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  The Mastery of Destiny by James Allen James Allen's The Mastery of Destiny is a spiritual and practical guide to shaping our lives as we wish. Key takeaways from the book. Fate vs free will (controversy between Fatalism and Free will Or Determinism and Free will)  Law of Cause and effect (causation)  Birth and Death are inevitable and they are not in our control Man proposes God disposes.  An act repeated a large number of times becomes unconscious, or automatic.  The character of an individual at birth is a combination of habits which he himself has built up by his own thoughts and acts during the course of his evolution.  Men reap what they sow.  As the individual reaps what he does, so the nation, being a community of individual, reaps also what it sows. (20)  Natural scientist vs divine scientist.  The book is based on the line, ” For man is man, master of his fate." Alfred Tennyson Chapter 1 -  Deeds, character, and destiny The ...

Kakatiya University Degree English Sem 4 Unit- 3. The Ungrateful Man: A Conversation between Trees Swathi Shenoy Visit writer's blog https://swathishenoy.blogspot.com/?m=1 Video lesson https://youtu.be/spbCGRVORC8?si=Xx0O6TlFSwv4xeac Q. 1.Effective acts of conservation support our natural environment'. Evaluate your answer with regard to the story The Ungrateful Man: A conversation between Trees.  Q. 2.what did the trees start talking among themselves in the story The Ungrateful Man: A conversation between Trees? Q. 3.How are humans portrayed in this story? Support your answer with examples from the text.  About the author Swathi Shenoy is a writer, poet,travel enthusiast, and nature lover. Her popular stories are 'Meet the Story Tellers: Falak Randerian', "Loneliness: A Chapter from the Ramayana". "A Mother's Heart" and "A Woman's Cry" are her well-known poems.  About the text:.  This short story is a conversation among trees. The ...

  Kakatiya University Degree English Sem 4 Unit 2- Climate Change and Global Warming                                       Michael Shafer Define global warming based on what you have learnt from the text?  What are green gases? Explain the significance behind their name?  Michael Shafer is an author,consultant and a teacher. He is a founder and director of Warm Heart, a community development organization set up in Chiang Mai,Thailand.Michael is working with Warm Heart to combat the problem of crop burning that takes place in Thailand each year. Michael goes into great detail about the effects of global warming and climate change in this essay. It speaks of major, long-term shifts in the climate that occur worldwide as a result of rising earth's temperatures. The increase in the average temperature is known as global warming. The earth's greenhouse, the atmosphere, retains heat i...

  House of Cards-Summary&Analysis Sudha Murty, a bilingual writer, both in English and Kannada, is a widely read novelist in India. She is a philanthropist,educator,writer, and former chairperson of the Infosys foundation.  She has been nominated for Rajyasabha by the president Droupadi Murmu. Her novels focus much on conflicts in relationships that arise due to materialism, family statuses, selfishness, ambition, the ill effects of money on relationships, marital, and generational issues. She depicts strong female characters who evolve into new women despite hurdles in life. Shrikant's insatiable thirst for money and power and over ambition are causes for the conflict in "gently falls bakula". Social stigma of vitiligo skin disease, differences in family status, and betrayal of a male spouse are the major reasons for conflict in "Mahasweta". The conflict between a materialistic mother-in-law and an affectionate bahu is portrayed in "Dollar Bahu "....

Kakatiya University Degree English Sem 4 Unit 2- Requiem for Earth poem O. N. V. Kurup(Translated by K. Jayakumar)  Oh still-not-dead Earth! Peace to you in your imminent death Written in my heart.  these lines are  funeral song (and mine). Tomorrow, when you freeze  In the shade of the dark flower of death  No one will be here  To shed a last teardrop  On your lifeless lips!  I write this down for you Oh still-not-dead Earth!  Peace to you in your imminent death. You are mother to the mother of the Ancient twelve clans.  You gave birth to children  Who would not live in harmony;  Watching one slaying the other to devour  You shed silent invisible tears.  Then by and by  They started eating you up  In small bouts of revelry;  You did not stop them  But endured it all in great patience.  Those whom you breastfed  Rolling up your green raiment  Have all grown big!  They had a...