Nobel Prizes are awarded every year for outstanding achievements in the fields of science, literature and for promoting world peace. Under this prizes, the prize winner gets a gold medal, a certificate and a large sum of money.
The Nobel Prize is the world's most important prize. This prize is given to persons with most outstanding contributions in six fields, namely, physicxs, chemistry, literature, physiology or medicxine, peace and economics. Economics was added in the list in 1969 for the first time. One prize is awarded in each field. Of there are more than one recxipient of the prize in one field, the prize money is equally distrebuted amongst all the winners. This prize was instituted by a man who was the inventor of the sxciencxe of destruction. This scxientist was Alfred Bernard Nobel. He was born in Stockholm on 21st October, 1833 and he died on 10th December, 1896.
Though he was a citizen of Sweden, he was educxated in Russia. He invented dynamite. This material is widely used for breaking rocks, digging petrol wells and in wars. For his valuable discovery, Nobel became famous all over the world. He earned a huge sum of money from selling it.
At the time of his death in 1896, he left behind a fabulous sum of 90,00,000 dollars. He left a will indicxating that the interest on this money should be given as prizes to persons for their outstanding cxontributions to physicxs, cxhemistry, medicine, literature and peace. This prize was named as Nobel Prize. The first Nobel Prize was given to Rontgen of 10th December 1901 for his outstanding research in X-rays. The prize money was 40,000 dollars. The winners of this prize are treated with great respect all over the world. Sujan has heard andreada lot about Nobel winner Rabindranath Tagore. But he does not know what the word 'Nobel' actually refers to. So, one day he asked his friends about it. There he learnt that the Nobel Prize is the world's most important prize Alfred Bernard Nobel of Sweden instituted it.
He invented dynamite and made a huge sum of money selling it. When he died in 1896, he left behind a huge amount of 90,00,000 dollars to give prizes to the most important persons in some specific fields. The prize mpney is provided from the interest of that huge amount. Every year it is given to the persons who make important contributions to physics, chemistry, literature, medicine, peace and economics. In 1913 this prize was given to Rabindranath Tagore for his outstanding contributions in Literature.
The best way of knowing a man is to know what company he keeps.: A thief associates with a thief and a saint with a saint. Righteousness can have no fellowship with unrighteousness. Light can have no connection with darkness and a believer, with an infidel. Fire and water have a natural affinity to their own kind and a natural aversion for each other. Water is attracted by water and two drops merging together will readily become one, but when fire and water meet together they destroy each other. Tigers and deer, serpents and mongooses, lambs and wolves, lions and whales never voluntarily associate with each other. Light and darkness can never unite. Men of similar tastes and habits unite with each other and become friends.
Therefore a man’s character, opinions, tastes and temper may be fairly changed by the company he lives in. Birds of the same feather flock together. If a policeman is to detect a thief or a felon where will he search for him?
He will, no doubt, search for him among the hunts of wickedness since the police knows that a thief can be nowhere but among thieves. A man is never so happy as when he finds himself in the company of those who are what he is.
One should exercise great care in the choice of one’s companions. Our happiness or misery depends upon this choice. If a good man mixes with those who are bad and wicked, he is sure to lose his character, whereas if a bad man comes in contact with the good and the virtuous, he will soon be one of them. It should, therefore, be the earnest endeavour of everyone to secure a good company since it is only there that character can be preserved and improved. It is the company on which the structure of a man’s career is built.
Naymee’s father took him to task yesterday for keeping bad company. At first it hurt him too much. But his father told him that bad company is the root of failure in life. He informed him that the best way of knowing a man is to know what company he keeps. A man’s character, opinions, tastes and temper may be fairly changed by the company he lives in. So, everybody should exercise great care in the choice of companions. Rabi got the point and decided to avoid bad company.
The lion is the strongest and most powerful of the wild animals: It is a ferocious animal, too. It is regarded as the symbol of power and strength in all the countries in the world. We often hear strong and courageous people being referred to as “lion-hearted”. Also, the figure of the lion, as a symbol of strength, is engraved on many shielded awarded to players. Even the national flags of some countries carry the picture of a lion. The ancient Egyptians believed the lion to be a sacred animal.
It is generally believed that the lion is the most powerful animal in the jungle. It is called the ‘king of the beasts’, because it attacks so swiftly that the victim does not get any time to defend itself. It attacks animals bigger than itself like giraffes and wild buffaloes from behind and then tears them apart with the help of its powerful paws and teeth. They often hunt as a team. Lions were found in many parts of Europe some 2000 years ago, but gradually they were wiped off. New they are found only in the jungles of Africa and North-West India. A few, not more than 200, live in India’s Gir forest.
