Diseases & Disorders of the Respiratory System

Diseases & Disorders of the Respiratory System

What does plagiarism mean precisely? | The Hot Word

What does plagiarism mean precisely? The Hot Word

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my lapiiiiiiiiiiii

working on my project....

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St. Theresa's B. C. H. S. S, Chengaroor

St. Theresa's B. C. H. S. S, Chengaroor

 Our paradise...

the place where we flew about like butterflies

where we enjoyed the time of our lives

where we learned to be frank, friendly, free

and to LOVE

and where the four friends were meant to be met...

The story continues…

Katie, Pooja and Nithi were in the same class while Emil with the other band members in the next division. She used to be Katie’s friend from her fifth grade though they haven’t studied in the same class till this date. Emil knew Katie well and Katie knew Emil well. Pooja was kind of immature so everyone used to scold her while in class and practice. Skipping class time for practice was cool. In the meantime while the rest of the class was jealous they enjoyed the times of our life. We weren’t an established gangue in our 8th grade but when it was year 9 we became cool. That year we were divided again and Emil and Pooja came together while Katie and Nithi were left behind. I mean that’s when most of the girls form a group right? At the age of 14? We did but there was a flaw in the plan as Katie still members. They put in a Brahmin girl forming a group of five. But she was the odd one. She never matched their tastes. They hated her though adjusted with her. Katie was brave enough to avoid her in a brilliant manner. She used to ignore her and advised the others to do so. By the middle of year 9 she succeeded her goal and the group split reforming the golden group- the fabulous four or NASH as Pooja named it. Year 10 was the best ever as the four could remember each and every moment clearly.

Fabulous Four

You might have heard about many gangues with a name fabulous four. Well here it is another wonderful group. A friendship circle of four friends. Developed and nurtured in god’s own country Kerala, the paradise of catholic Christians, Tiruvalla, and girl’s own world, St. Theresa’s b. C. H. S. S, Chengaroor.


Wait a sec! Did I say something about these four friends? No right? First one is Emil, who is slender enough, cautious and a little bit nervous. Second one is Katie, she is more with Emil, she is like mature enough, but has a superior like feeling. The third one is Nithi, who the most beautiful and too slender for her family is unhappy too. But for me she is beautifully slender. Ah! She is the cupid pie of the four. The fourth is Pooja, she is fairly fat but is beautiful despite her dark complexion. She is such an unconscious one of the four, because she isn’t used to dealing things yet.

Yep! Its where these four friends learn and enjoyed their fantabulous part of life. They met through a common thread- band set. May be 3 years back they wouldn’t have known each other well. Or at least even the names. It was all meant to be this way. And may be it might be the reason that four of them joined the band set and got selected. Katie became the captain; Nithi beat the side drum, Emil the trumpet and the Pooja the euphonium.

Let me say it Pooja used to hate using that freaking instrument. (I guess she loved the base drum for sure!)

National science seminar 2010

National science seminar is one of India’s prestigious seminar competition held in the national level every year on the basis of a common topic. there are three stages for the selection of the national winner. The students have to pass through three levels of competition- district or block level, state level and then national level. Each level has three sessions to determine the winner. A written test based on the topic, the seminar presentation and an interview with the judges are the three sessions. Those who are in high school is recommended to participate in this programme.

This year’s national competition is scheduled to be held in Visvesvaraya Industrial & Technological Museum, Begalooru, on 8th October 2010 on the topic “India and world science are we there?”. Students representing 28 states and 7 union territories will present their papers and the eminent panel of judges will select the most eligible student as the winner

It is a proud thing to say that it was me who represented Kerala for the national science seminar 2009 on the topic Chandrayaan concerns and promises held in Mumbai. This year Kerala is represented by Swathi Nair of Republican school, Konni, a girl from my own district.

