Thursday, February 4, 2010

Just wanted to share this song with you.(of course along with the lyrics).




Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights!
Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights!
Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights!
Get up, stand up: don't give up the fight!

Preacherman, don't tell me,
Heaven is under the earth.
I know you don't know
What life is really worth.
It's not all that glitters is gold;
'Alf the story has never been told:
So now you see the light, eh!
Stand up for your rights. Come on!

Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights!
Get up, stand up: don't give up the fight!
Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights!
Get up, stand up: don't give up the fight!

Most people think,
Great God will come from the skies,
Take away everything
And make everybody feel high.
But if you know what life is worth,
You will look for yours on earth:
And now you see the light,
You stand up for your rights. Jah!

Get up, stand up! (Jah, Jah!)
Stand up for your rights! (Oh-hoo!)
Get up, stand up! (Get up, stand up!)
Don't give up the fight! (Life is your right!)
Get up, stand up! (So we can't give up the fight!)
Stand up for your rights! (Lord, Lord!)
Get up, stand up! (Keep on struggling on!)
Don't give up the fight! (Yeah!)

We sick an' tired of-a your ism-skism game -
Dyin' 'n' goin' to heaven in-a Jesus' name, Lord.
We know when we understand:
Almighty God is a living man.
You can fool some people sometimes,
But you can't fool all the people all the time.
So now we see the light (What you gonna do?),
We gonna stand up for our rights! (Yeah, yeah, yeah!)

So you better:
Get up, stand up! (In the morning! Git it up!)
Stand up for your rights! (Stand up for our rights!)
Get up, stand up!
Don't give up the fight! (Don't give it up, don't give it up!)
Get up, stand up! (Get up, stand up!)
Stand up for your rights! (Get up, stand up!)
Get up, stand up! ( ... )
Don't give up the fight! (Get up, stand up!)
Get up, stand up! ( ... )
Stand up for your rights!
Get up, stand up!
Don't give up the fight!


The song was frequently performed at Marley's concerts, often as the last song. "Get Up, Stand Up" was also the last song Marley ever performed on stage on September 23, 1980 before He died at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Miami on May 11, 1981 at the age of 36.

Monday, February 1, 2010

Palindromes

"Ah, Satan sees Natasha"
"Do geese see God?"
"No devil lived on"

Noticed something weird about above sentences ? If not read the sentence from the end (forgetting the punctuations and spaces). You'll get the same sentence.These are named palindromes . More generally a palindrome is a word, phrase, number or other sequence of units that can be read the same way in either direction (the adjustment of punctuation and spaces between words is generally permitted) .
There are many types of palindromes.Most simple ones are the character by character palindromic words such as rotator,radar,racecar .The next type is the palindromic phrases given at the top.Following are some more examples.
"Anne, I vote more cars race Rome to Vienna"
"Rats live on no evil star"
"Step on no pets"
"Murder for a jar of red rum"
There are some word units which forms palindromic sentences.In this case the whole word should be taken in to consideration rather than individual characters.Following are some examples.
There are palindromic numbers and palindromic dates.And surprisingly there are palindromic names as well.Lon Nol (1913-1985) was Prime Minister of Cambodia. Nisio Isin is a Japanese novelist and manga writer.
Palindromes can be found in other languages as well.As an example words like "රතු වතුර" and "වඩු මඩුව" in sinhala are palindromic.The first ever historical palindrome was a latin graffiti which dates back at least to 79 A.D.
One may wonder about the usefulness of these palindromes (well, you can read these words or sentences from left to right or right to left with the same meaning ,which is an advantage :p ).But palindromes are very useful in the various fields such as maths ,microbiology and music.Especially in microbiology palindromes can be found in most genomes and genetic instructions.It is easy to handle palindromes due to their symmetry.
Searching and working with palindromes is an interesting thing to do.it is a fascinating area which creates the beauty of words.Some poets have tried to come up with palindromic poems as well.
There are hundreds of palindromes in English language and many of those can be found by a simple search in the internet.out of those the following palindromes are very famous.

"Able was I ere I saw Elba"

“Madam, I'm Adam”

and Eve's reply was, "Name no one man."

And finally let me finish this post with the most famous palindrome of the world,which has given rise to more similar palindromes.It was published in the November 13 1948 issue of "Notes & Queries" by Leigh Merce.

"A man, a plan, a canal – Panama."