Essay

HOLIDAY

            Holiday brings delights to the students, because holidays provide them recreation and rest. A vacation generally comes after numerous days of toil and hard work. So it is no wonder when a school boy expresses joy when a holiday arrives. All students eagerly wait for holidays. Holidays remove the seriousness of study and examination from the tender minds of the students. They fleet the time in a light vein.

            Generally they pass their time in visiting their friends, in reading stories and other light books, in visiting cinema, theatre and circus and also in visiting the places of their choice. Such activities enhance their spirit for fresh study. Therefore, holidays are very important. Some students who have earlier neglected their studies try to utilise holidays to make up arrears in their studies.

            Holidays are of different types. Sunday is a regular holiday after six days of work. There are other holidays such as Independence Day, Republic Day, and so on. Holi and Diwali are festive holidays. Dussehra, Christmas and Summer Vacation are long holidays. These long holidays are meant for revision of lessons rather than for joy and merriment.

            Holidays provide leisure for average students. But weak students devote a maximum part of holidays to study. They do their school tasks as well as home works. Students who are sincere in their studies may engage themselves in developing their hobbies. They may play games, may collect rare photographs or may play on musical instruments. Very often we celebrate marriages in our families.

            In case of deaths in family, study is also hampered. In that case long vacation is a golden chance for the students make up the loss of time and study. Some students utilise their holidays by attending service camps. Students from farmer's family extend their help to their parents in agricultural work. This is the best use of holidays for them. Some girl students attend dance and music classes in long vacations.

            Vacations are essential for students. However, students should not waste their holidays in sleeping, reading cheap novels, in gossiping and other fruitless works. They must remember that they will face examination after vacation.

MY HOBBY

            Routine work of every day makes us monotonous. To break it we often look for interesting and exciting things to do. Hobbies are the best way to divert attention side by side with work. We need entertainment from time to time.

            At such times a good hobby is very useful. Hobbies provide recreation. They entertain us and at the same time are valuable in the sense that they develop personality. My hobby is singing. People often resort to gardening, reading, stamp collecting, bird watching, etc. However I love to listen to music and also to sing. I have a large collection of tapes and I listen to all kinds of music.

            My collection ranges from classical music to Rock and from Indian music to Western one. My hobby is to listen to these songs carefully and then to learn them. I sit with a paper and a pen and write down the lyrics of the songs that I hear.

            Then I hum along and soon I know the tunes too. I switch the tape recorder off and then I pretend to be the singer myself. I sing the song exactly the way it was sung by the playback singer. I succeed at times and sometimes fail Once I feel that I have begun to sing perfectly I tape my own voice. When I listen to the recording I listen objectively and try to locate my faults in singing. This helps me to improve on my singing and I find that also helps me to use my talent to advantage.

            Whenever I go to a party, my friends persuade me to dance and singing. Once I begin, the party livens up, people join in and the place is filled with the sound of music. I feel proud of myself and my friend also praise me because they feel that I become the life of the party. I play the guitar and sing when we go on a picnic or when I have a free period in school. My hobby makes me happy and also brings joy to all my relatives and friends.

            It is necessary that everybody must have some hobby. It educates man, gives him pleasure, and helps him to utilize his free time fruitfully. If a person has no hobby, his spare time will turn him into a useless, irritated and restless person. "An idle mind is a devil's workshop". It is, therefore, essential to remain busy even in leisure hours. Hobbies always come to one's help.

MY HOBBY

            A hobby is some task that keeps us busy and also entertained when we are free from our routine works. This is also something that keeps us and makes us aware of our inner desires, talents and capacities. Our hobbies are usually somethings that we as individuals like to do besides our daily chores. Hobbies are thus of many different kinds, each person having a hobby that caters to his/her likes, talents and innate desires.

            This is why there are many kinds of hobbies like reading, playing, socialising, gardening, stamp collection, and the list goes on. No one has all these hobbies but we all have one or the other of these which we enjoy doing in our free time. For every individual it is very necessary to develop some hobby so that at free or lonely times, he can keep himself busy. Since our hobbies fit into the frame of our likes and aptitudes, we are always happy when we are involved in working of hobbies.

            For instance, a person who is good in drawing can develop the hobby of drawing and all that is akin to drawing, like painting, making cartoons or the like. A person who is fond of reading can develop the habit of reading the works of different writers. In reality, hobbies can be said to be our best companions, who are guided only by ourselves. As far as my hobby is concerned, my hobby is stamp collection, and collection of old coins of India and the world. This hobby of mine has developed through the span of the last three years, ever since I was in the fourth standard. This has started ever since I started studying the subject of History.

            This subject fascinated me and I loved to read about rulers and their different systems. This love for History was enhanced when I was in the fourth standard, my uncle who is settled in America, and widely travelled through many other European countries, came to India. When he came three years back, he brought a lot of American and other European countries' coins.

