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Character sketch of NOMITA           Nomita in the story "Matchbox" wriiten by Ashapurna Debi is a typical Indian housewife who is bound to sacrifice many of her ambitions and hopes and be enslaved in the kitchen. Ashapurna  Debi portrays her colourless - without the hues a happy life. Her widowed mother thinks that she is successful in consigning her daughter to a rich family which is not on the merit of finance but by looks alone. Nomita expects a minimum freedom of reading the letters addressed to her. Her husband seems to be dubious about the letters when he tries to read it without her conscent. It is true what Ashapurna Debi says about Nomita and women in general that they are like matchboxes settled at the corners of the house with their hidden power to explode at any time. Nomita follows the example of a matchbox and she burns with anger when she is helpless. To break the shackles of marital slavery she is ready to kill herself. Again s...

READ AND RESPOND: 1. What are the three essential factors for empowerment?             The three essential factors for empoerment are Learning, Labour and Leadership. Together they are called the 3 Ls of empowerment. 2. What is the roleof learning in empowering women?             Education is the foundation up on which any change is built. Learning helps women to help themselves and break the shackles of exclusion.  3. How can we promote more oppertunities for women in the workplace?             Women can be given more oppertunities in the workplace by changing some of our basic laws to ensure that property and inheritance laws do not discriminate against women. Education and healthcare for women should be encouraged. Women should be given more credit facilities so that women can get greater economic independance. ACTIVITY - I:  (SPEECH) Christine Lagarde suggests various mean...

READ AND RESPOND 1. What is special about the friendship between Antonio and Felix?               Antonio Cruz and Felix Vargas were seventeen years old. They were so together in friendship that they felt like brothers. They had known each other from childhood. They grew up in the same building on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. 2. How did they work to achieve their dream?                  Antonio and Felix had a dream - becoming the light weight champion of the world. Whenever they got a chance they excercised, sometimes at the Boy's Club and sometimes at the gym. They would run every day morning, wearing sweat shirts and short towels around their necks. They had a collection of fight magazines. They also kept the torn tickets of all the boxing matches they had gone to see. They also had some clippings of their own. 3. What was the wall rising between them?           ...

THINK AND WRITE 1. Why does the poet say that there is something that doesn't love a wall?           The poet says that there is something that doesn't love the wall beacause nobody sees or hears anybody breaking the wall. But every spring season, In mending time, the poet finds the wall is broken. So it is clear that there is something that doesn't love a wall and wants to see it broken. It is this 'something' that makes the ground under the wall swell causing the stones of the wall to fall down on to either side. 2. Why does the poet meet his neighbour beyond the hill at spring?              The poet meet his neighbour beyond the hill at spring so that they can fix one day and walk along the wall to mend it by picking up the fallen stones and fixing them back. 3. How does the poet and his neighbour mend the gaps in the wall?              The poet and his neighbour mend the gaps i...

I have a lot of expectations on you You can reach so high So Don't fall in someone's trap You may see smiling faces,  Hear Things to laugh, But you always thought about your parents and well wishers Now, you have a limit in thought You can' t imagine the harsh realities of life This not life, this not a time to play If you fall in others trap, You'll hate by all, So my dear, do your study, do your duty, This is not your way - This is the path of evils Remember, be true to your parents, Their prayers lead you into happiness. Remember, All smiling faces are not heavenly

                      MODULE :1 Model Questions: Some Examples: I. Multiple Choice Questions : 1. Psychology is a part of: a. Social Science b. Humanities c. Natural Sciences Ans: a 2. Positivism was advocated by: a. Max Weber b. August Comte c. Emile Durkheim Ans: b II. Answer in a sentence or two: 1. What is Max Weber’s contribution to social sciences? Ans: Max Weber championed the cause of value-freedom. In social sciences one has to concentrate on ‘what is probable’ than ‘what it should be’. 2. What is ideology? Ans: It means the science of ideas. The Marxist theory however used the term to imply something that hides reality of the actual material condition of society. III. Answer in a paragraph: 1. The Scientific Method [Hints: Scientific Method must look for probable certainty-human knowledge gives importance to direct experience-social and cultural life subjected to scientific enquiry-caste or gender related prejudices-differ...

      Hard Times                                              Charles Dickens Thomas Gradgrind, a wealthy, retired merchant in the industrial city of Coketown, England, devotes his life to a philosophy of rationalism, self-interest, and fact. He raises his oldest children, Louisa and Tom, according to this philosophy and never allows them to engage in fanciful or imaginative pursuits. He founds a school and charitably takes in one of the students, the kindly and imaginative Sissy Jupe, after the disappearance of her father, a circus entertainer. As the Gradgrind children grow older, Tom becomes a dissipated, self-interested hedonist, and Louisa struggles with deep inner confusion, feeling as though she is missing something important in her life. Eventually Louisa marries Gradgrind’s friend Josiah Bounderby, a wealthy factory owner and banker more than twice h...