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Summary           ' Not for Sale ' by an anonymous writer is a heart touching story of a young couple madly in love who overcome all obstacles for the sake of their love and togetherness. The author was on a vacation when he came across a painting of a young woman . The painting was extraordinary and very expressive. He wished to buy it. But the woman in charge of the shop denied saying that the painting belonged to the owner of the shop and he did not wish to sell it. However, the painting was so touching that it kept haunting the author. Whenever he got a chance, he would drive all the way through Taos and to the gallery and see the painting. Finally, the woman shopkeeper told him the story behind the painting. Two young students, a man and a woman, fell madly in love while they studied painting and arts in New York, far from their homes . They decided to get married and have a promising career in painting.           How...

Not for Sale Please Read the Part-1 of ' Not for Sale '.           She therefore decided to return home at once. She wrote the young man a long letter which she left in his room. In the letter, the young woman mentioned nothing about her health; she simply said that she had discovered that she was not really in love with him and that she had decided not to get married. Under the circumstances, she wrote, the best thing for her to do was to return home. And she did. After she did. After she had left, the young man found the letter in his room. For Summary of "Not For Sale", please click the below link >> Summary           The woman at the shop, who had been telling me the story, stopped at this point. I waited for a moment, then remarked, "But you haven't said anything about the painting. Where does that come into the story?"           She remained silent for a moment. "The painting is simpl...

Not for Sale           When I take vacations, I enjoy going around different towns in the Southwestern part of the United States. I am particularly interested in the many art galleries and shops in the part of the country. These shops often exhibit paintings of young artists who have not yet won much attention. If one has a good eye for such things and chooses carefully, one can sometimes pick up some real bargains. At least it has been my experience in the past that I can find paintings which later prove to be true works of art. In fact, several of these now hang on the walls of my apartment and give me pleasure each time I look at them. They give me pleasure, first, because I was able to pick them up at a low price and, second, because I had the good sense to recognize the work of a young artist who later became famous.           Thus, it happened that one summer I drove into the quaint little town of Taos, New Mexico, wher...

Breeze in the Old Building           "I even learned one day while blowing through the Ministry Office building that they have their territories marked in the air too. If someone crosses these by mistake and goes over to the other's then they start their fights. And these are not ordinary fights, like I do with Miss Air sometimes, these are gun battles. They kill each other and settle their scores. I refused to touch such flags on the wars fields that the winners hoist after the war is won, over the strewn dead bodies. I wanted to tear such pieces of colourful cloth to shreds."           "Yes, dear Ms Breeze, i know all about this. Last time, decades ago, my brother Storm Beaten had gone out once when he met Tornado and Gale. They were so very angry with these humans that they destroyed whatever came on their way. Storm Beaten was also blown off his feet but he somehow managed to cling onto a tree, without food and water, like...

Breeze in the Old Building           Breeze stood near the gate of the old building and asked the gatekeeper in a low voice,           "Will you let me in please?"           The gatekeeper hugged her and said, "Yes dear! By all means!"           After touching the doorman's tossing mane and tartar beard slightly, Breeze flew inside the building and was greeted by her friends who were trapped in there for years together. They sighed in relief as if they had got a breather when Breezer had steeped in. The rugged pillar on the veranda grimaced seeing Breeze corning in and emitted a steamy breath. She went from hall to hall, from one room to another and stopped at the attic. The oldish upcountry putrid air glowered at her from the ceiling and said,           "What brings you here, Breeze after so many years?"       ...

Tomorrow's Citizens Our Greatest Wealth           India is poised in the mission of transforming itself into a developed nation and by the year 2020. The prime resource through which this transformation is possible is the 540 million youth who are below the age of twenty-five.           Children and youth are the picture of a nation's future. They are our hope for tomorrow. The youth in India constitute a sizable, vibrant and resourceful segment of our society which has a burning desire to scale greater heights. If their energies are properly channeled, they will unleash a momentum that would propel the nation on the fast track to development. We need to carefully nurture this vast and precious human capital by making it a focal point of our planning and development process. Encompassing the needs. rights and the expectations of youth to the central stage of development should be our priority.         ...

Summary          The lesson is a message by Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam the great scientist who had a vision for India. He was also the 11th President of India. Dr. Kalam who had recognized the untapped talent and strength of youth and children has voiced his feelings for bringing it out. By transforming the 540 million youth and bringing out their potential, we can transform India into a developed nation. He insists for extending education in the rural areas and to the underprivileged. He has focused on the freedom of children to question and to keep thinking. He focused on the role of students in this crucial era. How, according to Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, do the youth of India constitute a resourceful segment of our society? To Read the Summary of "Breeze in the Old Building", Please click the below link >> Summary          Dr. A.P.J. Kalam, a born scientist, was hailed as the missile man of India. He was earnestly proud of I...

