Answer the following questions :
- Why do people leave their own countries?
- Do you think that there have been massive diasporas in Africa?
- Why is diaspora attracting so much attention?
- How do the twentieth century Palestinian diasporas draw the attention of the world leaders?
- Why have the scholars been studying about the diasporas with great interest?
i) People leave their own countries as they are sometimes forced to do so or they want to leave their own
ii) Yes, I do think that there have been, massive diasporas in Africa. Africa suffers from different natural disasters which forces people to move from their own country to other countries
iii) Though the world has seen many diasporas, scholars have been studying the phenomenon of diasporas in recent years. They are interested in diasporas because of globalisation.
iv) The Palestinian diasporas have caught the attention of the world leaders as they had to suffer a lot to leave their country and settle in other places. Their plight and sufferings have caused great concern among the world leaders.
v) Though the causes of diaspora are quite unclear, scholars have been studying the phenomenon of diasporas in recent years to know the causes behind people's movement from their own country to another country, the plight of the diasporic people, etc.
- Who was the first human being in the outer space--
- Answer the following questions :(a) How do you differentiate Mandela from other political leaders?(b) "Mandela's movement was non-violent one" Do you agree or disagree with the statement? Give reasons.(c) What dream, did Mandela dream throughout his life?(d) Why do people remember Mandela today?(e) Do you find any leadership quality in Mandela? If any, explain.
- Read the passage and answer the questions A and B.I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justicE- I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream that one day in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of 'interposition' and 'nullification', that one day right down in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers. I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, “and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together”. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hopE- With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day ...... So, let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New HampshirE- Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York, Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania........ . Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring. When we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, “Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!”
- Failure to maintain social values gives rise to---
- Answer the following questions :Define adolescence in your own words.What are the experience an adolescent undergoes? Mention the stages of growth from childhood to adulthood. Adolescence is a time of tremendous growth and potential”. Describe in brief.
- The Rakhaines originally came from-
- "I was half wakened by the sound of chopping." Here the word 'chopping' in the first line is a/an ....
- The word 'repressed' mentioned in the passage means-
- He had a colourful lifE- Here 'colourful' means----
- The phrase 'leads to' in the passage refers to?
- People who overspend are with what they have ..
- Which is the appropriate meaning of the word 'shape' as per the text?
- Read the passage and answer the questions A and B. Valentina Tereshkova was born in a village in Central Russia on 6 March 1937. Her father was a tractor driver and her mother worked in a textile plant. At the age of eight she began her schooling but did not enjoy it much. She left the school within a few years. Afterwards she completed her education through distance learning. She became interested in parachuting from a young age, and trained in skydiving at the local Aero club, making her first jump at age 22 on 21 May 1959. It was her expertise in skydiving that led to her selection as a cosmonaut. After the flight of Yuri Gagarin, the first human being to travel to outer space in April 1961, the Soviet Union decided to send a woman in spacE- On 16 February 1962, "proletaria" Valentina Tereshkova was selected for this project from among more than four hundred applicants. Tereshkova had to undergo aseries of training that included weightless flights, isolation tests, centrifuge tests, rocket theory, spacecraft engineering, 120 parachute jumps and pilot training in MiG-15UTI jet fighters. Since the successful launch of the spacecraft Vostok-5 on 14 June 1963, Tereshkova began preparing for her own flight. On the morning of 16 June 1963, Tereshkova and her back-up cosmonaut Solovyova were dressed in space-suits and taken to the space shuttle launch pad by a bus. After completing her communication and life support checks, she was sealed inside Vostok 6. Finishing a two-hour countdown, Vostok-6 launched faultlessly.
- The word 'gentile' means
- What does the word 'Oasis' mean?
- What is the meaning of the word ‘vague’ in the passage?
- Which of the following is not true about education?
- The word 'actually' mentioned in the passage means ,..........
- The word 'curse' in the first paragraph refers to-
- A. Choose the correct answer from the alternatives :What is the closest meaning of the word ‘Greet’?
- Answer the following questions :Do you think rivers attract people to urbanization? How?In what sense rivers are going through the pangs of death?What should we do to bring back the glorious past of the rivers?Do you think industrialization is responsible for river pollution?We, the people are responsible for the catastrophe of our rivers. Do you agree? Why/why not
- 'economic' refers to ---
- Therefore, we have to be — about etiquette and manners-
- Read the passage and answer the questions A and B.Consistent with the psychoanalytic perspective, Sigmund Freud's theory of dreams suggests that dreams are a representation of unconscious desires, thoughts and motivations. According to Freud, people are driven by aggressive and sexual instincts that are repressed from conscious awareness. While these thoughts are not consciously expressed, they find their way into our awareness via dreams. In his famous book The Interpretation of Dreams (1899), Freud wrote that dreams are "...disguised fulfillments of repressed wishes." Freud's theory contributed to the popularity of dream interpretation. Following his paths many theorists came up with their own ideas about dreams. The following are just a few of them : # Some researchers suggest that dreams are a subjective interpretation of signals generated by the brain during sleep. Dreams are not meaningless. Instead, during dreams the cognitive elements in our brain produce new ideas.# One theory suggests that dreams are the result of our brains trying to interpret external stimuli during sleep. For example, the sound of the radio may be incorporated into the content of a dream.# Another theory uses a computer metaphor to account for dreams. According to this theory, dreamsserve to 'clean up' clutter from the mind, much like clean-up operations in a computer, refreshing the mind to prepare for the next day.# Yet another model proposes that dreams function as a form of psychotherapy. In this theory, the dreamer is able to make connections between different thoughts and emotions in a safe environment.
- Sigmund Freud was a ---?