English Unit:-8 Short Notes & Essay

 English (Second Language) Unit:-8

12 Science

Unit - 8 For Youth

Short Notes :

1. The Real Freedom

Even if we are independent, we do not feel so because we are afraid of what people say about us, we are bound with so-called status of the society, we are about to follow or imitate somebody; there are a lot of pressures on us regarding income, marriage, career and study. We generally think about having a famous, rich, impressive and noble personality. We all want some praises from others and a self-pride in our mind about us. All of us want to be like any hero, saint, good family member or anyone else who has set an example. All we want is a safety/security. According to writer, the liberty of speaking anything you want, or the liberty of expressing your thoughts is not the true meaning of freedom. All of these are, undoubtedly, some parts of freedom, but they are not the whole freedom in their forms. Just by wanting to be free, one can't develop Intelligence. For developing it, we must understand and go deep through the surroundings like community, family members, nation, culture, tradition, economy and background/history; only then our own intelligence will be developed. The true understanding of all the things that we live in between, and also our own personality, without prejudice requires a deep insight. To make sense of all, one must go thoroughly to his/her own mind's dark corners and find shining truth that is to be revealed. Internally, we all are afraid of our parents, teachers, society, religious gurus and friends; that what they will think about us, if we do these tasks. We are afraid of being alone and cut from the rest of the world, and that's the reason for not drawing a different path.

2. No imitation is the real freedom

We want someone to praise about us; that how beautiful we look, how generous we are, at which high level of success we are,how strong we are, etc. Actually we live and do most of the tasks only to be praised or appreciated by people, we don't do thinks for our own self. Whenever you want to become like someone, or to follow someone; at that very moment, you are 

turned to a slave of his/her personality. As your own thoughts bound you, restrict and change your behaviour for being like someone, and so you do not remain free. The ambition of a warrior is to be a hero in war, a doctor wishes to be very famous in his profession, a saint wants his personality as symbol of religion and truth, a lawyer wants to be the 'neverlosing' one and a businessman wants to be more & more richer. A human being can be free only when he/she is beyond any kind of prejudices, any dreads or fears, want of praise, thoughts of 'what these/those people will say" & reaches the true identity of himself/herself. After understanding freedom, you will experience an extra-ordinary peace, highly positive thoughts, your own built personality changes and the never-losing self-confidence that never lets you down.

3. The real function of Education

The main purpose of examinations in our system, is to get passed with good marks and make you someone at a secure, high level. Examinations are taken just for boosting and testing our memory power, to be converted in money and fame afterwards. The writer says to notice about the constant hammering of our parents and teachers on us., advising us to be like someone successful from family, to copy the path of a hero, to apply the thoughts of holy people or leaders. According to the writer, the education from primary school to higher studies should be functioned as to make one best of his own personality,not to mould in such a way to be fit into someone's imitation or image. To be what we are, is very tough because we have to accept ourselves as we are. Whether we are beautiful or ugly, rich or poor, famous or infamous, good or band, noble or ignoble; we must accept us. That is the reason that becoming our Own. personality is very tough, indeed.Our current education system encourages us to become like someone,it encourages us to follow the paths traced by some successor. It encourages us to imitate others' personalities and not making our own, as it does not give safety-assurance. The real freedom exists. We are free only when we do not want to become like someone, we revolt against whatever we think as wrong, we try to make our own paths and go ahead on them without anyf ear.According to writer, the real freedom lies there only.

4. Hurdles in achieving the real freedom

Your are thoughts should be out of the tradition and the conventional theories. Your thinking must not be copied from the literature we read. Our personalities must not be the imitations of best ones. That are the essential requirements of freedom.According to me, current Indian education system needs some changes. Education's function should be based on creativity or unique identity, not just based on the writing capacity in examination hall or memory power. According to writer, imitating does not help, because it makes us like somebody. Our own personality undergoes a dark shadow of that person.Imitating makes a person, photocopy of someone, not known by its own. So, imitating does not help. The hope of new world lies in the members of youth who really want to be free, or really want to grow freedom. It lies only when, the youth creates new world according to its own path, not of any idealism or philosophy. You must revolt against the unworthy and false traditional and conventional thoughts, against the people who enforce you to become a copy of someone, against an education system that teaches you to increase memory rather than creativity. Writer's views are the far twisted and miles away from the reality. In real world, we must learn from the best examples, about their Mos and cons, to create a new world. In real, there must be an ambition of becoming someone, as reinforcement of ambition is required for tall and strong structure of successive personality.

