1) TITLE: Reflections (wisdom for 21st century)
Author: Karma Yeshy Rabgye
GENRE: Sory Book
REFLECTION
This book is a short volume of quoets about life, spiritually, mediration and mindfulness from Karma Yeshy Rabgye. The quotes are not just to be read and forgotten. They are to be comteparied into one’s life. And the modt part I liked from the book is one inspiring quotes that I liked from this book is: Why always ask yourself why? Why did they have to do? Why did they have to die? Why is this happening to me? Why was I born into this life? These are totally the wrong question infact, we should not ask that questions at all. But we should understand that, things happen because of the vast serres of causes of conditions
2) TITLE: Dalai Lama’s love and compassion
Author: Dalai Lama
GENRE: Articles
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His holiness the Dalai Lama, the exited spiritual leader of the Tibetan people, offers simple, practical advice on how we can bring more love and compassion into our lives. With his down to earth, approach, he showed us how to truly accepre others and now can we transform disturbing emotions, such as anger, in to love, joy, and peace of mind. The line I loved the most was “Love and compassion are necessity of life, not luxurier, without huminty cannot surive.
3) TITLE: Spy Dog
Author: Andrew cope
GENRE: STORY BOOK
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The book is about the spy dog lara who is in the ride of her life when Ben wins a competation to name a new rollercoster, the cook family head of to enhanced towers for the grand opeing lara and her pups spud and star are looking forwarding to water ride, ghost train and candyfloss. At the park, princess pretty and her troll prince join the cooks to welcome pop star summer.
4) TITLE: Yellow Wallpaper
Author: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
GENRE: Story Book
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This story describes a young woman and her husband. He imposes a rest cure on her when she suffers “temporay nervous depression” after the birth of their baby. They spend the summer at confined mansion, where the narrator is largely confined to an upstairs nursey. The story makes striking use of an unreliable narrator in order to gradually reveal the degree to which her husband has imprisoned her. She describes tron wallpaper, barred windows, metal rings in the walls, a floor “scratched and gouged and splintered” a bed bolted to the floor, and a gate at the top of the staris, but blames all these on children who must have resided there. The narrator devotes many journal entries to descrbing the wallpaper in the room it’s “sickly” colour it’s “yellow “ smell, it’s bizarre and disturbing pattern like “an interminable string of toadstools, budding and sprounting in endless convoloutions” it’s missing pataches, and the way it leaves yellow smears on the skin and clothing of anyone who touches.
5) TITLE: The Skylight Room
Author: O Henry
GENRE: Short story
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In the skylight room summary, Miss Elsie lesson moves into Mrs Parkeris romming home and into the skylight room, the cheapest. She enjoys mimicking and socializing with other roomates on the front step. The ladies are envious; the gentleman adore. Her name is Billy Jackson, and she says it shine through her skylight one night. Then Elisie straves, boldly and joyously, without work. In her skylight room. She smiles as she drag herself away from billy Jakson. The next morning they find her and call ambulance. She asks the young ambulance doctor what is wrong with Miss leeson. On the way down he pays his respect to Mrs Parker in a way that leaves her feelings crushed in mind and body, as she rushes her upstairs. He tells the diver to be it. The next day’s newspaper “starvation had caused her debility and she was transported to Bellevu hospital. Parient will recover, says ambulance doctor William Jckson.
6) TITLE: Lamb to the Slaughter
Author: Roald Danl
GENRE: Short Story
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Mary Maloney is six months pregnant and waiting for her policeman husband Patrick to return home from work for dinner. Mary loves her husband and thinks that his return from his work for is the best part of the day so she is bindsided by his wish for a divorce. Mary goes into the kitchen after receiving this news and begins to prepare the leg of lamb from the freezer for dinner. The leg of lamb does not get cooked, however, it becomes a murder weapon instead. Mary hits her husband on the back of the head with frozen piece of the meat and kills him instantly. Worried about what will happen to her and her unborn child if she is caught, Marry carefully tries to stage everything as if patric has been murdered by someone else. She goes out to the store so that she has an alibi and on returing home calls the police and acts as though someone has broken in and killed her husband. The two policeman arrive at Marry’s house and being investigation.
