The Crow and the Pitcher

Saturday, May 25, 2013

Once a thirsty crow was flying to and fro in search of water. however it found no water. At last, it saw a pitcher close and flew to the pitcher at a ways. It wanted to possess a drink of water from the pitcher. however it found that there was a trifle water at very cheap of the pitcher. It entered its beak into the pitcher. It may by no means that reach the water with its beak. however it failed to lose heart. Suddenly it saw some stones a trifle off from the pitcher. It then uncover a concept. It picked up the stones one by one and born them into the pitcher. once it had born an outsized range of stones, the water within the pitcher rose high enough for him to succeed in it. Then the crow quenched its thirst drink to its hearts content.

LIFE OF A FISHERMAN

A fisherman is he who lives by catching and selling fishes. Most of time a fisherman lives in a village near a river or sea. He catches fish in the seas, rivers, haors, beels and ponds. He's employed onerous all Existing day and night. he's usually seen creating new nets and repairing old ones. Most of the fishermen are poor. They have no net or boat. So they work in groups. The life of a fisherman is very risky. He often has to go to fish at night in the big rivers or in the seas. During the stormy nights the members of his family remain anxious for his safe return. Though fishing is challenging it is interesting too. When he catches a big number of fish, his joy knows no bounds. After all a fisherman does much good to us by supplying fishes.

TITANIC THE UNSINKABLE

Tuesday, January 1, 2013

In 1912 an American shipping company launched a new ship called ‘TITANIC.’ It was the largest and most luxurious ocean liner of the time. It weighed 46,000 tons and could carry about 2,200 passengers. Experts said that nothing could make it sink. It was definitely unsinkable. On April 10,1912, the ship sailed on its first voyage across the Atlantic from Southampton in England to New York in the United States, with 2,224 passengers; men, women and children. On April 15, just before midnight, the ship struck an ice-berg. The ice-berg tore a great hole in the ship’s side and the unsinkable ‘TITANIC’ began to sink. The tragic sinking of this great liner will always be remembered, for she went down on her first voyage with heavy loss of life.

There was a great alarm on board. Warning bells rang out. Everyone rushed to the life boats, but there was not enough room for them all. There was room for only 1,178 passengers. The life-boats took mostly the woman and children. It was a terrible scene. Wives were weeping because they had to leave their husbands to drown. Children were crying because they had to say good-bye to their fathers. The men had to remain on the ship. The “TITANIC” sent out signals for help, but no help came. Another ship the ‘California’ was only twenty miles away, but her radio operator was asleep and did not hear the distressing signals.

In the early hours of the morning the ‘TITANIC’ sank, while her band was playing bravely in deck. Twenty minutes later another liner, the ‘Carpathia’ arrived on the scene and helped to rescue survivors from the icy water. But of the 2,224 passengers , only about 700 survived.

It was a terrible disaster. But something good came out of the sinking of the ‘TITANIC’ . In 1913 there was a committee of inquiry into the disaster. This committee drew up many new rules for shipping companies. Since then, every ship has had to provide life-boat places for each passenger and has had to organize life-boat drill during each voyage. Every ship has had to carry enough radio operators so that there is always one of them on duty. Another important result of the sinking of the ‘TITANIC’ was the formation of an international Ice Patrol. This patrol warns ships about ice and ice-bergs in the North Atlantic.

The last century

Wednesday, December 5, 2012

The last century is over, but it will not be forgotten. Many events have taken place during these years that have embellished and enriched human life. There have been significant advances in scientific achievement and technological development including immense progress in medical science. Lately, a revolution in information technology has taken the world by storm.

On the other hand, conflicts has deepened. The world has experienced some of the worst events in history during this time. Misuse of  atomic power has wrecked destruction. Second World War has recorded the worst sufferings in human history– Hiroshima and Nagasaki bear testimony to this. Conflicts and tension have increased worldwide. We have seen the Vietnam War, the Gulf War, the Labanon War, and so on. The War of Liberation in Bangladesh and in many other other parts of the world gave rise to many uprising. Independence, more often than not, has had to be paid dearly for.

There have been other causes of human misery as well. Terrorism, poverty, hunger, malnutrition, uncontrolled population growth and high mortality rates have been common features in poorer countries. Despite all these the last century will remain memorable in terms of numerous human achievements.