            This hobby gives me an incentive to study the otherwise very boring subject of History. I now love to study specially the ancient civilizations of the world, and see how their Governments worked. This in turn gives me a deep insight into the growth and developments of various civilizations of the world. This hobby of mine has given as if, a new dimension to my study of History. If I cannot get any coins, then, I try to find pictures of them from books, and draw them in my scrap book, to keep record. This hobby has enlightened me to the fact that it is our forefathers who really did the spade work of development, and we are building upon it. This hobby keeps me busy in my free time and, I also get a sea of knowledge about the past and the growth of civilizations.

Why is Education Important?

            When I started thinking about why education is so important, I remembered my school years, the grounding years of anyone's education. I went down memory lane, I remembered my teachers, my school subjects, the study and the fun! I never really hated school. But I have seen many who hate going to school. I have had some friends who did not like the idea of studying in classrooms. Many of you must have unwillingly entered your school gates. But you know, this dislike never lasts long. We soon start loving school and it is when it's time to leave school that we are in tears. Our school which lays the foundation of our education, is the institution where we understand why education is so important and how important it is. It is our school, where we learn to read and write and we become literate. It is where young talents and recognized, nurtured and encouraged. On leaving school, we are all set to soar high in life and enter the real world in pursuit of our dreams.

            The first thing that strikes me about education is knowledge gain. Education gives us knowledge of the world around us. It develops in us a perspective of looking at life. It helps us build opinions and have points of view on things in life. People debate over the subject of whether education is the only thing that gives knowledge. Some say, education is the process of gaining information about the surrounding world while knowledge is something very different. They are right. But then, information cannot be converted into knowledge without the catalyst called education. Education makes us capable of interpreting things rightly. It is not just about lessons in textbooks. It is about the lessons of life.

            The words 'cultivate' and 'civilize' are synonymous with 'educate'. That says it all! Education is important as it teaches us the right behavior and good manners thus making us civilized. It teaches us how to lead life. It is the basis of culture and civilization. It is instrumental in the development of our values and virtues. Education cultivates us into mature individuals, individuals capable of planning for our future and taking the right decisions in life. It gives us an insight into our lives and teaches us to learn from experience. The future of a nation is safe in the hands of educated individuals. Education is important for the economic growth of a nation. It fosters principles of equality and socialism. It forms a support system for individuals to excel in life. It is the backbone of society.

            Education is important because it equips us with all that is needed to make our dreams come true. It opens doors to brilliant career opportunities. It fetches better prospects in career and growth. Every employer today requires his prospective employees to be well-educated. He requires expertise. So, education becomes an eligibility criterion for employment in any sector of the industry. We are rewarded for exercising the expertise required for the field we venture. We are weighed in the market on the basis of our educational skills and how well we can apply them.

Well, schools, colleges and other such educational institutes define the basic framework of education. Schooling gives us the fundamentals while we specialize in fields of our interest during degree courses. But education does not end here. It is a lifelong process. Self-learning begins at a point where institutional education ends. The process of self-learning continues.

Writing Well

            Writing well is not only an opinion for teenagers but it’s a necessity too. Along with reading comprehension, writing skill is a predictor of academic success and fundamental prerequisite for participation in civic life and in then global economy. Lack of suitable writing skills has resulted in schools drop out by teenagers who don’t meet the basic levels required by most colleges or employees.

            Writing which can also be used as a tool of wring can work more efficient if elements or else the writing skills are properly used. I have acquired several writing strategies which comprise of different stratagem like planning, revising, as well as editing of my essay. Other techniques that I have acquired include the proper summarization of my work, proper combination of sentences, prewriting of my work to get well organized ideas, set specific goals on what I’m writing about, collaborative writing where we revise our work with other apprentices and sharing ideas as well as getting equerries from the staff are some of fundamental skills that I have acquired resulting to improvement of my reading and writing.

            Though I have acquired some writing skills, there are still other challenges that one get in writing different kind of essays. For instance, a persuasive essay aims to influence the audience agree with the authors assertions and therefore it was a challenge to me as I didn’t know on what to write to make people agree with my opinions. Coming up with a debatable topic was a hectic thing as I required a topic which is of interest knowledgeable to everyone in order to create a meaningful argument.  Taking a Position in the essay, writing on objective and using evidence as well as Providing Counterarguments are some of the challenges I got while writing my essay.

           

            For one to improve in research and writing a persuasive essay several strategies must be but into convenient. As mentioned earlier, proper planning, revising, editing of my essay, proper summarization of work, excellent combination of sentences, prewriting of my work to get well organized ideas, set specific goals on what I’m writing about, collaborative writing among other strategies  can help someone come up  with a quality essay. Other methods include having courage in one’s chosen topic where at this point I can effectively choose a topic without much struggle.

            Taking a position on the topic to write about in an appropriate manner is no longer chaotic since I have to be specific on the stand as my position in the thesis should be well expressed and come up with topics which are not much general like abortion is bad or else that of smoking kills millions of people in a given year and come up with better debatable topics which would make my persuasive essay perfect