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"Compensation" by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essay : Compensation by R.W. Emerson “Why should I keep holiday, When other men have none? Why but because when these are gay, I sit and mourn alone. And why mirth unseals all tongues Should mine alone be dumb? Ah! Late I spoke to silent throngs, And now their our is come”.                                                                     “Compensation” is a famous essay written by Ralph Waldo Emerson. The Essay was first appeared in his book Essays and later on published in 1841. In 1844, Essays: Second Series was published and subsequent republishing of Essays were renamed Essays: First Series. The essay describes the...

Thinking Activity on "The Sense of an Ending" by Julian Barnes

" The Sense of an Ending" "The Sense of an Ending" is a 2011 novel written by an English writer Julian Patrick Barnes, widely known as Julian Barners.  This blog is response to the questions asked by professor, Click Here to know more about it... 1)  "History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation." How far can you agree with this definition of Adrian? Justify you answer with reference to your reading of ‘The Sense of an Ending’. "History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation.” This is a famous quote from Lagrange which Adrian referred to in Old Joe Hunt’s class. In Julian Barne’s “The Sense of an Ending” history, memory and responsibility stay at the centre of the novel these also contribute in bringing clarity into Adrian’s death as well. To the greater extend I can be a...

Powerful Tools for Teaching and Learning: Web 2.0 Tools

Powerful Tools for Teaching and Learning: Web 2.0 Tools Though everyone have their own different experience of using technology, when it comes to integration of technology for academia, it seems always helpful and something new to learn. This course explores strategies and approaches to effectively integrate Web 2.0 tools in learning process as well as it helps us in learn some valuable skills which we can immediately in our class to make learning environment live and lovely. Nowadays there are many tools available but this course helps in choosing tools for learning and teaching perspectives. What is Web 2.0? Before to know Web 2.0, it is necessary to have a some knowledge about Web 1.0. In comparison to web 1.0, Web 2.0 is dynamic as well as is allow anyone with having internet connection to create and upload content at very low cost or some times at free of cost. Blogger, wikies and podcast are well known examples of web template of content creation tools. Which al...

How Literature Shaped Me?

How Literature shaped me? Have you ever got bored from your day to day life? Would you like to live another fantastic life? If your answer is yes, I am sure you would like to be a student of Literature, you would like to live, to be with fictional characters. Literature is an ocean, it depends on you how well you diving in it. I am a student of literature, since the five years I am diving up in the ocean of literature, through these years I came across many novels, short stories, plays, poems and so on. Now finally at the end of MA, having a sense of an ending I am going to share my views on how literature helps me in shaping myself, in shaping my thoughts, in shaping my vision. Literature, the word itself says a lot, it is mirror of the society, it is an ex-ray image and so on. But for me literature seems honey coated pill (here I am using honey coated instead sugar coated), it may cure all mental pains, sugar may have harmful effect on one’s body but honey may have...