ENG1514 Assignment 2
4 June 2024
Answer all questions.
Section A: Content-Based Questions
1. Read Text A below and answer the questions that follow.
TEXT A CHANGE THE WORLD
1.
The motto of Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University is: “Change the
World”, a noble mission inspired by the famous statement, Nelson
Mandela that “education is the most powerful weapon which you can
use to change the world”. For, “it is through education that the daughter
of a peasant can become a doctor, that the son of a mineworker can
become the head of a mine, that the child of farm workers can become
the president of a great nation”.
2.True to the legacy of Nelson Mandela, this University is also a value-
driven institution where social justice and equality are paramount in the
endeavour to rectify the inequalities in our world. The African philosophy
of “ubuntu” underpins what you aim for and do as an institution.
3.Like all universities the world over, in line with your values, you had to
quickly adapt in the face of the pandemic to offer your twenty-nine
thousand or more students online and mask-to-mask tuition. This has
not been easy for you, especially given the gap in content knowledge
between those who are privileged to have access to data, devices,
and internet and those who do not.
Source: Adapted from www.mandela.ac.za
4 June 2024
Answer all questions.
Section A: Content-Based Questions
1. Read Text A below and answer the questions that follow.
TEXT A CHANGE THE WORLD
1.
The motto of Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University is: “Change the
World”, a noble mission inspired by the famous statement, Nelson
Mandela that “education is the most powerful weapon which you can
use to change the world”. For, “it is through education that the daughter
of a peasant can become a doctor, that the son of a mineworker can
become the head of a mine, that the child of farm workers can become
the president of a great nation”.
2.True to the legacy of Nelson Mandela, this University is also a value-
driven institution where social justice and equality are paramount in the
endeavour to rectify the inequalities in our world. The African philosophy
of “ubuntu” underpins what you aim for and do as an institution.
3.Like all universities the world over, in line with your values, you had to
quickly adapt in the face of the pandemic to offer your twenty-nine
thousand or more students online and mask-to-mask tuition. This has
not been easy for you, especially given the gap in content knowledge
between those who are privileged to have access to data, devices,
and internet and those who do not.
Source: Adapted from www.mandela.ac.za
