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A Magic Show Last Sunday, the famous magician of India, Dev Dutta Sarkar visited our town. He held a magic show in the town hall in the afternoon. I went to see the show. The hall was packed to capacity, but I managed to occupy the front row of seats. As the famous magician entered the hall he was given a standing ovation by the spectators. He was wearing a long...
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November 15, 2017 evirtualguru_ajaygourEnglish (Sr. Secondary), Languages1 Comment
The Himalayas The Himalayas are the highest mountain ranges in the world. They lie from Jammu and Kashmir in the north-west to Assam and Meghalaya in the east. A part of the Himalayas lies in Nepal, Bhutan and China. In Pakistan, they extend up to the Hindukush. Everest which is a part of the Himalayas is the highest mountain peak in the world. It lies in Nepal Tenzing and Hillary were...
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The Value of Silence It is rightly said that speech is silver but silence is golden. When a person speaks, howsoever carefully, he is bound to make some slip of the tongue. And even a talk arising out of the heart with all the good intentions in the mind of the speaker, is liable to be misunderstood by the listeners. We get the maximum peace of mind at a place where...
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The Value of Forests Essay No. 01 It is rightly said that for the earth to be a healthy place, at least one third of the whole land area should be covered with forests. Trees absorb carbon from the air in the sunlight and turn it into food for themselves. In return, they release oxygen in the air which is so essential for human and animal world. The existence of men,...
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The Value of Travelling The practice of travelling is as old as man himself. In earliest times, people used to go on pilgrimages for religious purposes. Such pilgrimages were multifaceted in nature. On the one hand the pilgrims got peace of mind and satisfaction of heart. On the other hand, they got a great opportunity for recreation and sight-seeing through devotional means. There was sometimes a spirit of adventure also involved...
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The Value of Rain Rain is caused by clouds, as everybody knows. Clouds are just vapours of water that arise from seas, oceans, lakes and other reservoirs of water. In the seas and oceans water is received through rivers that emerge from high snow-capped mountains. Thus, it is a circle which replenishes itself constantly. However, clouds rain only when they strike against a mountain or get cooled and thus become heavy...
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Better Alone Than in Bad Company Essay No. 01 It need not be stressed here that man is a social animal and that he cannot live without some sort of company. It is rightly said that one who can live without company cannot be a human being. He must be either an animal or a divine being. All such reflections may be based on stark realities of life. But it is...
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Live and Let Live Essay No. 01 Man has to live on this planet only for a number of decades. This span of man’s life is less than a moment in the infinite span of cosmic life. Man is less than a grain of sand or a bubble on the ocean of existence. He is not one of the most important objects in the universe. Surprisingly, man thinks too highly of...
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