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Why do our eyelashes and eyebrows does not grow continuously?

Vandana Rao
Updated on 30-Jul-2019 22:30:24

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A roughly 90% of your hair follicles are normally in the development stage at any specified point. The hair in your eyebrows just goes through a short-term length, approximately 4 months. The length of your hair is normally perfect before expected time which it has to grow.Hair follicles have staged growth cycles: one stage for growth, one stage for the lapse and one stage for rest. A roughly 90% of your hair follicles are generally in the development stage at any specified point. The hair in your eyebrows just goes through a short-term cycle length, approximately 4 months in contrast ... Read More

Why is Greenland called as island and not a continent?

Vandana Rao
Updated on 30-Jul-2019 22:30:24

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Greenland is actually a huge island on the North American plate in the pink color. It’s surely got a load of ice on it, much of which shapes as a part of the Arctic polar ice cap, but there is a land below Greenland. Tagging Greenland is actually an ice sheet implicit that it’s drifting on water as an unarranged part of the much larger.Scientists call those islands continents which has a completely different tectonic plate. The continental outer layer also has to be firm. Unlikeness of the flora and fauna of the location is also taken into deliberation while ... Read More

Why is bullying a major teenage problem?

Vandana Rao
Updated on 30-Jul-2019 22:30:24

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Bullying comprises of behaviors that emphasize on making someone else feel insufficient or direct on disparaging someone else. It is nothing but torture, physical harm, continuous degrading speech and attempts to exclude another person. Bullying is mobile and is done with the aim of bringing another person down.A recent research states that teenage bullying is more usual among younger teens than it in older teens. However, it may be that young teens are more vulnerable to physical bullying, which is simple to recognize, and that older teens are soberer in processes of bullying that are not always accurately recognized as ... Read More

What is a sonnet in English literature?

Ridhi Arora
Updated on 30-Jul-2019 22:30:24

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A small lyric poem of fourteen lines is a sonnet. There are two types of Sonnets: the Italian (Petrarchan) and the English (Shakespearean).In the Italian form, There are two intrinsic divisions: the first part consists of 8 lines and the second part is of 6 lines, in all making 14 lines.Shakespearian SonnetsBut the same does not happen in Shakesperian sonnets. William Shakespeare, the ‘Bard of Avon’, is noted to have mastered at least 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few other verses. His popularity can be estimated by the following “He was naturally learned; he needed ... Read More

Do whatsapp emoticons depict all our emotions perfectly?

Ridhi Arora
Updated on 30-Jul-2019 22:30:24

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Whatsapp is a boon, especially to the young generations nowadays due to the features it holds like Voice call, video calls, chat options, etc. Not only this, but the emoticons are also marvellously in trend.Emoticons: These are simple and cute pictures which are used to depict your emotions. Some of these smileys are really meaningful and make quite a lot of sense while the others are just to confuse and overwhelm too.Do They Really Comprise All Emotions?Well, it depends on the symbol that was used. Every emotion has its own meaning. For example, the smile emoticons state that you are ... Read More

What are clauses in English Grammar?

Ridhi Arora
Updated on 30-Jul-2019 22:30:24

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Clauses are defined as the words, consisting of a subject and a finite form of a verb. Every complete sentence is made up of at least one clause.There are Two Major Types of ClausesIndependent clausesDependent clausesLet us have a look at the sentences belowMia bought a new computer. (One sentence, one clause)Mia bought a new computer, but she still has the old one. (One sentence, two clauses)A Dependent Clause (or subordinate clause) does not make sense by itself because it does not express a complete thought.“But she still has his old one”. (a dependent clause is a sentence fragment.)An Independent Clause ... Read More

Are dogs more loyal than cats?Jusify

Ridhi Arora
Updated on 30-Jul-2019 22:30:24

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Yes, dogs are far more loyal, helpful, obedient, caring and affectionate than cats. This is because cats don't care: they only want you for food and that's about it. I remember when I was reluctant to buy a dog as a pet, my sister who already owns a pet dog told me, “A dog is a family, a cat is merely a pet”. How correct she was!My ExperienceWithin these a few months with my pet, I realized dogs actually help we humans in daily life from helping the disabled and to simple things like fetching the newspaper in the morning ... Read More

Does littering make one uncivilised?

Ridhi Arora
Updated on 30-Jul-2019 22:30:24

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What is Litter?A piece of rubbish or waste disposed improperly at a wrong location is called Litter. A small piece of litter leads to garbage that by covering the earth endangers the flora and fauna and slowly causes diseases if not recycled properly.This is because when littered, these chemicals can get into the soil and affect the overall quality of water and soil both. We must have recalled by now the Biodegradable and Non -Biodegradable wastes about which we have been studying in our junior classes. The latter category of wastes is more harmful.How Littering Is Related to Civilization?The etymological ... Read More

Are punctuation marks a guide to good communication?

Ridhi Arora
Updated on 30-Jul-2019 22:30:24

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Punctuation marks date back to at least the 5th century BC when there were hardly any insights to writing and there were only capital letters. While the basic rules of communication are not difficult to understand, still a confusion always bothers us during our interaction using British English or American English.Uses of Punctuation MarksThey help us in depicting our emotions in a better manner.Quotation marks to emphasize words and phrases.Quotation marks are used for purposes of dialogue, quotes, and titles.Comma, semicolon are also used to denote minor pauses while sleeping.Ellipses indicate the omission of words within something that is being quoted.Punctuation ... Read More

Why is physical abuse to children illegal?

Ridhi Arora
Updated on 30-Jul-2019 22:30:24

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Child abuse is a crime that encompasses a variety of behaviors involving physical, emotional, or sexual mistreatment or neglect upon a child. Abuse child can be in physical, emotional, sexual in form or neglect. Every year millions of children suffer from different type of child abuse.Why is it illegal?Children are the most innocent creations of God. They do not usually do mistakes because they want to or deliberately, but because they either find it fun or they have seen someone elder to them committing the same mistakes. All types of child abuse regardless of the causes; affect the child in ... Read More

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