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    OUR OWN HIGH SCHOOL‚ AL WARQA’A‚ DUBAI GRADE: X - AREAS RELATED TO CIRCLES 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. ASSIGNMENT: 1 Sum of radii of two circles is 140 cm and the difference of their circumferences is 88 cm. Find the diameters of the circles.(154‚ 126) The circumference of a circle exceeds its diameter by 16.8 cm. Find the radius of the circle.(3.92) Area of a circular field is 88704 m2. How long will it take to go 10 rounds at the speed of 4.5 km/h?(2h 20m 48s) A race track is in the form of

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    Nations of Canaan should have submitted to Israelite rule‚ given up idolatry‚ followed the 7 Noahide Laws. 2. According to Rashi‚ how were treaties made in ancient times? According to Rashi‚ treaties were made by using G-d’s name and if you did something wrong‚ G-d’s name would be used in the wrong name. According to Rashi‚ in ancient times‚ treaties were made by cutting an animal in two and having both parties walk between the halves. 3. Explain the machloket between Ralbag and Abarbanel as to why

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    Alice Walker & Nadine Gordimer Rodney Lake English 125 Introduction to Literature Professor Peter Kunze August 27th‚ 2012 Alice Walker’s‚ The Welcome Table‚ and Nadine Gordimer’s‚ the Country Lovers‚ are both short stories that deal with the moral and psychological tension of a racially and divided setting and environment among the black and white race. Walker and Gordimer point out the hypocrisy and injustice of racism in these two particular stories told in third–person omniscient point

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    Once Upon a Time Symbolism Nadine Gordiner’s story Once Upon a Time contains lots of symbols. Amongst these symbols‚ the house represents the society she is in and the underground mines and foundation of the house represents the apartheid. This story is built based on fear‚ racial tension‚ and the apartheid. To begin with‚ the house or society is supposed to protect and shelter the people living within it. The house is supposed to be stable‚ but in paragraph 7 of Once Upon a Time‚ Nadine

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    Nadine Gordimer‚ a winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature‚ has always been one of South Africa’s leading literary voices. She is one of the most important strivers who used their intelligence and qualifications to fight against the apartheid movement in South Africa which was a racial system‚ based on total segregation between the whites and the blacks. Gordimer uses her novels and stories to explain the aspects of this system and to raise her voice in protest against it. A case in point is her

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    Country Lovers by: Nadine Gordimer By: Donna Mixon Eng 125: Introduction to Literature Instructor: James Lange 8/25/2014 “Country Lovers” by Nadine Gordimer (1975) is about forbidden inter-racial love between a rich white farm owner ’s son (Paulus) and a poor‚ young black slave girl (Thebedi) who works on the farm. The story is set on a South African Farm and we follow these two children as they grow into a young man and young woman. The main theme of the story is

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    possible to learn from the literary works of that time and apply them to now. I feel that there is a lot to learn from what was written especially when it comes to racism. How is our time different from the past? How is it the same? If the story Country lover written by Nadine Gordimer (1975) were a different time will things had been different for Thebedi and Paulus? I chose to focus on the story of two lovers who were thrown apart by their time. Whom had to hide their affairs from their family

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    Laura Riazzi 30 September 2009 A.P. English Literature and Composition 12 Mr. Lane “Once Upon a Time” Literary Analysis “Once Upon a Time” is a reverse fantasy story written by Nadine Gordimer. The concept of a reverse fantasy is a tale that one expects to end happily ever after but has a plot twist where the ending is cruel or injust. The structure of this story begins as the narrator writes that they are asked to contribute to an anthology of children’s literature. The next moment‚ while

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    Date:20.04.2011 Country Lovers by Nadine Gordimer Nadine Gordimer is a South African novelist and political activist.She was born in November 20‚1923 in a small mining town called Springs in South Africa to Isidore and Nan Gordimer.Her parents were both Jewish immigrants and from an early age she questioned her identity as a member of the minority white population in South Africa.She attended a Catholic Convent School but due to her mother’s ‘unusual’ assuptions

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    Through different movements such as Black power‚ Black pride‚ and Black is beautiful‚ we’ve come to see the true power that we hold as individuals and a group. When the oppressed secedes from the oppressor‚ they must free themselves of oppression. Nadine Gordimer explores the theme of defying oppression through the use of characterization‚ setting‚ and tone in the short story "Africa Emergent". In addition‚ in the story it is stated that "It is enough to be black; blacks are meant to stay put..." Elias

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