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
Многие учащиеся школьной системы США ставят перед собой профессиональные цели после завершения своей академической карьеры. В США есть разветвленная сеть колледжей и университетов, разбросанных по всей стране. Общим знаменателем каждой из этих школ является средний успеваемости (GPA). Эта статистика используется для выбора студентов, поступающих в высшие учебные заведения.
Средний студента - это надежный показатель его успеваемости на университетском уровне, но это не единственное, что измеряют университеты. Многие другие факторы вступают в игру, когда человек подает заявку на поступление в университет. В процессе подачи заявки учитываются внеклассные мероприятия, участие сообщества и личные невзгоды. Однако первое, на что обращают внимание школы, - это средний успеваемости.
Средний в США - это стандартизированный метод измерения успеваемости студента. Он основан на шкале 4,0 и работает вместе с системой оценок от A до F. Вообще говоря, оценка A дает студенту средний 4.0. Если студент получает четверку, то его средний составляет 3,0. Оценки C равны 2,0, D 1,0, а оценка F равна 0,0 ... Если ученик берет четыре класса и получает два A, один B и C, его или ее средний будет 3,25, что приемлемо во многих школах, но не все. Лучше всего попытаться получить как можно больше оценок, чтобы повысить свои шансы попасть в школу с высоким рейтингом. Лучшие университеты страны требуют средний не ниже 3,5, но лучше всего быть как можно ближе к 4,0. Большинство студентов, поступающих в университеты с самым высоким рейтингом, имеют средний выше 3,5.
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
Как устанавливается средний
Многие учащиеся школьной системы США ставят перед собой профессиональные цели после завершения своей академической карьеры. В США есть разветвленная сеть колледжей и университетов, разбросанных по всей стране. Общим знаменателем каждой из этих школ является средний успеваемости (GPA). Эта статистика используется для выбора студентов, поступающих в высшие учебные заведения.
Средний студента - это надежный показатель его успеваемости на университетском уровне, но это не единственное, что измеряют университеты. Многие другие факторы вступают в игру, когда человек подает заявку на поступление в университет. В процессе подачи заявки учитываются внеклассные мероприятия, участие сообщества и личные невзгоды. Однако первое, на что обращают внимание школы, - это средний успеваемости.
Средний в США - это стандартизированный метод измерения успеваемости студента. Он основан на шкале 4,0 и работает вместе с системой оценок от A до F. Вообще говоря, оценка A дает студенту средний 4.0. Если студент получает четверку, то его средний составляет 3,0. Оценки C равны 2,0, D 1,0, а оценка F равна 0,0 ... Если ученик берет четыре класса и получает два A, один B и C, его или ее средний будет 3,25, что приемлемо во многих школах, но не все. Лучше всего попытаться получить как можно больше оценок, чтобы повысить свои шансы попасть в школу с высоким рейтингом. Лучшие университеты страны требуют средний не ниже 3,5, но лучше всего быть как можно ближе к 4,0. Большинство студентов, поступающих в университеты с самым высоким рейтингом, имеют средний выше 3,5.