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  Thanking Activity:  The White tiger Introduction:      The White Tiger is the debut novel by Indian author Aravind Adiga. It was first published in 2008 and won the 40th Man Booker Prize in the same year. Aravind Adiga (born 23 October 1974 is an Indian writer and journalist. His debut novel, The White Tiger, won the 2008 Man Booker Prize. 1. How far do you agree with the India represented in the novel The White Tiger? We cannot say that this novel represents real India throughout the narration of nation. Because Arvind Adiga himself uses this words “Half Baked” Indians, means what he takes about is story of half people not about all. Me, and thousands of others in this country like me, are half-baked, because we were never allowed to complete our schooling. Open our skulls, look in with a penlight, and you'll find an odd museum of ideas: sentences of history or mathematics remembered from school textbooks (no boy remembers his schooling like the one who was t...

 Thanking Activity :  Testing and Evaluation.    Test & Evaluation (T&E) is the process by which a system or components are compared against requirements and specifications through testing. The results are evaluated to assess progress of design, performance, supportability, etc.  Evolutionary Testing tries to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the testing process by transforming testing objectives into search problems, and applying evolutionary computation in order to solve them.       1) write on validity and reliability of the test.    Reliability refers to the consistency of a measure (whether the results can be reproduced under the same conditions). Validity refers to the accuracy of a measure (whether the results really do represent what they are supposed to measure).              Test-retest reliability is a measure of reliability obtained by administering the same test twice...

  Thanking Activity: Teaching language through literature.            Introduction:         Literature lessons can lead to public displays of student output through posters of student creations e.g. poems, stories or through performances of plays. So for a variety of linguistic, cultural and personal growth reasons, literary texts can be more motivating than the referential ones often used in classrooms.         What sort of activities or tasks can be designed to teach language using a novel' or' 'short story.   You get more time to focus on individual words. When a text is short, you can devote more time to learning how every single word is used and what importance it has in the piece. You can read a whole story in one sitting. Attention spans are very important for learning, and the ability to finish a story gives you more time to digest it. Short stories are designed to give you maximum information w...

 Thanking Activity:  Globalization,  Popular literature.   Chetan Bhagat :  Chetan Bhagat is an Indian author and columnist. He was included in Time magazine's list of World's 100 Most Influential People in 2010. Bhagat graduated in mechanical engineering at IIT Delhi and completed a master's of business administration degree at IIM Ahmedabad. works Five Point Someone, 2 States: The Story of My Marriage, The 3 Mistakes of My Life, Half Girlfriend. Movies :  3 Idiots, 2 States, Kai Po Che!, Half Girlfriend, Hello, Kick, Nanban. The book ON@TCC reflects the time. It is more youth centric-a campus fiction. The characters are like peole around us. They are not from high class or unreal, but rather they are portrayed as familier and common people and also depicted about their problems of daya to day life.  It Is self help book as Bhagat has put some questioned in the prologue and also some rules in the mouth of God. They are relevant to solving personal pr...