7) TITLE: The tell- tale Heart
Author: Edgar Allen Poe
GENRE: Short Story
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It is a story of the perfect murder or so the unnamed narrort though when he commited it. The narrort of the story is confessing to his murder of an old man, whom he is caring for. Throughout the entire story, the narrator is terribly worried that people will think him mad and tries to dissuade the recipient of his tale of the assessment that he is mad. The narrator beings his tale by saying why he commited murder. It had not been his original plan to commit murder but he tell of how the old man’s “vulture eyes” of which the narrator was terrified of, was the reason that he did it. He tells of how was very cautions and watched the man for seven nights and was careful not to make sound. Upon the eight night thought is when he killed the old man.
8) TITLE: The story of an Hour
Author: Kare Chopin
GENRE: Short Story
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Mrs Mallard, who has been suffering with heart trouble is told the news of her husband’s death by her sisters Joesphine, in the company of her deceased husband’s friend, Richard, Brentiy Mallard, Mrs Mallard responds to this news differently to mast women she accepts it immediately weeping immediately as well, before retiring to her room alone. Alone in her room Mrs Mallard observes the new spring growth of trees, the freshness of rain in the air, the fact that life goes on as usual. The new growth of springs symbolize a new beginning, as Mallards death brings Mrs Mallard a new start in her own life. It is not so much that Mrs Mallard’s relationship with her husband was particulary negative, more so that with his passing she is free of any man’s influence, both good or bad. As chopin writes in the story. “There would be no powerful will bending here in that blind persistence.”
9) TITLE: The Happy prince
GENRE: Short Story
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“The happy prince” opens with a diseription of a beautiful statue of the Prince, one made of gold and adorned with jewels. All the people in the town admire the statue of the Prince. One night, a lone bird, Swallow notics the Prince crying, and the Prince says it is because he is sad at the suffering poor. The prince asks swallow to deliver his ruby to a poor mother and child. Although swallow needs to fly south for the winter, he agress to help deliver the ruby. The next night, the prince ask swallow to deliver on of his sapphire eyes to a poor writer. Swallow does not want the prince to lose an eye, but the prince insist so swallow to take he’s another eye and dliver to the poor girl. After this, the prince requests that his glod pating be given to the poor as well. As swallow feels sorry for the prince, he cancle his plan to fly south to stay with him and deliver all of his gold to the people in need. The prince becomes blind, and the people begin to call him statue ugly when his richness are gone. Only swallow knows that the prince’s heart is pure and decides to stay with him forever. However it has become winter and swallow soon dies from clod. Shortly the prince dies of heart broken.
10) TITLE: The lottery
GENRE: Short Story
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The story takes place one moring between ten o’clock and noon on 27 June in a village somewhere in (presumably) the USA. The year is not started. The three hundred villagers are gatherning to undertake the annual ritual of the lottery. Which is always drawn on this date every year. Some of the children of the village are busy making pile of stone which they closely guard in the corner of the village square. The lottery is led by Mr Summers, who has an old box by Mr Summer has to remove on slip hand. Each of the Hutchisons draw out slip of paper starting with the youngest children. When they are instructed to open the floded pieces of the paper they had. All of them are blank expect for Tessie’s which has a black mark on it which Mr Summers had made with his pencil the night before. Because Tessies won one of the villager proceed to hurt their stones, presumably stoning her to death.
11) TITLE: The Umbraila
Author: Ranald Dahl
GENRE: Short Story
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It is a story where a girl of just 12 narrattes her experiences. Once she is waiting with her mother on a londen road in rain for taxi after their vist to a dentist. A little old gentleman approaches them and very politely requests them to give a pound. He say he has forgotten his wallet at home. An he is to old to walk back home. He adds that he wouldn’t take that pound free. He ask them to take his silk umbrella worth 20 pounds. The narrator’s mother doubt if his intention, she gives him a pound and takes the expensive slik umbrella. The narrator just then noticed that he enter to the club buy expensive whisky worth one pound consumes it in a single gulp, comes out with someone’s umbrella, sell’s to another gentleman and walk in a different direction.
