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HSC English First Paper English For Today - Unit 7 Lesson 1 Brojen Das I had not failed my country  Brojen Das I could hear very faint voices as if coming from the other side of the world. The time was about 4:00 in the morning and the date September 22, 1961. I was feeling tired and exhausted and was encountering stiff opposition from the strong tide. I looked towards my accompanying motorboat carrying my manager Quazi Mohammad Ali, skipper Len Hutchinson and the official observer, Mr, J. U. Wood. They were all pointing towards the Kent shore. As I looked up, I could see flashes. I realized I was very close to the shore.  I asked what the time was and how far I had still to go. They told me that if I put the last ounce of energy into my swimming, I would set a new world record for France to England swim. This electrified me. The goal for which I had been striving for the past four years could be mine. The aim, which goaded me to swim the Channel six times, each time risking m...

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...