Education plays an important role in individual development. Apart from the acquisition of knowledge and skill‚ it is believed that the return on investment in education also gives hope for a better life in the future. The issue of academic performance is of great interest to administrators‚ educators‚ researchers‚ students‚ parents and other stakeholders of education (Farooq‚ Chaudhry‚ Shafiq & Berhanu (2011). The variables that determine students’ academic performance can be from the student‚
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THE NEW MADRID EARTHQUAKE OF 1812 Some of the most severe earthquakes in the United States occurred not on the Pacific Coast but in the middle of the continent in southeastern Missouri near the town of New Madrid. There are many things that were unusual about the New Madrid earthquakes of 1811-1812. The location is a surprise‚ the damage was catastrophic but we did learn from it. Just after 2 o’clock AM of December 16‚ 1811‚ the Mississippi River valley was hit by an earthquake so strong that
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Secondary Socialisation Secondary socialisation takes place outside the home. It is where children and adults learn how to act in a way that is appropriate for the situations that they are in. Schools require very different behaviour from the home. Children act according to new rules. New teachers have to act in a way that is different from pupils and learn the new rules from people around them. Traditional games and toys are one of the ways in which children learn to act in a way that is
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The Secondary Education in Britain Introduction The United Kingdom has a completely world-leading education system. The education in the United Kingdom has hundreds years of history‚ which is quite perfect and complex‚ and also has a very large flexibility. It is quite different from the education in China. Overall‚ the education in the UK is divided into three parts: primary education‚ secondary education and tertiary education. The secondary education in the UK and China The difference
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Development “Preparation and readiness to cope with natural disasters ‚or climate change” People nowadays are not prepared for the calamity disasters especially for those who are in a rural place .Our government should make a way on how they will reached out for the people who are in need of information of the incoming disaster‚so that they will be awared on their community .Our government must have an activites like having earthquake drills that would inform the people on how to be prepared during
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The largest earthquake recorded in the 20th century is the 1960 Valdivia earthquake‚ also known as the Great Chilean earthquake which occurred on May 22‚ 1960 and hit approximately 100 miles off the coast of Chile‚ which is parallel to the city of Valdivia. With a rate of 9.5 on the moment magnitude scale‚ this earthquake occurred in the afternoon and lasted approximately 2 minutes (brit). After just thirty minutes of the major earthquake‚ a foreshock shook the area near the towns of Valdivia and
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Secondary storage (optical) Table of contents Why was secondary storage needed? 1 Different types of optical discs: 1 1‚ CD (compact disc): 1 2‚ DVD (digital versatile storage) 2 3‚ Blu-Ray Disc (BD): 3 Which type of recordable disc should I choose: 3 Understanding the difference between the Live File System and Mastered disc formats: 3 Discs formatted with the Live File System option: 3 Discs formatted with the Mastered option: 4 Questions from students: 4 References: 5
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Reflection on Japanese earthquake After watching the news about the catastrophic earthquake in Japan these days‚ I was overwhelmed with a range of emotions: anxiety‚ depression‚ grief‚ confusion and shock. Like a lot of people‚ I was stunned by percussive images of the ruins of buildings and the bodies of casualties. I felt sorry for the dead. Meanwhile‚ I was deeply touched by those survived. Instead of being thrown into panic‚ the Japanese faced up to the catastrophe with dispassion and composure
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Chapter 1 Notes- The management of disasters • United nations general assembly claimed 1990s to be the ‘international decade for natural disaster reduction’ (IDNDR) • Action was taken to promote internationally coordinated efforts to reduce material losses and social and economic disruption caused by natural disasters‚ esp. developing countries. • Mission: to improve each UN member country’s capacity to prevent or diminish adverse effects from natural disasters and to establish guidelines for applying
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The terrible earthquake happened in the afternoon on May 12‚ 2008 when I was about to library. Suddenly I felt the floor shaking. At the beginning I didn’t think it an earthquake because I had never experience earthquake before. I just thought it must be something wrong with our dormitory. I knew I was wrong when my roommate shout “Earthquake!” Then all of us hid under the desk waiting for the shaking to stop. During that time I was totally blank and murmuring to pray for the stop of the shaking
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