A plum is a small sweet fruit with a smooth red or yellow skin and a stone in the middle
It boasts of carotenoid zeaxanthin and improves one’s vision.
It protects an individual from harmful ultraviolet rays. Additionally, aloo-bukhara aids in developing cardiovascular movements in the body.
It possesses iron and that subsequently plays a part in the evolution of more red blood corpuscles.
Plums and prunes are rich in antioxidants, which are helpful for reducing inflammation and protecting your cells from damage by free radicals. They are particularly high in polyphenol antioxidants, which have positive effects on bone health and may help reduce the risk of heart disease and diabetis.
Plums contain a high amount of vitamin C, which is why it is considered beneficial to treat dark spots, skin discoloration as well as age spots. Also plum can improve blood flow in the skin, which also helps in minimizing the appearances of marks and scars.
It helps the skin to heal faster and replace damaged skin with new skin. Consuming plums also improve skin texture and elasticity. It also reduces the appearance of dark spots, freckles and treats other skin conditions.
Plums are chock full of fiber, which helps slow down a blood sugar spike after you eat carbs. They can also boost your body’s production of adiponectin, a hormone that helps regulate your blood sugar levels. Bone health. Research on animals shows prunes (dried plums) may help reduce bone loss, and may even reverse it.
Aloo Bukhara or plum is a pulpy fruit that has a number of health benefits if consumed as a part of a balanced healthy diet. Eating Aloo Bukhara helps to maintain body weight and combats diabetes and obesity. It lowers cholesterol, improves blood circulation and quality, and helps to maintain proper heart health. It also improves vision, helps to maintain proper digestive health, and helps to keep a healthy glowing, and vibrant skin. Aloo Bukhara can also combat cancer due to a large number of antioxidants present.
Meenmutty Falls is located 29 km from Kalpetta in Wayanad District in the state of Kerala, India. Meenmutty Waterfalls is the second highest waterfall in Kerala. Meenumutty is a combination of Malayalam words Meen (fish) and Mutty (blocked). Falls can be accessed from Mananthavady – Kuttiady road.
Falling from a height of 984 feet, The waterfall is a divided into three tires, each measuring a length of 300 feet. Meenumutty falls is surrounded by Lush green tea plantations making the hike to the falls a memorable experience to the tourists.
Like other waterfalls of the region, Meenmutty waterfalls offer a perfect backdrop for the trekkers to indulge in hiking activity. Most of the time waterfall remains closed, it’s better to coordinate with the authority for the timing before seeing this prime location.
Meenmutty Falls gives a glimpse of natural beauty surrounded by the mountain ranges of Western Ghats.The waterfall is located upriver the Neyyar reservoir area and travellers, have to trek through the dense forests to reach the falls.
Meenmutty offers a splendid view and can be reached by an exciting 2 km jungles trek. This stunning fall is cuddled up in the verdant Mepadi forest range and makes up as one of the prime attractions for adventure seekers.
It is also one of the most thrilling and beautiful natural attractions in Wayanad. Nestled away in the lap of a jungle trek, the cascading waterfall of Meenmutty makes up for a dazzling view. The experience of climbing through the rocks to reach this enchanting destination is one of a kind and makes this place a prevalent tourist location.
Meenmutty offers a splendid view and can be reached by an exciting 2 km jungles trek. This stunning fall is cuddled up in the verdant Mepadi forest range and makes up as one of the prime attractions for adventure seekers.
THE BEST TIME TO VISIT MEENUMUTTY FALLS
The best time to visit is from October to May as the summers in the region can be quite hot and humid that might spoil your fun and the monsoon can be dangerous because of high inflow of water and slippery rocks. Thus, it’s best to visit Meenmutty Falls during the winter and the spring months.
The word fear is what comes between us and our dreams. It stops us from reaching our potential. It makes us think about questions like what will happen if we don’t succeed or what if I end up making a fool out of myself?
Think about the number of times you did not do things because of the fear of failure.
It stops you from doing simple tasks like giving an answer in class because you are afraid of the answer being wrong. You are afraid of what the teacher and the students will think. Well, the teacher must have appreciated the efforts of trying and would have corrected you and the students don’t care. Do we care if people give the wrong answer? No right
Here is the thing about people, they simply don’t care about us. They are way too involved in their own lives. People sometimes do try to bring us down but, they are just transferring their fear in our lives. So, we don’t have to listen to them nor care about how they are going to react.
“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone,” rightly said by Neale Donald Walsch. I can tell you by my experience the best decisions that I took in my life were after overcoming my fear. I wanted to start a YouTube channel ever since I was 14. Now at the age of 19, I actually started it. It took me a long time to start it simply because, I was unsure of how people around me would react. But, recently enough I stopped caring about what people have to say. I uploaded the video for my happiness without thinking about people or the number of likes or views I will get. My video did get a lot of support and appreciation from people. I succeeded and got a good response but, even if I hadn’t I wouldn’t have stopped I would keep trying without letting fear take over me.
