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This thesis was a critical analysis of students academic second language writing at Sokoine University of Agriculture. Student writing in English as a second language in higher education has excited much interest in the English as a Second Language writing research and discussion in Tanzania. The interest was motivated by frequent criticisms from examiners regarding students literacy performance in the English as a Second Language writing in the post primary and higher education where the...
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A cross sectional study was conducted in Mbalmayo in Cameroon, from April to December 1996. The objective of the study was to collect information on adolescent knowledge, attitudes and practices in view of developing a health education programme on STI/AIDS. 497 adolescents aged 10 to 19 years were randomly selected in three secondary schools. A validated questionnaire was used to conduct face-to-face interviews. The study sample was made of 54% girls and 46% boys. The sample mean age...
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This study focuses on the five known African-American topical songs dealing with the two hurricanes and ensuing floods that took place in Florida in the summer of 1928. The first is a commercially recorded blues song and the others are unreleased Library of Congress sacred recordings, which are transcribed and analysed here for the first time.
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In both Qur'anic and public schools in Maroua, Cameroon, the development of competence in a second language is fundamental, and rote learning is the primary mode of teaching and learning in both types of schooling. Through the lens of language socialization theory, I have examined rote learning as it is practiced in Maroua schools and reframed it as a tradition of learning and teaching I call 'guided repetition'. In this article I discuss similarities and differences in how and why guided...
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Reviewed by: Prophets and Profits —managerialism and the restructuring of Jewish schools in South Africa Wally Morrow (bio) Chaya Herman (2006) Prophets and Profits —managerialism and the restructuring of Jewish schools in South Africa. Pretoria: HSRC Press. We who live in secular liberal democracies not threatened by imminent war like to think of ourselves as unencumbered agents acting with reason in the circumstances within which we find ourselves. One of the virtues of good Sociology or...
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Marcus Garvey was the youngest of 11 children and born in St. Ann's Bay, Jamaica, on August 17, 1887, he moved to Kingston at the age of 14, found work as a printer, and became acquainted with the abysmal living conditions of the labouring people. He quickly involved himself in social reform, participating in the first Printers' Union strike in Jamaica in 1907 and in setting up the newspaper - The Watchman.
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Ca-type bentonite deposits of economic interest occur associated with rhyolitic rocks in the Lebombo volcanics. From previous geological studies on the deposits, besides the economic aspects, little is known about the main formation mechanism of beds of bentonite that can be more than 15 m thick, in some places. Chemical analyses of bentonite samples indicate that elements such as Ca, Mg, Sr, Zn, Cu and Sc are markedly enriched in bentonite in comparison to the parent rock. Other elements...