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Wednesday, 27 January 2016
Class 12 - English - Aunt Jennifer's Tiger (Q and A)
Aunt Jennifer's Tiger
-By Adrienne Rich
Memory Card
Introduction - The poem portrays an image of a wife dismayed with her married life.
- Aunt Jennifer is an abused wife unable to escape her husband's brutality.
- The poem focuses on Aunt Jennifer's dreams and the harsh world she calls her reality.
- She escapes her harsh world through her stitching and needlepoint, and the tigers that she creates are everything that she is not.
- Rich uses comparison to convey to us the difference between Aunt Jennifer and her tigers.
- Women who are dominated by their husbands live their lives in a state of mental confinement.
- The poet Adrienne Rich expresses the life Aunt Jennifer wishes to lead through artistic creations as she is trapped in an abusive marriage.
- Her tapestries portray her inner feelings conveying the constant terror she's living in.
- The only way for Aunt Jennifer to escape the expectations of her husband is to live on, after death, through her artwork.
- Rich reveals, through the simple lines of Aunt Jennifer's Tigers,a woman's struggles with expressions, rebellion, and a society where power is defined as masculine.
Stanza 1
The first stanza serves to explain what the tigers represent.
- Rich begins her poem with a beautiful picture, setting the scene for the dream world of Aunt Jennifer.
- We see that Aunt Jennifer has ownership over the tigers in some way.
- They are free to "prance" and run across the screen.
- The tigers are bright like "topaz" and they inhabit a world that is green.
- Aunt Jennifer's tigers do not fear men.
- They conduct themselves in a heroic, manly fashion.
- The tigers that Aunt Jennifer owns are confident and certain of who they are and what they want.
Stanza 2
The second stanza explains who Aunt Jennifer is.
- Aunt Jennifer is described to be working with a piece of wool.
- She is doing needlepoint to a panel that will be placed in a pillow, quilt, or screen of some kind for the home.
- Her fingers are fluttering to create the beautiful image of the tigers.
- Aunt Jennifer is expressing herself through the creation of her tigers.
- She wants to be confident and fearless.
- However, she finds it difficult to create those tigers and express those feelings.
- Those feelings are repressed by the weight of marriage, gender roles, and a dominating society.
- "Uncle's wedding band" represents a particular society in which she lives.
- This weight is not something she enjoys as the band is described to sit "heavily" on her hand and keeps her from the only sense of expression she has, her needlepoint.

Sunday, 24 January 2016
Class 12 - English - My Mother At Sixty-Six (Q and A)
My Mother at Sixty-Six
-By Kamla Das
Questions and AnswersMemory Card
- Poetess is travelling back in a car from her parent's place to Cochin
- Old mother also accompanying-to see her off at the airport
- Poetess notices that she has dozed off and mouth remained open
- Her face has a dull, colourless appearance- reminds her of a corpse
- Thought is painful, realizes she is now an old woman and could be nearing death
- Turns to look at the racing green trees outside, sees happy children running out of their homes
- A welcome change from the gloomy thoughts that grip her
- Reaches the airport, after the security checking, looks at the mother again
- Sees her pale and ageing face, is reminded of the winter moon with all the vitality and brightness gone
- Feels pained at being reminded of a childhood fear- had always been scared of losing her mother one day
- Does not want to show her agony and fear to her mother now
- Tells her that she would see her soon and bids her goodbye with a fake bright smile
Q1: What is the kind of pain and ache that the poet feels?
Answer: Kamla Das is in pain by seeing her mother pale and weak like that of a corpse. The fear of losing her mother was her familiar ache, which she was unable to accept.
Q2: Why are the young trees described as 'sprinting' ?
Answer: Poetess has used Personification in "Young Trees sprinting". It personifies the youth who is rushing and running so fast, which is a contrast to the ageing process of her old mother.

Saturday, 23 January 2016
Thursday, 14 January 2016
CBSE Class 10 - Geography - Chapter 6 - Manufacturing Industries (Very Short Q and A)
Manufacturing Industries
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Steel Factory |
VSQA based on NCERT Chapter
Q1: Which industry uses limestone as raw material?
Answer: Cement
Q2: Enterprises like BHEL, SAIL etc. are categorised as which type of industrial sector?
Answer: Pubic sector enterprises
Q3: What is agglomeration economy?
Answer: Cities provide markets and other facilities like banking, insurance, transport, labour, consultants etc. to various sectors of business and industries. Many industries come together and make use of services offered by these urban institutions. This is known as agglomeration economy.
Q4: What is the full form of NTPC?
Answer: National Thermal Power Corporation
Q5: Give an example of agro-based industry?
Answer: Sugar industry, Textile industry.

Wednesday, 13 January 2016
Tuesday, 5 January 2016
CBSE Class 10 - Science - Four New Elements Added In Periodic Table
Four New Elements Added In
Periodic Table
Time to update Chemistry Textbooks. On December 30, IUPAC completes the verification of discoveries of four new chemical elements. It completes the 7 periodic row.
The atomic numbers of these four new elements are 113, 115, 117 and 118. Soon the new names will be given to these elements. At present these elements have temporary names i.e.
Ununtrium 113,
Ununpentium 115,
Ununseptium 117,
Ununoctium 118

Sunday, 3 January 2016
CBSE Announces Date Sheet For Class 12 (Mar 1, 2016)
Wednesday, 30 December 2015
CBSE Class 7 - Science - CH16 - Water - A Precious Resource (MCQs)
Water - A Precious Resource
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जल है तो कल है image credits: openclipart |
Q1: Tubewells and Springs are the examples of
(a) surface water
(b) underground water
(c) potable water
(d) all of these
Q2: Which of the following will not help in conservation of water?
(a) drip irrigation
(b) planting more trees
(c) water treatment plant
(d) cutting trees to check water loss due to transpiration
Q3: Ground water accumulates between layers of hard rock. It is known as
(a) aquifer
(b) pond
(c) water table
(d) surface water
Q4: Which of the following is the reason for depletion of water table?
(a) Planting more trees
(b) Heavy Rainfall
(c) Industrialization
(d) Rainwater harvesting

Sunday, 27 December 2015
CBSE Class 9 - Economics - Food Security In India (Important Terms)
Food Security In India
Important Definitions and concepts
Q1: How does World Summit 1995 define 'Food Security'?
Answer: Food Security at he individual, household, regional, national and global levels exists when
all the people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food.
Q2: List the three A's Food security implies to?
Answer: Availability, accessibility and affordability of food of all times.
Q3: What is buffer stock?
Answer: It is the stock of food grains namely wheat and rice procured by government through Food Corporation of India.
Q4: Define Famine.

Friday, 25 December 2015
CBSE Class 10 - Science - CH 16 - Management Of Natural Resources (Question Bank)
Management Of Natural Resources
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Nature Conservation is Our Duty |
(Question Bank)
Very Short Questions (1 Mark Each)
Q1: What is a natural resource? Give two examples.
Q2: Define sustainable development.
Q3: What does the three R’s stand for to save the environment?
Q4: What do you mean by water – shed management?
Q5: Name the award recently instituted by govt. of India in the memory of Amrita Devi Bishnoi.
Q6: Name the bacteria whose presence in the water indicates its contamination with disease causing microbes.
Q7: Define Bio-diversity.
Q8: Why fossil fuels should be used judiciously?
Q9: Which canal has brought greenery to the areas of Rajasthan?
Q10: State the advantage of constructing a dam across a river?
Q11: Name the place where “Chipko Andolan” organised.

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