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Wednesday, April 29, 2015

Essay - Female Education in Bangladesh

Napoleon once said "Give me an educated mother and I will give you an educated nation.” This statement is enough to prove the importance of female education. No nation can progress without educated mothers. Allah has created both man and woman equally. They are like the two sides of a coin. One is incomplete without the other. So, education cannot be the only possession of a single class or sex. Rather, it should be imparted equally to both men and women. Our religion has also made education compulsory for all.

In the past, our women folk were confined within the four walls of home. Parents did not allow them to receive education and to participate in any outside work. Early marriage, religious misinterpretation and the narrowness of our outlook created bar to the path of education. These were great disadvantages. Parents also thought it waste of time and money to educate their girls. They did not understand that if girl children were educated they could be as competent as male children.

As our women folk constitute almost half of our total population, no real development is possible keeping them uneducated. We must not forget that family is the primary training ground of human beings, and mother is at the center. An educated mother knows well how to make and shape the character of her children. She knows well how to bring up her children, to educate them and to make them worthy. In domestic life, she can also extend her helping hand to her husband. So, there is no alternative to female education.

It is a matter of great delight that women have started to come out of their cocoons. Being educated, they are advancing forward and joining a wide range of professions. They have already been able to prove their abilities. They are also becoming successful in establishing themselves in educational, scientific, industrial, cultural, philosophical, and literary arenas. Even they have become successful in exposing their talent in politics and politicization. In fact, they are becoming self-dependent day by day.

However, all disadvantages of female education including male domination of the society, early marriage and religious misinterpretation must be removed in the underdeveloped countries. The good news is that recently the scenario of female education has started to change. All possible facilities of female education have been extended. Education for girls up to degree level has been made free with a monthly stipend. More schools and colleges for girls are being set up to spread female education. If a mother is not educated, the child is not taken care of properly. So, all of us should come forward to spread female education.

Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Essay - Students and Social Services

Students are the future leaders and makers of a nation. They are the devotees in the temple of learning. So, the most important duty of students is to study seriously with devotion. It does not mean that they are isolated from society. They are also social beings like other classes of people. They enjoy the same social benefits, rights and privileges. So, as members of society, they have certain duties to the society in which they live in. There are many kinds of social services and students have a lot to do in these sectors.

Living in a developing country like ours, students must render some social services for the development and welfare of the nation. So during the long vacation and leisure time, students can open night schools and teach the illiterate working children and adult people. They can also teach the farmers about the modern methods of cultivation, the use of fertilizers and proper caring of crops. They can also suggest them to dig a pond for fish cultivation or to make a farm.

Bangladesh is an over populated country. The illiterate people of our country are superstitious and do not feel the necessity of family planning. Even they are unwilling to adopt family planning. In this regard, students can come forward to raise awareness about population problem. They can teach people the problems of over population and encourage them to adopt family planning.

Students can render immense service in the field of health. The village people and the people living in the slums have no knowledge about health, nutrition and sanitation. The students can teach them about the basic rules of health, nutrition and sanitation. Female students can also teach the uneducated women how to keep their houses neat and clean how to bring up children and look after their health.

Students can prove to be worthy during natural disasters. In times of flood, famine and cyclone, earthquake and epidemic, they can come forward to help the affected people. They can collect money from the rich, rescue the affected, feed the hungry, nurse the sick and cloth the unclothed. During epidemics, medical students can serve the sick with food, clothes and medicine.

To save the country, every student should come forward with a helping hand. They should remember that they are the makers of society and the soldiers of social peace. They should serve the society selflessly during their leisure time or during long vacations.

Essay - Empowerment of Women in Bangladesh

The empowerment of women means giving women power and opportunity to the powerless so that they can join the workforce and contribute to the family income and influence the family and social affairs. It is an important concept for both global and national development. The empowerment of women should be ensured at all levels of the state administration. Women's empowerment is a must if we want to make real progress.

In the past women were confined within the four walls. They were kept away from out of home productive work. The hearth became their workplace. So, cooking, cleaning, washing, giving birth and rearing children became their jobs. Men became the wage earners and all other outdoor activities were their responsibilities. It is unfortunate but true that women are still lagging behind in Bangladesh. They are deprived of enjoying freedom. Throughout their life they have to remain dependent on men.

There are many reasons behind the poor status of women in Bangladesh. Among them social and religious prejudices and customs are noteworthy. All these are belittling their position and dignity. Still the poor parents in our country think that the birth of a girl child will add to their sufferings. Instead of sending her to school, she is married off in her tender age. In her in-law’s house she is not treated well and she is often tortured and mistreated by her husband and others for dowry.

We must not forget that women are as important as men in society. About half of our total population is women. So, it cannot be denied that they too possess equal rights and duties as men. They also have ability and if they are given opportunity, they can also work like men. It is not possible for a nation to make real progress by keeping aloof a half of its total population. So, there is no alternative to making women economically, socially and politically self-reliant if we really want to upgrade their status. So, our attitude towards women should be changed and we should work at our level best to change their social status and financial condition.

