Jeevitha

 If you don't believe in yourself then who else is there to believe.

  This Act commences in the garden of the Manor House, Woolton, Hertfordshire. The garden is full of roses and there are basket chairs and a table. Cecily Cardew is watering the flowers but her governess Miss Prism chides her to stop gardening and start reading her German lessons. She reminds her that her guardian Jack has instructed her to read German lessons sincerely. Jack is a brilliant and sincere man and his instructions are to be followed meticulously. But, he is anxious of his younger brother reckless Ernest. Because of Ernest’s recklessness Jack has kept him away from the Manor House. Cecily thinks that if Jack brings Ernest to live with them she and Miss Prism may be able to influence and reform him. Miss Prism’s experience and wisdom may bring in some desirable changes in Ernest. Miss Prism does not approve of the idea. Cecily has the practice of writing diary and recording the important moments of her life in it. Miss Prism advises her to give up diary writing and recor...

  John Worthing, J.P. who is popularly known as Jack in the country comes to London and visits his friend Algernon Moncrieff. Though he does not approve of the frivolous nature of Algernon he likes him much. Moreover, he has fallen in love with Algernon’s cousin, the Hon. Gwendolen Fairfax. She is determinant of marrying a man whose name is Ernest. So, Jack calls himself Ernest and the name Ernest impresses her to love him. Besides taking this assumed name, Jack has fabricated a fictitious idea among his people in the country that he has a dependent younger brother called Ernest who lives in London. Hence, he has to take care of him. Using this invention he comes to London frequently. Thus, he is known as Jack in the country and is called as Ernest in London. Jack is such a gentleman that his ward Cecily Cardew believes whatever she tells him.  Lady Bracknell, the mother of Gwendolen Fairfax, wishes that her daughter should be married to a man of eminence. She, however, lear...

    The term “Standard English” invites criticism and controversy. What is Standard English?  Each person considers his own brand of English to be standard and all deviations from it to be dialects. Though grammar and vocabulary are uniform, pronunciation varies from locality to locality. In such a situation, it is difficult to fix a standard. The opponents of Standard English argue that a standard speech is an artificial speech and therefore unstable and without vitality. In spite of all these objections, there exists Standard English. The English that stands above the various dialects and is intelligible to others is Standard English. It is Queen’s English. Let’s now see why it arose. The invention of the printing press was one of the influential factors for the emergence of Standard English. It stabilized spelling, grammar, syntax and vocabulary. First of all, it is not an arbitrary invention of a class of people who wish to impose their way of speaking upon others. Ev...

 ஆசிரியர் குறிப்பு - காரை க்கால் அம்மையார்: ஆதியும் அந்தமும் இல்லா அம்மை யப்பனாகிய இறைவன் "அம்மையே "என்று அழை க்கப் பெற்ற திருத்த ொண்டர் காரை க்கால் அம்மை யார் ஆவார். புனிதவதியார் என்ற இயற்பெ யர் பெ ற்ற அம்மை யார், பரமதத்தன் என்றவணிகரை மணந்து வாழ்ந்த ப ோது, இறை வனிடமிருந்து பெற்ற மாங்கனி அவர்களின் வாழ்க்கையில் பெரிய மாற்றத்தை யே ஏற்படுத்தி விட்டது. பரமதத்தன் புனிதவதியாரை தெய்வ அம்சமாகவே கருதினான். எனவேபுனிதவதியார் இல்லறவாழ்வினை துறக்க, பேய் வடிவனை தனக்கு தருதல் வேண்டும் என இறை வனிடம் வே ண்டி பெ ற்றார். இறை அருள்பெற்ற அம்மை யார் தன்னை ஆட்க ொண்ட இறை வனைப்  ோற்றி திருஆலங்காட்டு மூத்த திருப்பதிகங்கள் மற்றும் திருவிரட்டை மணிமாலை , அற்புதத்திருவந்தாதி ஆகிய இருநூல்களையும் பாடி அருளினார். சைவத்திருமுறை களில் இந்த இரண்டு நூல்களும் பதின ோராம் திருமுறையைச் சேர்ந்தவை . காரைக்கால் நகரத்தை ப் ப ோல "ரத்னசபை 'எனப்ப ோற்றப்பெ றும் திருவாலங்காடு திருத்தலமும் அவரால் பெ ருமை பெற்றது. நூற்குறிப்பு - அற்புதத் திருவந்தாதி: சிவபெருமானின் அருள்பெற்ற அம்மையார் முதன் முதலாகப்பாடி அருளியது ...

