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I have two possible interpretations:

1) It signifies that for every level of knowledge acquired, there is a challenge ( or responsibility) to match .

2) If the woman's height represents one's lifetime, the water level the number of years spent already, and the books knowledge, then it shows one's lifetime is not sufficient to acquire all the knowledge available in one's field of endeavour .
Her stretching her legs denotes that some may attempt to acquire more knowledge beyond what is expected, yet they'll still be overtaken by time ( death ).

Petenoir:
I recently opened a thread on warranty and guarantee just because it didn't feature snakes or naked celebrities, it never went far. This warranty issue is a serious issue.

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You are in a scam revelatory thread, yet you are scamming people.

wizflame:
okay tho that's what I usually use for online transactions and it works perfectly fine until trying it on PayPal

The same thing happened to me, but I waited for some hours and tried it, then it worked. My card is not Gt, though.

gbadexy:
The principle doesn't explain why a brick would not float by displacing it's equal volume of water in weight.
I think the principle is for hollow objects and is dependent on the surface area to weight ratio.

What the general Archimedes principle was trying to convey is that an object submerged in a liquid experiences a force which tends to push it upward, irrespective of whether the object is floating on or sunk beneath the liquid.

He also propounded another principle-- the principle of floatation-- which easily answered your question. It states 'for an object to float on a liquid, the weight of the object must be equal to ( or less than) the upthrust of the liquid.

The brick would sink because it's weight is greater than the upthrust the water exerts.

The principle is not limited to hollow objects, because a log of wood do float on water.

selemempe:
I know. But sometimes they do it during an economic slowdown. They pump dollars into the world markets and get valuable goods in return.... something which poor countries like Nigeria can't do. So the rich countries keep getting richer

Now I get where you coming from. Of course in such critical times they can do that to stimulate their economy.

selemempe:
but because dollar is still a traded good, the u.s can afford to print it and exchange it for goods abroad. In fact they even print it and spend it in their country and call it stimulus package

Every country prints their currency from time to time to serve their economic need. Granted.

However, the idea that the US prints their currency with reckless abandon just because their currency is a global legal tender is what I'm objecting to. Because at the long run, the dollar would become excessively abundant in the global market and its value will nose-dive. And the US knows better than to create such scenerio.

selemempe:
Only dollars, euro and yen can be printed like that because they are traded currencies. Those poor countries have currencies of no value outside their country. They can't print money

Modified

You can print money if your currency itself is demanded for transactions abroad. That is why u.s and Europeans have gone far. They can afford to print their money and spend it abroad...not in their own country.

So if u.s needs to buy oil from Nigeria...it can print the money and buy the oil and that way, they keep their economy alive. That is neo colonialism

selemempe:
Only dollars, euro and yen can be printed like that because they are traded currencies. Those poor countries have currencies of no value outside their country. They can't print money

Modified

You can print money if your currency itself is demanded for transactions abroad. That is why u.s and Europeans have gone far. They can afford to print their money and spend it abroad...not in their own country.

So if u.s needs to buy oil from Nigeria...it can print the money and buy the oil and that way, they keep their economy alive. That is neo colonialism

selemempe:
Only dollars, euro and yen can be printed like that because they are traded currencies. Those poor countries have currencies of no value outside their country. They can't print money

Modified

You can print money if your currency itself is demanded for transactions abroad. That is why u.s and Europeans have gone far. They can afford to print their money and spend it abroad...not in their own country.

So if u.s needs to buy oil from Nigeria...it can print the money and buy the oil and that way, they keep their economy alive. That is neo colonialism

The US would rather have you exchange your oil with there finished goods. That is why Donald Trump has been complaining of trade deficit (i.e purchasing more than you sell) between them and China.

The purchasing power of the dollar against any other currency lies in its general acceptance and scarcity.

Nice writeup.