Failing is totally fine. We learn so many new lessons from our failures. We get more knowledge from failure than we ever would get from succeeding the first time.
Our life is all about trying new things so stop sticking to your comfort zone. Stepping out of the comfort zone is a big step in itself. It gives us more courage and confidence. So, keep trying even if it comes with the cost of failure.
We need to stop thinking of failure as a big thing. We need to start treating it as a step towards success. Even the most successful people faced failure and that’s how they got on top.
So, keep challenging yourself to come out of your comfort zone and try things you want. Give yourself regular tasks which you don’t do because of fear. Go volunteer to speak in front of people, even if you mess it up it is okay. Next time you will be way more confident. The only way to grow in life is through failure.
“One day you’ll leave this world behind, So, live a life you will remember” a great line from a song by Avicii, and to live the life you will remember you need to stop fearing things.
From the beginning to this day, women have always been oppressed be it by men in their family or by the state that was and is still highly patriarchal. Earlier, the private (households) and the public (political, business world) were strictly kept separate. State had no roles in what was happening in the private sphere. And the major factor of this separation was that public was controlled by males and private appeared to be in control of females.
The separation between private (home) and public (work) made a significant difference in the lives of males and females, and of course, it was negative for women. For example, males were expected to work out and hence they dominated the outside world while females were expected to stay at home and decide the household decisions and thus they happened to be the controllers of the households.
However, the above situation was far away from reality. In most cases, as public was controlled by males it used to have a direct influence on the private sphere. And therefore, the then feminists and scholars labelled this distinction as baseless and started demanding for political rights of females like voting rights, reproductive rights and like. It was through the second wave of feminism in 1960s, feminists began to bring up more such marginalised communities and issues into the picture.
Earlier only a “white heterosexual male” normative was followed in the world and especially in western civilisations. Feminists have rejected the public-private boundary as an acceptable rationale for legal action or inaction. A feminist argument is that such a separation disadvantages women of their rights and advantages privileged groups like white heterosexual males.
Three major arguments that were brought by feminists which aimed to challenge the public-private distinction are, first, politics and society, both had ignored the domestic sphere, second, public-private distinction is deeply gendered and sexist as its assigns roles to people based on their biological characteristics and because of this women become the most affected underprivileged group, third, calling “family” a private sphere was an attempt to hide domination and abuse in the relationships in families from legal discourse.
To put an end to all of this ignorance, women activists fought against the injustices and demanded the states to intervene in household matters like laws against domestic violence, divorce rights to women, abortion rights and other rights to choose. Along with these domestic protection rights, many other rights on the public sphere were also demanded.
Feminists from the second feminist wave asked for equal representation in politics, law-making and other decision making procedures which were of both public and private significance.
Examples:
1) Paid Work:
Even though working environment has changed nowadays as compared to earlier times, females suffer from hard labour but less payment. From corporate houses to films and television everywhere females are paid less than their male counterparts even though all of them do the same work. At times, female actors do more work as they have dance sequences in addition in the movies but still get paid less for the work. This has witnessed a change in recent times where female actors have begun to charge lump sum amount.
2) Patriarchal State:
States can be extremely patriarchal to women in terms of legal and political rights. This can happen in two ways- one by creating patriarchal and misogynist laws for women, two by not doing anything progressive for women (because not interfering into women’s rights is also equal to creating misogynist laws for women). Over the past few decades, this has also witnessed a change where we have seen governments making women friendly laws like reservations and special commissions for women or anti dowry and anti-domestic violence rights.
3) Male Violence:
This can mean anything that happens both in public and private sphere. Sexual harassment at workplaces is at peak all over the world. Thanks to social activists and NGOs in India who all fought for implementation of sexual harassment act back in 1990s when a social worker was brutally sexually assaulted for stopping a child marriage in the Indian state of Rajasthan.
At the end, we all as a society collectively need to understand that opposite of patriarchy is gender equality, that is, feminism, nothing else.
Discrimination is such a social issue that is prevalent in India from a long time. Though Indian Law describes discrimination as punishable crime, we often see many cases of it. Why is this so?? Why even after so many years of evolution and development we see such social issues?? All the answers to these questions lies in our foundation and environment that we grow in.
From the very start of growth many children are not taught the difference between “leg pulling” and discrimination. Many young as well as elderly people discriminate people and remark it as a “joke.” For instance calling someone “black” just for fun seems funny but in reality it is a huge social drawback. This shows how much we lack education. Recent incident of “youtuber Paras Singh calling Arunachal Pradesh a Chinese Territory” proves the fact. Though he apologized and realized his mistakes , no one can neglect the fact that this incident would not have occurred if we were more cautious and educated.
