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THE HINDI ACADEMY: ONE DAY DIST. LEVEL HINDI WORK SHOP : ONE DAY DIST. LEVEL HINDI WORK SHOP  (PARTICIPATED 10 COLLEGES) ON FUNCTIONAL HINDI, LETTER WRITING & TRANSLATION CONDUCTED ON 14/12/...

STOPPING BY WOODS ON A SNOWY EVENING BY ROBERT FROST

UGC NET & SET: UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-17 (D-2012-III) : UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-17 61. Here is a list of women abandoned by their lovers in Hardy’s novels. Pick the odd one out : (A)...

UGC NET & SET: UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-16 (D-2012-III) : UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-16 51. Which of the following statements on George Lamming’s In the Castle of My Skin [1953] is not tr...

UGC NET & SET: UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-15 (D-2012-III) : UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-15 41. Identify the correct statements on Langue and Parole below : 1. Langue is the abstract language...

UGC NET & SET: UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-14 (D-2012-III) : UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-14 31. This periodical was started in 1709 with a motive ‘to expose the false arts of life, to pull th...

UGC NET & SET: UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-13 (D-2012) : UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-13 21. In Aristotle’s Poetics we read that it is the imitation of an action that is complete and who...

UGC NET & SET: UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-12(D-2012) : UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-12 11. Raskolnikov murders the old lady : I. to get her money and achieve his ambition in life. II. ...

UGC NET & SET: UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-11 (2012-D) : UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-11 1. Which of the following book by V.S.Naipaul is subtitled The Caribbean Revisited ?  (A) In a Fr...

UGC NET & SET: UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-10 : UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-10 41. Whom did Keats regard as the prime example of ‘negative capability’ ? (A) Jo...

UGC NET & SET: UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-9 : UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-9 31. “Kubla Khan” takes an epigraph from (A) Samuel Purchas’ Purch...

UGC NET & SET: UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-8 : UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-8 (D-2012) 21. The year 1939 proved to be a crucial year for two important writers in England. Identif...

UGC NET & SET: UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-7 : UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-7 (D-2012) 11. Identify the correct statement below : (A) Gorboduc is a comedy, while Ralph ...

UGC NET & SET: UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-6 : UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-6 (DECEMBER, 2012) 1. Identify the work below that does not belong to the literature of th...

UGC NET & SET: UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-2 : UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-2 11. Which of the following statements is the most accurate regarding Edward Said’s thesis...

UGC NET & SET: UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-5 : UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-5 41. Which of the following is NOT the opening of the well-known Romantic poem ? (A) ...

UGC NET & SET: UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-4 : UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-4 31. Prosody studies : (A) Line endings  (B) Meanings of words (C) ...

UGC NET & SET: UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-3 : UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-3 21. Match the following elegies with the persons for whom they were written : (i) ...

UGC NET & SET: UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-1 : UGC-NET&SET-ENGLISH-MODEL PAPER-1 1. In a 1817 review of Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria, Francis Jeffrey coined the term ...

INTERMEDIATE AND SSC SYLLABUS LIVE DEMO INTERMEDIATE AND SSC BOARD AP/TELANGANA

VISION ACADEMY: SSC-ENGLISH : AP-SSC-ENGLISH-DEMO LESSONS UNIT-1   A. ATTITUDE IS ALTITUDE B. EVERY SUCCESS STORY IS ALSO A STORY OF GREAT FAILURES C....

THINKING OUT OF THE BOX - LATERAL THINKING  BY EDWARD DE BONO  The essay “Thinking out of the Box: Lateral Thinking” is adapted from an article on lateral thinking in the internet Edward de Bono is the main propagator of lateral thinking. The essay explains the importance of lateral thinking in solving problems that we encounter in our daily life. Lateral thinking is a way of thinking that is different from logical thinking.  De Bono used the technique of six thinking hats. These hats are of different colours. They have a symbolic significance. Each hat represents a particular style of thinking or approach to a problem. De Bono points out that the use of these hats is particularly useful in group discussions. Different members can wear different hats. There is more team work and less ill will an argument. People are more ready to understand and appreciate each other’s point of view. They are less rigid and stubborn. De Bono says that we have to thin...

