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May 17, 2022
Think Big: Take Small Steps and Build the Future You Want- A Review by Ronald
I came across Think Big by Grace Lordan after noticing Ali (apparently I am a fan) had recommended it on his website. I have read a number of self-help books over the years. But I had fallen into the trap of consuming more and not taking enough action. Self-help is hyped, but there are countless books in that segment that can help! (I am not kidding here).
People who read Self-Help, in the beginning, might progress if they take action, but as the material subsides, so will their active desire to act on the lessons they learn. It simply means all that reading was of no use. This is the reason retaining information like notes is primarily important. Then turning this information into a to-do list until it becomes a daily habit is key.
I, too, used to fall into this trap of reading more non-fiction, ironically thinking that reading more somehow makes up for action. That is not true! Reading one book but trying at least three insights from the book into practice is the key.
Think Big is a pragmatic book. This information can be found in other places, but Gordan does a wonderful job of presenting the book in such a way that everyone will grasp the concepts.
The book is broadly divided into 8 chapters.
Begin
This chapter talks about the different narratives that we tell ourselves. That voice that convinces us to live a mediocre life, the voice that finds excuses for every goal not met. This is more like understanding our self-talk. Steven Covey’s 7 Habits might be helpful if you haven’t read it before.
Goal
Here, goal setting is a little different. She discusses small steps we can take that will eventually help us reach our goal. This is true; we all have dreams, but the journey can be long and so we abandon the journey and try some other goal, hoping we will get there quickly. But it is a marathon and not a sprint.
Time
The most important asset we have is time. She talks about social media and how she plans her day to get the most out of her day.
Inside
The hurdles that we will face within ourselves are discussed in this chapter. She discusses the biases, loss aversion, and how we have become programmed to not ask more frequently.
Outside
This chapter is roughly about interpersonal skills. In this chapter, she talks about the right way to listen to advice and how to face life if someone says “No!” Cool Stuff.
Environment
The environment is an important factor when it comes to reaching your big goal.
It is essential to find a space (and earmark some time) for rest and relaxation.
Excerpt from Grace Lordan’s “Think Big”.
The way we keep our desks, the workplace, and our house will have a major impact on our lives.
Resilience
Resilience is having that toughness when life is not going as planned. Resilience is needed to have a successful life. Teddy Roosevelt pointed out that A strenuous life it is, and we have to have the resilience to fight it.
Journey
Like in any good book, the author is blunt about the advice and asks us to stay sane and pursue meaningful goals, and not be deluded into the quick-rich-scheme or any flashy path to success.
If you want to know more, read the book. As I already blurted earlier, if you can put one idea into action, that would suffice.
I would give this book a 4/5.
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May 10, 2022
Mark Twain- Did you know-2
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May 9, 2022
The blindspot
Something is definitely not working. You are doing the same thing, but you don’t get the desired result. Yet you are doing the same thing. If you are doing something new give it a maximum of 100 tries before you quit or change direction. But every 10th time tries something new. If you get positive feedback then continue. The world is constantly bombarding us with information, and people have grown to ignore information altogether. This is an information blindspot. There is so much information out there that people have become numb. Only information that is distraught, and entertaining can get people excited.
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May 4, 2022
Where do you want to go?
