Story of a real Survivor - Iron lady" Muniba Mazari"

Hello Everyone,
Today I am sharing something about a woman named Muniba Mazari. I saw a motivational video which is viral on social sites these days. I didn't know anything about her before I saw her video yesterday. She is a 30-year-old woman from Pakistan. In her video, she mentioned that she belongs to a very conservative family, and in their culture, good daughters never say "No" to their parents. Her father wanted her to get settled. So, she got married at the age of eighteen. After marriage, things didn't work out, and her marriage was not at all a happy one. A couple of years later, she had a car accident. Her husband was driving, and he fell asleep. He managed to jump out of the car and save himself, but she stayed in the car. She sustained a lot of injuries. She had many fractures and a spinal injury. Even though she survived, she was hospitalized for two and a half months. She wanted to become an artist, but one day, the doctor came and said she won't be able to paint again because of a fractured wrist, and she won't be able to walk again due to the spinal injury. She also won't be able to have children. She got depressed and started questioning her existence, but she never gave up. Her mother told her while she was in the hospital that God had something good in store for her. Have faith! While staying in the hospital, she asked her brother to bring some stuff for painting, and she painted her first painting after the accident in the hospital room. Then after two years, she applied to some adoption organizations and adopted a boy. Now her son is six years old, and she is Pakistan's first wheelchair-using model. She is also the National Ambassador for UN Pakistani Women. She is a motivational speaker and works with the NGO for the welfare of women and children in Pakistan. She was featured on BBC 100 Women for 2015. She inspires millions of people everyday. She set an example for everyone that nobody should give up, come what may! She said that giving up should not be an option. Instead, failure can be an option because, when you fail, you get up again and try, then you fail, then you try, and one day, you will succeed.
Hope you like the story of a real survivor.
Thanks for reading and please do corrections. It will be helpful.

Story Telling!

Tuesday, November 14, 2017

I am writing about my learning experience today. I usually listen to podcasts every day for an hour, but today I went out of my daily routine and watched a story on YouTube in English. I will tell you about the story in detail now.

The story was about a girl named Mia. She was a 14-year-old girl in Junior High School. She lived in New York City with her mom. Her parents never married, and they stopped seeing each other before her birth, but they still talked to each other and were good friends. Her father didn't live in New York. He lived in France, and Mia went to meet her father and her grandma during Christmas and summer vacations. She had a friend named Lilly. Lilly was a very bright student, and she helped the poor as a member of NGO. Lilly had an elder brother named Micheal (usually the spelling is Michael, but some names are spelled differently), and her parents were both doctors. Mia and Lilly both took the subway to school together.

Mia was not happy because her mother was dating her algebra teacher, Mr. Ginniea. She didn't want her mother to go out with her Algebra teacher as she always failed his class and had to take extra classes after school, daily. This was why her mother met Mr. Ginniea, and one day, he asked her out on a date. Everything was normal until one day, Mia's father called and asked about her mother. He sounded very upset and worried. Mia told him that she was not at home and was probably in her art gallery, but she was actually out with Mr. Ginniea. A few days later, Mia's father came to New York and told her mother that he could not have any children of his own because, last year, he was diagnosed with cancer, and he had to go through Chemotherapy. Now he is fine, but because of Chemotherapy, he cannot become a father.

He told Mia that she had to come to France with him and become the princess there because her father is the king of the country. Mia was shocked to hear this about her father because she never knew the truth about her father before. She refused to go with her father because she wanted to lead a normal life. She wanted to complete her education while living in New York with her friends. After a few days, her father also realized that Mia should do what she wants. So, her father made an agreement and asked Mia to sign it. Mia read the agreement. It was written there that if she wants to stay in New York and complete her education, she can, but she has to learn the rituals of the royal family and she must also move to France after her father's death. She agreed. At last, Mia was happy because everything went well.

This was a very interesting story, and very well told! Keep it up, and I'll be looking forward to reading more of them :)

Translation

Hi there,

Could you help me??

