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A multi-dimensional approach to education and career

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 A multi-dimensional approach to education and career ********************* By :- Shahid Sir *********************** A number of colleges in India, especially in Delhi, have the reputation of attracting employers for their undergraduate (B.Com, B.A., B. Sc.)  pass outs with traditional subjects. Sometimes these undergraduates are offered jobs with handsome salaries, which professional degree holders only aspire for. This not only elevates the brand value of the colleges but also makes us think what these colleges teach in traditional courses making the career of their students so successful. There is no doubt that these colleges work hard to broaden the mental horizon, expand the subject knowledge of their students, who are often dedicated and committed and laborious. Apart from pursuing their courses they enhance their life skills and do certain add-on courses. That is why they are able to grab good jobs with handsome salaries to start with. Many aware and intelligent students doing u
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Class Xth:Glossary "From The Diary of Anne Frank"

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Musings- a period of reflection or thought Listless- with no energy or interest, lacking energy or enthusiasm Brooding- engaged in or showing deep thought about something that makes one sad, angry, or worried.thinking seriously Prompted- provoke, encouraged  Confide- to tell personal things privately to a person that one trusts Liable- likely (here) Enhance- intensify, increase, or further improve the quality, value, or extent of. Plunge- jump or dive quickly, to go into Adorable- lovable, cute Emigrated- leave one’s own country in order to settle permanently in another, went to settle Plunked- to put down Farewell- an act of parting or of making someone’s departure, goodbye Intended- planned, thought of Solemn- characterized by deep sincerity, serious, grave Dedication- commitment, devotion Quaking- shake or tremble, shaking because of fear Staked- bet, chanced, put on bet Pleading- to make an emotional appeal, requesting Glances- take a brief or hurried look, looks Outbursts- a sudde
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Class Xth:Glossary of Two Stories About Flying

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1   Ascending:-the sky,the act of rising up through the air,flying in sky, rise up 2   Beckoning:-gesture,signal, wave, motion 3   Beneath:-under,down, below, underneath 4   Compass:-instrument for telling direction,scope, range, extent 5   Flapped:-(of a bird) move (its wings) up and down when flying or preparing to fly,flutter, agitate, swing 6   Frightened:-terrified,fearful, afraid, scared 7   Herring:-a soft-finned sea fish,amphioxus,cavally, Eel 8   Monstrous:-horrible, demonic, infernal, huge 9   Runway:-a strip of hard ground along which aircraft take off and land,route, path, passage 10     Shrieking:-making a high-pitched piercing cry or sound,howl, squeak, scream 11     Strangely :-in a strange manner,prodigiously, quizzically, rummily 12     Brink:-the extreme edge of land before a steep slope or a body or water,strand,edge,confines 13     Cackle:-laugh in a loud, harsh way,guffaw, chuckle, giggle 14     Cawed:-utter a caw,cackle, hoot, screech,s
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Class Xth Glossary:- (1) Dust Of Snow (2) Fire And Ice (3) A Tiger In The Zoo (4) The Ball

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          Dust of Snow • Dust of snow:- Fine particles of snow • Hemlock tree:- A poisonous tree, the poet  chose this tree  to present his mood and feelings • Rued:- Felt sad, held in regret  • The crow and hemlock tree represent sorrow and depression felt by the poet in his materialistic world • The dust of snow is the symbol of natural joy and energy. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fire and Ice • Desire:-wish • Favour:- support, inclined towards • Perish:- Die • Suffice:- enough, sufficient • ‘Fire’ in the poem stands for :-   greed, conflict, fury, cruelty, lust and avarice • ‘Ice’ in the poem stands for insensitivity, coldness, intolerance, indifference, rigidity and hatred • Destruction:- destroy, Wiping out ............................... A Tiger In The Zoo 1 Stalks:-follows, keek, espial, red baiting 2 Vivid:-bright colored,orient, splendent, flamboyant 3 Pads:-paws of tiger,padding, wadding, stuffi
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Class Xth:- A Letter To God

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 • Crest: Top of a hill • Dotted: Full Of • Downpour: Heavy Rain • Intimately: Closely, completely • Exclaimed- cry out suddenly in surprise, strong emotion, or pain. • Regarded- Consider Or Think Of In A Specified Way • Draped- Adorn, Cover, Or Wrap (Someone Or Something) • Hailstones- A Pellet Of Hail • Resemble- Have A Similar Appearance To Or Qualities In Common With (Someone Or Something); Look Or Seem Like. • Exposing- make (something) visible by uncovering it.; reveal • Amiable- Friendly And Pleasant • Predict :- forecast, future telling • Expression:- Appearance • Instructed :- told, taught • Troubled :- worried • Tap:- to strike lightly • Shake faith :- disturb the belief  • Charity :- donation , help • Bit:- Slightly, small • Deed:- Work, act • Slightest :- Minimum • Wrinkling:- Bend, fold • Blow:- Sudden stroke (by something) • plague- a destructively numerous inflow or multiplication of a harmful animal, infestation • locust
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Class Xth. Nelson Mandela:Glossary

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   Nelson Mandela 1 Dawned:- (of a day) began ,start off, set in, develop, come 2 Awe:- amazed ,dread, terror, fear 3 Deputy:-Second in command, subordinate, junior, auxiliary 4 Emancipation:- the fact or process of being set free from legal, social, or political restrictions ,freeing, liberation, release 5 Stream:- a small, narrow river ,brook, flood, ford 6 Abided:- obeyed , bear, tolerate, swallow 7 Amphitheatre:-an open-air theatre, palaestra, stadium, circus 8 Apartheid:- a policy or system of segregation on grounds of race, bigotry, discrimination, illiberality. 9 Array:-an impressive display, arrangement, disposition, marshalling 10 Assembled :-(of people) gather together in one place for a common purpose, compiled, assembled, anthologized 11 Bedecked:- decorate , adorn, spruce, formalize 12 Besieged:-to be surrounded by , beleaguer, blockade, surround 13 Bondage:- the state of being a slave ,servility, enslavement, domination 14 Boyhood:- the state or time of being a boy , adol
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Poetic Device used in the poem My Mother At Sixty Six

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  1. Name the type of poetic device used in the poem, “My Mother At Sixty Six” in general. (a) enjambment (or Enjambment & End-Stopped lines) (b) zeugma    (c) repetition       (d) meter 2. Name the poetic / literary used in these lines:- “ S ixty- S ix” “pu t   t hat t hough t ” “ s mile and  s mile and /  s mile “ m y  m other” that s he was a s old a s s he looked but s oon pu t t ha t t hough t away, and looked ou t a t Young T rees sprin t ing, t he merry children spilling ou t of t heir homes (a) assonance        (b) alliteration (consonance)   (c) calligram        (d) pun 3. Identify the poetic device used in these lines:- ·        …her face ashen  like  that of a corpse… ·        that she was  as  old  as  she looked … ·        … I looked again at her, wane, pale as  a late winter’s moon (a) metaphor (b)simile (c) assonance (d)repetition   4. Read the following line from the poem “My Mother At 66” and iden
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