Afternoon musings #Writingcommunity #startup #motivation #followmetofollowback
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April 28, 2022
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(A) Waiting for the Mahatma
(B) The Serpent and the Rope
(C) A Bend in the Ganges
(D) Kanthapura
Answer: (D)
💡Kanthapura is the story of how Gandhi's struggle for independence from the British came to a typical village, Kanthapura, in South India. Young Moorthy, back from the city with "new ideas," cuts across the ancient barriers of caste to unite the villagers in non-violent action–which is met with violence by landlords and police. The dramatic tale unfolds in a poetic, almost mythical style which conveys as never before the rich textures of Indian rural life. The narrator is an old woman, imbued with the legendary history of the region, who knows the past of all the characters and comments on their actions with sharp-eyed wisdom. Her narrative, and the way she tells it, evokes the spirit of India's traditional folk-epics.2. Identify the text in the following list which offers a fictionalized survey of English Literature from Elizabethan times to 1928:(A) E.M. Forster, the Eternal Moment
(B) Virginia Woolf, Orlando
(C) Robert Graves, Goodbye to All That
(D) David Jones, In Parenthesis
Answer: (B)
3. Match List – I with List – II according to the code given below:i. John Ruskin
ii. Henry Mayhew
iii. Sir Charles Lyell
iv. Sir James George Frazer
1. London Labour and the London Poor2. The Golden Bough
3. Unto The Last
4. The Principles of Geology
Codes:
i ii iii iv
(A)
3 2 1 4
(B)
2 1 3 4
(C)
2 3 4 1
(D) 3 1 4 2
Answer: (D)
4. Which of the following poems DOES NOT begin in the first person pronoun?(A) Shelley’s “Adonais”
(B) Byron’s “Don Juan”
(C) Keats’s “Lamia”
(D) Coleridge’s ‘The Aeolian Harp’
Answer: (C)
💡SUMMARYThe god Hermes (Mercury), having fallen deeply in love with a nymph who has hidden herself from him, hears a voice complaining of being imprisoned in a snake's body. The speaker is a beautiful serpent. She tells Hermes that she knows he seeks a nymph and offers to make the nymph, to whom she has given the power of invisibility, visible to him providing he will restore to her her woman's body. Hermes gladly agrees. The nymph becomes visible to Hermes; the serpent turns into a beautiful woman and disappears.
Lamia, the serpent-turned-woman, while in her serpent state, had the power to send her spirit wherever she wished. On one of her spirit journeys she had seen a Corinthian youth, Lycius. Now, as woman, she reappears and stands at the side of a road along which she knows Lycius will come on his way to Corinth. When he arrives, she addresses him, asking him if he will leave her all alone where she is. Lycius looks at her and at once falls violently in love with her. Together they walk to Corinth and make their abode in a mansion which she leads him to. There they live together as man and wife, avoiding the company of others.
Lycius and Lamia live happily in the blisses of love until Lycius decides they ought to marry and invite all their friends to the marriage festival. Lamia is strongly opposed to this plan, but the persistence of Lycius at last wins her reluctant consent. She agrees on the condition that Lycius will not invite the philosopher Apollonius to the marriage feast.
While Lycius is absent inviting all his kinsfolk to the wedding, Lamia, with her magic powers, summons invisible servants who decorate the banquet room and furnish it with rich foods of every kind. When Lycius' guests arrive — Lamia has no friends or relatives in Corinth, she tells Lycius — they marvel at the splendor of the mansion. None of them had known that there was such a magnificent palace in Corinth. Among the guests is Apollonius, who has come uninvited.
At the height of the wedding feast, Apollonius begins to stare fixedly at Lamia. Lamia grows pale and exhibits extreme discomfort. She makes no answer to Lycius' agonized questions as to what ails her. The feasting and the music come to a stop. Turning to Apollonius, Lycius commands him to cease staring at Lamia. "Fool," answers the philosopher contemptuously, "from every ill / Of life have I preserv'd thee to this day, / And shall I see thee made a serpent's prey?" Looking at Lamia again, he utters two words: "A serpent!" At the words, Lamia vanishes. At the moment of her disappearance, Lycius dies.
5. In his Anatomy of Melancholy Robert Burton proposes the following two principal kinds:I. Love
II. Death
III. Spiritual
IV. Religious
The correct combination according to the code is:
(A) I and II are correct.
(B) I and III are correct.
(C) I and IV are correct.
(D) II and IV are correct.
Answer: (C)
6. Listed below are some English journals widely read by professionals: Screen, Critical Quarterly, Review of English, Wasafiri. One of the above founded by C.B. Cox, and now being edited by Colin MacCabe, carries not only critical and scholarly essays in English Studies but reviews film, culture, language and contemporary political issues. Identify the journal:(A) Wasafiri
(B) Screen
(C) Critical Quarterly
(D) Review of English Studies
Answer: (C)
💡Critical Quarterly is a peer-reviewed academic journal in the humanities published by Wiley. The editor-in-chief is Colin MacCabe. The journal notably published the Black Papers on education starting in 1969.7. In Marvell’s “A Dialogue between Soul and Body”, who/which of the following has the last word?(A) Body
(B) God
(C) Soul
(D) Satan
Answer: (A)
8. In Blake’s poem “A Poison Tree” the speaker’s anger grows and becomes ________.(A) A cherry
(B) An apple
(C) An orange
(D) A rose
Answer: (B)
9. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other as Reason (R):Assertion (A): For deconstructive critics how human beings read and interpret signs they receive will determine their modes of knowing and being, whether those signs come in the form of literary texts or bank statements.Reason (R): The fact of the matter is that human beings use signs to function in the world and are always likely to do so.In the context of the two statements, which one of the following is correct?
