and, of course, you could direct me to the office I am supposed to be in for the interview. I will be traveling by Island express on 15/12/010, and the arrival time at your station is 8 am the following day.
I hope you wouldn’t mind my request for this favour.
Bye, see you soon.
With kind regards
Jay carry
Letter 3
Sir,
Let me introduce myself first. I am the secretary to our local environment club called ALL-IS-WELL This club is going to celebrate its third anniversary this month and we would like to make it a great event wit a lot of action.
As part of the same we would like to get our club certified an environmental organization of global repute. We are aware that the India chapter of GREEN is the right certifying authority, and it is great ambition that a representative of GREEN visits our club and evaluate the activities we are engaged in.
We have been actively engaged in several awareness campaigns, education programmes and road-shows on a regular basis. I am proud to record here that our club has been adjudged the best by the State Ministry for Environment. Needless to say, our club has come of age to be certified by an international authority.
Therefore, as Secretary to the club and I am honoured to have written this letter of invitation requesting you to certify our Club. Please do make it. Our address, contact numbers and route map are attached.
Looking forward to meeting you in person
With regards
For
ALL IS WELL
Secretary
Hon: Minister,
Let me introduce myself. My name is Radson Ray, a resident of a busy township in the state of Rambo.
I am writing this letter inform you of a very serious social problem that, I am afraid, is going to grip the youth of our place sooner than later.
Of late, children and youth of this township are turning towards unhealthy practices like drinking and smoking. This has been going on for some time. For example, now it has come to a disturbing stage that they have a hang out downtown where they can avail all types of habit forming substances. I am sorry to say the local police are unable to do anything against it.
You would agree that it is a dangerous development. Therefore, I request you to take immediate measures to run an awareness campaign aimed at the youth of the place. This may be held at schools, public places and through the media too.
I strongly believe that education is the best way out. Please do the needful.
Looking forward to hearing from you positively at the earliest.
Faithfully,
S/d.
Five questions: 07/12/010 ajaypeesdoc
1.
It is generally expected of parents that they should keep their children away from the clutches of hazardous habits and physical abuses. However, in today’s world of free access and limitless possibilities, parents can hardly do anything about it.
• How far do you agree or disagree with this?
2.
It is generally argued that children pick up bad habits and tendencies because they are influenced more by several external forces than by their immediate family ambience.
• How is this situation getting reflected in your place?
3.
The respect quotient that exists between parents and children is determined more by a sense of freedom than by controls of any dimensions.
• How far do you agree or disagree with this?
4.
Some people believe that intelligent controls determine the respect quotient that exists between parents and children, whereas some others are of the view that it is enough freedom that does the job.
• Which view do you support and state why?
5.
There is an argument that it is children who suffer the worst of changes: both social and cultural.
• How far do you agree or disagree with this?
Ajaypeesdoc.7.12.010
1.
It is generally expected of parents that they should keep their children away from the clutches of hazardous habits and physical abuses. However, in today’s world of free access and limitless possibilities, parents can hardly do anything about it.
• How far do you agree or disagree with this?
2.
It is generally argued that children pick up bad habits and tendencies because they are influenced more by several external forces than by their immediate family ambience.
• How is this situation getting reflected in your place?
3.
The respect quotient that exists between parents and children is determined more by a sense of freedom than by controls of any dimensions.
• How far do you agree or disagree with this?
4.
Some people believe that intelligent controls determine the respect quotient that exists between parents and children, whereas some others are of the view that it is enough freedom that does the job.
• Which view do you support and state why?
5.
There is an argument that it is children who suffer the worst of changes: both social and cultural.
• How far do you agree or disagree with this?
Ajaypeesdoc.7.12.010
Sunday, December 5, 2010
Letter one
I am a subscriber to your cable network and my number is 234.29988, located at Barbey lane, third block.
I am writing this to inform you that, of late, my cable connection gives me constant problems with regards to sound quality, picture clarity and regular airing of certain channels.
I have reported this case many times by telephone, and a few of days back, I met one of your service engineers and told him of this persistent problem. Though he had promised me immediate repairs within a day or so, I have not received any kind of attention from your side.
So I am forced to record here that, unless I get my cable fixed within 24 hours, I would be forced to withdraw my subscription and go for a new service provider.
And please not that it would not be possible for me to pay the last bill of your subscription on account of your being poor in service.
Awaiting your immediate reply
Faithfully,
Subscriber # 234.29988
S/d
I am a subscriber to your cable network and my number is 234.29988, located at Barbey lane, third block.
I am writing this to inform you that, of late, my cable connection gives me constant problems with regards to sound quality, picture clarity and regular airing of certain channels.
I have reported this case many times by telephone, and a few of days back, I met one of your service engineers and told him of this persistent problem. Though he had promised me immediate repairs within a day or so, I have not received any kind of attention from your side.
So I am forced to record here that, unless I get my cable fixed within 24 hours, I would be forced to withdraw my subscription and go for a new service provider.
And please not that it would not be possible for me to pay the last bill of your subscription on account of your being poor in service.
Awaiting your immediate reply
Faithfully,
Subscriber # 234.29988
S/d
Letters five
1.
You have had several bad experiences from your cable provider: and your requests for remedy remain unanswered.
Write a letter to the service provided stating this, and warning him that you are going to snap the connection unless the problem is addressed immediately.
You may write:
Poor cable connectivity: Registering complaint
Dear service provider,
2.
You have plans to visit a distant place of which you have no idea. Write a letter to your friend who you met in your schooldays, and request him to help you out in your trip.
Begin like
Dear friend,
3.
Imagine that you are a member of an environmental organization. Write a letter to GREEN, the global environmental organization seeking certification for your small organization. You may include details like, history, activities, major achieve- ments etc.
You may begin like
The CEO, GREEN India chapter
Sir,
4.
Of late, you understand that many small children are turning towards unhealthy habits. Write a letter to the health authorities, citing a few examples of such cases, and requesting the ministry to run an urgent awareness campaign on health hazards of bad habits.
Begin the letter
Hon: Minister,
1.
You have had several bad experiences from your cable provider: and your requests for remedy remain unanswered.
Write a letter to the service provided stating this, and warning him that you are going to snap the connection unless the problem is addressed immediately.
You may write:
Poor cable connectivity: Registering complaint
Dear service provider,
2.
You have plans to visit a distant place of which you have no idea. Write a letter to your friend who you met in your schooldays, and request him to help you out in your trip.
Begin like
Dear friend,
3.
Imagine that you are a member of an environmental organization. Write a letter to GREEN, the global environmental organization seeking certification for your small organization. You may include details like, history, activities, major achieve- ments etc.
You may begin like
The CEO, GREEN India chapter
Sir,
4.
Of late, you understand that many small children are turning towards unhealthy habits. Write a letter to the health authorities, citing a few examples of such cases, and requesting the ministry to run an urgent awareness campaign on health hazards of bad habits.
Begin the letter
Hon: Minister,
Friday, December 3, 2010
Some people say globalization causes brain drain as developed nations increasingly exploit human resource from around the world, whereas some others say it leads to mutual global gains as the world is able to make better use of brains for the well being of the whole humanity.
Essay 070
• How do you look at these two view points?
Globalization is an international arrangement reached among nations of common interests for the benefit of all. But there is heated discussion on the views that rich nations are causing brain drain on the one hand, and on the other, it is an adjustment for mutual gains of all.
When it is looked at from a brain drain angle, it is an undeniable fact that many rich nations are making use of the brains from poor nations. For example, a great number of scientists working in the NASA and various research labs of the US are scientists from third world nations. The technological and financial superiority enjoyed by such rich nations is made possible greatly by human resources from the rest of the world. Though these resources are paid handsomely, intellectual property cannot be equated in terms of money.
On the other hand, it is also indisputable that great amount of human resources is being wasted in poor nations for want of opportunities. For them, today’s concept of global village comes handy and many of them find great chances for employing their intellectual properties and expertise elsewhere. Of course, their contributions to the rich economies are likely to percolate to other parts of the world. For example, mutual transfers of know-hows. So exploiting brains, wherever they are from, is a better proposition than under-utilizing or not utilizing them at all.
So it is right to conclude that globalization offers both opportunities and inconveniences. But, if the member nations could exploit the opportunities for the betterment of the whole world, a few inconveniences could be sorted out. So it is a win-win for all.
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Ajaypeesdoc
Essay 070
• How do you look at these two view points?
Globalization is an international arrangement reached among nations of common interests for the benefit of all. But there is heated discussion on the views that rich nations are causing brain drain on the one hand, and on the other, it is an adjustment for mutual gains of all.
When it is looked at from a brain drain angle, it is an undeniable fact that many rich nations are making use of the brains from poor nations. For example, a great number of scientists working in the NASA and various research labs of the US are scientists from third world nations. The technological and financial superiority enjoyed by such rich nations is made possible greatly by human resources from the rest of the world. Though these resources are paid handsomely, intellectual property cannot be equated in terms of money.
On the other hand, it is also indisputable that great amount of human resources is being wasted in poor nations for want of opportunities. For them, today’s concept of global village comes handy and many of them find great chances for employing their intellectual properties and expertise elsewhere. Of course, their contributions to the rich economies are likely to percolate to other parts of the world. For example, mutual transfers of know-hows. So exploiting brains, wherever they are from, is a better proposition than under-utilizing or not utilizing them at all.
So it is right to conclude that globalization offers both opportunities and inconveniences. But, if the member nations could exploit the opportunities for the betterment of the whole world, a few inconveniences could be sorted out. So it is a win-win for all.
285 words
Ajaypeesdoc
Many developing nations have been able to convert what social scientists call brain drain to brain gain over the years.
How far do you support this view point?
I agree with your views on Brain drain into Brain gain Dr.Manmohan Singhji. The problem of brain drain may be tacked in three different ways
1. Reversing the brain drain
2. Making use of our scientists while they are abroad
3. By controlling and regulating the migration of our scientists going abroad.
Reversing the brain drain
In countries like USA the position is becoming increasingly difficult for Indians to get employment or retain the existing position. The time is therefore opportune for bringing back the Indian scientists. It is not as though India could afford to bring back every Indian but at least where there are well defined and relevant national tasks we should attempt to bring the scientists where their talents and training could be matched with the tasks.
But before we do that it is good to understand the psychology of our scientists abroad. It is not that the Indians abroad do not want to come back to our country in fact quite a few with a brilliant record have returned with special skills and experience which have been put to good use. But some come back and also left disillusioned. Why is this. They say it is not the lack of comfort or salaries that drive them away but it is the environment lacking in challenging opportunities lacking in the required degree of flexibility freedom, flow of thought that suffocates them. There is also lack of proper system for ready recognition and rewarding of merit. What is called for then is a change in our approach a change in our vertical hierarchical system of management and a change in environment that would permit bringing the best of our men.
Measures to encourage the reverse
Given the change of attitude in our research agencies we should do the following to get back our scientists:
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research CSIR maintains a Live Register of every scientist abroad with full details of his special skills training etc. This has to be continuously updated.
Specific agencies and Indian embassies may keep the Indian scientists abroad acquainted with the latest developments in science in India and also the varied avenues of employment potential.
Measures to derive advantage from those who settled abroad
The second question is how to take advantage of our scientis while they are still abroad.
The educational technical and research agencies may invite the Indian scientists like any other foreign visitors as Visiting Scientists for short periods and while they are in India they may be treated as guests of the laboratories and local expenses paid for.
