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            <title><![CDATA[Survive.. and Thrive..!!]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Shahrukh Abbas]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Fri, 21 Jul 2017 18:24:32 GMT</pubDate>
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            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In the world of darkness, you have to burn, to spread the light to others, shine to take the happiness to the edge of the world. How do you make others happy, certainly not by chilling out on Saturday nights drinking diet coke because you are on your way to loose weight, but by making other people feel important, people with less resources, people with dreams to achieve and no physical ways to make the ends meet.</p><p>I believe in helping everyone because everyone needs help, certainly people need help in their own ways, some draw out bills out of their pockets to help, some just put effort and time to make people smile. What pleasures me the most is to help the children who need time and attention in their lives. We see so many children around us nowadays neglected, dejected in the corners of the houses considered dull, incapable of pacing their feet with ordinary children. Children who are often considered as dumb or even even sometimes too clever acting as a dumb are the ones who need our attention most. We do not consider the proposition that they actually might have some issue which they cant get over with.</p><p>Dyslexia, dysgraphia, dyscalculia and slow learners are some kind of issues that many children face but don&#39;t recognize it. Dyslexia is a disorder which involves difficulty in reading and interpreting words, symbols but doesn&#39;t affect simple intelligence, these children are ordinary children with simple disability of comprehending words. Dysgraphia causes trouble to children who have trouble with written expression and drawings, Dyscalculia is a disorder that impacts children’s ability to learn math, slow learners are the children with short attention spans, they are below the average students who are considered less focused or more juvenile.</p><p>These are very common issues with children but parents usually are unaware of such things. Even Parents need help. This is one of my biggest motivation in taking up this challenge, I believe i have some idea to help such children. What i want to do is to create a website where children with issues will be assessed with the help of a clinical psychologist through an IQ test, here what we will do is to make a competitive test which can judge the issue with the child, then we will prepare a special plan for the remedy of the issue with the child. This plan will be conducted by a special educator (remedial teacher) who will help the student and furthermore conduct assessments to track the progress of the child. This child could be brought in to meet us in person as well.</p><p>This is one way, we can educate our children, children who are future of this nation, but one disability hinders their progress. They are stymied by one thing which they can’t control.</p><p>I am a huge admirer of working in the educational sector, since our country is the one which needs it the most. This is my initiative, my effort to support the claim of the change we all to want to see but do very little for it, but we should all know one thing very well that living is survival but continuously living in the state of survival is no living, thrive to make the life better, this nation better, this world better, after all that is the only thing we can leave behind.</p><img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=d1566caaba1b" width="1" height="1" alt="">]]></content:encoded>
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            <title><![CDATA[Help Yourself]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Shahrukh Abbas]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Tue, 11 Jul 2017 21:48:48 GMT</pubDate>
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            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ever wondered what are the major concerns of a business graduate. Well first of all its the need for reaching out to the college/university on time, satiate his or her hunger and come out of class without any hassle of work and stroll carelessly. Well yes we are talking about a graduate of modern way living and dwelling in the world of Internet of Things.</p><p>I believe Universities should provide such an extraordinary learning environment where students only worry should be learning something new in the day, optimizing resources to make the learning easy and leave the rest to its amazing Artificial intelligence to take care from. These are mere thoughts of freeing myself from the hassles of my place of study and to make them realistic i have an idea.</p><p>I believe Internet of things can make my life easy. I believe when my time for class is near, i should have alerts in my smartphone. My smartphone should show me the layout of the parking place in my university and help me park my car. Holding identification cards is the kind of hassle i don&#39;t want to carry anymore so my app should have a impenetrable, secure QR code which should be scanned by a scanner at the gates to reveal my identity. This will provide a secure way into my university and maintain the sanctity of it. Since my smartphone already knows the subjects that i am already studying it should offer me suggestions to the books in library providing me a straight route to the shelf in which the book is placed and when i am done all studying, it should provide me a brief about the delicious eateries in my university. I shall book it and pick it up when its ready, so i don’t hold grudges to the long queues.</p><p>I believe if all these little features are combined in an smartphone app, it will not save only my time but it will be able to make the life of many people easy. lets hope to take it to the finish line :)</p><p>Join hands to make it real, please visit..!!</p><p><a href="https://www.quirky.com/invent/312819">https://www.quirky.com/invent/312819</a></p><img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=cf46078ba89f" width="1" height="1" alt="">]]></content:encoded>
