ADVANCED General Certificate of Education January 2010 History Assessment Unit A2 1 assessing *A2H11* Module 4 [A2H11] THURSDAY 14 JANUARY, AFTERNOON TIME 1 hour 30 minutes. INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES Write your Centre Number and Candidate Number on the Answer Booklet provided. Answer two questions on your chosen option. Indicate clearly on your answer booklet which option you have chosen. INFORMATION FOR CANDIDATES The total mark for this paper is 60. Quality of written
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ancestors just knew their mother tongues before German colonialism and apartheid when German’s and colonies from South Africa taught our people their languages(Afrikaans, German and English) in order to communicate with them. During apartheid Afrikaans, German and English held the position of official language; however, after independence from South Africa1990, Namibia's new government made English the sole official language in the constitution of Namibia. German and Afrikaans were stigmatized as having
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even dismiss his own chancellor. He could control the entire political system of Germany as he could select people who agreed with his policies. He also made a rule that in order to rule the Kaiser must be a Prussian, ensuring his control over the German people. His rule also meant he could change the constitution so that these rules had to stay in place. The control of these factors played a big role in keeping his position a stable one. The chancellor was the chief minister of the Reich, the only
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To what extent English is the global language? http://www2.ignatius.edu/FACULTY/TURNER/languages.htm http://www2.ignatius.edu/FACULTY/TURNER/worldlang.htm (detailed tables) http://www.photius.com/rankings/languages2.html 影响语言传播的因素： 1. http://www.5ykj.com/Article/xslwwjws/93980.htm 历史 经济 难度 对人类文明的贡献 2. http://bbs.hupu.com/12561712.html 短期看不太可能。决定语言传播的有几个因素： 1. 国家实力（说中文的就中国一个大头） 2. 文化输出（这点上天朝弱爆，天朝目前以及可短期预见的未来里，不具备输入文化的足够实力）等哪天天朝的流行文化，各种文化，电影，流行歌，书，明星等逆向输入英语世界，等哪天英语国家的青少年开始哈中了，这时候我们才谈中文的逆袭。
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Greece (98.7%), Italy (99.2%), and Portugal (100%). In Luxembourg, the Luxembourg is a foreign language for 19.5% of respondents; in the Netherlands, Dutch is a foreign language for 5.1%; in Sweden, Swedish is a foreign language for 4.8%; In Austria, German is a foreign language for 3.7% of respondents. Graphs The countries with the largest number of respondents saying they have another language as their mother tongue (with this data likely reflects the role of regional languages or the languages of
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Currently, people pay more attention on how to dress themselves, not only young people but also elders. People are willing to pay more for outlooks, which means budgets on clothing are increasing. Here are more brands be created and entered Chinese market, so in this paper, I’m going to talk about H&M with SWOT and Macro analysis. The full name of H&M company is called Hennes&MauritzAB0. Not only clothes, but also makeups, H&M established its own stores in 54 countries all over the world, it
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What went wrong with the negotiations between econ and Nagaoka This negotiation is regarded as an international business negotiations and as such it should follow some basic steps identified. These stages include Nontask sounding, Task related exchange of information, persuasion and Agreement. On a general note this the negotiation did not follow these stages as such there was a problem in reaching an agreement. On specific reasons why this negation fail would be, Language barrier- there is a major
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and also identifies a sense of discontent from the German people. This could be a sign of democracy as it was within the Kaiser’s rights to dissolve the Social Democrats, however the fact that he didn’t suggests that he wasn’t a truly autocratic leader. The second election in 1907 was different in the sense that Bulow was able to reassert the Kaiser’s power by promoting nationalism against the Social Democrats. He did this by threatening the German citizens with what would happen if the Social Democrats
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“The outbreak of war in Europe in 1914 was due to an aggressive German foreign policy which had been waged since c.1900” How far do you agree with this opinion? Explain your answer using Sources V, W and X and your own knowledge. It can be argued whether Germany’s foreign policy was the main reason for the start of World War One. Source W highlights that Germany’s actions since the 1890s had created international tensions but this was mainly due a handful of political and military leaders, source
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the First World War. The actions of the German leaders were responsible for the outbreak of the First World War due to their aggressive policy of Weltpolitik and Brinkmanship. Furthermore, the War Council Meeting in 1912 underlines that war was on the German leaders’ agenda. This is shown in Source 1 when it states that the “German army and government pushed for war before 1914” which implies that no matter what circumstances changed in 1914, the German leaders had had war on their mind for years
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