#nelson mandela paragraph

[rimuruuuuuuu]

Reading & Writing Task!!

Typhoon Paeng caused a lot of trouble for most Filipinos, particularly those in south and north Luzon, as well as those in specific areas of Visayas, so in this paragraph, I will share three things that we Filipinos have learned during and after Typhoon Paeng’s  landfall. First and foremost, we, Filipinos have learned to help other Filipinos in need more effectively than ever before. As more typhoons hit the Philippines, we learn what works best and what does not. Second, we’ve learned and continue to learn how to mitigate and restore areas to resemble the Garden of Eden, which became like Tower of Babel after Typhoons made landfall. Finally, as typhoons and other natural disaster are becoming more stronger and powerful as it trie to replicate Enyo's wrath, we are roused to the true effects of climate change, and as a result of this, we hope to make decisions guided with Solomon’s wisdom, we desire to be victorious against Climate Change, and as Nelson Mandela said, "The greatest glory in living lies not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall."

[billconrad]

We Live Like Kings and That’s Hard to Write About

    One hundred years ago, the year was 1923; the Roaring Twenties. People were optimistic about the future, making lots of money and having a blast. Yet, not really. Life was hard, medical care was basic, information was scarce, the stock market was about to crash, and people were not aware of the harm they were causing.

    Since 1923, we developed technology that improved our lives, grew as a society and understood our prior mistakes. Now, we have more respect for the people around us, know about the problems in society, and are actively working on improvement. Here are some improvement examples:

    I can go to my local supermarket and purchase inexpensive pasta from Italy, tangerines from Mexico, maple syrup from Canada, and water chestnuts from China. If I was in the Eiffel Tower in Paris, I could video chat with my somebody in the Eiffel Tower replica in Vegas. I can use the Wikipedia application on my phone to look up what year Nelson Mandela was born, what movie received the tenth Academy Award, where prairie dogs live, and all about the small English town Kingsbridge. If I get cancer, a broken bone, or an infection, doctors can usually help. An event can happen in front of me, and I can record it with my smartphone. After I post it (with one click), in under an hour, over a billion people can view that video. Our phones even warn us about earthquakes, fires, power outages, and traffic. And the most mind-shattering aspect of these developments is that not one person found this paragraph impressive.

    That is a significant problem for writers. Where is the conflict, the struggle, or the dilemma? “Steve was in trouble. He knew nothing about Kingsbridge.” Umm… Steve can easily learn about that topic on his smartphone. Well, Steve could lose it. Umm… He could ask a nearby person; everybody has a smartphone.

    Now, hold on. There are still gigantic problems like homelessness. Umm… Everybody knows about it, and many people are working on solutions. In time, this problem will come under control. Want some proof that we can solve an epic problem? The air quality in Los Angeles used to be out of control. Since the ‘30s, people have understood the issue and began solving it. I recall going there in the ‘70s, and my eyes watered. Now, I can spend the day in Los Angeles without issue.

    It is a struggle for an author to invent a legitimate conflict. “Sally was watching television, and a robber broke down her door.” Umm… Did she call the police? Did Sally’s wireless security cameras capture the incident? Did her insurance company pay for the damages? Did Sally take a picture of the robber, post it, and have thousands of people look at the image?

    Now, conflict requires precise circumstances to get around society’s advances. Readers know about present technology, what they can buy, what is possible, facts, statistics, geography, history, news, biology, physics, literature, fiction, and current events. Readers do not accept oversights, mistakes, racism, sexism, bad morals, copying existing work (intentional or not), lazy writing, or uncompelling concepts.

    Plus, we have imagined so many things. How about a Star Trek teleporter? “Scotty pressed the button and beamed Kirk from the planet to his starship.” That sentence is easy to understand, and the impossible science does not mystify anybody.

    Besides the advances, people get exposed to so much. I remember in the ‘70s seeing a man wearing pink fingernail polish. That was so outrageous! But now? 3.7 MILLION videos get uploaded to YouTube and 34 MILLION to TikTok daily. As a result, every possible aspect, view, alteration, outfit, personality, sexuality, death, life, setting, and location of the human body has been thoroughly explored, exploited, created, and destroyed. This wealth of explored situations makes creating something that surprises anybody extremely difficult. He wore fingernail polish AND earrings? Yeah, no.

    These advances have introduced an endless number of pitfalls. “Stan got lost.” Today, nobody can get lost. The author must explain that Stan forgot his smartphone, there were no road signs, nobody was around, and there were no recognizable landmarks. “Tara arrived in Germany and could not ask for help.” Wrong! Many people in Germany speak English, and a basic internet search would educate the author. Plus, nearly all phones now come with a language transaction application.

    This society of kings has an additional problem for writers. Amazon releases over 1.4 MILLION self-published books through its Kindle Direct Publishing every year. While good for readers, I must compete with this vast sea of books.

    Yet, living like a king is not all bad. Our advances make it easier to publish, get the word out, and connect with people. In fact, I’m doing that right now.

    You’re the best -Bill

    November 29, 2023

    Hey book lovers, I published four. Please check them out:

    Interviewing Immortality. A dramatic first-person psychological thriller that weaves a tale of intrigue, suspense, and self-confrontation.

    Pushed to the Edge of Survival. A drama, romance, and science fiction story about two unlikely people surviving a shipwreck and living with the consequences.

    Cable Ties. A slow-burn political thriller that reflects the realities of modern intelligence, law enforcement, department cooperation, and international politics.

    Saving Immortality. Continuing in the first-person psychological thriller genre, James Kimble searches for his former captor to answer his life’s questions.

    These books are available in soft-cover on Amazon and eBook format everywhere.

[trendfag]

my music teacher told us to write a paragraph about nelson mandela and apartheid to prepare for next class but he spelled the name wrong must have been a mandella effect

[mybrainproblems]

Hello Alex, I hope you're having a good day. I want to keep an open mind here and I'm hoping you could please explain your dislike for the oxford comma. From your other posts and prior conversations, your strong critical thinking skills are more than evident and it is a primary reason I admire you. I'm hoping that this can be a chance to understand your perspective and perhaps open my eyes to a new point of view. Thank you for your time. Best, Renu

first off, i am a little crosswired on perception of visual stuff like writing or images. chartreuse sounds like a trombone. 5 is a friendly number but 3 is an annoying sibling and 7 is ready to shank me at all times. looking at the number 7 or numbers divisible by 7 makes me skittish. my teachers literally gave up on getting me to memorize my times tables for the number. basically, sometimes i have a weirdly visceral reaction to the way some things are presented visually.

dos! a thing to know about me is that i'm extremely claustrophobic. if it's less than 4 floors, i will walk up those stairs. i've walked up more than that if the elevator looked too small.