Indian scientists coming home on leave who are specialists in relevant fields are also welcomed to spend a few weeks or months in an appropriate national laboratory as our guests. In special cases they may be paid for their travel expenses or sponsored under the scientists exchange programme.
Similarly the industry may consider inviting technologists and engineers as consultants for short periods.
Once the Scientist works as a visiting professor or scientist he develops affinity to local institute keeps in constant touch with it and feeds it with the latest advances in the subject as well as arranges to supply specialty chemicals equipment spare parts etc.
Regulate the outflow of Scientists
In a democratic system control of mobility is not acceptable. Further for a young scientist going abroad means a period of adventure and expending his horizon which in turn, has its own advantages. However in countries like Japan the scientists do go abroad but come back because the conditions at home are made conducive to their quick return. It is here we have to look into. Relationship between human resources and behavior of economies may be moulded by social system and the pattern of education. The pattern of education as obtained in India today is not relevant to the countrys needs.
By Dr.A.Jagadeesh Nellore AP SILICONINDIADOT COM
How far do you support this view point?
I agree with your views on Brain drain into Brain gain Dr.Manmohan Singhji. The problem of brain drain may be tacked in three different ways
1. Reversing the brain drain
2. Making use of our scientists while they are abroad
3. By controlling and regulating the migration of our scientists going abroad.
Reversing the brain drain
In countries like USA the position is becoming increasingly difficult for Indians to get employment or retain the existing position. The time is therefore opportune for bringing back the Indian scientists. It is not as though India could afford to bring back every Indian but at least where there are well defined and relevant national tasks we should attempt to bring the scientists where their talents and training could be matched with the tasks.
But before we do that it is good to understand the psychology of our scientists abroad. It is not that the Indians abroad do not want to come back to our country in fact quite a few with a brilliant record have returned with special skills and experience which have been put to good use. But some come back and also left disillusioned. Why is this. They say it is not the lack of comfort or salaries that drive them away but it is the environment lacking in challenging opportunities lacking in the required degree of flexibility freedom, flow of thought that suffocates them. There is also lack of proper system for ready recognition and rewarding of merit. What is called for then is a change in our approach a change in our vertical hierarchical system of management and a change in environment that would permit bringing the best of our men.
Measures to encourage the reverse
Given the change of attitude in our research agencies we should do the following to get back our scientists:
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research CSIR maintains a Live Register of every scientist abroad with full details of his special skills training etc. This has to be continuously updated.
Specific agencies and Indian embassies may keep the Indian scientists abroad acquainted with the latest developments in science in India and also the varied avenues of employment potential.
Measures to derive advantage from those who settled abroad
The second question is how to take advantage of our scientis while they are still abroad.
The educational technical and research agencies may invite the Indian scientists like any other foreign visitors as Visiting Scientists for short periods and while they are in India they may be treated as guests of the laboratories and local expenses paid for.
Indian scientists coming home on leave who are specialists in relevant fields are also welcomed to spend a few weeks or months in an appropriate national laboratory as our guests. In special cases they may be paid for their travel expenses or sponsored under the scientists exchange programme.
Similarly the industry may consider inviting technologists and engineers as consultants for short periods.
Once the Scientist works as a visiting professor or scientist he develops affinity to local institute keeps in constant touch with it and feeds it with the latest advances in the subject as well as arranges to supply specialty chemicals equipment spare parts etc.
Regulate the outflow of Scientists
In a democratic system control of mobility is not acceptable. Further for a young scientist going abroad means a period of adventure and expending his horizon which in turn, has its own advantages. However in countries like Japan the scientists do go abroad but come back because the conditions at home are made conducive to their quick return. It is here we have to look into. Relationship between human resources and behavior of economies may be moulded by social system and the pattern of education. The pattern of education as obtained in India today is not relevant to the countrys needs.
By Dr.A.Jagadeesh Nellore AP SILICONINDIADOT COM
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
The ever increasing digital density among children and teenagers is a ploy of market forces aimed at catching them young and thereby making them slaves of technology.
Essay 008
• How far can you support this view?
The mounting digital density among children and teens is a natural development. From a business a point of view, it is a ploy employed to catch children young. However, keeping them slaves of technology for ever, in my opinion, is a matter of choice, for man is intelligent enough not to be so.
To begin with, digital service providers face tough competition in the market. The pressure they face is so acute that they cannot do without pushing in their products and services among the younger ones of the market. They are the market tomorrow, and keeping them hooked to technology is of course a market trick. However, we cannot be blind to the fact that the world is going digital every moment. Being part of such a world demands one to be ‘digitaliterate’, let me coin a word.
When it comes to children becoming slaves of digital revolution, my personal opinion is that it is an exaggeration. Yes, children are vulnerable to the lures of technology and they are going to get glued to it. But when children grow up into men and women, they would have the common sense to decide on whether to be a slave of technology or the other way round. Digital density is the order of the day, and it is a welcome development. However, the business aspect of this revolution cannot be done away with.
In short, what we need is an intelligent bridging, especially when some parts of the world remain worried about digital divide. I think digital reach among children would do much towards such a bridging all the market ploys notwithstanding.
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Essay 008
• How far can you support this view?
The mounting digital density among children and teens is a natural development. From a business a point of view, it is a ploy employed to catch children young. However, keeping them slaves of technology for ever, in my opinion, is a matter of choice, for man is intelligent enough not to be so.
To begin with, digital service providers face tough competition in the market. The pressure they face is so acute that they cannot do without pushing in their products and services among the younger ones of the market. They are the market tomorrow, and keeping them hooked to technology is of course a market trick. However, we cannot be blind to the fact that the world is going digital every moment. Being part of such a world demands one to be ‘digitaliterate’, let me coin a word.
When it comes to children becoming slaves of digital revolution, my personal opinion is that it is an exaggeration. Yes, children are vulnerable to the lures of technology and they are going to get glued to it. But when children grow up into men and women, they would have the common sense to decide on whether to be a slave of technology or the other way round. Digital density is the order of the day, and it is a welcome development. However, the business aspect of this revolution cannot be done away with.
In short, what we need is an intelligent bridging, especially when some parts of the world remain worried about digital divide. I think digital reach among children would do much towards such a bridging all the market ploys notwithstanding.
270 words
Ajaypeesdoc
Monday, November 29, 2010
Many environmentalists are of the opinion that, if man goes on exploiting the environment the way he does these days, there is going to be what they call ‘ecological overshoot’ (an imbalance between resources being made use of and resources being made available by the Planet) much sooner than later.
• How dangerous is to be facing ecological overshoot?
• How what suggestions can you have so that this environmental threat can be offset?
It is written by Mr. Jacob, one of my students. a 7 plus band write up.
Ecological overshoot is indeed an issue of great concern. It is the need of the hour that we put our heads together to identify a few measures to combat it. This write-up is an attempt to see how dangerous the scene is, and identify a few measures to keep a check on such a scenario. 54
The day humans happen to run out of resources will be a dooms day for sure. It would not be too long that these resources come to an end. A recent study shows that the world’s oil reserves are on the decline faster than ever. And with the stroke of the next century, these reserves would dry up. Obviously, this world would come to a grinding halt. If this is the case just with oil, we can imagine how dangerous it is going to be when other life-saving resources come this state of affairs. 94
However grave the issue looks, a few simple steps can ensure that there is not going to be any 'ecological overshoot'. Using less fuel can go a long way in this respect. This can be achieved by encouraging people to use more of public transport. Besides this, making the masses more aware of this sooner-than-later crisis will keep the world in good stead. Another positive step would be the use of non-conventional sources such as solar, wind, tidal, geothermal etc. Above all, attitude of people towards energy waste also has to be changed. 93
To sum up, 'ecological overshoot' is one of the challenges faced by mankind today. And, if it is not dealt with well, it can have a huge toll on the very existence of humans. But, concerted efforts from all quarters I am sure, can overcome it. It is entirely up to us humans. 53
• How dangerous is to be facing ecological overshoot?
• How what suggestions can you have so that this environmental threat can be offset?
It is written by Mr. Jacob, one of my students. a 7 plus band write up.
Ecological overshoot is indeed an issue of great concern. It is the need of the hour that we put our heads together to identify a few measures to combat it. This write-up is an attempt to see how dangerous the scene is, and identify a few measures to keep a check on such a scenario. 54
The day humans happen to run out of resources will be a dooms day for sure. It would not be too long that these resources come to an end. A recent study shows that the world’s oil reserves are on the decline faster than ever. And with the stroke of the next century, these reserves would dry up. Obviously, this world would come to a grinding halt. If this is the case just with oil, we can imagine how dangerous it is going to be when other life-saving resources come this state of affairs. 94
However grave the issue looks, a few simple steps can ensure that there is not going to be any 'ecological overshoot'. Using less fuel can go a long way in this respect. This can be achieved by encouraging people to use more of public transport. Besides this, making the masses more aware of this sooner-than-later crisis will keep the world in good stead. Another positive step would be the use of non-conventional sources such as solar, wind, tidal, geothermal etc. Above all, attitude of people towards energy waste also has to be changed. 93
To sum up, 'ecological overshoot' is one of the challenges faced by mankind today. And, if it is not dealt with well, it can have a huge toll on the very existence of humans. But, concerted efforts from all quarters I am sure, can overcome it. It is entirely up to us humans. 53
Thursday, November 25, 2010
Five questions on environment management
1.
Many environmentalists are of the opinion that, if man goes on exploiting the environment the way he does these days, there is going to be what they call ‘ecological overshoot’ (an imbalance between resources being made use of and resources being made available by the Planet) much sooner than later.
• How dangerous is to be facing ecological overshoot?
• How what suggestions can you have so that this environmental threat can be offset?
2.
Though the need for the three Rs: reduce, reuse and recycle, is increasingly felt today much more than ever, some people believe that this cannot solve the problems caused by today’s human actions and the resultant environmental problems whereas there are some others who take it the other way round.
• How do you look at these two view points, and put in what you feel about three Rs?
3.
There is a view that a clean environment is possible only if people in general take it as a personal responsibility.
• How far do you agree or disagree with this view?
4.
There is an argument that individuals who are rich enough to buy as much energy as they want should not be allowed to do so because energy is in extreme short supply.
• How far do you agree or disagree with this?
5.
Mismanaging energy should be taken as a crime against humanity and energy conscious industries and individuals need to be given incentives to keep their spirit up.
• Comment on this idea.
Ajaypeesdoc. 26.11.010
1.
Many environmentalists are of the opinion that, if man goes on exploiting the environment the way he does these days, there is going to be what they call ‘ecological overshoot’ (an imbalance between resources being made use of and resources being made available by the Planet) much sooner than later.
• How dangerous is to be facing ecological overshoot?
• How what suggestions can you have so that this environmental threat can be offset?
2.
Though the need for the three Rs: reduce, reuse and recycle, is increasingly felt today much more than ever, some people believe that this cannot solve the problems caused by today’s human actions and the resultant environmental problems whereas there are some others who take it the other way round.
• How do you look at these two view points, and put in what you feel about three Rs?
3.
There is a view that a clean environment is possible only if people in general take it as a personal responsibility.
• How far do you agree or disagree with this view?
4.
There is an argument that individuals who are rich enough to buy as much energy as they want should not be allowed to do so because energy is in extreme short supply.
• How far do you agree or disagree with this?
5.
Mismanaging energy should be taken as a crime against humanity and energy conscious industries and individuals need to be given incentives to keep their spirit up.
• Comment on this idea.
Ajaypeesdoc. 26.11.010
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
There is a view that doctors, medical scientists and diagnostic experts who are in the life saving streams of medical sector should be allowed to continue in their service as long as they are able to continue.
