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    Verbal Reasoning Practice Test 3 Solution Booklet 1 www.assessmentday.co.uk Work-related stress is one of the biggest causes of sick leave in the UK. If you’’ve noticed you always seem to be rushing about‚ or miss meal breaks‚ take work home or don’’t have enough time for relaxation‚ for your family or for exercise‚ then you may well find yourself under stress‚ especially at work. There is often no single cause of work-related stress‚ but it can be caused by poor working conditions

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    The civil rights era was a step towards all equality for African Americans. Before this era‚ blacks were treated completely different than their white neighbors. Many things were done to prevent African Americans from being viewed on the same level as white people. One of the major things enacted were the black codes. The black codes were essentially created as a way to keep control of African Americans without it being deemed as slavery. One thing that blacks had to endure was the fact that if they

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    The Beginning of the Civil Rights Movement Michelle Brown The Beginning of the Civil Rights Movement The Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s were a profound turning point in American History. African American’s had been fighting for equality for many years but in the early 1950s the fight started to heighten‚ from Rosa Parks‚ to Martin Luther King Jr.‚ to Malcolm X‚ the fight would take on many different forms over the span of two decades‚ and was looked at from many different

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    challenges before‚ during‚ and after the Civil Rights Movement . A lot of people had to make sacrifices in their lives to be a part of the Movement. People became unemployed‚ were abused countless times by the police‚ southerners‚ and people who disagree with segregation. They also sacrificed their education‚ children (teenagers and college students)‚ and their right to defend themselves. Using sources‚ this essay will show the numerous sacrifices and challenges that were made by Civil Rights activists‚

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    that without the movement that happened in 1963 like the first lung transplant‚ the first woman in space‚ and the fight for African American rights it would have not changed the way people thought. All these examples

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    Pursuit of the African American Identity: The American Cinema in 1960 The horror genre in the late 1960’s was booming in the film industry‚ with an abundance of social and racial issues. The majority of the social issues were predicated on the unequivocal civil rights among African Americans and Caucasians. The race of the cast in films began to change over the course of this decade‚ as the number of black actors increased exponentially. The majority of critics and historians in this genre attribute

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    The Civil Right Movement of the 1960s and 70s in America against racism gave rise to disability rights. Disability rights groups argued that the problem lay with way society respond to people with disabilities. Disability group took actions against institutional discrimination‚ poor access‚ social environments and inequalities. In 1945‚ many disabled people were killed. Also many people were isolated and sterilised. The Disability Employment Act‚ (1944)‚ is to provide shelter‚ employment and jobs

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    1945 to 1964 was where African Americans campaigned for their civil rights‚ and they aimed to improve the lives of black people‚ to some extent the federal government was involved in the improvement of the stays of black people including the presidents‚ the congress‚ the supreme courts and the FBI. However it was not the federal government alone who improved the status of black people because civil right campaigns such as the NAACP. Harry S Truman was the first american president after Abraham

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    reason at all. They would put the African Americans in segregated schools and separate them from the whites. The blacks didn’t like this‚ so they did civil rights protest. During these non-violent protests‚ they would express their feelings through songs‚ like ”Kumbaya” and “On Freedom”. Both African Americans and their supporters would come together and sing old church songs that were revised and brought meaning to their movement.Music played a huge role during this time. It gave a voice to the

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    The civil rights movement had been one of the largest‚ ongoing battles in America over equality of black civilians. Not everything had changed with the 1964 civil rights act and there is still inequality today. In 1960 there were still several problems such as the police force. The police forces were still racist and black citizens were not given the same amount of care as the white citizens were given. Also a number of the police force was members of the KKK‚ which means that towns and states were

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