The lion is a carnivorous animal which kills wild animals and lives on their flesh. It is a member of the cat family. The average length of an adult lion is about three metres and its weight varies from 180 to 225 kilograms. The female species of the lion is smaller in size and does not have mane.
The lioness generally hunts and kills the prey. Unlike the cat, it cannot climb trees. Lions can be domesticated and we can see them in the circus performing tricks. Lions have an average life-span of 20 to 30 years.
It is genarally believed that the lion is the most powerful animal in the jungle. It is called the ‘king of the beasts’, because it attacks so swiftly that the victim does not get any time to defend it itself. It attacks animals bigger than itself like giraffes and wild buffaloes from behind and tears them apart with the help of its powerful paws and teeth. They often hunt as a team. Lions were found in many parts of Europe some 2000 years ago, but gradually they were wiped off. Now they are found only in the jungles of Africa and North-West India. A few, not more than 200, live in India’s Gir forest.
Sincerity is a great medicine to work: One can go a long way if one does anything with sincerity. The rich people are sincere to their work and so they are capable of making anything a success. The great men are also sincere because they know the sincerity is the key-stone to success.
Those who do not follow the rules of sincerity can never go a long way in the world. The poor people are not sometimes sincere and so they lag behind. If they can know the benefit of sincerity, they will make a good use of its. Sincerity is the tonic to any work because it helps the work to be done properly. If any work is not done properly, one will never get good output from it.
So, we should be sincere in every walk of our life. Sincerity does not mean only to any work properly. It also means dutfulness, honesty, modesty, and well-behaviour. The people of our country are not still aware of the importance of sincerity. As a result, they do not do their work properly and it dose not give good output to them.
They are becoming spiritless observing their poor output. They blame their lot but do not think that they are not sincere to their work.It is we who are responsible for our poor condition. If we are aware of this fact, we can easily be sincere to our work and other things.
Most of our students cannot write out their examination papers fairly. As they cannot understand the questions properly, they often beat about the bush and cram their answers with irrelevant and unnecessary details. Sometimes they also fail to arrange their answer neatly , cleanly and systematically. Although the teachers suggest that their answers should be brief and precise, they often lengthen them unnecessarily where size does not matter at all. They have a silly notion that the more they write the more they will get marks. The reality is just the opposite, their long answers generally become disgusting and unnecessary which always earn poor marks.
In order to get expected marks, what you all should do is to understand the questions well and answer them just to the point. Don’t worry, if your answers are fairly short. Be sure that your sentences make sense. Above all, you need a neat presentation. To answer the short comprehension questions, you should not copy anything blindly from the passage. Try to answer the questions more or lessen your own English. Frame your answers exactly in the same tense as on the questions are in. Don’t forget to write short and simple sentences. Plain and clear English is not bad.
Most of our students are not able to write answers properly due to lack of understanding. Besides, they fail to arrange their answers neatly, clearly and systematically. Even often their answers are not brief and precise. So, to do well in the exams. Students should write answers in their own words briefly and to the point. The tenses of the answers should be the same as that of the question.
Illiteracy is a great problem in Bangladesh: Most of our people cannot read or write. So, the literacy rate in Bangladesh is too poor. It is to poor to imagine. This problem generates many other problems. There are many reasons behind this problem. Firstly, we can mention poverty. Majority of our people live below the poverty line. They cannot manage three meals a day. It seems really tough for them to send their children to schools.
There are a lot of children who are dropped out even at their early age from schools. At the very little age the children go out of their home in search of work. Now some steps have been taken by the government to solve the problem. Free primary education has been offered. Moreover, female education remains free up to secondary level.
Lack of social awareness is another problem for illiteracy. Most of the guardians are not aware of their Children’s education. At present different programmers have been taken to raise the awareness of the guardians regarding the schooling of their children. In fact every mother should be careful about her child’s education. Thirdly in rural areas girls are forbidden to go to school.
Finally, in some remote places communication system is not up to the mark. Here it remains tough for the children to go to school. To solve this illiteracy problem of our country we need to work together in sorting out the above mentioned reasons carefully. If it is possible to overcome these reasons, we can easily find an educated society in near future. Only then it can be possible on our part to face other problems creating from illiteracy.
Education makes a man perfect: It awakes the latent talent ofa person. It also makes the way of his life easier. So, education is inevitable in our life. And we get the perfect evaluation of education through examinations. Without examinations, education cannot get repleteness.