There is a huge hole in our mindset and its needed to be filled before it eat us all. A discriminated person faces huge mental trauma and may have a severe impact. We need to be more sensitive while dealing with such topics. Educating children from the young age as well as educating ourselves on such topic may bring a huge change in near future. It is well known that discrimination have a long history and it will not eradicate instantly. But taking small steps today will bring major change in near future
The collection and use of data to drive behaviors is called the Internet of Behaviors (IoB).
An example of it is industrial sites having employed computer vision to determine if employees were complying with mask protocol and then collecting this behavioral data to be analyzed by the organizations to influence people to follow government protocols at work.
What does the IoB mean ?
The purpose of the IoB is to capture, analyze, understand and respond to all types of human behaviors. In a way that allows tracking and interpreting those behaviors of people using emerging technological innovations and developments in machine learning algorithms. People’s behaviors are monitored and incentives or disincentives are applied to influence them to perform towards a desired set of operational parameters. Data collection (BI, Big Data, CDPs, etc.) provides valuable information about customer behaviors, interests and preferences, and this has been referred to as the Internet of Behavior (IoB). The IoB attempts to understand the data collected from users’ online activity from a behavioral psychology perspective. It seeks to address the question of how to understand the data, and how to apply that understanding to create and market new products, all from a human psychology perspective.
The IoB influences consumer choice, but it also redesigns the value chain. For companies, this means being able to change their image, market products more effectively to their customers or improve the Customer Experience (CX) of a product or service. Hypothetically, information can be collected on all facets of a user’s life, with the ultimate goal of improving efficiency and quality.
What does the IoB contribute?
Firstly, before the creation of the application, it is important to imagine the user’s interaction patterns and touch points. Involve them in the creation process, understand their needs, keep the app experience unified and cohesive, make navigation simple and meaningful so that the app is relevant and useful. Once the app is up and running, convey its purpose, create a user guide and reward by gamifying the CX in the app. Strong user engagement is required.
Secondly, solid tools are required such as multi-format support platforms (XML, JSON, PHP, CVS, HTML, etc.) That can connect to any API, that can upload data to the cloud, i.e. the fundamental features of platforms such as Google or Facebook. Platforms should allow for multi-channel personalization, centralized updates that are replicated, sending unique notifications that turn users into contributors to the personalization of the app, allow for social media integration and maintain an interactive interface.
Finally, it is the data captured through the app that serves to model user behavior. And in turn, this is the actionable data that can be sent in the form of pop-ups and notifications to the customer to encourage and incentivise them to adhere to a desired behavior. Analytics are necessary so that essential information can be extracted from all the data.
Benefits of IoB
uAnalyse customer buying habits across all platforms. uStudy previously unattainable data on how users interact with devices and products. uObtain more detailed information about where a customer is in the buying process. uProvide real-time POS notifications and targeting. uResolve problems quickly to close sales and keep customers happy. uCitizen data processed by public-sector uCommercial customer data uGovernment agencies uSocial media uPublic domain uLocation tracking.
Problemwith IoB
The problem that can occur with this technology is not of a technical nature. The IoB is confronted with the adversity of how data is collected, stored and used. Its level of access is difficult to control and therefore all companies need to be aware of the liability of IoB use. Google, Facebook or Amazon continue to acquire software that potentially brings the user from a single app to their entire online ecosystem, without their permission. This presents significant legal and security risks to privacy rights, which also vary between jurisdictions around the world
Behavioral data can allow cybercriminals to access sensitive data that reveals customer patterns, collect and sell property access codes, delivery routes and even banking codes. These cybercriminals could take phishing to another level by generating more advanced scams, tailored to the habits of individual users, and thus maximizing the likelihood that users will be scammed. uIt is therefore important to have a secure platform, storage and execution of data with the use of tools such as Confidential Computing, E2E encryption or SDP tools.
“Frankenstein Or, The Modern Prometheus” (1818) was written by an eighteen-year old Mary Shelley. The way it came into being is a tale as good as the novel itself. Once Lord Byron suggested his friends that each write a ghost story. Shelley’s attempt brought into the world of literature a true masterpiece indeed. It tells the story of a monster created by a scientist and explores the themes of death and man versus nature. Frankenstein’s monster is by instinct good, but the violent rejection by humans make him ruthless, carrying the message that it is through the upbringing and socialisation, humans become monstrous and full of prejudice towards others different to themselves. The theme of loneliness and struggle depicted in Shelly’s Frankenstein through the life of a monster may be on a personal level as her life was a tragedy. She lost her mother at a very young age and grew up under the constant pressure of making her father proud. Shelly was highly educated. She is best known for the widely acclaimed gothic novel “Frankenstein, Or The Modern Prometheus”(1818), which considered the first true science fiction story.
Shelley’s beautifully written novel begins at the bleak of North Pole on a ship, Captain Robert Walton writing to his sister Margaret Saville. He later meets Victor Frankenstein in an emaciated form. Then on Victor narrates the story of his life and his creation which forms the major crux of this novel. Victor Frankenstein was deep into science and philosophy and had created a monster out of the dead.
