Essay: - People follow interests and have hobbies. Do you think it is pointless? How can people learn from hobbies?

Essay: - People follow interests and have hobbies (e.g. collecting and making things) Do you think it is pointless? How can people learn from hobbies?
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Any hobby is an activity that is regularly done for pleasure. Hobbies are according to ones passion. Hobby is a creative activity. In this essay I will elaborate on hobbies of my wife Manju. She has hobbies of Painting, Cooking, Knitting and Gardening.

With the time Manju nicely developed her hobbies and started coaching classes in Drawing, Painting, Cooking and Knitting. She has students ranging from nursery goers to their grandparents. With her creativity and diversification she developed over 70 subjects in Drawing-Painting-Art-Craft and nearly 80 recipes in cookery.

Manju gave program on television for Indian Cuisine. Many foreign nationals and NRIs attend her classes for Indian Vegan Cooking. She gained good popularity and fame for the quality and taste of the food. Even professional hoteliers started pouring in for learning her unique recipes. Beside she executes orders for knitting and fabric painting. With hobbies she earns money too.

She is fond of gardening hence she has maintained a nice garden of flower plants in the front yard and a wonderful kitchen garden in the backyard. In the front yard in addition to flowers she has developed Aloe Vera and Tinospora (Giloy in Hindi) these species are frequently used in herbal medicine for the cure of numerous ailments. In kitchen garden we have a Mango tree as well as some fruits like guava, grapes, papaya, pomegranate and seasonal vegetables. We do have lemons and Ponderosa lemon too.

In nutshell I would say that Because of all these activities we never feel a vacuum of retirement, loneliness or boredom. “Having hobbies is not pointless. People can learn a lot from their hobbies develop and diversify and the hobby can be source for learning and earning too. Hobbies improve our physical and mental health.

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Essay: - Write about the biggest risk you have taken

Essay: - Write about the biggest risk you have taken
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Risks can be many in the life. It depends upon perception of the person as to which of those one considers to the biggest. However in this essay I shall narrate a story about a risk that I took and I consider it to be the biggest.

I am a retired Manager from oil and gas sector, cross country pipelines. I am an Electrical Engineer and worked all through my service career in operation and maintenance of cross country pipelines. I had no experience in the Insurance sector any way.

One fine day I received a letter from a renowned Life Insurance Company requesting me to meet them and work for them as an Insurance Adviser. Accordingly I met them and explained that I had no knowledge or experience in this field. Hence I have no confidence of delivering desired goods to them. Upon this I was offered free training for the Life Insurance Adviser after which I could appear in the online examination conducted by the Insurance Authority and start working on commission basis.

After giving some thought, I agreed and joined the company. I underwent training for Life Insurance Products and appeared at the examination. To my utter surprise I passed out with 80% marks. Shortly I received my Advisory License and started working. Within a short period I sold good lot of policies, earned good commission and developed many good contacts. As a token of appreciation of my good work company honored me with gold coins from time to time.

In conclusion, because of taking this big risk and working in this company I gained experience of Finance sector and acquired further qualifications as Adviser for Non Life Products and Mutual Funds too. The good old quote also confirms that “No Risk No Gain”.......

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Essay: - Smoking tobacco, like other dangerous drug should be made illegal.

Essay: - Smoking tobacco, like other dangerous drug should be made illegal. Agree or disagree?

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I strongly agree that making smoking must be made illegal. In this essay I shall elaborate my point of view.

Smoking is Cancerous is a proven fact. Cancer is an extremely dreadful and life taking disease. Thanks to the health researchers who have found that passive smoking is further worse and much more harmful. Active smoking is done by the smoker himself whereas Passive Smoking is inadvertently done by the people near him by way of inhaling the smoke exhaled by the active smoker. Passive smoke causes severe allergies to many, particularly asthmatic patients may get severe asthmatic attack and may need immediate hospitalization and may be required to be put on clinical oxygen. Animals are highly allergic to smoke. Particularly tiny and tender pets like cat, dog and birds are over sensitive and feel hard to breathe and start coughing badly. Hence persons having pets must never smoke. Those who smoke in air-conditioned offices and houses, cause many times more harm to themselves and to others by way of passive smoking to those who visit and sit in their room for business or social visits.

Smoking causes diseases like, Cancer, Bronchitis, Asthmas, Tooth decay, Lung Cancer, and Impotency in men. It causes Still-birth in case of women, Heart Attack, Loss of teeth. Smoking gives old age wrinkles too fast.

Many people orally consume tobacco in form of Guthka and dry tobacco with lime. This causes oral mouth cancer. Some people sniff fine powder of tobacco. This causes pulmonary troubles. 

Summarizing, in the interest of the well being of the population by large, Governments must ban and smoking and tobacco consumption in any form must be made illegal.

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