How far do you agree or disagree with this view?
Should some professionals be given extension on retirement age depending on the nature of their service to the community? Though opinions differ, I for one am of the opinion that some professionals in the medical fraternity may be allowed to continue as long as they can.
My primary argument favouring this idea is that brilliant doctors and scientist, who are in the best of their service, are forced to move out of their regular career thanks to uniform retirement age limit. If these professionals are allowed to be in harness, it would be a blessing for the whole humanity. Secondly, thanks to the developments in medical science itself, people there days are health even in their late 60s, especially medical professionals in their life saving area. They need to be exploited for the well being of whole humanity.
However, there should be an excellent screening mechanism to ensure that only the reserving professionals stay back. This may be on the basis of how crucial their medical fields are, the seriousness of research and diagnosis they do and their health status, to mention a few. If this is not taken care of, this provision may backfire when all and sundry may manage themselves to be in service for ages. This would do more harm than good by depriving the young professionals of their due right to serve the community.
The above findings make me conclude that it is a good idea to support the view that life saving professionals need to remain in service ever after their due retirement age. However, the parameters that govern such a system must be foolproof by all means.
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How far do you agree or disagree with this view?
Should some professionals be given extension on retirement age depending on the nature of their service to the community? Though opinions differ, I for one am of the opinion that some professionals in the medical fraternity may be allowed to continue as long as they can.
My primary argument favouring this idea is that brilliant doctors and scientist, who are in the best of their service, are forced to move out of their regular career thanks to uniform retirement age limit. If these professionals are allowed to be in harness, it would be a blessing for the whole humanity. Secondly, thanks to the developments in medical science itself, people there days are health even in their late 60s, especially medical professionals in their life saving area. They need to be exploited for the well being of whole humanity.
However, there should be an excellent screening mechanism to ensure that only the reserving professionals stay back. This may be on the basis of how crucial their medical fields are, the seriousness of research and diagnosis they do and their health status, to mention a few. If this is not taken care of, this provision may backfire when all and sundry may manage themselves to be in service for ages. This would do more harm than good by depriving the young professionals of their due right to serve the community.
The above findings make me conclude that it is a good idea to support the view that life saving professionals need to remain in service ever after their due retirement age. However, the parameters that govern such a system must be foolproof by all means.
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Many reasons are attributed to unemployment in general. However, it is argued that digital divide and gender discrimination are the two formidable stumbling blocks on the way of what social scientist call ‘employable-employment’ balance.
Essay 035
To what extent do you agree or disagree with this view?
It is true that there is imbalance in the number of employable people and the available opportunities. But this dichotomy, in my opinion, could not be attributed greatly to digital or gender divide. Since they are a force to reckon with, it looks hard for me to fully disagree with the view anyway.
Let us look at the common factors that go into what our social scientists call employable-employment imbalance. Primarily it is the size of the population. For example when the number of people who get employable and the number of employment created differ, obviously, there will be unemployment. Secondly, poor quality education, weaker national status, lack of industrialization, haphazard distribution of development between rural and urban areas and the like are the other factors that lead to this imbalance. I think all these reasons are as formidable as gender and digital divide.
For example, digital divide is depriving great number of people of their opportunities. But if we look at the statistics, we can see that digitally qualified people and the number employment created in the digital world do not go in line. That is, there is disparity too. So is the case with gender divide. For example, there is gender preference when private sector, the biggest employment provider, recruits people. Here too, those who suffer from this problem are negligibly small. And studies show that in many organization women outnumber men.
In short, gender and digital divide are two blocks, like any other impediment that stands on the way of employment employable balance. Therefore, it is difficult agree with the view that they are in any way formidable or whatever.
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Essay 035
To what extent do you agree or disagree with this view?
It is true that there is imbalance in the number of employable people and the available opportunities. But this dichotomy, in my opinion, could not be attributed greatly to digital or gender divide. Since they are a force to reckon with, it looks hard for me to fully disagree with the view anyway.
Let us look at the common factors that go into what our social scientists call employable-employment imbalance. Primarily it is the size of the population. For example when the number of people who get employable and the number of employment created differ, obviously, there will be unemployment. Secondly, poor quality education, weaker national status, lack of industrialization, haphazard distribution of development between rural and urban areas and the like are the other factors that lead to this imbalance. I think all these reasons are as formidable as gender and digital divide.
For example, digital divide is depriving great number of people of their opportunities. But if we look at the statistics, we can see that digitally qualified people and the number employment created in the digital world do not go in line. That is, there is disparity too. So is the case with gender divide. For example, there is gender preference when private sector, the biggest employment provider, recruits people. Here too, those who suffer from this problem are negligibly small. And studies show that in many organization women outnumber men.
In short, gender and digital divide are two blocks, like any other impediment that stands on the way of employment employable balance. Therefore, it is difficult agree with the view that they are in any way formidable or whatever.
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Monday, November 22, 2010
E. tutoring and e. learning is becoming increasingly popular all over the world. This virtual learning platform offers great advantages for tutors and learners alike.
Essay 099
· Do you think its advantages outweigh the disadvantages?
E. tutoring and E. learning are very common today. This is mainly due to the mounting popularity of the Internet as an interactive medium. Obviously, both tutors and learners reap benefits, and in my opinion, it offers enough advantages to outweigh the disadvantages.
Online tutoring and learning offers several advantages for both the parties involved. Primary advantage is that it works 24/7 and round the year. Tutors and students can benefit each other by way of interaction, education and value addition. Secondly, it is a virtual learning experience as tutors could be from different nations, and so could students be. It is a kind of exchange. Thirdly, this is a great employment provider. Educated, employed and even retirees could make use of their free time and earn a lot of money. It is a win-win for all in more ways than one.
There are certain disadvantages for E. education though. Firstly, it is the limited possibilities for tutor-leaner face-to-face. This may dampen the spirit of learning. Secondly, accountability factor may be absent because the authenticity or veracity of information imparted may not be reliable. This may harm students and their performance. Thirdly, we cannot rule out the inconveniences it is likely to cause with regard to geographical positioning of both the students and tutors. There could be a few more pitfalls anyway.
Looking at the positives of the concept, it may be concluded that negatives are not strong enough to counter the positives. It is all a matter of how we make use of it. What is there that does not have an unpleasant side? E. education is no exception.
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Essay 099
· Do you think its advantages outweigh the disadvantages?
E. tutoring and E. learning are very common today. This is mainly due to the mounting popularity of the Internet as an interactive medium. Obviously, both tutors and learners reap benefits, and in my opinion, it offers enough advantages to outweigh the disadvantages.
Online tutoring and learning offers several advantages for both the parties involved. Primary advantage is that it works 24/7 and round the year. Tutors and students can benefit each other by way of interaction, education and value addition. Secondly, it is a virtual learning experience as tutors could be from different nations, and so could students be. It is a kind of exchange. Thirdly, this is a great employment provider. Educated, employed and even retirees could make use of their free time and earn a lot of money. It is a win-win for all in more ways than one.
There are certain disadvantages for E. education though. Firstly, it is the limited possibilities for tutor-leaner face-to-face. This may dampen the spirit of learning. Secondly, accountability factor may be absent because the authenticity or veracity of information imparted may not be reliable. This may harm students and their performance. Thirdly, we cannot rule out the inconveniences it is likely to cause with regard to geographical positioning of both the students and tutors. There could be a few more pitfalls anyway.
Looking at the positives of the concept, it may be concluded that negatives are not strong enough to counter the positives. It is all a matter of how we make use of it. What is there that does not have an unpleasant side? E. education is no exception.
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Sunday, November 21, 2010
Five questions on education a jaypeesdoc. 22.11.010
1.
Open book examination as an evaluation method is getting popular all over the world though there are differing views on how effective such a system is.
How advantageous or disadvantageous is open book examination?
2.
Some students prefer to form small learning circles (small groups of four or five like-minded students who do the same course of study) prior to their exams in order to do well collectively whereas there are some others who like to go it alone.
How advantageous is it to be part of a learning circle?
Do you think doing it alone is a good idea?
3.
Conducting university examinations every year is much better than doing it in shorter intervals like quarterly and semester exams.
How far do you agree or disagree with this view?
4.
Some professional courses require students to do internships - as part of their curriculum for a stipulated period of time, - in working environments pertaining to their course
What advantages do students enjoy out of such an academic activity?
Why do big organizations allow students in for internship?
5
Many graduates find it convenient to follow distance education mode for their higher education.
Look at the merits and demerits of distance education?
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1.
Open book examination as an evaluation method is getting popular all over the world though there are differing views on how effective such a system is.
How advantageous or disadvantageous is open book examination?
2.
Some students prefer to form small learning circles (small groups of four or five like-minded students who do the same course of study) prior to their exams in order to do well collectively whereas there are some others who like to go it alone.
How advantageous is it to be part of a learning circle?
Do you think doing it alone is a good idea?
3.
Conducting university examinations every year is much better than doing it in shorter intervals like quarterly and semester exams.
How far do you agree or disagree with this view?
4.
Some professional courses require students to do internships - as part of their curriculum for a stipulated period of time, - in working environments pertaining to their course
What advantages do students enjoy out of such an academic activity?
Why do big organizations allow students in for internship?
5
Many graduates find it convenient to follow distance education mode for their higher education.
Look at the merits and demerits of distance education?
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Saturday, November 20, 2010
IELTS ACADEMIC READING TEST TUTORIAL
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The IELTS Academic Reading Test has 3 sections. You have 60 minutes to complete the test. There is NO extra time at the end of the test to transfer your answers to the answer paper (you get 10 extra minutes in the listening test only); your answers must be on the answer paper at the end of the 60 minutes. The test has 40 questions based on a series of 3 texts. The total length of all the texts put together will be between 2000 and 2750 words. As in all the different parts of IELTS, the Academic Reading Test gets progressively harder through the paper.
In each section of the Academic Reading Test there will be 1 text with 13 or maybe 14 questions to answer in 2 or 3 sets of differing formats. We will look at the types of question that you will meet later. The texts will come from magazines, books and journals and are written for general interest or for an academic though non-specialist reader. At least one text will contain a logical argument. One text may contain non-verbal materials such as a diagram, graph or illustration. If there are any words or terms of a specialist technical nature which candidates would not be expected to know, then a short glossary will be provided.
Marking
There are 40 questions in the IELTS Academic Reading Test and 1 mark is awarded for each correct answer. There are no half marks. Your final mark out of 40 is then converted to a band from 1 - 9 using a converting table and this band is then averaged with the other 3 parts of the test to give your final IELTS band. Band scores for the reading test and the final band are given as a whole band or a half band. The converting table used to change your mark out of 40 to the band out of 9 changes with every test. However, below you can see a rough guide that you can use to assess your practice. There is no guarantee that you will perform the same in the real test itself as the test converters vary with each test, but it can be a guide to your progress.
IELTS Academic Reading Test Marks, Bands and Results - Rough Guide Converter
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Band
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IELTS Academic Reading Test Question Types
Below is a list of the types of question that you could meet in the IELTS Academic Reading Test. It's useful to read the list of course, but the only way to really be familiar with the types of question is through practice. Click here to go to the Practice Page.
