Lesson 6: Love for humanity

 
Mother Teresa was moved by the presence of the sick and dying on the streets of
Kolkata. She founded the home for the dying destitute and named it ‘Nirmal Hridoy’,
meaning ‘Pure Heart’. She and her fellow nuns gathered the dying people off the
streets of Kolkata and brought them to this home. They were lovingly looked after
and cared for. Since then men, women and children have been taken from the streets
and carried to Nirmol Hridoy. T hese unloved and uncared for people get an
opportunity to die in an environment of kindness and love. In their last hours they get
human and Divine love, and can feel they are also children of God. Those who
survive, the Missionaries of Charity try to find jobs for them or send them to homes
where they can live happily for some more years in a caring environment. Regarding
commitment to family, Mother Teresa said, “ Maybe in our own family, we have
somebody, who is feeling lonely, who is feeling sick, who is feeling worried. Are we
there? Are we willing to give until it hurts in order to be with our families, or do we
put our interest first? We must remember that love begins at home and we must also
remember that future of humanity passes through the family”.
Mother Teresa's work has been recognised throughout the world and she has received
a number of awards. These include the Pope John XXIII Peace Prize (1971), the
Nehru Prize for Promotion of International Peace & Understanding (1972), the
Balzan Prize (1978), the Nobel Peace Prize (1979) and the Bharat Ratna (1980).
Mother Teresa died at the age of 87, on 5 September 1997.The world salutes her for
her love and compassion for humanity. She has taught us how to extend our hand
towards those who need our love and support irrespective of creed, caste and
religion. Draped in a white and blue-bordered sari, wrinkled face, ever soft eyes and
a saintly smile, is the picture of Mother Teresa in our mind.

Lesson 8: Jobs’ childhood

 
A car mechanic Paul Jobs and his wife Clara jobs adopted Steve Jobs. Steve was
abandoned at birth. Paul and Clara loved Steve very much. They made him feel that
he was ‘chosen’ and very ‘special’.
One of his colleagues, Del Yocam said about Steve, “I think his desire for complete
control of whatever he makes derives directly from his personality and the fact that
he was abandoned at birth.”
Jobs’ mother taught him how to read and write before he went to the elementary
school. So when he went to school, he found out that he knew everything that the
teachers were teaching. He got bored and played pranks to keep him busy. This
continued for the first few years. It was clear from his behaviour that he could not
accept other people’s authority. He said, “I encountered authority of different kind
that I have never encountered before, and I did not like it.”
A turning point came when he was in grade four. His teacher Imogene Hill watched
him very closely for some time and soon found out how to handle him and get things
done by him. In order to get things done she used to give him money and food. One
day after school, she gave Jobs a workbook with math problems in it. She said, “ I
want you to take it home and do this.” She showed Jobs a huge lollipop and said, “
When you are done with it, if you get it mostly right, I will give you this and five
dollars.” Within two days, Jobs solved the math and returned the book to his teacher.
This continued for a couple of months and Jobs enjoyed learning so much that he did
not need any return. Also he liked his teacher very much and wanted to please her. In
Ms. Hill’s class, Jobs felt he was special. At the end of the fourth grade, Jobs did
very well. It was clear not only to Jobs and his parents but also to the teachers that he
was exceptionally intelligent. The school proposed that Jobs should skip two classes

and go into seventh grade. This would mean that Jobs would find the study
challenging and he would be motivated to study. His parents had him skip only one
grade.
Steven Paul Jobs was the pioneer of the personal computer revolution. He was
famous for his career in the electronic field of computers and consumers.
Source: Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson

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ABOUT MICHAEL JOSEPH

 
Michael Joseph Jackson was an American singer, songwriter, record producer, dancer, and actor. Called the King of Pop, his contributions to music and dance, along with his publicized personal life, made him a global figure in popular culture for over four decades.
The eighth child of the Jackson family, he debuted on the professional music scene along with his elder brothers Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, and Marlon as a member of the Jackson 5 in 1964, and began his solo career in 1971. In the early 1980s, Jackson became a dominant figure in popular music. The music videos for his songs, including those of "Beat It", "Billi
e Jean", and "Thriller" from his 1982 album Thriller, were credited with breaking down racial barriers and with transforming the medium into an art form and promotional tool. The popularity of these videos helped to bring the then-relatively-new television channel MTV to fame. His 1987 album Bad spawned the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles "I Just Can't Stop Loving You", "Bad", "The Way You Make Me Feel", "Man in the Mirror", and "Dirty Diana", becoming the first album to have five number-one singles on the Billboard Hot 100. With videos such as "Black or White" and "Scream", he continued to innovate the medium throughout the 1990s, as well as forging a reputation as a touring solo artist. Through stage and video performances, Jackson popularized a number of complicated dance techniques, such as the robot and the moonwalk, to which he gave the name. His distinctive sound and style has influenced numerous artists of various music genres......................................
Thriller is the best-selling album of all time, with estimated sales of 65 million copies worldwide. His other albums, including Off the Wall (1979), Bad (1987), Dangerous (1991), and HIStory (1995), also rank among the world's best-selling albums. Jackson is one of the few artists to have been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice. He was also inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Dance Hall of Fame as the first and only dancer from pop and rock music. His other achievements include multiple Guinness World Records, 13 Grammy Awards, the Grammy Legend Award, the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, 26 American Music Awards—more than any other artist—including the "Artist of the Century" and "Artist of the 1980s", 13 number-one singles in the United States during his solo career,—more than any other male artist in the Hot 100 era—and estimated sales of over 400 million records worldwide.[Note 1] Jackson has won hundreds of awards, making him the most awarded recording artist in the history of popular music.[6] He became the first artist in history to have a top ten single in the Billboard Hot 100 in five different decades when "Love Never Felt So Good" reached number nine on May 21, 2014.[7] Jackson traveled the world attending events honoring his humanitarianism, and, in 2000, the Guinness World Records recognized him for supporting 39 charities, more than any other entertainer.[8].........

school magazine of Sundarpur High School.

