Staying updated with the latest news and happenings around the world is very important for all. Knowing the latest news and updates and new events which are occurring every now and then in your country, or some other countries or may be within your state, is necessary, as these occurrences may have direct or indirect effect to your life. You must always listen to or read the current news on TV, radios, or newspapers, as much as possible. This will give you an idea of the happenings and events around you, especially about economic news, political news, business and finance related news, general current events, and other global news.

These news updates will also bring a large number of benefits for everyone. You can make and rely on your future decisions based on more realistic and plausible information. You can also identify the threats and opportunities from the very early age in your life. Hence you can shape the strategy and goal of your future profile and company, as you will gain a tremendous competitive edge. If you want marketing or sales oriented jobs as your career, then the knowledge of the latest news and keeping you updated will really help you. You can spot all the sales opportunities which will come your way at any point of time. Hence, we can conclude that keeping yourself updated with the latest news and current happenings, has its own advantage. 

How to keep yourself updated with current affairs and news?

We came to know that latest news and current affairs play an important role in our lives. But how can someone keep himself updated with those news is something we must talk about. Here are some tips which will help you in keeping touch with the latest news:

1. Read newspapers regularly: It is a good habit. Take any newspaper every day. Make a time slot. Read the newspaper daily. Go through it from beginning to end once. Then read the important news items and the news items of your interest diligently. If possible make notes of the important points. If you are reading about controversies, then gather information of economic, political and social background of the happenings. Mark the critical issues. Find out about the people who are expressing their views and opinions. Understand their perspectives and viewpoints about those issues. Think about the news and biases from different angles, and try to have your own viewpoint about the issues as well.

2. Do a SWOT analysis: After analyzing the issues think about the solutions. Do not forget you’re also a responsible citizen of your country and hence you may also have a view point and opinion of your own, about those issues. 

3. Always think of a solution to a crisis: You just cannot read about a crisis and forget about it then and there and leave the matter. It’s very important that you try to analyze the situation, discuss with your friends, parents, teachers and others, and get their views as well. You will enjoy the discussions as well as some of the opinions may change the scenario as well. 

As per reports from the NerdWallet, household debt in America rose slightly in all personal loan categories except the credit card debt during the initial quarter of 2017. Research reveals that credit card debt decreased by around 2% or more than $400 per household. Mortgage debt witnessed the most noteworthy change in the first quarter of 2017, soaring by 2.25% or around $4500 per household.

Since increasingly large numbers of people work to realize their New Year goals, there is a drop being noticed in the level of credit card debt. Americans are putting extra dollars towards achieving their financial goals. At the same time, they’re repaying credit card debt. The statistics and numbers show that people are grabbing loans to realize their long term goals like homeownership. This good news for consumers as mortgages is low-interest debt and in some cases, they are assets as well.

Word of advice for consumers

For all those consumers who are trying their best to bring back their finances in order in 2017, it’s definitely a good idea to prioritize repaying high interest credit card debt which is often accompanied by fees and interest rates. While repaying high interest debt, you should also make timely payments on other forms of debt, like auto loans, student loans and home loans. It is only by maintaining such accounts that you can strongly build your credit history which makes it easier to get access to low-rate loans in the near future.

Avoiding few credit card mistakes which lead to debt

Now that you’re aware of the fact that the Americans have started paying off their debt, you should try your best to keep your personal finances in order so that you can also contribute to the plummeting debt level in the nation. Here are few mistakes to avoid.

1. 1. Paying off the balance of the full card rather than the due balance

As long as card payment is involved, it’s important that you pay off the statement balance rather than the current balance. The current balance is the total amount on the card and the statement balance is the amount you spend on the card during the present billing period.

• 2. Not prioritizing credit card debt

Credit card debt might not be the only debt that you owe but it is certainly the costliest debt. However, even though you have other payments, you should always give first priority to credit card debt as it is high interest debt.

• 3. Opening too many credit cards

Credit card companies have a knack of making their rewards sound too lucrative. But you shouldn’t fall into this trap of opening too many credit cards in lieu of rewards. Opening multiple cards make it tougher for you to manage money.

Therefore, although the bigger picture says that the US is bringing credit card debt under control, you should still take care of your personal debt level. Avoid committing the above mentioned mistakes to take care of your finances.

Meaning of Pathetic

Pathetic means evoking or expressing pity, sympathy at it’s highest level of empathy. Of all the fallacies which man hugs to his bosom, the one characterized by Ruskin as “the pathetic fallacy” is the most common to romantic poets. As generally applied, “the pathetic fallacy” imputes to Nature the appropriate emotional states of the despairing, joyful or ironic poet. Poe’s croaking ravens and ghastly rushing rivers were clear examples; T. S. Eliot used the same stage effects in more modern terms. Last week a new poet struck his lyre, and to ears that could remember echoes, the minor strains were far. If you delineate a person as pathetic, you express that they are upset and weak or helpless, and they make you feel very sorry for them.

Now, as long as we see that the feeling is accurate, we pardon or are even pleased by, the confessed fallacy of sight.

Literature – use of pathetic :

The phrase pathetic is a term for the attribution of human emotion and conduct to things found.  It is sometimes used as a kind of personification that occurs in poetic descriptions, when, for example, clouds seem sullen, when leaves dance, or when rocks seem indifferent. The well known British cultural critic John Ruskin coined the term in one of his work, Modern Painters (1856).

Science-use of Pathetic

In science, the term “pathetic “is used in a derogatory way to discourage the kind of symbolic speech in descriptions that might not be strictly accurate and clear, and that might communicate a false impression of a natural phenomenon. An example is a metaphorical phrase “Nature abhors a vacuum“, which contains the suggestion that Nature is capable of hating something. 

Another example is the expression, “Air hates to be crowded, and, when compressed, it will try to escape to an area of lower pressure.” It is not accurate to suggest that air “hates” anything or “tries” to do anything. One way to express the ideas that underlie that phrase more scientifically can be found and described in the kinetic theory of gases: effusion or movement towards lower pressure occurs because unobstructed gas molecules will become more evenly distributed between high- and low-pressure zones, by a flow from the former to the latter.

Pathetic situations for Indian cinema

When it comes to Bollywood, beliefs have always been inconsistent.

Indians, for decades, have felt the West closed its eye to Bollywood’s language of expression and chose to look at only a section of regional cinema selectively.

The West, on its part, always thought of Bollywood as Hollywood’s poor cousin and never felt it necessary to acknowledge its existence.

The mainstream Hindi cinema never stood a chance at the Oscars or other prestigious film festivals. Understandably, Government of India never sent them as the official entry.

However, all perceptions changed when Aamir Khan’s Lagaan received an overwhelming  reception across the film capitals of the world.

With increasing Bollywood consciousness across the globe, the Government of India too realized that sending masala stuff was no faux.