In our early days in IB English, we were encouraged to write practice essays in order to improve our own essay-writing skills. Our teacher gave us an excerpt from Jack and the Beanstalk, and we had to devise individual topics. I decided to choose the idea of Jack being rewarded as my central focus. As [...Read more...]
(Click for full size) Just saw this on Reddit. This is apparently how the United States looks like from a European perspective. As you can see, it attaches a popular stereotype to a certain group of states. For example, California’s large liberal population = hippies. Here are my attempted explanations for some of the labels: [...Read more...]
Hopefully these notes make sense to you. I was attempting to summarize the entire bonding chapter for Chemistry HL/SL. Chemical bond – interaction between atoms/ions that results in a reduction in the potential energy of the system, making it more stable Bond type (ionic, covalent, metallic) depends on electronegativities Very different EN – ionic (EN [...Read more...]
This is a copy of a sample French oral internal assessment presentation for French B SL. Image credit: BBC La conscription est une politique nationale dans laquelle les citoyens éligibles servent dans les forces armées de leur pays. Les citoyens éligibles pourraient choisir le service civil aussi. En 1905, le gouvernement de la France a [...Read more...]
IB grade boundaries are minimum boundaries for a certain number grade in a specific category for a subject. For example, if 32 out of 40 was the boundary for a 7 in Paper 1 of Chemistry HL, then one would have to get 32 or above to obtain a 7 on that paper. Pretty straight [...Read more...]
For those with dual-boot (or above) systems, the Windows partition often contains many files that we have been unable or too lazy to migrate to our Linux partitions. Therefore, being able to access this partition is an important issue. The ntfs-3g program for Linux allows us to do that quite easily. However, as I quickly [...Read more...]
Whilst I was doing my Extended Essay on the American Civil War, I was fortunate enough to come by these excellent resources on the naval aspect of the American Civil War. These resources helped me immensely on my Extended Essay. These resources are mostly books, so you may have to go to your local university’s [...Read more...]
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