FAMINE (essay for School Level)

FAMINE

A famine may be defined the act of “The God”, a Force majeure whereby an acute shortage of food for the people and animal life occurs. Famine occurs either due to acute shortage of rains or massive rain falls. Shortage of the rain causes non-growth of crops and the latter may cause floods and the harvest is washed out. One more cause of famine is ravage of locusts on the crops. Locusts eat away the entire crops and hence the famine.

Water is most essential for the agriculture and farming. In the absence of required rains, the soil remains dry and hot hence no crop can grow thereby causing famine.

The greatest famines that occurred in India took place in Bengal in the year 1770 and 1947 and Odisha in the year 1869. During these famines numerous human lives were lost due to starvation. Due to famine and hunger, the men and women lose humanity and turn brutal and merciless

Unlike olden days, now a days the relief has been possible due proliferation of automobiles. This makes the transport easy. Also many charitable institutions, NGOs and government come forward for the help and rescue.  The rescue operations and food supply operations are carried out with the help of Army, Police by using helicopters.

In summary, during the famine not only human lives are lost but the animal life like cows, bullocks, horses, donkeys, camels and other wild life animals too suffer starvation and die.  A famine is a “force-majeure” and the act of the God.

(256 Words)

FLOODS (Essay for school level)

 Excessive supplies of water from natural source say rains result into flood. This excess volume of water goes into rivers and hence river bed swells and water overflows all over. This overflow of water is called “Flood”.

Water thus enters farms, villages, towns and cities. This situation is called “Flood Situation.” When water floods over the farms the crops are badly damaged or ruined.  When crops are ruined the food supply is affected and the situation of a “Famine” occurs.

When water gushes into villages, towns and cities with a violent current, it results into collapse of houses, buildings and many other establishments. Numerous human and animal lives may be lost by floods.   

Floods give rise to tremendous pollution. The dead animals and human bodies get decomposed and spread foul smell everywhere. This atmosphere pollution results into spread of several diseases like typhoid fever, cholera, leptospirosis and hepatitis A and Vector-borne diseases, such as malaria, dengue and dengue hemorrhagic fever, yellow fever, and West Nile Fever. After the floods the government has a herculean task of cleaning affected areas and rehabilitation of the occupants of such areas.

Floods normally have the worst effect on the villages and localities near the river banks and coastal areas. Hence government with the help of Army, Police and Air service try and evacuate population from such areas and shift people to safe areas.

In nutshell flood is a natural calamity that is disastrous. We can’t prevent the floods but we can surely minimize them by our efforts towards (1) Saving Jungles (2) Avoiding making catchment areas in colonies (3) Proper waste disposal and (4) Growing more and more trees and creating green belts.   

(279 Words)

Computers in Modern Education - Sample Essay for IELTS and TOEFL

Computers are essential feature of modern education. Some believe that certain subjects such as mathematics are better taught using computers. Others however think that there are aspects of education in which computer use is inadequate.

Discuss both these views and give your opinion.

Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your experience.

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I fully agree that computers are one of the most essential features in modern education. Mathematics can surely be better taught by computers because of various functions like formulas, auto sum and many more.

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early days calculations were performed manually in which chances of human error are high. Thereafter Logarithmic Tables were introduced. No doubt Log table calculations were relatively faster than manual however chances of human error can’t be ruled out.  After Log Tables, came the slide-rules in the subject of math. After the slide-rules came the electronic calculators.   In slide-rules and calculators the calculations used to be very fast and chances of human error were less. Finally now computers have been introduced in the education. Subject of Mathematics is best taught with the help of computers. However with the help of computers, descriptive subjects like History, Geography, Civics, Social Studies, can also be well taught as it is capable of giving past and history and present developments.

Students come across computers both at home and at school. Governments worldwide have introduced computers and internet connections in classrooms. Most people welcome computers that have improved the ways we work and we play. Technology is advancing at a speed that is far beyond our imagination. Now computers are an essential feature not only in education alone but in our daily lives too.

