Archive for November 5th, 2008

MARVELS OF MODERN SCIENCE

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008

Ours is an age of science. Science has revolutionized our way of living. Our life-style now depends on innumerable discoveries and inventions of modern science.

The telephone, the television, the wireless, the radio, the teleprinter satellite communications and the fax are some of the marvels? of communication. News, views, messages. and even documents and photographs go round the glob with lightning speed.

Machines of incredible skill, power and efficiency have boosted trade and industry. Almost everything is produced on a large scale, quickly and cheaply.

Air-conditioning, refrigeration, plastic, steel, man-made fibers, varioils home-appliance? and gadgets like the washing machine, vacuum cleaner, gas-stove, grinder-juice-mixer have changed the appearance of our homes.

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TREES - OUR BEST FRIENDS

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008

A friend always does a good to us even if we do harm to him. Similarly, tree gives us fruits when we throw stones at it. So a tree is our friend.

All our food comes directly or indirectly from trees. Food grains, cereals, vegetables and fruits are supplied by trees. Even non-vegetarian food comes indirectly from trees, because animal live on grass, and other parts of trees.

Besides food, trees provide important raw materials such a wood, cotton, jute, wood pulp to make paper, rubber an turpentine for our industries. Industries provide employment to people. We also get many valuable medicines from trees and tree products. We get so many things from forests that forest are rightly known as green gold .Trees provide shade to tin travelers and animals and shelter to innumerable birds and insects.

Trees keep the environment clean. They take away the harmful carbon dioxide from the air and give oxygen. In this way they reduce air pollution. Forests retain humidity and attract rains. There will be no rain if there are no trees.

Trees check strong currents of wind and water and then prevent soil erosion. They thus help to preserve soil fertility. They prevent the fury of floods. Roots of trees keep the water below soil clean.

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The Power Of Positive Thinking

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008

Ask For It

Many of the richest rewards of life, material as well as spiritual, are never acquired simply because they aren’t asked for. It is because this principle is so simple that it is so frequently not even recognized, not put into daily practice. Yet it is a fundamental principle of life.Is it good? Is it just? Are you prepared for it? Then— ask for it!

Adopt the positive attitude, and ask for what you want from life.There is a positive quality of magic in this proposal. But be very careful what you ask for, since in all probability you will get it. Midas asked for the golden touch and turned his beloved daughter into a golden image. On re­flection, you will realize that you have asked for most of your triumphs and, through the very request, motivated their achievement.

Ask for it. But test it first. Is it good? Is it just? Are you equipped to have and hold and develop what you desire for good purposes? Jane Froman, the singing star, never lost the positive approach of her childhood. She recalls an incident of student days at the University of Missouri. Regulations prohibited her from going to St. Louis to hear the opera. She couldn’t leave the campus except to visit parents or friends who were approved by the school authorities. She had no friends in St. Louis. So Jane Froman went straight to her dean and asked for what she wanted. The dean firmly informed her that he wouldn’t change the university regulations to suit her convenience. Then, warmed by the intensity of her request, the dean smiled and invited her to be the guest of himself and his wife at the opera. She had asked for it.

The Secret Of The Positive Way Of Life

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