THE HINDI ACADEMY: कुरुक्षेत्र (रामधारी सिंह “दिनकर”) : रामधारी सिंह “दिनकर” कुरुक्षेत्र प्रथम सर्ग वह कौन रोता है वहाँ-इतिहास के अध्याय पर, जिसमें लिखा है, नौजवानों के लहु का म...

ANECDOTE FOR FATHERS BY WILLIAM WORDSWORTH I HAVE a boy of five years old;  His face is fair and fresh to see;  His limbs are cast in beautyÕs mold  And dearly he loves me.  One morn we strolled on our dry walk,  Or quiet home all full in view,  And held such intermitted talk  As we are wont to do.  My thoughts on former pleasures ran;  I thought of Kilve's delightful shore,  Our pleasant home when spring began,  A long, long year before.  A day it was when I could bear  Some fond regrets to entertain;  With so much happiness to spare,  I could not feel a pain.  The green earth echoed to the feet  Of lambs that bounded through the glade,  From shade to sunshine, and as fleet  From sunshine back to shade.  Birds warbled round me and each trace  Of inward sadness had its char...

A SPIDER AND A FLY BY DON MARQUIS “a spider and a fly i heard a spider and a fly arguing wait said the fly do not eat me i serve a great purpose in the world you will have to show me said the spider i scurry around gutters and sewers and garbage cans said the fly and gather up the germs of typhoid influenza and pneumonia on my feet and wings then i carry these germs into households of men and give them diseases all the people who have lived the right sort of life recover from the diseases and the old soaks who have weakened their systems with liquor and iniquity succumb it is my mission to help rid the world of these wicked persons i am a vessel of righteousness scattering seeds of justice and serving the noblest uses it is true said the spider that you are more useful in a plodding material sort of way than i am but i do not serve the utilitarian deities i serve the gods of beauty ...

TELEVISION BY ROALD DAHL The most important thing we've learned, So far as children are concerned, Is never, NEVER, NEVER let Them near your television set -- Or better still, just don't install The idiotic thing at all. In almost every house we've been, We've watched them gaping at the screen. They loll and slop and lounge about, And stare until their eyes pop out. (Last week in someone's place we saw A dozen eyeballs on the floor.) They sit and stare and stare and sit Until they're hypnotised by it, Until they're absolutely drunk With all that shocking ghastly junk. Oh yes, we know it keeps them still, They don't climb out the window sill, They never fight or kick or punch, They leave you free to cook the lunch And wash the dishes in the sink -- But did you ever stop to think, To wonder just exactly what This does to your beloved tot? IT ROTS THE SENSE IN THE HEAD! IT KILLS IMAGINATION...

HUMAN FAMILY BY DR. MAYA ANGELOU HUMAN FAMILY (POEM BY DR. MAYA ANGELOU)  I note the obvious differences in the human family. Some of us are serious, some thrive on comedy. Some declare their lives are lived as true profundity, and others claim they really live the real reality. The variety of our skin tones can confuse, bemuse, delight, brown and pink and beige and purple, tan and blue and white. I’ve sailed upon the seven seas and stopped in every land. I’ve seen the wonders of the world, not yet one common man. I know ten thousand women called Jane and Mary Jane, but I’ve not seen any two who really were the same. Mirror twins are different although their features jibe, and lovers think quite different thoughts while lying side by side. We love and lose in China, we weep on England’s moors, and laugh and moan in Guinea, and thrive o...

VISION ACADEMY: THE GIVING TREE BY SHEL SILVEERSTEIN : THE GIVING TREE BY SHEL SILVEERSTEIN THE GIVING TREE BY SHEL SILVEERSTEIN Once there was a tree.... and she l...

THE GIVING TREE BY SHEL SILVEERSTEIN THE GIVING TREE BY SHEL SILVEERSTEIN Once there was a tree.... and she loved a little boy. And everyday the boy would come and he would gather her leaves and make them into crowns and play king of the forest. He would climb up her trunk and swing from her branches and eat apples. And they would play hide-and-go-seek. And when he was tired, he would sleep in her shade. And the boy loved the tree.... very much. And the tree was happy. But time went by. And the boy grew older. And the tree was often alone. Then one day the boy came to the tree and the tree said, 'Come, Boy, come and climb up my trunk and swing from my  branches and eat apples and play in my shade and be happy.' 'I am too big to climb and play' said the boy. 'I want to buy things and have fun. I want some money?' 'I'm sorr...

