Thinking Activity : ELT- 1

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                  Welcome to my blog. Here I'm sharing one thinking Activity task on ELT-1 which is assigned by Vaidehi ma'am. 

💠 Bilingualism :-

                      Bilingualism is the ability of an individual or the members of a community to use two languages effectively.

💠Trilingualism :-

                         Using or able to use three languages, especially with equal or nearly equal fluency.

💠 Multilingualism :-

                         Multilingualism is the ability of an individual speaker or a community of speakers to communicate effectively in three or more languages. 

So, here I'm out some words and it's  deferent meaning in other languages like English, Latin, French and Spanish. I hope you like it. 

No.	Bilingualism	Trilingualism	Multilingualism
1.	Watch (English) Regarder (French)	Watch ( English) Regarder ( French) Custodibus ( Latin)	Watch ( English) Regarder ( French) Custodibus (Latin) Reloj ( Spanish)
2.	Thunder ( English) Tonnerre ( French)	Thunder ( English) Tonnerre ( French) Tonitrua ( Latin)	Thunder ( English) Tonnerre ( French) Tonitrua ( Latin) Trueno ( Spanish)
3.	Room (English) Chambre (French)	Room (English) Chambre (French) Locus ( Latin)	Room (English) Chambre (French) Locus ( Latin) Habitación ( Spanish)
4.	Pen ( English) Stylo ( French)	Pen ( English) Stylo ( French) Calamus (Latin)	Pen ( English) Stylo ( French) Calamus (Latin) Bolígrafo ( Spanish)
5.	God ( English) Dieu ( French)	God ( English) Dieu ( French) Deus ( Latin)	God ( English) Dieu ( French) Deus ( Latin) Dios ( Spanish)
6.	Brick (English) Brique ( French)	Brick (English) Brique ( French) Fictilis (Latin)	Brick (English) Brique ( French) Fictilis (Latin) Ladrillo (Spanish)
7.	River (English) Rivière (French)	River (English) Rivière (French) Flumen (Latin)	River (English) Rivière (French) Flumen (Latin) Rìo (Spanish)
8.	Spoon (English) Cuillère (French)	Spoon (English) Cuillère (French) Dicula ( Latin)	Spoon (English) Cuillère (French) Dicula ( Latin) Vichara (Spanish)
9.	Wife ( English) Femme (French)	Wife ( English) Femme (French) Uxorem (Latin)	Wife ( English) Femme (French) Uxorem (Latin) Esposa (Spanish)
10.	Bridge (English) pont (French)	Bridge (English) pont (French) pontem (Latin)	Bridge (English) pont (French) pontem (Latin) puente Spanish)

Deconstructive reading : "Sonnet 18" by Shakespeare

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              As we know that Deconstruction by its very nature defies institutionalization in an authoritative definition. The concept was first outlined by Derrida in Of Grammatology where he explored the interplay between language and the construction of meaning. From this early work, and later works in which he has attempted to explain deconstruction to others, most notably the Letter to a Japanese Friend, it is possible to provide a basic explanation of what deconstruction is commonly understood to mean. Three key features emerge from Derrida’s work as making deconstruction possible. These are, first, the inherent desire to have a centre, or focal point, to structure understanding (logocentrism); second, the reduction of meaning to set definitions that are committed to writing (nothing beyond the text); and, finally, how the reduction of meaning to writing captures opposition within that concept itself (différance). These three features found the possibility of deconstruction as an on-going process of questioning the accepted basis of meaning. While the concept initially arose in the context of language, it is equally applicable to the study of law. Derrida considered deconstruction to be a ‘problematisation of the foundation of law, morality and politics.’ For him it was both ‘foreseeable and desirable that studies of deconstructive style should culminate in the problematic of law and justice.’

So, lets discuss the deconstructive reading of the Sonnet 18 by Shakespeare :

William Shakespeare ( bept. 26 April 1564 - 23 April 1616) needs no introduction to the students of English in general and poetry in particular. Shakespeare published 154 sonnets, and although they are all poems that are of the highest quality, there are some that have entered deeply into the consciousness of our culture to become the most famous Shakespeare sonnets. These most famous sonnets are quoted regularly by people at all levels of modern western life – sometimes without even realising that they are quoting a line from a Shakespeare sonnet.William Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 is justifiably considered one of the most beautiful verses in the English language. The sonnet’s enduring power comes from Shakespeare’s ability to capture the essence of love so clearly and succinctly.

          

         It is traditionally aspects that Shakespeare's sonnet sequence can be divided into three sections : the first expresses the devotion and admiration of the poetic voice (often associated with that of Shakespeare himself) towards an anonymous young man (this would be include sonnet 18); this is followed by a sequence addressed to the dark lady towards whom the poet is attracted; and finally , there are the sonnet which deal with the young man's attraction towards the same lady.

               So, here I would like to put one TED-ED video by Dr. Dilip Barad, which helps us to  better understand deconstruction theory in easy way. In this video he discussed Deconstructive reading of " Sonnet 18" by Shakespeare.

💠 "Sonnet 18"

💠 CLICK HERE to read the "Sonnet 18"....

                    The sonnet open with the immortal line "Shall I compare thee to a summers day ?" The sonnet being with a question in the lines 1-2, if the beauty of beloved can be compared with a summer's day. The poet is known to the fact that the comparison is not apt because the human beauty is mor charming then the summer season. The poet has nicely used "simile" as a literary device to bring forth the common features between the two objects: his beloved and summer season. He presented a novel concept by proving the comparison inappropriate because the object compared with (beloved) was prettier than the summer‟s day.