So: punctuation is maybe a bit more emotional and personal to me like it's not nuts and bolts it's about Feelings. the em dash is cuddly and the semi-colon is friendly and the comma is a warm hand on your shoulder. however! if someone puts a hand on your shoulder too many times maybe you get uncomfy! maybe it triggers my claustrophobia to see all these letters and words TRAPPED by hands and held in place. WHERE IS THE EMERGENCY EXIT. MAYBE I WILL TRIP OVER A COMMA SOMEONE LEFT IN THE WAY AND BURN TO DEATH.

THREE. i was left unsupervised with david foster wallace's non-fiction essays while in elementary school. nothing makes you want to break the english language like reading DFW while you're also learning how to write a five paragraph essay.

when a teacher fiiiiiinally told us we could stop doing five paragraph format essays i was in heaven.... i still got docked a lot of points for things like "run on sentences" and "overuse of semi-colons" but i was FREE to write one sentence paragraphs to punctuate my thoughts.

F O U R TH... i grew up reading the nytimes which meant also reading the nytimes style guide bc i was a little weirdo and they say not to use an oxford comma. literally i was in middle school and loved reading william safire's 'on language' column.

Cinq du soleil: ezra koenig was my tutor for a bit

VI: something about it having a special name just raises my hackles. oh, you're a comma with a special use? no. we are all commarades here. now stop trying to trip me while i make my way to the emergency exit.

[🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪] i like the little mystery of omitting the oxford comma! it adds a bit of flair! am i saying nelson mandela is an 800 year old demi-god and a dildo collector? didn't i just introduce a little intrigue into your day making you think about it? (also here's how to fix that headline without using an oxford comma)

8. idk man. the oxford comma? the serial comma? are we talking punctuation or jack the ripper?

[studycation]

difference between a report & a research paper

sources used: my history teacher & “Tips for Writing Analytic Research Papers.” (1998): n. pag. Harvard Kennedy School Shorenstein Center, 19 May 2009. Web. 29 May 2015.

• report

- organized regurgitation of facts gathered from research

- thesis statement is a general statement summarizing what your whole report is about

- thesis statement is NOT opinion or argument to be proven

- topic sentences of body paragraphs summarize what facts you’ll describe in that paragraph

- research + writing facts = report

• research paper

- organized analysis of facts gathered from research

- thesis statement identifies the overall argument or academic opinion that you will prove in your paper

- thesis statement must be (academic) opinion and argumentation

- research + writing facts + analysis = research paper

• so what is analysis? how do i do it?

analysis is basically breaking apart the facts you have found in your research and demonstrating critical thinking about those facts. make your analysis explicit - your reader should not have to infer or guess what your analysis is. it looks like:

• dissecting or breaking down larger events or concepts to explore the smaller parts [“dr. king’s plan comprised of three specific political and social actions” - then the author explains the parts]

• cause/effect [author describes situation that outrages dr. king - “this outrage motivated dr. king to deliver his speech”]

• identification or explanation of significance [“this speech is iconic in american history because...”]

• comparison of ideas from different sources, or differing opinions; examination of counterarguments [“critics of dr. king said...” “historians disagree...” “others have said...”]

• connection to broader ideas and themes in the relevant discipline [“king’s actions exemplify the overall trend in social activism towards nonviolent action to achieve change”]

• connection to experiences, examples in other geographic areas, time periods or disciplines [“this behavior is explained by psychologists as...” “the american civil rights movement was inspired by actions in...” “another leader who inspired people in similar ways was nelson mandela in south africa”]

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

From 1790 to 1910 the House of Representatives expanded after every census to keep up with population.  In 1920 though, the rural states noticed that urban states were growing faster and would therefore win more seats, so in 1929 a “compromise” was agreed upon where the number of Representatives would remain stuck at 435 forever.  As with all compromises in American history, this was the conservative minority strong-arming their way into power over the majority.

The Senate is disproportional because small states wanted to have more votes than big states.  The electoral college exists so that the small states have more say in picking the president.  Black people counted as 3/5 of a person because small states wanted more representation in the House.  The House has 435 because the small states didn’t want to be eclipsed as America entered the most industrialized century in history.  It’s all one big crock!

Why do we have to keep appeasing conservatives?  Why do we keep giving more power to fewer people?  If we live in a functional democracy, everyone should be counted the same.  It shouldn’t be a controversial statement to say that more people means more votes; bigger numbers are bigger than smaller numbers.  When a lot of people live in one area, that one area should get more representation than an area where NO ONE lives.

If the Democrats take back the Senate, they need to expand the House ahead of the redistricting.

The first census was held in 1790.  Then, the US had a population of 3,929,214 people, and 105 seats in the House; that’s 37,421 people per seat.  In 1910 the population was 92,228,496 with 433 seats (2 were added in 1913 when New Mexico and Arizona were admitted).  That’s 212,999 people per seat, not nearly as representative as 1790, but artificially deflated for practicality.  If the number of seats had kept track with the first census, 1910 would have had 2,465 seats!  That is TOO MANY SEATS, so it makes sense for the number of people per seat to increase with time, but the key is that it should only increase slowly.  In 2010 though, the population had expanded to 308,745,538 people, or 709,760 per seat.  From 1790 to 1910 the population grew by over 23 times, and the number of seats grew by 4 times.  From 1910 to 2010, the population grew by 3 times, and the number of seats has stayed exactly the same.  The House should have increased at least by half since then, closer to 650 seats.

If I were president, and if my party took both Houses, I would expand the number of seats to more directly mirror the population.  I would say that for every 500,000 people we would add 1 extra seat.  In 2020, when the population is close to 330,000,000 this would give us 660 seats, though the exact value would vary depending on how each state was rounded up or down.

California has 39,747,267 people, so they would get 79.494534 seats, rounded down to 79.

Texas has 29,087,070 people, 58.17414 seats, rounded down to 58.

