Preparing For An Examination The Final Examination is just a couple of months away. It is important that I do well. So I shall have to prepare for it. First of all, I have to prepare a time-table of study so that I can divide my time properly to the various subjects. I shall have to devote more time to the subjects I am not so good at. I shall have...

Punished in School One day I was highly shocked when the teacher threw my exercise book at my face. She stood there glowering at me with her huge eyes. One by one the teacher repeated her nasty actions on a total of five boys. The whole class was dumbfounded by her sudden outburst of anger. We were merely kids and were terrified of her. Then we were sent to the headmaster’s...

My Classmates In our class Mayank is the noisiest- of all boys. His voice is like that of a bull frog, but the volume is louder. In this noisy bunch is a girl who hardly ever opens her mouth and her name is Padma. The boy who sits next to me is such a gentle and soft creature. Then there is Disha, our class monitor. She sits right in front of...

My School Essay No. 01 I study at Cambridge School which is one of the best schools in Delhi. It has a stone building. It has all the facilities a good school should have – well-furnished classrooms, laboratories, library, and playground. As we enter the school, there is a playground to our left and a small garden to our right. When we enter the building, the Principal’s room and office room...

The Thoughts of Youth are Long, Long Thoughts This line is part of the refrain of Longfellow’s poem, “My Lost Youth”, in which he looks back with fond memories to the seaport of Portland, in Maine, where he was born. The poem begins thus :- “Often I think of the beautiful town That is seated by the sea; Often in thought go up and down The pleasant streets of the dear...

How do we to Continue your Education When we Leave College ? A father once proudly said to me, “My son has finished his education”. He did not mean to be funny ; but he was. Of course he meant that his son has taken his degree and left college ; as though it is only in schools and colleges that education is to be had. “Finished his education !” Why,...

The Ideals of Democracy The popular definition of the term democracy is that it is government of the people, by the people and for the people, though in actual practice we know that this is not always true. In large democracies it is not possible for millions of people to participate in the formulation of policies or in their execution ; it is largely left to their elected representatives. Though few...

Peace Hath her Victories, no less renowned than war We generally associate the word “victory” with war and battle. We think of Trafalgar and Waterloo, and many a “famous victory”. We speak of “glorious” victories; but even the most glorious victory in a righteous cause must mean death and destruction, and misery to countless thousands. But the victories of peace, “no less renowned”, have brought men comfort and happiness, health and...