#assesement

[agile20reflect]

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[agile20reflect]

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[onlinetution-uk]

Online Assessments Tests at Adnan Khan Tutoring!

High Wycombe is a beautiful town in Bucks, the county of England. It has a large furniture industry and a bustling market. The town also has some beautiful parks and natural landscapes.

 People are lovely and helping. They are hardworking and passionate about earning their living. 

High Wycombe has some best primary and secondary schools. The competition among students is tough, and people want their kids to prepare well for any kind of exams. The top grammar schools are The Royal Grammar School, Wycombe High Schools, and The John Hampden Grammar School. These state secondary schools take an entrance exam, called 11 plus; it is one of the crucial exams in the UK. Parents start tutoring the child at home or hire some private 11 plus tutors to help kids pass 11 plus and get into the preferred grammar schools.

Schools take tests and assessments, which helps them measure the performance of the students.

Assessment is a process by which teachers can assess the child's performance based on the information. Schools take these assessments regularly to help them perform well in exams.

Assessments are useful for both teachers and students.  

Teachers can change the teaching methods and techniques, and the students can be exposed to their weak areas. It enables both to work on their better approaches towards goals.

It also allows students to work with tutors to know the objectives and feedback, which helps them learn efficiently. 

Online Learning - Assessment!

There are some tutoring companies which provide the best online resources, including assessments. The students take these assessments online, and they also get feedback. Parents can quickly assess the child's level he’s currently on. They can start working on the areas in which the child struggles.

Parents should help kids with online assessments for better results. 

High Wycombe - Adnan Khan Tutoring!

Adnan Khan Tutoring is the only tutoring company in the town which has the best online assessments for the students. 

They offer online assessments for English & Math's subjects from year 1 to year 11 and also the 11 plus year four assessments.

Adnan Khan Tutoring is a well-recognized tuition center in High Wycombe; they have launched their advanced online platform. 

They also provide online courses of Math's, English and Science, even the exam preparations courses like 11 plus and GCSE.

You can check out their website and contact them on the following.

07779995500

[email protected]

[ksahmeddini]

Why commodify countries for consumption?

Our modern tourism perfectly depicts how we've come to live !

Have you ever watched tourism adds on promoting a country? Recently I watched a tourism video on Brazil and I mostly noticed carnavals, nature and activities that one can do while at Brazil. It made me think about travel itself, why do we travel? Personally I travel to see new attractions and learn new cultures(possibly a language and hopefully a friend)and in a sense become more "cosmopolitan" so I don't experience "culture shock" anymore.

Cosmopolitan Passport!

But wouldn't we have to experience "culture shock" to be able to adapt to it? It seems that you need "culture shocks" to become "cosmopolitan ", whereby you no longer feel the "shock", but a big question remains here, how much is enough?

Colorful carnaval.

Back to travel, I noticed that the tourism promotion was on the one hand "essentializing" Brazil for its carnavals, and more importantly for its love of football and on the other hand, it was trying to draw us to it and make us crave it! I guess that's the way it has to be in the industry but do we think about the host nation?

Football fever in Brazil.

Commodification of the host nation, is indeed promoting consumerism which, in reality, is the core of our everyday life. We have turned into subjects of manipulation of these advertisements, including tourism ones, and it's these "fantasized and polished" representations which build up our expectations of the place and in turn lead into "culture shock" or "confusion" later.

Host nation commodification.

Conclusion:

In tourism industry, on the one hand we're trying to promote a place, thereby hyping up the people's hopes and expectations. On the other hand, failure and disappointment of these people's expectations upon arrival could potentially alienate them from the host country, depending on their reaction and capacity for difference or more simply their degree of "cosmopolitanism"! Thus let us be more realistic when we travel and not fall for "fantasized" commercials!

[ksahmeddini]

Shocking culture or culture shock?!

Have you ever experienced culture shock?

Ever felt unable to fit in, overwhelmed and confused when you're overseas? Then you might be experiencing "culture shock". Technically though, you are experiencing "culture confusion" but "culture shock" sounds more adventurous and exciting, doesn't it?

