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   We have already read about Labor Day عيد العمال  but how did you do on its quiz ? Did you answer all the questions correctly ? Ok, today, I will present the answers to the Labor Day Quiz for you all to check your answers. To view the questions, go back to the quiz.

1) The Egyptians celebrate “Labor Day”  on May 1^st every year.

يــحــتــفــــل الــمــصـــريـــــون بـــعــيــــد الـــعــُــمــــّــــال فــى الأول مــن مــايــــو كــل عـــَـــام

2) Americans celebrate “Labor Day” on the first Monday in September.   

يــحــتـــفـــــل الأمـــريــكـــيــــون بــعـــيــــد الــعـــُــمــّـــال فــى الإثــنــيــــن الأول مــن شــهـــر ســبــتــمــبــــر

3) The slogan that the Chicago workers lifted up was; “Eight hours to work, eight hours to rest, eight hours to sleep.”

الــشـِـعـَــار الـذى كـان يـرفـعــه الـعــُـمــّــال فـى شـيـكــاغـو هو ” ثـمــان ســاعــات لـلــعــمــل , ثــمـــان ســاعــــات لـلــراحـــة و ثــمـــان ســاعــــات لـلــنــــوم

4) The American Labor Union Movement called for the first workers’ strike on May 1^st 1886 .

  الـذى دعـا لإضـراب الـعــُـمـّــال فـى الأول مـِـن مـايـو 1886 كـانــت هـى حـركـة إتـحــاد الـعـُـمــّـال الأمــريـكــي

5) Labor Day is celebrated by organizing street demonstrations and marches.

يــتــم الإحــتـفـــال بـــعـــيـــد الـــعـــُـمــّــال عــن طــريــق تــنــظــيــم الـمــُــظــاهــرات و الـمـسـيــرات فـى الـشــوارع

6) answer between brackets اخـتــر الإجـابـة الــصـحـيـحـة مـِـن بـيـن الأقــواس 

    a- Labor Day is an ( annual) vacation.

عــِــيــــدُ الــعـــُــمــّـــالِ هـــُــو عـــُــطــلــــة ……… (  ســنــويــّـــة 

   b- The U.S. Congress designated May 1^st as ( Loyalty ) Day.

                    اِعـتـبــرَ الـكـونـجــرس الأمـريـكـى الـيـوم الأول مـِـن مايـو هــو يـوم ….. ( الـوفـاء

   c- The person who said “Without labor, nothing prospers” is … ( Sophocles )

الـشـخــص الـذى قـال عــبــَـارة : ” لا شــيءَ يـنـجــح بــدون الــعــَـمـــل” هــُــو ….. ( سـوفــوكــلــيـــس

7) Translate the following sentence into Arabic: ترجـِم العـبـارة الـتـالـيـة إلى اللغــة العـربـيــة  

“The  Egyptian workers have made great efforts in the construction of the Suez Canal and the High Dam and had a long history of struggle for better conditions.”  

لـقــد بـذل الــعــُــمــّـــالُ الــمــصـــريــون جــُــهــُــوداً عــظــيــمـــة فــى بــنـــاءِ قــنـــاة الــســُــويــس و الــســــدِّ الــعــالـــى ، كــمـــا كـــان لــهــم كــِــفـــَـــاحٌ طــويــلٌ  مــِــن أجــْــلِ أحـــوالٍ أفــضـــــل

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     Abdel Aziz Al-Kusi was a great Egyptian psychologist عـالـِـم نـقــس and is considered the Dean of  the Arabic Psychology عـَـمـيــد عـِـلـم الـنـفــس الـعـربـى . He got the highest honours in Egypt and represented his country at UNESCO. He also was a member of so many specialised national councils and was the founder مـُـؤسـّــس of new departments at higher education institutions.

    Al-Kusi was born in 1906 inKous, a small town in Upper Egyptto a deep-rooted family with a very good reputation سـُـمـْـعـَـة . He memorized the Holy Quran when he was young . He finished his basic education in Asuit and then high school. After that, he moved to Cairo and joined the High School of Teachers مـدرسـة الـمـُـعـَـلـمـيـن الـعـُـلـيـَــا . Al-Kusi achievd the highest rank among his colleagues so that the ministry of education sent him to U.K. for higher studies. He got his first degree in Psychology from the University of Birmingham, U.K. in 1932, then a Master Degree and then a PhD in 1934. In his doctoral dissertation, he discovered what is called the Factor of Space Perception عـَـامــِـل إدراك الـمـَــكــان . His research was published by theUniversity ofEdinburgh in 1934 and was the base for the efforts of so many other great psychologists and psychological tests. 

