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A kangaroo is an animal found only in Australia. It has a small relative called a wallaby, that lives in Tasmania and New Guinea. Kangaroos eat grass and plants. They have short front legs, long and strong back legs and a tail. These are used to sit up and jump. Kangaroos are well known for their 8-meter forward jumps and more than 3-meters high leap across fences. They can also run at the speed of over 45 kilometers per hour. The largest kangaroos are the Great Grey Kangaroos and Red Kangaroos. Adult kangaroos grow to a meter in length and 90 kilos in weight. Kangaroos are marsupials. This means that the female kangaroo has an external pouch on the front of her body. The baby kangaroo is very tiny when it was born. It right away crawls into its mother's pouch where it spends the first five months of its Life.

 

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If someone is having a nose bleed, your priority is to control the bleeding and keep their airway open.

Get them to sit down (not lie down) as keeping the nose above the heart will reduce bleeding.

Get them to lean forward (not backwards), to make sure the blood drains out through their pause every ten minutes, until the bleeding stops.

Encourage them not to speak, swallow, cough, spit or sniff because this may break blood clots that may have started to form in the nose.

 If the bleeding is severe, or if it lasts more than 30 minutes, call for medical help.

      

"...to make sure the blood drains out..." (paragraph 3)

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JI.Jambu 129

Bandung

30^th January 2017

 

Dear Fred,

It was a real sorrow that I heard this morning of your great loss. I knew your mother was ill. For your brother told me several weeks ago. However, as he at that time did not seem to think. The illness was very serious, the news of your mother`s death came to me as a shock. You have my sincere and heartfelt sympathy, my dear fellow, in your sorrow.

I know you will feel it deeply, for you always thought so much of your mother and loved her so truly. I feel it also as a personal loss to myself for your mother was always very kind to me. I admired her a good and noble woman. Her death must be a terrible grief to your father too. Please assure him of my sincere sympathy.

Words, I know, are poor comforters. "'The heart knows its own sorrow", and in such sorrows we are always alone. However, it is not mere words when I say that I feel with you in your sorrow.

Your sincere friend,

Jack

 

"You have my sincere and heartfelt sympathy, my dear fellow, in your sorrow."

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Dear Sir/Madam,

 

I am writing  to complain about an article in last Monday's newspaper, "Schools fail low-income children." As the head teacher of one of the largest junior high schools in the city. I feel strongly that the article does not describe our school. 

My school has children from many different economic backgrounds,but a large percentage come from lower-income families. Nevertheless, our tests show that the children do well and benefit from the excellent work our teachers do. last year our school moved from 24th to 5th place according to the official assessment by the state government. This is clearly not the "failure" that the article suggests.

I would strongly recommend that more careful research should be conducted in the future so that your newspaper will more realistically describe the true situation in our schools.

 

Yours sincerely,

Joan Gonzalez

 

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Dear Sir/Madam,

 

I am writing to complain about an article in last Monday's newspaper, "Schools fail low-income children." As the head teacher of one of the largest junior high schools in the city. I feel strongly that the article does not describe our school. 

My school has children from many different economic backgrounds, but a large percentage come from lower-income families. Nevertheless, our tests show that the children do well and benefit from the excellent work our teachers do. last year our school moved from 24th to 5th place according to the official assessment by the state government. This is clearly not the "failure" that the article suggests.

I would strongly recommend that more careful research should be conducted in the future so that your newspaper will more realistically describe the true situation in our schools.

 

Yours sincerely,

Joan Gonzalez

 

What is expected by Joan Gonzales from Monday's newspaper?

Dear Sir/Madam,

 

I am writing to complain about an article in last Monday's newspaper, "Schools fail low-income children." As the head teacher of one of the largest junior high schools in the city. I feel strongly that the article does not describe our school. 

My school has children from many different economic backgrounds, but a large percentage come from lower-income families. Nevertheless, our tests show that the children do well and benefit from the excellent work our teachers do. last year our school moved from 24th to 5th place according to the official assessment by the state government. This is clearly not the "failure" that the article suggests.

I would strongly recommend that more careful research should be conducted in the future so that your newspaper will more realistically describe the true situation in our schools.