I wish a very great luck to you Swathi. Make us proud.

waka waka

Ulysses - Alfred, Lord Tennyson (by Sir John Gielgud)

Sobriquets in the world

Island of pearls…......Bahrain
Land of cakes……....Scotland
Roof of the world…....Pamir
Playground of Europe....…Switzerland
Key of Mediterranean....Gibraltar
City of seven hills......…Rome
City of skyscrapers…...New York
Holy land…......palatine
Garden of England……Kent
Gate of tears…..Babel man dab
Windy city…..Chicago
City of eternal spring………………Quito
Empire city. ..................New York
Eternal city..................... Rome

 Land of descending sun..............…Britain
Land of golden pagoda……….Myanmar
Britain of the south…………New Zealand
City of Golden Gate……san Francisco
Cockpit of Europe…….Belgium
Dark continent ……Africa
Granite City….............Aberdeen, Scotland
Gibraltar in Indian Ocean……………..Eden
Island of cloves…………..Zanzibar

Land of lilies…..............Canada
Land of morning calm…….Korea
Land of thunderbolt…..Bhutan
Queen of Arabian Sea……cochin
Wealthy coast……….Coastrica
Venice of the north……………….Stockholm
White city…….Belgrade
Water loo..Belgium
Land of pyramids...........….Egypt

Mecca of cricket……lord’s ground, England
Bread basket of world………prairies
City of Arabian nights…Bagdad
Dample city...........…Budapest
Golden city………………Johannes berg
Eye of Greece……Ethan
Modern Babylon……London
Valley of kings…..Thebes
Land of canals…….Pakistan
Land of marbles.............……Italy

City of lights.........Paris
Key of Baltic…………………Coppen Hagen
Land of thorns and hills………………Rwanda
City of five ports………….Moscow
Land of rising sun……Japan
Land of midnight sun……Norway
Gift of Nile……Egypt
Sugar bowl of the world….Cuba
Land of white elephants….Thailand
Land of thousand lakes…Finland
Sorrow of china……huangho river
Yellow river…huang ho river

Key of pacific…….Singapore
White man’s grave…….guinea coast
Land of kangaroo…Australia
Sickman of Europe…..Turkey
Emerald island…………Ireland
Forbidden City….Lhasa

Alaotra grebe

                  When the International Union for Conservation of Nature(IUCN) updated the Red list of Birds on may 25 it was reported that one more bird, Alaotra Grebe (Tachybaptus rufolavatus)a native of Madagascar is extinct from the earth which reveals the truth that the beasts and birds are disappearing from the face of earth in a faster rate than any time in the earth’s history.The bird was last sighted 25 years before and it was on this basis that extinction was confirmed.

                      The Alaotra Grebe’s habitat was severely damaged after a nonnative species of carnivorous fish was introduced into the lakes where the birds lived, according to BirdLife International. In addition, fishermen using nylon gill-nets would trap and drown the birds, contributing to the Alaotra Grebe's extinction.

Sobriquets in India

Sorrow of Bengal............River Damodar

Sorrow of Bihar...............River Kosi

Sorrow of Asom..............River Brahmaputra

Blue mounts.....................Nilgiris

Manchester of India.........Ahmedabad (Gujarat)

Land of five rivers............Punjab

Tea plantation of India .....Asom

Paradise of Earth..............Kashmir

Scotland of the east.....................Meghalaya

Vridha Ganga..............................River Godavari

Dakshin Ganga ...........................River Cauvery

Emerald land .............................Goa

Kohinoor of India ......................Andra Pradesh

Sugar bowl of India ...................Uttar Pradesh

Milk bowl of India.....................Haryana

Land of tigers..............................Madhya Pradesh

Manchester of south India ....Coimbatore (Tamil Nadu)

Silicon valley of India .........Bangalore 

Economic capital of India ....Mumbai

Spice garden of India..............Kerala

Land of Sun-rays..................Arunachal Pradesh

Paradise of botanist .............Sikkim
City of palaces......................Kolakatta
City of Golden Temple.........Amritsar
Garden city of India..............Bengalooru
Gate Way of India.................Mumbai 

Gulf Manorama | Gulf News

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Celebrities who died of smoking-related illness

Allen, Gracie, 58, actress; heart attack (August 27, 1964)