“I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs.”
Chapter 5, Frankenstein
There born the most important monster in all of literature. One with an amazing speed and strength and eight feet tall. As the story further takes pace, the monster takes over the narration and narrates his life to Victor. This novel is basically a story within a story. The monster was never even given a name. Victor called him from demon to ogre to wretch. He was shunned and despised by the society and was left alone. The loneliness in him built up anger for his creator, he was never to be blamed as he never wished to be born. Victor being the creator of the monster was a failure. He brought him into life but was incapable of taking care of him. He managed to somehow get literate through books. There’s a reference to the book ‘Paradise Lost’ through which he gains knowledge of what and who a creator is and realises how Victor Frankenstein had failed as a creator. He demands him of a female companion as a solution to his loneliness to which Victor initially agrees and later disagrees. The monster then starts to take revenge for all that he was suffering. Towards the end of the novel, the narration returns to where the novel had begun, to Walton writing to his sister. He mentions that Victor dis dead and for the one last time, the monster comes to see him.
The monster’s last visit to his creator.
“He is dead who called me into being; and when I shall be no more, the very remembrance of us both will speedily vanish.”
He bids farewell and was never seen again. There ends the tale of both the creator and the creation.
“He was soon borne away by the waves and lost in darkness and distance.”
Chapter 24, Frankenstein
Victor Frankenstein’s obsession with science and knowledge cost him the lives of his dear ones. Too much knowledge not always brings up good. Not everybody can become God, He is called so for a reason.
I like the way Shelley carries away her readers to sympathize with the monster. We indeed get carried away by her choice of words and style. Something that she nowhere clears out is that how far should we go with knowledge? This novel gained almost 200 years long victory. The world has shivered and quaked under the nightmares of an imaginative 18 years old. Mary Shelley’s monster just may be immortal. It is one among the best classics to be read.
This section provides some characters of Ramayana like Rama,Sita,Ravana,Lakshmana,Hanuman,,Dasaratha,Bharatha,,Luv and kush,Mandodari,Jatayu,Indrajit,Sugriva and more.
Rama
Rama,the hero of Ramayana is the prince of Ayodhya.He is the son of king Dasaratha and the queen kousalya.He is an avatara of Vishnu,the blue God.He is married to Sita and he has a strong bond with his brother Lakshmana.
Sita
Sita,an avatar of goddess Lakshmi,is the wife of Rama.She is the daughter of king Janaka of Videha and his wife Sunaina.She is also called as Boomija,janaki.
Ravana
Ravana,the villain of Ramayana,is a rakshasa done a penance for the god Siva for many years.He was the demon king of Srilanka.He is the eldest son of Vishrava and kaikeshi.He is described as having 10 heads and 20 arms.
Lakshmana
Lakshmana,is the son of Dasaratha by Sumitra.He is the younger brother of Rama.He is also known as Gudakesh.Lakshmana’s love and devotion for Rama is endless.Lord Rama too loved him immensely.
Hanuman
Hanuman also called as Anjaneya and Maruti is a great devotee of Rama.He is the symbol of strength and energy.He can change himself too small and become huge as touching the sky.
Dasaratha
Dasaratha is the father of Rama and the king of kosala.He had three wives called kausalya,kaikeyi and Sumitra.Rama,Bharata,Shatrugna and Lakshmana were the sons of Dasaratha.He is a perfect ruler.
Bharata
Bharata is the son of Dasaratha by kaikeyi and the second brother of Rama.He was married to the Mandavi ,daughter of kusadhvaja.He is a skilled warrior and exceptionally thoughtful.
Luv and Kush
Luv and kush are the sons of Rama and Sita.They were born at the ashram and were well skilled and trained under the tutelage of valmiki. These two supported their mother Sita during her exile from Ayodhya and has gone into so many adventures.
Mandodari
Mandodari is the wife of Ravana and the mother of Mandodari is very beautiful and righteous.She advices Ravana repeatedly to return Sita to Rama.
Jatayu
Jatayu is the eagle friend of Dasaratha and the brother of Sampati.He is believed to be the nephew of Garuda.He was the first to fight with Ravana to save sita.He tried to rescue Sita from Ravana.He taught valiantly to save Sita but he was severely injured.
Indrajit
Indrajit is the first son of Ravana.He is the most powerful warrior.He was named Meghanada as his birth cry sounded like thunder.When he born Ravana wished that no one in the world could defeat his son.
Sugreeva
Sugreeva was the brother of Vali and the friend of Rama.He is a monkey from Kiskinda.He became one of most Rama’s greatest and most loyal allies in the fight against Ravana.
Kumbhakarna
Kumbhakarna is a well known rakshasa and the younger brother of Ravana.He was given to long spells of sleep.He had two sons named kumbha and Nikumbha.He had an uncontrollable temper which was feared by many.He is with 44 feet height and 144 feet long huge.
