Reading Novel Essay  No. 01 Outline: The prejudice against novel reading – the prejudice justified in the case of bad novels – the advantages of reading good novels – conclusion. In the 18th and 19th centuries there was a prejudice against novel-reading in Europe. It was supposed to be a waste of time. Ruskin, a major English writer of the 19th century, included novels among the books of the hour as...

No Rights without Duties Outline: An awareness of rights is recent — agitation for all kinds of rights is harmful to a country — rights involve duties — conclusion. The concept of the rights of man is recent and is associated with growth of democracy and belief in respect for the individual. In the ancient and medieval world an individual had no rights, but duties, obligations and loyalties. Consequently, there was...

Student indiscipline – Causes and Cure Outline: Introduction — the forms taken by student indiscipline — causes: the defects of our educational system — the tradition of agitation — lack of values —remedies. Of late, student indiscipline has assumed alarming proportions. Almost every third day we read in the newspapers reports of the violent activities indulged in by students and of the destruction of national property caused by them. Fortunately, some...

The Uses of Leisure Outline: Leisure is essential for civilization — its most obvious use is relaxation. it enables one to improve one’s mind — scientific inventions and artistic creations are the products of leisure — how to utilize leisure will probably be a problem of the future. Leisure is the basis of civilization. Primitive man lacked leisure, almost all his time and energy being consumed by the struggle for existence....

List of Important Descriptive and Narrative Essays 1) On Footpath Shopping. 2) Humour – the Spice of Life.  3) A Week at a Hill-station. 4) Adventures with an old Umbrella. 5) On Watching a Fashion Parade. 6) A Day on the Moon. 7) On a Boring Film. 8) A Visit to a Book-stall. 9) My Best Friend. 10) Grandmother’s Stories. 11) Last-minute Reading for the Examination. 12) On a Neighbour who...

Quick Action Saved a Precious Life At first I ignored the alarm. It sounded like a fire alarm, such as the ones we used at the fire drill in our building. I had taken part in so many fire drills that when the real thing happened I mistook it for a drill in the hospital where my Dad was a patient. Then I saw the matron running in excitedly shouting “Fire”....

Growing Up It is a dirty orange pouch with hand embroidered flowers. It is very small and, according to my mother, extremely gaudy. The tattered threads emerging from its insides tell a story of their own. This little object was given to me by my friend Manali, when I had just turned eleven years old.It was my first “purse”! I don’t know why, but I always felt that a purse made...

On Getting a Job Varsha had just left school and was looking about for a suitable job. She wanted very much to support her family. She would comb through the newspapers daily in search of job vacancies. After three weeks her patience bore fruit. There was a job vacancy for a clerk and a typist at a law firm. Varsha was interested. As she had decided to study law as a...