Visual Perception of Space

     Al-Kusi built a theory نـظـريــة on forming the mental abilities that is based on three dimensions;

1) The basic content الـمـَـضـمـُــون الأسـَـاســى ,

2) The function الـوظـيـفــة

3) The shape الـشــكــل .

Al-Kusi named his theory the ‘Three Dimensions Theory نـظــريــة الأبـعــاد الـثــلاثــة ‘. He presented his theory inParis in a conference that was attended by some famous psychologists like Guilford and Thurstone who acknowledged his work.

     Al-Kusi was the first Arab to use the term of  “Mental Health الـصـحــة الـنـفـســيــة ” and wrote a book called “Foundations of Mental Health أسـُـس الـصـحــة الـنـفـســيـــة ” that is still considered a principal resource. Al-Kusi died on 27^th April 1992.

Foundations of Mental Health

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       Here is the answer to the Shamm Annaseem Quiz that I presented earlier. Answers are written directly without the questions. To see the questions go to the Shamm Annaseem Quiz.

1)  The ancient Egyptians celebrated the advent of spring in Shamm Annaseem?

كــان الــمــصــريــون الــقــدمـــــاء يــحــتــفــلــــون بـقــدوم الــربــيـــــــع فـى شـــم الــنــســــيــــــــم

2)  ”Shemu Feast” means the “Day of Creation” or the “Renewal of Life”

كلمة “عــيــــد شـــمـــــوس تعنى يــوم الـخــلـــق أو تــجــديـــد الــحــيــــــاة

3)  The ancient Egyptians thought the Shemus Feast was the first day of creation.

كــان الــمــصـــريـــــون الــقــدمـــاء يـعـتـقـــدون أن عــيـــد شــمـــوس هــو أول يــوم للــخــلـــــق

4) In this day,  the day time is equal to the night time.

يـتــمــيـــز هــذا الــيــوم عــن بــاقــى أيــام الــعـــام لأن الــنــهـــــار فـيـــه يــتــســــاوى مــع الـلــيــــــل

5)  The Jews and the Christians celebrate different occasions in the same day.

يــحــتــفــــل الــيــهــــــود و الــمــســـيــحــيــــــون بــمــنــاســـبــــات مــخــتــلــفـــة فـى هــذا الــيــــوم 

6)  People celebrate Shamm Annaseem by going out in the open air, visiting parks, zoos and the countryside and eating special foods. 

يـحـتـفـل الـنـاس فى شـم الـنـسـيـم بالخروج إلى الهواء الطلق و زيارة الحدائق و المنتزهات و الريف و تناول أطعمة خاصة

7) The singer that sings in the video is “So’ad Hosny”.

الــمــطــــربــــــة الــتـــى تــغــنــــــى فــى الــفــيـــديـــــو هــــــى ســُــعـــــــاد حــُــســنـــــى

8) The name of the song in the video is “It is Spring”.

اســــم الأغــنــيــــــة الــتــــى فـــى الــفــيـــديـــــو هــــى الـــدنـــيــــــــا ربــــــيـــــــــع

9)  The special foods for that day are the Fiseek, eggs, green onions, lettuce and hummus.

الأطـعـمـة الــخــاصــة بـهــذا الــيــوم هــى الــفــســيـــخ و الــبــيــض و الــبــصــل الأخــضــر و الــخــس و الحــُــمــُّـــص

10) Translation  الــتــرجـــــمــــــــــة 

“Celebrating the Spring turns to a public festival. People go out to enjoy the fresh air. They visit parks, zoos and the countryside. There are special Egyptian foods that mark the day.”

يـتـحــول الاحـتـفــال بـالــربـيـــع إلـى مـهــرجــان شــعــبــى ، فـيـخـــرج الـنــاس لـلاسـتــمــتـــاع بـالــهــــواء الـطــلـــق ، و يـــزورون الــحــدائــق الــعــامــة و حــدائـــق الــحــيـــوان و الــريـــف ، و هـنــاك أطـعـمـــة مــصــريـــة خــاصــة تــمــيــز هــذا الــيـــــوم

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