Multiple choice questions
Short answer questions
Completion questions: Completing sentences
Completing notes
Completing a summary (no word bank)
Completing a summary (with word bank)
Completing a diagram
Completing a flow chart
Completing a table
Matching a bank of headings to identify paragraphs or parts of text
Matching a bank of writers' views/claims/information with the writer
Identification of information in the text: yes/no/not given questions
true/false/not given questions
Matching lists/phrases
Classification questions
Some Tips for the IELTS Academic Reading Test
Don't spend too long on a single question as that will lose you time for answering questions that could be easier for you. Sometimes, leaving a question and coming back later can help you answer it, too. Leave any questions that you have spent too long on, and come back at the end of the test if you have time. Sometimes, if the question has a yes/no/not given answer, the answer you are looking for does not exist as it could be a not given. Be aware so you don't waste time looking for something that isn't there.
Read the questions and instructions so you don't make a silly mistake. For example, people often will mix the yes/no answers with the true/false answers and write yes as an answer instead of true or vice versa. Strictly speaking you are wrong although you have understood the question and answer.
If the question asks for one answer then give one answer. Giving two is wrong as it asks for one and you will be marked wrong. The type of question where this could happen would be: Give one example of... Writing two examples, to show you really understand, is wrong.
If the question asks for no more than 3 words, use no more than 3 words. Writing 4 words or more is wrong. You won't be asked to do it in 3 words or less unless it is possible. S so don't worry; it can always be done.
One area that students don't like is that, in the reading test, good grammar and spelling are important. The grammar part is not as important as you can't make many grammar errors in 3 words (the maximum you use in the reading test) but, if you spell something wrong, it will be marked as wrong. People think, quite rightly in my opinion, that the reading should test whether you understand what you read and not how you spell something but these are the rules. So, be careful about your spelling!
One constant question students ask is whether to read the questions first and then read the passage or read the passage first and then the questions. It depends on a number of variables. It can depend on the types of question and how difficult the questions are. It can depend on how good and fast a reader you are. It can depend on the length of the text and how much time you have. Let's look at these variables.
If the question type is difficult and asking something which is hard to answer then reading the text first can help. Just a quick read through using a technique called skimming can give you the knowledge of the text that will help you find the answer more easily. If you are a good, fast reader, then you can read the text quickly, getting good knowledge of the contents without using up too much precious time. This can help you answer the questions better.
If the texts are short then it doesn't take long to quickly read through them. On the other hand, if the texts are short it is easier to find the answers so you may not have to waste time reading the texts to find the answers quickly, especially if time is short.
If time is short then it doesn't matter how complex or long the texts are. You need to get some answers on the answer sheet as quickly as possible. So, you can see that there is not one answer to the problem of whether to read the texts or questions first. What I tell students is to experiment in your practice and see what suits you for the different types of question in different situations. As usual practising your techniques is the key.
Time management is an important thing to be aware of. You have a number of texts to read and 40 questions to answer in 1 hour. If you spend to long on one part, you may find that you have not enough time to finish all the questions and some of those questions could be ones that you could answer quite easily. Don't spend too long on a difficult answer but also keep an eye on the clock.
It's a good idea to have your watch or a small clock on your desk so you know exactly how long you have left in the test at any given time. In addition to this, keep control on how long you spend on each section. Remember the test gets more difficult as it goes on so you will probably need more time for the questions at the end than for those at the start.
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The IELTS Academic Reading Test has 3 sections. You have 60 minutes to complete the test. There is NO extra time at the end of the test to transfer your answers to the answer paper (you get 10 extra minutes in the listening test only); your answers must be on the answer paper at the end of the 60 minutes. The test has 40 questions based on a series of 3 texts. The total length of all the texts put together will be between 2000 and 2750 words. As in all the different parts of IELTS, the Academic Reading Test gets progressively harder through the paper.
In each section of the Academic Reading Test there will be 1 text with 13 or maybe 14 questions to answer in 2 or 3 sets of differing formats. We will look at the types of question that you will meet later. The texts will come from magazines, books and journals and are written for general interest or for an academic though non-specialist reader. At least one text will contain a logical argument. One text may contain non-verbal materials such as a diagram, graph or illustration. If there are any words or terms of a specialist technical nature which candidates would not be expected to know, then a short glossary will be provided.
Marking
There are 40 questions in the IELTS Academic Reading Test and 1 mark is awarded for each correct answer. There are no half marks. Your final mark out of 40 is then converted to a band from 1 - 9 using a converting table and this band is then averaged with the other 3 parts of the test to give your final IELTS band. Band scores for the reading test and the final band are given as a whole band or a half band. The converting table used to change your mark out of 40 to the band out of 9 changes with every test. However, below you can see a rough guide that you can use to assess your practice. There is no guarantee that you will perform the same in the real test itself as the test converters vary with each test, but it can be a guide to your progress.
IELTS Academic Reading Test Marks, Bands and Results - Rough Guide Converter
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IELTS Academic Reading Test Question Types
Below is a list of the types of question that you could meet in the IELTS Academic Reading Test. It's useful to read the list of course, but the only way to really be familiar with the types of question is through practice. Click here to go to the Practice Page.
Multiple choice questions
Short answer questions
Completion questions: Completing sentences
Completing notes
Completing a summary (no word bank)
Completing a summary (with word bank)
Completing a diagram
Completing a flow chart
Completing a table
Matching a bank of headings to identify paragraphs or parts of text
Matching a bank of writers' views/claims/information with the writer
Identification of information in the text: yes/no/not given questions
true/false/not given questions
Matching lists/phrases
Classification questions
Some Tips for the IELTS Academic Reading Test
Don't spend too long on a single question as that will lose you time for answering questions that could be easier for you. Sometimes, leaving a question and coming back later can help you answer it, too. Leave any questions that you have spent too long on, and come back at the end of the test if you have time. Sometimes, if the question has a yes/no/not given answer, the answer you are looking for does not exist as it could be a not given. Be aware so you don't waste time looking for something that isn't there.
Read the questions and instructions so you don't make a silly mistake. For example, people often will mix the yes/no answers with the true/false answers and write yes as an answer instead of true or vice versa. Strictly speaking you are wrong although you have understood the question and answer.
If the question asks for one answer then give one answer. Giving two is wrong as it asks for one and you will be marked wrong. The type of question where this could happen would be: Give one example of... Writing two examples, to show you really understand, is wrong.
If the question asks for no more than 3 words, use no more than 3 words. Writing 4 words or more is wrong. You won't be asked to do it in 3 words or less unless it is possible. S so don't worry; it can always be done.
One area that students don't like is that, in the reading test, good grammar and spelling are important. The grammar part is not as important as you can't make many grammar errors in 3 words (the maximum you use in the reading test) but, if you spell something wrong, it will be marked as wrong. People think, quite rightly in my opinion, that the reading should test whether you understand what you read and not how you spell something but these are the rules. So, be careful about your spelling!
One constant question students ask is whether to read the questions first and then read the passage or read the passage first and then the questions. It depends on a number of variables. It can depend on the types of question and how difficult the questions are. It can depend on how good and fast a reader you are. It can depend on the length of the text and how much time you have. Let's look at these variables.
If the question type is difficult and asking something which is hard to answer then reading the text first can help. Just a quick read through using a technique called skimming can give you the knowledge of the text that will help you find the answer more easily. If you are a good, fast reader, then you can read the text quickly, getting good knowledge of the contents without using up too much precious time. This can help you answer the questions better.
If the texts are short then it doesn't take long to quickly read through them. On the other hand, if the texts are short it is easier to find the answers so you may not have to waste time reading the texts to find the answers quickly, especially if time is short.
If time is short then it doesn't matter how complex or long the texts are. You need to get some answers on the answer sheet as quickly as possible. So, you can see that there is not one answer to the problem of whether to read the texts or questions first. What I tell students is to experiment in your practice and see what suits you for the different types of question in different situations. As usual practising your techniques is the key.
Time management is an important thing to be aware of. You have a number of texts to read and 40 questions to answer in 1 hour. If you spend to long on one part, you may find that you have not enough time to finish all the questions and some of those questions could be ones that you could answer quite easily. Don't spend too long on a difficult answer but also keep an eye on the clock.
It's a good idea to have your watch or a small clock on your desk so you know exactly how long you have left in the test at any given time. In addition to this, keep control on how long you spend on each section. Remember the test gets more difficult as it goes on so you will probably need more time for the questions at the end than for those at the start.
Some people believe that four-day-week with longer working hours would make employees enjoy life and, as a result, perform better when they are at work. But there are people who think that lesser working days would do more harm than good.
Essay 003
Look at both the views and express your opinion on them.
Does four-day week make people put in more? Opinions differ of course. But not many would oppose the idea that more free time lets employees enjoy a lot of family time. What I feel is that humans, being basically lazy, may take it as an opportunity to be complacent.
First of all, let me see how employees are going to take four-day week concept. Four working days and three holidays a week would look really great because there is enough room for family time, professional, personal and social times. This makes employees enjoy greater work life balance. This will of course pay them great dividends. This improved working environment may make some employees put in more and contribute better in terms of service. This extra energy may take the production graph scale new highs.
But, from an employer’s point of view, there is a little concern because paying for seven days and getting three days’ service back may not make great business sense. However rejuvenated an employee may return to work after three days’ break, he or she may take a day to get over the holiday blues. This would leave the employer with only three days a week, with the third day being a weekender. Coupled with this is humans’ inherent nature of being lazy. So, four-day week may not do much good. Lesser working days make people lazier.
The above findings on four-day week make it clear that fewer number of working days is likely to do more harm than good. So, it is right to say that keeping employees engaged is much better than letting them free for longer days.
270 words
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Essay 003
Look at both the views and express your opinion on them.
Does four-day week make people put in more? Opinions differ of course. But not many would oppose the idea that more free time lets employees enjoy a lot of family time. What I feel is that humans, being basically lazy, may take it as an opportunity to be complacent.
First of all, let me see how employees are going to take four-day week concept. Four working days and three holidays a week would look really great because there is enough room for family time, professional, personal and social times. This makes employees enjoy greater work life balance. This will of course pay them great dividends. This improved working environment may make some employees put in more and contribute better in terms of service. This extra energy may take the production graph scale new highs.
But, from an employer’s point of view, there is a little concern because paying for seven days and getting three days’ service back may not make great business sense. However rejuvenated an employee may return to work after three days’ break, he or she may take a day to get over the holiday blues. This would leave the employer with only three days a week, with the third day being a weekender. Coupled with this is humans’ inherent nature of being lazy. So, four-day week may not do much good. Lesser working days make people lazier.
The above findings on four-day week make it clear that fewer number of working days is likely to do more harm than good. So, it is right to say that keeping employees engaged is much better than letting them free for longer days.
270 words
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Health hazards like tobacco and alcohol products are legally sold by the State and the victims of this abuse are a problem for all societies. So it is argued that it is the job of the State to rehabilitate these addicts as the latter is the primary beneficiary by way of tax.
Essay 058
How far do you agree or disagree with this?
It is a fact that tobacco and alcoholic products are sold legally and many people get addicted to the same. But when it comes to rehabilitating the addicted, it is difficult for the State to do the whole job. However, the State has to provide medical care to its people. First of all, we need to understand that State endorses the sales of these substances because it is a huge source or revenue and the manufacturing and marketing of these products is as old as human habits, and we cannot simply stop it. Secondly, no State is asking its citizens to buy these health hazards. Rather all harmful products carry messages on them warning the user that it is harmful. Still people use them and become addicts. Therefore, the state cannot be held fully responsible for the rehabilitation of substance abuse victims. 85 wordsHowever, we cannot forget the fact that the revenue the government collects is used for the welfare of the people. When it comes to the welfare of the State, it is the welfare of the citizens. So those who are suffering from addiction related ailments need to be given adequate medical care. It may not be complete rehabilitation; rather it is a kind of alleviating the problems of those addicts who, either out of habit or compulsion, contribute much of their earnings in the form of tax to the State. And the State may partly fund general rehabilitation centres, not ones exclusively for addicts.