Florida has 21,646,155 people, 43.29231 seats, rounded down to 43

North Carolina has 10,497,741 people, 20.995482 seats, so this would be rounded UP to 21

If we rounded every state up, then we would balloon from 660 to 710, so rounding some of them down would help balance it from census to census. That’s still a form of “compromise,” but it’s much more agreeable than the one we currently have, where people from Wyoming and Vermont have more of a say than people from California and Texas.

Also, we should give DC and the territories representation; they are unequivocally part of the United States, pay American taxes, follow American laws, and have American citizenship, so they should have a voice in American politics.  We should hold referendums on self-determination, giving each territory the chance to vote on whether or not to become a state and be admitted on equal footing.  Puerto Rico and DC are the big two every talks about, but Guam, the US Virgin Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands, and especially American Samoa deserve better than what they currently get; BUPKIS

We need a constitutional convention to completely change how our system works.  It is old and full of holes which we have been hesitant to fill in because the majority doesn’t want to upset the minority.  We are a functional democracy, we are the United States, not Apartheid South Africa.  The minority should not have say over the majority!  (for those of you who don’t study history, South Africa had segregation until the late 1980s, called Apartheid, where the majority black population was treated as lesser than the minority white population; when Apartheid ended, the whites feared the blacks would retaliate against them for centuries of mistreatment, but Nelson Mandela knew that bloodshed wasn’t the answer, so called for reconciliation.  I clarify this because when I say that the “minority” in “South Africa” should listen to the majority, it sounds like a very reductive, backwards, racist American way of saying blacks should listen to whites when that’s the exact opposite of what I mean.  And in the United States, I don’t mean minority as in racial or ethnic minority, I mean specifically political minority; voting blocs, coalitions, parties, etc.  This entire paragraph is just my way of appeasing my own ADHD mind; gotta make sure my point is understood, even if I’m drastically overthinking it)

[samswinchesters]

a lot of white women in dbh fandom either fetishize white gay men. or sometimes they write these tone deaf self insert fics. usually depicting a white human lady who feels sorry for androids, showing how 'woke' she is by quoting mlk or nelson mandela or some other black person. it's like some of these people don't get how offensive it was for david cage to exploit the struggles of black people and they don't care either. they just want to fuck the white cop robot.

asjkdsajkld GO AHEAD KING STEP ON THIS PLATFORM BABEYYY! TAKE EVERYONE PRISONER!! LEAVE NO ONE LEFT ALIVE!!!

a lot of the fandom keep forgetting that their foundation is build on david cage’s exploitation of black people’s trauma, jewish people’s trauma, and profits off history that isn’t for him to tell. whenever a white person thinks they’re saying something by creating stories and films where “imaginary” characters are substitutes for marginalized people (ex. netflix’s “bright” and amazon prime’s “carnival row”). fairies, elves, and orcs go through a type of discrimination that is a lot like racism because of who they are, how they look, and how they are perceived as “other”. this is just a way for white people to digest the meaning of racism but it’s also incredibly harmful because it gives the perception that this doesn’t happen at all today when in reality, it is...and people are dying because of it. gosh not to get emotional but i was rewatching some of dbh because there was a mod for it and just...the way that this game is echoing a lot of what’s happening right now is just...it’s horrible! how can y’all demonize a violent revolution?? how dare a white person think that violence isn’t the answer when there is literal violence coming from the opposing side. then there’s the whole fucking fist symbol, the “i can’t breathe” shit, the “we have a dream”, the “hands up, don’t shoot”...literally getting sick thinking about how the game got away with so much shit and no one batted a fucking eyelash.

seriously, you really did capture this whole fandom in a nutshell. it’s incredibly frustrating when at the end of the day, the only thing the fandom walks away with from playing/watching the game is that connor is hot, nothing else. everyone’s attention is only drawn to connor’s storyline where they only care about him and the characters within his little world. it’s mainly white people (specifically white women) who are out here drooling over hankcon and reed900 as if gay men are some sort of sideshow attraction and say that they care about gay people when they don’t. even with rk1k, the ship between markus and connor, there are some works and fanart that depict a lot of racial stereotypes of markus and that shit ain’t right. people make fanfiction for stale side white characters and for what purpose? why can’t y’all think of headcanons for josh, a history university lecturer who definitely knows that history is repeating itself. what about rose and her son adam? why can’t y’all expand on her story and actually explore why she got into helping androids the that she does? and above all, why don’t y’all white stannies DESPISE markus? he is the literal at the center of dbh, this is his story...how are y’all just gonna brush him aside because you think he’s “boring”? this is not only the fault of DC but also the entire fandom. i have seen fandom literally create a character’s whole ass backstory, complete with fears and wants and dreams, for a side character that doesn’t fucking matter. trust if gavin was actually a man of color, he would be hated and cancelled. if hank was a man of color, he wouldn’t be forgiven for his past prejudices. hell, if connor was a man of color, y’all would NOT be this way with him...that’s on racism.

i did wanted to make this a separate paragraph because as a lot of y’all know, i used (maybe still..who knows) to write for dbh and i have seen firsthand the type of fics you described. the reader is either described as having the same prejudice as hank towards androids or the reader thinks “androids rights!” but it’s so base level activism and fake woke. like come on, girly, i don’t give a shit if you educated yourself by reading things, now what are you gonna do with the knowledge? how are you going to help this population? have you checked your own biases? then...that kinda gets to another thing where it drives me bananas thinking that white authors will write the reader as not having any sympathy towards androids...like what about us people of color who hurt alongside with them? who know what it’s like? it’s so vile to think that an author could write a reader to be so uncaring...it comes from a privileged place and that’s why i literally hate the self-insert dbh fandom. there is no representation whatsoever and whenever something is marketed as “neutral”, it never really is if the reader doesn’t care about androids. if the reader is actually written as neutral and to be “woke”, it’s a big ole bruh moment when they be like “why can’t we all get along :(” like fuck off!! we can’t get along because we still got a fucking police state, racist people in the streets, and the literal production of servants of color WHO STAND AT THE BACK OF THE BUS!! what is the reader doing about it? what are their biases? what are their privileges, if any? that’s why there’s not a single reader insert that is truly “neutral” because we know racism hasn’t been eradicated in the year 2038 (despite what rose said y’all KNOW that shit is deeply rooted and if the same establishments are still in place in detroit, we know racism hasn’t left) so we know that there will still be discrimination towards people of color. we can’t have neutral readers when writing in the dbh universe because that shit goes hand in hand. people of color, more so women of color, are gonna be far more sympathetic/empathetic towards androids and their cause than white people because they see a lot of themselves in them.