Neela
Neela is the commander of the monkey army.He is a vanara chieftain in the army of Ravana.In Ramayana,Nila is described as the child of the god of the fire,Agni.
Surpanakha
Surpanakha is the sister of Ravana.She contacted Rama and sowed the seed of destruction.Nashik is the place where Lakshman,brother of Lord Rama cut off the demon Surpanakh’s nose.
Istanbul is the main attraction of Turkey. Istanbul is the center of this country for its culture,economic status and history. Also Istanbul is the capital city. According to history , in 657 BCE , Istanbul was founded as Byzantion by Megarian colonists. Later it became Istanbul .
Galata tower
Istanbul is a country which is covered by empires across the centuries and stands in both Europe and Asia. It is one of the most popular travel spots in the World. Some popular and attractive tourist spots are- Aya Sophia, Topkapi Palace, Basilica Cistern, Blue Mosque,Istanbul Archaeology Museum, Hippodrome,Süleymaniye Mosque,Grand Bazaar,Spice Bazaar,Chora Church,Dolmabahçe Palace,Little Aya Sofya,Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts,Rüstem Pasa Mosque,Yedikule Fortress,Galata Tower,Carpet Museum,Fatih Mosque,Pera Museum,Istiklal Caddesi and Taksim,Üsküdar and most popular Cappadocia hot balloon.
Let’s be introduce with some of them-
Aya Sofya or Hagia Sophia
Aya Sofya or Hagia Sophia
According to history in AD 536, for the 1st time when the Byzantine Emperor Justinian entered his finished church, he cried out “Glory to God that I have been judged worthy of such a work. Oh Solomon, I have outdone you!” Aya Sofya or Hagia Sophia means ‘holy wisdom’. It is a domed monument of Constantinople (6th century AD). It was the emperor’s swaggering statement to the world of the wealth and technical ability of his empire. Tradition maintained that the area surrounding the emperor’s throne within the church was the official center of the world.
Topkapi Palace
The Topkapi Palace is a large museum in the east of the Fatih district of Istanbul in Turkey, there are the imperial collections of the Ottoman Empire and maintains an extensive collection of books and manuscripts in its library.
Topkapi Palace
The Blue Mosquewhich
The Blue Mosquewhich
The Blue Mosquewhich is called Sultanahmet Camii in Turkish is an historical mosque in Istanbul .For the blue tiles surrounding the wall it is known as Blue Mosque. It was situated between 1609 and 1616 years, like many other mosques, it also comprises a tomb of the founder, a madrasa and a hospice.
The Basilica Cistern
The Basilica Cistern
The Basilica Cistern is the largest among the ancient cisterns beneath the city which provided a water filtration system for the nearby buildings. This underground chamber measures approximately 138 meters (453 ft) by 64.6 meters (212 ft) and is capable of holding 80,000 cubic meters (2,800,000 cu ft) of water. The ceiling is supported by 336 marble columns.
The Hippodrome
The Hippodrome
The Hippodrome’s name comes from Greek word hippos(horse) and dromos(course). It was an ancient Greek stadium for horse racing and chariot racing. But in present day there isn’t much of the Hippodrome left to see, except for a small section of the gallery walls on the southern side, but the At Meydani (park), which now stands on the site, is home to a variety of monuments.
Archaeology Museum
Archaeology Museum
The Istanbul Archaeology Museums are a group of three archaeological museums which are located in the Eminönü quarter of Istanbul, Turkey, near Gülhane Park and Topkapı Palace. The three museums are- in the main building the Archaeological museum, Museums of the Ancient Orient and Museum of Islamic Art.
Grand Bazaar
Grand Bazaar
In Istanbul, the Grand Bazaar is one of the largest and oldest covered markets in the world. It has a total area of 30,700 m2. There are 61 covered streets and over 4,000 shops attracting between 250,000 and 400,000 visitors daily.
The Süleymaniye Camii
The Süleymaniye Camii
The Süleymaniye Camii (Suleymaniye Mosque) is one of its most distinctive features with its truly staggering size which was built by the legendary architect, Mimar Sinan, it is one of his masterpieces and his largest design. It is not only the inspiring size that is impressive (the central dome stands 47m high), but also the elegantly decorated interior. The sense of space and light is emphasized by the supporting semi-domes to the northwest and southeast and the monumental arched spaces to the southwest and northeast.
The Spice Bazaar
The Spice Bazaar
The Spice Bazaar is one of the largest bazaars in this city. Located in the Eminönü quarter of the Fatih district, it is the most famous covered shopping complex after the Grand Bazaar.
Cappadocia
Cappadocia the hot balloons
Cappadocia is in central Anatolia, in the heartland of what is now Turkey.The area is popular for the hot balloon ride. As it has many areas with unique geological, historic, and cultural features.Hot-air ballooning is very popular in Cappadocia and is available in Göreme. Trekking is enjoyed in Ihlara Valley, Monastery Valley (Guzelyurt), Ürgüp and Göreme.
