old man summary

"The Letter" is a touching story of an old man who is all alone and waits for his only daughter's letter for five long years. He receives that letter only at his grave but for that he pays a price. While living a lonely, morbid life, he undergoes some strange experiences of..

Man has to be dependent on natural resources despite all the scientific invention..

. She searches for her, beauty which she had in her youth. She grows sad to see herself old now. She then turns to "candles" or the moon "which the mirror calls "liars" because these create a misted kind of surrounding around the woman's face due to which she does not see the wrinkles or ..

Environment is defined as the surroundings in which the organism lives. It has two components - abiotic and biotic. The abiotic environment includes the air (atmosphere), water (hydrosphere) and land (lithosphere). The biotic environment includes the plants, animals and the microbes. The things..

. They searched for the scorpion with candles and lanterns. They clicked their tongues that the mother's sufferings may decrease "the misfortunes of her next birth". They also prayed that the sum of evil may be balanced in this unreal world against the sum of good that she had done. They prayed tha..

The first two parts describe how the old sailor (Ancient Mariner), defying laws of hospitality, cruelly kills a sea bird - an Albatross, and is then haunted and followed by the spirit of Albatross. In the first part of the poem, the sailor appears suddenly as three guests are about to..

Wild life and forests make our biotic resources Wild life maintains food chains and natural cycles, has immense value as gene banks for breeding programmes. Although creation and extinction of species is a natural phenomenon, elimination of species has become extremely rapid during the last 100 yea..

>Plastids are spherical or oval cell organelles found only in plant cells. Plastids are of two types: leukoplasts without any colouring pigments and chromoplasts containing colouring pigments. The most familiar chromoplasts are the chloroplasts containing chlorophyll. Lysosomes are organelles bound..

(region of synthesis - leaves) to the region of negative potential (region of utilisation - roots, young leaves, flowers and fruits) along the concentration gradient. Other than sucrose, phloem also transports hormones (from the site of synthesis to the site of action) and some of the mineral ions ..

The science of magnetism is old. It has been known since ancient times that magnetic materials tend to point in the north-south direction: like magnetic poles repel and unlike ones attract; and cutting a bar magnet in two leads to two smaller magnets. Magnetic poles cannot be isolated. ..