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true.
Answer: (A)
10. Ian McEwan’s Saturday spans one day in the life of(A) A divorce lawyer
(B) An ageing pianist
(C) A London neurosurgeon
(D) A famous poet
Answer: (C)
💡Plot of the novelThe book follows Henry Perowne, a middle-aged, successful surgeon. Five chapters chart his day and thoughts on Saturday the 15 February 2003, the day of the demonstration against the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the largest protest in British history. Perowne's day begins in the early morning, when he sees a burning aeroplane streak across the sky. This casts a shadow over the rest of his day as reports on the television change and shift: is it an accident, or terrorism?
En route to his weekly squash game, a traffic diversion reminds Perowne of the anti-war protests occurring that day. After being allowed through the diversion, he collides with another car, damaging its wing mirror. At first the driver, Baxter, tries to extort money from him. When Perowne refuses, Baxter and his two companions become aggressive. Noticing symptoms in Baxter's behaviour, Perowne quickly recognises the onset of Huntington's disease. Though he is punched in the sternum, Perowne manages to escape unharmed by distracting Baxter with discussions of his disease.
Perowne goes on to his squash match, still thinking about the incident. He loses the long and contested game by a technicality in the final set. After lunch he buys some fish from a local fishmonger for dinner. He visits his mother, suffering from vascular dementia, who is cared for in a nursing home.
After a visit to his son's rehearsal, Perowne returns home to cook dinner, and the evening news reminds him of the grander arc of events that surround his life. When Daisy, his daughter, arrives home from Paris, the two passionately debate the coming war in Iraq. His father-in-law arrives next. Daisy reconciles an earlier literary disagreement that led to a froideur with her maternal grandfather; remembering that it was he who had inspired her love of literature. Perowne's son Theo returns next.
Rosalind, Perowne's wife, is the last to arrive home. As she enters, Baxter and an accomplice 'Nige' force their way in armed with knives. Baxter punches the grandfather, intimidates the family and orders Daisy to strip naked. When she does, Perowne notices that she is pregnant. Finding out she is a poet, Baxter asks her to recite a poem. Rather than one of her own, she recites Dover Beach, which affects Baxter emotionally, effectively disarming him. Instead he becomes enthusiastic about Perowne's renewed talk about new treatment for Huntington's disease. After his companion abandons him, Baxter is overpowered by Perowne and Theo, and knocked unconscious after falling down the stairs. That night Perowne is summoned to the hospital for a successful emergency operation on Baxter. Saturday ends at around 5:15 a.m. on Sunday, after he has returned from the hospital and made love to his wife again.
11. “Open Forum” as applied to poetry, is the same as ________. It is poetry that is not written according to traditional fixed patterns. (Fill up)
(A) Blank verse
(B) Concrete poetry
(C) L = A = N = G = U = A = G = E poetry
(D) Free verse
Answer: (D)
💡Nonmetrical, nonrhyming lines that closely follow the natural rhythms of speech . A regular pattern of sound or rhythm may emerge in free-verse lines, but the poet does not adhere to a metrical plan in their composition.12. The author of the book observes “I have attempted, through the medium of biography, to present some Victorian visions to the modern eye”. The four main characters in this book are Nightingale Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Dr. . Arnold and General Gordon. Who is this author?
(A) Mathew Arnold
(B) Robert Browning
(C) Lytton Strachey
(D) Oscar Wilde
Answer: (C)
A founding member of the Bloomsbury Group and author of Eminent Victorians , he is best known for establishing a new form of biography in which psychological insight and sympathy are combined with irreverence and wit.
