Everyone has experienced the frustrated feeling of jabbing at an orange trying to get the peel off, only to be left with a sticky mess. Now a new method has revealed the quickest and easiest way to do it – and it only involves three slices of a knife. Thanks to a new ‘life hack’
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Making a career choice can be very difficult but it is not impossible. This is probably what you will do for the rest of your life after obtaining your degree so you have to be careful about it if you don’t want to be in the “I hate my job” category. These are the steps you need
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Oxymoron An oxymoron is a figure of speech in which seemingly contradictory words appear side by side but still involving a point. That is, two opposite words are placed side by side to bring out a point. Examples are act naturally, original copy, conspicuous absence, found missing, alone together, criminal justice, old news, peace force, even odds, awful good,
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This is exactly how far some parents would go to ensure their children excel in school exams. Pictures of parents of secondary school students scaling the wall of a school building and hanging from windows to hand cheat sheets to their children have gone viral in India. Cheating in school tests is an old Indian
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If you are determined… you will always find a way… else excuses are always available not to find the way!
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Females of the malaria-spreading mosquito tend to obtain their blood meals within human dwellings. Indeed, this mosquito, Anopheles gambiae, spends much of its adult life indoors where it is constantly exposed to human odour – from used clothing, bedding, etc. – even when people are absent. But is human odour enough as a reliable cue
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Volcanic Eruption A volcano is a mountain that opens downward to a pool of molten rock below the surface of the earth. When pressure builds up, eruptions occur. Gases and rock shoot up through the opening and spill over or fill the air with lava fragments. Eruptions can cause lateral blasts, lava flows, hot ash
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Firstly, a Figure of Speech is a figurative language in the form of a single word or phrase. It can be a special repetition, arrangement or omission of words with literal meaning, or a phrase with a specialized meaning not based on the literal meaning of the words e.g Simile, Oxymoron, Metonymy e.t.c. Simile A Simile is
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Microsoft has confirmed that it is dropping the Internet Explorer brand. The move was rumoured in December but now the Redmond-based tech giant has said it will use a new name for its forthcoming browser, which is currently code named Project Spartan. It is believed the new browser will look more like Google’s Chrome browser
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Nancie Atwell, a teacher at the Center for Teaching and Learning in Edgecomb, Maine, United States, has emerged the first ever winner of the $1m Varkey Foundation Global Teacher Prize. The prize was set set up to shine a spotlight on the important roles teachers play in the society by Dubai-based Education entrepreneur and philanthropist.
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