A-Level Help Desk

Books launched in Amazon

Tilak — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 21:11:17 +0000

If you guys would like to buy our books…you can buy it in amazon. Following are the links to the books…

New books launched

Tilak — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 12:55:48 +0000

Alevelhelp.com brings you guys its first two book publication of General Paper Nailed series. Hope you will enjoy this and hope this will help you in your effort to master General Paper.
These e books are free for you guys to use. However, please do not download, print out or resell these books. Have a good time going through them.

1. General Paper Nailed: A Comprehensive Guide to Essay Writing

2. General Paper Nailed: Essay Collection

What are the junks in an essay?

Tilak — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 11:42:41 +0000

Junks are the unrelated information or the mistakes that spoil an essay. Lets discuss the types of junks in detail.

Junk I
The question asks for a dog and you are answering a duck. You are not answering the question.
Or, you are going out of topic
Junk II
You have written everything but the only problem is, it does not make sense.
Or, your structure is poor.
Junk III
You write half of what others write. The length of your essay is too short. So, even if the teacher wishes to award full marks, he cannot give more than fifty percent for your essay.
Or, your essay is very short
Junk IV
Your ideas are repeating. You do not have much idea in the topic and you are just wasting the valuable paper and the ink.
Or, repetition is a problem in your essay
Junk V
Your expressions are poor. Your language needs a major cleaning up. You are abusing it.
Or, you say something but mean nothing.
Junk VI
You cannot spell.
These are the major junks. You will have to clean them up and make a brand new computer.
Junk I, II and III are for me to tackle. I will help you tackle them. Others are solely for you. You will have to work hard to improve in those areas. You will have to work hard to tackle and clean them up.
You should read and write a lot to clean up your language. It will improve your language. Your expressions will now be better. And repetition is a content problem. You are repeating means you don’t have sufficient ideas on the topic. You should get updated with news. This will provide you with sufficient ideas. And for spelling, there is only one way to improve it. Repeat each and every word ten times each if you misspell it.

What an essay isn’t?

Tilak — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 11:36:48 +0000

It’s your result day. Your parents have promised a computer if you go pass this examination in distinction.
You are eagerly anticipating your result. You have stayed very late for this and then the phone rings.
You pick up the phone. You have distinction.
You are suddenly happy and relieved. More than that, you are excited about the computer. You start making the list of the computer games you would be installing. Maybe you would brag about it. You would talk relentlessly hours about the features of your new computers. You would talk about the levels of the recent games you have gone through.
You are excited and looking forward for the next day.
After a long and sleepless night, the next day arrives.
You run downstairs for your present. You reach the sitting room and blast the door open. You switch on the light and there it is.
“What’s this?” You cannot help yourself.
“Computer of course” Your dad announces
You look down. You see a pile of junk. The CPU has been blasted open. You see something that’s oddly familiar to monitor. The keyboard is toothless. The chips have been cracked. The mouse has been opened.
“It does not look like it,” You protest.
“Yes, the dad says proudly, but do not worry everything is there; you just need to rearrange it. Anyway congratulation son”
Well, why am I telling this story. The reason is simple. The bad essay is like the junk computer
You have everything there, but still it does not work. You have got bombastic words, twisted facts, and unrelated information but still it does not make sense.
If you can rearrange it and get a computer out of it, it would be what we call a good essay.
Essay is a working computer. Everything has to be in the place where it’s supposed to be.

Technology gives birth to laziness.

Prakash — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 10:52:35 +0000

Practical application of theories of science in daily life is technology. Advancing societies from old traditions is profoundly due to the technology. People come across new inventions largely due to improvement in scientific materials; hence gain opportunity to uplift the status of their skills. Tools are often invented with prior target as youths. As a result, extent of laziness increases with the use of technology.
People, trying to use new inventions which are quite sophisticated, feel that use of these technologies makes their life easier. But in fact they get lazier rather than being eased by use of those gadgets. Press a button, bulb glows, click some numbers, you can call anyone you wish to, surf the internet if you want to know anything happening in any corner of the world, press a button on remote, television starts. People have become so lazy that they feel as if they could do everything just lying on their bed. Science has been boon for the people developing such devices which have made them feel eased, but in fact not. However, in the field of banking, people needed to visit banks frequently for performing every transaction, but now ATM booths have eased to a great extent for the people who cannot make themselves available in the bank. In addition, features life E-Banking and mobile banking have encouraged people to be lazier.
Technology has become wonder even bigger than nature. Technology has infinite sectors to develop things on. In other parts of the world, people use computer to milk their cows and airplanes to irrigate their fields. Use of human manpower are the things of past. Likewise, to plough the fields too, tractors are used which does not let people feel any pain in their body. Time consuming tasks of past are now accomplished in no time. Extension of use of modern machinery has affected human health.
Technology tends to ease the people but people happen to misuse it. People make themselves ready to get a moment which they can exploit in their favor; hence they turn themselves to a lazy bone. People are being affected by the use of technology as they don’t need to apply force. But, since they lack physical exercise, their body may improperly function which can lead to malfunctioning of various body parts. If the problem persists, death isn’t so far for him.
Proper handling of technology will ease the task for people but they tend to be lazy now. Technology will advance in such rapid way that everyone will then not use tools because their health condition will have been degraded to a great extent till then. Advancement of technology injects the key to laziness among people.

Technology gives birth to laziness.