Now I am to tell how far I have prepared myself for the coming S.S.C examination. Our exam is now knocking at the door. It is going to be held within two months. I have always been standing first in our school exams. Our teachers are very hopeful of me. They do expect a good result from me which will also add to the reputation of our school. They want me to secure A+ grade in the Board exam. But I am not sure whether I will be able to accomplish their desire. That is because I was very sick for two months and therefore, I could neither attend my classes nor study at all. Besides, I could not read with any teacher to improve my condition because of poverty.
According to me, my preparation is quite satisfactory almost in all subjects except one or two. I have good preparation in Bengali, computer science, social science and religion. I was weak in mathematics. But now I have made a better progress in this subject. I have also prepared myself excellently in Chemistry and Biology. I hope to have A+ grade in these stated subjects.
It is a matter of distress that I could not take good preparation yet in Physics and English. The reason is that we needed more classes in these two subjects but in reality, the number of classes was less in proportion to our need. On the other hand, our institution remained closed for a number of days on account of several national holidays including the common affair-hortal.
Though I am weak, I am getting out of this stage by the timely attention and proper care of my teachers. They are trying their best to make us fit for the examination. They are friendly and helpful to us. They inspire and teach us in such way that we can find our subjects interesting.
Ultimately, I am about to progress my condition and make it stronger by studying attentively and spontaneously. I believe, I will do better in the ensuing examination and will be able to implement the dream of my teachers and parents.
An elderly Florida woman was found alive after a car accident. The car was lying upside-down on the bushy treetops near a swamp. But she was unhurt as she fastened her seat belt. She was trapped in the car for three days.
The accident shocked her but she did not lose heart, she waited for someone to find her. She knew many people were passing by the road and hoped somebody would spot her car. Gradually it was becoming dark and she was also hungry. At first she did not know what to do, then she looked around and saw the packets of chocolates, biscuits and chips that she bought for her grandchildren. She was careful not unfasten the seat belt. Slowly she bent over and tried to pick up the packets. After trying for some time she got hold of them. She ate some of them and kept the rest for further use.
Next morning when she woke up it was broad daylight. She could hear cars passing by. Then she heard voices. It could be the road workers or any passers-by. To draw their attention she tood off her red scarf. She waved it in the air outside the window and started to shout.
After doing this for about an hour, some roadside workers heard her and came near. They asked her about her well being an told her that they would telephone the police. Soon the police came and rescued the brave old woman.
In 1912 an American shipping company launched a new ship called ‘Titanic.’ It was the largest and most luxurious ocean liner of the tine. It weighed 46,000tons and could carry about 2,200 passengers. Experts said that nothing could make it sink. It was definitely unsinkable. On April 10, 1912, the ship sailed on its first voyage across the Atlantic from Southampton in England to New York in the United States, with 2,224 passengers; men, women and children. On April 15, just before midnight, the ship struck an ice-berg. The ice-berg tore a great hole in the ship’s side and the unsinkable ‘Titanic’ began to sink. The tragic sinking of this great liner will always be remembered, for she went down on her first voyage with heavy loss of life.
There was a great alarm on board. Warning bells rang out. Everyone rushed to the life boats, but there was not enough room for them all. There was room for only 1,178 passengers. The life-boats took mostly the woman and children. It was a terrible scene. Wives were weeping because they had to leave their husbands to drown. Children were crying because they had to say good-bye to their fathers. The men had to remain on the ship; The “Titanic” sent out signals for help, but no help came. Another ship the ‘Californian’ was only twenty miles away, but her radio operator was asleep and did not hear the distressing signals.
In the early hours of the morning the ‘Titanic’ sand, while her band was playing bravely in deck. Twenty minutes later another liner, the ‘Carpathia’ arrived on the scene and helped to rescue survivors from the icy water. But of the 2,224 passengers, only about 700 survived.
It was a terrible disaster. But something good came out of the sinking of the ‘Titanic’. In 1913 there was a committee of inquiry into the disaster. This committee drew up many new rules for shipping companies. Since then, every ship has had to provide life-boat places for each passenger and has had to organize life-boat drill during each voyage. Every ship has had to carry enough radio operators so that is always one of them on duty. Another important result of the sinking of the ‘Titanic’ was the formation of an international Ice Patrol. This patrol warns ships about ice and ice-bergs in the North Atlantic.
The Titanic was the largest and most luxurious ocean ship. Once the ship struck an ice-berg and began to sink. Among the 2,224 passengers, only 700 were alive. Something good came out of the sinking of the ‘Titanic’. A new committee of inquiry was made and drew up many new rules for shipping companies.