The above points make me conclude that rehabilitation of addicts is not the sole responsibility of the State alone. Rather people need to be intelligent and thereby stay away from addiction-prone habits and tendencies. No state can fully rehabilitate addicts.
285 words
Essay 058
How far do you agree or disagree with this?
It is a fact that tobacco and alcoholic products are sold legally and many people get addicted to the same. But when it comes to rehabilitating the addicted, it is difficult for the State to do the whole job. However, the State has to provide medical care to its people. First of all, we need to understand that State endorses the sales of these substances because it is a huge source or revenue and the manufacturing and marketing of these products is as old as human habits, and we cannot simply stop it. Secondly, no State is asking its citizens to buy these health hazards. Rather all harmful products carry messages on them warning the user that it is harmful. Still people use them and become addicts. Therefore, the state cannot be held fully responsible for the rehabilitation of substance abuse victims. 85 wordsHowever, we cannot forget the fact that the revenue the government collects is used for the welfare of the people. When it comes to the welfare of the State, it is the welfare of the citizens. So those who are suffering from addiction related ailments need to be given adequate medical care. It may not be complete rehabilitation; rather it is a kind of alleviating the problems of those addicts who, either out of habit or compulsion, contribute much of their earnings in the form of tax to the State. And the State may partly fund general rehabilitation centres, not ones exclusively for addicts.
The above points make me conclude that rehabilitation of addicts is not the sole responsibility of the State alone. Rather people need to be intelligent and thereby stay away from addiction-prone habits and tendencies. No state can fully rehabilitate addicts.
285 words
Friday, November 19, 2010
Ecological benefit is taken by ecologists as a viable option to maintain green cover. But there is an argument that this will halt growth as the benefit offered may not be at a par with the production, if the land is used differently.
Discuss both the views and say what you feel about the concept.
Ecological benefit: an allowance paid to those landowners who have some measures of green cover and are ready to keep it in tact for the well-being of the planet.
Speedy carbon recycling is the need of the hour, and ecologists find ecological benefit as a feasible option. But the concern that it would slow down growth is not unfounded. I feel that ecological benefit is to be promoted by all means.
It is the talk of the world that our Planet needs to be protected from the perils of carbon generated by human action. Since green cover is the only solution, ecologists are of the view that the existing green cover is not enough to meet the challenges. Naturally, there is need for individual participation. This, in turn, needs government support. If governments can meet the expectations of people who have their own green cover, people would keep the green cover for the well being of the world. So offering decent ecological benefits to individuals would go a long way in making the world a healthier place to be in.
However, mere green coven maintenance wouldn’t meet the needs of the world population. The concern that it would slowdown growth needs to be address by alternatives especially. Today, humans are much better placed with efficient technologies to be applied in agriculture to augment production, and there are research and development options to meet the rising needs of man, and finally, humans themselves can control population. This will keep his needs controlled, and the Planet may be at ease to keep the population fed.
Looking at both the views, it is right to conclude that future of the Planet lies in the hands of every individual, and uniform participation alone would make a difference in carbon management. Ecological benefit to individuals sounds so excellent a concept in today’s world.
Jaypees.20.11.010
Discuss both the views and say what you feel about the concept.
Ecological benefit: an allowance paid to those landowners who have some measures of green cover and are ready to keep it in tact for the well-being of the planet.
Speedy carbon recycling is the need of the hour, and ecologists find ecological benefit as a feasible option. But the concern that it would slow down growth is not unfounded. I feel that ecological benefit is to be promoted by all means.
It is the talk of the world that our Planet needs to be protected from the perils of carbon generated by human action. Since green cover is the only solution, ecologists are of the view that the existing green cover is not enough to meet the challenges. Naturally, there is need for individual participation. This, in turn, needs government support. If governments can meet the expectations of people who have their own green cover, people would keep the green cover for the well being of the world. So offering decent ecological benefits to individuals would go a long way in making the world a healthier place to be in.
However, mere green coven maintenance wouldn’t meet the needs of the world population. The concern that it would slowdown growth needs to be address by alternatives especially. Today, humans are much better placed with efficient technologies to be applied in agriculture to augment production, and there are research and development options to meet the rising needs of man, and finally, humans themselves can control population. This will keep his needs controlled, and the Planet may be at ease to keep the population fed.
Looking at both the views, it is right to conclude that future of the Planet lies in the hands of every individual, and uniform participation alone would make a difference in carbon management. Ecological benefit to individuals sounds so excellent a concept in today’s world.
Jaypees.20.11.010
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Environmental issues, concepts, ideas and parleys; Speak out no less than five sentences each on the folloing issues and topics. This is just to be able to talk on your own. check out how much you know. good luck
1. Bio Diversity
2. Ecological balance
3. Ecological allowance/benefit
4. Ecological overshoot
5. Ecological deficit
6. Eco-tourism
7. Eco-friendly
8. Eco-sensitive
9. Biosphere management
10. Bio-degradability
11. Toxic radio-active wastes
12. Land fill
13. Carbon Menace
14. Carbon Intensive products/Nations
15. Carbon Trading
16. Carbon Credit
17. Carbon footprint
18. Carbon recycling
19. Deforestation
20. Green cover loss
21. Ozone depletion
22. Temperature Rise
23. Greenhouse effect
24. Ozone depletion
25. Sun stroke
26. Sun burn
27. UV Penetration
28. Melting of icecaps
29. Rising sea levels
30. Acid rains
31. Heat waves
32. Green Summit
33. GREEN
34. Climate Congress
35. Ecological Housekeeping
36. Voluntary Simplicity
37. Principle of Localism
38. Responsible shopping
39. Green shopping
40. Green lifestyle
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1. Bio Diversity
2. Ecological balance
3. Ecological allowance/benefit
4. Ecological overshoot
5. Ecological deficit
6. Eco-tourism
7. Eco-friendly
8. Eco-sensitive
9. Biosphere management
10. Bio-degradability
11. Toxic radio-active wastes
12. Land fill
13. Carbon Menace
14. Carbon Intensive products/Nations
15. Carbon Trading
16. Carbon Credit
17. Carbon footprint
18. Carbon recycling
19. Deforestation
20. Green cover loss
21. Ozone depletion
22. Temperature Rise
23. Greenhouse effect
24. Ozone depletion
25. Sun stroke
26. Sun burn
27. UV Penetration
28. Melting of icecaps
29. Rising sea levels
30. Acid rains
31. Heat waves
32. Green Summit
33. GREEN
34. Climate Congress
35. Ecological Housekeeping
36. Voluntary Simplicity
37. Principle of Localism
38. Responsible shopping
39. Green shopping
40. Green lifestyle
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Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Task one
General Training
Imagine that you are the head of a sports club in your locality. And your sports club is going to host an inter-club basketball meet in the coming week.
Write a common letter of invitation (that can be sent) to all known club like yours requesting them to participate in the event.
You letter may include the following information:
· Details of your club
· Venue of the sports meet
· Formalities for entry, like fee, rules and regulations etc.
You may begin your letter like : Dear …..friend….
2.
You are a member of an environmental organization that stands for the protection of trees and green cover. You understand from the local media that a huge tree nearby your place is going to be cut for development purposes.
Write a letter to the head of your organization requesting him to interfere and a save the tree. In the mean time you may mention that you are going to do whatever is possible from your side.
You may begin like. Sir, …………….
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3.
While you were traveling by train you happen find an unattended bag carrying some valuable documents. Upon looking into it, you find contact address.
Write letter to the address stating this, and asking him to meet you somewhere.
You may request for the following:
· Identity of the person
· A description of the content of the missed bag
4.
You have received a mail carrying very serious documents of legal significance. But you got the mail late and the documents turned useless and the delay was caused by the irresponsible attitude of the postal staff
Write a letter to the Officer in charge Posts stating the same and requesting immediate action against employee and at the same time demanding damages for the loss cause by the delay.
You may begin like Sir……….I am a resident of ………
5.
You are just out of your sick bed. Write a letter of thanks to all your friends who had visited you with get well fast wishes while you had been undergoing treatment.
Begin your letter: My dear friends…………….
6.
You doctor has identified a small medical condition when needs immediate attention. So you are not able to report to duty for some 15 days.
Write a letter to you boss stating this, requesting alternative arrangements to ensure that the office does not suffer due to your unexpected absence.
You may begin like: Sir, I regret to inform you………………..
7.
An urgent mail, which was coming from overseas, hasn’t reached you yet. Upon enquiry you understand that the mail went missing without any trace.
A write a letter of complaint to the head, consumer rights commission;
You may include things like:
· Content of the mail
· Date of dispatch
· Airway bill number
· Details at the mail you got from the courier service provider.
Ajaypeesdoc
Begin like: Sir,…………….
General Training
Imagine that you are the head of a sports club in your locality. And your sports club is going to host an inter-club basketball meet in the coming week.
Write a common letter of invitation (that can be sent) to all known club like yours requesting them to participate in the event.
You letter may include the following information:
· Details of your club
· Venue of the sports meet
· Formalities for entry, like fee, rules and regulations etc.
You may begin your letter like : Dear …..friend….
2.
You are a member of an environmental organization that stands for the protection of trees and green cover. You understand from the local media that a huge tree nearby your place is going to be cut for development purposes.
Write a letter to the head of your organization requesting him to interfere and a save the tree. In the mean time you may mention that you are going to do whatever is possible from your side.
You may begin like. Sir, …………….
Ajaypeesdoc
3.
While you were traveling by train you happen find an unattended bag carrying some valuable documents. Upon looking into it, you find contact address.
Write letter to the address stating this, and asking him to meet you somewhere.
You may request for the following:
· Identity of the person
· A description of the content of the missed bag
4.
You have received a mail carrying very serious documents of legal significance. But you got the mail late and the documents turned useless and the delay was caused by the irresponsible attitude of the postal staff
Write a letter to the Officer in charge Posts stating the same and requesting immediate action against employee and at the same time demanding damages for the loss cause by the delay.
You may begin like Sir……….I am a resident of ………
5.
You are just out of your sick bed. Write a letter of thanks to all your friends who had visited you with get well fast wishes while you had been undergoing treatment.
Begin your letter: My dear friends…………….
6.
You doctor has identified a small medical condition when needs immediate attention. So you are not able to report to duty for some 15 days.
Write a letter to you boss stating this, requesting alternative arrangements to ensure that the office does not suffer due to your unexpected absence.
You may begin like: Sir, I regret to inform you………………..
7.
An urgent mail, which was coming from overseas, hasn’t reached you yet. Upon enquiry you understand that the mail went missing without any trace.
A write a letter of complaint to the head, consumer rights commission;
You may include things like:
· Content of the mail
· Date of dispatch
· Airway bill number
· Details at the mail you got from the courier service provider.
Ajaypeesdoc
Begin like: Sir,…………….
Monday, November 15, 2010
Task II
In the modern world, being online has become very much part of human life, and there is virtually nothing that the internet does not touch, including personal information and social interaction.
Do you think this increased possibility for personal information and social interaction has made human life much better, or it has made things worse?
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In the modern world, being online has become very much part of human life, and there is virtually nothing that the internet does not touch, including personal information and social interaction.
Do you think this increased possibility for personal information and social interaction has made human life much better, or it has made things worse?
