Educational

Once there was a farmer who lived with his two sons in a place very far from the city and near a mountain pass. His personality was very bad, and over the years his habits became worse. He became more cruel with the animals he owned. He treated them badly without reason, especially the dogs he would beat and stone. One day of severe winter, a severe snow storm occurred at the time his eldest son was returning from the city to the farm where they lived. The weather was extremely terrifying, which made the son lose his way back to his residence. Then he fell on the snow, losing consciousness. ...

Two workers were walking on their way to work. One of them saw an axe thrown in one of the fields. He took it and said: I found an axe. His colleague said to him: Don’t say I found an axe, but say we found an axe, because we are two and should be partners in it. The Two Workers and the Axe Owner: The first wasn’t satisfied with that judgment and resolved to have the axe for himself alone. Before they left the field, the axe owner saw them, chased them, caught them, and threatened to raise their matter to the mayor for taking an axe that wasn’t theirs. ...

Once there was a child with a very bad personality, behaving disrespectfully toward others. His father decided to discipline him in a different way. He gave him a bag full of nails and asked him to be calm and patient, and to put a nail in the back wall of the house every day. The little boy had many nails with him, and every day he put a group of them in the wall. His father wanted to control his bad personality and his constant mischief by putting those nails in the wall. ...

At the top of the wide forest trees lived a white dove and a black crow, each on a branch of the branches. They were accustomed to quarreling always from morning to evening, because the crow bird believed he was more beautiful than the dove, but the dove knew she was more beautiful than him, so their friendship couldn’t last more than an hour, and the dispute would return again. ...

Winter came in the month of May! Yes, May, for the place is the South Pole and seasons follow opposite to their order in the northern half of the globe. Darkness prevailed, which would continue until the arrival of spring in September, and the blizzard winds intensified, reaching speeds of 300 kilometers per hour. The Female Penguin: The female emperor penguin bird was about to lay the egg she had carried inside for a long time. She had supplied it with rich nutrients that made her body as a mother weaken severely. Finally, the female laid her egg to brood over it as birds do! ...

In the morning, the little striped donkey was the first among the newly arrived animals to be examined by the chief veterinarian in the century-old ancient zoo. The Veterinarian: With every new shipment of animals recently arrived at the zoo, the old veterinarian would perform his recurring work energetically, conducting a precise medical examination on them to treat any wounds or diseases they might have. He then ordered them placed in cages or pens designated for their type so the public could see them. ...

It seems something worries the sheep in their pen, as they gather in a circle with their heads and horns touching. A halo of severe anger sweeps over them and makes their life miserable. They whisper among themselves: Why did their shepherd owner bring this huge dog to the farm? Why does he stay behind them in their coming and going? Why does he watch them and scold them as if he has no work but to chase after them, yet with all that the shepherd gives him special care and attention? For this reason, the sheep decided to complain to their owner. In the evening, after the sheep returned from pasture, the sheep approached the shepherd and said in a sad unified voice: Baah, our owner and shepherd, we feel sadness and severe pain. ...

Flood waves attacked the Sri Lankan shore fiercely, killing thousands of people, destroying houses, hospitals, and schools on land, and throwing fishing boats into the air to settle crushed above the roofs of collapsed houses. Giant ships moved like paper boats children play with, played with by giant waves and thrown in the end above the tops of felled coconut trees. The Occurrence of the Disaster: The residents of the small poor fishing village overlooking the Indian Ocean didn’t feel the approach of the giant waves that surprised them, hitting the shore at a height exceeding ten meters. These waves called tsunami rush under the surface of deep water at a speed reaching the speed of a plane, without revealing themselves, then suddenly crash into the shore, rise high, and rush with terrifying force to drown and destroy everything. ...

The hunters saw him beating, pounding, and crying, so they said he was mad. They thought the white polar bear, as he hit the water, kicked the snow, screamed, and slapped his face, had gone mad! The White Polar Bear: But he wasn’t mad. He was exhausted, hungry, and distressed, suffering from failure in obtaining the food he loved from ringed seals. These seals usually hide in the water under the ice cover. He walked and walked until he found one of the holes that seals make in the ice to breathe from. He would approach stealthily, holding his breath, and as soon as a seal appeared, he would rush to snatch it and devour it. For a long time he had been walking stumblingly without finding anything to eat. ...

In the night sky of the growing savannas, the American veterinarian, Laura Parker, sat thinking with sadness and despair about the possibility that all efforts made in a project to protect the cheetah in southern Africa might be lost. She had been supervising it with a grant from the World Wildlife Fund. The stars shone beautifully against the background of the soft, velvet-like purple sky. The doctor began thinking about the reason that made cheetah numbers continue to decline. ...