Envy is the deplorable trait of human personality. He usually imposes misfortune on others. Envy is the source of unhappiness. The envious person does not seek happiness from his own belongings. He creates obstacles for the others to get their benefits. The envious nature ruins the extraordinary qualities of a man. He does not know how to compare the situation and importance of anything. Even saints are not free from envious feelings. However, enviousness can be cured through admiration. The ultimate approach to cure envy is happiness. Realistically, comprehending the root cause of envious feeling is itself a big step to cure envy.

Please read this piece of writing aglicious !!!

There you go paper 2009:

Art: Disease or Cure

There's no society on the face of earth which could fully understand and accept art literally. Evidently, art has always faced criticism even from great philosophers, who have been criticising and accusing it to be a source of emotional wreck when a person needs peace or escape from such emotions. The important thing here is to understand that the emotions and passions that art illuminates in a person are not new, rather it gives clarity and sense of direction to converge these feelings, instead of roaming astray, and channelizes the emotional strength gained thereof. The critics also ignore the beauty part of arts, let alone the pleasure one gets while only watching. Art acts merely as a mirror of any society.

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well dear good effort but you still need to put a little more effort. i'd say that you forget about this article and start working on papers 2009 backwards with us. I have posted mine, you also do it. GOOD LUCK!

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Wa tu izzu man-ta shaa, wa tu zillu man-ta shaa

Although i did not read the original text, but your precis seems a good piece of writing. One piece of advice, Try to work on your punctuations and articles

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"Our Lord, give us the good in this world and the good in the hereafter." (Al-Qur'an, 2:201).

First of all your English is good but you have made some basic mistakes related to grammer like ( busy depriving ) . busy is an intrasitive verb hence it carries preposition. It should be busy in depriving, also try to use appropriate words unlike fatal

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His command is, when He desires a thing is to say to it "BE" and it is. (AL-QURAN)

[QUOTE=sidra siyal;518834]waiting for mine to be reviewed!

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[QUOTE=agilicious;519589]Dear Agil,I didn't attempt my precis yet,I am currently out of home,didn't comment on your precis either because I am intending to evaluate it critically after done with mine.. :$

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All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.

From Plato to Tolstoi art has been accused of exciting our emotions and thus of disturbing the order and harmony of our moral life.” Poetical imagination, according to Plato, waters our experience of lust and anger, of desire and pain, and makes them grow when they ought to starve with drought. “Tolstoi sees in art a source of infection. “ not only in infection,” he says, “a sign of art , but the degree of infectiousness is also the sole measure of excellence in art.” But the flaw in this theory is obvious.Tolstoi suppresses a fundamental moment of art, the moment of form. The aesthetic experience – the experience of contemplation- is a different state of mind from the coolness of our theoretical and the sobriety of our moral judgment. It is filled with the liveliest energies of passion, but passion itself is here transformed both in its nature and in its meaning. Wordsworth defines poetry as “ emotion recollected in tranquility’. But the tranquility we feel in great poetry is not that of recollection. The emotions aroused by the poet do not belong to a remote past. They are “ here”- alive and immediate. We are aware of their full strength, but this strength tends in a new direction. It is rather seen than immediately felt. Our passions are no longer dark and impenetrable powers; they become, as it were, transparent. Shakespear never gives us an aesthetic theory. He does not speculate about the nature of art. Yet in the only passage in which he speaks of the character and functions of dramatic art the whole stress is laid upon this point. “ The purpose of playing,” as Halmet explains, “ both at the first and now, was and is, to hold, as, twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time, his form and pressure.” But the image of the passion is not the passion itself. The poet who represents a passion doest not infect us with this passion. At a Sheakspeare play we are not infected with the ambition of Macbeth, with the cruelty of Richard III or with the jealously of Othallo. We are not at the mercy of these emotions; we look through them; we seem to penetrate into their very nature and essence. In this respect Sheakspeare’s theory of dramatic art, if he had such a theory, is in complete agreement with the conception of the fine arts of the great painters and sculptors.
Precis

From Past, art had been considered reason behind stimulating passions and for that reason cause of moral disturbance. Plato viewed art as a fuel for provoking desires and Tolstoi considered art as contagious.His theory undermined the very nature of it which is passion,different from moral wisdom.The emotions aroused by art are not of past but are of present moment.Shakespear’s work depicted the same truth,at his plays one had never gone deep in to emotions but instead stayed at the moment without moral disturbance.Same theory if true, applies to all forms of art.

TITLE:NATURE OF ART OR ART AND PASSION

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All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.

Agil your attempt is mature and in coherrence, Job well done However, I think it would be better to use some other word instead of word society in beginning,It is depicting the meaning different from the original passage.

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All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.

and also was it right to leave details about Plato Shakespeare etc ??

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All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.