Sri Lanka Students: SRI LANKA LYCEUM: Sinharaja Rain Forest

Students are invited to write essays on Sinharaja Rain Forest, Sri Lanka.

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We are kids.(Adults tend to forget it.) We pen essays on our motherland Sri Lanka, Save The Children, Save the Earth, Learn English Language, Literature, Humanity, Writing, History of Sri Lanka, History of the World, Movies, Books, Festivals, Our Travels, Our Touring Holidays, Save our Sri Lanka Heritage, Earth Lung Carbon Clean Sri Lanka,Sustainable Tourism in Sri Lanka, Save the Rain forests, Save the Wild Life, Save the Bird Life and Save the Marine Life. May Triple Gems Protect Our Island. May God Bless Sri Lanka.

All Island Essay Competition: Write & Win Now

Be a winner. The runners-up are not good enough. The Winner takes it all. The winner of the ‘Writer of the Month’ is rewarded with

(a) a colourful Riolta Olive Laurel Certificate

(b) a book of literary fiction

(d) a laminated colour printout of the essay as a memento

In most Greek competition there were only winners & losers, no runners-up. Take a leaf from the book of Greeks & become a winner. Winner takes it all.

All entries are published in the Web Log together with a photo of the writer. Please e-mail your essay together with your photo to bunpeiris@gmail.com

Touch The Baby Gently & Read Grimm Fairy Tales

Fairy tales are stories either created or strongly influenced by oral traditions. Their plots feature stark conflicts between good and evil, with magic and luck determining the usually happy endings. While each culture and geographic region of the world has its own body of folk tales and fairy tales that it considers "its own," certain themes and motifs tend to be repeated across many cultures and time periods. Universal human emotions such as love, hate, courage, kindness, and cruelty appear in bold, broad strokes on the canvas of fairy tales.

Ceylon by Forbes. See www.srilankaholidays dot me

The ancient & continued annals of the Cingalese race have been preserved for upwards of twenty-three centuries, & describe the erection or formation of all those extensive works, cities, tanks, temples,-whose ruins & numerous inscriptions remain to verify the historical records. For a great proportion of that long period the natives of Ceylon will be found to have remained stationary, or to have retrogated in arts, perhaps in intelligence; whilst Britons, advancing in civilization with extraordinary rapidity,benefiting by experience, & improving in policy, have voluntarily abandoned their arbitrary rule in the island, for a mild, free, but still efficient Government. From this circumstance Ceylon is already advancing beyond that barrier of mediocrity, which in Asia seems to have arrested mind & manners at a particular point of civilization.

Guides From the Greeks

There are guides hammered out through trial & error, vote & veto, consensus & discord. They derive from generations of rational discussion & argumentation by wise men-& ultimately from the traditional approval of the citizenry.

At the core of the Greek belief system lies the conviction that there are unchanging absolutes in the world, ageless & immune from situation & interpretation, a small but vital body of knowledge that is largely agreed-on & indisputable. It is this moral universe which Antigone called the agrapta nomina, the unwritten laws that have always existed.

Punishment is a deterrent so that the criminal may not strike again. It is “punishment for the sake of prevention”, so that the “evil-doer may suffer & learn.” To the Greeks, a society that cannot punish but only forgive & rationalize is as culpable, as amoral as the criminal himself.

...........Thou shalt not murder. Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house.

Honor thy Father and Mother .............

Who killed Homer? Victor Davis Hanson & John Heath Page 39 ISBN 0-684-84453-2

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Thursday, October 30, 2008

SRI LANKA LYCEUM: Sinharaja Rain Forest

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