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For the text  EVOLUTION OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE: LITERARY PERSPECTIVES meant for Undergraduates in M.G. University as part of the syllabus since 2009. Summary of the essay "Literature and Science" With due credits to the editors and essayist For Academic use only LITERATURE AND SCIENCE This essay written by Aldous Huxley opens up possible divergences between the attitudes and approaches taken up by the man of science and the man of letters. Huxley tries his best to elucidate a very complicated topic, though for a layman the essay seems insurmountable. The topic of science as well as of literature could remain centered on human affairs but they are always mutually exclusive. Huxley begins his essay by stating the fact that experiences of life are vital in interpreting human condition. Most of our experiences are private but some experiences can occur to so many people in similar fashion, hence there are possible similarities in experiences. The outer reali...

Exciting views (With all credits to the author K.D. Sebastian and the translator Dr. B. Kerala Varma) Notes K.D. Sebastian’s ‘Exciting views’ is a poem on two states or two kinds of lives. Two views are juxtaposed so as to make them poignantly realistic. The basic scenario is the appealing backwaters, peopled with insignificant lives. This life is set up against the opulent tourists. The movement of the poem is highly symbolic. It begins with the inanimate boats leading us to the human beings who survive in muddy waters. The boats have become dilapidated. They are now rendered useless owing to mechanistic view of modern life and better options of connectivity. They lie half submerged and they await a burial on the bank of the backwaters. They have lost their utility. The murky pool of water around them is used by human beings to bathe, drink and excrete. The boat now remains a mute witness to the uncivilized ways of man. The human beings find themselves a waste. ...

Rules of accentual pattern a)       Words with weak prefixes are accented on the root and not on the prefix E.g. correct, compose etc b)       The inflexional suffix –es, -ing, and –ed do not affect the accent. E.g. remind-reminded; figure-figures; survive-surviving  c)        The addition of various derivational suffixes like –age, -ance, -en, -er, -ess, -ful, -hood, -ice, -ish,   -ive, -less, -ly, -ment, -ness, -or, -ship, -ure and –zen does not change the accent of the main word. E.g. percent-percentage; allow-allowance; fright-frighten etc d)       Words ending with –ion have the primary accent on the penultimate syllable E.g. Motion, relation, decoration, etc e)       Words ending witn –ic, -ical, -ically, -ious, -ial, and –ially have the primary accent on the syllable before these suffixes. E.g. democratic, classical, t...

Vowels ɪ kit, bid, hymn e dress, bed, head æ trap, bad ɒ lot, odd ʌ strut, mud ʊ foot, good iː fleece, sea eɪ face, day aɪ price, high ɔɪ choice, boy uː goose, two əʊ goat, show aʊ mouth, now ɪə near, here eə square. fair ɑː start, father ʊə poor, jury ɜː nurse, stir ə a bout, comm o n

BASIC SOUNDS Consonants p pen, copy b back, baby t tea, tight d day, ladder k key, clock g get, giggle tʃ church, match dʒ judge, age f fat, coffee v view, heavy θ thing, author ð this, other s soon, cease z zero, music ʃ ship, sure ʒ plea s ure, vi s ion h hot, whole m more, hammer n nice, know, funny ŋ ring, anger, thanks l light, valley r right, wrong, sorry j yet, use, beauty w wet, one, when 

UGC SPONSORED NATIONAL SEMINAR On MODELS OF TEACHING 19 & 20 January 2012 DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH, M.E.S COLLEGE MARAMPALLY, ALUVA JANUARY 19 & 20, 2012 TALKS BY DR.ACHUTH SANKAR Multiple Intelligences & Teaching by Analogy - Some Candidate Topics in School Science DR.N.BALASUBRAMANIAN TRANSFORMATION OF PRACTICES IN THE TEACHING-LEARNING PROCESS WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO QUALITY ENHANCEMENT Dr.Revathi Viswanathan Technology for Teacher s Dr. C. Praveen Mustering a Modus Operandi from the Modern Methodological Matrix