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            <title><![CDATA[Pseudo Intellectuals]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Shahrukh Abbas]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2017 21:06:47 GMT</pubDate>
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            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In the last few decades, the world has evolved globally. People are provided with stimulating ways of communication and this has granted them their eternal wish of “Freedom of Speech”. People speak as they wish, or a better interpretation would be that they are overtly fond of imposing their opinions over others. This idea of proving oneself ingenious, has given rise to the planet of the Pseudo Intellectuals.</p><p>Most of us might not know the exact meaning of this term but we are very familiar with it in our practical lives and are always surrounded by them. Whether you are commuting by a bus or watching a highly recognised TV talk show or just gossiping among a bunch of friends, you will certainly find a guy with self-developed and egotistical belief of knowing everything, who could speak for hours without sensing your indifference to the topic, he has thousands of arguments and may not even know the meaning of any one of them. People of such ilk are so focused on transmogrifying your unambiguous thoughts into such fickle believes that no logic seems appropriate and even bashing your head against a wall seems logical.</p><p>I believe that they are two kinds of people in this world. 1) People who do not have any opinion on every matter and 2) People who pretend to have solution for every running day-to-day affair around them. Pakistani Nation is a very strong example of this problem as we are full of such people. We do not even leave a cricket match out of our critical eye and present such ferocious comments on it that don’t even have any logic nor they are related to the facts. Our media has also played a vital role in the upbringing of such people. Entertainment has now become a mundane business of instigating pointless debates with no regards to the actual facts. People are so riveted in providing uncanny explanations that they have neglected the benefits of practical efforts.</p><p>Finally, who are true intellectuals? The people who know themselves, people who do not lose their values due to someone’s unnatural words, People who discover facts on their own, People who do not argue to agitate others. Most of you would even consider these ideas as an unsought work of a Pseudo Intellectuals, but hey… it’s all about finding your own path, your own nature, and your own meanings. Remember, there are always two sides to a story, there are always a million shades between black and white. We should let go of the “my way or the highway” mentality and learn to keep an open mind and cherish other people’s opinions.</p><p>“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” <br> Socrates..</p><img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=331e43ee659" width="1" height="1" alt="">]]></content:encoded>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Lost importance of Books]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Shahrukh Abbas]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2017 20:57:01 GMT</pubDate>
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            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In the very beginning days of my education, the first book that was handed to me was the book, which taught me the story of a spider. The spider had to climb up to a place; it fell down once, than twice but eventually, its persistence and determination paid off and it climbed. This story showed me one path of life which always helped me through the struggles of life and made me a different man. I realized books are the lanterns of light that not only brighten your path but also develop the sense of difficulties ahead and help you walk past through them.</p><p>Even in the era of modernization, books do represent as the best source of knowledge and wisdom, we just have to pick them up and that is the energy we lack nowadays. We are not motivated by the concepts of books; we consider them tedious neglecting the fact that they can benefit one in myriad a of ways. Suppose, even if you pick up your science book, it will not only open the doors of science for you but also will improve your vocabulary in the language its written and that is not it, it will compel you think upon it, it will tickle your urge for more sound knowledge. One thing that people do not relate with the books is they expand the verges of your patience. Even if you are waiting at some place or making your way out of a trouble, they tend to provide a sense of comfort which no other thing can provide. Facts discovered from other sources are always dubious, but books provide the authenticity and own every word written in it.</p><p>The most unheeded aspect of book reading is that it sets your imaginative power free. When you read things, they stimulate the creative end of your subconscious mind and substantiate minute details so when you try to remember it, your mind inculcates those details and will elicit in most formidable fashion and strengthen you with striking visionaries in elusive manner. Our mind is the most wondrous thing in the world and is always perked up by these books.</p><p>Today libraries are decaying, people may have had found other techniques to materialize their need for knowledge and people find them more interesting but fact is something’s are always done better in old fashioned ways and one of them is Book reading which no matter how much pretermitted will never be eradicated. We give credit to the people who find new ways of gracing people with knowledge but we often forget to admire those brilliant minds that preserved the knowledge in the books and passed it onward. Books may get old but their wisdom and sapience never get old. They will always be impregnating the world with knowledge and will always be holding the key to success.</p><img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=f0fce3176ed1" width="1" height="1" alt="">]]></content:encoded>
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