         In the couplet-2 (lines:3-4), the poet personifies "nature". In other words, he indirectly talks about the adverse effect of the "time" or the "existing environment" referring to the adverse effect on the charm of his beloved which is compared to lovely buds that are grown in the month of May (the summer season).

💠 work Citation :-

• Crews, Brian. “REWRITING /DECONSTRUCTING SHAKESPEARE: OUTLINING POSSIBILITIES, SOMETIMES HUMOUROUS, FOR SONNET 18.” Atlantis, vol. 21, no. 1/2, 1999, pp. 43–57. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/41055540. Accessed 15 July 2020

• Intakhab, Alam, and Intakhab Khan. (PDF) HOPE JOURNAL OF RESEARCH Teaching of Shakespearean Sonnets: The Linguistic Viewpoint. 1 Mar. 2015, www.researchgate.net/publication/279193519_HOPE_JOURNAL_OF_RESEARCH_Teaching_of_Shakespearean_Sonnets_The_Linguistic_Viewpoint.

The Plague

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                Welcome to my blog. I hope you all are well.  Now day we all very well know about the COVID-19 (Corona) virus.  Pandemic have played a vital role in shaping human history throughout the age, few people reading this today will remember outbreak on this scale, but history shows us that although it is devastating, what we are experiencing now is nothing unusual.
   
               So,  Here I would like to discuss  Albert Camus's novel The Plague. Albert Camus's classic novel The Plague tells the story of a plague outbreak that sweeps through Algerian town of Oran, during the French era.  Here I would like to put one interesting blog by Dr. Dilip Barad ( CLICK HERE) which will helps us to better understand The Plague.

💠 The Plague :-

"I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing."

~ Albert Camus

                          The novel The Plague is written by Albert Camus, published in 1947. The book written in sparse, haunting prose. Throughout his life, Camus was deeply concerned with the problem of human suffering in an indifferent world. In The Plague, Camus addresses the collective response to catastrophe when a large city in Algeria is isolated due to an outbreak of the bubonic plague. Although the effort to alleviate and prevent human suffering seems to make little or no difference in the ravages of the plague, Camus asserts that perseverance in the face of tragedy is a noble struggle even if it ultimately fails to make an appreciable difference. Such catastrophes test the tension between individual self-interest and social responsibility.

💠 VIDEO :- Albert Camus - The Plague by the school of life :-

            This video gave us best explanation of the novel with simple way.  In the January 1941 , the twenty eight years old French writer Albert Camus began work on a novel about a virus that spreads uncontrollably from animals to human  and ends up destroying half the population of a representative modern town. It was called La paste / The Plague. Plague is very relatable in present time of Covid-19 pandemic. We can find many similarities between Plague and Covid-19 virus.

                " Camus speaks to us in our own times not because he was a magical seer who could intimate what the best epidemiologists could not, but because he correctly sized up human nature and knew about a fundamental and absurd vulnerability in us that we cannot usually bear to remember. In the words of one of his characters, Camus knew, as we do not, that ‘everyone has inside it himself this plague, because no one in the world, no one, can ever be immune."

💠 Science v/s religion :-

Both science and religion are complex social and cultural endeavours that very across cultur and change over time. And also we all know that science and religion is like two side of one coin. Here we focused on two main characters in the Camus' " The Plague", were illness transcends history, expressing the conflict between the religion and science. This conflict is shown by the opposite opinions of Bernard Rieux , an atheistic doctor who represents science and Paneloux, a Jesuit who symbolizes faith in the novel. In particular, the debate between Rieux and Paneloux summaries the cultural stratification of biblical roots , that is arrived to the western literature through two often crossed traditions : the literary tradition and the polemic tradition, that is relative to the connection between illness and faith.

💠 Work citation :-

• Camus, Albert (1970). Philip Thody (ed.). Albert Camus: Lyrical and Critical Essays. Ellen Conroy Kennedy, translator. Vintage Books. ISBN 978-0-394-70852-2.

View about the Marriage

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               Criticisms of marriage are arguments against the practical or moral value of the institution of matrimony or particular forms of matrimony. These have included the effects that marriage has on individual liberty, equality between the sexes, the relation between marriage and violence, philosophical questions about how much control can a government have over its population, the amount of control a person has over another, the financial risk when measured against the divorce rate, and questioning of the necessity to have a relationship sanctioned by government or religious authorities.

👉Here I would like to put some people's view about the marrage :-

Marriage is the beginning—the beginning of the family—and is a life-long commitment

Marriage is a bond like no other. It gives us a life partner, a teammate, as we move through the challenges of life together.

The bond of marriage gives us the support to defeat temptation by engaging in deep, satisfying love—a love that gives to, and receives from, our mate physically, emotionally, and spiritually.

Marriage is designed to mirror our Creator’s unconditional love for us. It’s a love that will always be there and will never leave us or forsake us. When a man and woman love one another unconditionally, contentment and joy follow.

Marriage is important part of life. it is a trans formative act, changing the way two people look at each other, at the future, and at their roles in society.

Marriage is one of the most important institutions we have, it binds society and families together, it is a building block that promotes stability. This bill supports and cultivates marriage.

      ~ Sailesh Dhundhvaliya

Cyberfeminism

Cyberfeminism from RitaDabhi1