No doubt use of computers involves initial computer literacy that is not very difficult to pick-up. Also Learning and teaching is a human process involving human touch and communication and in this process, emotions play a vital role in a student’s learning and motivating process and these are absent in a computer. Computer although may be inadequate on emotional aspect but it is the best companion.

In conclusion I fully agree that computers are one of the most essential features in modern education.

(306 Words)

Government’s Role - Essay for IELTS and TOEFL

A government’s role is only to provide defense capability and urban infrastructure, such as roads, water and power. All other services as education, health, and social security should be provided by private groups or individuals in the community.

To what extent do you agree or disagree?

Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.

Write at least 250 words.

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I don’t agree at all that government’s responsibility ends once it has provided defence capability and infrastructures like roads, water and power. Other services like education, health, social security must be taken care by private parties and individuals in the community.

By definition Government means the governing body of a nation, state or community.  The system by which a nation, state or community is governed. This consists of a group of people that governs a community. Said group is elected by way of elections and voting by the public. It forms policies, laws and rules and ensures the implementation.   Any government is the most powerful group that can do and undo the things in the interest of the nation and its population.

Population by large pays heavy taxes like Income Tax, Sales Tax, Road Tax, Gift Tax, Wealth Tax, House Tax and many more. This generates a huge chunk of money with the government. Also population bestows confidence and trust in this government that it will take full care of them in all the contingencies. Hence it is a moral duty of the government to provide all other services like education, health and social security too. Good governance must provide full help for to the population in the eventualities like force majors like earth quake, tsunami, floods, fire hazards etc. Good governance must as well take care of the victims in the unforeseen eventualities like road accidents, air crashes, vessel capsizing etc for their rehabilitation.

In nutshell I am of the view that government is like “God Father” to the population by large and must take care of the population in totality. Provide rescue and help in the unforeseen unfortunate happenings. Government cannot simply provide a few facilities and leave balance task to private parties and population.

(297 Words)

Essay on Save the Baby Girl

Essay on Baby Girl.

These days gender imbalance is becoming a grave problem especially in India. Girls are either aborted from mother’s womb or killed after birth. This gives rise to crimes like rape and killing. Write an essay emphasizing importance of women in the society.

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In ancient time birth of a girl child was considered as auspicious. As per an Indian proverb, “A home without a daughter is like a body without soul”. The birth of a daughter in the house was compared with the advent of Goddess Laxmi, the Goddess of wealth and Goddess Saraswati, the Goddess of Knowledge and Wisdom. No ceremony was considered to be complete in absence of women. The belief was that “No home is complete without a woman.”

Indian is a “Male Dominated Society” hence women are the receiving end. They are always will treated and ill-treated at every step. As a matter of fact, a girl child is under constant, vigil initially by the parents, then her husband and finally her own children. She is never allowed to dwell and survive freely. Worst of all she is often killed before being born while in mother’s womb itself. This is foetus killing or infanticide. This is the gross downfall of humanity, morality and the values.

The situation has drastically worsened these days. Women suffer badly, infanticide have become widespread. Parents don’t send daughters for schooling thinking that the daughter is going to be a kitchen confined housewife. There was, hence, decline in female literacy and her position in the society. This practice is lasting till today and the killing of foetus after the sex determination is fearlessly continued.

The crime of female foetus aborting is widespread not only in rural areas but in urban areas too.  With the help of new techniques it has become possible to determine the sex of the unborn baby or the foetus, and if it is found to be a girl child than, this is followed by abortion. Clinics offering such service have come up all over the country. For the doctors with sex identification equipments the said illegal business is booming beyond imagination. Although there are severing laws against the misuse of parental diagnostic techniques, those are meant only for detecting abnormalities in the unborn infant and associated risks to the pregnant mother if any. The doctors, however, violate this law. Not a single case has been field so far under the law, which forbids such an unethical practice.

