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The Spirit of Independence Today

As the clock struck midnight on  the 13th of August, the sky erupted with fireworks.Sure enough they were beautiful to watch but highly painful to the ears. A heart patient could have had a seizure anytime! Loud blares of toy trumpets below mixed irritably with the ear splitting screeches of flares and the loud explosions of fireworks above. One of our neighbors is of a considerably well social status and can easily afford the sacks of fireworks and such stuff as his young boys demand. They set up equally loud speakers on which they played Pakistani songs which were later replaced by Bollywood ones and a humongous stage was utilized as a dancing platform, these dirty tunes were accompanied with cheers of Pakistan Zindabad and Allah u Akbar from the crowd, oh the irony!   A few Pakistani actors were also invited and were given such an alarmingly deafening welcome that they would rather not come again. On the 14th of August all this rowdiness took place again but this time ...

The Solar System and the Earth

There are a great number of things without which it is impossible for a human to survive. One of the most essential of these is the solar system. If even a small change takes place within this system consisting of plain gaseous rocks, the whole humanity will end without a moment's delay. Hence I feel that it is necessary for us to know about and to understand the Solar System. Lets get a the concept of the placement of planets in the solar system first. Look at the picture on your right, the bright thing you see in the left hand corner is of course the sun. The round ball closest to the sun is the planet Mercury, then there is Venus, the Earth and then Mars. After that you can see a ring of asteroids, these asteroids define the inner planets and the outer planets. The outer planets include Jupiter that is the first planet outside the asteroid ring and then there is Saturn, then Uranus, Neptune and then finally there is another ring of asteroids which defines the end of the so...