From PAST 2001

It was not from want of perceiving the beauty of external nature but from the different way of perceiving it, that the early Greeks did not turn their genius to portray, either in colour or in poetry, the outlines, the hues, and contrasts of all fair valley, and hold cliffs, and golden moons, and rosy lawns which their beautiful country affords in lavish abundance.

Primitive people never so far as I know, enjoy when is called the picturesque in nature, wild forests, beetling cliffs, reaches of Alpine snow are with them great hindrances to human intercourse, and difficulties in the way of agriculture. They are furthermore the homes of the enemies of mankind, of the eagle, the wolf, or the tiger, and are most dangerous in times of earthquake or tempest. Hence the grand and striking features of nature are at first looked upon with fear and dislike.

I do not suppose that Greeks different in the respect from other people, except that the frequent occurrence of mountains and forests made agriculture peculiarly difficult and intercourse scanty, thus increasing their dislike for the apparently reckless waste in nature. We have even in Homer a similar feeling as regards the sea, --- the sea that proved the source of all their wealth and the condition of most of their greatness. Before they had learned all this, they called it “the unvintagable sea” and looked upon its shore as merely so much waste land. We can, therefore, easily understand, how in the first beginning of Greek art, the representation of wild landscape would find no place, whereas, fruitful fields did not suggest themselves as more than the ordinary background. Art in those days was struggling with material nature to which it felt a certain antagonism.

There was nothing in the social circumstances of the Greeks to produce any revolution in this attitude during their greatest days. The Greek republics were small towns where the pressure of the city life was not felt. But as soon as the days of the Greeks republics were over, the men began to congregate for imperial purposes into Antioch, or Alexandria, or lastly into Rome, than we seek the effect of noise and dust and smoke and turmoil breaking out into the natural longing for rural rest and retirement so that from Alexander’s day …… We find all kinds of authors --- epic poets, lyricist, novelists and preachers --- agreeing in the precise of nature, its rich colours, and its varied sounds. Mohaffy: Rambles in Greece ( words containing 415)

Title : Nature in Greek's perception

Precie:

Admiration from natural beauty depends on different ways of perception. The art of ancient Greeks did not show any sign of their inspiration from natural beauty as their land is gifted with natural beauty rather they regarded them their enemies and wastage of resources as it made agriculture hard. Their perception is not strange to others. Homer is in complete harmony with this idea. Complete disappearance of natural elements from their art is enough to understand their idea of nature. In primitive time there was nothing which brings Greeks into revolution. With passage of time, small towns turned into big cities with all effects of urbanization. Since Aleander's time authors agreed upon colors and beauty of nature. ( words containing 117)

you have done a good job,,, well solved

got attempt but there are few grammatical mistakes in it.

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please pint out my mistakess.....

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adding more in above said technique, one must peruse the piece at least for 4-6 time carefully, then a theme will be created in one's mind about that passage, try to follow the gist of the passage and then reproduce that gist in written form,,,,,, that's the whole precis is

I am also making an effort. Brothers and sisters plz make comments as its my first ever precise
Precis
The early Greeks did not see the nature for its outer beauty rather they consider it as a barrier for human activities and they were very much afraid of the beasts animals and seas. Thats why they were unable to utilize the resources they had. Later on when men tired of modern living style they built homes and in towns and adapt the nature.

One of the most ominous and discreditable symptoms of the want of candour in present-day sociology is the deliberate neglect of the population question. It is or should be transparently clear that if the State is resolved, on humanitarian grounds, to inhibit the operation of natural selection, some rational regulation of population, both as regards quantity and quality, is
imperatively necessary. There is no self-acting adjustment, apart from starvation, of numbers to the means of subsistence. If all natural checks are removed, a population in advance of the optimum number will be produced, and maintained at the cost of a reduction in the standard of living. When this pressure begins to be felt, that section of the population which is capable of reflection, and which has a standard of living which may be lost, will voluntarily restrict its numbers, even to the point of failing to replace deaths by an equivalent number of new births; while the underworld, which always exists in every civilised society the failures and misfits and derelicts, moral and physical will exercise no restraint, and will be a constantly increasing drain upon the national resources. The population will thus be recruited, in a very undue proportion, by those strata of society which do not possess the qualities of useful citizens.

