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Compulsory English Class 12 Model Questions and Answers 2079 | Neb Compulsory English Class 12 Essays by Suraj Bhatt
Compulsory English Model Question 2079| Neb Class 12 (Essays)
Question b: What are his first memories? (On Libraries)
Answer:
His first memories are of the oak-panelled library of his home and the variety of books in it. In this library, he started learning to read books at the early age of three or four.
Question c: Why did he dislike school? (On Libraries)
Answer:
He disliked school because he didn't like sitting and receiving instructions in the class. For him, the information received in the class seemed useless because it moved in one ear and moved out in the other. Actually, he wanted to be active by suitably learning for himself. For him, libraries were the best places for intellectual freedom.
Question d: What did he feel about at the library? (On Libraries)
Answer:
At the library, he felt free to acquire various knowledge through books. He was free to look at the thousands - tens of thousands - of books there. At the library, he had a feeling of freedom to roam and enjoy the special atmosphere and the quiet companionship of other readers, all, like himself, on quests of their own.
Question f: Why did he become so fascinated by Hook? (On Libraries)
He became so fascinated by Hook because he got a chance to learn the works of Hook, a man he greatly admired in the early nineteenth century. Actually, Hook was a quite popular figure for his wit and his genius for theatrical and musical improvisation in the Bodleian, a wonderful general library that could trace itself back to 1602.
Question a: According to the author, what is marriage? (Marriage as a Social Institution)
According to the author, marriage is a relationship that is defined by legal, moral, and conventional assumptions.
Question b: How is marriage an institution? (Marriage as a Social Institution)
Marriage is an institution, as it is culturally modelled and integrated into other basic social institutions such as education, the economy, and politics.
Question g: What is normative marriage? Explain. (Marriage as a Social Institution)
Normative marriage is one that is based on established norms and values. For example, the six dimensions that define normative marriage in the United States are: marriage voluntarily by mature, heterosexual adults, with the husband as the major earner and sexual partners There is loyalty and fatherhood.
Question a: What are the factors that contribute to wisdom? (Knowledge and Wisdom)
Answer:
Following are some of the important factors that contribute to wisdom:
1. Sense of proportion.
2. Awareness of the end of human life.
3. Freedom from personal bias.
4. Fairness
5. Intellectual Elements
Question c: Which leaders does Russell say were able to mix knowledge and wisdom soundly? (Knowledge and Wisdom)
Russell says leaders like Queen Elizabeth I in England, Henry IV in France, and Abraham Lincoln in the USA were able to mix knowledge and wisdom soundly.
Among them, Queen Elizabeth I and Henry IV were freed from committing the errors of their times, which made them beneficial and certainly not ineffective. Similarly, Abraham Lincoln waged a great war without tearing himself away from knowledge.
Question e: What, according to Russell, is the true aim of education? (Knowledge and Wisdom)
According to Russell, the true aim of education is to spread wisdom among the people. It is this wisdom that drives us to use our knowledge in practical life without causing any harm to mankind. To become good citizens, people should have knowledge as well as wisdom.
Question d: What, according to the essay, are the universal human abilities? (Humility)
Morality, art, spirituality, and creativity are universal human abilities, according to the essay.
Question a: Describe the claim of the Chinese nationalists about human history. (Humility)
Answer:
The claims of Chinese nationalists about human history are quite abominable. According to them, human history actually began with the Chinese Yellow Emperor and the Xia and Shang dynasties. Everything that Westerners, Muslims, and Indians have achieved is a copy of everything that has developed and progressed in China.
Question b: What do pious Muslims believe about the human history? (Humility)
Pious Muslims believe that all human history before the Prophet Muhammad is largely irrelevant. Human history began just after the revelation of the Quran. They believe deeply that there was no human history before the Prophet Muhammad (founder of Islam).
Question c: What is the goal of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights? (Human Rights and the Age of Inequality)
The goal of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is to provide a list of the most basic rights or core values, such as fairness, dignity, equality, and respect, that human beings deserve thanks to being human themselves. Furthermore, it has the aim of emphasising the "foundations of liberty, justice, and peace in the world."
Question d: What are two big stages that involve writing the history of human rights in relation to that of political economy? (Human Rights and the Age of Inequality)
Following are the two big stages that involve writing the history of human rights in relation to that of political economy:
1. The heroic age of the national welfare states after World War II
2. The political economy ascended beyond the nation during the 1940s.
Question e: What are the facts that have been missed in Roosevelt’s call for a “second Bill of Rights”? (Human Rights and the Age of Inequality)
The missed facts in Roosevelt's call for a "second Bill of Rights" are as follows:
1. This marked the late and ginger entry of a particular provincial US into an already predetermined North Atlantic consensus.
2. His greatest promise was not a destination of security for the masses but an end to "special privileges for the few"—a limit on inequality.
3. Roosevelt certainly expected that it would spread around the world, but it was organised on a national level, not internationally.
Question f: Write the truth expressed in Herodotus’s Histories? (Human Rights and the Age of Inequality)
In Herodotus’s Histories, the truth expressed is that global socio-economic justice, similar to local socio-economic justice, would require redistribution under pressure from the rich to the poor, something naming and shaming is never likely to achieve, even when supplemented by novel forms of legal activism.
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