 The Importance of Being Earnest – Oscar Wilde  A brief introduction to the dramatis personae  John Worthing, J.P  John Worthing is called Jack in the play. He belongs to the upper class and lives in the country. He wants to visit London often so that he can meet his friend Algernon Moncrieff and see his lady-friend, the Hon. Gwendolen Fairfax. He needs a reason to leave the country frequently he fabricates the idea that he has an invalid younger brother who lives in London. The people in the country believe that he really has such a brother. Cecily Cardew is Jack’s ward and she lives in the country.  Algernon Moncrieff  Algernon Moncrieff is a highly frivolous young man of the upper class. He lives in London. Whenever he is fed up with the city life he wants to visit the country. He invents an invalid friend called Bunbury who is supposed to live in the country. His fellow Londoners believe his words and assume that he visits the country to take care of hi...

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 Crop Groups  1. Kharif Crops: Also called the summer crops, they are sown before the onset of the  rainy season from May to July and harvested after the rains in September and October.  Rice and millets are major kharif crops of India.  2. Rabi Crops: Also called the winter crops, they are sown in the beginning of the winter  season from October to December and harvested before the summer season from February to April. Wheat, barley and oilseeds (mustard) are rabi crops.  3. Zaid Crops: These are the short duration crops grown after the harvest of the kharif or rabi crops before the next major season. The crops sown in February to April and harvested by June and July are called the ZaidRabi crops. Green vgetables are main crops of this season. Similarly, after the harvest of the kharif crops in September are grown some crops to be harvested before sowing the rabi crops in November and December. They are called zaidkharif crops. Oil seeds and some puls...

TWENTIETH CENTURY POETRY W.B. YEATS: William Butler Yeats, born in 1865 and died in1939 is Ireland’s greatest modern poet. He was influenced by the French symbolists, Celtic mythology and various mystic traditions. He was influenced by Spenser, Shelley, Rossetti and the aesthetic movement of the late nineteenth century. Being Irish, he was influenced by the Irish national movement in Dublin. Dublin introduced him to Irish literary nationalism, to George Sigerson’s translations of older Gaelic poetry and Douglas Hyde’s translations of Gaelic folk songs. London brought him into contact with the younger English poets. He hated Victorian science and felt that it had made belief in orthodox Christianity impossible. So, he sought for a new religion, an aesthetic religion. His reading of Blake and other impulses encouraged his mystical interest and he was seeking truth and order from theosophy to neo-Platonism. “His two Byzantium poems, ‘Sailing to Byzantium’ and ‘Byzantium’” according to Dav...

                     20th century novelists One mark 1. George Orwell is the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair. 2. The two important political allegories of Orwell are “Animal Farm” and “1984”. 3. “Animal Farm” is an allegory on socialism. 4. In “Animal Farm” the animals launch a revolution against Mr. Jones, the oppressive master. 5. The pigs prepared a set of commandments for the new rule. 6. The pigs introduced the doctrine that all animals are equal. 7. “Animal Farm” implies that equality is Utopian. 8. Exploitation is the key in any social structure. 9. The novel, “Animal Farm” implies power corrupts absolutely. 10.“Animal Farm” decodes that socialism also has created the same hierarchic and exploitative social structure as capitalism.     12.The three major works of James Joyce are “A portrait of the Artist   as a Young Man”, “Ulysses” and “Finnegan’s Wake”.     13.James Joyce’s most...

 THE DEAD James Joyce Lily, the caretaker's daughter, was literally run off her feet. Hardly had she brought one gentleman into the little pantry behind the office on the ground floor and helped him off with his overcoat, than the wheezy hall-door bell clanged again and she had to scamper along the bare hallway to let in another guest. It was well for her she had not to attend to the ladies also. But Miss Kate and Miss Julia had thought of that and had converted the bathroom upstairs into a ladies' dressing-room. Miss Kate and Miss Julia were there, gossiping and laughing and fussing, walking after each other to the head of the stairs, peering down over the banisters and calling down to Lily to ask her who had come. It was always a great affair, the Misses Morkan's annual dance. Everybody who knew them came to it, members of the family, old friends of the family, the members of Julia's choir, any of Kate's pupils that were grown up enough, and even some of Mary Jane...