 

Yours sincerely,

Joan Gonzalez

 

The letter shows Ms. Gonzalez's strong disagreement with the newspaper's claim that ...

Announcement

It is our pleasure to announce the promotion of Bill William as our new Sales Manager. Although Bill has been with us for merely five years, he had shown us his full commitment, dedication and more importantly his great achievement in the computer industry. The thirteen years experiences he had earlier in Eclipse Enterprises, Spark Software and Cloud Development have proven to strengthen not only his skills and capacity, but also strong networking. The company would also like to extend its highest appreciation to Ms. Rachel Brown, our former Sales Manager, for the dedication and commitment she showed us until the day of her retirement.

HRD Manager

 

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Announcement

It is our pleasure to announce the promotion of Bill William as our new Sales Manager. Although Bill has been with us for merely five years, he had shown us his full commitment, dedication and more importantly his great achievement in the computer industry. The thirteen years experiences he had earlier in Eclipse Enterprises, Spark Software and Cloud Development have proven to strengthen not only his skills and capacity, but also strong networking. The company would also like to extend its highest appreciation to Ms. Rachel Brown, our former Sales Manager, for the dedication and commitment she showed us until the day of her retirement.

HRD Manager

 

What made Mr. William get the promotion?

Announcement

It is our pleasure to announce the promotion of Bill William as our new Sales Manager. Although Bill has been with us for merely five years, he had shown us his full commitment, dedication and more importantly his great achievement in the computer industry. The thirteen years experiences he had earlier in Eclipse Enterprises, Spark Software and Cloud Development have proven to strengthen not only his skills and capacity, but also strong networking. The company would also like to extend its highest appreciation to Ms. Rachel Brown, our former Sales Manager, for the dedication and commitment she showed us until the day of her retirement.

HRD Manager

 

The announcement is mostly concerned with ...

Tapeworms may be good for your brain

Tapeworms get a bad reputation. They are voracious parasites that burrow into gut walls and devour nutrients like a nightmarish version of The Very Hungry Caterpillar. But not all tapeworms are bad. In fact, one type appears to protect against memory loss in rats. The discovery, researchers say, could lead to new treatment for some neurological diseases in humans, like Alzheimer’s.

In the study, researchers divided 30 rats into two main groups: those infected with the rat tapeworm Hymenolepsis diminuta, and those with clean guts. To test the potential protection offered by H. diminuta, the team infected both groups of rodents with a one-two punch: a mild case of Escherichia coli shortly after birth to stimulate an immune response, and an injection of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) after they had been “wormed” as adults. LPS is a noninfectious component of bacteria that trips the immune system’s alarm, leading to a potentially overactive response in the brain that can be include swelling and confusion.

Just as the researchers predicted, when the rats with worms were reintroduced to the scary shock box, they froze in fear, indicating they had a full memory of the previous day’s shock. But the wormless rats paused only half as much, suggesting their memories of the box were incomplete. The “wormy” rats froze as much as the double control group that was both worm-free and infection-free, suggesting that the worms had somehow protected the rats against memory loss after the infections.

How did the rats with worm react when they were put into the scary shock box at the second time?

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There are many reasons for both sides of the question, “Should we have printed advertisement?” Many people have strong views and feel that ads are nothing more than useless junk mail, while other people feel it is an important source information.

There are some reasons why we should have advertisement in newspaper and magazines. One reason is ads give us information about what is available. Looking at ads we can find out what is on sale and what is new in the market. This is an easy way of shopping. Another reason is that advertisement promotes business. When shop owners compete against each other the buyer saves money, more people come to their shops and they sell more goods.

On the other hand, some people argue that ads should not be put in newspaper and magazines for these various reasons. Firstly, ads cost the shopkeepers a lot of money to print onto paper. Also some people don’t like finding junk mail in their letter boxes. Ads also influence people to buy items they don’t need and can’t really afford. Ads use up a lot of space and a lot of effort has to be made to make the ads eyecatching.

After looking at both sides of issue, I think we should not have advertisements because they cost a lot of money and take up a lot of room in the papers. I don’t think I find some of them interesting. I mainly disagree because it’s junk mail.  

 

"Ads use up a lot of space and a lot of effort has to be made to make the ads eyecatching."

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