that’s why i tried to write for latinx readers while i was actively in the dbh fandom as a way to get the fandom into diversifying the reader. i have been incredibly vocal on my writing blog about these issues and though i was overwhelmed with love, support, and praise, i still wasn’t seeing the change the fandom promised to do. i was still seeing the same white reader being advertised as “neutral” ...and it hurt. neutral readers can’t provide the much needed nuances to discuss racism and discrimination about androids (since they symbolize black people/people of color do not argue this) because there needs to be a deeper understanding. yes, i have some privileges where i haven’t experienced half the shit others have experienced and i am not the spokesperson for people of color everywhere but i just know that we can no longer write neutral readers anymore when it comes to shit like this. it’s like when y’all right for 1940s!bucky barnes, you know damn well a woman of color would NOT be treated fairly during that time. that’s the nuance. you must be able to have the room to talk about it because then the work of fiction caters to white women. out of sight, out of mine and they go back to fucking connor. honestly, clown behavior.

no more “being hank’s daughter”, “gavin reed’s sister”, “reader that doesn’t care about androids/doesn’t believe in rights for androids” and other bullshit like that. society has progressed past being associated with white people!! fuck that shit xx

[kraveller]

Speeches: Message

There were clips of speeches of different people given to us, which I will be explaining throughout the paragraph.

The first speech was delivered by Nelson Mandela. Nelson Mandela is known to be a person who stopped the apartheid in Africa, spoke a speech in the Harvard University. His speech is more of informing people that despite the past both nations has shared, there is a fruitful union between the two nations. Nelson Mandela didn’t really achieve the purpose of informing his audience, because of his pronounciation, use of words and emotions weren’t placed within the speech. Personally, I listened to the speech a couple of times to understand what he meant because emotions were rarely noticed as he spoke and the words he used are not for general audience, which is understandable since his audience were intellectual ones. This is the downfall of reading a speech through a manuscript, the highlights of his speech was not emphasized, personally, found it boring when I listened because of lack of emotions and the words used were not for general audience.  

Emma Watson, known for her character in Harry Potter, also spoke a persuasive speech about Gender Equality. Emma Watson achieved the purpose of her speech by explaining the gender equality, feminism and how is it important to both of the sexes. She stated examples that are really common in the world, how people are limiting themselves from their emotions to their passion just because of the usual beliefs on what their gender should and not should do. Just by listening to her speech, it was captivating and indeed can make one’s thoughts be moved, this is why she achieved the purpose of her speech. The speech is memorized since she had a manuscript with her, yet she captivated her audience despite this. Every word, sentence in her speech were prepared and memorized for the speech is formal and the audience are filled with people who are professional. Despite it was memorized, she captivated the eyes of her audiences, as well as I who watched her speech.  

The last speaker is Darren Tay, his speech is entitled ‘Outsmart,Outlast’, which is an entertainment speech about using those insults of bullies into making yourself better. The speech from the start is quite entertaining yet the purpose isn’t that really clear, I was contemplating on what was really his message, maybe because it was just half of the speech. The speaker is more focusing on the impact of the audience than the connection that he will form with the audience. His speech might be funny but the fact that the message is not really conveyed, has gotten me. The way he spoke his speech was alright, but it is quite pointless if the speech doesn’t have a good content in it. I have a lot of thoughts regarding the message he wants to convey, even the comments of the video were filled with different understanding on the speech. The speech is clearly memorized, the way he speaks it, it isn’t natural, and is clearly rehearsed, which is one of the factors why the audience didn’t really get the message.

[blahblahblaw18]

Overview of what’s on my mind :I

Namaste! I don’t know who you are and you don’t know me either. Let’s break the ice and get to know each other. Me first.

First of all, why the fuck is Grammarly not working here?! Do I have to become a premium member or something??

Anyhoo, my name is not really Indira or Lakshmi it is something else but I don’t want to reveal it so you will have to make do with those two names. Now I can’t tell you what my real name is or why I am not using it here but what I can tell you is why I have chosen the name I have chosen for a pseudonym. Indira Gandhi was a lady who is considered to be the most powerful Prime Minister India has ever had. She was honestly not a very good Prime Minister unlike her father, but even with the little knowledge that I have about her, I can tell you that she was certainly the best leader and the most convincing demagogue ever. I know that sounds paradoxical. How can you call someone a demagogue and then also say that the person is a good leader? Well, I think a good leader is someone who knows how to make the masses rally behind her and who can elevate herself to a cult status in the eyes of her people irrespective of the ideology of the person or the path the person chooses to follow. So, do I also think Hitler was a good leader? Yep. I do think Hitler was a successful leader... more so because he was able to persuade so many others (his followers) to live a life devoid of heart and brain and was even successful in convincing many of his era (some even to this day) that what he was doing was actually evangelical work. (P.S. I am NOT saying he was a good human. He was and will forever remain an arse who died like the coward that he was.) Applying the same principle even leaders like Narendra Modi, Barack Obama, Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump (up to a certain extent), Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela and Mahatma Gandhi can be attributed to being doyens. You must understand that the filter that I am applying here to classify them as good leaders is not whether they have done good or bad work but whether they were able to make the general public believe in them and their work just as much as they themselves did or not. So, in short, demagogues employing good rhetoric and having the ability to appeal to the hearts of the people, according to me, ARE fine leaders. Again, don’t confuse it with fine HUMANS. 

Gosh! that was quite a big explanation!! I am going to keep the next one short.

 So, Lakshmi. Now if you, who is reading this blog, are my ex-Boyfriend (I seriously don’t even want to bring that topic up cause even reminding myself that I was stupid enough to subject myself to that suffocating experience makes me want to retch.) you might want to think that Lakshmi is some kind of an eponym. If you were foolish enough to think that, then I am sorry to burst your bubble but NO! So, who is Lakshmi? To put it in a sentence (cause she is of a stature that is beyond being explicable in even a paragraph; that calls for a separate blog in itself.) she was a great freedom fighter, and I feel a much unsung one too, who gave up her life fighting for our freedom. But that is not what made me choose her name; there have been, as a matter of fact, many other leaders of equally gargantuan stature who’ve laid down their lives for us, their privileged future. But, many other aspects of her made me chose her in particular and as you may have guessed it already, her gender IS one of them though not the only one. Wait for my blog about her (or probably even a book, if and when I write it), which I assure you I will write as soon as possible, to know why I consider her as my idol.