Dowry is another big evil in some northern states of India. Father of the girl has to give lot of cash and gold to the bridegroom. This may be given either during the wedding or after the marriage ceremony. In case the father of the bride fails to spare the said valuables on account of his poor economic health, the bride (the daughter) is severely tortured or she may even be torched to death.  Today, the said problem is quite widespread in the northern states of Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan.

Upon attaining puberty, a girl is considered to be a security risk, a likely source of trouble for the family’s honour and reputation. Then there are economic reasons for her killing. She is a liability for her parents from the cradle ceremony to the marriage. There has been not let up in the dowry system, which breaks the back of the parents. She is got rid of in order to save the family properly from partition. In some communities there is a dirty superstition that is a daughter is killed, the next child will be a son. In China also, the eldest male child inherits the property look upon the male child as their protector and supporter in old age. This gender-bias leads to the killing of girl child.

At least, I cannot imagine my existence in this world had there been no girl. I would not have come to this beautiful world and enjoyed my life had there been no girl. I am born because of a woman. I am married to a woman. The woman is my mother, my sister and my wife.

The human society is like a cart. The God has created man and woman as the two wheels of this society cart. Those two wheels are made for each other. For the human race to exist and survive, both of the wheels must be functional else the society collapses.

In nutshell all must be kind to women with high degree of love and respect to them. There is no life without a wife and there can’t be a wife in absence of girl. Considering all the facts above, save the girl child in the interest of humanity. Saving baby girls shall minimise crime and build a powerful nation.

(750 Words)

Internet Communication versus Human Touch

According to recent study, the more time people use the Internet, the less time they spend with real human beings. Should we worry about the effect this is having on social interaction or should we see the Internet as a way opening up new communication possibilities worldwide?

Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own experience or knowledge. (You should write at least 250 words)

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I strongly view the Internet as a means of opening up new communication possibilities worldwide. In this essay I shall elaborately explain my view point.

Internet is a type of Media. It is a means of unit as well as mass communication. It is a mode of information and entertainment too. Other types of media are broadly, News Papers, Magazines, Radio and Television. Internet, News Papers and TV are the most popular media these days. TV had replaced Radio & listening to radio has become obsolete now.

In the recent days, Internet has gained maximum popularity. This is capable of giving information on any subject, product, and service, utility including past history and news.

Because of wide spread computerization these days, this has become popular. Especially students and younger generation use it the most.

Majority of population use Internet for news and entertainment. One gets latest information and can keep pace with the time. Needless to say “Information Is Power”.

Internet also helps promoting business through advertisements of variety of latest products & services. Besides there are many exclusive business portals on websites that give minute-by-minute information on Stock Markets & the Business World.

Educational, Training and Developmental programs are also available on websites. These are pretty beneficial for the community and especially students. In addition many awareness programs on Health & Environment play very important role in our lives.

Indeed in the Internet communication, personal touch has reduced to a very great extent. However taking into account the advantages and disadvantages of internet, the advantages are many and disadvantages are very few.

In summary, the Internet is a means of opening up new communication possibilities worldwide.      

(272 Words)

Pollution Free Vehicles

With the rise in population, number of automobile vehicles has increased considerably. In India particularly, the population count is highly alarming at 1.22 Billion. (122 Crore). The life has become very fast and vehicle is a dire necessity for all of us. None can imagine a life without a vehicle.

The main Prime mover in vehicles is the petroleum products like Petrol and Diesel. The motor vehicles work on the principle of Internal Combustion. Hence the exhaust emits gases like carbon-di-oxide and carbon mono oxide. Carbon Mono Oxide is a poisonous gas that is injurious to human and animal health. Excessive vehicles will discharge excessive polluting gases in the air thereby causing environmental pollution. At the same time the enormously hot engines of automobiles emit heat in the air thereby adding up in Global Warming.

On the other hand, Oil prices keep on increasing day and on. Inflation is sky rocketing. Affordability becomes constraint with many automobiles owners. Hence they mix comparatively cheaper products like Kerosene with the petrol and run the automobiles either for winning bread or for business purpose. This gives out tremendous amount of very harmful smoke in the air. Also many two-wheeler owners, who have petro-oil engines, put excessive oil or other pollutants thereby spoiling the environment by way of severe pollution.