 

Hi, there. I’m Paul and you can see me in this picture feeding a rabbit in a park. I
am going to tell you about what my family and I like and don’t like doing.
My family and I love going to the park at
the weekends. We like having picnics. My
sister and I love watching animals. My
mother likes making sandwiches for us but
my father hates cooking. My sister and I
love playing around in the park and feeding
the animals. My mother loves watching us
while we play. We can relax in a park
listening to the birds singing. We also like
watching the little rabbits running around.
We all like the park because we love being
outdoors and feeling free.
But sometimes my father gets angry with
us and does not allow us to go near the bush. He doesn’t like his children going
too far, out of his sight. I don’t like sitting on the grass and doing nothing for
hours. My sister is afraid of spiders. She hates them. Sometimes when we go too
far away, my mother calls us back. She tells my sister that she has seen some
spiders near the bush. I’m not afraid of spiders. But I don’t like flies. I just can’t
bear with these little insects.
                                  




Tales of two players

 

Every Thursday afternoon Ashish Biswash plays football. He is a striker. He plays
for the local Friends Club. Do you want to know what else he does on other days?
This is what Ashish says: “Friday and Saturday are my weekends. On Friday, I
go to my village home. Going home is really a wonderful experience.
My mother waits for me there. In the afternoon, I go cycling with my friends.
Sometimes I go for a long walk. Next day I get up a little late. In the afternoon I
play kabadi. In fact, I was a kabadi player during my school days. From Sunday to Thursday I go to the club at 7 o’clock in the morning. It’s the
time for our regular practice. So I have to get up by 6 o’clock. Usually on
Monday afternoon, the team doctor sees all the players. On Tuesday our coach
shows us videos of important matches. We learn a lot from them. On Thursdays
when we practise, our team manager watches our performance and keeps a record
of that. Then he selects the team for the day. In the afternoon I go to the club at 1
o’clock. I spend some time with my teammates. At 4 o’clock our match begins.
We regularly play with other local teams.”
Ashish and Arun are two players. I know them for a long time. They are both very close to my family. Ashish is from a village. Arun lives in a small town. Ashish plays football.
He doesn’t play tennis. Arun practises cricket but he loves athletics as well. Arun goes to
a local school. He has opportunities to practise in his school compound. Arun practises in
his club field. Ashish has one brother. His name is Abir. He is a weight lifter. Arun has
no brother. He has a sister. Her name is Apala. She doesn’t like cricket. She is a
swimmer.

The Selfish Giant

 

Shima’s grandfather was telling the story of the Selfish Giant in the family
gathering. Grandma refused to go to bed. She forgot her back pain.
The Selfish Giant
It was a large lovely garden, with soft green grass. Here and there over the grass
stood beautiful flowers. Also there were fruit trees around the garden.
One day the Giant came back. He went to see his friend in a distant land and
stayed with them for seven years. When he arrived he saw children playing in his
garden.
“What are you doing here?” cried the Giant in a very gruff voice. The children ran
away.
Every afternoon the children came back from school and used to go and play in
the Giant’s garden.
“My own garden is my own garden,” said the Giant. “Anyone can understand
that. And I will allow nobody to play in it.” So he built a high wall all round the
garden and put up a notice board. The children had now nowhere to play.
There were no gardens around and the
roads were busy and crowded. After
school they used to go round the high
wall and talk about the beautiful
garden inside. “How happy we were
there!”, they said to each other.
Then came the spring. And all over the country
there were flowers and there were birds. Only in
the garden of the Giant it was still winter. Here
there were no birds singing, no flowers
blossoming. There were only snow and frost and
north wind in it.
“I cannot understand why the spring is so late in
coming,” said the Giant. He was sitting at the
window of his big castle and looking out at his cold, dry, lifeless garden. “I hope
there will be a change in the weather.”
But neither spring nor summer came to his garden.
One morning the Giant was lying
awake in bed when he heard some
lovely music. It was so sweet to
his ears that he thought it must be
the King’s musicians passing by.
But in fact it was only a little bird
singing outside his window. Then
the north wind stopped and a
delicious perfume came to him
through the open window. “I believe the spring has come at last,” said the Giant.
He jumped out of bed and looked out. What did he see?
He saw the most wonderful sight. Through a little hole in the wall the children
crept in and they were sitting in the branches of the trees. In every tree there was a
little child. And the trees were so delighted to have the children back again that
they covered themselves with blossoms. They were waving their arms gently
above the children’s heads. The birds were flying about and twittering
delightfully. The flowers were looking up through the green grass and laughing.
But only in one corner of the garden it was still winter. There under a tree a little
boy was standing alone crying. He was so small that he could not reach up to the
branches of the tree. The poor tree was still covered with snow, and the north
wind was blowing above it.
The Giant felt sorry as he looked out. “How selfish I have been!” he said to
himself. “Now I know why the spring would not come here.”
So he quickly went out into the garden. But when the children saw him they were
so frightened that they all ran away, and the garden became winter again. Only the
little boy did not run, for his eyes were so full of tears that he did not see the Giant
coming. The giant quietly came behind him, took him gently in his hands and put
him up into the tree. And the tree at once broke into blossom, and the birds came
and sang on it. The little boy stretched out his two arms, flung them round the
Giant’s neck and kissed him.
The other children saw this. They saw that the Giant was not wicked any longer.
So they came running back. And with them came the spring.
“It’s your garden now, little children,” said the Giant. Then he took a great axe
and knocked the wall down. And the people passing by found the Giant playing
with the children in the most beautiful garden in the country.