Answer the following:
1. What is the upland famous for?
2. What makes the poet and his country fellows quest?
3. What type of people are the poet and his country fellows?
4. What is Mt. Everest famous for?
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5. The poet lives in the land of varieties. Is there any violence or
war due to varieties? Why?
Answers
Answer:
1.Upland is known in Southern California skateboard culture as a spot for vertical skateboarding. Several famous skateboarders have visited the city, known as "Badlands" in skateboarding culture due to its geographical location.
School district: Upland Unified School District
County: San Bernardino Count.
2.The poet who wrote these lines couldn’t have felt fully at home in the world. What shelter was Eavan Boland after? What was it that a poem could give her but all else on the planet couldn’t? She was dying for it, and was ready to die in it. But before that, she wanted to live—live and age with grace in a space she could call her own even if she wasn’t its architect.
In her remarkable poetry collection Beauty, Jane Hirshfield writes:
3.There cant be any better answer for this question than Gurudev’s “Chitto Jetha Bhayshunyo”. A poet whose country is not yet freed from invaders/outsiders, his country is struggling with independence movement seeking their righteous freedom.
No wonder why geetanjali received a Nobel prize, this poem is timeless treasure; absolute gem. This should have been made world anthem in my opinion.
How true that it still can be applied to any country and for any generation; Simply thought provoking..!!
“Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;
Where knowledge is free;
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments
By narrow domestic walls;
Where words come out from the depth of truth;
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection;
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way;
Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit;
Where the mind is led forward by thee;
Into ever-widening thought and action;
Into that heaven of freedom,
My Father, let my country awake…
4.Towering 8,850m above sea level, Mount Everest is the most famous mountain in the world. Located on the Nepal-Tibet border, this global beacon of exploration and endeavour lures hundreds of climbers every year. ... From Camp 4 up to the summit, climbers will enter what is commonly known as the "death zone".
5.Pacifism is opposition to war, militarism (including conscription and mandatory military service) or violence. The word pacifism was coined by the French peace campaigner Émile Arnaud (1864–1921) and adopted by other peace activists at the tenth Universal Peace Congress in Glasgow in 1901.[1] A related term is ahimsa (to do no harm), which is a core philosophy in Indian Religions such as Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism. While modern connotations are recent, having been explicated since the 19th century, ancient references abound.
A peace sign, which is widely associated with pacifism
Large outdoor gathering
World Day of Prayer for Peace in Assisi, 2011
In modern times, interest was revived by Leo Tolstoy in his late works, particularly in The Kingdom of God Is Within You. Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948) propounded the practice of steadfast nonviolent opposition which he called "satyagraha", instrumental in its role in the Indian Independence Movement. Its effectiveness served as inspiration to Martin Luther King Jr., James Lawson, Mary and Charles Beard, James Bevel,[2] Thich Nhat Hanh[3] and many others in the civil rights movement.