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Sunday, November 14, 2010
Environmental issues, concepts, ideas and parleys
1. Biological Diversity
2. Ecological balance
3. Ecological allowance/benefit
4. Ecological overshoot
5. Eco-tourism
6. Eco-friendly
7. Eco-sensitive
8. Biosphere management
9. Bio-diversity
10. Bio-degradability
11. Bio-mass
12. Carbon Menace
13. Carbon Intensive Nations
14. Carbon Trading
15. Carbon Credit
16. Carbon recycling
17. Deforestation
18. Ecological Housekeeping
19. Voluntary Simplicity
20. Principle of Localism
21. Responsible shopping
22. Green shopping
23. Green lifestyle
24. Green cover loss
25. Ozone depletion
26. Temperature Rise
27. Greenhouse effect
28. Ozone depletion
29. Sun stroke
30. Sun burn
31. UV Penetration
32. Melting of icecaps
33. Rising sea levels
34. Acid rains
35. Heat waves
36. Green Summit
37. GREEN
38. Climate Congress
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1. Biological Diversity
2. Ecological balance
3. Ecological allowance/benefit
4. Ecological overshoot
5. Eco-tourism
6. Eco-friendly
7. Eco-sensitive
8. Biosphere management
9. Bio-diversity
10. Bio-degradability
11. Bio-mass
12. Carbon Menace
13. Carbon Intensive Nations
14. Carbon Trading
15. Carbon Credit
16. Carbon recycling
17. Deforestation
18. Ecological Housekeeping
19. Voluntary Simplicity
20. Principle of Localism
21. Responsible shopping
22. Green shopping
23. Green lifestyle
24. Green cover loss
25. Ozone depletion
26. Temperature Rise
27. Greenhouse effect
28. Ozone depletion
29. Sun stroke
30. Sun burn
31. UV Penetration
32. Melting of icecaps
33. Rising sea levels
34. Acid rains
35. Heat waves
36. Green Summit
37. GREEN
38. Climate Congress
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Ajaypeesdoc.15.11.010
1.
Some people say that it is better to take decisions all by ourselves, and there are others who say that, as they somehow get influenced by something while taking decisions, independent decision making is not possible.
How do you find these two views?
2.
Taking right, timely decisions is a skill. Some people say that this skill is extremely personal and its success quotient varies from person to person. But some others feel that all decisions are influenced by external forces. So it is not a skill but a process.
Which view do you support and state why?
3.
Taking right decisions in time is much more important today than it was yesterday.
Why is this added importance today?
What problems do you envisage when a decision gets delayed and goes wrong?
4.
Decision making is extremely difficult in today’s volatile and competitive living environs. However, some people go it alone whereas there are others who go for counsel.
Which one do you prefer and state why?
5.
Taking informed decisions is extremely difficult in today’s volatile and competitive world of opportunities. However, some people do it alone whereas there are others who go for counsel.
What are the factors that make decision-making a hard nut to crack?
Which one is a better option: to be on one’s own or the other way round?
Ajaypeesdoc.14.11.010 9 pm
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1.
Some people say that it is better to take decisions all by ourselves, and there are others who say that, as they somehow get influenced by something while taking decisions, independent decision making is not possible.
How do you find these two views?
2.
Taking right, timely decisions is a skill. Some people say that this skill is extremely personal and its success quotient varies from person to person. But some others feel that all decisions are influenced by external forces. So it is not a skill but a process.
Which view do you support and state why?
3.
Taking right decisions in time is much more important today than it was yesterday.
Why is this added importance today?
What problems do you envisage when a decision gets delayed and goes wrong?
4.
Decision making is extremely difficult in today’s volatile and competitive living environs. However, some people go it alone whereas there are others who go for counsel.
Which one do you prefer and state why?
5.
Taking informed decisions is extremely difficult in today’s volatile and competitive world of opportunities. However, some people do it alone whereas there are others who go for counsel.
What are the factors that make decision-making a hard nut to crack?
Which one is a better option: to be on one’s own or the other way round?
Ajaypeesdoc.14.11.010 9 pm
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Thursday, November 11, 2010
1.
In today’s borderless world order, great numbers of people happen to be working or living permanently in foreign lands across the globe. This mix of population is both advantageous and disadvantageous.
How good or bad is this state of affairs in your opinion?
2.
The unprecedented developments in the field of science and technology across the world have made human life extremely fast. However, the fact remains that these developments have given man tough times as well.
How advantageous or disadvantageous is this development?
3.
Some people say science has done much more harm than good to people. Therefore, it is a good idea not to pursue science any further whereas there are others who take it the other way round.
How do you look at these two views,
and put in what you feel about science as such?
4.
People who enjoy luxuries by exploiting or harming the environment need to be charged heavily, and the funds generated thereof should be utilized for environment management initiatives.
How good or bad is this idea in your opinion?
5.
Some people believe that all resources of the world are meant for the well being of every living thing on the Planet. Therefore, man needs to think in terms of taking only what he needs and giving out what is excess or what he does not need.
How do you look at this belief?
How feasible an idea is this in your opinion?
Jaypeesdoc. 13/11/010
In today’s borderless world order, great numbers of people happen to be working or living permanently in foreign lands across the globe. This mix of population is both advantageous and disadvantageous.
How good or bad is this state of affairs in your opinion?
2.
The unprecedented developments in the field of science and technology across the world have made human life extremely fast. However, the fact remains that these developments have given man tough times as well.
How advantageous or disadvantageous is this development?
3.
Some people say science has done much more harm than good to people. Therefore, it is a good idea not to pursue science any further whereas there are others who take it the other way round.
How do you look at these two views,
and put in what you feel about science as such?
4.
People who enjoy luxuries by exploiting or harming the environment need to be charged heavily, and the funds generated thereof should be utilized for environment management initiatives.
How good or bad is this idea in your opinion?
5.
Some people believe that all resources of the world are meant for the well being of every living thing on the Planet. Therefore, man needs to think in terms of taking only what he needs and giving out what is excess or what he does not need.
How do you look at this belief?
How feasible an idea is this in your opinion?
Jaypeesdoc. 13/11/010
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
While conventional games were physically, socially and intellectually charging, new generation games are found to be the other way round; making participants passive and enervating.
Essay 014
· To what extent do you agree or disagree with this view?
Games of olden times had many dimensions; social, physical and so on. Such games, naturally, fostered many faculties in several different ways. However, what we have today in the name of games, to a greater extent, are not so involving as to make the participants any better.
The roles games play in the mind and body of children are decisive. A game can either foster or spoil their faculties depending on the nature of the games. Fortunately, children of the past had several such physically, socially and intellectually involving games. For example, in our culture, there used to be many country games like throw ball, hide and seek, treasure hunt, chase and catch etc. These games involved group of children and they had been able to pick up better physical health, intellectual acumen and socializing skills by playing such games.
On the other hand, the games children play today are less involving and more isolating? Primarily, most of such games are individual games or maximum for pairs. Secondly, today, it is all supported by technology and children happen to use many gadget and devices which are more programmed than intellectually charging. For example, there are video games of all types, snake and ladder and the like. However, there are a few games like scrabble, jigsaw and crossword puzzles which are some way able to benefit children.
In short, I don’t think there is much disagreement on the view that older games were more involving and encouraging, and children picked up many skills and faculties. But today, barring a few games, most of the activities children do in the name of play are less involving and rarely fostering.
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Essay 014
· To what extent do you agree or disagree with this view?
Games of olden times had many dimensions; social, physical and so on. Such games, naturally, fostered many faculties in several different ways. However, what we have today in the name of games, to a greater extent, are not so involving as to make the participants any better.
The roles games play in the mind and body of children are decisive. A game can either foster or spoil their faculties depending on the nature of the games. Fortunately, children of the past had several such physically, socially and intellectually involving games. For example, in our culture, there used to be many country games like throw ball, hide and seek, treasure hunt, chase and catch etc. These games involved group of children and they had been able to pick up better physical health, intellectual acumen and socializing skills by playing such games.
On the other hand, the games children play today are less involving and more isolating? Primarily, most of such games are individual games or maximum for pairs. Secondly, today, it is all supported by technology and children happen to use many gadget and devices which are more programmed than intellectually charging. For example, there are video games of all types, snake and ladder and the like. However, there are a few games like scrabble, jigsaw and crossword puzzles which are some way able to benefit children.
In short, I don’t think there is much disagreement on the view that older games were more involving and encouraging, and children picked up many skills and faculties. But today, barring a few games, most of the activities children do in the name of play are less involving and rarely fostering.
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Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Promoting and protecting the health of women is of greater importance in terms of social welfare not only for the health of present generation but also for all the generations to come.
Essay 009
Substantiate this argument with evidence to support it.
How can we promote and protect the health of women?
Social welfare involves several factors, and most important one among them is the health status of people. In this respect, ensuring women’s health is more important than anything else. This is for today and for tomorrow, too. Of course, there are ways to achieve this goal.
When it comes to its greater importance, primarily, it is women who sustain human life. Naturally, their health plays a pivotal role in giving birth to healthy lives, both boys and girls. Obviously, these boys and girls are what we call future generation. For example, a healthy female child will naturally become a healthy woman, and she in turn continues the process. If we look at it from a social welfare angle, it is again right that women play the most crucial role in managing the health of the family. And healthy families contribute greatly to social welfare.
Obviously, there are ways to sustain women’s health. Health as such involves several factors. It is not simply being free from diseases. So, right and deserving education, enough employment opportunities, food security, affordable medical care, amiable family atmosphere with enough freedom for decision making, problem solving and socializing are some of the contributory factors that make women healthy. Needless to say, there should be enough provision for all these in a society that expects to be healthy today and tomorrow.
Concluding it, I would like to add that sustaining women’s health is the best thing a society or a system of government can do to its present and future welfare. And I am sure the suggestions I have made afore are of some significance.
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Essay 009
Substantiate this argument with evidence to support it.
How can we promote and protect the health of women?
Social welfare involves several factors, and most important one among them is the health status of people. In this respect, ensuring women’s health is more important than anything else. This is for today and for tomorrow, too. Of course, there are ways to achieve this goal.
When it comes to its greater importance, primarily, it is women who sustain human life. Naturally, their health plays a pivotal role in giving birth to healthy lives, both boys and girls. Obviously, these boys and girls are what we call future generation. For example, a healthy female child will naturally become a healthy woman, and she in turn continues the process. If we look at it from a social welfare angle, it is again right that women play the most crucial role in managing the health of the family. And healthy families contribute greatly to social welfare.
Obviously, there are ways to sustain women’s health. Health as such involves several factors. It is not simply being free from diseases. So, right and deserving education, enough employment opportunities, food security, affordable medical care, amiable family atmosphere with enough freedom for decision making, problem solving and socializing are some of the contributory factors that make women healthy. Needless to say, there should be enough provision for all these in a society that expects to be healthy today and tomorrow.
Concluding it, I would like to add that sustaining women’s health is the best thing a society or a system of government can do to its present and future welfare. And I am sure the suggestions I have made afore are of some significance.
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Promoting and protecting the health of women is of greater importance in terms of social welfare not only for the health of present generation but also for all the generations to come.
Essay 009
Substantiate this argument with evidence to support it.
How can we promote and protect the health of women?
Social welfare involves several factors, and most important one among them is the health status of people. In this respect, ensuring women’s health is more important than anything else. This is for today and for tomorrow, too. Of course, there are ways to achieve this goal.
When it comes to its greater importance, primarily, it is women who sustain human life. Naturally, their health plays a pivotal role in giving birth to healthy lives, both boys and girls. Obviously, these boys and girls are what we call future generation. For example, a healthy female child will naturally become a healthy woman, and she in turn continues the process. If we look at it from a social welfare angle, it is again right that women play the most crucial role in managing the health of the family. And healthy families contribute greatly to social welfare.
