Perfection is a Myth.

Perfection is a Myth. We have always been told to adapt to the surroundings and evolve. That is one of the primitive rules of surviving on this planet / earth. Society tells us that we have to be “fit” for its ways in every way possible. If I had to give a word to what everyone wants us to be, that would be “perfect”. Yes, perfect. Not suitable or befitting but perfect. That’s what parents want their children to be, a teacher wants the students to be and a boss wants the employees to be.

Perfection is an illusion, change what you can, accept the rest and move on. Setting aside this widely agreed upon concept, I would like to say that perfection is unattainable: it is nothing but a myth. Nobody leads a perfect life or has a perfect personality. All have flaws hidden underneath their presentable exterior. The person closest to perfection in a filed would actually be the one who is ‘better’ than others but not “perfect”. The people around us and, May I say, we ourselves have programmed ourselves to strive for the unattainable, i.e., perfection. Somebody once said, “Perfection is an illusion: change what you can, accept the rest and move on”. I would not challenge even a syllable of this sentence. Undoubtedly, being able to fit into everyone’s definition of perfection is not only difficult but somewhat impossible. The best each one of us can do is to find errors in our ways, correct it where it’s possible, let it to when it cannot be done and live with it. 

Has anyone of you ever stopped to wonder as to who developed the criteria of perfection? Who classifies us as being perfect or imperfect? Well, the answer is nobody. Nobody knows what perfection is, so why not build a definition of our won? Every person perceives perfection in a different manner and, therefore, must have the right to be perfect according to one’s own standards and not that of their boss, teacher or parents.

In our society parents have great expectations from their children. Parents dream of their children to be ‘perfect’, in the eyes of the society, by either pursuing the career of medicine or engineering. I don’t know in any way think of these careers as being unacceptable but what I am saying is that everyone must have a liking and opinions of one’s own as to what one wants to become, when one grow up. We should stop labeling people from the day they are born. Dreams of becoming a guitarist, an entertainer, a comedian, an actor, a scientist, an astronaut, or an entrepreneur should not be scrutinized and thought of as absurd ideas generated as a result of westernization or watching too much television. We ourselves listen to, watch, get entertained by and appreciate these artists but we don’t let our children be one of them. I believe we can prosper as a community when we let go of these labels and stop judging, not only people, but also their careers. So what if we don’t get to be the perfect individuals with the perfect jobs? At least we would be content with what we are doing. This is your life and your life story should have your mistakes, your choices and the inevitable outcomes. There should be no one to blame or appreciate for what your life turns out to be, but you.

I believe I can explain this better with an example from a Hollywood movie, The Black Swan, the leading star tries to perfect her ballet moves to such an extent that she herself turns into the ‘ black swan’ in the end. Thus, if you are trying to live up to somebody else’s expectations, you may end up being someone you are not. And losing yourself is definitely not worth it.

The key is to keep experimenting and striving for betterment. It is important to be better than you were the day before. This would help you in being motivated and therefore excel in both our personal and professional life. So let’s stop fussing about attaining perfection and happily live our imperfect lives.

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E-Learning Let you prepare for Exams and Tests Online

E-Learning Let you prepare for Exams and Tests Online

Today it is the technology era and every walk of life has been improved in the sense of quality and style and so is with education also. Now students get online help in studies, teacher take classes online and educational institutions handle all of their educational matters online by using learning management system. This online world has given a lot of benefits to each of the above mentioned i.e. students, teachers and institutions and things has been made much easy.

Students can seek help in preparation for their exams and / or admission / entry test online

with the help of subject specialists and senior students. They can share past papers, quizzes,MCQ’s and a lot of other helping materials with each other. This makes them learning more by consuming small amount of time while the other major benefit of e-learning is that they can save a lot of their time in this way. Because when they are getting all the help in studies online at their doorsteps they won’t have to travel a lot in search of solutions.

Similarly teachers can deliver lectures online and can conduct and check tests of their students online. They can assign and check assignments using online resources which saves them a lot of time, cost and efforts. In this way we can say e-learning is like a blessing. 

In Developed and Developing Countries many websites and different platforms like (Educationtreasures.blogspot.com and Ilmipoint) are the pioneer of providing e-learning solutions and LMS (learning management system) for the schools, colleges and universities. Educationtreasures.blogspot.com and Ilmipoint is the best platform for students, teachers and educational institutions to share their resources with each other for mutual benefits and to spread the lights of knowledge across the globe.