However, wealth is not limited to natural resources. There is also human resources. In this time and age, technology is wealth itself. That is why a country like Japan with no much natural resources but abundant human resources and technology are doing better than us.

I would dare say that human resources and technology payoff more than natural resources.

sorority11:
Firstly, a country's economy is being run like a business. Inflation, debt, depreciation are what determines the country's economy. For you to understand money, first you must know money is just an illusion, it isn't real at all, just keep reading I will explain why.
But first why is naira loosing against dollars? Printing more money is not the major cause of inflation actually.
When a country is in debt, let say Nigeria is owing USA $50billion dollars and they are unable to pay, how then will USA get back their money back? they get back their money by devaluing our currency. For those that don't understand, let us say your neighbor who you buy sachet milk at the rate of #50 naira is owing you 500, and he is unable to pay the money, so you strike a deal to buy that same milk at #30 naira till your neighbor's debt is paid. the milk didn't loose its value, but the Neighbour's selling power that was lost.. That is why a country rich as Nigeria is poor. As the exchange rate of a country increase, if the country solely depends on foreign goods, then the prices of the commodities will increase so also the prices of domestic commodities follow suite including labour.

Secondly, money like I said is an illusion, it isn't stable. The wealth of a nation is not in its money but in it is its resources, selling power and purchasing power and wealth is gotten from the ground(oil, coal, minerals, agricultural raw materials e.t.c.) A country without wealth has nothing to sell or trade with, will become poor. A country that spends more than it earns will go into debt (common economics). For you to increase the value of your currency, increase your production(converting wealth to useful consumables), increase your science and technology.
Do not keep your money in the bank, it will loose value, money(illusion) isn't stable including dollars. Spend money, so you can make more money. Set your money on motion, money when it is on motion is a magnet that pulls more money.
If you get #10million for account buy 3 cars and use it for uber, sit down in your house and let this drivers be submitting money to you every month. If it is in your bank, it won't do you any good. Bye

Nice writeup.

However, wealth is not limited to natural resources. There is also human resources. In this time and age, technology is wealth itself. That is why a country like Japan with no much natural resources but abundant human resources and technology are doing better than us.

I would dare say that human resources and technology payoff more than natural resources.

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Sadiqali24:
Assuming you have an NCE, and u just secured an employment with a federal agency. In the same vain, u secured direct admission into 200l, which will u go for?

Is this supposed to be a question? Or are you a troll?

Employment anytime, any day!

ProfChris10:
I graduated last year from Chemical Engineering with 2nd class upper, to be sincere, the course is not child's play. Especially from your year 3. We do two projects in final year, your normal final year project and the design project is kind of application of what you have learnt so far. Its a group work. But I don't think the lecturers are to blame. It lies in our hands, because my set produced a first class. The guy truly deserved it. I would say one has to be balanced psychologically, emotionally, spiritually name them. Mine was God's grace because from my year 3, I was very unstable as my dad had issues in his work, it really afftected me psychologically. But all the same, no one will take it as an excuse, I fought hard, studied and came out with a 2.1. But finally anyone that has a poor O level should not even think of first class in chemical engineering, men, you'll have to do too many reading to meet up. Shalom

Good to hear you guys had first class.

paul100:
I am studying chemical engineering in uniport too,so i will like to know why people hardly get first class in the department.Sorry to ask this but did you just graduate.Is it the lecturers,the courses or unseriousness from the students.I will like to know.Thanks

Well, I'm not really in a good position to answer this question, as I had never been in a first class position during my time.

However, there were innuendoes that some lecturers were not happy to see students graduate with first class, because themselves couldn't in there own time. I don't really treat such stories or rumours seriously, so don't take it hook, line and sinkers, it might be untrue. But again, fact is Chemical engineering Dept does not in anyway encourage their students to aim at first class. I could remember in our own time, some students that graduated with first class in other depts were rumoured to have been helped one way or the other by their lecturers. While our own guy who has been on first class from year one couldn't make it eventually. Such is life.