Essay Writing:-

1.Real Freedom

What is freedom? Is it an absolute right? We are born to become free. Freedom is defined from different aspects and according to different cultures, freedom varies from culture to another. Some define freedom as a natural right, the human being is born with. Everyone wants to be free and independent from others. Freedom is the right to do what one wants, live where he wants, eat what he wants, learns what he wants, and chooses the religion in which he believes, without ignoring or harming other's rights. How can we live free? From my point of view, we can live free by respecting others'rights to live free, too. We cannot ignore the rights of people with whom we live in the society. We cannot simply do what we want and ignore others.We must take other people rights into consideration. The idea behind freedom is to be respectful and useful to our society. Freedom is important to everyone. When freedom is guaranteed, I can think freely, go where I want, say my opinion without fear from people who may not like my opinion. Where freedom of opinion is not guaranteed by the authority, the creativity of mind is killed and buried .Society is the largest and biggest loser because of this lack of creativity. But our practicing of freedom should never lead to threatening our national security.  

Among the most humiliating ways to punish a human, is to deprive him of freedom. When one goes to jail, he is derived from freedom, and so he is suffering, which is the point to punishment. lacking freedom teaches the human lessons , he will make use of it. Freedom cannot be felt right, unless one tastes lack of freedom, then only he will really appreciate freedom. Freedom is not absolute. Freedom must be limited. You cannot just do what you like and say "I am a free man". You can not kill, smuggle drugs or violate the laws and rules for freedom's sake. There should be respect to other people and their needs.  

Once, there were two men setting side by side, and someone lifted his own hand and touched the others' nose, the latter complained, the former said "I am free", this was as a dismay to the latter who was ready with an appalling answer ,and said  

"The freedom. of your hand ends where the freedom of my nose begins". Yes, the freedom of anyone ends where the freedom of another one begins.  

Parents must teach their youngsters to be free. They must plant in them the love for freedom. But their freedom must be watched, it should not be without limits. If so, we can censor their behaviour without fear from friends of our children.Freedom in the teen years is very important for building a good character and stable personality. Teens want to hang around  

with friends, do whatever they like, or do not like. They want to experience everything. If they are given freedom with no limits, they can go down to the base and may be lost. So we must watch their behaviour, teach them to do what is right and leave what is wrong. Such supervision is, generally not considered a limit or constraint on freedom, it is important for  

protection of existence.

In summary, freedom is an innate right, humans are born with. Nothing should threaten our freedom, deprive us from our right. Also our right of freedom must never harm any other human being, directly or indirectly. We must respect freedom of  everyone in the society. This way we can enjoy our freedom throughout our life.

2. YOUTH

Today's world has the largest generation of young people in history. There is great hope in their power to shape our future. Young people are hungry for better future. They are rejecting the status quo and demanding a better future. Many of them  

are claiming their right to a decent living, and they are willing to take risks to do so. We have seen in recent times the high numbers of young people taking risks around the Mediterranean, trying to reach a better life. But if these youth are allowed to realize their full potential, developing countries could see huge economic gains. The more young people grow into well  

educated adults with fewer dependents and new opportunities to acquire wealth, savings and purchasing power. Increasing investment in young people is key. This includes promoting quality education that prepares them for future opportunities.A  diversity of training will be needed from quality primary and secondary schools to technical training. There is also critical need to involve young people in decisions that will affect them. We cannot talk about sustainable development without the active involvement of youth. So here is the article on youth empowerment which has many issues, we have to give attention on it.