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Three Days to See

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Three Days to See Question#1: Whos was Helen Keller? Answer:Helen Keller was a remarkable woman.After an illness she was left blind and deaf at the age of 19 months.At the age of seven years,Anne Sullivan took charge of her.She was a 20 year old graduate of the Perkins school for the Blind. Question#2: Describe the thought expressed by the author in the first paragraph. Answer: The thought to live each day as if we were to die tomorrow emphasizing the value of life is expressed by the author in the first paragraph.Such an attitude makes us more appreciative of meaning of life and its permanent spiritual values. Question#3: What makes you feel that author is sad and depressed? Answer:The fact that “the seeing see little”makes the author sad and depressed.The people with sight are unable to comprehend the unseen creativity of the Creator.On the other hand Helen,both blind and deaf, was better able to understand and see the beauty and spiritual side of t...

Drug Addiction

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Drug addiction Question#1 What are the causes of drug addiction? Environmental factors like bad Peer influence and troubled domestic background cause drug addiction. Young people in the name of adventure may fall prey. On the other hand domestic problems may lead a person to drug addiction in order to escape from responsibilities of life. Question#2 What are the effects of drug addiction? Long-term use of drugs causes permanent mental and physical sickness. Drugs can change how the brain works and interferes with a person’s ability to make choices leading to intense craving and compulsive drug use. Question#3 What important role do the rehabilitation centers play to control drug addiction? Rehabilitation centres play an important role to control drug addiction. The centres strictly supervise the victim. Complete medical support and guidance is provided to the victims. Drug abuse as, therefore, must be taken to proper and certified rehabilitation centr...

All is Not Lost

All is not lost Question#1 Why did the nurse ask Hira's sister to come and talk to her? Nurse asked Hira’s younger sister to come and talk to her, thinking that the voice of a near and dear one might activate the nearly dead neurons. She was trying to make her brain process by her sister’s voice. Question#2 Why did the nurse disagree with the doctor’s point of view? The nurse did not agree with the doctor’s point of view because leaving the patient unattended, without giving her a chance to survive, would be unwise. She thought that her full attention could make her patient recover. Question#3 Why did the nurse ask horse self the question: “Could I be able to justify my stance before the senior doctors?” She asked herself this question to reconsider her judgement about the patient because the patient was declared a hopeless case by all the senior doctors and accepting this challenge was to risk her career. Question#4 Describe some qualities of...

Stopping by woods On a Snowy Evening

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Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening Question #1: Who is the speaker in the poem? Answer: The poet Robert Frost who speaks through the horse rider, is the speaker of the poem. Question #2: Whom does the speaker refer to in the first stanza of the poem? Answer: In the first stanza of the poem the speaker refers to the owner of the wood who is not present at that time. Question #3: Why does the speaker stop on the darkest evening of the year? Answer:The poet is a traveller.It is night time and he can not go ahead.He is fascinated by the natural beauty of the woods.So he stops near the woods to enjoy the beauty of nature because he say woods are lovely dark and deep. Question #4: Why does the horse impatiently await the next move of his master? Answer: The horse impatiently awaits for the next move because it thinks there is no farm house near and they have to travel a long distance to reach their destination.. Question #5: The speaker in t...

Sultan Ahmed Mosque

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Sultan Ahmed Masjid Question#1Why is the Sultan Ahmed Masjid also known as blue Masjid? Sultan Ahmed Masjid is known as the blue mosque because of the blue tiles that embellish its interior. It is named after Sapphire Hue that pervades is decoration. Question#2 What was the purpose of hanging a heavy iron chain at the entrance of court?   A heavy iron chain was hung at the entrance of the court so that the Sultan had to lower his head every time he enter the court. It was symbol to ensure the humility of the ruler in the face of Divine Power.  Question#3 Who was appointed as the architect of the mosque?   Sedefhar Mehmet Aga is recorded as the “Ottoman architect” of the Sultan Ahmed Masjid in Istanbul. He was of Albanian origin.   Question#4 How does the interior of Masjid look?   The interior gives a complete bluish look with blue tiles and paint. The gallery also gives brigh...

The Quaid's Vision

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The Quaid's Vision and Pakistan  Question#1 How much confidence did Quaid-e-Azam have in his Nation?  Quaid-e-Azam had great confidence in his Nation point once he address the youth and said; “You are made of Sterling material and second to none” They just needed share determination and force of character,dedication and faith in Pakistan.  Question#2 What was the Quaid-e- Azam concept of our nation?  Kind affirmed his concept of a nation three years before its birth; “ we are a nation with our own distinctive culture and Civilization, language and literature, art and architecture, names and nomenclature, sensor values and proportion, legal laws and moral course, customs and calendar, history and tradition, aptitude and ambition.”  Question#3What was the ideology of Pakistan in view of Quaid-e-Azam?  The ideology of Pakistan was based on the fundamental principle that the Muslims are an independent Nation. Any attempt to merge their National an...

Hazrat Asma R.A

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Hazrat Asma (R.A)  Q1: What happened when Abu Jehl asked about Hazrat Abu Bakr?  When Abu Jehl asked Hazrat Asma(R.A)about her father’s whereabouts,she posed a counter question to him by saying that how would she know.This answer infuriated Abu Jehl.He slapped Hazrat Asma’s face so hard that her ear-ring fell off.She faced him bravely and did not reveal the secret.  Q2:Why was Abu Quhafa (R.A) worried? Hazrat Abu Quhafa was worried that Abu Bakr (R.A) had taken all the wealth with him leaving him and children empty handed and helpless. Moreover he was a disbeliever at that time.  Q3:How did Hazrat Asma (RA) console her grandfather?  Hazrat Asma(RA) immediately gathered some pebbles and put them at the place where her father used to keep his money and jewels. She covered them with a piece of cloth and made her grandfather to touch them in order to alleviate his concern.This thing consoled her grandfather.  Q4: Who was Hazrat Abdullah bin Zubai...