The Burns and Allen Show
Allen lived with an George Burns, an inveterate cigar smoker, for 38 years; she had a long history of heart problems.
Benaderet, Bea, 62, TV actress; emphysema/lung cancer (October 13, 1968)
Beverly Hillbillies, Burns & Allen, Petticoat Junction, Betty Rubble's voice in The Flintstones

Cobb, Ty, 74, baseball player; cancer, diabetes, chronic heart disease (July 17, 1961)

Disney, Walt, 65, animator, producer; lung cancer (acute circulatory collapse following an operation to remove a tumor) (December 15, 1966)

Eliot, T.S., 76; author, poet; emphysema (January 4, 1965)

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, The Hallow Men, Murder in the Cathedral

Fleming, Ian, 56, author; heart attack (August 12, 1964)

James Bond novels

Grant, General Ulysses S., 63, throat cancer (July 23, 1885)

18th President of the US

Hayward, Susan, 55, actor; lung cancer metastized to her brain (March 14, 1975)

I'll Cry Tomorrow, I Want to Live!

King of England, lung cancer (1952)

Rand, Ayn, author/philosopher; lung cancer (March 6, 1982)

The Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged

Reynolds, R.J., 58, founder of RJ Reynolds Tobacco Co., emphysema, (1916)

Shirley, Anne, 75, actress; lung cancer (July 4, 1993)

Anne of the Green Gables, Stella Dallas

Vaughan, Sarah, singer; lung cancer (1990)

Broken-hearted Melody

Young, Coleman A., 79, Detroit, Michigan's longest-serving mayor. Emphysema. (November 29, 1997)

How is tobacco harmful to health?
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Health Hazards of Tobacco

‘I love to kill and it’s my style

To kill I will go an extra-mile,’

the wonderful lines I read from Thrill Killer of Ronald. W. Hull is what I’m recollecting at a moment like this. Because at present I am thinking to tell you something about the ferocious tobacco. We hear the word at least twice a day. But what exactly is tobacco. It is an agricultural product, of course, processed from the leaves of a plant in the genus Nicotina. Records state that half of the children from grade 4 to 6 have attempted smoking and about 80000- 100000 children are becoming addicted to smoking each year. But I would like to ask what is attracting people to smoking like a black hole? It is the nicotine, a carcinogen, present in tobacco that is responsible for the addictive nature.

The carcinogen increases the risk of pancreas cancer, kidney and bladder cancers, stomach cancer, lung cancer, and pharynx and mouth cancers. It has several carcinogenic products that bind to DNA and create genetic mutations. Even though tobacco is consumed in different ways like chewing, snuffing etc smoking is more popular. But the unfortunate havoc of smoking is that it kills not only the one using it but also those sitting around him. Because the smoke produced is fair enough to create a lung cancer or suffocation.

Other than cancers tobacco has many more health risks. Smoking is responsible for the majority of deaths due to chronic diseases like emphysema and chronic bronchitis. Smoking has cardio vascular effects too. It increases the risk of heart attack and other heart related diseases 2-4 times greater than a normal person. It causes abdominal aortic aneurysm. Smoking is harmful to bones and joints. It slows down the process that adds calcium to bones. It develops infertility in men and women. In women, as a result there is great risk of loss of bone density and osteoporosis.

Post menopausal women who smoke have greater risk for hip fracture and men who involve in lifting heavy objects are most likely to have a lower back pain and arthritis than the non-smokers. And also have the risk of degenerative disorders and spinal injuries. Smoking increases the risk of diabetics or glucose intolerance that precedes diabetics. It increases the production of acid in the stomach. It reduces blood flow and production of compounds that protects the stomach lining. Such people develop inflammatory Bowell Disease.

Smoking interferes with thyroid hormone production. It triples the risk of hyperthyroidism and hypothyroidism. It also increases the risk of goiter. Wrinkles, gum diseases, tooth loss, cataracts etc are other consequences. Even though man has advanced in his life he never realizes his drawbacks and upgrades them. Maybe the health hazards caused by tobacco are curable. But in future we could only see toothless gums and cancerous mouths. And we all like ‘Prevention is better than cure’, don’t we?