In order to control pollution we can adopt the following measures: -

1.    Minimise the use of vehicles.

2.    Switch off the engines while facing a red-light.

3.    Use only recommended fuel.

4.    Use only recommended lubricants in correct volumes.

5.    Check vehicle for PUC (Pollution under Control) at designated gas stations.

6.    Ensure regular periodic maintenance of vehicles.

7.    Ensure recommended tyre pressure.

8.    Vehicle pooling for common destination.

In recent past some companies have manufactured battery operated two wheelers. This operates for limited distances with limited load. If population with such needs use this type of vehicle shall be a great contribution toward reducing pollution and global warming.

Summing-up, Pollution Free Vehicle is the need of the hour in this environmental crisis.

“An Important Change in Hometown”

If you could change one important thing about your hometown, what would you change? Use reasons and specific examples to support your answer.
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If I could change one important thing in my home town, I would change it by doing something concrete to stop the violence. In the following paragraphs of this essay, I shall elaborate my viewpoint.

The violence is the biggest enemy of the mankind and it is destroying not only my hometown but the world rather. I would like to have a better and peaceful place to live. I wish everybody would help each other and would not fight or kill fellowmen. I wish I could replace the narcotic drugs, tobacco products and alcohol with food, milk and water because innumerable children are hungry and they die of starvation and thirst every day. I would love to help the homeless because they don't have any food, water and shelter or any place to live. If the people by large, stop smoking and/or consuming other tobacco products, they can live a disease free and better life. Smoking and consumption of other tobacco products cause “Cancer” and “Oral Fibrosis” which are dreadful and life taking. I wish the children could go to schools, and have proper education, in turn they would listen to their parents and their teachers and respect them so they can have the best education and information of what is the best for everybody. I wish I could stop the communal riots, arson and ransacking. I wish my hometown to be a peaceful place to live, free from wars, riots or massacres.

In conclusion, if I could change one important thing in my home town, I would change it by doing something concrete to stop the violence so that my hometown becomes an ideal place to live with peace and harmony. (282 Words)

“Age for Starting Schooling”

Some people think that children should begin their formal education at a very early age and should spend most of their time on school studies. Others believe that young children should spend most of their time playing. Compare these two views. Which view do you agree with and why?
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I very strongly opine that children under the age of 4 years must spend most of their time playing rather than going to schools.

Generally School starting and leaving ages are set by law after a great deal of detailed study and research work. A child is required to attend school from the age of five to the age of 16. However most children start school in Kindergarten before they are five; say between 4 and 5 years of age. The current minimum age for leaving school is 16 years by the time they complete their high school or Matriculation examination and secure college admission. Truly speaking age of the children earlier than four is the age for play, eat and sleep and enjoy.

Of late parents have turned over enthusiastic about their kids becoming peak performers too soon. As a result they start sending their children to private schools etc too early even before they complete 3 years of age that is very harmful. By doing so children are deprived of their genuine privileges of playing and merrymaking. Rather children are forced to follow a fixed schedule, of attending school and doing home work when they should rightly play and enjoy. In the process, children too early start comparing themselves with the other children and develop an inferior feeling when they fail to perform as good as other children. This is detrimental to their mental as well as physical health.

In nutshell, children must be allowed to grow-up in the natural way. They must be allowed to play till they complete four years and then only they should be sent to school. (---273 Words)

“Advertising Tells About Country” ---

Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Advertising can tell you a lot about a country. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
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I agree advertising can tell us a lot about the country. Advertising is just like a mirror that reflects detailed information of the host country in which it exists.

