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The difficult situation I experienced in my early life was the behavior of people and how hard it is to cope with them. Another situation that I faced is economic. My parent is unable to pay school fees. He earns very little from his farm. The high cost of living makes it difficult to get enough money to pay for school fees, uniforms and school supplies. The happiest moment in my life is when I was selected for Ganako secondary school. It is like a way to accomplish my dream to become a teacher. It will be possible through hard work, determination and discipline. Two years from now I will be in the university.

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kate
Wed, October 24, 2018 at 11:30 pm GMT
Dear Students,
How are you? Your exams must be coming up shortly and we are hopeful that you are studying very hard in order to do well. It is so important that you do well so you will have the freedom to work in the career that you choose. I am an artist and i always wish I could go back to school to learn more and be able to excel. You are very lucky to get this education . . . Spend your time studying and you will be happy that you did!

This year has gone by quickly and you just have a month to study hard and make the best of this year.
We are all thinking of you and wish you the very best with your exams.
Fondly, Kate Adams
Samwel Sabas
Thu, December 7, 2017 at 12:02 pm GMT
Hello Jenny.how are you and it is my hope that your okay. i hope you know about the ocean floor.let us learn together. Of course, outer space is still mostly unknown. But some of
the most interesting and hardest to reach places are much closer to home. They are on the ocean floor. Only a tiny
fraction of the ocean floor has ever been studied. Why? Humans can’t travel deep below the water’s surface without
special vehicles. The pressure of the water is too great. Total darkness and extreme cold make it even more difficult.
That’s why people have worked for decades to invent technology for studying the ocean floor.
Studying the Ocean Floor
Scientists study the ocean floor in various ways. Scientists — or their devices — may actually travel to the ocean
floor. Or they may study the ocean floor from the surface. One way is with a tool called sonar.
Using Sonar
Did you ever shout and hear an echo? If you did, that’s because the sound waves bounced off a hard surface and
back to you. The same principle explains how sonar works. A ship on the surface sends sound waves down to the
ocean floor. The sound waves bounce off the ocean floor and return to the surface, like an echo.
THE OCEAN FLOOR
Sound waves travel through ocean water
but they bounce off the ocean floor.
They move through ocean water at a
known speed. Can you use these facts
to explain how sonar works
Sonar can be used to measure how deep the ocean is. A device records the time it takes sound waves to travel from
the surface to the ocean floor and back again. Sound waves travel through water at a known speed. Once scientists
know the travel time of the wave, they can calculate the distance to the ocean floor. They can then combine all of
these distances to make a map of the ocean floor. Figure 13.20
Traveling to the Ocean Floor
A map of a 10 000 foot-high undersea
volcano in Indonesia made by multibeam
solar.
Only a specially designed vehicle can venture beneath the sea surface. But only very special vehicles can reach the
ocean floor.
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