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"Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these" - T.S. Eliot Poetry as I have understood Poets usually don’t know how their poems would come out-when they generally start writing. They write without any preplan. Beginning with unstable words, the verses shape up to form poems, resulting in the most stable and mature words. Diving into the vocabulary, getting the right imagery, trailing the correct rhythm, following the methods of meter and rhyme are some of the various points that are ensured by a general poet.   There are a few who do with special care and plan. But, beyond, the extra-ordinary poets think in a unique way, get their flow natural to create a treasure trove of poems. Poets wax about their feelings, their emotions and personality in their poems, just to get ...

To my understanding Life is one of the most precious gifts of God. He has given this, in order to make our living purposeful on this earth. The talents, enthusiasm, vigor, a will to do, goodness in the heart, love, laughter, smile and a host of many other complimentary qualities that goes with the finer ones like anger, jealousy, sadness and many more have been bestowed on us. Human being is a wonderful combination of emotions and intelligence. Using their intellectual capacities many scientists, technocrats, engineers and doctors have created wonderful concepts, objects, technology and so on. With emotions he is able to influence the society, fight for a cause and make the society a powerful entity.   Life runs at its own pace. We can neither hasten it up nor slow it down. As far as our understanding goes, we human beings are the most highly developed species on this planet. There may be better creatures on some other universal body. We never know. According to the circum...

Hearing Loss The ‘noise induced’ hearing loss is a permanent loss as the inner parts of the ear are damaged. The hair cells of the inner ear gets damaged either due to listening to continuous noise over long periods of time or due to the ‘acoustic trauma’, caused due to a sudden one time explosion. Head injuries damage the middle ear where tympanum (ear drum) is affected with a break or tear. The fracture of the skull or the traumatic brain injury also majorly causes hearing loss. Hearing loss caused due to tumor called “Acoustic Neuroma” can be treated and cured completely. People suffering from such hearing loss have signs of feeling fullness in one of the ear accompanied by ringing ear or may be completely deaf. The impairment in the ears may be due to certain diseases that included osteo sclerosis. This may be suitably treated by altering the movement of the 3 small bones in the middle ear- the incus, malleus or the stapes. The other disease like autoimmune inner ear diseas...

Plum wine is often offered as a dessert wine in the Asian countries like China, Japan and Korea. The sweetness of the wine gives an exotic feeling but is not advisable at it is detrimental to health. The wine is made by fermenting plums that adds alcoholic properties to the beverage. The following are the six good reasons why plum wine is not recommended for consumption: Adds Calories The plum wine is devoid of nutrients and high in calories. Consumption of 4 oz wine adds 16.3 calories that means almost 8% of 2000 (the total calorie intake). Plum wine gives more calories than soda and hence not advisable for consumption. Lack of Carbohydrates Consuming plum wine results in obesity and tooth ache as these contain carbohydrates in the form or plum sugars. The intake of sugars does not add any useful nutrients to the body and has proved detrimental to health. Excessive alcoholic content The plum wine contains alcoholic properties that do not add any health benefits to the individual. ...

The different kinds of atrocious diseases prevailing in the world, increase of stress and work tensions, and a kind of competitive environment that people have to face today, has made man to contemplate on the root cause of these problems. He has realized that eating healthy, solves most of these problems and he can lead a peaceful, energetic and enthusiastic life. He is also aware that the fertilizers, additives and other chemicals are harmful to the body and that being the main cause of fatal diseases he has become more health conscious and want to go organic. What are these organic foods? Where can one find organic foods and what are the advantages of eating organic? Organic foods are those foods which are grown using natural resources and natural fertilizers. These are pure foods without affected by any chemicals, fertilizers are additives. They are grown by farmers in the most natural way without use of any insecticides, pesticides or any kind of chemicals. The organic foods are ...

Carrots can be considered as the most valuable vegetable as it is the taproot and stores food. They are mostly orange in color because of the beta carotene and is a main source of vitamin “A”. It is also called as the “Miracle Vegetable”, because consumption of carrots is very beneficial and improves health to a large extent. The benefits of carrot can be enumerated as follows: (a)     It is the main source of Vitamin “A” as it contains Beta- carotene, therefore good for skin and eyes. (b)    Consumption of carrot reduces cancer, night blindness, obesity, colitis, Alzheimer disease, colon cancer urinary infections, ulcers, blood poisoning, insomnia, gum diseases and improves functioning of kidneys and gall bladder. (c)     It contains anti-oxidants and prevents degeneration of cells, thus can be used as anti-ageing vegetable. It promotes the health of the skin. (d)    It is anti carcinogen and has properties that can cure cancer. (e) ...

It was a bright day and purely energetic sounds filled the air of the Vijaya college hall. The batch of 1989 B.com students had gathered for a reunion after a long gap of 21 years. The students were all married and they brought their spouses and children for the get-together. They had invited the lecturers who were presently working in the college and had taken pains to locate the addresses of the retired lecturers also. They had made the arrangements of the transport to and fro for the lecturers. The 45 odd excited students had gathered to relive the old memories of the college days and renew their friendship and relationships with their teachers. The students visited their class rooms and the nostalgic feelings were shared with each other. A slide show of the yester year photographs was shown to the gathering. The gleeful students enjoyed every moment of the reunion. Amidst all these, I noticed the students were seeking blessings by touching the feet of their teachers. When the chil...

Intro -There are several body building supplements available in the market but one has to find out the right supplement that helps in muscle gain and fat loss. This article will certainly help you to choose the correct body supplement which helps to give beauty to your body. Body Building techniques If you are really serious about body building, it is good to follow a diet that contains certain body building supplements that add muscles to the body or to exercise the body adequately. It is not very easy to gain muscle and lose fat consequently. It is a well known fact that a normal body requires certain important food constituents like carbohydrates, proteins, fats, mineral salts, vitamins and water. To keep ourselves healthy, we have to take a diet that have all the food constituents in the appropriate proportions.   Proteins are termed to be the building blocks that help in gaining muscle weight. To have a perfect look you have to sculpt your body mass by either workouts or wi...

Create Cute and Beautiful Fabric Borders Add fabulous crochet edgings to the fabrics and make it the most beautiful. Anything that you want to crochet including frills and trims of pillow covers to baby towels can be done easily with a variety of designs and patterns. The awesome looks and the pretty finish it gives add value to the garment. Multiple crochet edging patterns can be designed that make the trims, edges and borders look beautiful and artistic. The borders are created for various Dresses, Curtains, Shawls, Linens, Blankets and Scarves.   Each design made from crochet are appealing and range from traditional to contemporary in several styles and forms that include crocheting, lacing, rick racking, fringing and beading.   The vintage designs offer your fabric authentic borders that include Adeline Crochet edging, Apple blossoms, Aster edging, Buttercup edging, cosmos, forget me not and swirl edgings. The contemporary crochet edgings are also not less in number. ...