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Animal Farm
Take a few seconds and think about a major event in history where you felt a strong reaction. You may have felt sadness, confusion, or anger. How did you express these emotions? Did you share them with others? Not surprisingly, authors often write about historical events that have touched them. Through their novels, the authors are able to express their point of view and even shape a theme that may influence, challenge, or change our point of view to the event. In his novel Animal Farm, George Orwell takes an event in history and interprets it to show his point of view. Animal Farm retells the story of the Russian Revolution and the rise to power of Joseph Stalin. Through his novel, Orwell hoped to show that the end result of the Revolution was a more oppressive and controlling government than the people had worked to overthrow. The characters in the novel represent the political figures of the time, and Orwell even mirrors similar actions and events.
Pygmalion by George Benard Shaw
This 1986 BBC Radio production of George Bernard Shaw's world famous play stars Simon Cadell, Imelda Staunton, and James Grout. The inspiration for the film My Fair Lady, Pygmalion is the story of Professor Henry Higgins' cultivation of the decidedly unrefined Eliza Doolittle.
Q & A by Vikas Swarup
Ram Mohammad Thomas has been arrested. Because how can a poor orphan who has never read a newspaper or gone to school correctly answer all twelve questions on the television game show Who Will Win a Billion?—unless he has cheated?As the story unfolds, Ram explains to his lawyer how he knew the answer to each question by telling a chapter of his amazing life—from the day he was salvaged from a dustbin to his meeting with a security-crazed Australian army colonel while performing as an overly creative tour guide at the Taj Mahal. Stunning a television audience of millions, Ram draws on a store of street wisdom and accidental encounters that provides him with essential keys not only to the quiz show but also to life itself.In a beguilling blend of high comedy and poignancy, Vikas Swarup has created a kaleidoscopic vision of the struggle of good against against evil, and what happens when one boy has no other choice in life but to survive.
Sense and sensibility
'The more I know of the world, the more am I convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!' Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willoughby she ignores her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behaviour leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Meanwhile Elinor, always sensitive to social convention, is struggling to conceal her own romantic disappointment, even from those closest to her. Through their parallel experience of love—and its threatened loss—the sisters learn that sense must mix with sensibility if they are to find personal happiness in a society where status and money govern the rules of love.
The war of the worlds
On a summer night, at the end of the nineteenth century, a “ meteor” lands on Horsell Common in London. An artificial cylinder is found the next day and upon approaching it, the unsuspecting humans are instantly killed by an all-destroying heat-ray, as terrifying Martians emerge and blaze a path of fiery destruction across Victorian England. Amid the boundless destruction that is caused, it looks as if the end of the world has come . . . .The War of the Worlds is one of the earliest science-fiction that explores the possibilities of intelligent life from other planets and details a conflict between humankind and an extraterrestrial race . . . this novel vividly describes the mass hysteria such an invasion would stimulate and shows how unprepared our civilization is for the onslaught of forces from another world. "
The Scarlet Letter
Set in 17th-century Puritan Boston, Massachusetts, during the years 1642 to 1649, it tells the story of Hester Prynne, who conceives a daughter through an affair and will not reveal her lover’s identity. The scarlet letter A (for adultery) she has to wear on her clothes, along with her public shaming, is her punishment for her sin and her secrecy. She struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity. Throughout the book, Hawthorne explores themes of legalism, sin, and guilt.