There are so many things that have advantages and disadvantages in life. More than pros and cons, these things leave an impact in our life either good or bad. One such thing is social media. Every one of us uses social media knowingly and unknowingly. Our day starts with and ends in social media. Social media doesn’t only include WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter. It covers all that provide us information through the internet and keeps the world connected. Such media which influence our day-to-day life has both advantages and disadvantages. Let’s explore that in this article.
ADVANTAGES
Starting with the advantages we have many to cite as an example. Social media is a platform used to portray ourselves to the outside world. Here, we share content and get to other’s content which keeps us bound. It enables us to engage in social networking. It is widespread across the globe and allows us to create a community. It connects us and makes our communication easy and accessible. Through this, we could build our relationships stronger. Social media supports education through different learning platforms. This provides knowledge to every single part of the world. It develops the students’ interests to explore more and more. Social media also helps in building customer relationships through digital marketing. It makes customers fall for your services and give their feedback. Information spreads faster than wildfire in social media. This helps to get emergency helps like finding the missing persons. During this second wave of the pandemic, social media helped out to get blood donors, oxygen cylinders, and some rare dugs. It lets us share our achievements and also lets us know others’ accomplishments which motivates us to do a lot more. It provides support and encouragement through our community. It gives us a way to connect with our distant friends and relations. Also, social media is used for relaxing and getting relief from work stress.
DISADVANTAGES
After going through a lot of advantages, let us see some disadvantages of social media. When coming to disadvantages the first thing that comes to our mind is privacy problems. Sharing some content or posts may seem inappropriate for others and problems can arise from it. Also, sharing our personal and professional info can cost us sometimes due to hacking and other threats. Some people may try to bully us by knowing our details. This is a very bad disadvantage of social media. Another, we get influenced by others so much that we start changing our lifestyles. Scrolling for long hours will have a very bad effect on our body and health. We change our sleep cycles due to this unending scrolling and ruin our eyes and sleep. Although social media connects people, there is a lack of emotional connection between them. Due to these social media, we end up sending messages even for important issues and lost the habit of speaking over the phone. When we speak over the phone, the emotions are also conveyed along with the messages. In chatting, only our messages are sent and not the emotions. So, anybody in the conversation cannot sense that feel. We engage ourselves most of the time in social media and fail to spend time with family which is the most essential one. Finally overusing will lead us to get addicted to it and it becomes very difficult to get over the addiction.
This conflict between advantages and disadvantages continues to grow. Nothing can be perfect in life. It is our efforts that help us lead a perfect flawless life. We have to ensure that whether we are making good use of social media. If we feel that we are getting addicted to social media, just try to come out of that routine. Everything lies in our hand’s control and nothing can go out of it until we don’t allow it.
Maybe this lockdown have made us people isolated and home ridden, but the normal life is still sustained through various means .The future generation is still working on their dreams and chasing their passion.
So today let us see about a COLLABORATIVE PLATFORMS where students can socialize with their their co- mates via internet.
While doing their works and projects ,students can use these collaborative platforms to join together and work in a single space. With these platforms they can communicate with one another and achieve the best results on their process and fin solutions to difficulties they face during their work.
It also gives a atmosphere of reality of nearness. One such platform is COLAB. Colab is a free jupyter notebook environment that runs entirely on cloud. Most importantly ,it does not require a setup . The notebooks that you create can be simultaneously edited by your team members- just the same as the way you edit documents in Google Docs.
Colab supports many popular machine learning libraries which can be easily loaded in your notebook. Other platforms like Deepnote, Visual studio Live share and Code Colab.
Here is the list of 5 courses that every student must do in there life. The courses are from various platforms such coursera and edx.
PROGRAMMING FOR EVERYBODY(GETTING STARTED WITH PYTHON)
This course is offered by University of Michigan. This course aims to teach everyone the basis of programming using python. Everyone can do this course, whether you are medical student , engineering student , working professional or a school student. The duration of the course is seven weeks and it is available on coursera and edx platforms.The best part of the course is the concept is well-explained by the instructor. Also, the assignments will also helps you to understand the concept well. You can enroll in the course for free. I recommend this course for anyone who wants to learn python from basics.
2. CS50 INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER SCIENCE
This course is offered by Harvard university. It will teach student how to think algorithmically and how to solve problems efficiently. It is a 10 week course and includes the topics like web programming,data structures,security, software programming,artificial intelligence. Also, it will includes the programming languages like C,SQL,Python,HTML ,CSS,JavaScript. It is taught by David J Malan(professor of computer science ) at Harvard University, he is brilliant teacher and teaches very well. This course contains problem sets and one final project, all this will help you to understand the concepts. Check out this course at edx which is very popular. You can enroll for free.