VISION ACADEMY: EQUIPMENT BY EDGAR ALBERT GUEST : EQUIPMENT BY EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Figure it out for yourself, my lad, You've all that the greatest of men h...

EQUIPMENT BY EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Figure it out for yourself, my lad, You've all that the greatest of men have had, Two arms, two hands, two legs, two eyes, And a brain to use if you would be wise. With this equipment they all began, So start for the top and say 'I can.' Look them over, the wise and great, They take their food from a common plate And similar knives and forks they use, With similar laces they tie their shoes, The world considers them brave and smart. But you've all they had when they made their start. You can triumph and come to skill, You can be great if only you will, You're well equipped for what fight you choose, You have legs and arms and a brain to use, And the man who has risen, great deeds to do Began his life with no more than you. You are the handicap you must face, You are the one who must choose your place, You must say where you...

VISION ACADEMY: HARVEST HYMN BY JOHN BETJEMAN : Harvest Hymn by John Betjeman Harvest Hymn by John Betjeman Getting Started  List the things that we get fro...

Harvest Hymn by John Betjeman Harvest Hymn by John Betjeman Getting Started  List the things that we get from Nature. What do we give in return?  What is likely to happen if there is no land to cultivate in the future?  We spray the fields and scatter  The poison on the ground  So that no wicked wild flowers  Upon our farm be found.  We like whatever helps us  To line our purse with pence;  The twenty-four-hour broiler-house  And neat electric fence.  All concrete sheds around us  And Jaguars in the yard,  The telly lounge and deep-freeze  Are ours from working hard.  We fire the fields for harvest,  The hedges swell the flame,  The oak trees and the cottages  From which our fathers came.  We give no compensation,  The earth is ours today,  And if we lose on arable,  The bungalows will pay.  ...

VISION ACADEMY: BULL IN THE CITY BY SRIRANGAM SRINIVASA RAO (SRI S... : BULL IN THE CITY BY SRIRANGAM SRINIVASA RAO (SRI SRI) Bull in the City On the main thoroughfare of the city The bu...

BULL IN THE CITY BY SRIRANGAM SRINIVASA RAO (SRI SRI) Bull in the City On the main thoroughfare of the city The bull casually  Perhaps with the memories from the earlier birth Chewing the cud with half shut eyes Without moving or shifting The bull in the heart of the city. As if it is the right holder of the road Leaving the responsibility to the times Heckling the scampering of the civilisation Stood there that it is the King! Who dares to ask the bull to move Look how it glances around Aye! Aye! Motor car! What is the hurry with you? Oh! Brother Cyclist! Careful! The bull wouldn't budge! Anti-machinery, proponent of non-violence and a vegetarian Expert in anti alcoholism On the main road of the city Obstructing the passage of the civility However long like this This bull can stand! If the bull has no sense Shouldn't the man have it? నగరంలో వృషభం నగరం నడి...

ON FRIENDSHIP BY KAHLIL GIBRAN And a youth said, "Speak to us of Friendship." Your friend is your needs answered. He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving. And he is your board and your fireside. For you come to him with your hunger, and you seek him for peace. When your friend speaks his mind you fear not the "nay" in your own mind, nor do you withhold the "ay." And when he is silent your heart ceases not to listen to his heart; For without words, in friendship, all thoughts, all desires, all expectations are born and shared, with joy that is unacclaimed. When you part from your friend, you grieve not; For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain. And let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit. For love that seeks aught but the disclosure of ...

MOTHER'S DAY BY SHIV K KUMAR  We do it differently  in this dark continent.  Not just once a year  a string of spurious verses  ensconced in a bouquet  shaped like Chinese house of dreams.  My mother is more demanding -  an obeisance at each sunrise,  like a devotee throwing a handful  of yellow rice to the birds.  Holding a candelabrum before an idol,  Just once a year  Is desecrating it.  Whenever I see a caterpillar slouching  towards a pansy's eye,  or hear ancestral voices in a wind's howl,  I invoke my deity -  sometimes twice a day.