Prakash — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 17:20:36 +0000

War

Prakash — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 16:31:52 +0000

Never being satisfied with what he currently possess, Man dreams of big things and wants to enrich himself in various aspects of life. People go for war enraging other groups seeking some attention from people who are not involved in war. Wars of ancient times used stones, sticks and weapons invented with bones of different animals. Since most of the people in those days were unaware about the edible foods and vegetables, which is why people believe that ancient wars were fought for food and survival. Those who knew about the edible food attacked other groups and were buoyant about their task.

With changing time, people have changed the pattern and have initiated to fight a war in a new way. With advancing technology, war has taken a different form. Earlier, team with less armor were disrespected while, people now believe that a less powerful country can cause severe damage. Hence they revere the less powerful countries as well.

New conspiracies being produced and some of which being unveiled, people pick their arms and ammunitions to set fire to rival groups, but often happen to retreat their soldiers because of untimely agreement.

Nature of war has changed to a great extent nuclear weapons have resulted to dire consequences. Nuclear weapons, these days have become inevitable. A single missile has the ability to devastate the entire earth.

The general perceptions about war have changed greatly nowadays. Paltry groups or countries appreciate modern techniques of war and are able to adapt these changes. The change in nature and manifestations of war has sown seed for a bigger disaster in the near future.

In what ways can the use of modern technology improve learning?

Prakash — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 16:27:43 +0000

Technology has been an integral part of humans. Inevitably, people are seeking help from technology in order to accomplish tasks of any kind. It has influenced various sectors of the society. For instance, Educational field has been accompanied by technology and has changed the pattern of learning; improved the standards and created a salubrious environment to learn.

Students have changed the pattern of their study as well. The old and outdated trend has been left far behind and people have adapted modern techniques with better chances and options to learn. At this point of time, people have utilized technology as a medium for learning. Various forms of modern technology have supported education programs like distance learning. Sitting in a different corner of the globe, a student can attend college of a different country. Dreams of past have now turned into reality, it’s not a big deal for any student to use the internet as reference. Internet has largely been used as a place where you can choose the best answer for you among thousands of available ones. People are now independent to some extent. Being concentrated on theoretical knowledge, people were found to be bookworms. They could tell about the content of any topic in the books, but they couldn’t apply the logic in their real life. The things have changed since modern learning replaced the tendency of students to be limited to a room. Students can now utilize the resources available and are able to explore the world with which minds broaden and perceptions change.

When a topic is taught with a book and with use of few logics especially in science subjects, students find it too boring and difficult to understand, and for sure, it will not be a worthy lecture. But, when the same thing is taught differently using some instruments and apparatus, students’ often find it fun oriented learning. Likewise, technological advancements have caused to uplift the status of practical learning useful for day to day activities.

Modern technology has great influence on the educational sector as it has brought admirable changes. It has let students explore a different world with better prospects.

In what ways can the use of modern technology improve learning?

Prakash — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 16:24:13 +0000

Technology can be defined as a science applied for practical purposes. Nowadays, when the rapidness of development and research is so impressive, it is easy to think about the advantages of modern technology. Nevertheless, some people argue that science can destroy mankind. It is also obvious that we are close to an era where technology is limited only by our own imaginations. Does technology go the right way and will it save or ruin our civilization, our way of learning and our life style?

It can be argued that modern technology makes life easier and more dignified for many people. It has improved the way of learning. It has changed our lifestyle and the way of learning too. In the past decade, technology was not reliable. People used to struggle had to achieve their goal. There were no well-equipped machines or things to do work. People struggled themselves to achieve their goal. For example, our ancestors used to write with a pen made with bamboo. They used to labor hard but now the writings no more need bamboo stick to write. Robots and machines perform on their own once given command. Use of modern technology has changed a lot of the behavior of the people and their learning style.

A lot of money on developing the weapon industry also falls in improvements of learning but it is considered as a wrong fact. The modern technology should either stop or prevent social disproportions. Similarly, modern technology has made us improve learning in many aspects. It helps for the newspaper advertising, the invention of new technology, commodities, rapid development, etc. it also teaches skills of agriculture.

We all know that the modern technology has kept on improving our lifestyle and kept us forwarding in life. It has changed a way of learning. It helps to save our civilization, our way of learning and our life style. It has taught how to be unified. We have to pay a proactive role from our individual level to improving our learning.

Positivism and antipositivism

ayushi — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 14:30:02 +0000

positivism and antipositivism

Positivism is an philosophy which is based on social as well as natural sciences and more in logical and mathematical treatments. This theory was founded by Auguste comte and developed by Saint simon and comte. Positivists assume that sociological explanations should be like those of natural sciences and sociologists should use logic , methods and procedures of natural science. They believe social reality is objective and it can be measured and discovered by scientific methods. They also believe that social reality can be predicted for example with the help of Durkheims work on suicide we can find out the cause why people are dying . Positivists believe that society is an base for individual for example in the suicide case until and unless society creates certain circumstances an individual wont die. So this theory sees society on macro level and on subjective basis.

Whereas Anti positivism is a philosophy which says that society is subjective. It sees society as totally different from natural sciences. It says a person has different perspective and it cannot be seen in terms of quantities. It also says that there is no casual law which can govern the social behaviour. An example of this can be Goffman’s total institution. It sees society in micr level and subjectively

Seeing both the approaches there is a grear debate between positivism and anti positivism . These are the two theories that is basic theory of sociology. Nowadays we can see that both of these theories are functioning equally in the society and it is true also that positivists say society can mak an individual and we can find many cases. Similarly anti positivists say individual make society , Gandhiji , Hitler and many more great personalities are examples of this So this is a debate thta is going on and in future too it will be going on.