LIFE AND LITERATURE

                                                                       USING VISUAL AIDS The Importance of Having the Right Attitude in Life        Our attitude is what influences all our actions. It is only the right attitude, which gets us good results. All the smiles and hand-shakes are not going to get you far, if  you do not have the attitude to help others, without any selfish expectations in return. If you expect something in return, then it is not help, it is only a favor, and you are only interested in your own selfish desires.      It has been said that Opportunity ‘knocks’ at every door. If we utilize it, it leads to success. Otherwise, we just complain about the ‘noise’. Every problem that we face is nothing but an opportunity, to success, by learning how to conquer it. The better we get at problem solving, the more successful we are.      Theory is only fully understood by solving problems. One cannot succeed in life with mere theories; it is only the application o

  THE SPECTATOR CLUB                                                                                                -RICHARD STEELE INTRODUCTION      The Spectator, arguably one of the most important periodicals ever published, had a two-series run from March 1, 1711, through December 6, 1712, for a total of 635 issues. It was edited (written) by two masters of the essay, Richard Steele and Joseph Addison. For the most part, Richard Steele wrote the first series of 555 issues, and Joseph Addison the second series of 79 issues. True to its billing as a periodical, it resembled most eighteenth-century London newspapers in size and layout. Although the editorship was anonymous, many readers believed the writer was Richard Steele, who had just been involved with another periodical, also well known, The Tatler. Steele and Addison comprised the two main writers/editors, but several issues were written by others, all of whom were associated with the coffee-house culture of the eighteenth-cent

                                                        SPREADING THE NEWS                                                                                                          - LADY GREGORY      Spreading the News is a short one-act comic play by Lady Gregory, which she wrote for the opening night of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, on 27 Dec. 1904. It was performed as part of a triple bill alongside William Butler Yeats's "On Baile's Strand" and a revival of the Yeats and Gregory collaborative one-act "Cathleen Ni Houlihan" (1902).  Audiences may have dozed through Yeats's play,[1]  but Spreading the News was very successful and it is still acted at the Abbey Theatre as late as 1961.[2]       Lady Gregory remarked after seeing an early performance of the play that "the audience would laugh so much at 'Spreading the News' that they lost about half the dialogue. I Summary: In a small village in rural Ireland, a new (English) magistrate insp