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HSC English First Paper English For Today - Unit 6 Lesson 1 Dreams What is a Dream Dreams have fascinated philosophers for thousands of years, but only recently have dreams been subjected to empirical research and scientific study. Chances are that you've often found yourself puzzling over the content of a dream, or perhaps you've wondered why you dream at all.  Fust, let's start by answering a basic question: What is a dream? A dream can include any of the images, thoughts and emotions that are experienced during sleep. Dreams can be extraordinarily vivid or very vague; filled with joyful emotions or frightening images; focused and understandable or unclear and confusing.  Why do we dream? What purpose do dreams serve?  While many theories have been proposed about the reason and function of dreams. nu consensus has emerged. Considering the time we spend in a dreaming state. the fact that researchers do not yet understand the purpose of dreams may seem baffling. However,...

HSC English First Paper English For Today - Unit 5 Lesson 5 Frederick Douglass Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave I was born in Tuckahoe, near Hillsborough, and about twelve miles from Easton, in Talbot County Maryland. I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it. By far the larger part of the slaves know as little of their ages as horses know of theirs, and it is the wish of most masters within my knowledge to keep their slaves thus ignorant. I do not remember to have ever met a slave who could tell of his birthday. They seldom come nearer to it than planting-time, harvest-time, cherry-time, spring-time, or fall-time. A want of information concerning my own was a source of unhappiness to me even during childhood. The white children could tell their ages.  I could not tell why I ought to be deprived of the same privilege. I was not allowed to make any inquiries of my master concerning it. He deemed all suc...

HSC English First Paper English For Today - Unit 5 Lesson 1 Human Rights Are We Aware of These Rights -1 Articles of the Declarations of Human Rights Article 12. No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home of correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference of attacks. Article 14. (1) Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution.  Article 15. (1) Everyone has the right to a nationality. (2) No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality nor denied the right to change his nationality.  Article 16. (1) Men and women of full age, without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion, have the right to marry and to found a family,  (2) Marriage shall be entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses. (3) The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of socie...

HSC English First Paper English For Today - Unit 4 Lesson 2  Marie Curie "Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something above and this thing must be attained.” -Marie Curie  Do you know who was the first woman to receive a Nobel Prize? Or the first person in history to achieve the remarkable feat of winning two Nobel Prizes? Do you know who is the only woman to receive two Nobel Prizes, and in two different scientific fields? The answer to all of these questions points to one extraordinary individual: Marta Salomea Sklodowska-Curie, more famously known as Marie Curie. Early life  Marie Curie née Maria Sklodowska, was born in Warsaw on November 7, 1867, the daughter of a secondary-school teacher. From childhood she was remarkable for her prodigious memory, and at the age of 16 she won a gold medal on completion of her secondary education at the Russian lycé...

HSC English First Paper English For Today - Unit 4 Lesson 2 Contribution of a great woman to our environment “We have a special responsibility to the ecosystem of this planet. ln making sure that other species survive we will be ensuring the survival of our own.”  The first African woman and first environmentalist awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, Wangari Maathai (1940-2011) received that honour in 2004 as the founder of the Green Belt Movement in Kenya, a nonprofit organization dedicated to planting trees, environmental conservation, and women's rights.  Maathai introduced the idea of planting trees with the people and developed it into a broad-based, grassroots organization designed to conserve the environment and improve women’s quality of life. In 1986 the Green Belt Movement established a Pan African Green Belt Network and has introduced over 40 individuals from other African countries to its approach.  The Movement set both short and long-term objectives. The overall a...

HSC English First Paper English For Today Unit 4 Lesson 2 Leela Nag: First Female Student of the Department of English, Dhaka University  In 1921, Leela Nag (also known as Leela Roy for her marriage with Anil Chandra Roy, an Indian National Congress leader) was the first woman to be admitted to the M.A in English at the University of Dhaka. Breaking patriarchal barriers, Leela Nag established the identity of the Department of English from the very beginning as a platform for progressive and liberal ideas. Although her decision to join the Department of English was initially met with resistance, she achieved her goal with a special permission from the then Vice Chancellor Philip Hartog and fulfilled her dream of graduating from the University of Dhaka. In 1923, she was the first woman to receive an M.A. from the Department of English. But Leela Nag’s legacy goes beyond the confines of classrooms. While she was a student, she formed the Dhaka Women’s Committee and raised funds for th...