I am trying to translate a paragraph into English. Which version do you find better?

The new international environment and its scenarios of conflict have rendered the nuclear dissuasion and balance of terror doctrines inadequate. Thus, the possession and development of nuclear weapons have become even more unwarranted. If they have seemingly reduced the risks of a nuclear conflict on the same scale as that the Cold War, they have surely increased the diverse dangers of essentially rampant violence.

or

The new international environment and its scenarios of conflict have made the doctrines of nuclear deterrence and of the “balance of terror” inadequate. Thus, it has become even harder to justify the continued possession and development of nuclear arsenals. If, apparently, the risks of a nuclear conflict on the scale envisaged during the Cold War have decreased, the diverse dangers of uncontrolled violence have increased."

Please

Definitely the second one. It's much clearer and more precise.

Choosing One Charity to Support

Carefree Kids - aim to support children who care for a disabled parent
Gift of Sight - sending glasses from rich countries to developing countries
Woodland Warriors - planting millions of trees to reduce air pollution and greenhouse gases


1.- Taking our funding into account, we're obviously limited, and we've decided it's much more useful to devote all of the money to one single charity. I really hope, with all of my strength, that all of you will be able to understand the final decision.
The prize winner is Gift of Sight. As far as we are concerned, their project is possibly one of the most useful for helping people living in developing countries. The opportunity to give the ability of sight to people with lower economic resources is completely marvelous.

2.- It is obvious that the rest of the charities deserve the money too. That is the reason why we would like to give you some of the reasons why we ultimately decided not to fund you.

Carefree Kids: Intending to aid kids with no money to help their disabled parents is a great cause, but in our point of view, the government should be able to give enough money in grants for this.

3.- Woodland Warriors: Reducing air pollution and greenhouse gases is one of the main concerns of developed countries. However, to be honest, our society aims to help people in need because of their low resources more than helping the environment.


Thank you in advance for your review.

Day 8 (Could someone please correct my grammar)

What's up, everyone!
Today I will talk about random things
I go to sleep every day at 10 pm, and I wake up at 6 am (I'm correcting this to am because I'm assuming you don't go to school at night) to go to school.
I want to travel to other countries, but I have a very big fear of airplanes. They are very safe, but I'm afraid to fly. I think that flying is for birds.
Are you afraid to fly? I am!
Yesterday, I went to watch my Flamengo soccer team in estádio Ilha do Urubu (Vulture Island stadium) from Rio de Janeiro. I'm from Brazil, and I had to travel more than 900 miles to Rio de Janeiro to watch the Flamengo game.

You have to remember that this is poetry, and poetry often breaks a lot of the rules of the English language. Envy means that you're jealous of someone. This poem is about jealousy. The writer was born of a chimney sweep and an oyster-wife. This means that the father was very poor and regarded as a very lowly person, but the mother was a pearl (the valuable stuff sometimes found in oysters) so the child (the writer) is torn between two realities. As the child of a well-regarded mother, the writer feels that he or she should have the finer things in life, such as an education, expensive clothes, and rich food. However, because of the father, the child (the writer) was denied these things and is envious (or jealous) of everyone else who does. Because the writer can't read, he or she wants all the books to be burned. That way nobody else could read either. The writer goes hungry because he or she can't afford enough food due to poverty, and is jealous of everyone else who has enough to eat. Rather than go hungry while everyone else is fed, the writer would rather that there was a famine and everyone died of hunger. If everyone else was dead, it wouldn't matter how underfed and skinny the writer is, he or she would still be eating better than everyone else. The sentence "must thou sit and I stand" refers to servants serving nobility. The nobility sit in luxury, while the servants are forced to stand so as to be able to dote on them more quickly. The final line "come down, with a vengeance!" is the writer's wish for revenge. The writer wants everyone who seems to be better off in terms of wealth, opportunity, etc. to be brought down, or abased, insomuch that they are lower even than the writer himself/herself. I hope this helps!