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Sea anchor, sextant and some real pictures

Boom, Mast, stern and parts  Crest For sea-anchor:   https://youtu.be/RZAHZphZca8 Sextant / ˈsÉ›kst(É™)nt / Learn to pronounce noun noun:  sextant ; plural noun:  sextants an instrument with a graduated arc of 60° and a sighting mechanism, used for measuring the angular distances between objects and especially for taking altitudes in navigation and surveying. Origin late 16th century (denoting the sixth part of a circle): from Latin  sextans ,  sextant-  ‘sixth part’, from  sextus  ‘sixth’. A  sextant  is a doubly reflecting navigation instrument that measures the angular distance between two visible objects. The primary  use  of a sextant  is to measure the angle between an astronomical object and the horizon for the purposes of celestial navigation. THE REAL PICTURES : The wavewalker: http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/gloucestershire/hi/people_and_places/newsid_8417000/8417142.stm
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Data Interpretation std 12 gseb

Table   Bar Chart Pie Chart Line Graph To begin with, let’s take a quick look at the main differences and similarities among tables, graphs and charts. While  tables  present information about different categories mainly in columns and rows,  bar charts  present the information in two axes: the values are given along one axis and each bar represents what is being measured along the other axis. It is often possible to turn tables into charts, but sometimes the categories are too different to do this. A  pie chart  is another way of presenting information, but here each segment is a percentage of a whole. Together they represent 100%. Last but not least,  line graphs  show how data change over time. When approaching the Academic version of Writing Task 1, it’s important that you introduce the visual data by using one of the following phrases or collocations: According to the table/ graph/chart… The table/graph/chart shows… The table/graph/chart illustrates… Looking at the table/chart/gra

The rattrap

 Summary of the rattrap. 

Figures of speech class 12 NCERT FLAMINGO

  Poem 1. My mother at sixty six  Young trees sprinting... Ans-personification The merry children spilling...  Ans- personification  The young trees sprinting and merry children spilling... Ans - internal rhyme, personification Pale as a late Winter's moon... Ans- simile But all said was, see you soon Amma... Ans- alliteration and apostrophe   All I did was smile, smile and smile... Ans- repetition  Poem. 2 An Elementary school classroom in a slum   1) far far from gusty waves,these children's faces..... Ans. Repetition (far far), alliteration  2) Like rootless weeds.... Ans. Simile 3) the paper-seeming boy...  Ans. Simile 4) with rat's eyes....  Ans. Metaphor 5) ....sealed with a lead sky..  Ans. Symbolism, metaphor 6) for lives that slyly turn in their cramped holes.. (house, shaks)  Ans. Metaphor  7) these children wear skins .. Ans. Paradox  8) so blot their maps with slums as big as doom Ans. Comparison  9) ....upon their lives like catacombs...  Ans. Simile 

Keeping Quiet

 Figures of speech used in the poem " Keeping Quiet "   1.... and we will all keep still   Ans.  Internal rhyme    2. For once on the face of the earth Ans. metaphor/personification   3. without rush without engine  Ans.  repetition/anaphora 4. and not move our arms so much Ans. Pun 5. In a sudden strangeness  Ans.  Alliteration 6. Wars with gas wars with fire Ans.  Repetition/anaphora 7. Vicory with no survivors  Ans.  Peradox / irony 8. A huge silence might interrupt Ans.  Irony / peradox  9. Perhaps the earth can teach us Ans.  Personification  Question Answers Question 1. What will ‘counting up to twelve and keeping still’ help us to achieve? [Delhi 2015] Answer: Counting up to twelve and keeping still will help us to understand ourselves and to introspect. We will be able to realize the real impact of our selfish actions on each other and, finally, on the entire humanity. Question 2. Do you think the poet advocates total inactivity and death? Answer: The poet does not ad

Student's Articles on various topics

  Reforms Required In The Education Field Of India -Darji Meghav What Education is? According to me education is something which is tangible and can be acquired by the way of learning which helps a man to lead an efficient and healthy life with the optimum use of available resources like capital, labour and time. What is the Indian Education System? Indian Education is a total system of taking up the whole syllabus in a period of one year and spilling it out in 3 hours of exam. Due to this there is no insight formation of the children and makes the children to slog their hours and their seemed colourful childhood only in studies. They don't even get time to get socialised with society and to develop their curricular activities and hobbies. Possible Changes Which Can Solve This Problems Root Learning Basically in India, children are not given the basic education properly. This is the thing like building up a building with improper foundation of pillars of buildings. In India, studen