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Objectives of Environmental Education

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Objectives of  environmental education           The objectives of environmental education are part of the general objectives of education which have been defined variously by different thinkers, classificts, humanists and scientists. Still most of them seem to agree with Herbert Spencer that education should prepare for complete living, which does not mean living in the material sense merely but in the widest sense. That is, an educated person should know how to lead a healthful life, how to prevent oneself from sickness, general debility, premature descrpitude, and in short, how to treat the body; in what way to develop the intellect and to treat the mind; how to prepare for earning a living and to secure the necessaries and comforts of life; how to rear and discipline offsprings; how to maintain proper social and political relations; how to spend leisure time so as to gratify tastes and feelings; and in what way to use talent for the greatest advantage of the self as wel

Cutting the Sun by Chithra Banerjee Divakaruni poem summary

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      Cutting the Sun             - Chithra Banerjee Divakaruni Summary of the poem:           The first part of the poem expresses the heat of the sun. The rage of the sun are in rasp-red and muscled as the tongues of iguanas. The image in this poem is fantastic, someone cutting the sun itself upon with massive blue scissors, finding flowers at its heart. The poem is a way out fantastical account of gardening and on the other hand, it spoke to the generative powers of the sun and how all life comes from it.           The descriptions of the sun are physically grounded in the senses. The sun is 'gigantic hot', 'smelling of iron. The narrator sweats under it's says, almost  losing identity against it's overwhelming power. It may be just a gardener cutting flowers, sweating under the sun. The sun-face looms over me, gigantic-hot, smelling of iron. Its rays striated, rasp-red and muscled as the tongues of iguanas...           It is a reminder that the sun a

Gift in Green by Sarah Joseph summary

Coexistence of Nature and Tradition in Sarah Joseph's Gift in Green : Chapter : 1 INTRODUCTION:           Indian English was originated from British English. It set foot in India with the granting of the East India Company Charter by Queen Elizabeth I in1600. The view of the English language among many Indians has gone from associating it with colonialism to associating it with economic progress. English continues to be an official language of India. Indian English literature specifically refers to works written in English by Indian writers. It has developed over a period of time and writing in English did not start in a day. It took years and hard work of several distinguished people to bring the current status. It is nearly 150 years old.           Novel writing has become a popular form of literature. People were interested in reading novels and it has become a passion. It gives a scope of change and development in the society. Indian novels help as an instrument to gener