TITANIC

TITANIC

Titanic was a British passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean in the early morning of 15 April 1912 after colliding with an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton, UK to New York City, US. The sinking of Titanic caused the deaths of more than 1,500 people in one of the deadliest peacetime maritime disasters in modern history. The  Titanic, the largest ship afloat at the time it entered service, was the second of three Olympic class ocean liners operated by the White Star Line, and was built by the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast with Thomas Andrews as her naval architect. Andrews was among those lost in the sinking. On her maiden voyage, she carried 2,224 passengers and crew.

The Royal Mail Steamer Titanic was the product of intense competition among rival shipping lines in the first half of the 20th century. In particular, the White Star Line found itself in a battle for steamship primacy with Cunard, a venerable British firm with two standout ships that ranked among the most sophisticated and luxurious of their time. Cunard’s Mauretania began service in 1907 and immediately set a speed record for the fastest transatlantic crossing that it held for 22 years. Cunard’s other masterpiece, Lusitania, launched the same year and was lauded for its spectacular interiors. It met its tragic end–and entered the annals of world history–on May 7, 1915, when a torpedo fired by a German U-boat sunk the ship, killing nearly 1,200 of the 1,959 people on board and precipitating the United States’ entry into World War I.

                                                                                          TITANIC’S FATAL FLAWS

According to some hypotheses, Titanic was doomed from the start by the design so many lauded as state-of-the-art. The Olympic-class ships featured a double bottom and 15 watertight bulkheads equipped with electric watertight doors which could be operated individually or simultaneously by a switch on the bridge. It was these watertight bulkheads that inspired Shipbuilder magazine, in a special issue devoted to the Olympic liners, to deem them “practically unsinkable.” But the watertight compartment design contained a flaw that may have been a critical factor in Titanic’s sinking: While the individual bulkheads were indeed watertight, water could spill from one compartment into another. Several of Titanic’s Cunard-owned contemporaries, by contrast, already boasted innovative safety features devised to avoid this very situation. Had White Star taken a cue from its competitor, it might have saved Titanic from disaster.

CELL-O-MANIA.

 

 

 CELL-O-MANIA


The mobile phone or mobile, also called a cellular phone, or cell phone is a long-range, portable electronic device used for mobile communication that uses a network of specialized base stations known as cell sites. In addition to the standard voice function of a telephone, current mobile phones can support many additional services such as SMS for text messaging, email,packet switching for access to the Internet, and MMS, for sending and receiving photos and video. Most current mobile phones connect to a cellular network of base stations(cell sites), which is in turn interconnected to the public switched telephone networks (PSTN) (the exception is satellite phones).Nokia Corporation is currently the world's largest manufacturer of mobile telephones, with a global device market share of approximately 36% in Q1 of 2007.

The advantages of mobile phones are: you can talk to people who are away from you, you can carry it with you so you don't miss important calls, if you are lost you can call for directions, if you had an accident you can call and if it has camera so you can take pictures of the accident that has happened, you can listen to music, text, playing games when you're bored, calculator, it has phone book. 

 

 

The disadvantages of mobile phones are:it can damage your ear, its quite expensive, sometimes the reception is poor in some areas, you cant talk underground and in planes, people use blue tooth and the camera in bad ways, people use the phone while they are driving and this can cause problems. 


                    

E-MAN COMICS.

 E-Man is a fictional comic character  created by writer Nicola Cuti and artist Joe Staton for Charlton Comics in 1973. Though the character's original series was short-lived, the lightly humorous hero has become a cult-classic sporadically revived by various independent comics publishers.

E-Man is a sentient packet of energy thrown off by a nova. Traveling the galaxy he learned about life, how to duplicate the appearance of life, and good and evil. Reaching Earth, he met exotic dancer/grad student Katrinka Colchnzski (who attended Xanadu University), also known as Nova Kane (Novocaine), and formed himself into a superhero dubbed E-Man, with a civilian identity dubbed "Alec Tronn" (electron). His emblem was the famous mass-energy equivalence formula "E=mc²", and his powers included firing energy blasts from his hands, changing his appearance, and transforming part or all of his body into anything he could envision (e.g., turning his feet into jet engines so he could fly).

EID-UL-ADHA!

Like every eid, this eid-ul-adha was celebrated with full zeal and zest. Eid-ul-adha honors the willingness of Abraham to sacrifice his promised son Ismael as an act of submission to God's command before God then intervened to provide Abraham with a lamb to sacrifice instead. The meat from the sacrificed animal is preferred to be divided into three parts. The family retains one third of the share; another third is given to relatives, friends and neighbors; and the remaining third is given to the poor and needy.In the lunar-based Islamic Calendar, Eid al-Adha falls on the 10th day of Du-al-Hajj and lasts for three days.
Like Eid al-Fitr, Eid al-Adha begins with a Sunnah prayer of two rakats followed by a sermon . Eid al-Adha celebrations start after the descent of the Hajj from Mount Arafat, a hill east of Mecca. Eid sacrifice may take place until sunset on the 13th day of Dhu al-Hijj.The days of Eid have been singled out in the Hadith as "days of remembrance". The takbir (days) of Tashriq are from the Fajr prayers of the 9th of Dhul Hijjah up to the Asr prayer of the 13th of Dhul Hijjah (5 days and 4 nights). This equals 23 prayers: 5 on the 9th–12th, which equals 20, and 3 on the 13th.

GLOBAL DIGNITY DAY

Global Dignity Day is celebrated on 15th of October. The children of Beacon house Liberty Campus participated in various activities to celebrate the day. Bouquets were given to the lower class by the principal and they were acknowledged by the whole school. Children participated in role plays to convey the message of dignity to the people all around. Many students went to SOS Children's Village to donate money for charity and give their old belongings to the children living there. Class VII had a poster making competition in which they  spread the belief that everyone has dignity and should be respected. Every person should be treated with dignity and should be respected that's what Global Dignity Day teaches us. Dignity is not only giving respect but treating others the way you want to treated and caring for their feelings. It is very necessary that we respect others and take care of their dignity.