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My life has been challenged since I started my primary education due to situation of my parents. They came from a lower class economically. My father depends on a small farm, which has little productivity. This was the big challenge to my school life. I failed to get my school fees and expenses paid. My mother has no job. She is a home keeper. My dream is to become a teacher. I can reach this by adding to my effort in learning, listening to advice and reading more books. The day I was chosen to be supported by The School Fund was so amazing. It seems like my dreams are on the way to becoming true. I hope that some years from now I will have accomplished my dream.

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2018 Form 6
2017 Form 5

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Richman Staford
Fri, January 19, 2018 at 6:08 am GMT
Hello madam Judy
i wish your are so fine back to my side am fine too today I would like to share with you few of all that our Almighty God help me and he will proceed to be in my for all things that I have planned to achieve this year dear madam actual am so thanks fully to my lord because am still alive up to now whatever how long am from what difficulties or problems facing me but some thing good am alive and well I have already back to school ready for starting new studying term or session with a good mood dear madam Judy actual I wanna make this year special for me because I need to improve my learning skills as well as efforts and all concerning with my academic activities I think I will be success to all that I have planned to do but through depending on god dear madam Judy always in my mind am still remember to all that you told us that we have to be honest as well as studying hard never mind poor condition facing us am so thanks-fully for your words and all that your doing for us god bless you madam have a nice day madam Judy.My holiday was so good since I celebrated with my parents and other relatives.we enjoyed it and what remain now is to make sure good relation with my fellow,cooperative and be courageous.
Richman Staford
Sat, December 9, 2017 at 10:11 am GMT
Hello Jenny.i am okay.we have started our holiday break this months and I will celebrate with my friends the Christmas and new year 2018.
i will be making many survey concerning our class topic such as or planet Earth. Earth as a Planetary Body
Earth is an inner planet in the solar system and it is very much like the other inner planets, at least in its size, shape,
and composition. But many features make Earth very different from the planets and any other planet that we know
of so far.
Earth’s Shape
Earth is a sphere or, more correctly, an oblate spheroid, which is a sphere that is a bit squished down at the poles and
bulges a bit at the equator. Or to be more technical, the minor axis (the diameter through the poles) is smaller than
the major axis (the diameter through the equator). Half of the sphere is a hemisphere. North of the equator is the
northern hemisphere and south of the equator is the southern hemisphere. Eastern and western hemispheres are also
designated.
What evidence is there that Earth is spherical? What evidence was there before spaceships and satellites?
Try to design an experiment involving a ship and the ocean to show Earth is round. If you are standing on the shore
and a ship is going out to sea, the ship gets smaller as it moves further away from you but the ship’s bottom also
starts to disappear as the vessel goes around the arc of the planet There are many other ways that
early scientists and mariners knew that Earth was not flat.

Earth’s curvature is noticeable when objects
at a distance are below the arc.
Even the ancient Greeks knew that Earth was round by observing the arc shape of the shadow on the Moon during
a lunar eclipse. NASA has an animation of a lunar eclipse here:
The Sun and the other planets of the solar system are also spherical. Larger satellites, those that have enough mass
for their gravitational attraction to have made them round, are as well.
Earth’s Magnetism
Earth has a magnetic field ( Figure 24.2) that behaves as if the planet had a gigantic bar magnet inside of it. Earth’s
magnetic field also has a north and south pole and a magnetic field that surrounds it. The magnetic field arises from
the convection of molten iron and nickel metal in Earth’s outer liquid iron core.
Earth’s magnetic field extends several thousand kilometers into space. The magnetic field shields the planet from
harmful radiation from the Sun .
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