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537 words essay on Scene in A Flood Affected Area. Flood is one of the highly devastating natural calamities. It is a regular phenomenon in India. Every year thousands of lives are lost in flood. Lakhs of people are rendered homeless.Property worth cores of rupees is washed away. Every year government spends hundreds of cores of rupees to rehabilitate the flood victims. Thus, flood creates an extra burden on the exchequer.The sight of flood affected area is horrible. Last July I got an opportunity to visit my ancestral village in Darbhanga district of Bihar. My uncle lives there. I was caught in flood. At the same time, I got a chance to have a horrible experience there. One night I was fast asleep, suddenly I woke up to hear a…

Free sample essay on A House on Fire. One day, I was studying at home. Suddenly there was a loud noise. I came out of my house to know what had happened in the neighborhood.What I saw, I could not stop my scream. A house in my neighborhood had caught fire; people from the neighboring areas were rushing towards the house. They were pouring buckets of water to extinguish fire. Many people were throwing sands and dust over the fire. A few people were trying to control fire by throwing blankets on it. But the fire was ravaging. It was a horrible sight.This house was a three-storeyed building. Some inmates of the house were on the second floor. The fire started from the ground floor. Soon, it spread to the…

Essay on the Theory of “The Law of Three Stages” – The theory of “The Law of Three Stages” constitutes one of the main contributions of Comte to the field of sociological thought. The influence of Charles Darwin and his “theory of organic evolution” had its own impact on Comtean views including his law of three stages. Auguste Comte organised and classified the social thought prevailing before his times. Comte gave birth not only to a specific methodology of studying knowledge but also analyzed the evolution of human thinking and its various stages. The principle evolved by Comte in the study of human thinking presumes gradual evolution and development in human thinking and is known as the law of three stages of thinking. Image Source: corporatelivewire.com ADVERTISEMENTS: Affinity between the…

Essay on the Role of Dominant Castes – Some of the castes included among the ‘Other Backward Classes’ are very powerful in the economic, social and political fields. They outnumber the Brahmins and own vast lands. They are not as well educated as the Brahmins; nor are they well represented in the government jobs.Being powerful land-owners and the traditional village headmen they are very powerful in the political field at the local, district and state levels. M.N. Srinivas refers to such castes as the ‘dominant castes’. For example, Vokkaligas and Lingayats of Karnataka. Reddis and Kammas of Andhra Pradesh, Nairs and Ezhavas of Kerala, Vellals and Nadars of Tamil Nadu, represent such ‘dominant’ castes.Some of the dominant castes are high-caste groups immediately below the Brahmins in status and have relatively…

Free sample essay on Orderliness and Cleanliness. Indians as a race are somewhat negligent in the matter of clean environment. Despite repeated advice by the Government and the social welfare organisations we do not care to keep our home and our environment clean and in order.Outside our home in a corner rubbish and unwanted materials are thrown by the residents of our street, and dogs, crows, buffaloes and pigs, crowd around the rubbish and eat whatever they can from it. Crows and other birds peck at any eatable in it and it is a disgusting sight. Sometimes foul smell emanates from the rubbish. Residents in some suburbs complain that the municipal and corporation Lorries dump the refuse they collect from various places in a site near their houses. The stench…

Free sample essay on Terrorism. Terrorism is a great threat to human dignity and liberty. From the viewpoint of human rights terrorism is to be condemned outright, for, the terrorists have absolutely no right to gun down innocent children, men and women, to achieve their goal. It is said that terrorism has taken deep roots in every country, in India, in Pakistan, in Afghanistan, in Israel, in Iran, in Saudi Arabia, in Iraq etc.The history of terrorism is a pointer to the fact that the antisocial elements are the main culprits in encouraging and training terrorists, who carry out attacks off and on to intimidate the public, to create a fear psychosis in them. When there is a sustained attempt at terrorizing the innocent public, the message that the terrorists…

Free sample essay on Let Us be Kind towards Animals. Human beings have the ability to speak and so they can express their pleasure, anger, approval, disapproval and so on.Animals are dumb and animals like the cow, bull, buffalo, dog, cat and birds are afraid of us. With our power to command them we make them submissive to us. We beat them with a stick, we treat them cruelly and they are afraid of us. Of course, the wild animals in the forest, being beasts of prey, pounce on man, injure him with their teeth and claws and cause in him great fear. They may sometimes kill us. But there are poachers who shoot an elephant, a tiger, a rhinoceros or snakes for selfish purposes. They kill an elephant and…

Free sample essay on Our Roads (India). The roads in our villages, towns and cities are bumpy and are not traffic-worthy. In villages there are ups and downs on the streets or roads and if it is dark one may stumble. The Panchayats, municipalities and corporations are not particular in laying good roads, in mending them.Even in the cities the roads are not well-tarred and there is no footpath. Except in the main thoroughfares there are no footpaths. A person has to walk on the sides of a road and when two or three vehicles from the opposite directions come it is quite difficult for a pedestrian to give way to the vehicles. This is a strange situation in Indian towns and cities.The first duty of a Panchayati, municipality or…

Short essay on A Scene at a Ration Depot for students (Free to read). A ration depot is an important compo­nent of the Public Distribution System (PDS).The main purpose of having a net-work of ration depots throughout the country is to arrange a regular supply of essential items to the common man at fixed reasonable rates. This system incidentally also discour­ages hoarding by unscrupulous traders and prevents resultant shortages and artificial escalation of price rise.A ration depot is generally bubbling with life. Long before the opening of the depot, the card-holders stand outside it in a long queue. Sometimes there are separate queues for ladies and gentlemen and for those who want eatables like cereals, pulses, sugar etc. and those who want kerosene oil. Image Source : olympia-einkaufszentrum.de ADVERTISEMENTS: Generally,…

AlDS stands for ‘Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome’ a disease in which the body’s immune system breaks down. A virus called the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) causes AIDS. HIV specifically targets key components of the cellular immune system and depletes the body’s ability to fight infection.In medical terminology HIV is a retrovirus this means it can copy its genetic material RNA into DNA using a unique enzyme called reverse transcriptase. ADVERTISEMENTS: Normally, living organisms make RNA out of DNA but in retroviruses such as HIV, the step is in reverse that is it makes DNA out of RNA. HIV inserts its DNA copies into the DNA of the cells of the immune system, turning them into HIV factories and preventing them from protecting the body.HIV is also a highly variable virus…