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    SHE CONQUERED THE EVEREST

    About the writer :


    The essay SHE CONQUERED THE EVEREST is adopted from an article on the internet by
    Dr.B. Sowjanya. It deals with the indomitable spirit of a young woman who was the first
    female amputee to scale Everest.
    About the lesson :
    Arunima Sinha lost her father at the age of three. She was a cyclist, football player and a
    national volleyball player. Though she was a law graduate, she didn't get a job. Finally, she
    applied for a job in Central Industrial Security Force. She got a call letter but it stated an
    error in her birth date. She set out for Delhi to get it corrected. While she was traveling in
    train, she was robbed and attacked by some criminals. No one came to rescue her. She put
    a brave fight but overpowered. They threw her out of the running train.
    THE THUGS HAULED HER OFF THE MOVING TRAIN.
    She fell on the tracks. A train went over her left leg. Next morning she was taken to
    hospital. Her left leg was amputated and a rod was inserted in her right leg. She became a
    sensation when the media picked up her story. The government officials, who wanted to
    save their skin spread rumours that she attempted suicide. She wanted to prove the world
    that she was not a coward. So, she decided to climb Everest. After getting discharged from
    the hospital she went to Bachendri Pal, the first Indian woman to climb Everest. Madam Pal
    encouraged her. She said
    'YOU HAVE ALREADY CONQUERED YOUR INNER EVEREST'
    She took eighteen months of training. As an amputee she faced many challenges while
    climbing Everest. Any pressure on her right leg would spend spams of acute intense pain.
    She reached the fourth camp which is called the death zone. Her oxygen level was critically
    low, her Sherpa warned her that she might lose her life. But she went on and on 21 May
    2013 she reached the summit. Luckily she was given an extra cylinder of oxygen that gave
    her a new life.
    WINNING ISN'T GETTING AHEAD OF OTHERS. IT'S GETTING AHEAD OF YOURSELF
    COMMONWEALTH OF BEES
    Poem: Commonwealth of Bees
    Poet: William Shakespeare
    About the poet:
    William Shakespeare is widely known as the world's greatest English playwright. He wrote
    36 plays,154 sonnets and two long poems. Hamlet, Julius Caesar, The Tempest, Romeo and
    Juliet are some of his famous plays.
    About the Poem :
    The poem Commonwealth of Bees is an excerpt from William Shakespeare's play ,
    Henry V , Act-1, scene -2. In this play the Archbishop of Canterbury offers to the king Henry
    a lengthy speech, about the life of bees, which is the best example for the organisation of
    his commonwealth in the time of war. Here Shakespeare uses bees as a METAPHOR for the
    human beings. He says that though they are small insects honeybees can teach us the art of
    order.
    TEACH THE ATR OF ORDER TO A PEOPLED KINGDOM
    The poet observes that they have an organised life they also have some rules and laws to
    maintained discipline in order to run their hive. The poet observes that, in bee hives, there
    are different classes of bees engaged in different works. The magistrate bees do the
    corrective work, the merchant bees collect honey. Solder bees protect their hives and the
    king observes the work including the Manson bees who build the hives.
    WHO BUSIED IN HIS MAJESTY, SURVEYS
    There are some other bees who do their work with due diligence. They have the capacity of
    teaching the art of order to human beings. According to the poet, if many different
    elements work together for one common end, it will surely reach a successful end.
    Conclusion :
    Shakespeare makes a companion between bees and human beings about working together
    for a collective purpose.

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