LIFE AND LITERATURE

   CRITICAL THINKING AND CONTINUOUS LEARNING   Critical thinking skills are domain-general thinking skills. The ability to think clearly and rationally is important whatever is choose to do. Critical thinking skills teach a variety of skills that can be applied to any situation in life that calls for reflection, analysis and planning. Five Critical thinking skills are, 1) Reasoning 2) Analyzing 3) Evaluating 4)   Decision Making 5)   Problem Solving It is a valuable skill for students to master. To think is to have or form an idea in the mind. Thinking is the act of using one’s mind to produce thoughts. It is great for human beings. However, many people do not bother to use it. Such people remain at the bottom of life. If an individual understands the importance of thinking it benefits the growth of a person. It will do a world of good for him. To control your anger, you cloud count from one to ten   or take a deep. Critical thinking

  GEOFFREY CHAUCER              Before William Shakespeare, Geoffrey Chaucer was the preeminent English poet, and he remains in the top tier of the English canon. He also was the most significant poet to write in Middle English. Chaucer was born in the early 1340s to a fairly rich though not aristocratic family. His father, John Chaucer, was a vintner and deputy to the king's butler. His family's financial success came from work in the wine and leather businesses, and they had considerable inherited property in London. Little information exists about Chaucer's education, but his writings demonstrate a close familiarity with a number of important books of his contemporaries and of earlier times (such as Boethius'  The Consolation of Philosophy ). Chaucer likely was fluent in several languages, including French, Italian, and Latin. Sons of wealthy London merchants could receive good educations at this time, and there is reason to believe that, if Chaucer did not attend on

  PERSONALITY TRAITS   INTRODUCTION:   A personality trait is defined as something about a person that implies how they tend to think feel and behave on going basis personality traits are characteristic of ending behavioral and emotional patterns. A trait is a feature or a quality that distinguish an individual psycot Gorden Allport identified 4000 words that describe humam brings Paul Costa and Robert Micrae is known as big five trait theory although many other psychologist also worked on five factor model GROWTH TRAITS :        A growth Trait is like self regulation a characteristic that helps and person grow .Trait is a particular quality found in a personality .It may be a general trait like being extrovert or honesty. It may be growth trait like self regular characteristic that helps person grow her personal and professional. These are seen in almost all successful personalities of the world. Abraham Lincoln, Bernard Shaw, Kamaraj, Abdul Kalam etc.. are since great example

  Charles Lamb      Charles Lamb (10 February 1775 – 27 December 1834) was an English essayist, poet, and antiquarian, best known for his Essays of Elia and for the children's book Tales from Shakespeare, co-authored with his sister, Mary Lamb (1764–1847).      Friends with such literary luminaries as Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey, William Wordsworth, and William Hazlitt, Lamb was at the centre of a major literary circle in England. He has been referred to by E. V. Lucas, his principal biographer, as "the most lovable figure in English literature".      Lamb's first publication was the inclusion of four sonnets in Coleridge's Poems on Various Subjects, published in 1796 by Joseph Cottle. The sonnets were significantly influenced by the poems of Burns and the sonnets of William Bowles, a largely forgotten poet of the late 18th century. Lamb's poems garnered little attention and are seldom read today. As he himself came to realise, he was a much more t