INTERPOL (INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL POLICE COMMISSION)

Thursday, August 9, 2012

Interpol is the name of the international criminal police organization. The word ‘INTERPOL’ comes from the two words ‘international’ and ‘police’ and stands for the International Criminal Police Commission. Interpol is a strictly non-political, non-religious, non-racial organization in which the police forces of more than one hundred different nations co-operate with one another. Its head-quarters are situated in Paris.

The job of the Interpol is to trace criminals. According to international law, the police of one country cannot enter the territory of another country to catch a criminal who after committing a crime, has escaped to that country. Interpol helps in such situation to trace out the criminals. Every country has its representative in Interpol. After the First World War, crimes increased considerably in Europe, specially in Austria. After committing crimes, criminals used to go to some neighboring country and hide themselves there. In order to arrest such criminals, John Scober, the then police chief of Vienna called a meeting of the police official of different countries in 1923. It was in this meeting that twenty countries jointly established Interpol. Its first head office was made in Vienna and John became its first president.

 In 1938, Germany invaded Austria and with this came the end of Interpol. During the Second World War, Interpol remained inactive. After this war, Flaurent Lovagay, Inspector General of Belgium Police revived it. Due to the absence of necessary facilities in Belgium the head office of Interpol could not be established there. Paris became its new head office. By 1955, fifty five countries became members of Interpol. In 1956, was given a new constitution.

WORLD WAR II (DESTROY THE WORLD)

The Second World War was fought from 1939 to 1945. In this war Germany, Italy, Japan, Rumania, etc. were on one side and were known as ‘The Axis Powers’. On the other side , there were Britain, France, America, Soviet, Russia, Holland, Belgium, Denmark, Norway, etc. in all 30 countries and these were known as ‘The Allies’.

The Treaty of Versailles, concluded at the end of the First World War (1914-1918) was very unjust and became the root cause of the Second World War. Extremely unfair terms were imposed by the Allied Powers on Germany. The process of behaving towards the defeated countries of the First World War like Germany, Australia, Hungary and Turkey was humiliating and hence it created feeling of reaction and relation in the minds of Germans and other Allies. The aggressive policy followed by Germany, Italy, Japan and the total failure of the League of Nations to put a check on them was also much responsible for the outbreak of the Second World War. America’s aloofness from the European politics after the First World War also became one of the causes of the Second World War. It encouraged France to humiliate Germany.

Germany attacked Poland in 1939 and it forced both England and France to give up the policy of appeasement and to declare war against Germany on 3^rd September, 1939. Soon after other countries were drawn into this war and it took the shape of the World War 2. The World War 2 came to an end in 1945 when Germany was surrounded by the force of Allied Powers from all sides and Hitler committed suicide on May 3, 1945. On May 7, Germany surrounded un conditionally. With the dropping of the atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, on 6^th August and 9^th August, 1945 respectively, Japan also surrendered on August 14, 1945. Thus the Second World War came to an end.

THE BLOODY 1952

Saturday, August 4, 2012

The 21^st February is a red letter day in Bangladesh. Every year on this day the whole nation comes to the martyr’s monument and the ritual seems to effect a purification of souls.

On this day in 1952, the brave son’s of ‘Mother Bengal’ laid down their lives to protect the interest of the mother language. After the birth of Pakistan the ruler of the West Pakistan wanted to impose ‘Urdu’ on the Bengali speaking people as state language of Pakistan. But everybody, especially the students of the then East Pakistan demanded Bengali as the state language. As a result the Language Movement took place and on 21^st February, 1952 Rafiq, Salam, Barkat, Zabbar, Shafiq, and so on sacrificed their lives. Many were injured and hundreds were arrested.

There are millions of martyr’s monument in Bangladesh. Every year on this day people come to these monuments and offer their respect to the martyrs. The government, different organizations and institutions arrange programmes to celebrate the day. Besides, according to a singular decision of the UNESCO on Nov. 17, 1999, this day is now the International Mother Language Day. The 1^st  International Mother Language Day has been observed all over the world with due respect in 2000. On this day in a massage UN Secretary General Kofi Anan said, “This day will help to raise awareness among the nation of the world about the enduring value of their languages.”

This day possesses a great influence for the whole nation as it did in the past. This will go on in the future too. In fact, this movement influenced and led the nation to it’s liberation. However, yet we find inspiration from the dreamy blue of this movement.

The language movement on 21^st February is a unique event in the history of human civilization. We are really glorified by the declaration of the UNESCO that turned a national celebration to an international event. We are proud of our language martyr’s.