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Test
(A) Waiting for the Mahatma
(B) The Serpent and the Rope
(C) A Bend in the Ganges
(D) Kanthapura
Answer: (D)
💡Kanthapura is the story of how Gandhi's struggle for independence from the British came to a typical village, Kanthapura, in South India. Young Moorthy, back from the city with "new ideas," cuts across the ancient barriers of caste to unite the villagers in non-violent action–which is met with violence by landlords and police. The dramatic tale unfolds in a poetic, almost mythical style which conveys as never before the rich textures of Indian rural life. The narrator is an old woman, imbued with the legendary history of the region, who knows the past of all the characters and comments on their actions with sharp-eyed wisdom. Her narrative, and the way she tells it, evokes the spirit of India's traditional folk-epics.2. Identify the text in the following list which offers a fictionalized survey of English Literature from Elizabethan times to 1928:(A) E.M. Forster, the Eternal Moment
(B) Virginia Woolf, Orlando
(C) Robert Graves, Goodbye to All That
(D) David Jones, In Parenthesis
Answer: (B)
3. Match List – I with List – II according to the code given below:i. John Ruskin
ii. Henry Mayhew
iii. Sir Charles Lyell
iv. Sir James George Frazer
1. London Labour and the London Poor2. The Golden Bough
3. Unto The Last
4. The Principles of Geology
Codes:
i ii iii iv
(A)
3 2 1 4
(B)
2 1 3 4
(C)
2 3 4 1
(D) 3 1 4 2
Answer: (D)
4. Which of the following poems DOES NOT begin in the first person pronoun?(A) Shelley’s “Adonais”
(B) Byron’s “Don Juan”
(C) Keats’s “Lamia”
(D) Coleridge’s ‘The Aeolian Harp’
Answer: (C)
💡SUMMARYThe god Hermes (Mercury), having fallen deeply in love with a nymph who has hidden herself from him, hears a voice complaining of being imprisoned in a snake's body. The speaker is a beautiful serpent. She tells Hermes that she knows he seeks a nymph and offers to make the nymph, to whom she has given the power of invisibility, visible to him providing he will restore to her her woman's body. Hermes gladly agrees. The nymph becomes visible to Hermes; the serpent turns into a beautiful woman and disappears.
Lamia, the serpent-turned-woman, while in her serpent state, had the power to send her spirit wherever she wished. On one of her spirit journeys she had seen a Corinthian youth, Lycius. Now, as woman, she reappears and stands at the side of a road along which she knows Lycius will come on his way to Corinth. When he arrives, she addresses him, asking him if he will leave her all alone where she is. Lycius looks at her and at once falls violently in love with her. Together they walk to Corinth and make their abode in a mansion which she leads him to. There they live together as man and wife, avoiding the company of others.
Lycius and Lamia live happily in the blisses of love until Lycius decides they ought to marry and invite all their friends to the marriage festival. Lamia is strongly opposed to this plan, but the persistence of Lycius at last wins her reluctant consent. She agrees on the condition that Lycius will not invite the philosopher Apollonius to the marriage feast.
While Lycius is absent inviting all his kinsfolk to the wedding, Lamia, with her magic powers, summons invisible servants who decorate the banquet room and furnish it with rich foods of every kind. When Lycius' guests arrive — Lamia has no friends or relatives in Corinth, she tells Lycius — they marvel at the splendor of the mansion. None of them had known that there was such a magnificent palace in Corinth. Among the guests is Apollonius, who has come uninvited.
At the height of the wedding feast, Apollonius begins to stare fixedly at Lamia. Lamia grows pale and exhibits extreme discomfort. She makes no answer to Lycius' agonized questions as to what ails her. The feasting and the music come to a stop. Turning to Apollonius, Lycius commands him to cease staring at Lamia. "Fool," answers the philosopher contemptuously, "from every ill / Of life have I preserv'd thee to this day, / And shall I see thee made a serpent's prey?" Looking at Lamia again, he utters two words: "A serpent!" At the words, Lamia vanishes. At the moment of her disappearance, Lycius dies.
5. In his Anatomy of Melancholy Robert Burton proposes the following two principal kinds:I. Love
II. Death
III. Spiritual
IV. Religious
The correct combination according to the code is:
(A) I and II are correct.
(B) I and III are correct.
(C) I and IV are correct.
(D) II and IV are correct.
Answer: (C)
6. Listed below are some English journals widely read by professionals: Screen, Critical Quarterly, Review of English, Wasafiri. One of the above founded by C.B. Cox, and now being edited by Colin MacCabe, carries not only critical and scholarly essays in English Studies but reviews film, culture, language and contemporary political issues. Identify the journal:(A) Wasafiri
(B) Screen
(C) Critical Quarterly
(D) Review of English Studies
Answer: (C)
💡Critical Quarterly is a peer-reviewed academic journal in the humanities published by Wiley. The editor-in-chief is Colin MacCabe. The journal notably published the Black Papers on education starting in 1969.7. In Marvell’s “A Dialogue between Soul and Body”, who/which of the following has the last word?(A) Body
(B) God
(C) Soul
(D) Satan
Answer: (A)
8. In Blake’s poem “A Poison Tree” the speaker’s anger grows and becomes ________.(A) A cherry
(B) An apple
(C) An orange
(D) A rose
Answer: (B)
9. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other as Reason (R):Assertion (A): For deconstructive critics how human beings read and interpret signs they receive will determine their modes of knowing and being, whether those signs come in the form of literary texts or bank statements.Reason (R): The fact of the matter is that human beings use signs to function in the world and are always likely to do so.In the context of the two statements, which one of the following is correct?