Now, coming to the question of what this blog is going to be about and why I am writing it... 

This blog is not really a blog, I don’t intend to market this blog in any sort of way I am not even going to publicize it for certain obvious reasons (I am using an alternate identity here). The thing is off late I am going through some turbulent times and things haven’t really been, let’s just say, a cotton candy meal. I was feeling extremely lonely, (don’t misinterpret that; I do have friends and some very fine ones indeed but I just don’t feel like calling them every single day and rambling stuff into their ears) and the loneliness gave way to substance abuse... again do not be alarmed... it’s not so much substance abuse as it is internet addiction. Yup. I got myself hooked to the internet during the COVID induced lockdown and though the lockdown got over loooong ago my addiction didn’t vanish in a similar fashion. NETFLIX, YOUTUBE, INSTAGRAM YOUTUBE, TWITTER BUT MAINLY YOUTUBE... so to break that addiction and to make myself feel heard I’ve decided to engage myself by blogging ‘bout my thoughts and feelings. Here you may expect blogs on any topic that falls under the umbrella of my interest, i.e. I am going to write a little bit ‘bout my life, politics, history, my very very valuable opinion about anything and everything that goes on in this world, books, Benedict Cumberbatch, food, my friends and family, how and why my life sucks, cricket, Netflix series, Youtube videos, people I see around me, and just life in general.

And since this is only to fill the vacuum created by the lack of human interaction, or may I say lack of conversations where the other person is ready to only sit and listen to whatever I want to say, in my life; the blogs are going to be supremely candid and won’t involve grandiosity of any sorts. (Nope, not even grandiloquent words like grandiose unless they just slip off in the flow of writing like how grandiosity did in the last sentence and grandiloquent in this one.) 

You may at this point be like “WTF Indira as if our own thoughts weren’t enough! Why the fuck should I read about what you have to say?” and to that I can only say one thing... you really don’t have to read my blogs. They exist more because I want to write and need a medium where I can successfully be anonymous and vent out what goes on in my mind and less because I want you to read them. And since I am not advertising these blogs in anyway if you are reading this, then it means that you already want to read them... and I frankly don't have any objection to that. So now that you have read all the way till the end of this blog (or even if you have skipped most of it and reached here cause, let’s be honest, you in all possibilities have no better an attention span than that of a goldfish, which is very much my attention span too after all these days of internet addiction.), you may as well go ahead and indulge yourself, albeit vicariously, in the thoughts of my mind.

Oh, and by the way, I got this idea of writing blogs as a form of therapy from the Sherlock series on Netflix (starring the hot AF Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman). It is uhh-mayy-zingg! You should watch it too if you haven’t already.

My next blog is probably going to be about what is happening in my life and you will read more about why I chose to blog what’s on my mind.

See ya!  

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Top 2019 Reads

1. The Book of Delights by Ross Gay is written (and cannot help to be read) in a spirit of pure joy. Each entry is a few paragraphs on something he delighted in for the day—from a hyphen ("the handshake of the punctuation world") to the concept of do-overs in games ("it delighted me in part because among the sorrows of adulthood, this action can feel more fantasy than possibility"). Watching someone look at the world in wonder and in gratitude changes you, softens you.

2. Naamah by Sarah Blake is a strange and gorgeous book I can't stop thinking about! Sarah retells the story of Noah's flood in an exciting and inventive way (an impressive feat if you're someone who's heard the biblical story countless times) that includes lots of dreams, a cockatoo guide, a tiger who is seen and not seen, and desire in many forms. It is surreal and real and poetry. It's that kind of story that I wish I had the chops to write, but since that would take me years, I'm so glad Sarah wrote it and that it's here now in this very present moment to read.

(And bonus! Reading this book made me return to her earlier collections of poetry: Mr. West, which follows Kanye West and his work, and Let's Not Live on Earth, which includes a beautiful series of monster poems. 2019 was the year I became a huge fan of Sarah’s work.)

3. I’m So Fine: A List of Famous Men & What I Had On by Khadijah Queen, which came out a few years ago from YesYes Books, is an inventive, energy-giving collection of prose poems. Khadijah’s speaker runs into Prince, Nelson Mandela, Elton John, The Rock, and others in both mundane and strange circumstances—on a video shoot or at the mall or at a bus stop or on MySpace. Some encounters are simply documented, others show the subtle or overt microaggressions women, and particularly Black women, face, and others revel in the joy of being, of talking back or just talking. 

4. Much has been written about Rebecca Makkai’s The Great Believers, and all the praise is true. Her story weaves together the AIDs epidemic in the Chicago gay community in the 1980s and the present-day story of a woman connecting with an enstranged daughter and dealing with her memories of those who passed away. It’s a time that I’ve heard so little about and Makkai recreates the confusion, fear, and anger that many people felt as well as creates vibrant and real characters whom you also grieve to lose.

5. Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger by Rebecca Traister made me angry in the best ways possible, but also gave me words for my anger (ah, yes! that’s what I've been sensing). She provides a solid background on the history of women's movements over the decades, in particular centering women of color's leadership in these movements. It's good to know where we came from!

“The task—especially for the newly awakened, the newly angry, especially for the white women, for whom incentives to renounce their rage will be highest in coming years—is to keep going, to not turn back, to not give in to the easier path, the one where we weren’t angry all the time, where we accepted the comforts of racial and economic advantages that will always be on offer to those who don’t challenge power. Our job is to stay angry . . . perhaps for a very long time.”

6. I picked up Exhalation, Ted Chiang’s latest short story collection, because I loved the 2016 movie Arrival, based on one of his stories. Exhalation surprised me—it was so different from what I usually read. Chiang’s work is very heady, his stories concept-based rather than plot or character based, and often focus around a scientific or mathematical fact. Though I didn’t connect with every story, his writing expanded my thinking, made me pay attention to the logic within the world—and I loved that he included notes at the end of of each story about his inspiration, which made me appreciate each one.

