Our grandparents are a blessing to us describe your grandparents and say in what way they

have been a blessing to us essay.

By definition, my grandfather is handicapped. However, he doesn't act as though he is, and he certainly
does not want to be treated in any special way.In fact, most of the handicapped people in society do not
appreciate being treated in a way different from anyone else. They just want to be accepted as human
beings.Some people become handicapped as a result of an accident. Others are born with their
disabilities.My grandfather was asleep one night on a Coast Guard cutter when another ship, a
destroyer, appeared in the distance. The destroyer hit my grandfather's ship in the exact spot where he
was sleeping. When he awoke, he found himself in the freezing water, watching his friends swim ashore
to safety. They were leaving my grandfather there to die.Luckily, an angel in the form of a Coast guard
chef rescued him and sought out help. The next thing he knew, he was in a hospital bed without legs
(from the kneecap down) and with a broken neck.I admire the fact that my grandfather resumed a
normal life-style after being released from the hospital two years after his accident. Not only did he get
married, but he raised six children.He used artificial limbs for a number of years while holding a job at
IBM.
After a while, though, he ceased using them because they felt too unnatural. Now, while enjoying the
"retired life," his mode of transportation is a wheelchair.As a young child, I remember how my
grandfather's disability affected my life. I don't think that I even knew what the purpose of his
wheelchair was. To me, it was just a toy, just another toy that my cousins and I could play with.I almost
always received a wheelchair ride around the house. I can't recall my grandpa ever complaining about
those long wheelchair journeys down the hall to the bedrooms and the bathroom.I am lucky for such a
wonderful role model while growing up. My grandpa's perseverance and strength have influenced my
life.
He has taught me that no matter what a person's physical condition is, it is how he or she mentally and
emotionally handles the situation that counts.My grandfather has always had a strong sense of where he
was going and what he wanted to do. He was, and still is, mentally prepared for whatever lies ahead.My
goal in life is to be that way, too.

EXPERIENCE IS THE BEST TEACHER
The title suggest that "book-learning is all right as far as it goes, but success in life goes to the
practical man of affairs rather than tot he lofty theorist." Such ideas are certainly given the color
of truth by the undoubted fact that the successful politician goes further on shrewdness than on
political theory, and the rich businessman further on practical ability than on the degree in
economics. If success in life is to be measured in terms of money, power and position, it is the
practical man who succeeds most often. Experience has taught him when to buy and when to
sell, whom to trust and whom to suspect, whom to make friends with and whom to ignore.The
title also suggests that we tend to take more notice of the lessons of life than the lessons of our
teachers in school. This is undoubtedly true! Children are naturally lazy and inattentive because
a failure in class doesn't seem to matter very much -- at least at the time. After all, there is
always the security of home. But, when a man comes to have his own home with payments
falling due and hungry mouths to feed, he is afraid to be inattentive to his job because he may
lose it. Harsh experience teaches him to be his best, because if he fails, he knows his employers
will not be sentimental about the needs of his family.And again, the title suggests many spheres
of adult activity in which, although a little theory is obviously necessary, practical experience
alone can achieve results a learner-driver can easily learn the mechanics of driving a motor car
in the classroom and be able to answer any question, but with all his theoretical knowledge, he
(or she) is bound to be nervous the first time out on the road alone -- even when the
driving-test has been successfully passed. Only experience can teach the new driver to cope
with the speed of the hurly-burly of the city roads.Marriage, also, is said to be 'a lottery'. Some
mutual thoughts can perhaps, bring together partners who are likely to be happy, but
experience really counts in marriage more than anything else. No two people can live happily
and successfully together before they have learned by experience how to strengthen their
bonds and break down their barriers.Many occupations also demand a maximum of experience,
given a minimum of theoretical knowledge. The salesman goes to shops and private houses with
a good theoretical knowledge but experience has to teach him to make friends, what selling line
to take, and how to avoid offence. Many a job depends entirely on practice and experience. the
shoemaker, the goldsmith, the tailor, the fisherman -- all these and hundreds like them learn
their skills by practice, by trial and error, and often serve a long apprenticeship to their trade.
Even the soldier in battle learns the art of jungle-warfare better in action, when his life may
depend on his decisions, than in the jungle-warfare school.All the same, we must be careful not
to regard experience as the only teacher. There are indeed certain subjects concerning which
practical knowledge is either impossible, or beside the point, or completely dependent on
theoretical knowledge. The astronaut is the practical man of space-travel, but he is merely the
'Guinea-pig' of the scientist in actual fact, doing precisely as he is told by men whose practical
experience has never been extended outside the university lecture-room. In fact, in the
approaching age of science, technology and automation, theoretical knowledge will be at a
premium, while practical experience diminishes in importance.Again, nobody's individual
experience can ever be regarded as complete. We must inevitably draw on the experience of
others for success in any worthwhile occupation. after all, theoretical knowledge is in reality no
more than the accumulated experience of other people. While such textbook knowledge will
have been sufficient in itself, the man who fails to use it merely, makes matters harder for
himself. The usual process with theory is that we learn at school rather reluctantly -- and then
refer back to it when experience teaches us its value and the less well the theory has been
learnt at school, the harder this becomes in later life. Experience is no doubt the best teacher,
but it is foolish to scorn the classroom.
You have been delayed all night by a railway accident near a small station in india
In human life many accidents happens, but some accident is of such a type that it become
imprinted in our mind for many years. And its reminding exerts very painful feeling. Such
accidents happened with me before around six years.It was month October. The sky was clear
and cloudy. There was mild raining also. I reached at town of Valigonda early in the morning
at 8:00 oclock. It as ery ufortuate day as this day alays sho e the scee of disaster.
Accident Overview:
The Valigonda rail disaster occurred on 29 October 2005 near the town of Valigonda, south of
Hyderabad in the Indian State of Andhra Pradesh. A flash flood swept away a small rail bridge,
and a "Delta Express" train travelling on it derailed at the broken section of the line, killing at
least 114 people and injuring over 200.
Accident Details:
The train was traveling south at night, packed with hundreds of sleeping holiday makers visiting
relatives for Divali, when a huge irrigation tank situated up stream from the rail lines ruptured,
sending thousands of gallons of water down the channel, destroying the bridge in the darkness.
When the passenger train hit the broken section a short time later, nobody had reported the
damage, and the engine and seven coaches of the train disappeared into the gap created by the
broken line. Four coaches crashed into a field close to where the track had been, whilst three
more fell into the channel and were swept farther afield into deeper water, where most of the
fatalities occurred.
In the day following the accident, the Indian Navy supplied divers, who dived into the flood
waters with blow-torches to try to rescue people who may have been trapped in air pockets in
the sunken carriages. Reportedly, several people were rescued this way. The army and air force
also provided assistance with rescue, medical and heavy lift helicopters, by collecting bodies and
maintaining security at the site.
The area had been lashed by monsoon rains for several weeks before the accident, which had
waterlogged fields and over-filled the irrigation tank, which had ruptured due to unknown
factors exacerbated by the heavy volume of rainfall. The flooding had also destroyed several
roads, hampering efforts to get emergency personnel to the scene quickly. India's Junior
Transport Minister commented on the disaster