It is true that women’s condition has changed somewhat during the last few decades. At present they are playing important roles in all spheres of life. They have come out of their four walls and are working hand in hand with men in all spheres of life. The most important factor for women empowerment is education. Our present government has taken proper steps in this regard. It has declared female education free up to class 12. They should be made self-reliant by imparting to them proper knowledge and employment.

However, at any cost we must make our women conscious of the fact that they have the potentiality to participate in the socio-economic development of the country. If we want to keep pace with the challenge of the new millennium, we must ensure the participation of our women in all development work. Besides, we have to ensure their participation in local bodies and state politics. We should remember that the empowerment of women is a must to build up a happy and prosperous society.

Essay - Population Problem in Bangladesh

Bangladesh is the most densely populated country in the world though it is a small country of only 1, 47, 570 square kilometers. At present it has a population over 160 million. About 1000 people live per square kilometer here. Every year more than two million people are being added to our population. Like other third world countries, this problem arises mainly for illiteracy and lack of awareness. The problem has now moved out of control, and it has now come to the stage of explosion. As a result, the government has termed it as a number one problem. It is high time for all of us to be aware of the consequences of this problem.

Though the population of a country is an asset, it becomes a problem when the country cannot afford to give its people the basic necessities of life like food, clothing, education, medicine, shelter etc. There are many reasons behind this rapid growth of population. The main reason is illiteracy, and religious superstition. Early marriage, polygamy and dogmatism are also responsible for this high growth rate of population. Last but not the least, the lack of social awareness contributes much to overpopulation. The large population has become a burden for the country. All development activities are restricted for this overpopulation.

We all know that the area of Bangladesh is too small to support its vast population. In this country some people still sleep under the open sky, under the large tree and at railway station. The present growth rate of population in our country is very alarming. It is still 21.6 per thousand. It is obviously a very high growth rate in the world. There are crowds everywhere in buses, trains, bazaars, schools and colleges. This over population has already become a burden for the country as ours is a least developed country and one of the poorest ones in the world. In fact, our economy fails for this huge population.

This over population is creating a serious threat to the development of the country. Bangladesh cannot feed all her people properly because the production of food cannot keep pace with her increasing people. As a result, there is the shortage of food in our country. When a country has to remain busy to feed its people, it is not possible for that country to implement any development programme. The country also cannot provide job facilities for everyone. As a result, thousands and thousands of people are out of work in this country. Thus the country cannot meet up the basic necessities of life.

To restrict the rapid growth of population some measures should be taken immediately. Firstly, people should be made aware through education. Secondly, early marriage and polygamy should be banned. Thirdly, the population that we already have should be trained to make into skilled manpower and employed in income generating activities. Besides, we have to export this skilled manpower to earn foreign exchange. Finally, we have to export this skilled manpower abroad and earn foreign exchange to boost our economy.

However, though Bangladesh is a populous country, we cannot definitely say that it is overpopulated. Because the country has a vast unexplored resources, By utilizing those unexplored resources, we can overcome the problems caused by the overpopulation. At any cost, we have to train up our manpower so that they can evolve own technology to boost both industrial and agricultural production. Above all, we have to transform our large population into an important asset.

Essay - Benefits of Reading Newspapers

Newspaper is called the store-house of knowledge. The importance of reading newspaper cannot be described in words. A man can be benefitted in many ways by reading newspapers. It provides us with different news and views of the current world. It is newspapers that can influence a person's thinking more effectively than any other media. Every civilized community has newspaper. It keeps people aware of the current information of the world. It brings the whole world to our door. It is a very useful mass medium.

In every page of a newspaper there are different types of news. It contains news, views, opinions, advertisements, notices and information of all kinds. Commodity prices, share market, reports, sports news, news about films, fashions and entertainments are some its regular features. Newspapers have also columns for children and women and for the students’ preparation for examination. Thus readers get those news by reading newspaper.

By reading newspapers, we get all kinds of information from home and abroad. We can get news about the latest political movements and changes in the government. We can also know about the international politics and affairs going through the international page. Those who are the regular readers of the international page are very much aware of the geographical and political affairs of the world. A student can also be benefitted much from a newspaper. There are pages of education from which students can learn many things.

By going through the editorial column, we can know about the analytical explanation of a thing or a matter. From the business page, we can learn about the economy of our country, business affairs of the country and many other statistical things. Sports page is a popular one to the sports loving readers. This page provides them with the latest news of sports and games. Religion and religious analysis are also found in a newspaper.

Newspaper reading can widen the mental horizon of an individual. It develops our ideas, broadens our outlook, enriches our thought, removes our narrowness, and purifies our philosophy. So, we should cultivate the habit of reading newspaper to broaden our knowledge. A man who develops the habit of reading newspaper becomes an enlightened person.