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true.
Answer: (A)
10. Ian McEwan’s Saturday spans one day in the life of(A) A divorce lawyer
(B) An ageing pianist
(C) A London neurosurgeon
(D) A famous poet
Answer: (C)
💡Plot of the novelThe book follows Henry Perowne, a middle-aged, successful surgeon. Five chapters chart his day and thoughts on Saturday the 15 February 2003, the day of the demonstration against the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the largest protest in British history. Perowne's day begins in the early morning, when he sees a burning aeroplane streak across the sky. This casts a shadow over the rest of his day as reports on the television change and shift: is it an accident, or terrorism?
En route to his weekly squash game, a traffic diversion reminds Perowne of the anti-war protests occurring that day. After being allowed through the diversion, he collides with another car, damaging its wing mirror. At first the driver, Baxter, tries to extort money from him. When Perowne refuses, Baxter and his two companions become aggressive. Noticing symptoms in Baxter's behaviour, Perowne quickly recognises the onset of Huntington's disease. Though he is punched in the sternum, Perowne manages to escape unharmed by distracting Baxter with discussions of his disease.
Perowne goes on to his squash match, still thinking about the incident. He loses the long and contested game by a technicality in the final set. After lunch he buys some fish from a local fishmonger for dinner. He visits his mother, suffering from vascular dementia, who is cared for in a nursing home.
After a visit to his son's rehearsal, Perowne returns home to cook dinner, and the evening news reminds him of the grander arc of events that surround his life. When Daisy, his daughter, arrives home from Paris, the two passionately debate the coming war in Iraq. His father-in-law arrives next. Daisy reconciles an earlier literary disagreement that led to a froideur with her maternal grandfather; remembering that it was he who had inspired her love of literature. Perowne's son Theo returns next.
Rosalind, Perowne's wife, is the last to arrive home. As she enters, Baxter and an accomplice 'Nige' force their way in armed with knives. Baxter punches the grandfather, intimidates the family and orders Daisy to strip naked. When she does, Perowne notices that she is pregnant. Finding out she is a poet, Baxter asks her to recite a poem. Rather than one of her own, she recites Dover Beach, which affects Baxter emotionally, effectively disarming him. Instead he becomes enthusiastic about Perowne's renewed talk about new treatment for Huntington's disease. After his companion abandons him, Baxter is overpowered by Perowne and Theo, and knocked unconscious after falling down the stairs. That night Perowne is summoned to the hospital for a successful emergency operation on Baxter. Saturday ends at around 5:15 a.m. on Sunday, after he has returned from the hospital and made love to his wife again.
11. “Open Forum” as applied to poetry, is the same as ________. It is poetry that is not written according to traditional fixed patterns. (Fill up)
(A) Blank verse
(B) Concrete poetry
(C) L = A = N = G = U = A = G = E poetry
(D) Free verse
Answer: (D)
💡Nonmetrical, nonrhyming lines that closely follow the natural rhythms of speech . A regular pattern of sound or rhythm may emerge in free-verse lines, but the poet does not adhere to a metrical plan in their composition.12. The author of the book observes “I have attempted, through the medium of biography, to present some Victorian visions to the modern eye”. The four main characters in this book are Nightingale Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Dr. . Arnold and General Gordon. Who is this author?
(A) Mathew Arnold
(B) Robert Browning
(C) Lytton Strachey
(D) Oscar Wilde
Answer: (C)
A founding member of the Bloomsbury Group and author of Eminent Victorians , he is best known for establishing a new form of biography in which psychological insight and sympathy are combined with irreverence and wit.
