Category: Essays

It was a bad day for my brother. He had got a mouthful from my father for playing cricket all the time and not studying. My brother was in a bad mood and I felt sorry for him as I also used to get a good scolding from my father from time to time. I was wondering how to pacify my brother and change his mood. It was mid- afternoon and my father were having a snooze. Everybody knew better than to disturb him when he was taking his afternoon nap. But not the neighborhood tomcat. He and another torn were having a free for all in our front yard. There was much hissing and spitting and growling and meowing. Between the two of them, they created such a racket…

Pre-approach is important for the salesman due to the following reasons:1. A salesman by means of pre-approach can save his valuable time, effort and energy by concentrating on those prospects exclusively who are most likely to buy In other words, he can distinguish between ‘most likely prospects and general prospects’ and confine his approach to genuine prospects by remaining selective.2. Pre-approach makes the salesman more confident and enthusiastic while meeting the prospects and putting forth the sales proposition before them. This confidence and enthusiasm is the cumulative result of the detailed background information about the prospects collected during pre-approach. ADVERTISEMENTS: 3. Pre-approach enables the salesman to know beforehand about the needs and requirements of the prospects in the most detailed manner possible.4. By pre-approach, the salesman’s knowledge about the prospects…

Have you ever noticed that we always spell the first personal pronoun with a capital letter? We write you, he, she, they, with small initial letters; but / is always capital a big capital “I”.And it is natural to do so: for most of us think far more of ourselves than of anybody else. The interests and happiness of others are quite secondary to my interests and my happiness most of us feel. ADVERTISEMENTS: That is, selfishness is natural to human nature. It is natural for each of us to want his own way, to look after his own interests first, to think that he is the most important person in creation.A child is naturally selfish. His constant cry is, want this : I will do that: I won’t do…

Every thing in nature is wonderful. Even the commonest object is a mystery. The fact that it is familiar to us, does not explain it. For example, take a common plant, a weed in the garden, which we dig up and throw away as worthless.If you consider the delicacy of its tissue, the perfection of its form and colour, the marvelous way in which it has grown from a tiny seed, you will wonder how it came to be.Not even the greatest scientist in the world can explain the principle of life that has formed it. Com­mon and familiar as it is, it is a mystery. The poet Tennyson has expressed this beautifully :— ADVERTISEMENTS: “Flower in the crannied wall,I pluck you out of the crannies,And hold you here, root…

This proverb is coined from the well known story entitled, “The Hare and die Tortoise,” from Aesop’s fables. We all remember having read it during our kindergarten days.The hare always quick on his feet challenged a tortoise to a running race! The tortoise who knew that, being a slow animal he was no match for the hare. Yet he accepted the challenge. On the day of the race all the animals assembled at one place and die race commenced. Alas! Like a lightning the hare sprinted across and disappeared from sight. But poor tortoise walked slowly, as usual.The haughty hare, which had gone too far away, paused under a tree. He knew that it would take a long time for the tortoise to reach him. So he stretched and slept.…

I am Hema Agarwal. I am studying in std. VI in Saraswati Vidyalaya. About my school? Well, it is a temple to me. Our school is 125 years old, a prestigious institution where many eminent persons had studied. It has a total strength of 780 students studying from LKG to Plus 2.Some children hate going to school. It happens mostly on Mondays, being the first day after the weekly holiday. Many fake sickness to escape schooling, saying that they have stomach ache or head ache. I call it as ‘Monday Melody!’But none of us in our school ever feel so. To us, going to school is a joy, because that is how the teachers made us feel about it. All our teachers are kind, at the same time strict with…

Safety means protecting ourselves from any danger that may hurt us or endanger to our lives. Unsafe practice is a great peril to both life and property. A two wheeler rider who rides recklessly not only risks his own life, but also the other road users.School children getting run over by their same school vans or getting knocked down while crossing the road or getting drowned in die pond or falling from high places or getting electrocuted and so on; such news appear in the newspapers.This is because of their lack of knowledge about overall safety, be it 011 die road or anywhere. While crossing die road, they must not run across in blind panic. Wait till the traffic policeman or the green ‘Walk’ signal appear. Even then look for…

A train is the most common mode of transport for man to go from any one place to another. It is so exciting and interesting when we go in a train from one town to another in the country.On the way we cross all kinds of terrain like plains, hilly areas, water expanses, and bridges over gorges and rivers. It gives the travellers a beautiful view of the entire gamut of terrain existing in the areas crossed, which is always of a wide variety. All this seen from the distance is really fascinating but, when any one of these beauties causes damage to the train or the passengers, the beauty turns into a nasty appearance. ADVERTISEMENTS: However, when one sits in a train bound to go thousands of kilometers to…

A Zoo is a place where animals are kept and maintained for a look by the common man. Here in a Zoo, birds of different varieties are also maintained. The purpose of a zoo is to show us, common people like varieties of animals and birds that exist the world over people who may never be able to see these creatures get a simple chance to see them.A visit to the zoo, increases general knowledge, and at the same time with an achievement, we also get entertainment. A zoo is a place which children specially like to visit.Last Sunday I visited Delhi zoo to see the animals and birds kept in this place. It is one of the largest Zoos in the country. It covers a vast area of about…

Brahmos, the supersonic anti-ship cruise missile jointly developed by India and Russia, was successfully flight- tested from an undisclosed location in the Bay of Bengal, off Orissa coast on February 12, 2003.The test was conducted from a Naval ship INS Rajput. The missile is marginally over 8 meters in length, 670 mm in diameter and weighs 3000 kg. It combines the propulsion system and self made device of Russia’s missile or onyx system with sophisticated on board computer guidance developed by Indian defence scientists. ADVERTISEMENTS: Brahmos has a target range of about 290 km. with 200-300 kg payload of conventional warhead mass depending on the version. Partially an anti-ship missile, Brahmos has also the ability to engage shore-based radio­contrast targets. It can be fired from multiple platforms ship, land, submarine…