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A Society’s Responsibility

The standard of life has changed in such a manner that people have become enslaved by their own wishes and habits. A materialistic approach in every niche and corner and superfluity of the amenities of life have caused a potential threat to the sanctity of moral values that just being the wealthy suffices to be respectable righteous and honorable. So, the paradigms of relationships among people in society have changed terribly. The earlier Muslims were successful in their expeditions because they were simple in daily life and resolute in divine commandments; they were not enslaved by their habits and wishes. The study of history reveals that even during the best practices of democratic values, the governments and states were devastated because of corrupt social values. Had there been the healthy society and moral values among the masses, the states would not have perished. Societal values determine the type of government and rules. The best governments and finest administrations and bureaucracies can be formed provided the society is vibrant, receptive, lively and responsible. But, miserably, in our type of society even if Junaid Baghdadi becomes the head of the state, the prospective change will not occur. It is the duty of the society to produce capable, proficient and consummate leadership according to their demands and necessities but we only want to talk about the effect and not the principal cause. The current crisis of leadership that we see is because of our lethargic social values. When back in 1258AD, Tatars of Mongols demolished Muslim states, Islam re-emerged just because of some spirited people who were vigorous in the revival of spiritual and moral ideals in society. The Tartars beat Muslims on political military and administrative fronts but surrendered before moral, educational and spiritual values of Islam. Nonetheless they became the caretakers and custodians of Islam. Renowned English historian Arnold Taibu says,” This was unbelievable that Tartars would embrace Islam because in case of choosing religion, the Christians were closer than Muslims. Islam just emerged from the remnants of its burns and conquered the heats of Tartars.” Thus governments and authority are not permanent things. The primary thing is the norms of society. If the society is producing righteous, virtuous, just and capable people, there is no perplexity. Revival of society means that the society must be standing on some values and principles. We must primarily take care of building these values, as when these values are ascertained, they emanate and prevail in the society. The resulting social, political and financial institutions will rest on such values and principles. For instance, the western society has some values and principles and the institutions there owe and oblige them. The West was at a time not civilized, so some intellectuals and conscious peoples started the movements of following certain values. When the society accepted them, they also became part of their institutions. For example democracy is a western value. It says difference of opinion will be accommodated as a basic right and the majority votes will be considered in decision making. When society accepted it as a social value, it also became of part of institutions and corporations. Thus parliamentary democracy originated.

ISLAMIC SOCIETY: An Islamic society has some values and principles. Unless we practice and establish them in our society, they will never become part of our institutions. For example, the Muslim society is founded on the belief of judgement on the doomsday. When this belief is firmed up in the daily practices of society, it will also become part of our institutions leading to the sense of responsibility and fear of impeachment on doomsday. This will help us in eradicating corruption. The institutional policies will emanate from this color of belief and value. The people at work in shops and corporate institutions will not be able to neglect this factor that they will be answerable on doomsday. We must now promote our social values and practice them in our lives. We sometimes feel hesitant to follow our Islamic Values. This sense of shyness is leading to gradual elimination of moral and ethical values which, if become norm of society, would in effect eliminate lots of potential problems and dilemmas that we are facing now. Therefore, revival of such values should be promoted and be practiced in not only private but public and corporate life too. This will ensure the actual change that we aspire to occur, although it is an evolutionary process, we must not get tired of practicing these values.

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What is International Relation........???

International Relations: 

                                  

In modern times the world has greatly shrunk as a result of scientific and technological development. As a consequence events in one part of the world have an immediate impact on the rest of the world. Therefore the states maintain regular relations with other states and the study of international relations has assumed great importance. Though some sort of international relations have been in vogue since earliest times and some of the states like Egypt, China, Greece and India have evolved code for the conduct of these relations, these rules were essentially based on morality and were not scrupulously observed by the states. Further these relations generally covered states of the same region and therefore can more appropriately be described as regional relations. It was only in the 17the century that the states established relations with other states beyond the region. This in a way marked the beginning of the international relations. The improvements in means of transport and communication and the industrial revolution further brought the states closer and greatly contributed to the development of international relations. It may be noticed that at that time the international relations, were concerned only with the study of diplomatic history, law and philosophy. The study was mainly based on facts find on facts finding and no deductions of any universal principles were made which could be helpful in understanding of the present or future relations among states. As a result, no well-conceived theory could be evolved which could help in understanding the significance of the current events.

