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bits and piecespuzzles, poetry and storiesSPOT THE DIFFERENCECan you spot twelve differences between these to pictures.WORDSEARCHCONUNDRUMSB E G D E L W O N KD E C I S I V E X PY V A L E A D E R SC O U R A G E M P CW H B T I R Z U A NY Q U I F N R T O TT U E Y H J G K M NI N I T I A T I V EL S A L N I S M S MI E B A T J P S A EB L G Y E G Y A T GI F E O G A T I Y DS I I L R L H S U UN S S T I P L U K JO H C H T O A H V LP O H E Y H F T W QS W L V O W V N H OE R E V E S R E P HR Q P K E R X A N CBEARINGCOURAGEDECISIVEENTHUSIASMINITIATIVEINTEGRITYJUDGEMENTKNOWLEDGELOYALTYPERSEVERERESPONSIBILITYUNSELFISHAnswers topuzzles onpage 241 What gets wetter and wetterthe more it dries?2 Which weighs more, a pound offeathers or a pound of bricks?3 How many months have 28 days?4 Name four days of the weekthat start with the letter ‘t’?5 What goes around and aroundthe wood but never goes intothe wood?6 Two mothers and twodaughters went out to eat,everyone ate one burger, yetonly three burgers were eatenin all. How is this possible?7 A man was outside takinga walk, when it started torain. The man didn’t have anumbrella and he wasn’t wearinga hat. His clothes got soaked,yet not a single hair on his headgot wet. How could this happen?8 A cowboy rides into town onFriday, stays for three days,then leaves on Friday. How didhe do it?9 What do the numbers 11, 69, and88 all have in common?10 You walk across a bridge andyou see a boat full of people yetthere isn’t a single person onboard. Explain11 If there are three apples andyou take away two, how manydo you have?12 Beth’s mother has threedaughters. One is called Lara,the other one is Sara. What isthe name of the third daughter?13 If an electric train is going eastat 60 miles an hour and there isa strong westerly wind, whichway does the smoke from thetrain drift?14 How can you throw a ball ashard as you can, to only haveit come back to you, even if itdoesn’t bounce off anything?15 A boy fell off a 30 meter ladderbut did not get hurt. Why not?16 What never asks questions butis often answered?17 What belongs to you but otherpeople use it more than you?18 What five-letter word becomesshorter when you add twoletters to it?22
SPRING/SUMMER 2023PHOENIXTHE GENDER AGENDAEmmanuella AdewoleSo this it.The final page.The final sentence.Our coming of age.Our independence.And isn’t it just beautiful?But won’t you spread yourwings?It’s just an exam way.A full stop,a multiple choice answer box;The first of multiple choices wewill soon have to make.Of which school or whichaccommodation,on how we will spend the nextchapter of our lives,learning to spend real moneyand real time with eachother.No longer sitting in uniform idlelines,Sing hymns or walking hand inhand –But won’t you spread yourwings?You may be looking forward to,a summer in the sunburning the midnight candle,in the interest of future fun.We will no longer standshoulder to shoulder forwhole school photosand instead will rub shoulders inthe workforce.But won’t you spread yourwings?You’ve kept ‘all your limbs insidethe cart at all times’for so long,that you’ve forgotten how to fly.You’ve measured yourself upwith another man’s metre ruleand it’s made you feel downabout all the things you did inschool.You still have things that youwish you had said or did,that dream that you’ve held inyour heart since you werea kid.It’s just too far out of yourreach,but did you know that you canfly?You may have grownup in a chicken’s coupbut you have an eagle’swings,if only you could see the thingsthat I see from my bird’s eyecause when I see you, I cannotdenyI see potential.But won’t you spread yourwings?Won’t raise both hands at eithersideand show the world what ittruly means to be a ‘free’?Standing here in front of me,are individuals teeming withpromise:Engineers, artists, doctors,scientists, lawyers, directors,mathematicians, actors,writers, philosophers.All in one place for the very lasttime.So won’t you spread your wings?Cause my God you’ve seen aswimming pool burn down,you can sure as hell seephoenix rise from its ashes.We have been cooped up for fartoo long,so won’t you spread your wings?I see you biting yourtongue,so much you’ve grownaccustomedto the taste of your ownblood.You’ve curled into yourself.You’re full of more compressedair than a can of coke,weighed down by the heavywords that you never spoke.You’re a liar.Not in the way liars usually are,you lie to yourselfevery day you refuse to do whatyou were born to do.Did you know that you wereborn to fly?Have you ever seen a flock ofbirds,high in the sky,The way they seem to form anarrow pointing towards newheights?Of greener pastures, newdangersand feats to overcomebut you know you’ll never makeit if you don’t run.Run towards the you that youwant to become.Don’t run ‘pretty’ run ugly,let sweat drip down yourtemplesand the wind rush past yourface,until you are flushed and out ofbreathand your legs turn to jelly,until you begin to feelweightlessand you are walking on air.Forget the looks and the stares,who cares,they are simply bird watchingbecause the validation of othersmeans nothingif you cannot validate yourself.We may not cross paths again,as we criss-cross thehopscotch of life like we didwhen we werelittle.But our future selves are waitingfor usand I cannot wait to meet them.So this is it.The first page,the first sentence,our coming of age,Our independence.Congrats! You’ve finally done it,you’re flying,and isn’t it just beautiful.Is Gender an identity? This poem exploresthe theme of justice or rather the lackthereof. It explores the importance ofdefining your own identity rather thansuccumbing to the definition of identitythat mankind has assigned to us.Princess LongeWhat is the difference between him and her?From birth, taking our first steps into this world,like cookie dough, shaped, moulded; all part of thesame cut.Made to fit a certain expectation,yet, still in a situation,where there are certain limitations.Because I am a girl, and you are not.Your skirt’s too short, your top, too tight,what about his trousers, the top almost scrapingthe backs of his knees!That dress code, is just about right.She dresses to impress. No, I disagree.We have this role to fulfil as women.No! I disagree.We, are the weaker identity. I disagree.Strings hang us from our shoulder joints fromyouth,to dance as society tells us,forced into a trance because society is ourpuppeteer.The man, the boy.He can’t feel things, or at least show thembecause,that is not what he does.For society will see him as otherwiseBut we are not dancers, we move as panthers.We’ll take our chance, and make our advance,sever the strings. To take a stance.Videos impersonate me. What I look like,how I act.You think you have the slightest clue,But really it’s you who’s in the blue.I touch my hair and you think, ‘she’s tryingto flirt’.You see, these are the stereotypes thatreally hurt.But they act as simple obstacles to our glory.Because you, are just characters in our story.Why can’t we have equal opportunities?Why is a woman’s promotion such an extremity?To start it off with gender inequality is thedifference in status, power and prestige,that you and I; he and she have in society.When we ask, they say ‘It just is.’‘It just is.’It is gender injustice.23
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