3. THE SCIENCE OF WELL BEING
This course is offered by Yale University. It teaches you how to increase your happiness, how to build productive habits and misconceptions about happiness, annoying features of mind that lead to think the way we do. Itis a ten weeks course and this course is taught by Laurie Santos and she is the professor of psychology at Yale University. Check out this course at coursera. It is one of the popular course at coursera. You can enroll in the course for free.
4. HOW TO LEARN ONLINE: POWERFUL MENTAL TOOLS TO HELP YOU MASTER TOUGH SUBJECTS
This course is offered by University of California San Diego and McMaster University. It teaches you test preparation, learning to learn, it teaches learning techniques like pomodoro technique, meta learning etc. Everyone whether you or me will have a subject that we will feel as hard, which is difficult to master and you don’t know how to master it. In this course the instructors will share some techniques, tips and share the secret how to master tough subjects. The duration of the course is 4 weeks and it is taught by Barbara Oakley and Dr. Terrence Sejnowski. Check out this course at cousera. You can enroll this course for free in coursera.
5. SPEAK ENGLISH PROFESSIONALLY: IN PERSON, ONLINE AND ON THE PHONE
This course is offered by Georgia Institute Of Technology. This is a well structured course. It teaches you improve pronunciation and fluency of English, word stress, English vocabulary. The duration of this course is 5 weeks and the instructor of the course is Amalia B. Stephens. This course is those for who want improve there English pronunciation and fluency. Check out this course on coursera. You can enroll the course for free.
Programming is one of the most sought after skills in the professional market. It is an nothing more than an interesting way to solve problems. Programming presents you with unique solutions to real world problems and tends to help develop logical thinking. Many people think programming is memorizing statements and words to make a computer do your bidding but let me tell you otherwise. Programming is using your knowledge to solve problems thrown at you in the most effective way.
Let me nudge you on the right path to starting programming.
What is your goal ?
Programming can be for different tasks like :-
solving problems based around management of data
solving problems related to math and statistics
creating a utility for a specific task
creating games
automating daily tasks
to develop a new skill
There are many more forms that programming could take but focussing on your end goal will help you achieve it quickly and efficiently. Let me elaborate the aforementioned paths.
Solving Problems based around management of data.
To start with these problems you’ll need some knowledge of data structures so I recommend doing a basic course to learn what data structures are. Not only data structures but you may require knowledge of some oop concepts. There is no specific language specifically made for this task but learning C would be the best path to strengthen oop concepts and data structures as C works very closely with the operating system.
Instead of just starting coding you should first pickup a notebook to practice these concepts logically. Building a strong base of algorithms instead of trying to memorize a set of instructions in a particular language is the most important step.
A simple project can then be made to bolster these concepts. Create a data structure like a linked list, heap or any semi-complex data structure in whatever language you choose. Creating a program even to store and retrieve names would be helpful enough to start your journey.
Solving Problems related to maths and statistics.
To start with these problems you’ll require a knowledge of statistical methods and formulas. In these kind of problems generally data can be manipulated and analysed for interpretation as per requirements. The most recommended language for such problems would be R. It is tailored to be able to work with large data sets and has many inbuilt functions to make working with such data easy.
As our teachers stopped us from using calculators when we were younger I would similarly ask you to first try making the functions yourselves before using the in-built functions as knowing how to solve something manually would help you work through issues when automating the tasks.
A simple project can be undertaken to interpret freely available datasets. These datasets when worked upon can give a plethora of information.
Creating a utility for a specific task
This would depend on the type of utility you want to create. In such a situation you’d want to research the utility you want to make and decide for yourself what language you want to use. You’d want to check for the pros and cons of the technology you would want to use. Every language excels at some specific task and we want to be able to use the advantage to the fullest.
A simple project can be undertaken to set as an end goal while starting to learn the language.
Creating Games
This is a vast field with an even bigger community. To be able to make games you need to know some basics like the geometric world space and logic to be able to craft a game. There are quite a few game engines but probably the most recommended game engine for beginners would be Unity. it uses C# as the backend language so picking up basics of the language would be a good place to start.
Unity boasts a node based system for materials and setting up the scene. Many tutorials are available online for free so they would be your biggest reference points. The online community is not just large but helpful too. A lot of new users post questions about all the aspects of the process so don’t be shy to look something up online.
A simple project to be undertaken to make a basic game to imbue the basics of the process into yourself. There are many tutorials that start off from basics and ultimately combine the concepts to create a complete game.
Automating daily tasks
The use of smart home technology is very prominent in todays world and more and more stuff is being connected to the internet for easier use. The use of IOT can help you automate your house. technology like Arduino uses C or C# as their programming languages while raspberry pi uses node.js and python prominently. These technologies can be used to solve actual real world problems.
Smart switches and devices can be programmed to start up on a predefined time or on a set action. Even software tasks like backups can be automated with some simple shell scripting. Now automation of tasks is a 2 pronged path. Physical tasks can be automated using IOT and software based tasks can be automated using some scripting.