Meaning of International Relations:

The term’ International’ was used for the first time by Jeremy Bentham in the later part of the 18^th century with regard to the laws of nations. Consequently, the term international relations was used to define the official relations between the sovereign states. However some scholars even included the economic, social and cultural relations amongst the states also within the purview of the subject. Thus there are broadly two views regarding the meaning of international relations. Those who take narrow view assert that international relation include only “the official relations conducted by the authorized leaders of the state”. To them the relations between nations, other than the official relations such as trade, financial intercourse, missionary activities, travel of students, cultural relations etc. don’t fall in the domain of international relations. Other view of is “the actual relations that take place across national boundaries or as the body of knowledge which we have of those relations at any given time.

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AMERICA USA - WATERGATE SCANDAL

USA - WATERGATE SCANDAL (1972-1974)

Watergate is the name of a building complex in Washington DC which became involved in a scandal with the Nixon administration when in June 1972 five persons were arrested from the premises of Democratic Party’s headquarters on charges of burglary. It was alleged that these persons had not only illegally entered the premises but also conspired to tape the phone and to steal the documents of Democratic National Committee in order to take advantage in 1972 US elections. The prosecution started investigations but President Nixon denied all charges of involvement in the affair. However the situation took a dramatic turn on January 11, 1973 when of the accused Mr. Howard Hant admitted that he was guilty of the charges labelled against him. Consequently the US Senate on February 7, 1973 set up a selection committee under the chairmanship of Sen. S.J. Ervin to investigate into the Watergate scandal. As the case progressed President Nixon promised to cooperate with the committee. The crises depended further on April 30, 1973 when Nixon’s top aides viz. H.R. Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman, John.W.Dean and Attorney General Richard Kleindienst resigned from their posts. On June 25 Nixon’s former Counsel told the Senate hearings that Nixon, his staff and campaign aides and the Justice Department had conspired to cover up the Watergate facts. With each passing day the sphere of the investigations continued to widen further with startling disclosures. In July 1973 the selection committee recorded evidences of important White House officials. In the meantime President Nixon continued to harp on his innocence. A White House aide revealed that most of Nixon’s office conversations and phone cells had been recorded. The court and the Congress sought the tapes for criminal proceedings against former White House aides but President Nixon refused to release the tapes. As a result in August 1973 Chief Judge ordered Nixon to hand over the tapes for investigations. President Nixon refused to comply with these instructions. In October 1973 Nixon removed Watergate special Prosecutor Archibald Cox when he threatened to secure a judicial ruling that Nixon was violating court order by refusing to hand over tapes to the judge. As the results of the investigations gradually unfolded, Nixon’s involvement in the Watergate scandal became clearer. Survey of the public opinion showed that majority of the Americans believed that Nixon was guilty and were in favour of his impeachment. In July 1974 the House Judiciary Committee charged Nixon with following three articles of impeachment.

1                     Participation in a criminal conspiracy to obstruct justice.

2                     Abusing the power.

3                     Unconstitutional defiance of the committee.

The House of Representatives accepted committee’s report by a 42-3 vote. However on Aug 9, 1974 President Nixon resigned in order to avoid impeachment. Thus he became the first president in the history of US to have resigned from his office.

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TOP 50 UNIVERSITIES of the World and ASIA

1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

2 Harvard University

3 University of Cambridge

4 Stanford University

5 California Institute of Technology (Caltech)

6 University of Oxford

7 UCL (University College London)

8 Imperial College London

9 ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology

10 University of Chicago

11 Princeton University

12 National University of Singapore (NUS)

13 Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU)

14 EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)

15 Yale University

16 Johns Hopkins University

17 Cornell University

18 University of Pennsylvania

19 Kings College London

20 The Australian National University

21 The University of Edinburgh

22 Columbia University

23 Ecole normale supérieure, Paris

24 McGill University

25 Tsinghua University

26 University of California, Berkeley (UCB)

27 University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

28 The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

29 Duke University

30 The University of Hong Kong

31 University of Michigan

32 Northwestern University

33 The University of Manchester

34 University of Toronto

35 London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

36 Seoul National University

37 University of Bristol

38 Kyoto University

39 The University of Tokyo

40 Ecole Polytechnique

41 Peking University

42 The University of Melbourne

43 KAIST - Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology

44 University of California, San Diego (UCSD)

45 The University of Sydney

46 The University of New South Wales (UNSW Australia)

47 The University of Queensland

48 The University of Warwick

49 Brown University

50 University of British Columbia

TO 50 ASIAN UNIVERSITIES

1 National University of Singapore (NUS)

2 Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU)

