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Dictatorship in Italy: Benito Mussolini

By garikaib|2025-02-12T09:38:58+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level History Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Il Duce. Benito Mussolini. Image by History.com

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: Dictatorship in Europe: Dictatorship in Italy: Benito Mussolini

Post war Italy was chaotic and plagued by a lot of problems creating a fertile hotbed for the rise of Fascism and dictatorship under Benito Mussolini […]

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Writing Formal Letters

By garikaib|2025-02-12T09:30:37+02:00February 12th, 2025|English Language Notes, Guided Compositions|

Nixon's Resignation Letter is an example of a formal letter. Image by Wikipedia. Nixon’s Resignation Letter is an example of a formal letter. Image by Wikipedia. ZIMSEC Notes: Writing Formal Letters

One of the possible questions that candidates will be asked to tackle as part of their Ordinary Level English examination […]

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Anticyclones

By garikaib|2025-02-12T09:26:48+02:00February 12th, 2025|O Level Geography, Weather and Climate|

Pictures showing wind direction in an anti-cylcone (right) in both the southern and nothern hemisphere. Image by Physical Geography ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes: Anticyclones.

Features of anticyclones.

These are areas of high […]

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Frost/Snow and Hail

By garikaib|2025-02-12T09:05:00+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes, Weather and Climate|

A house and vehicle covered in snow. Image by Novinite. ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes: Frost/Snow and Hail.

Snow/Frost

Caused by a sudden fall or drop in temperature.
With snow ice crystals are formed in the atmosphere.
When these small ice crystals collide with […]

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Extrusive volcanic landforms

By garikaib|2025-02-12T09:43:12+02:00February 12th, 2025|Landform Studies, Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

Pico Cão Grande in New Guinea. Image credit imgur.com Pico Cão Grande in Gulf of Guinea. Image credit imgur.com ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes: Extrusive volcanic landforms.

Magma sometimes reaches earth’s surface through a vent/hole or a fissure/crack in surface rocks.
When lava reaches and emerges onto the earth’s surface […]

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Characteristics of Hot Deserts

By garikaib|2025-02-12T09:28:03+02:00February 12th, 2025|Hot Deserts, Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

Kalahari Desert. Image credit HDImageLib ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes:Characteristics and Location of Hot deser

NB:It is important to note that the Ordinary Level syllabus confines our study to hot deserts that are otherwise known as tropical deserts. Other deserts such as the cold deserts of […]

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Methods of preventing desertification

By garikaib|2025-02-12T09:13:03+02:00February 12th, 2025|Hot Deserts, Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes|

Badia Dam in the midst of a desert. Image credit Broadleap.org. ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes: Methods of preventing desertification.

The following methods can be used to prevent and slow down the rate of desertification:

Afforestation that is planting trees where […]

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Braiding and Alluvial fans

By garikaib|2025-02-12T09:41:42+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Geography, Ordinary Level Notes, River Processes|

Braided River. Image credit patternsofthefuture.com ZIMSEC O Level Geography Notes: Braiding and Alluvial Fans

Braiding

Braiding occurs typically during the dry season when a river’s discharge is greatly reduced.
The river may be split into several channels which rejoin and split again.
These are known as braided river channels.
Rivers […]

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Division of labour and mass production

By garikaib|2025-02-12T09:18:23+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Commerce Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Division of labour on an assembly line production. Image credit youtube.com ZIMSEC O Level Commerce Notes: Division of Labour and Mass production

DIVISION OF LABOUR
Production activites can be classified according to two basic principles:

Division of Labour
this refers to the breakdown […]

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Differences between a bank loan and a bank overdraft

By garikaib|2025-02-12T09:40:25+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Commerce Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Image credit hooo-faq.ru ZIMSEC O Level Commerce Notes: Money and Banking: Bank Loans and Overdrafts

To learn more about Bank Overdrafts and Bank loans go to this page.

To access more topics go to the Commerce Notes page

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