A fearless Traveller
It’s hard to imagine anybody who looks less like an explorer that the Victorian traveler, Mary Kingsley. But she was one of the world’s toughest and the most adventurous explorers. At a time when her friends were doing household chores and going to dances, Mary Kingsley was paddling up rivers in a canoe, eating snakes and poking hippopotamuses with her umbrella in West Africa.
Kingsley was the daughter of a travelling doctor from London. She loved hearing her father’s travel stories, but there was no question that she would accompany him on his travels as her mother was frequently unwell and needed to be cared for. Suddenly, though, her life changed when both of her parents died within six weeks of one another. With no family responsibilities, she decided to travel to West Africa, a place had always dreamed of visiting. She had two missions to complete while she was touring the continent: one was to meet the native people of West Africa, learn about their customs and religions and write a book about the subject. The other was to collect tropical fish and reptiles for the British museum.
Her father’s medical friends had warned her about tropical diseases and other dangers of travelling alone, but she ignored them and in 1893 she sailed to modern-day Sierra Leone on the first of her two long journeys to West Africa.
She lived for a while with the local people, who taught her how to fish with pineapple leaves. After she had learnt the necessary skills, she set off alone along the river in search of fish and reptiles. During her travels, she became the first woman to climb the active volcano Mount Cameroon, and the first white person to paddle up the Ogowe River and to cross the jungle to the Remboue River.
On her travels, she had to deal with extreme heat, tornadoes and various wild animals. Once, while she was canoeing along the Ogowe, she had an encounter with a crocodile. The crocodile was trying to climb into her canoe, so she hit it on the head with a paddle. Kingsley describes this and other similar encounters in her two books, Travels in West Africa and West African Studies, which she wrote when she returned from her travels. The books became bestsellers and are still in print today.
She collected eighteen species of reptile and sixty-five species of fish, two of which were previously unknown and were named after her. However, that was not her only legacy: she also became well-known for her attitude towards the African people. She was the first explorer to show proper respect to the African people and their culture, and helped to change European attitudes towards them
Система образования в США
В Соединенных Штатах Америки существует сложная система образования. Он призван дать своим жителям академические навыки. Люди, живущие в США, могут начать свое образование уже в трехлетнем возрасте и продолжить свою академическую карьеру в зрелом возрасте. Продолжительность обучения в школе сильно различается от человека к человеку. Все зависит от того, чего хотят люди от образовательной системы и жизни в целом. Некоторые люди довольны получением аттестата об окончании средней школы, а другие стремятся получить высшее образование.
К тому времени, когда дети достигают трехлетнего возраста, родители часто записывают их в дошкольные учреждения. Некоторые школы предлагают классы для детей в возрасте двух лет, но, как правило, три года - это самый младший возраст, в котором дети начинают обучение. После дошкольного образования детский сад переходит в 6-й класс государственной школьной системы. Шестой класс - последний год начальной школы. После того, как ребенок закончил начальную школу, он или она будет зачислен в среднюю школу, то есть с 9 по 12. Когда учащиеся достигают 12-го класса, они завершают необходимое образование. После 12-го класса дальнейшее образование необязательно.
На уровне колледжа в Калифорнии штат предлагает три варианта продолжения академической карьеры. Это система общественных колледжей, система Калифорнийского государственного университета и система Калифорнийского университета. Каждая система уникальна. Куда поступит студент, зависит от студента и его целей. Это варианты обучения студентов. Однако есть и другой вариант - частная школа. Частные школы работают так же, как и государственные, с некоторыми отличиями. Важно изучить все возможные варианты, чтобы понять, какие из них лучше всего подходят для вас.
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Объяснение:
Greetings ("Dear [name/position]", "[Name], good afternoon", "Dear [name]»)
The greeting should be either personalized or addressed to the specialists of a particular Department, if the name of the recipient is not known.
Main part
2.1. tell us what position you are applying for if you send your resume to the employer's work mail. On hh.ru you do not need;
2.2. explain what attracted you to this job: an interesting product, new features or challenges;
2.3. from motivation smoothly move to experience and list of projects, which is not described in the summary, but useful for this job;
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Farewell ("Best regards", "yours") and duplicated contact information
It is important to remember that all items except 2.3 are clichés created by successful candidates for many years of practice. They are standard, obvious, are already etiquette when communicating through cover letters, should not exceed one or two sentences and are written strictly from a new indented paragraph.
Here is an example from the letter of the head of the sales Department of a large Western FMCG company. It is quite long, but for a senior position it is quite acceptable.
"Irina, good afternoon,
I am writing to you regarding the vacancy "Head of the sales Department of the modern trade channel".
I find the duties and objectives of this position extremely interesting. I have always been attracted to complex and ambitious projects.
I want to note at once that I have no experience of work with household appliances, but unlike the majority of candidates I have the following strengths:
experience with Federal networks at the level of top officials more than 5 years;
successful launch and introduction of new products of highly competitive categories (dairy products).
My professional experience also includes:
managing teams of sales representatives and supervisors from 30 people;
closing accounts receivable for key customers.
In case of mutual interest, I suggest calling at any time convenient for You.
With respect,
Alex X,
Tel.»