Obviously, there are ways to sustain women’s health. Health as such involves several factors. It is not simply being free from diseases. So, right and deserving education, enough employment opportunities, food security, affordable medical care, amiable family atmosphere with enough freedom for decision making, problem solving and socializing are some of the contributory factors that make women healthy. Needless to say, there should be enough provision for all these in a society that expects to be healthy today and tomorrow.
Concluding it, I would like to add that sustaining women’s health is the best thing a society or a system of government can do to its present and future welfare. And I am sure the suggestions I have made afore are of some significance.
265 words
Ajaypeesdoc
Essay 009
Substantiate this argument with evidence to support it.
How can we promote and protect the health of women?
Social welfare involves several factors, and most important one among them is the health status of people. In this respect, ensuring women’s health is more important than anything else. This is for today and for tomorrow, too. Of course, there are ways to achieve this goal.
When it comes to its greater importance, primarily, it is women who sustain human life. Naturally, their health plays a pivotal role in giving birth to healthy lives, both boys and girls. Obviously, these boys and girls are what we call future generation. For example, a healthy female child will naturally become a healthy woman, and she in turn continues the process. If we look at it from a social welfare angle, it is again right that women play the most crucial role in managing the health of the family. And healthy families contribute greatly to social welfare.
Obviously, there are ways to sustain women’s health. Health as such involves several factors. It is not simply being free from diseases. So, right and deserving education, enough employment opportunities, food security, affordable medical care, amiable family atmosphere with enough freedom for decision making, problem solving and socializing are some of the contributory factors that make women healthy. Needless to say, there should be enough provision for all these in a society that expects to be healthy today and tomorrow.
Concluding it, I would like to add that sustaining women’s health is the best thing a society or a system of government can do to its present and future welfare. And I am sure the suggestions I have made afore are of some significance.
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Sunday, November 7, 2010
Since great numbers of people are travelling long distances for their employment needs daily, it is opined that, if people are given employment at convenient locations, both the employers and environment could breathe easy.
Essay 061
· What do you think are the advantages and disadvantages of such an arrangement?
Movement of people as part of their employment needs is an environmental concern because it burns a lot of oil and causes pollutions of many types. So posting people at handy locations is an environment-friendly move. There are advantages and disadvantages.
If we look at the major advantages, the first one is that it saves a lot of time, money and resources by way of decreased need for traveling, the expenses thereof and the savings in terms of fuels. This will make the environment breathe easy. Secondly, when people travel shorter distances daily, the whole commuting reduces, thereby reducing pollutions of all types. And finally, the need for having personal cars and similar vehicles will get reduced. As people do need to travel long, the demand for personal vehicles will drastically come down. This is yet another breather for the environment.
However, looking at the other side of the issue, there are certain disadvantages. The primary one is that it is not always possible for organizations either to accommodate all the employable people of a place locally or to find the right mix of people from a particular place to run their shows. Besides, when employers need to expand their operations elsewhere, it is mandatory for them to mobilize people of different skill-sets from one location to the other. Obviously, they have to press for transfers and relocations. This is a practical difficulty of course.
To conclude it, environmentally speaking, the concept of giving convenient workstations to employees is a good idea. But not many employers would go for it as the advantages it offers to them are of minimal value.
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Essay 061
· What do you think are the advantages and disadvantages of such an arrangement?
Movement of people as part of their employment needs is an environmental concern because it burns a lot of oil and causes pollutions of many types. So posting people at handy locations is an environment-friendly move. There are advantages and disadvantages.
If we look at the major advantages, the first one is that it saves a lot of time, money and resources by way of decreased need for traveling, the expenses thereof and the savings in terms of fuels. This will make the environment breathe easy. Secondly, when people travel shorter distances daily, the whole commuting reduces, thereby reducing pollutions of all types. And finally, the need for having personal cars and similar vehicles will get reduced. As people do need to travel long, the demand for personal vehicles will drastically come down. This is yet another breather for the environment.
However, looking at the other side of the issue, there are certain disadvantages. The primary one is that it is not always possible for organizations either to accommodate all the employable people of a place locally or to find the right mix of people from a particular place to run their shows. Besides, when employers need to expand their operations elsewhere, it is mandatory for them to mobilize people of different skill-sets from one location to the other. Obviously, they have to press for transfers and relocations. This is a practical difficulty of course.
To conclude it, environmentally speaking, the concept of giving convenient workstations to employees is a good idea. But not many employers would go for it as the advantages it offers to them are of minimal value.
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Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Model answer: Rental charges and salaries
The table shows two sets of related information: the relative cost, in pounds, of renting a property with one, two or three bedrooms in three different suburbs of London and an indication of the kind of annual salary you would need to be earning to rent in these areas.Of the three areas mentioned, Notting Hill is the most expensive with weekly rents starting at £375 (salary approximately f 100,000) and rising to £738 per week for a 3-bedroom property. To afford this, you would require a salary in the region of £200,000 per annum.
Alternatively, Fulham is the cheapest area shown with rents ranging from £215 per week for a one bedroom property to £600 per week for a 3-bedroom property. To rent in this area, salaries need to be somewhere between £85,000 and £170,000 depending on the number of bedrooms required. For those able to pay in the middle price range for accommodation, Regent's Park might be a more suitable district.
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Model answer: Proportion of population in poverty: Australia 15
The table gives a breakdown of the different type of family who were living in poverty in Australia in 1999.On average, 11% of all households, comprising almost two million people, were in this position. However, those consisting of only one parent or a single adult had almost doubt this proportion of poor people, with 21% and 19% respectively.Couples generally tended to be better off, with lower poverty levels for couples without children (7%) than those with children (12%). It is noticeable that for both types of household with children, a higher than average proportion were living in poverty at this time.Older people were generally less likely to be poor, though once again the trend favoured eldery couples (only 4%) rather than single eldery people (6%).Overall the table suggests that households of single adults and those with children were more likely to be living in poverty than those consisting of couples.
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Model answer: Oil production capacity in the middle east : 24
The graph shows Oil Production Capacity in millions of barrels per day for selected Gulf countries. There are several features in this graph.The most significant feature is that oil production will increase sharply in almost all the countries shown. Kuwait and Iraq are both expected to double their output between 1990 and 2010, with Kuwait's production rising from 1.8 million barrels per day (bpd) in 1990 to 3.8 in 2010. Iran will also increase its output by a slightly smaller amount. After remaining steady at 2.5 million bpd from 1990 to 2000, the UAE's output is expected to approach 4.0 million bpd in 2010. Only Qatar's production is predicted to fall, back to 0.8 million bpd after a slight rise in 2000.However, the greatest increase will be from Saudi Arabia. In 1990, its output capacity at 8.5 million bpd exceeded the combined production of Iran, Iraq and Kuwait. This lead is expected to continue with a 75% increase in production to 14.5 million bpd 2010. In summary, while most of the countries are expected to show increases, Saudi Arabia will maintain and strengthen its position as the major producer.
Model Answer :Leisure time per week gender and employment: 12
The chart shows the number of hours of leisure enjoyed by men and women in a typical week in 1998-9, according to gender and employment status.Among those employed full-time, men on average had fifty hours of leisure, whereas women had approximately thirty-seven hours. There were no figures given for male part-time workers, but female part-timers had forty hours of leisure time, only slightly more than women in full-time employment, perhaps reflecting their work in the home.In the unemployed and retired categories, leisure time showed an increase for both sexes, as might have been expected. Here too, men enjoyed more leisure time over eighty hours, compared with seventy hours for women, perhaps once again reflecting the fact that women spend more time working in the home than men.Lastly, housewives enjoyed approximately fifty-four hours of leisure, on average. There were no figures given for househusbands! Overall, the chart demonstrates that in the categories for which statistics on male leisure time were available, men enjoyed at least ten hours of extra leisure time.
The table shows two sets of related information: the relative cost, in pounds, of renting a property with one, two or three bedrooms in three different suburbs of London and an indication of the kind of annual salary you would need to be earning to rent in these areas.Of the three areas mentioned, Notting Hill is the most expensive with weekly rents starting at £375 (salary approximately f 100,000) and rising to £738 per week for a 3-bedroom property. To afford this, you would require a salary in the region of £200,000 per annum.
Alternatively, Fulham is the cheapest area shown with rents ranging from £215 per week for a one bedroom property to £600 per week for a 3-bedroom property. To rent in this area, salaries need to be somewhere between £85,000 and £170,000 depending on the number of bedrooms required. For those able to pay in the middle price range for accommodation, Regent's Park might be a more suitable district.
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Model answer: Proportion of population in poverty: Australia 15
The table gives a breakdown of the different type of family who were living in poverty in Australia in 1999.On average, 11% of all households, comprising almost two million people, were in this position. However, those consisting of only one parent or a single adult had almost doubt this proportion of poor people, with 21% and 19% respectively.Couples generally tended to be better off, with lower poverty levels for couples without children (7%) than those with children (12%). It is noticeable that for both types of household with children, a higher than average proportion were living in poverty at this time.Older people were generally less likely to be poor, though once again the trend favoured eldery couples (only 4%) rather than single eldery people (6%).Overall the table suggests that households of single adults and those with children were more likely to be living in poverty than those consisting of couples.
(154 words)
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Model answer: Oil production capacity in the middle east : 24
The graph shows Oil Production Capacity in millions of barrels per day for selected Gulf countries. There are several features in this graph.The most significant feature is that oil production will increase sharply in almost all the countries shown. Kuwait and Iraq are both expected to double their output between 1990 and 2010, with Kuwait's production rising from 1.8 million barrels per day (bpd) in 1990 to 3.8 in 2010. Iran will also increase its output by a slightly smaller amount. After remaining steady at 2.5 million bpd from 1990 to 2000, the UAE's output is expected to approach 4.0 million bpd in 2010. Only Qatar's production is predicted to fall, back to 0.8 million bpd after a slight rise in 2000.However, the greatest increase will be from Saudi Arabia. In 1990, its output capacity at 8.5 million bpd exceeded the combined production of Iran, Iraq and Kuwait. This lead is expected to continue with a 75% increase in production to 14.5 million bpd 2010. In summary, while most of the countries are expected to show increases, Saudi Arabia will maintain and strengthen its position as the major producer.
Model Answer :Leisure time per week gender and employment: 12
The chart shows the number of hours of leisure enjoyed by men and women in a typical week in 1998-9, according to gender and employment status.Among those employed full-time, men on average had fifty hours of leisure, whereas women had approximately thirty-seven hours. There were no figures given for male part-time workers, but female part-timers had forty hours of leisure time, only slightly more than women in full-time employment, perhaps reflecting their work in the home.In the unemployed and retired categories, leisure time showed an increase for both sexes, as might have been expected. Here too, men enjoyed more leisure time over eighty hours, compared with seventy hours for women, perhaps once again reflecting the fact that women spend more time working in the home than men.Lastly, housewives enjoyed approximately fifty-four hours of leisure, on average. There were no figures given for househusbands! Overall, the chart demonstrates that in the categories for which statistics on male leisure time were available, men enjoyed at least ten hours of extra leisure time.
