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Is it a stupid question?

Is it a stupid question?

Imagine that you lived in 800 A.D and someone asked you the following question: Can I fly like a bird?
Your answer might be one of the two: Are you crazy? Or Wow I’ve never heard such a question. You are the first man asked that. No matter what your response is, the man kept studying about birds and tried to answer his question himself. Now he became the first person who demonstrated a controlled flight. Could he manage to stay between the earth and the sky for few minutes although his machine was made out of a bamboo frame covered with silk cloth and bird feathers? He had no choice but to experiment. He jumped off a cliff and flied for 10 minutes but had a crash landing due to which he injured his back. However, he learnt from his mistake that the tail is very necessary to stabilize flight.  Before he died, he left a book contained many information about that. Since then people tried to fly until someone did it in 1903.  Even though people flied, questions never stopped. This time they are about the outer space. Are there creatures or lost civilizations in the outer space? This might be a stupid question but it led to a great invention- a rocket.  A small and crazy question may lead to interesting results. Everyone remembers the journey of the rocket, Lunik III, which helped peope increase their knowledge about the outer space. The pictures of the moon it took solved an age-old mystery.
No matter what your question is, just try to answer it. If you try and cannot have an answer, believe me you will end up learning a lot. At least you will gain something. Some of the questions that may be stupid to others are: Why am I here? What is the purpose of my life? 

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A Phubber

A smartphone is something interesting to have.  It is so helpful in communication and learning. Most of people wish to pocess a smartphone to benefit from many different applications. As soon as the net is connected to your device, the world is at your finger tips. You may spend a few days doing good activities, learning and reading news etc. After that you are pulled in with more and more activities such as chatting, making whatsapp status and watching videos. Time flies and you spend ages getting lost in watching video after video. Without realizing that you suffer from FOMO (fear of missing out), you start lowering your head looking at your smartphone, checking that you do not miss out on anything. This infuriating habit is going to make you a phubber who ignores people around him/her because of looking at his/her smartphone. Finally, many of your friends will get hurt by your behavior, looking at your smartphone when they are with you.

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Proverbs

The word "Proverb" is well-known and understandable to everybody. In French language the equivalent of proverb is proverbe /pʀɔvɛʀb/ and in Arabic مثل /maθal/. Many scholars tried to define the word proverb. Woldgan Meider is one of them. He states that a proverb is a short generally known sentence of the folk which contains wisdom, truth, moral and traditional views in a metaphorical and memorisable form and which is handed from generation to generation. It is clear that proverbs are used in our daily life. So, they play an important role in our conversations.People use them to support their arguments, to give advice, and to make people behave in a certain way. Proverbs have many functions. Honeck proposed two major functions, these are literary function and practical function. The former refers to the use of proverbs in prose, poetary and songs. For example, in Romeo and Juliet by Shakespear many proverbs are used such as "the weakest goes to the wall." Practical function refers to that proverbs can be used in headlines, titles of books and ads because they attract concumer's attention. In fact, proverbs are more than that. They reflect our culture. Therefore, they should be studied at schools. Understanding them means understanding our culture and others' as well. This will make us understand each other very well, and it helps in communication.

 I'd like you share some of your proverbs.

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