7-8. Orange World by Karen Russell and Mouthful of Birds by Samanta Schweblin are two very strange and delightful short story collections that remind me why I love this genre and how far writers can take us into the surreal and parrallel-to-the-real and still have us follow them. After being somewhat disappointed with Karen’s first novel, I was eager to read her return to the short story world. Months later I still carry around with me the eerily calm rowing of the “The Gondoliers,” a story about sisters who have developed echolocation to guide tourists through a post-apocalyptic polluted and flooded Florida. Mouthful of Birds by the Spanish writer Samanta Schweblin had a similar tone to Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado. I loved it from the first story “Headlights,” in which a growing collection of women left at a gas station by their new husbands together take back the wheel of a car and leave. These stories haunt and surprise and tingle your spine.

9. I read very few poetry collections this year (and I miss it…), but one I did read was Amy Lipman’s chapbook collection, Cardinal Directions, published by Ghost Proposal last spring. Amy’s voice is like chamomile tea, immediately calming and guiding my attention to the smallest details of home and solitude and what it is to be. Always with a note of humor (”I remember you like a pet”), Amy’s self-interrogation is honest and unexpected, her form direct and playful. This book calls me to myself.

grass adjusting     itself after      someone’s total weight or just one step

trying more     throughout the day     only to listen

I make arrangements     to understand     one part of the task before getting to the next     spreading oil in the pan     and witnessing it warm,      asking myself

to stop

making

language

10. How do you recommend a difficult and heartbreaking book? The Undying is not for the well or intact but, as Anne Boyer writes, for those who once were sick or will be sick. Her book explores her journey through breast cancer diagnosis and treatment, through disability and exhaustion, through capitalistic-oriented healthcare, through the difficulties of living without state-recognized families, through the pain and body as history. Boyer weaves in and out of story, the (lack of) literature of illness, and the ways in which capitalism is tied up with acts of care. As someone who’s lost a loved one to cancer, it’s difficult to read, but necessary, too, to have stories of not alone-ness and stories that could beget change. Boyer has so many insights into how we respond to and are failed by healthcare and our culture’s attitude toward the sick, our often blind belief in surgeons and medicine to save us, the myth that cancer is one identifiable disease and not a metaphor, and the inevitability that medicine becomes “the safest opportunity for profit.”

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Prompt: You are the Grim Reaper. Write three different opening paragraphs for your autobiography, trying out different styles.

“You know, death is a funny thing.” No, no, not that. Humans don’t think death is funny. Humans think death is sad, like it’s an end rather than the beginning to an amazing adventure.

So, no, not that.

An inspirational quote then. “Nelson Mandela one said-”

No, that’s not right either. It’s too deep, too introspective.

It’s not me at all.

You know what? Fuck it. I’m trying too hard. It’s my autobiography, and I’ll start it however I want.

“Everyone dies, including you. Yes, you. And me? I’m the bitch who takes your soul.”

Oh yeah, that’s perfect.

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Leaders mistyped as NFJs: Nelson Mandela

A lot of popular leaders who pursued idealistic causes are often mistyped as NFJs. However, the idea that mostly NFJs pursue idealistic causes is a fallacy.

Here is the third in a series of popular leaders who are often misidentified as NFJs:

Nelson Mandela, ESTJ

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Nelson Mandela has an incredible ability to speak steadily, at length and off the cuff in clear, conceptually sound, logical, analytical, well-formed paragraphs. This ability is often associated with high extroverted thinking. Mandela also has stiff body language similar to many J types. He does not have high extroverted feeling. Rather, his strong emotional appeal seems to derive from what others might perceive as his strength of mind and character under what must have been extremely traumatizing circumstances.

[187days]

Day One Hundred Three

I felt the need to spread a bit of Friday cheer this morning- it’s been a busy week for all of us (meetings, meetings, meetings!)- so I got three amazing maple bacon muffins from the local bagel shop: one for Mr. F, one for Mrs. T, and one for me. We had a little team breakfast before our first classes, and it was so good.

In APUSGOV my students did some AP exam practice work, then continued their preparations for Court Madness. I answered questions about a few cases, defined some terms, and looked over the study sheets they’re creating. It’s a class full of students who like to talk and banter as they work, which is fine by me because they’re usually hilarious. Today they had jokes about my casual Friday outfit (jeans, boots, flannel, puffer vest) revealing just how basic I am. It’s so true, but I was comfortable.

In World students wrote current events essays, and then we returned to our discussion of current issues in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. They summarized the research they’d done in groups in previous classes, and I put it all on the board, and then took questions. I like how many questions they had, too, and I especially like that some of them came from students who don’t often ask questions. I finished by explaining the US’ interest in the conflict, and mentioning that the US’ position is one of the reasons that extremist groups like al-Qaeda declared jihad. We’ll study more about religious extremism next week, and a lot of students told me they’re looking forward to it because they hear about it on the news, and have lots of questions. I’m glad that they have faith in my ability to answer them! 

Ooh, and unrelated but super cool thing: I have a student in World who completes a modified version of the curriculum in order to meet his learning needs, and today he handed in a full essay that he’d written about Nelson Mandela. This is a student who’d struggled to write one paragraph back in September; I’ve been working with him, Mrs. T has been working with him, and our special educators have been working with him... and now we get to celebrate this amazing progress. 

Even if nothing else had gone well today, that would have been enough for me to call it a good day.

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*Isocrates, Politics, and Rhetoric*

In this entry, I will examine the critical question: What is an example of an artifact that fits Isocrates’ criteria of good rhetoric (kairos, appropriateness, originality)? Is this example of “good rhetoric” ethical/productive for democracy?

To Investigate these questions, I examined Malala Yousafzai’s speech to the United Nations regarding education back in 2013 as my rhetorical artifact. Malala Yousafzai presented this speech in order to fight for the rights of women and children nationwide to have equal opportunity in education. This speech came at a time when the Taliban had a very strong hold over the Pakistani people and were the main decision makers in regards to how women and children were treated and what they were able to accomplish in their lives. This speech exemplified good rhetoric, it was extremely well prepared in order to express Malala’s personal ideals to the United Nations in an ethical way, which came at a time that was very critical to not just Pakistan but to people all over the world who were being treated unjustly.

Malala Yousafzai’s speech came just one year after she had been shot in the head by the Taliban when she was just 15 years of age. At the young age of 11 she began a blog for the BBC where she detailed life under Taliban rule. This is widely thought to be the cause behind the Taliban taking action against Malala. Her speech to the UN was given back in July of 2013 at the young age of 16. A year later, when she was 17 years old, she became the youngest person ever to be awarded with a Nobel Peace Prize. She was awarded this great honor for her struggle against the unjust treatment of children and young adults as well as her fight for equal opportunity, specifically in terms of education.