Presenting age groups
Age groups in Task I ielts
5-12, 13-19, 20-29, 30-39, 40-49,50-59, 60+ (above)
Teens, Under 30s, 40s, 50, 60, 70+
11-18, 20-26, 27-34, 35-45, 46-55, 55 and above
Children in their 5-12 age group
Those in their teens
Youngsters in their 20-30 age group
Those who are in their 40-49 years
The older age groups like 50-59 and 60 and above
People in their middle age like 35-45 years
The age groups 20-29, and 30-39
As people grow older, say, when they are their 50s
While people are younger, say when they are under 30 years
Senior citizens in their 60s and 70s
Students in their teens
children above five and below ten years
Boys in their teens
Girls in their teens
People in their 20s and 30s
Under 30s
Those who are under their 30s
When younger age groups, older age groups like,,,
While males in their 20s………females in the same age groups…..
The corresponding figures of the age group 30-40
Age groups in Task I ielts
5-12, 13-19, 20-29, 30-39, 40-49,50-59, 60+ (above)
Teens, Under 30s, 40s, 50, 60, 70+
11-18, 20-26, 27-34, 35-45, 46-55, 55 and above
Children in their 5-12 age group
Those in their teens
Youngsters in their 20-30 age group
Those who are in their 40-49 years
The older age groups like 50-59 and 60 and above
People in their middle age like 35-45 years
The age groups 20-29, and 30-39
As people grow older, say, when they are their 50s
While people are younger, say when they are under 30 years
Senior citizens in their 60s and 70s
Students in their teens
children above five and below ten years
Boys in their teens
Girls in their teens
People in their 20s and 30s
Under 30s
Those who are under their 30s
When younger age groups, older age groups like,,,
While males in their 20s………females in the same age groups…..
The corresponding figures of the age group 30-40
Monday, November 1, 2010
Some people say that faster, cost-effective and universally accessible communication infrastructure has made the world a much better place to be in, whereas there are others who feel that it has made things worse.
Discuss both the views and put in what you feel about it.
We are living in a world of communication explosion where people of all walks of life are able to stay connected 24x7. Obviously, this communication revolution has made the world much better. However, there are a few concerns as well that cannot be ignored.
To begin with, the world ultimately has become a more comfortable place to be in thanks to the explosion in communication infrastructure. Firstly, it is the faster movement of data that makes people work more efficiently, especially businesses and administration machinery. For example, with the arrival of email and its unfathomable possibilities, the whole world has become a network of people sans any borders set either by time or by space.
Secondly, coming to grassroots, people of all walks of life are able to make better living conditions because they are well positioned to tap the potentials of time by converting time into money. For example, universally accessible and affordable mobile phones are used by people to keep their businesses running smooth. There are countless other similar instances, too.
All the instances notwithstanding, we cannot ignore the fact that this development has made the world a little unsafe. For example, communication platforms are widely used by nefarious forces like terrorists and fundamental outfits to make unrest in different parts of the world. The case with those immature people who fall prey to the lures of communication tools is another example.
In short, barring a few discordant notes, globally speaking, communication explosion has made the world a better place in countless ways. Looking at both the sides, what I feel is that it is our responsibility to harness the potentials of communication breakthroughs.
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Discuss both the views and put in what you feel about it.
We are living in a world of communication explosion where people of all walks of life are able to stay connected 24x7. Obviously, this communication revolution has made the world much better. However, there are a few concerns as well that cannot be ignored.
To begin with, the world ultimately has become a more comfortable place to be in thanks to the explosion in communication infrastructure. Firstly, it is the faster movement of data that makes people work more efficiently, especially businesses and administration machinery. For example, with the arrival of email and its unfathomable possibilities, the whole world has become a network of people sans any borders set either by time or by space.
Secondly, coming to grassroots, people of all walks of life are able to make better living conditions because they are well positioned to tap the potentials of time by converting time into money. For example, universally accessible and affordable mobile phones are used by people to keep their businesses running smooth. There are countless other similar instances, too.
All the instances notwithstanding, we cannot ignore the fact that this development has made the world a little unsafe. For example, communication platforms are widely used by nefarious forces like terrorists and fundamental outfits to make unrest in different parts of the world. The case with those immature people who fall prey to the lures of communication tools is another example.
In short, barring a few discordant notes, globally speaking, communication explosion has made the world a better place in countless ways. Looking at both the sides, what I feel is that it is our responsibility to harness the potentials of communication breakthroughs.
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Friday, October 29, 2010
Developing transportation modes like airways, super fast roadways and the like involves huge financial outlay. But a small proportion of the population enjoys the benefits. Therefore, it is unwise to invest hugely on such projects.
Essay 156
How does this argument sound to you?
It is speed that makes economies grow faster. Obviously, we need faster transportation infrastructure. Coming to how wise it is to spend too much for a few people, I would say, it is the wisest thing. Let me prove it.
Firstly, the need for traveling faster is not felt by all. That is, only a small percentage of the population wants to move faster. For example; businessmen, Non Residents, expatriate work force and tourists are the ones who feel the need for expensive and faster travel modes.
Secondly, expecting all people to be able to directly benefit from expensive development projects like transportation is premature. What I mean is that when people of great business sense travel faster, their men, money and machinery work more efficiently. This faster functioning helps them spin more money.
Thirdly, it is right to argue that when men, machinery and money work, they generate opportunities of varying dimensions which are ultimately grabbed by a greater proportion of the population. For example, CEOs of big businesses need to move faster so that they will be able to generate development.
On the other hand, if we conclude that it is unwise to spend a lot on expensive travel modes, the very development process will go slower and the engine of the economy will come to a grinding halt.
In short, it is a small proportion of the population that makes real differences in terms of development. Therefore, as speed is the need of the hour, it is of paramount importance and wiser as well to spend sizably for expensive and faster modes of transportation.
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Essay 156
How does this argument sound to you?
It is speed that makes economies grow faster. Obviously, we need faster transportation infrastructure. Coming to how wise it is to spend too much for a few people, I would say, it is the wisest thing. Let me prove it.
Firstly, the need for traveling faster is not felt by all. That is, only a small percentage of the population wants to move faster. For example; businessmen, Non Residents, expatriate work force and tourists are the ones who feel the need for expensive and faster travel modes.
Secondly, expecting all people to be able to directly benefit from expensive development projects like transportation is premature. What I mean is that when people of great business sense travel faster, their men, money and machinery work more efficiently. This faster functioning helps them spin more money.
Thirdly, it is right to argue that when men, machinery and money work, they generate opportunities of varying dimensions which are ultimately grabbed by a greater proportion of the population. For example, CEOs of big businesses need to move faster so that they will be able to generate development.
On the other hand, if we conclude that it is unwise to spend a lot on expensive travel modes, the very development process will go slower and the engine of the economy will come to a grinding halt.
In short, it is a small proportion of the population that makes real differences in terms of development. Therefore, as speed is the need of the hour, it is of paramount importance and wiser as well to spend sizably for expensive and faster modes of transportation.
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Free movement of market, men and material across the world is taken as an opportunity by some people, but some others are of the opinion that it has made the world suffer from countless problems.
Essay 041
How genuine are these views in your opinion?
Borderless movement is the order of the day, and the same is going to stay, too. Naturally, there are differing views on its merits and demerits. What I feel is that it is more an opportunity than a problem. I can prove it too.
Let me explain what all opportunities such a movement offers people. Firstly, it is market interplay. Nations both rich are poor interact and benefit each other by way of employment, tax and market penetration. Secondly, it is the movement of human resources. Human resource is a perishable one; but today, there are opportunities across the world to make use of one's potentials for the welfare of the whole world. Being able to use one’s intellectual and physical strengths is much better than not using or under-using them. Thirdly, a free world order makes developments faster, so does the socio-economic conditions of the world.
However, all is not well with this all encompassing world order. There is rich poor divide getting widened thanks to movement of resources to more productive lands. Secondly, poor nations become unattractive even to its population due to the lures offered by the world outside. Thirdly, there are cultural and traditional values that get deteriorated, and some of them even get extinct too. However, the fact remains that these are effects of changes and influences.
Since this changed order of the day is bound to be here for long, and there is no scope for any U turn, it is a good idea to identify the possibilities of it and try our best to manage the difficulties. Humans are intelligent enough to do so.
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Essay 041
How genuine are these views in your opinion?
Borderless movement is the order of the day, and the same is going to stay, too. Naturally, there are differing views on its merits and demerits. What I feel is that it is more an opportunity than a problem. I can prove it too.
Let me explain what all opportunities such a movement offers people. Firstly, it is market interplay. Nations both rich are poor interact and benefit each other by way of employment, tax and market penetration. Secondly, it is the movement of human resources. Human resource is a perishable one; but today, there are opportunities across the world to make use of one's potentials for the welfare of the whole world. Being able to use one’s intellectual and physical strengths is much better than not using or under-using them. Thirdly, a free world order makes developments faster, so does the socio-economic conditions of the world.
However, all is not well with this all encompassing world order. There is rich poor divide getting widened thanks to movement of resources to more productive lands. Secondly, poor nations become unattractive even to its population due to the lures offered by the world outside. Thirdly, there are cultural and traditional values that get deteriorated, and some of them even get extinct too. However, the fact remains that these are effects of changes and influences.
Since this changed order of the day is bound to be here for long, and there is no scope for any U turn, it is a good idea to identify the possibilities of it and try our best to manage the difficulties. Humans are intelligent enough to do so.
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Thursday, October 28, 2010
Some people believe that four-day-week with longer working hours would make employees enjoy life and, as a result, perform better when they are at work. But there are people who think that lesser working days would do more harm than good.
Essay 003
Look at both the views and express your opinion on them.
Does four-day week make people put in more? Opinions differ of course. But not many would oppose the idea that more free time lets employees enjoy a lot of family time. What I feel is that humans, being basically lazy, may take it as an opportunity to be complacent.
First of all, let me see how employees are going to take four-day week concept. Four working days and three holidays a week would look really great because there is enough room for family time, professional, personal and social times. This makes employees enjoy greater work life balance. This will of course pay them great dividends. This improved working environment may make some employees put in more and contribute better in terms of service. This extra energy may take the production graph scale new highs.
But, from an employer’s point of view, there is a little concern because paying for seven days and getting three days’ service back may not make great business sense. However rejuvenated an employee may return to work after three days’ break, he or she may take a day to get over the holiday blues. This would leave the employer with only three days a week, with the third day being a weekender. Coupled with this is humans’ inherent nature of being lazy. So, four-day week may not do much good. Lesser working days make people lazier.
The above findings on four-day week make it clear that fewer number of working days is likely to do more harm than good. So, it is right to say that keeping employees engaged is much better than letting them free for longer days.
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Look at both the views and express your opinion on them.
Does four-day week make people put in more? Opinions differ of course. But not many would oppose the idea that more free time lets employees enjoy a lot of family time. What I feel is that humans, being basically lazy, may take it as an opportunity to be complacent.
First of all, let me see how employees are going to take four-day week concept. Four working days and three holidays a week would look really great because there is enough room for family time, professional, personal and social times. This makes employees enjoy greater work life balance. This will of course pay them great dividends. This improved working environment may make some employees put in more and contribute better in terms of service. This extra energy may take the production graph scale new highs.
But, from an employer’s point of view, there is a little concern because paying for seven days and getting three days’ service back may not make great business sense. However rejuvenated an employee may return to work after three days’ break, he or she may take a day to get over the holiday blues. This would leave the employer with only three days a week, with the third day being a weekender. Coupled with this is humans’ inherent nature of being lazy. So, four-day week may not do much good. Lesser working days make people lazier.
The above findings on four-day week make it clear that fewer number of working days is likely to do more harm than good. So, it is right to say that keeping employees engaged is much better than letting them free for longer days.
270 words
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