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The gardener -By Rudyard Kipling Description of the poem:- When Helen Turrell became pregnant she was ashamed because she was not married. She left her home in England to have the baby in the south of France. When she returned to England. She pretended the baby was really her brother’s child. The brother, George, lived in India but he had died falling off his horse. This meant Helen had to look after the child. Helen told other lies, she had to go to the south of France because she was ill. She said the child had been born in India, but had been brought to the south of France by a nurse who had been dismissed when the child become ill and she said she had given the child’s mother some money for the child. The was called Michael. Helen didn’t tell him that she was his real mother. She said she was his aunt, and that he was her nephew. Michael was sent to a private school. At school he was told he was born outside marriage. When the First World War began, Michael joined the army. He didn...

In Bed - Joan Didion “In bed” is a subjective essay written by an American writer Joan Didion. In this essay writer describes her personal experiences of having a migraine headache. The writer has migraine 3-5 times a month. In the beginning, she hesitated to share her problem thinking that it would reveal her bad attitudes, unpleasant tempers, and wrong thinking. She used to continue her everyday activities, ignoring the pain. When the pain was unbearable, she would try to lessen her pain by putting ice on the right temple. She even wished to have an operation of her brain to get rid of the pain. Both males, as well as females and the aged, as well as young, can have a migraine headache. The writer first had it when she was eight years old. It is a hereditary disease. She has it because her grandmother’s and parents had it too. Fall in the level of serotonin causes a migraine headache. Some medicines like methyser-guide can be taken as a preventive but they have quite a lot of s...

On The Vanity Of Earthly Greatness - Arthur Guiterman The poem “On The Vanity of Earthly Greatness” was composed by American poet and journalist Arthur Guiterman. In this poem, the poet shows how the greatness of the world is valueless. The tusk of an elephant which we used as a weapon in a battle has become billiard balls. The sword of Charle Magne just has become useless after his death and is rusted. The grizzly bear that used to terrify everyone with its powerful embrace has become a rug. Julius Caesar, the greatest statesman and army general of Rome has been reduced to a bust and is on the shelf. The poet himself doesn’t feel very well after his death and is also going to meet the fate of Julius Caesar. In this poem, the poet is trying to say that every living being and nonliving things lose its value, power, and greatness. Therefore the greatness we want to have in this world is also valueless because it too passes away sooner or later.

The six million dollar man By Harold J. Morowitz This essay looks at how much it would cost to make a human being. One answer is 97 cents. This is what it was said in a birthday card sent to the author. The author decided decided to check this statement. He looked up the cost 36 dollar per gram, another cost 12,000 dollar per gram and 175,500,000 dollar per gram. The author tries to explain the difference between the 97 cents figure in the birthday card and his calculation that the cost of human being is six million dollar. One reason for the difference is the chemicals cost much more than unpurified blocks of chemicals. However, even if the author bought all the chemicals, he knows he would not have a human make up the human body. Even if he could do this, the result would not act, make love or complain likes a human being. It becomes clears to the author that human being does not have a cost they are priceless. An important idea in this essay is that some t things are worth more than...

Malini *Rabindranath Tagore This play takes place in a Hindu Kingdom. Buddhist monks have taught Malini, the King’s daughter. She wants to leave the palace and help people to solve their problems outside. The Brahmins are worried because they think that the Buddhism in the King’s palace has polluted their religion. Brahmins are threatening to rebel against the King and they are demanding Malini’s banishment. Malini leaves the palace. Many Brahmins take her as a goddess and begin to follow her. However, Kemankar leaves the Kingdom to find soildess to fight against the King. He leaves his close friend Supriya behind to watch and report the movements in the palace. Act Ⅱ begins with Supriya and Malini talking to each other in the King’s garden. Malini is tired and perplexed. She has found that it is too difficult to solve people’s problems outside the palace. Supriya believes that he has betrayed his friend Kemankar by reporting the King about the rebellion. Very soon, Kemankar is arreste...

Oops, how is that again? *Roger Rosenblatt This essay describes the mistakes people make while speaking and the reasons why they make these mistakes. The mistakes are divided into categories: Slips of the tongue, faux pas, mistranslations and spoonerisms. Slips of the tongue are common mistakes where the speaker says one thing when they mean to say another. It is a slip of the tongue when someone says, “Who are you?” instead of saying, “How are you?” Usually a faux pas occurs when a person says something that he/she thinks harmless but it actually has a critical meaning that will upset some people. For example, when a nun said to a bishop, “How many lords my lumps?” instead of saying “How many lumps, my lord?” it was a faux pas. Mistranslations are mistakes made when words in one language are translated badly into another language. For example, “Come alive with Pepsi” was translated as “Pepsi brings your ancestors back from grave” into another language. Spoonerisms are utterly differen...

The concrete cat -Dorthi Charles Description of the poem:- This is the poem of a cat. The poem draws the picture of the cat on the paper. The picture is drawn with words, but not sentences. The word cat doesn’t appear, but the other words are the names of the body of a cat, for example: - eye, mouth, paw and whisker. Other words are added to put the cat in a place, for example: - dish and letterbox. These tell us the cat is a pet and not a wild cat. This is a new style of representing something with the help of words not sentences and its description.