LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

U.G. DEGREE EXAMINATION – GENERAL ENGLISH

MD 17

FOURTH SEMESTER – APRIL 2008

EL 4050 – VALUE ADDED GENERAL ENGLISH

 

 

 

Date : 17/04/2008             Dept. No.                                        Max. : 100 Marks

Time : 9:00 – 12:00

 

1. Explain any TEN of the following: (10 x 3 = 30 marks)

 

1. Rural sports
2. Sustainable development
3. Party – Cracy
4. Holistic education
5. Blasphemy
6. Ecological footprint
7. The Moral Ape
8. Alienation
9. The IT Divide
10. Climate Change
11. Anthropocentric worldview
12. Vicious cycle of corruption
13. Gender sensitivity
14. Maslow’s theory of needs
15. The consuming class

 

1. Answer any SIX of the following in about 100 words each: (6 x 5 = 30 marks)

 

1. Who and how much should one sacrifice to save our only planet, Mother Earth, from global warming?
2. What is Sarvodya or Gandhian approach for social transformation?
3. Is it possible to wed faith and history, in the words of Romila Thapar, with regard to the Sethusamudram Project?
4. Do you agree with the view that man is a noble savage?
5. How can the IT sector be humanised?
6. “The rich can afford to be honest, whereas the poor who are desperate, cannot.”  Comment on this statement against the backdrop of corruption in India.
7. Al Gore, the nobel laureate, has said that we have to choose between ecology and economics.  Consider his opinion in the light of SEZs mushrooming in India.
8. What is “the dharma of emerging woman,” according to Tamil poet Subramania Bharatiar as quoted by Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam in his essay, “Women Empowerment”?

 

III. Answer any TWO of the following in about 200 – 250 words:      (2 x 20 = 40 marks)

 

1. How will you match the ideals of Gandhiji on the one hand and Ratan Tata on the other to build a new India in 2025?
2. Higher Education in India is at crossroads, with privatisation of education and dilution of the higher ideals of higher education.  Discuss.
3. “For the Buddha, the tree was sacred : it had intrinsic value; but for Western civilization it is just an object”, so says Satish Kumar, editor of “Resurgence”magazine.  Elucidate.
4. Is the sporting spirit missing in modern sports?  Illustrate.

 

 

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