When in Brazil, you might find many things odd and unfamiliar, but something you might find more disturbing is the commonality of plastic surgeries in Brazil. As I alluded to in my previous blog post, Brazil has the second highest rate of plastic surgery after USA. This reflects the fact that Brazilians are very "body conscious".

Planning something?!

Hard job, plastic surgery huh?!

 Something that you might find confronting in Brazil, is that you can clearly see people who have done it in the street!  What is more interesting is that they tend to talk about it as opposed to Westerners who try to make it as private as possible. 

Common Brazilian gathering!

Keeping my privacy!

The most confronting experience would probably be a situation where a Brazilian truthfully and overtly forward gives you their opinion on your body and suggests you what "things" you need to get done!

Don't be offended please, I'm honest!

I guess it seems reasonable to be a bit receptive of their comments and now that we are aware of this, we should react more sensibly. Don't be offended by it because it's part of their culture and always remember, it is us who are the foreigners not them. Probably all we could do is to smile and ignore the comment politely!

Don't worry, I don't mind!

Conclusion:

Technically, the term culture shock doesn't apply to our short-term travels abroad however we can "assume" it does! It is due to confrontation with a different way of life and culture foreign to us. The best way to cope with it is to adapt, right!! Maybe if you're cosmopolitan you can adapt better! As we travel, we need to keep differences in cultures in mind and sometimes we might not even experience this confusion because after all, we travel to see and experience new things for a relatively short time.

  What the hell is this?!

[ksahmeddini]

pau-Brasil

Ever wondered how Brazil got to be called Brazil?

Caesalpinia echinata, commonly known as Brazilwood, is a native Brazilian timber tree. It used to be quite abundant along the coast and river banks in Brazil and currently is a 'threatened' species due to overexploitation during early stages of Brazil's colonization by Portuguese in the 18th century.

The center of a Brazilwood log has a characteristic color, which was used to extract a highly profitable red dye. This dye was then used in manufacture of luxury textiles, such as velvet, which was in high demand during the Renaissance.

Red dye extracted from Brazilwood, also used in hematoxylin for histology.

Brazilwood is a historic timber tree which was a major source of profit for early  Portuguese colonies settled in Brazil. They used to call it pau-Brasil (Latin for wood red like an ember), which is how Brazil got its name!

French cutting brazilwood.

Nevertheless, some believe that Brazil is a shortened version of “terra do brasil” or “land of brazilwood”.

1519 map of the coast of Brazil, showing the harvesting of brazilwood.

Brazilwood was a major source of commerce in Brazil and attracted many Europeans, especially Dutch and French. French were successful in establishing a colony which was known as "France Antarctique". It existed between 1555 and 1567 and was later destroyed by Portuguese.

Map of France Antarctique in the Guanabara Bay, 1555.

In order to make profit out of brazilwood, settlers tried to enslave the natives, However, this couldn't work as the natives either escaped or died from foreign diseases in captivity. Later slaves were imported from Africa to do the labor who then became a substantial section of Brazilian population.

African slaves being watched by Portuguese.

 Conclusion: 

On the one hand, brazilwood is associated with wealth among most Europeans and privateers who came to Brazil for wealth. On the other hand, brazilwood wouldn't mean the same for those African slaves who were exploited.

More importantly for the Brazilians, commercial boom created by brazilwood, was their first encounter with Europeans who exploited their ancestors and natural resources of this country. As travelers, we should be sensitive of host country's history and seek different sides of the story and respect different connotations of places.

                    Indians' first encounter with Portuguese.

[kristelrigaud]

[voyancepatronus]

FUCK THIS 

FUCK VICE GRIPS

'UNSAFE'

WELL, SORRY THAT I HAVEN;T BEEN FUCKING TAUGHT THAT CORRECTLY

OH AND SPINE BOARD

WELL SORRY

BUT IT'S A LITTLE BIT HARD TO DO THE STRAPS UP WHEN A) HE'S GOT HIS HANDS OVER HIS CROTCH AND YOU HAVE TO STRAP THERE B) HE'S TRYING NOT TO GET HARD BECAUSE OF THE COLD

SO YEAH ASSESSOR

FU MATE

YOU'VE SUCCESSFULLY MADE ME CRY

WOW

SUCH ACHIEVEMENT.