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Dhaka Tribune Wednesday, September 10, 2014

Volume 2, Issue 19

2014 Writers Contest Special

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Jonaki's Headquarters Hey friends, Hope you all are doing fantastic.

To make your week even more interesting, we have some very exciting things in our issue this week.

Connect the dots in Bhootum’s Classroom (Pg 4) and find out what you just drew. Also check out Discobang’s Pad (Pg 2) to find out if

your writing is selected for this week’s issue. Moreover, you can find fun writing ups along with art works of the winner and runner-ups of Monasa competition. If you want to see your drawing, writing, poems etc. on our next issue, email us your work at treehouse@dhakatribune.com

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Solution: Scumboy is the killer. Inside a soundproof studio, he wouldn’t be able to hear the three shots.

Contents

Cartoonist Syed Rashad Imam Tanmoy Rio Shuvo Graphics Tahsin Momin Mohammed Mahbub Alam Production Masum Billah Advertising Shahidan Khurshed Circulation Wahid Murad

2 Discobang’s pad

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3 Monasa Competion

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Reader’s corner

The road of life

4 Bhootum’s Classroom Amazing facts Colour it Learn English kids

5 Monasa Competion Reflections

6 Monasa Competion My planet

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Discobang's Pad

Reader’s corner

Light and color Seeing means “Light entering eyes, and this light gives birth to a feeling in retina which reaches to our brain through optic nerve.” The part of our brain that is used to see is in the backside of our brain. There’s a lens in our eye which makes an opposite reflection on the retina when the light falls on it. But we don’t see opposite cause the process called “seeing” is done in the brain. Brain manages it.

These all doesn’t means seeing. There are things to learn. A baby who born just now sees with empty eyes because he didn’t learn anything about seeing. If a baby’s eyes can be covered for a long time, his brain will use that part for any other work. He will never see, even if the cover is opened.

Light has to fall on our eyes to make us see. Light is an electro-magnetic wave and waves have a wavelength. If the wavelength is some metres long, it is called radio wave. If it is some angstroms (1 from 10crore parts of metre), it is called x-ray. We can’t see them. We can see only the part that is 0.4 to 0.7 microns (1 from 1 million parts of metre). It can be a misery to you that why did nature made us capable of seeing only this length.

Actually only this part of light can come to the earth surface most well, the other parts becomes absorbed by water vapour. It is not any small absorbent; a huge amount of light rays becomes absorbed. If our eyes were sensitive in any other length, the sunniest day would become dark to us.

Light’s wavelength is its colour. The shortest length is violet and the longest is red. The shorter length than violet is called ultraviolet and the longer than red is called infrared. Green is between red and violet. Our eyes are most sensitive to green and so green world looks very beautiful. If we keep the colours in a row it will be- violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange and red.

Their mixture is white.

If we see red flower it means it is absorbing all colours and disposing red.

When a thing absorbs all colours it is black and when a thing cannot absorb any colour it is called white.

In water colours black is absence of colour. But do we remember that?

Sneha Saha Age: 11 Class: 6 Nalondo high school Dhanmondi

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Monasa Competition

THE ROAD OF LIFE The path stretches on ahead of me, On and on, into infinity.

Through driving wind and pouring rain And through this ever-changing terrain, Does it lead.

My path has met with other’s And for a while I travelled with them, But at one point or another, Our paths diverged again.

I have seen their roads and heard their tales, Shared their successes and their fails, But they have come and they have gone, And by now I know, That I must walk alone.

My path has forked countlessly, Giving me choices to make, Asking which road I shall take.

And endlessly I look back, Wondering if I made a mistake.

But the path does not allow me to fret Too long over things I regret.

For the path will not let me turn back So forward I must go.

Others may yet have come to the end pf their roads But as for me, on mine, I still have far to go.

On and on I have wandered, Without any real plan.

Moving forward ever since, My journey began.

I have a destination, And yet I don’t know where.

But wherever I am going, I know my road will take me there.

I have passed through peace and through strife And faced many struggles in this road I call life I have travelled many a mile, Through times of joy and of trial.

Met many a foe and many a friend Still on I will go, to the journey’s end...

Imaan Seraphine Islam Rahim Scholastica, Grade 9 Age : 14 FIRST PLACE

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Bhootum's Classroom

TONGUE TWISTERS Tongue twisters are difficult to say.

How fast can you say it without making any mistakes?

I can think of six thin things, but I can think of six thick things too.

Find lots more fun things to do at www.britishcouncil.org/learnenglishkids

Š British Council 2013

Connect the dots

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Monasa Competition

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Reflections

The scene was bloody as I went through the hospital in Gaza, Palestine. I was searching for my friend Rashid. There were several air-strikes in Gaza, in which several children and people were injured over the last couple of days. Many children died and other were in agonising pain as they lost their legs and hands. It was too inhumane, too sad to see. I could see fathers and mothers crying in deep shock as they saw their children dying in front of them. Then suddenly a question came to my mind “Did Rashid die?” I tried to erase this question from my mind, but it came over and over again. I passed through many hospital beds but could not find Rashid. Finally I found a hospital bed where Rashid was lying. His face was totally burnt and his left eye socket was empty. Tears came out from his one eye and he cried “I am going to die.” I was trying to comfort him until he died on the hospital bed.

My heart throbbed so much in sadness that I woke up.

What was happening? I was dreaming. All the gruesome and sad reports on Gaza made me dream like that. I knew a similar thing is now happening in Gaza. Then I thought: “Why can’t the world be a more peaceful place to live?”

“Because people do not want to make world a more peaceful place to live.”

Someone answered in my mind.

People around the whole world do not have the courage and strength to stand against the unfair and unjust. If that would be the case then the children and the people of Gaza would not have to die unwanted deaths.

Epilogue Now, as all of you have read the whole story of mine, about the sufferings of people in Palestine, I want to say something to all of you, let us unite together to support the people of Gaza so that they can lead a peaceful life.

Let us stand against countries which are supporting Israel in its unfair and unjust against Palestine.

Mir Mustaufiq Rahman (Razin) Bangladesh International School and College, Grade 6 Age: 12 RUNNER UP

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Monasa Competition

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MY PLANET My planet’s name is Nemek. It resembles a gigantic rock. My planet is so powerful that it makes the solar system golden-yellow coloured. In my city (Edioburnes), there is a massive rocket center called Bolonopomofocai.

Inside Bolonopomofocai there is quite literally inifinite space. There are 16 food courts, a circus, five movie theatres, an astronomy section, six million gift shops, and a theme park. Gigantic robots roam the halls and go around helping people with their needs. The most amazing part is that it has space pods that can go ANYWHERE in the universe. Then there is a road to house city. Everybody lives there. The houses resemble 20ft Bottle caps. The doors can only

be opened by the owner. There is a an enormous lake which flows into a stream. Past the stream there are all the restaurants we have here like KFC and MC Donald’s. In my planet you control your own gravity and oxygen.

So you are able to fly if you want.

Giant bugs live in forests. They are called rajos. They came to be like that through evolution. Each rajo is bigger than its father. They are marked in categories. The biggest one to date is a category six.

Jamshed Khan International School Dhaka Age : 10 RUNNER UP

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