12) TITLE: The Eyes have it
Author: Ruskin Bond
GENRE: Short Story
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The story is narrated by the person himself is blind. His eyes sensitive only to light and darkness. While going to Dehradun by the train he come across a girl. He starts conservation and gradually becomes interested in her. Her tactfully hides his blindness from the girl to impress her. But the conservation does not last long. The girl bid him goodbye as the train arrives at her destination. After her departure a new male come’s into the compartment from that the narrator learns that the girl was completely blind
13) TITLE: Value
GENRE: Short Story
Reflection
The story is about a person who show a $20 bill to 200 people asks who wants it and everyone raised their hands. When he crumbled it and ask again, still everyone raised their hands. When he crushed it by his feet and picked it up and said who wants it, still everyone wanted it He said “You all leaved right now that many times in our lives, we are dropped, crumpled, and ground into dist by the decisions we make, we feed as though we are worthless, but no matter what has happened or what will, you never lose your value, you are special don’t every forget it”. In simple the message is no matter what happens you will never lose your value
14) TITLE: Brotherhood
Genre: Short Story
Reflection
The story is about a person who got his car from his brother and gives a ride to a person home and the person ask him to wait and brings him to wait and brings his brother and tells that, “That is the man I told about his brother gave him a car and one day I will give a car like that” and then they go for a ride. I think it is a very good story because it talks how lucky it is to have a brother and why we should love our family. The message behind the story is no one in this world loves you more than your family and we should take care of them when we have the time.
15) TITLE: LOVE AND EGO
Genre: Short Story
Reflection
It all takes place in a island where lived all kind of feelings like love, sadness, and angry etc…one day there was a storm coming. All the feeling were scared but love made a boarded to go to a save place because love is love he loves and cares for everyone. Every feeling got in the board but there was one feeling who didn’t got it. It was ego but love tried and tried but could not make ego to get in the board every other feeling said to love to come and leave the ego behind but love didn’t leave ego behind and both love and ego died. The main message is that love dies because of ego.
16) Learn to love without condition. Talk without bad intention. Give without reason. And most of all, care for people without any expectation. By-Dr Moses Simuyemba
Reflection
I think it can be short tips to live a happy and a peaceful life. First love we love with condition now a days like the person should we pretty or rich etc…but we should prevent that. Now we talk only with bad intention like hurting others feelings or talking bad things about other we should talk nice thinks or should not talk at all.in other words be selfless think about others first.
17) “Experience may be the best teacher but it need not be your own. Learn from others successes & failures.” By- Dr Moses Sinuyemba
Reflection
Experience is very important in our life but its not just the only thing we need in our life. We should be open minded and should alves be ready to learn. Failure is also a very important part of our life it teaches us never to give up and that there is still some part we need to cover up or room for improvement.
18) “The beauty of thought is that you anywhere & everywhere. A truly free mind can never be held captive” By- Dr Moses Simuyemba
Reflection
Everything we do or every were we are its all up to our mind. For example a free person can also feel capture or sad and where as a person in prison can feel free and be happy. Our physical body might have limite but our mind and our thoughts are limiteless and free. 19) The way we think One day a rich person took his son to the village. To show how the poor people lives there life. The father ask the son “did you see how poor thay are” but the boy said “no father they are rich because we have one dog, they have four, we have pool, they have river, we have lanterns and they have star.the message is rich and poor is all in our eyes. 20) Never give up There was 2 man going to a village far away they meet a man and ask how far is the village the man said just a bit away they walked for hours but didn’t get to the village. Then meat with a old man and ask the way they ask and the man said just a few minutes of walk they walked for hours again but they did get to the village the again meet 3 people saying the same think just a few miles. Then one person was so tired and angry and said all people we meat was a group of liers but they other one said they were motivating you.
19) The way we think
Genre: short story
Reflection
One day a rich person took his son to the village to show how poor people lives in a village. The father ask his son "did you see how poor they are" but the son said "no father thay are rich " . the father said how and then he said "we have a dog they have four dog, we have pool they have river and we have lanterns and they have stars. Rich, poor, happyness and sadness is all in our eyes and our thinking.
20) Never GIVE UP
Genre: short story
Reflection
There was 2 man going to a village far away they meet a man on the way and ask how far is the village the man said only few minutes of walked. They walked for hour didn't get to village they meet an other old man and the man said you are just few miles away they walked more than 3 KM could not even see the village. One man said why were thy laying the other said they were just motivating us.