3 Tsinghua University

4 The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

5 The University of Hong Kong

6 Seoul National University

7 Kyoto University

8 The University of Tokyo

9 Peking University

10 KAIST - Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology

11 The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)

12 Fudan University

13 Tokyo Institute of Technology

14 City University of Hong Kong

15 Osaka University

16 National Taiwan University (NTU)

17 Shanghai Jiao Tong University

18 Tohoku University

19 Pohang University of Science And Technology (POSTECH)

20 Korea University

21 Yonsei University

22 Zhejiang University

23 University of Science and Technology of China

24 The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

25 Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU)

26 Nagoya University

27 Nanjing University

28 Hokkaido University

29 Kyushu University

30 Universiti Malaya (UM)

31 Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore

32 The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

33 National Tsing Hua University

34 Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD)

35 National Chiao Tung University

36 Hanyang University

37 Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

38 King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals

39 Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB)

40 Tel Aviv University

41 Waseda University

42 University of Tsukuba

43 Keio University

44 National Cheng Kung University

45 Beijing Normal University

46 King Saud University

47 Chulalongkorn University

48 Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM)

49 Ben Gurion University of The Negev

50 National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (Taiwan Tech)

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Education and Success....

Is Success  possible without Education???

Today, education is very important in becoming successful. It is necessary to get the fundamental courses completed and it helps a great deal to take classes directly related to the field in which you want to work. Not every successful person has an education but mostly those that are successful have a pretty good education behind them.

Now a day’s education is an important cog in anyone's ability in being successful. If a person wants to start a business and they do not know basic mathematics or they are unable to read a report, they will be unable to find success in their endeavors. I think it is also helpful that once people have learned their basics that they learn more advanced concepts for their specific field. The more you know about the thing you want to do, the more successful you will be.

Education is Pioneer to go forward

 For people who are looking to take the next step forward in their job search or in their professional goals an education is the next step there. For those looking for a job it’s hard to look at the newspaper or any internet job board for a job without an education.

Education is a key for success

Although education is a key for success, and it is essential for success, there are many types of education. Not everyone is suited for a "conventional" college education. For example, skilled workers, carpenters, plumbers etc can't do their jobs and do them well without some type of learning background in those fields. Being successful at anything requires training, learning and practice: all components of education.

But another is opinion is that

Success in a person comes with his ability to take severe blows and staying put in the ring. He may lose a match but never his game. Sure they face let downs and frustration, but they don’t get down on themselves. They fix their problems and mistakes, and move on. Here are some examples of powerful entrepreneurs who learned from their failures.

I think education has become severely watered down. Unqualified, unintelligent students are filling the classrooms. It is too business driven. The real millionaires are innovators and people who are smart. Entrepreneurs, entertainers, people with specific skills. Going to school is going to get you average. 2.5 kids and a suburban house, and that is if you are lucky. Find your dream and chase it.

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Is a Higher Education to Succeed for People?

Education is a key of Success??? If you look around today, most things were developed by educated people.While the value of higher education will never go away, in today's economy we should honor and promote people who educate themselves. Over the last years we've seen a lot of evidence that the education to employment link is broken. Education is as important as this because education gives people the knowledge and skills they require. Do young people really need a higher education degree to succeed?When you look at a new candidate, rather than look at his or her college degree, maybe you should take more time to look at his experience, ability to learn, drive, and problem solving skills. Many jobs are in great demand (Chemical Engineering,Computer Science, Health professions Statistics, etc ), but many are not. Education is not necessary for good life & success. Some of the most successful people in the world didn't finish college. Let's keep our minds open. When we said education is a part of success its does not mean to college or university education, its mean all types of education like any technical skill (Plumber, electrician, mechanic even a good mason, carpenter and labour too. A good education also gives structure and teaches us valuable work and time management habits, and provides critical thinking skills that are required to succeed in life. Without all of these important skill instilled in us, our lives would be a chaotic wreck. There is no happiness in chaos.

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15 Most Popular Top Business Websites

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