The Modern Fable

  The article is aimed at understanding how information impacts us as is evident from the line ‘Information, as such, may be morally neutral but it is certainly not inactive.’ This article also signifies how we protect ourselves from information that may oppose our beliefs and how we tend to exclude alien perceptions. Through the characters in J.K. Huysmans’ Against Nature, we see Des Esseintes who only surrounds himself with things that reaffirm his beliefs. He wished to remove himself from seeing humans toiling in Paris between four walls or trying to scrounge for money. He populated his new habitation with things he admired. His style of living was conserved but at the expense of losing contact with the outside world. This is just an example of how people eclipse certain aspects of the chaotic universe to generate moments of calm in an otherwise confused existence. This tendency is manifested in certain disorders such as sensory aphasia, amnesia neuroses and schizophrenia. At ...

The following is a literary analysis of 'The Troubled Craftsman', the first chapter of The Craftsman. ‘The Troubled Craftsman’ discusses that true craftsmanship is doing quality work for the sake of doing it and not as a means to an end. All craftsmen have a skill which they have practiced thousands of hours when they reach a stage where they can feel fully and think deeply about their craft. The satisfaction of working is its own reward. In the beginning, the author portrays three images of the craftsman. First is the traditional image of a carpenter, in a neat shop engaged in precision work. His profession is troubled by the automated furniture factory down the road. The proximity is ironical to the difference in their approach to work: quality over quantity. Second is the example of a lab technician, pondering over the procedure, weighing the procedure with her execution, trying to find the error in either. Third is the visiting conductor working obsessively with the str...

Purposeful travel It’s not the destination, but the journey that counts .   //This speech example was given an Excellent grade in high school. When I was kindly awarded the opportunity to orate a speech about purposeful travel, my mind wandered to mull over memories wrapped around planned expeditions. For many, travel is a means to escape the mundane realities of daily routine. Instead of a voyage, travel becomes a snatch of retreat. For such people, travel appears as a breath of fresh air out of the staleness of myriad responsibilities imposed upon them and they desperately grab the opportunity, only to retreat into the comfort of a hotel room. The truth is that people with such an outlook are fleeing, not travelling. While I strongly stand beside the proverb, “Variety is the spice of life”, I feel that many people ignore the benefits that comes with planned educational trips, for fear that it may be unstimulating and boring. They could not be more wrong. They are ...

Think As You Read Last lesson pdf:  https://r.search.yahoo.com/_ylt=AwrPpljF6eBiLOII6my7HAx.;_ylu=Y29sbwNzZzMEcG9zAzIEdnRpZAMEc2VjA3Ny/RV=2/RE=1658935877/RO=10/RU=https%3a%2f%2fncert.nic.in%2ftextbook%2fpdf%2flefl101.pdf/RK=2/RS=_AgSkgmkEIot_etro57Ptkoxa0I- Q1. What was Franz expected to be prepared with for school that day?  Ans. Franz was expected to be prepared with the rule of participles for his French Lesson. He had not prepared it. He was later asked to recite it in the class as he had feared.  Q2. What did Franz notice that was unusual about the school that day?  Ans. Usually, when the school began there would be a great bustle which could be heard out in the street, the opening and closing of desks, lessons being repeated in unison and the great ruler of the teacher rapping on the table. But that day, it was quiet as a Sunday morning, as if the class was not being held. When he entered the class, Franz noticed that M. Hamel was dressed in his fine Sunday c...