The courses are difficult, no doubt about that. Some of the supposed serious ones couldn't even make second class upper, let alone the unserious ones. Uniport lecturers also seem to take pride in failing there students, especially Chemistry Dept.

A professor in Civil Engineering Dept once told us that when he was employed newly in Uniport, his first year precisely, he marked his scripts and graded the students with 80% as benchmark for grade A. He, however, afterwards made enquires just to be sure his gradings were accurate, but was told it was 70% instead for grade A. He adjusted the results accordingly and most of the students got A. And when he presented the result to the Senate, they rejected it on the grounds that there were too many grade As in it. Nevertheless, he himself stood his grounds that instead of altering anything in that result he'll better resign. Because he taught the students, set the exams, marked and graded it all by himself hence, what he presented is the true representation of the students' performance. The Senate seeing his determination had to accept the result.

So it seems Uniport as an institution is wired to fail students generally.

Just do your best. The truth is that it is difficult for one or two lecturers to influence the final grade of a student whose cgpa is closer to 5 than 4.5 in the closing years of his studies.

I graduated in 2014.

Odiaze:
Thanks for the advice mr dprpickin and mr kimcutie, i will work on my putme like u said, but mr dprpickin how difficult and stressful is chemical engineering in uniport, looking at the courses, lecturers, lecture halls, learning facilities and all others. And also what job oppournities are outside for a graduate of the course apart from oil companies. THANKS

Your questions are actually subjective. However, simply put, Chemical engineering is very stressful, you have to up your game. This is by no means a discouragement, just to sensitize you. In our set, about 90+ candidates were admitted, but only about 10 or there about finished with second class upper divisions and there was no first class. Though, some left midway.

To answer your other questions:
1) some of the courses are simple others are difficult.
2) I have no issues with the lecturers, they are decent.
3) There is a big challenge in the lecture venues due to over crowdedness in the first and second years respectively. From third year no much issues.
4) In terms of facilities nothing to impress in this area. In fact, I was disappointed. This is a general problem across Nigerian public schools, anyway.

Chemical engineering is very versatile, arguably the most versatile besides Elect Elect.

As a graduate of Chem Eng, you can work in a Fertilizer, Paint, Resins, Food and Beverages, Cement, Polymer (plastic and others), Drug, Cosmetics and other consumer goods, and automobile production industries.
In fact, any process that involves transfer of material and or exchange of heat, the services of a Chemical engineer is required.

Hope this helps, though coming late?

2cul2care:
We're both saying the same thing

You two are saying entirely different things. Let us put it into perspective:

They gave two of us a plate of rice to consume, I did mine in 10mins while it took you 30mins to finish your's. Does it imply I ate more quantity of rice than you? Definitely not.

Caseless:
A car on highspeed consume more fuel than that on low-speed.

Not all together true given two cars of same spec, at the final analysis.

If two cars of same kind should travel the same distance under constant external conditions, the one that traveled at higher speed will spend less fuel, because fuel conversion efficiency increases with speed.

Thank you Mr Psalmz I got the phone in good condition and it is what I'm using to chat now. You were very civil and prompt to respond during the transaction proceedings. Keep it up, bro.

In another matter, hope there is cash bonus for referrals?

Odiaze:
Mr kimcutie, my jamb score is 256, for Chemical Engineering what is my chance of gaining admission on merit and what should i score in putme to increase my chance.

I would say your score is decent. However, prepare very well for the putme, because in uniport ( especially engineering) it is very very tough.

To put it into projection, during my time, I got either 220 or 244 ( I guess so) in jamb but couldn't get up to 200 in the putme. Yet, I got admitted on merit. All of my acquintances got in on merits too.

In terms of meritocracy in admissions, uniport can stand up to any public school anywhere in this country. What you need is just to study hard. Simple.

By the way, I'm a graduate of Chemical Engineering.

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