So dear friends arise, awake and think. Let’s join together and strive to create a new generation free of illness and ignorance.

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Death Talks

A poem in which the death talks about himself

Talking about me is fascinating
And philosophical
Hearing about is sentimental
For the faint hearted
Witnessing me is truly terrific
But experiencing me is crucial.

I am the death, the destroyer
Of the world as many addresses me
The fear of cowards and the friend of the brave
Guests of fools hope to helpless

I have pulled many from life

And pushed many to the exile

None has complained until my hands

Have gripped tight on the neck

What I have known I swear it’s true

I promise I’m honest

When there is a birth, I’m also born

When they grow up I am growing up too

And when they are ready

They cannot escape from my fingers..

Though painful once

You will later feel better and grateful

For what I have done

Home they brought their warrior dead

                                              Alfred lord Tennyson, the shining star in the world of English literature and famous as the emperor of English poetry has created yet another wonderful piece of magic through a compassionate thread. His sentimental and touchy grace of mind has been depicted so fascinatingly in this poem ‘home they brought their warrior dead’.

                Usually wars bring bad luck and its zenith is always unfortunate tragedies. Here also in the background of love and affection and the veins of death, the coupled factors delineates the reactions and provocations wore by the people gathered around the carcass of a warrior in the pre-funeral functions. His young and beautiful widow is not giving signs of depression or pain even though she carries a crushed heart. The maidens make many attempts to make her weep or (they think) she may die. At last a successful and powerful endeavor burst her into tears. An old nurse brought her child and thinking of its future life she wept bitterly which is described by the poet as “summer tempest”.

                                   Here the poet has not made any exaggerations or so much of poetic effects. But the genuine reason why it has a touchy value in every heart is the simplicity. Simile, oxymoron and elision are the only figures of speech implemented. Along with a sympathetic and emotional feeling or atmosphere, the poem depicts in it a ever-green truth. ‘Look forward to the future. Regret about past life weakens one and the hope for the future strengthens the desire to live.’ The character specialties of the warrior in the poem is described here with proper stress through which the poet possibly enhances the readers to be honest, faithful, noble and most importantly patriotic and dedicative. This poem is truly relevant in the present day society lacking moral values.

Living lives

I sat on the ashlars lain on my garden
And leaned my back to the pillar that was worn
Looked up and closed my eyes
For the sun was bright in that summer evening
I again opened and saw something moving
High above me bearing a misty hole
Clouds they were with a strange
Hole of blurred beam of yellow or white
From which a heavenly hand
Stretched outside holding a heart
Closed my eyes and again I saw
No other hole, no other hand
Winning the beam, dreariness came ahead.
With the hole, it pulled itself inside
Closing me in darkness

Many say they live
But they don’t live lives
But death
Only few live it, lovely life.

My Heart Will Go On- Celine Dion

Every night in my dreams
I see you, I feel you

That is how I know you go on

Far across the distance

And spaces between us

You have come to show you go on

Near, far wherever you are

I believe that the heart does go on

Once more you open the door

And you’re here in my heart and

My heart will go on and on

Love can touch us one time

And last for a life time

And never let go till go on

Love was when I loved you

One true time I hold you

In my life we’ll always go on and on.

Near, far wherever you are

I believe that the heart does go on

Once more you open the door

And you’re here in my heart and

My heart will go on and on

You’re here there’s nothing I fear

And I know that my heart will go on

We’ll stay forever this way

You’re safe in my heart and

My heart will go on and on…..

About the song:
Singer: Celine dion
Movie: Titanic
Albums: Let's talk about love, Titanic:music from the motion picture.
Recorded: Wallyworld, Hit Factory
Genre: Pop
Length: 4.40
Label: Columbia, Epic

Writer(s): James Horner, Will Jennings
Producer: Walter Afanasieff, James Horner, Simon Franglen
Certification:  Diamond (France), 4x platinum (Germany), 3x platinum (Belgium), 2x platinum (Australia, Japan, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, UK), Platinum (Greece), Gold (Austria, U.S.) .