Oops ! Hows That Again? - Summary | The Magic of Words

English | Summary | Unit Four: Humour
Oops! How's That Again | Roger Rosenblatt

            The essay deals with the mistakes people make when speaking and the reasons why they make mistakes. As a natural trait, everybody makes mistakes. Some mistakes are easy to take whereas others are not.

One Sentence Summary of All Chapters in Magic in Words

1. My Heart Leaps up when I behold
The poem " My Heart Leaps up When I Behold" is about the joy the poet feels at the sight of a rainbow which has been source of his ecstasy since his childhood and will continue to be so till his old age.

2. Speaking of Children
One child is an appendage and the parents can have privacy and proper guidance of the child where as the plural children is the end of privacy and the beginning of the obligations.

3. Look at a Teacup
 The writer who has decided to remain unmarried fearing disintegration, inherits china cups from her mother which were bought in 1939 and they have the pictures of falling flowers, which are significant and symbolical.

The Worn Path - Summary | The Magic of Words

English | Summary | Unit Two: Men, Women and Children

A Worn Path | Eudora Welty

            “A Worn Path” is a story of unconscious heroism, firm dignity and innocent humour, shown by an old African American woman Phoenix Jackson. The story decides Jackson’s journey from her house to the town. She had a grandson, who had been suffering from a throat pain ever since he swallowed lye. They lived in a village behind the hill. Their house was a long way from the town Natchez. It was the month of December and an occasion of Christmas, so she had to go the town to get some medicine and Christmas gifts for her grandson.

Look at a Teacup - Summary | The Magic of Words

English | Summary | Unit Two: Men, Women and Children

Look at a Teacup | Patricia Hampl

            Hampl’s mother bought the teacup in 1939; it was made in Czechoslovakia; she was married in the same year. It was the year when the Second World War started. Czechoslovakia was taken over and destroyed by the armies of Adolph Hitler. After a lapse of time, her mom gave the teacup to Hampl as a souvenir. Hampl takes it in a metonymical way as a page of history book, and makes many associations, and exploration. It shows that a seemingly insignificant object like a teacup can be a great source of information for artistic creativity.

Difference between Multitasking, Multiprocessing, Multiprogramming

Multitasking	Multiprocessing	Multiprogramming
In this system several tasks are carried out at one time.	In this system several processor are carried out at on time to do several task.	In this system several task are carried.
Powerful RAM is required.	Powerful processing required.	Powerful RAM and space is required.
Available in different device.	Not available in all devices.	Easily available in all devices
It carries out program slower than Multiprocessing.	It carries out program fast as two processor is used.	It carries out programs one after another.

Speaking of Children - Summary | The Magic of Words

English | Summary | Unit Two: Men, Women and Children

Speaking of Children | Barbara Holland

Theme:         

            A single child is a boon of God for the parents and plural children a curse; they destroy the personal life and privacy of the parents by keeping them under their control. Therefore, Holland suggests that one should beget one child.

            This essay is set in America; it deals with the American culture. For the Americans personal freedom and privacy are the most important of all aspects in life. A wife is expected to have some private time with her husband when he returns home from work.

            One child is an inseparable part of parents’ body whereas many children a way of strange life. A single child is controlled easily, and parents can shape him/her as their wish. They can take him/her to parties, on their journeys and teach him/her any lesson like morality. Unlike it, plural children create counter culture in the house; parents are controlled by the children and house is littered with playthings and clothes. Long errands are beyond imagination for the parents of multiple children. Besides, they have to dine at 6 pm instead of 8 or 9 in the evening. They should change apartment frequently to find cheap school, and should speak to the unwanted people as well.

My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold - Summary | The Magic of Words

English | Summary | Unit Two: Men, Women and Children

My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold | William Wordsworth

            William Wordsworth, an English poet, worshiper of nature. “My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold” is a poem which is related to the natural beauty (rainbow), time and nature.

            Wordsworth says his heart leaps up with joy when he sees a beautiful rainbow in the sky. The joy was similar in his childhood (past), is alike in degree now (present), and will be the same when he becomes old (future). Otherwise, he will prefer dearth to life because life away from nature will be listless for him. The experiences of the childhood are delightful; they shape our mind, which in turns shapes the course of future life. Thus the Child is father of the Man. Since nature is God for the poet, he wishes to pass life (his days) respecting and worshiping nature until he dies.

Keeping Things Whole - Summary | The Magic of Words

English | Summary | Unit Three: Ecology and Environment

Keeping Things Whole | Mark Strand

           

         “Keeping Things Whole”, a three stanza poem, composed by Mark Strand. This poem highlights identity crisis, a smoldering problem of the present time.

Application of Gauss Law : Metallic charged sphere

                Gauss Law states that “Total electric field in a body is equal to the total electric charge enclosed in a body by electric permittivity in vacuum.”

Mathematically,              

Ø = Electric field

q = total charge enclosed

E₀ = Electric permittivity in vacuum

Now,

                By Gauss Law, finding the electric field enclosed in a body. A sphere with radius r and having charge q. Let us create a Gaussian surface and the radius of created surface is r. The charge enclosed in a body is +q.

The Three Day Blow – Summary | The Magic of Words

English | Summary | Unit Two: Men, Women and Children

The Three Day Blow | Ernest Hemingway

                Very Short Summary of the Story

“The Three Day Blow ’’ is a story of unpleasant recollections, of mental ordeal and disturbance. As a dramatic story, it takes us into the mental agony of Nick. Nick suffers the blow given by Marge which has been compared with a storm that blows on outside of his home for three days. When the three day blow stops, his ordeal too comes to an end. In consequence both the surrounding and Nick fell relaxed, and cheerful. It is a well written story because the plot moves from conflict, to suffering and separation, and finally comes to reconciliation. It conveys that every conflict or grief passes through several stages before coming to reconciliation or compromise like a violent storm. In the same manner, no matter how deep the grief is it lasts for some time. 

The Nightmare Life Without Fuel – Summary | The Magic of Words

English | Summary | Unit Three: Ecology and Environment

The Nightmare Life Without Fuel | Isaac Asimov

                The essay sheds the lights on the fuel crisis in the USA in 1997. Asimov says that the life of the Americans will become like a nightmare. It will suffer a lot and will be changed into the world of primitive days.

                The scene is The United States of America in the future, at a time when fuel (gases, petrol, diesel, kerosene etc.) is running out. People no longer drive cars, but rides bicycles, instead, and old buildings are torn down so their materials can be reused. The alternative sources of fuel like solar power, atomic energy and coal will not cope with the problem.

                However, the fuel shortage will bring us some advantages. The air is cleaner, fewer people have colds, there is less crime, and people will have learnt to live life without facilities such as electric lights, indoor heating and showers with hot water.

The Poplar Field – Summary | The Magic of Words

English | Summary | Unit Three: Ecology and Environment

The Poplar Field | William Cowper

Very Short Summary of the Poem

                Set in rural background, this poem deals with environment degradation in the modern world. It is an outcome of people’s quest for material heaven. It is nostalgic in tone. William Cowper feels like crying over the loss of favorite poplar field because it was a place for him to pass hi leisure and was a source of joy in the past. The loss of trees pokes his mind; he thinks that he too will die like the poplar trees, and be buried with earth and stone. Such a day is very near. Therefore, he concludes that human life is short and his pleasure is far shorter.

Summary

                The poplar trees on the bank of Ouse River are cut down; the shade is all gone. The sound of the cool trees is heard no more because the wind does not play with trees anymore; neither leaves sing any songs. You cannot see the reflection of the trees on Ouse River water either.