Lingkuan Gorge by Tu Peng Cheng

Over Coat by Ghulam Abbas

His First Flight by Liam O' Flaherty

""The Shoes" by Grazia Deledda. An analysis.

Elia is an excellent walker but his shoes are in extremely bad shape and they give away during his journey to his uncles house. The holes in his shoes make walking difficult. However, he deems it improper to appear at his uncle's house like a beggar.
On the way he puts up for the night in an inn where he steals a pair of shoes. he restarts his journey in the soft roomy but stolen shoes. However a sense of degradation overwhelms him and he finds himself unable to walk in them. He is a sensitive and honest man who never did anything wrong in his life. To worsen his feeling of guilt his feet begin to burn and throb; having a violent objection at being inside the stolen shoes. He has done something that is totally against his nature.
To make amends for his wrong, he turns back to return the shoes. In this way he loses precious time and causes his own delay in reaching his uncle's house.

"The Beggar" by Chekov. An analysis.

What do you think is the best way to motivate people?

People can be motivated for a better change in life by many ways but the most encouraging way is that of kindness and empathy. People can be inspired by kindness or coerced by cruelty. We can force the wretched people by being harsh and blunt.
Just as Skvortsov feeled pity for Lushkov and forced him to work against his will. Although it was effective to some extent but not everlasting. The other was is that of kindly motivating others by helping them in dealing with their inner issues. This method encourages people more and helps them in believing in themselves.
To achieve honesty and meaning in life, to work hard and gain what ought to be theirs, can only be achieved by helping people silently. Olga proved the effectiveness of this problem by changing the life of Lushkov with silent help.
It is indeed our responsibility to help the helpless by not feeding their empty bellies but by helping them in achieving a position where they themselves shelter their heads from the shower of trouble and to achieve moral goodness.

"Moxon's Master" by Ambrose Bierce. Question and Answer Analysis.

Exercise:
Question no 1.
Answer: Moxon's definition of a machine is taken form a popular dictionary. According to this definition a machine is "Any instrument or organization by which power is applied and made effective, or a desired effect is produced". Moxon extended this definition to man too. he also says that by virtue of the fact that machine is created by man, it absorbs something of man's intelligence and purpose. Thus making it sentient, living, feeling, conscious being.
I agree with the definition from the dictionary. I believe that machine in terms of being an automaton is a device operable by man. However I do not believe with Moxon's extension of the definition to automatons as being alive, feeling, conscious beings.

Question no. 2.
Answer: Moxon is developing a sentient conscious machine, one that can think and possesses intelligence.
Moxon believes that no matter is inert or dead. It is ll instinct with force; actual and potential. He believes that all matter is sensitive to the same forces in environment as man himself. When matter comes into contact with man: when he is fashioning it into an instrument of his will, it absorbs something of his intelligence and purpose. This absorption is greater and depends upon how complex the resulting machine is. Based on this theory, Moxon is developing a machine which he believes will be capable of thinking, acting and possessing consciousness- a robot or automaton which will be able to perform actions independent of it's creator.

Question no. 3.
Answer: Plants have a mechanism for performing different activities. They show movement under the influence of light. Some plants are sensitive to touch. Some can trap insects to meet their nutritional needs. However this does not mean that plants can think. plants do not have a nervous system. If they did their faculties would be comparable to either animals or humans. They would then have been able to perform actions like higher animals. Thus, there is no space on an argument on the question whether the plants can or cannot think.

"The Stuffed Trout" by Jerome K. Jerome.

"The Stuffed Trout" by Jerome K. Jerome.

There are many people in this story who claim that they caught the trout. Here is a list of those people along with the year of capture, the place of capture, the instrument or bait used, the weight of trout and the time of day the trout was captured. This list is useful for objectives...