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    South Africa

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    from 2.5 the last quarter of 2012.South Africa is an export-based country as it is rich in natural resources .It is a leading producer of platinum‚ gold‚ chromium and iron. However ‚the volume of South African gold exports have fallen in each of the past six quarters. The impact of labour unrest on the gold mining industry was significant‚ with several gold mining companies being forced to halt operations‚ as a result of widespread wildcat strikes of unsatisfied workers. Platinum exports are equally

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    Silver price fluctuations

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    utensils‚ for trade‚ and as the basis for many monetary systems. Its value as a precious metal was long considered second only to gold. In Ancient Egypt and Medieval Europe‚ it was often more valuable than gold. Silver is currently about 1/50th the price of gold by mass‚ and 70 times more valuable than copper. Silver did once trade at 1/6th to 1/12th the price of gold‚ however‚ the discovery of great silver deposits in the Americas. These new discoveries made the price of silver fall dramatically

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    Religion Sikh Spouse(s) Nirmal Kaur Children 3 daughters; 1 son; 1 adopted son Olympic medal record Men ’s Athletics Competitor for  IND British Empire and Commonwealth Games Gold 1958 Cardiff 440 yards Asian Games Gold 1958 Tokyo 200 m Gold 1958 Tokyo 400 m Gold 1962 Jakarta 400 m Gold 1962 Jakarta 4 x 400 m relay The Flying Sikh - Milkha Singh Sardar Milkha Singh is the greatest living Sikh Athlete. Born in a family of modest means‚ joining the army and then discovering

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    Math Lab Sl 11

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    Cindy Hwang IB Math 11 SL 1-3 IB Math Portfolio Gold medal heights Aim: The aim of this task is to consider the winning height for the men’s high jump in the Olympic Games. Introduction: The Olympic Games which are held in every four years have an event called Men’s High Jump and usually an athlete tries to jump over a bar which is set up in a certain range from1 meter to 3 meters. The table 1 shows the record of the gold medalists during the Olympic Games held during 1932 to 1980. Note:

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    Eloise Jarvis McGraw‚ author of The Golden Goblet presents the story of Ranofer‚ an Egyptian boy who works in a gold shop. This boy lives with his half brother Gebu‚ who works at a stone cutting shop during the day‚ and when he comes home‚ Ranofer would mostly get beat by Gebu. At the gold shop‚ he has lots of friends‚ including Heqet‚ a boy about the age of Ranofer. They become great friends and make a plan to figure out what Gebu is doing suspiciously. The most important event is when Ranofer meets

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    This is a famous story that a man was very poor and lived hand to mouth. Happy go lucky‚ he earned a gold coin. He was very glad by that and started ejecting his future. He dreamed that by selling this gold coin‚ he will buy several chickens which then lead to a poultry farm. With so much earning with the poultry he will buy cows and goats and as it seems‚ he will become very rich soon! While he was in the state of highest level of expectations‚ he was so deeply sank into the sea of never ending

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    heart melted at the sight of tears in her son’s eyes. She grew restless. In a bid to help him she gave him a gold coin. In the evening when the father asked his son what he had earned‚ the son promptly presented him the gold coin. The father then asked him to throw it into a well. The son did as he was told.
The father was a man of wisdom and experience and guessed that the source of the gold coin was the boy’s mother. The next day he sent his wife to her parent’s town and asked his son to go and earn

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    Gilded six bits

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    denouement. The rising action of the story would be when Joe came home to Missie May bragging and telling her of this new man Slemmons who just opened a new ice cream parlor‚ and his gold. The climax of the story is when Joe one night getting from work early caught Missie May sleeping with Otis in exchange for some gold. The falling action occurred when Missie Mae was pregnant a few months later. While the denouement occurred when Joe finally figured that the child was in fact a spitting image of

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    Never cry wolf

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    doesn’t care if he lives or dies. He just keeps grinning and laughing hysterically. At first I didn’t understand this kind of behavior‚ but when Rosie starts talking to Tyler about why he’s going where he’s going‚ what’s in the valley of the Blackstone–gold‚ oil … everything starts making more sense. When Tyler answers him‚ that it is kind of hard to say‚ what’s in the valley‚ what he’s searching for‚ Rosie replies that he’s smart for keeping his own counsel. Then he says the famous sentence: “We’re all

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    A dystopia is a place where negative events constantly take place. Based on this information we can infer that a daring job‚ such as a miner‚ can seem like a dystopia. In the text “Klondike Gold Rush” ‚ the author describes a plot of ambitious miners baring treacherous conditions only for a chance to strike fortune. From a conflicting viewpoint ‚ the passage “A Woman Who Went to Alaska” by May Kellogg Sullivan shares a slightly different view‚ considering the miners got the pleasure of coming across

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