For example in Singapore, feature films in a cinema are supported by a “first half” consisting entirely of commercials. People hurry-up into the cinema so as not to miss any, and are excited when a new one appears. The ads are part of the program, a capitalist’s dream. Although both countries show a significant tendency to use more symbolic values than product attribute values in retail advertising. Moreover, the value “individualism” is used more often in television commercials shown in Singapore than in Malaysia. This is likely due to the fact that Malaysia is still hesitant to promote values that are perceived to run counter to established conventions. As for Singapore, the government has been relatively neutral in advertising content as long as religion, language and race are not exploited. Most commercials therefore tend to portray materialistic pursuit. Television commercials shown in Malaysia do not carry the value “sex” and “work”, whereas those shown in Singapore do not portray the value “leisure”.

For example, Japanese advertising is totally different of that of in Europe. Japanese television advertising is dominated by 15–second spots; therefore long narrative stories are not commonplace. In fact, most commercials opt to tell short stories or represent brief scenes. Japanese commercials do not seek to tie up all loose ends, in the same way that most western commercials do. Whereas Western advertising seeks to be much more comprehensive, tying up the creative idea, product story and narrative.

Summarizing, advertising tells lot about the host country. --(278 Words)

“Advertising of New Products”---

Some people say that advertising encourages us to buy things we really do not need. Others say that advertisements tell us about new products that may improve our lives. Which viewpoint do you agree with? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
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I agree to the latter view point that advertisements tell us about the new products available that may improve our lives.

Advertising is a means of communication to masses about the products that are available in the markets. Depending upon the individual need, one can buy and make use of those. Before a decade Personal Computers, were advertised comprising of Central Processing Unit, and Monitor to be put on working desk. Those were popularly knows as Desk-Tops. Now personal computers are advertised as small, compact, mobile, light weight, Note Pads those are known as Lap-Tops can be carried any where and operated by putting on our lap. Now introduction of laptops in the offices has made a great saving of space, more people can work in the same area, and because of the improved features of the Laptops as compared to old model PC’s, work efficiency of the people has increased. They give more output with less effort of the person working.

Advertising is a powerful tool in the Business. Several Industrial Trade Fairs, IT Fares, Health and Fitness Fare, Educational Fare, Automobiles Fare, Fashion Fare etc are organized and conducted periodically. The basic idea behind these fares is to communicate masses about availability of the newer products, their new features etc. This facilitates customers to buy the products as per their respective needs.

It is absolutely wrong to say that advertisements motivate us to buy things that we do not need. After-all buying is one’s mature decision; buying any unwanted thing is sheer childish

In a nutshell advertising is a powerful means of mass communication and that keeps the population well informed about the latest product available which can be bought by individuals if they need. (287 Words)

“Advertising Is All Around us”---

Advertising is all around us it is an unavoidable part of everyone’s life. Some people say advertising is a positive part of our lives while others say it is negative. Discuss both the views and give your opinion. Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience. You must write at least 250 words.
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Advertising is an integral and a vital aspect of business sector. Advertisements are the means to communicate to masses by large, about the latest products and services available. Advertisements are the information and help to masses. Advertisements promote and enhance business and thereby economy of the nation.

However some advertisements of sleek undergarments of ladies are made highly sexy in appearance. Those advertisements are displayed in the form of huge hoardings by side of roads and on freeways. Those divert attention of drivers and result into road mishaps. Secondly those advertisements while aired on television are seen by children and those have negative and undesirable impact on the tender minds.

Some advertisements of Alcoholic beverages, Cigarette, Cigars and Tobacco products (popularly known as GUTKHA in India) are the most detrimental. By seeing these, viewers regardless of their age are tempted to use them and they finally fall into the trap of addiction and ruin their health.

Many advertisements of soft drinks like Coke, Pepsi etc are aired on TV with great exaggeration. Showing the consumer burning his clothes in flames and jumping from a tall building top and yet safely landing on the ground without even getting a bruise. This is absolutely unnatural and trick photography. This had bad effect on the minds of younger generation. In many cases, boys in the process of imitating the said advertisement set their clothes on fire and jumped down to the ground and all of them died. This is most pathetic.

In conclusion while advertising is an essential tool for enhancement of businesses, care must be exercised not to generate misleading advertisements or very sexy advertisements that can prove injurious. (277 Words)