The importance of the problem would seem to be sufficiently obvious. But politicians know that the subject is unpopular. The unborn have no votes. Employers like a surplus of labour, which can be drawn upon when trade is good. Militarists want as much food for powder as they can get. Revolutionists instinctively oppose any real remedy for social evils; they know that every unwanted child is a potential insurgent. All three can appeal to a quasi-religious prejudice, resting apparently on the ancient theory of natural rights, which were supposed to include the right of unlimited procreation. This objection is now chiefly urged by celibate or childless priests; but it is held with such fanatical vehemence that the fear of losing the votes which they control is a welcome excuse for the baser sort of politician to shelve the subject as inopportune. The Socialist calculation is probably erroneous; for experience has shown that it is aspiration, not desperation, that makes revolutions. (375 words)

POPULATON EXPLOSION & ITS IMPACTS
The undermining of ‘population explosion’ problem in sociology is unfortunate. If state is to take some steps to address the issue it should focus both upon its quality & quantity aspects. For if nothing is done, starvation is destined & quality of living will be reduced. At such instance more prosper part of society would try to maintain its standard of living by largely restricting its number, while less fortunate would continue unhindered resulting in incompetent human resource & further increasing the burden upon national resources.
The problem is very much understood but a politician desire of larger voter base, employers want for cheap labor and obsession for larger armies have weakened the issue. Experience shows that its was motivation not the numbers that created wonders. (126 words)

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To what heights I cannot rise.

gud attempt...but u r not following the rule that it should be 1/3 of the original passage...it seems 1/6 to me.......

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“Living is too hard right now. Dying is easy. Let me die.”
Kristin Cashore

"The art of ancient Greeks did not show any sign of their inspiration from natural beauty as their land is gifted with natural beauty rather they regarded them their enemies and wastage of resources as it made agriculture hard."

a very long and confusing sentence. It would be nice if you could split it into two sentences. you used 'as' twice in a single sentence to connect clauses.

With passage of time,
i think you should write "With the passage of time"

"there was nothing which brings"
if a sentence has two clauses and first clause contains past tense, the second clause should also contain past tense.
there was nothing which brought would be right to write

few prepositional errors as well... keep on trying

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Jab Apna Qafila Azm o Yaqen Se Niklay Ga
Janhan se Chahen Gay Rasta Wahin Se Nikle Ga

Paragraph for precise writing from 2002 ppr

'The official name of our species is homo sapiens; but there are many anthropologists who prefer to think of man as homo Fabcr-the smith, the maker of tools It would be possible. I think, to reconcile these two definitions in a third. If man is a knower and an efficient doer, it is only because he is also a talker. In order to be Faber and Sapiens, Homo must first be loquax, the loquacious one. Without language we should merely be hairless chimpanzees. Indeed we should be something much worse. Possessed of a high IQ but no language, we should be like the Yahoos of Gulliver's Travels- Creatures too clever to be guided by instinct, too Self-centered to live in a state of animal grace, and therefore condemned forever, frustrated and malignant, between contented apehood and aspiring humanity. It was language that made possible the accumulation of knowledge and the broadcasting of information. It was language that permitted the expression of religious insight, the formulation of ethical ideals, the codification to laws, It was language, in a word, that turned us into human beings and gave birth to civilization. (total 189 words)

Title: importance of Language

Anthropologist referred human as tool maker because he could express himself. Without language human beings were mere animals. It was language through which they got information and transform it into others. Religious knowledge, morality code and formulation of laws, all were possible due to language. It was language which made us superior creature. It is bedrock of civilized society. (total 59 word)

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“Living is too hard right now. Dying is easy. Let me die.”
Kristin Cashore