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April 27, 2022
The mysterious Benedict Society- The Perilous Journey summary and review
The Disney series introduced me to the fabulous world of The Mysterious Benedict Society. I decided to read the second book as I heard the show would have a second season. The second book’s start is a bit sluggish, and if you endure through the first couple of chapters, then you will complete the perilous journey. This book is also about journeys. Lord of the Rings is about a journey, Harry Potter is about a journey, and it is like the physical journey is much too close to a psychological journey as well.
This children’s novel is true to its genre. It is didactic without being obnoxious, and fun at the same time. The characters are memorable. One can almost imagine Constance and her haughty attitude.
This novel, at its core, is about innocence, and friendships. The children’s weather is all to save Mr. Benedict from the terrible fate that is before them. They set out on a rescue mission which is filled with dangerous encounters with Ten Men (a A group of very well dressed men, but able to inflict pain on their victims by ten different methods).
The father and daughter relationship, the professor with the children, and the caretakers with the children are all drawn out wonderfully in this work. The children in the novel never seem to quit, they always find ways to get back on their feet. A good lesson for anyone. The most interesting thing about a very well-written children’s novel is when the characters show fortitude in the face of adversity.
One instance struck me the most in this novel.
# Spoiler Alert
Kate was furious and she could throw the bomb toward the evil ten men who had hurt her father terribly. But even in that movement, she understands that she is not like them, and so she hurls the bomb remote into the open sea.
No matter how bad people have treated us, no matter how dark the world gets, there is definitely some light in each and every one of them. This novel shows that without a doubt. Brains, muscles, and intuition can also help in making this world a better place, but kindness must be the ultimate deciding factor.
This novel can be seen in many other critical ways, but that will be beyond the scope of the review. You can buy the book here.
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April 19, 2022
Temporary azure Sky!
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April 18, 2022
DEC 2012- NET English with Explanation
1. Which of the following book by V. S. Naipaul is subtitled The Caribbean Revisited?
(A) In a Free State
(B) A Bend in the River
(C) The Middle Passage
(D) An Area of Darkness
Answer: (C)
The Middle Passage: The Caribbean Revisited is a 1962 book-length essay and travelogue by V. S. Naipaul. It is his first book-length work of non-fiction.[1]
The book covers a year-long trip Naipaul took through Trinidad, British Guiana, , Martinique, and Jamaica in 1961. As well as giving his own impressions, Naipaul refers to the work of earlier travellers such as Patrick Leigh Fermor, who described a similar itinerary in The Traveller’s Tree (1950). Naipaul addresses a range of topics including the legacy of slavery and colonialism, race relations, the roles of immigrants from India in the various countries, and differences in language, culture, and economics.
The book was poorly received in Trinidad and other Caribbean nations on account of Naipaul’s “patronising attitude” towards these colonies and ex-colonies, his apparent approval of imperialism, and for other reasons.
2. ‘Fluency’ in language is the same as
(A) The ability to put oneself across comfortably in speech and/or writing.
(B) The ability to command language rather than language commanding the user.
(C) Glibness
(D) Accuracy
Answer: (A)
3. Which of the following statements on Pathetic Fallacy is NOT TRUE?
(A) This term applies to descriptions that are not true but imaginary and fanciful.
(B) Pathetic Fallacy is generally understood as human traits being applied or attributed to non-human things in nature.
(C) In its first use, the term was used with disapproval because nature cannot be equated with the human in respect of emotions and responses.
(D) The term was originally used by Alexander Pope in his Pastorals (1709).
Answer: (D)
The phrase pathetic fallacy
is a literary term for the attribution of human emotion and conduct to things found in nature that are not human. It is a kind of personification
that occurs in poetic descriptions, when, for example, clouds seem sullen, when leaves dance, or when rocks seem indifferent. The British cultural critic John Ruskin
coined the term in Volume 3 of his work, Modern Painters
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April 16, 2022
Welcome to my Newsletter -April
Hi Folks,
I hope you are doing well. This week onwards NET/SET classes are starting. Contact us for more information. As always this Weekly Newsletter will distill all the useful content of the week. Even if you have missed out here is a chance to get a quick summary about the books I am reading, new discoveries, and ideas.
1) What book I am reading this week?
I am currently reading The Mysterious Benedict Society 2: The perilous Journey. I was watching Season 1 of this amazing children novel adaptation. I was so intrigued by this amazing story that I started to read the 2nd book in the series. I have completed 50 % of the book.
2) What podcasts I enjoyed the most?
I am enjoying Daily Stoic Podcast. I am randomly listening to various short pieces.
3) Youtube videos:
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