Essays

The earth Day observed each year on April 22 marks the anniversary of the birth of the modem environmental movement in 1970. Earth Day Founder Gaylord Nelson, then a US Senator from Wisconsin, proposed the first nationwide environmental protest "to shake up the political establishment and force this issue onto the national agenda". The environmental movement was proposed at a time when air pollution was commonly accepted as the smell of prosperity. Environment was a word that appeared more often in spelling bees than on the evening news. However, on April 22, 1970, 20 million Americans took to the streets, parks, and auditoriums to demonstrate for a healthy, sustainable environment. Massive coast-to-coast rallies were organized. Thousands of colleges and universities organized protests against the deterioration of the environment. Groups that had been fighting against oil spills, polluting factories and power plants, raw sewage, toxic dumps, pesticides freeways, the loss of more...

My class-room is situated in the eastern wing of the school. It is near the Principal's office. It is flanked by broad verandahs on both sides. Like all the class-rooms in our school, my class-room is very spacious. It is airy and well ventilated. There are two windows. On both sides, there are grassy lawns beyond the verandahs. The sweet smell of flowers is, thus, always invading my class-room. My class-room has eight rows of benches. Four students sit on each bench. On both sides along the walls, there are passages for teachers and students to move about. There is a large black-board affixed on the wall facing the rows of benches. Under the black-board is the dais on which the teacher's chair is placed. In front of the chair there is a table on which lie a box of chalk pieces and a duster for the teacher. There are more...

When discussing the generation gap, many issuesKlirface. In this article in Newsweek, issues such as music, morals, and goals arise with the wide gulf of|rnerations in the black community. Older Americans continue to be separated from thegrowing hip-hop culture, and they, along with the hip-hop community, have not yet learned how to deal withthis separation. Music is one of the largest rifts between the civil rightsgeneration and the hip-hop generation. An increase in violence, sex, and disrespect in modern music reflects the increase in violence, sex, and Disrespect in the modern pop culture. This is the view of younger black Americans. Older Americans feel that the violent and sexuallyexplicit music is the cause of such chaos and Degradation of our society. Morals have declined, and this is evident even in the professional world of the NBA. Disrespect for referees and other players dominate thecourt by younger players. The word "nigga" more...

Our school library is an excellent education resource. It presents a massive annual financial investment by the school in the form of print materials, audio-visual equipment, computer hardware and software, every year. The library has a vast array of resources at its disposalSome of the resources are books, recent newspaper. newspaper clippings, magazines, educational video'and multimedia CD-ROMs. Rated as one of the best in our city, it has separate wings for material that can be borrowed and material that is treated only as reference and hence cannot in be borrowed. The reference wing, which is to the right of the building is filled with encyclopedias, dictionaries and rare book It is equipped with two photocopiers, which can be used to copy content from reference books. We .in charged a nominal amount for this service. The left wing houses books in all genres – multicultural folk, myth, biographies, mysteries, adventure stories more...

The routine work that we do every day brings monotony into our lives. To break the monotony we often look for interesting and exciting things to do hobbies are perhaps the best way to find a distraction Witch is creative and that which enhances our personality too. We all need to entertain ourselves from time to time.at suchtime a good hobby is very useful. Hobbies basically provide recreation. They entertain us and at the same time they are valuable. My hobby is singing. People often resort to gardening, reading, stamp collecting, bird   watching, etc. however I love to listen to music and also to sing, I have a large collection of tapes and I listen to all kinds of music. My collection ranges from classical music to rock and from Indian music to Western music. My hobby is to listen to these songs carefully and then to leran them. I more...

Travelling by air is one of the most exciting ways of travelling, and the Airport from where air travel being Is a place bustling with activities, people coming, andgoing, and announcements being made to remind Passengers that their flight is about to take off. After arriving at the Airport, it is customary to deposit your baggage at the airline counter. The officer on duty examines your air ticket. Expect a queue at the counter but wait your turn patiently—it will come. After your tickets have been checked, the baggage isweighed. The standard baggage permitted is 20 kgs per Passenger traveller on the economy class, and 30 kgs for those travelling in the first class, on both domestic and international flights. The baggage that is not required on the flight is checkedin. Normally a small bag is allowed into the aircraft, No large baggage is permitted. This is placed on the more...

Education has decidedly a role to play in fighting thevirus of communalism. In fact it is the considered view of all leading sections of society that education aloneshall go a long way in fighting the communal virus. Communalism is a venomous phenomenon which has been propagated by the ruling circles from times Immemorial fundamentally commnalios has been found by these ruling circles gointe having in order to Perpetuate their despoils rule. This practice has beenpoloned for long and people of various religions do on Denominations have been making to fight each other. It is only communatism that sprits the people into from professing different religious-Hindusims, Islam, Christian etc. These were the forces which end to thepartition of our country in 1947. This poses a great threatto the political scene of India. Communalism halts the progress of society and greatcesauncongenial atmosphere between people. Leaders in India have been coucerd with the more...

Colours will fill the atmosphere as people throw abeer and gulal in the air showing great joy and mirth in the arrival of this Spring Festival. Holi marks the end of the winter gloom and rejoices in the bloom of the spring time. It is the best time and season to celebrate; Holi provides this opportunity and people take every advantage of it. Days before Holi, the markets get flooded with the colours of every hues. This aptly sets the mood of the people till the actual day of Holi. It is such a colourful and joyous sight to watch huge piles of bright red, magenta, pink, green and blue everywhere on the streets. Buying those colours seems as you are bringing joys and colour to your home and into your life. Children taketerrial delight in the festival and demand every colourin load. They have so many plans in their more...

The policy of divide and rule was adopted by the British in India as they wanted to manage and manipulate Indians to suit their political ends. They created a communal mind in India — Hindus, Muslims,' Christians and Sikhs lived like brothers before theI British came to India. Three British planted the seed of separatism on the basis of language, religion and caste. Soon the Hindu beganto feel different from his Muslim neighbor and this often led to a tendency to compare each other in termsof benefits from the government. When India earned her Independence, she was able todrive away the British but the damage done by them is almost permanent. They have managed to change the psyche of the Indian, to such an extent that even todaypeople belonging to different religions are struggling to be one up on the other. Today the task before Indians is to unite IndiaPolitical more...

Last year I celebrated my birthday exactly the way I wanted to. My parents had told me that I could .it them for anything on my birthday and 1 asked them toarrange a grand party for my friends. My mother is my best friend when it comes to invitingmy friends home. She helped me to make invitation cards and to fill them up with names. She made a list of all the friends that I wanted to call and then made a card to send to each of my friends. The contents of each card were different so as to suit the taste of the particular friend to whom it was sent. Next she took me to the market and we bought balloons and streamers, masks and caps etc to decorate the housewith. We ordered the cake and bought wrapping paperalong with the return presents. As we reached homewe sat more...