This books includes the following topics. Expansion of Ideas A FRIEND IN NEED IS A FRIEND INDEED A Little Learning is a Dangerous Thing. A Rolling stone Gathers no Moss. A Stitch in Time Saves Nine All That Glitters is not Gold An Apple a day keeps the Doctor away As You Sow, So Shall You Reap Birds of a feather flock together. Books - our Best Friends Burning the midnight oil Charity begins at Home. Cleanliness is next to Godliness Cut your Coat According to Your Cloth Empty vessels make the most sound Examination: A Necessary Evil Example is Better Than Precept OR Practice What You Preach OR Actions Speak Louder Than Words Experience is the best teacher God Helps those who Help Themselves God made the country and Man Made the Town. Green City ; Clean City Health is Wealth Home Sweet Home Honesty is the best policy Impossible is a word in the Dictionary of Fools. India: Unity in Diversity Industry is the mother of prosperity Is having a Hobby / Leisure Time activity helpful? Is Plastic Bad for the Environment? Knowledge is Power Looking on the bright side Manners Maketh Man Neither a Borrower nor a Lender be Nothing succeeds Like Success. One Good Turn Deserves Another Perseverance is the key to success Pollution: Earth’s enemy number one. Practice Makes Perfect Prevention is Better than Cure. Pride Goes Before a Fall Procrastination is the thief of time. Science and Modern inventions: A Blessing or a curse? Service to Man is Service to God. Slow and Steady wins the race. Speech is silver, Silence is Golden. Strike While the Iron is Hot Or Make hay while the sun shines The Hand that rocks the cradle Rules the world The world has enough for every man's need, But not for every man's greed. Things of Beauty is a joy forever. To err is human, To forgive Divine. Travel broadens the mind Trees - Nature’s Gift to Man. Unity is Strength We are a part of Nature, Not Apart from Nature. WHERE THERE IS A WILL THERE IS A WAY Work is Worship How To Write Expansion of an idea? Expansion of an idea or expansion of a proverb is simple and straightforward. It involves 5 easy steps. They are: Step 1: Understand the symbol of the words in the proverb: Most proverbs or ideas are symbolic. The name of place or animal or thing or person stands as a symbol of some quality. We have to try to understand that in the context of the proverb. For example take the proverb, ‘Rome was not built in a day‘. Here the noun ‘Rome’ is the name of a place. We also (should) know that Rome was a great city. So what does Rome stand for? It stands for Greatness or success. (Remember it was a great city). Or take the example of ‘All that glitters is not gold‘. Here we have the noun ‘gold’. It is the name of a thing. We know that gold is a precious metal. So what does gold stand for? It stands for precious. Step 2: Substitute the meaning in the idea or the proverb: Take the two previous examples. ‘Rome was not built in a day’ and ‘All that glitters is not gold’. Now substitute the symbols we found out earlier in the sentences. What do we have? 1 ‘Greatness or success was not built in a day’ 2 ‘All that glitters is not precious’ The proverb is now decoded and ready for understanding. Step 3: Look for a story or anecdote or example or illustration: Now that you have understood what the proverb stands for or what the proverb means, we should look for a suitable example to illustrate it. Where do we get these stories? There are plenty of them. Aesop’s fables are ideal. So are the tales of India, the Panchatantra. We can also look for example from today’s world. We could, for example, for the proverb ‘Rome was not built in a day’, talk about the effort put in by Barack Obama to achieve greatness, and that it took many years to build it, that it did not happen overnight. Step 4: Look for similar proverbs or ideas: “Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success” by Napoleon Hill is similar to ‘Rome was not built in a day’; so is the proverb ‘Do not judge the book by its cover’ similar to ‘All that glitters is not precious’. Step 5: Sum up the paragraph: Use summing up words or phrases to indicate that you have finished the expansion and intend to sum it up. You could use ‘Thus’ or ‘In fine’ or ‘So’ or ‘The proverb advises that’. Let the reader know that you are signing off. So we have 5 Steps on ‘How to do expansion of an idea or expansion of a proverb’: Step 1: Understand the symbol of the words in the proverb Step 2: Substitute the meaning in the idea or the proverb Step 3: Look for a story or anecdote or example or illustration Step 4: Look for similar proverbs or ideas Step 5: Sum up the paragraph This is how I do expansion of an idea or expansion of a proverb.