In Isocrates’ Against the Sophists (390 BCE) he explains that for rhetoric to be considered good rhetoric there are three key principles that must be in play. Isocrates’ laid it out very clearly when he stated, “The greatest indication of the difference is that speeches cannot be good unless they reflect the circumstances (kairos), propriety (to prepon), and originality…” (Isocrates). For the purposes of this essay I will be referring to the previous three tools as kairos, appropriateness, and originality. I will address each of the three criteria individually in the following paragraphs.

First off, I’m going to talk about the kairos of Malala’s speech. I believe that she filled the criteria very well. This speech came at a time when Taliban had a tight grip on the people of Pakistan. Something needed to be done in order to fight for equal opportunity and the right to education for all children, and Malala put that fight into her own hands. Within her speech to the UN she made a statement in regards to the shooting, where she said, “…nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear, and hopelessness died, strength, power, and courage were born” (Yousafzai). She was ultimately able to take this tragic event and turn it into something that would spark a passion within her to empower millions of others in a fight for equal opportunity. The bravery, determination, and compassion that this showed, I believe, was a major component behind what made this address so riveting and powerful in the public eye. Many countries and individuals were to afraid to interfere with the Taliban rule over Pakistan and this teenage girl took it upon herself to stand up for her people and fight for her beliefs regardless of how it could impact her life personally.

The next aspect to good rhetoric that I would like to speak on is appropriateness. Within Malala’s speech, she does not use negative rhetoric or slander the opposition in any way. She simply focuses on her goal for Pakistan and the rest of the world and does not stray from her purpose, which is equality. There are countless examples of this type of rhetoric throughout her speech but a statement made by her that really resonated with me was when she said, “I want education for the sons and daughters of the Taliban and all the terrorists and extremists. I do not even hate the Talib who shot me. Even if there is a gun in my hand and he stands in front of me, I would not shoot him. This is the compassion that I have learned from Muhammad the prophet of mercy, and Jesus Christ…this is the legacy of change that I have inherited from Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela and Muhammad Ali Jinnah.” (Yousafzai). Along with the people listed in this quote she goes on to list multiple other universally recognized figures and attributes their studies to the way she goes about her own ideals and speeches. This gives her a lot of credibility and shows the audience that she is focused on people who have caused change in the past by using their voices and by standing by their beliefs while not concerning themselves with bashing others along the way.

The final key component of good rhetoric is originality. Malala Yousafzai did an extremely good job when it comes to the originality of her speech. She speaks from her heart, and through personal experience and tragedy. She has lived in Pakistan her whole life and has seen the inequality and harsh rule of the Taliban over her people. This is all she has ever known and from a very young age she decided to be vocal with her ideals and express them to the world, beginning with her blog for the BBC. This is why I believe that her words are truly her own. The topic of equality and equal opportunity is something she feels so passionately about that not even something as life-changing as being shot in the head by the very people she is speaking out against could silence her. This became extremely evident to me when she spoke of Islam and what it meant to her by saying, “They think that God is a tiny, little conservative being who would point guns at people’s heads just for going to school. These terrorists are misusing the name of Islam for their own personal benefit. Pakistan is a peace loving, democratic country. Pashtuns want education for their daughters and sons. Islam is a religion of peace, humanity and brotherhood. It is the duty and responsibility to get education for each child, that is what it says.” (Yousafzai). It is her belief and the belief of her people that their religion is based upon peace and brotherhood and this is an ideal that is evident in her fight for equal opportunity.

To relate the rhetoric within this speech to another source that is invested in what good rhetoric consists of, I will turn to a quarterly journal written by Karl Wallace (1963). This work was titled ‘The Substance of Rhetoric: Good Reasons’, the author’s main point throughout was to look at classic versions of what good rhetoric was said to consist of, while forming his own ideal on what it means to him. To best inform on what his overarching idea of good rhetoric was, he wrote, “My position is this. First, rhetorical theory must deal with the substance of discourse as well as with structure and style. Second, the basic materials of discourse are ethical and moral values and information relevant to these. Third, ethics deals with the theory of goods and values, and from ethics rhetoric can make adaptions that will result in a modern system of topics.” (Wallace). When taking this definition of good rhetoric and applying it to Malala Yousafzai’s UN speech, I see a lot of points of intersection. Throughout Wallace’s journal he presented a very strong focus on speaking with an ethical purpose and following a certain moral guideline. This is where I felt that Malala fit into Wallace’s idea of good rhetoric very well. Looking at many of the quotations used above, she spoke very ethically and stuck by her moral code without getting distracted by things such as slandering the opposition or vocalizing any kind of hatred for people who are the cause of her people’s unjust treatment.

In summary I believe that Malala Yousafzai’s speech to the UN was an extremely brilliant example of good rhetoric. She not only exemplified the three key components of Isocrates’ idea of good rhetoric. These components of course being kairos, appropriateness, and originality. Then, when looking at a more updated version of what it means to use good rhetoric, as provided by Karl Wallace, Malala’s speech also fit his definition. Wallace focused on the ethical side of rhetoric as well as facing discourse with an appropriate structure and style. Malala exemplified these standards within her speech and I believe that Wallace would agree with that statement. She did not stray from her personal ideal and accomplished this in a way that did not specifically hurt any other party but instead called upon all people to take action for equal opportunity. Her speech came at a time when women and children of Pakistan, and many other places around the world, needed someone with such bravery and courage to share their ideas on the global stage in order to gain traction for their goals. All in all, Malala’s speech should be a template for rhetoricians to look at in the future in order to form new ideas as well as provide examples for existing ones.

Works Cited

Mirhady, David, and Yun Lee Too. “Isocrates: Against the Sophists.” University of

           Texas Press, 2000.  

Wallace, Karl R. “The Substance of Rhetoric: Good Reasons.” Quarterly Journal

           of Speech, vol. 49, no. 3, Oct. 1963, p. 239. EBSCOhost,

           doi:10.1080/00335636309382611.