Great Expectations
'In what may be Dickens's best novel, humble, orphaned Pip is apprenticed to the dirty work of the forge but dares to dream of becoming a gentleman — and one day, under sudden and enigmatic circumstances, he finds himself in possession of "great expectations." In this gripping tale of crime and guilt, revenge and reward, the compelling characters include Magwitch, the fearful and fearsome convict; Estella, whose beauty is excelled only by her haughtiness; and the embittered Miss Havisham, an eccentric jilted bride
Beasts of Burden
The first novel of one of the best writers today, Koveru Kazhuthaigal is located in the early 1970s when ritual status and payment in kind were giving way to cash wages. It is a tapestry of despair, courage and a journey both outward and inward and a story of decline and change in a village seen through the eyes of a washerwoman (vannaatti) Arokkyam, who serves a dalit community of agricultural labourers. The mules of the title refers ironically to the vannaan and vannaatti themselves who traditionally carried their washing on donkeys. Although they play an important role in all Hindu rites of passage, it is striking that Arokkyam and Savuri are Catholics. Most importantly, they defer to the authority of the priest at the Church of Saint Antony and seek his blessing on family and community occasions.The novel gives us an extraordinarily detailed picture of a lifestyle that has now passed reclaimed and told with pride. The worst oppression of the caste system, Imayam suggests, is that people are dependent upon it for their living.
Indian polity and Governance
To say anything about the relevance of Indian Polity & Governance in civil service(s) examination would be like stating the obvious. However, change is the only constant thing in this ephemeral world of ours and so it is with UPSC and the pattern of civil services examination. The present status of GS can be best summed up by quoting Charles Dickens when he wrote that ';it was the best of times, it was the worst of times'. While on one hand, sweeping changes in the pattern of questioning and less than kind marking in all papers including optional has shaken the confidence of the most ardent of its advocates, on the other hand however, the indelible presence of a substantial portion of Indian Polity in all papers has proved it beyond doubt that you can love it or hate it but you can never be indifferent towards it. This edition presents the dynamic aspect of Indian Polity - the living, breathing, ever-changing, ever-challenging democratic environment which is as complex, as elusive and as mind boggling as the realities of India itself. Democracy, one can say, is the arena where the various theories and principles wrestle, grapple and jostle with each other to prove their pertinence and justify their existence! This book has been done in an equally diligent and devoted manner for revealing the complexities while retaining the simplicity of the subject in hand. I hope the present work will prove to be a fascinating, informative and enriching read for both students and casual but curious readers alike.
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האם אתם מוכנים לטפס לשלב הבא בסולם ההנהגה? לשם כך עליך להדריך אחרים, ולהשקיע זמן ומשאבים כדי לטפח אותם וללמד אותם לפעול לצדך. ספר זה יצייד אותך בכלים הדרושים לביצוע המשימה. באמצעות שיטות פשוטות אך מלאות עצמה, שהוכיחו את עצמן במשך השנים, מגדיר ג’ון ק’ מקסוול את סביבת העבודה המושלמת - סביבה שכולם מפיקים ממנה תועלת. "מה עלי לעשות כדי להגשים את מטרות הארגון?" "איך אוכל לעצב נבחרת חלומות של מנהיגים?" הספר יעזור לך לענות על שאלות אלה לטפח את אלה שעובדים לצידך ולהעלות את החברה או הארגון שלך על דרך המלך המובילה להצלחה. בין אם הארגון שלך נמצא בחיתוליו ובין אם הוא מצליח מאוד, תוכל לשפר את מצבו אם תלמד לזהות, לטפח ולעודד את הגברים והנשים העובדים בסביבתך, כדי שיוכלו למצות את מלוא היכולת שלהם. ההצלחה שלהם היא ההצלחה שלך ושל הארגון שלך. ג'ון ק' מקסוול הוא מומחה אמריקני בנושאי מנהיגות. הוא מרצה בפני קהל של מאות אלפי אנשים - מנהלי חברות מצליחות, קצינים באקדמיה הצבאית ומנהלים בארגוני ספורט ידועים, ביניהם ה-NCAA, ה-NBA וה-NFL. מקסוול יסד כמה ארגונים, ביניהם Maximum Impact , ששם לו למטרה לעזור לאנשים למצות את מלוא היכולת שלהם. הוא כתב עד כה למעלה מ-30 ספרים בנושאי מנהיגות. חלקם היו לרבי מכר.