A simple project can be undertaken to bolster these concepts. A simple software automation task would be starting a download manager or torrent client and prioritising the downloads on the basis of speed and importance.
To Develop a new skill
Now this is where the learner has the most control. You can choose whatever language you’d like to learn and not limit yourself to a certain technology you could learn whatever you want to.
Depending on the path you would want to take you could choose to learn a language used for application design, web design, work with databases, etc the possibilities are endless. You just have to commit to the learning process and learn the basics which you could implement in any further projects.
Conclusion
No programming language is particularly difficult or easy to learn. Programming languages are nothing but tools and to wield any kind of tools you need to be capable. When your basics are clear you can implement them in any languages you learn.
Every year on September 5, we celebrate this thanks giving day to the one’s who become our second parents, holding our hands since the time we enter our school to the time we achieve laurels and become something in our life, they are there to show us the path- The Teachers. Teacher is not just a word but a whole story in itself. Apart from the celebrations we have on this day it is very important for us to know why this day is celebrated as Teachers’ day, who was the person to mark this day for the teachers and much more things.
WHY DO WE CELEBRATE TEACHERS’ DAY?
This day is truly dedicated for the appreciation of the hard work our teachers put in to build up our personalities. Globally, Teachers’ day is celebrated on October 5 but in India we celebrate it on September 5 to commemorate the birth anniversary of Dr. Sarvepalli RadhaKrishnan. He was a renowned Scholar, recipient of Bharat Ratna, first Vice-President and second President of our Independent India.
He was born on September 5,1888. As an educationist, he was an advocate of edification and an envoy, academician and above all a great teacher. His vision for marking this day was that the future of a country lies in the hands of its children and teachers, as mentors, who carve the students into the future role models.
The first Teachers’ day was celebrated in India in 1962. This is the year when Sarvepalli RadhaKrishnan began serving as the Second President of India. To celebrate his esteemed position and appreciate his efforts as a teacher in their lives, his students suggested that his birthday should be celebrated as ‘RadhaKrishnan Day’.
It is rightly said that “Guru is truly the representative of Brahma, Vishnu and Maheshwarah. He creates, sustains knowledge and destroy the weeds of ignorance”. A teacher teaches us to lead a disciplined life. He/she takes us to the first step of understanding what and when do we need to be patient in our life. He/she teaches us that learning is the only way to light up the dark paths and be at place from where we can help the needy people around us. A teacher teaches us what selfless giving is and what serving to people with knowledge and can give you in return.
Teachers never demarcate children based on class or caste. For them, every child is equal. There is no distinction between good or bad students, but rather the feeble kids are brought to the surface of confidence. They always help their students to identify their innate potentials, develop their interests in different fields apart from just the books. Everyone around would be judging you for your strengths and weakness but a teacher, after your parents, is never going to judge you for your external appearances or weakness rather they would push you in front for you to come out with the best in you, for you to build up the confidence and face the real world with the same.
Nonprofit organizations are a legal entity organized and operated for a collective, public or social benefit. A nonprofit is subject to the non-distribution constraint: any revenues that exceed expenses must be committed to the organization’s purpose, not taken by private parties. Nonprofit entities generally seek approval from governments to be tax-exempt, and some may also qualify to receive tax-deductible contributions. Nonprofit organizations are accountable to the donors, founders, volunteers, program recipients, and the public community. Public confidence is a factor in the amount of money that a nonprofit organization is able to raise. The more nonprofits focus on their mission, the more public confidence they will have. This will result in more money for the organization.
Management
Nonprofits must balance salaries paid to staff with money paid to provide services to the nonprofit’s beneficiaries. Nonprofit organizations must manage their income (both grants and donations and income from services) and expenses so as to remain a fiscally viable entity. Setting effective missions is a key for the successful management of nonprofit organizations. There are three important conditions for an effective mission: opportunity, competence and commitment.
Structure
Nonprofits can have members, but many do not; the nonprofit may also be a trust or association of members. The organization may be controlled by its members who elect the board of directors, board of governors or board of trustees. A board-only organization typically has a self-selected board and a membership whose powers are limited to those delegated to it by the board. The National Association of Parliamentarians has generated concerns about the implications for the future of openness, accountability, and understanding of public concerns in nonprofit organizations.
Difference between nonprofit and not for profit
Nonprofit and not-for-profit are terms that do not mean the same thing. Both are organizations that don’t make a profit, but may receive an income to sustain their missions. Nonprofit organizations return any extra income to the organization they generate. Not for-profits use their excess money to pay their members who do work for them.
Nonprofits are either member-serving or community-serving. Member-serving nonprofit organizations create a benefit for the members of their organization. Community-serving nonprofits focus on providing services to the community either globally or locally. It is possible for a nonprofit to be both member serving and community serving.
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