Yousafzai, Malala, director. Malala Yousafzai UN Speech: Girl Shot in Attack by

           Taliban Gives Address. YouTube, The New York Times, 12 July 2013,

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Peter Beinart shows off his 1990s-era thinking in the Forward, which is eager to publish him. Essentially every paragraph betrays his bias, his inability to grasp reality, and his wishful thinking:

Since the 1970s, and certainly since Bill Clinton got Yitzhak Rabin and Yaser Arafat to shake hands on the White House lawn at the beginning of the Oslo Peace Process in 1993, every American president has practiced “dealism.” Every one has dreamed primarily of solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and being remembered as one of history’s great peacemakers. None has dreamed primarily of being remembered as one of history’s great liberators. None has described the Israeli-Palestinian conflict primarily as a struggle for rights. This stands in contrast to the way in which Americans, at least in retrospect, view other conflicts that pitted a population lacking basic freedoms against the state that denied them. Americans don’t generally tell the story of Mahatma Ghandi and Kwame Nkrumah’s struggles against British colonialism, or Martin Luther King’s struggle against white supremacy, or Nelson Mandela’s struggle against apartheid, or the American colonists struggle against “taxation without representation,” as a tale of how the two sides “got to yes.”

The Palestinians aren't the Founding Father or Ghandi or Martin Luther King. They have a autonomous state which is recognized by most countries in the world, a state that has failed - not because of Israel but because their leaders are not interested in building a state, or in securing rights, or in freedom. If they had wanted those things - things that Beinart believes axiomatically they want - they would have a state now. They would have accepted one of the many peace plans that Israel agreed to. They would have actually rescinded support for terror, which Arafat promised to do back in 1993. Beinart still believes Arafat's lies and he still pretends that the Intifada never happened.

Why?

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CBSE Class 10 Syllabus

Class 10 is one of the most vital academic years for secondary students. At the end of this academic session, students appear for their first-ever board examination in the course of their academic life. The class 10 syllabus is available for the students for five subjects: Hindi, English, Mathematics, Social Science, and Science. The Class 10 students can download the term-wise CBSE Class 10 syllabus from our website for free.

Mathematics Syllabus

Term 1

Unit 1: Number Systems

Unit 2: Algebra

Unit 3: Coordinate Geometry

Unit 4: Geometry

Unit 5: Trigonometry

Unit 6: Mensuration

Unit 7: Statistics and Probability

Term 2

Unit 1: Algebra (Cont.)

Unit 2: Geometry (Cont.)

Unit 3: Trigonometry (Cont.)

Unit 4: Mensuration (Cont.)

Unit 5: Statistics and Probability (Cont.)

English

Class 10 New Syllabus for English comprises the following topics.

Term 1                  

Unit 1: Reading:

Comprehension based on,

1. Discursive Passage

2. Case-based factual passage (with visual input/statistical data/chart etc.

Unit 2: Writing Skill

Letter to the Editor

Letter of Complaint (Official)

Letter of Complaint (Business)

Unit 3: Grammar

1. Tenses

2. Modals

3. Subject-Verb Concord

4. Determiner

5. Reported Speech

6. Commands and Requests

7. Statements

8. Questions

Unit 4: Literature

First Flight

1. A Letter to God

2. Nelson Mandela

3. Two Stories About Flying

4. From the Diary of Anne Frank

5. The Hundred Dresses 1

6. The Hundred Dresses 2

Poems

1. Dust of Snow

2. Fire and Ice

3. A Tiger in the Zoo

4. The Ball Poem

4c. Footprints without Feet

1. A Triumph of Surgery

2. The Thief’s Story

3. Footprints Without Feet

Term 2

Unit 1: Reading

Comprehension based on,

1. Discursive passage

2. Case-based Factual passage with visual input/statistical data/chart etc.

Unit 2: Writing

Letter of Order

Letter of Enquiry

Analytical Paragraphs based on outline/chart/cue/map/report etc.

Unit 3: Grammar

Tenses

Modals

Subject-Verb Concord

Determiner

Reported Speech

Commands and Requests

Statements

Questions

Hindi – Course A

Term 1

अपठित गदयांश व कावयांश

एक अपठित गद्यांश

एक अपठित गद्यांश

8व्याकरण के लिए निर्धारित विषय-वस्तु का बोध, भाषिक बिंदु / संरचना आदि पर प्रश्न

रचना के आधार पर वाक्य भेद

वाच्य

पद परिचय

रस

पाठ्यपुस्तक क्षितिज भाग-2

गद्य खंड

स्वयं प्रकाश – नेताजी का चश्मा

रामवृक्ष बेनीपुरी – बालगोबिन भगत

काव्य खंड

सूरदास – पद

तुलसीदास – राम – लक्ष्मण – परशुराम संवाद

Social Science

Term 1

Unit 1: India and the Contemporary World – II

Events and Processes

The Rise of Nationalism in Europe

Unit 2: Contemporary India – II

Resources and Development

Water Resources

Agriculture

Unit 3: Democratic Politics – II

Power Sharing

Federalism

Unit 4: Economics

Development

Sectors of the Indian Economy

Term 2

Unit 1: India and the Contemporary World – II

Events and Processes

Nationalism in India

Livelihoods, Economics and Societies

The Making of Global World

The Age of Industrialisation

Unit 2: Contemporary India II

Minerals and Energy Resources

Manufacturing Industries

Lifelines of National Economy

Unit 3: Democratic Politics – II

Political Parties

Outcomes of Democracies

Unit 4: Economics

Money and Credit

Globalisation and the Indian Economy

Science

Term 1

Unit 1: Chemical Substances- Nature and Behaviour

Chapter 1: Chemical reactions and equations

Chapter 2: Acids, Bases and Salts

Chapter 3: Metals and non – metals

Unit 2: World of Living

Chapter 6: Life processes

Unit 3: Natural Phenomena

Chapter 10: Light Reflection and Refraction

Chapter 11: Human eye and colourful world

Term 2

Unit 1: Chemical Substances- Nature and Behaviour

Chapter 4: Carbon and its compounds

Chapter 5: Periodic Classification of elements

Unit 2: World of Living

Chapter 8: How do organisms reproduce?

Chapter 9: Heredity and Evolution

Unit 3: Effects of Current

Chapter 12: Electricity

Chapter 13: Magnetic effects of current

Unit 5: Natural Resources

Chapter 15: Our Environment

Benefits of Knowing CBSE Class 10 Syllabus

Students can create an effective study routine to perform well in their final examinations