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Environment is the surrounding of an organism. This environment in which an organism lives is made up of various elements like air, water, land etc. These elements are found in fixed proportions to create a harmonious balance in the environment for the organism to live in. Any kind of undesirable and unwanted change in the proportions of these elements can be termed as Pollution. Out environment consists of the lithosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere and atmosphere. With the rise of the industries and the migration of people from villages to towns in search of employment, there has been a regular increase in the problem of proper housing and unhygienic conditions of living has led to rise in factors which increase pollution. The growth of industries has given rise to the problem of proper disposal of waste material of the industries. Many a times the waste product of these industries contain poisonous elements more...

Introduction. Man has been facing risks to satisfy his curiosity to gain knowledge about the things around him. Many people have sacrificed their lives to quench the thirst for knowledge. When space travel began? In olden days when man was in dark he worshipped the sun and the moon thinking them the scared heavenly bodies. But the scientists proved that the sun is an ordinary star and the moon is a planet like other planets. After the atomic age man has entered the age of the space travel. Progress in space travel. The invention of rocket was the first step in space travel. The moon was the first target of man. Scientists had already discovered that there was neither air nor water on the surface of the moon. The moon is our nearest neighbour. It is about 300000 kms. From the earth. This distance could be covered in ten hours more...

Indian democracy stands out as a landmark in this part of the Asian continent. It has crossed the half- century mark and it is going strong with the passage of time. Contrast this with military juntas in some of the neighboring countries. However democracy without discipline is like body without a soul. If there is no discipline, democracy degenerates into a monocracy. Democracy is a liberal form of governance—a system of government by the whole population, through elected representation—a true form of self-rule. Lack of discipline in democracy can the people Plato's criticism that democracy is the divine right wrong nation people to rule ignorantly. it is true that democracy is based on the freewill of the people  who are supreme and sovereign. There is a wrong notion that in democracy there are only rights and no duties. The fact remains that rights and duties go hand in hand together. more...

A part-time job is a good way of spending one's spare time as well as earning some extra money. Many people who take up part-time jobs do so to supplement their insufficient normal income. In this age of inflation and rising costs, this insufficiency is not surprising. Others may do part-time work because they love that particular kind of work. Yet others may have dreams of making it big. Whatever the reasons, part-time jobs are available to those who care to take them. Part-time jobs can be lucrative. Companies that deal with direct sales employ a lot of part-timers. They may be housewives, teachers, students, school-dropouts, labourers or anyone who have the time, energy and drive to go around pushing the products. These direct-sales organizations sell mainly consumer products like cosmetics, toiletries, casual wears and others. The employees are paid a commission for the amount of the goods sold. The more...

Travel has educational value. It increases out knowledge. While on travel, a person meets people of different races, regions, religion, castes. A person also visits different places—each location has importance of its Educational institutions arrange travel programmes for their students during vacations. Student from western countries travel often and far. Travel also gives much pleasure. It gives us change of.  Environment It relieves us of day-to-day anxieties. It gives a chance to meet people with different habits and Customs. Their food may be different. Thus we can learn about people of foreign climes through travel books. But when we personally visit—it makes a difference. We gain Firest- hand knowledge of these countries and the people.  The personal touch makes us remember forever. We can visit historical places as Agra, Gaya, Jaipur, Jhansi, Hyderabad, Nalanda, Mysore, and Udaipur. We may also visit places of religious significance like Ajmer, Amritsar Badrinath, Hardwar, more...

Introduction. It is true that science has given us the outstands of gifts. It has made our life comfortable. But there is another side of science. It has proved a source of trouble for us. Some of it curses are as under:- 1. Over crowded cities and towns. Science has invented machines. New factories and mills arc set up in cities. The people of villages have given up agriculture. They are running to the cities. Now villages are left backward. Cities are over-crowded. 2. Unemployment and poverty. Science has given us machines. A machine does the work of hundreds of people. So they have driven laborers out of employment. Ultimately unemployment results in poverty. 3. Division of society. A few persons are the owners of factories. The other persons have to work in those factories. The whole profit goes to the mill-owners who are growing richer and richer. The labourers more...

Introduction.  Exhibitions are held in many districts by the government. The Aligarh exhibition is very famous. With the permission of my father I went to see it. Outside the exhibition. My brother and I started towards the exhibition. There was a great rush of Tongas, motor cars and rickshaws. There was noise as well as dust-1 saw a large number of tents outside the exhibition. They belonged to the officers and rich men. They were, fenced. I went along the road which was sprinkled with water. Inside the exhibition. We reached the gate of the exhibition. It was 4 o'clock in the evening. As we went in. we saw shops on both sides of the road. They were very fine. The things in the shops were put in a tempting manner. Roads came from all directions and met at this place. Under a small tower stood the policeman, lo control more...

City Life There goes a saying: "God made the country and manmade the town". It makes clear the difference between urban and rural living. Life in a city—it may be a state capital, the country's capital, or any other city with huge population—is fast and more or less unnatural. Whereas life in a village is peaceful, simple and people are close to one another and nature. We have cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai that have big population. The state capitals have their own importance. City life has advantages as well as disadvantages. In large cities houses are usually very big and are furnished. The houses could have many storeys. If there are more than four storeys, lifts have to be provided for convenience.  a large city has many markets. Each colony is more. Or less self-contained and residents have not to go far for shopping. In contrast, a more...

The well-known adage that we eat to live, and not live to eat, draws sustenance from the biblical truth that man does not live by bread alone but by the word of god. This is so because when a man lives by the word of god, it gains primacy and all other things become subordinate to it. That is how a good book becomes the "precious life-blood of a master spirit". This assumes added significance as the verse takes us to colossal heights of glory and we eat only if we must. Just as we "talk less and work more" which is the slogan for efficiency for carrying out any work at the stipulated time, eat less and think more is the secret of living in grace, keeping off sins since gluttony is one of the seven deadly sins. Moreover, gluttony leads to disgrace. Unknowingly some people "punish" their offspring more...

Introduction. Generally dreams are the result of our thoughts which we have in our mind. The things or ideas that strike our minds which we cannot display in the day appear in form of dream when we sleep. Generally, we see dreams when we sleep at night. A politician generally dreams of politie.il matter in his sleep. A doctor we dreams of his patient’s disease and other similar things. During the examination days a student dreams of papers and results. Sometime. We dream of those things which have no relation with our profession or day to day matters Last night, I also .saw a dream. It is still fresh in my memory. Description of the dream. In the dream I saw that one day I was going to Agra to .see the Taj Mahal in the company of my friend-,. Near the bus stand of Agra 1 was attracted by some more...