Pegasus : The Winged Horse           Some of you may have heard that 'Pegasus' was a snow-white steed with beautiful silvery wings who spent most of his time on the top of a mountain. He was as wild and as swift in his flight through the air as any eagle and seemed hardly to be a creature of the earth.           Whenever he was seen up very high above people's heads, with the sunshine on his silvery wings, you would have thought that he belonged to the sky, and that, skimming a little - too low he had gone astray among our mists and vapors, and was seeking his way back. It was very pretty to behold him plunge into the fleecy bosom of a white cloud, and be lost in it for a moment or two, and then break forth on the other side. Or, in a sullen rain-storm, when there was a grey pavement of clouds over the whole sky, it would sometimes happen that the winged horse descended right through it and the glad light of the upper region would g...

Do you Remember learning your mother tongue? How did that experience suffer from your efforts to learn second language?           Mother tongue is the in-born language, which a baby has already familiarized even in the gestation of mother before it was born. The first language is the language which a child acquires either through schooling or socialization, such as family.           We cannot learn very quick second language it may takes some time and probably it depends upon human knowledge some can learn early and few slowly. "Learning a second language, after the critical period for language learning has ended, is more difficult because as use age the more our native language comes to dominate linguistic map space and the second language finds it’s hard to compete." Main things are motivation, attitude, age, intelligence, aptitude, cognitive style, and personality are considered as factors that greatly influence someone ...

Summary | On Fear           A.G. Gardiner in his essay "On Fear" talks about fear as an essential component of life. There is no person who is without it. Some experience it every moment, some know how to handle it and others just ignore it. It depends in which category one falls. Gardiner has beautifully discussed about fear with a number of examples from the life of a great men. People want to do risky things just to experience what fear is? Sometimes fear makes us act immediately without reasoning. This may be fatal at times. People with practical thinking feel less while people will imaginatively mind fear no more for the mind keeps thinking on it again and again till it become a seeded fear in the mind. Is taking risk always advisable? Explain from Swinburne's experience.    A.G. Gardiner, a British journalist and essayist, wrote a number of essays which are uniformly elegant, graceful and humorous. His uniqueness lay in his ability ...

          "Of course," he said, "she wanted to know why I had done such a thing, and when I told her, she laughed a short sweet laugh, most satisfactory to the younger ear, and said, "Nobody ever thought you were a coward, my boy." I said that was all very well, but how could I tell till I tried? "But you won't do it again? she said. I replied, "Of course not-where would be the fun?" For Summary of the Chapter, Please click the below link >> Summary        It was not that he had no fear: it was that he wanted to convince himself that he was able to master his fear when the emergency came. Having discovered that he had fear under his control there was no sense in taking risks for the mere sake of taking them.           Most fears are purely subjective, the phantoms of a too vivid mind. I was looking over a deserted house situated in large grounds in the country the other day. It had been emptying ...

          I am disposed to agree with Captain Dolbey that the man who knows no fear exists only in the imagination of the lady novelist or those who fight their battles at the base. He is invented because these naïve people suppose that a hero who is conscious of fear ceases to be a hero. But the truth surely is that there would be no merit in being brave if you had no fear. The real victory of the hero is not over outward circumstance, but over himself. One of the bravest men of our time is a man who was born timid and nervous and suffered tortures of apprehension, and who set himself to the deliberate conquest of his fears by challenging every danger that crossed his path and even going out of his way to meet the things he dreaded. By sheer will he beat down the enemy within, and to the external world he seemed like a man who knew no fear. But the very essence of his heroism was that he had fought fear and won. For Summary of the Chapter, Please click the...

Summary | Start Where You Stand           The poem ' Start Where you Stand ' is a motivational poem. The poet inspires us to forget the past as it will pose a hindrance in making a new start. He asks people to close that chapter of the book of life and make a new start that will pave the way for a better future. He reiterates the need to stop looking back and to start a fresh from where one is standing now. He assures that if we make a new start and get success the world will not care about our defeats. Time is fast paced and there is much to do, so we need to start acting and not keep brooding over the woes and despairs of the past . The poet encourages by saying that the future for one who does and dares. Failures of the past will not stop but triumphs of the past will help. So he wants everyone to gear up and get into the fight and face it boldly. The past should be left as ancient history, for yesterday is dead and today is alive. He concludes advising ...

Do you think Learning English can gradually affect one's use of Mother Tongue?            Mostly Yes, learning English can affect one's use of mother tongue language. Because as much as we learned the second language, which is English. It decreases the interest of one's mother tongue language. Nowadays, the young generation wants to learn any things in English more often rather than their mother tongue language. This situation has started earlier in our lives, from school onwards, all the teachers wants that student must learn English. Do conversation in English only, no other languages are allowed to talk with teacher, either its normal conversation between teacher and student or only for asking about doubts. that does not mean that we shouldn't learn English earlier age, but not giving much more importance to the mother tongue language can affect the language in future prospects.       The role of mother tongue language in secon...