Ira Katznelson’s When Affirmative Action Was White Chapter five: White Veterans Only explains the racial disparities under the Jim Crow laws of the G.I. Bill. The G.I. Bill was created by the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration and it proved benefits to veterans of World War II. The bill included‚ funding for college education‚ housing‚ and unemployment insurance. The only downfall of the G.I. Bill was that it only included white males‚ it completely excluded African American veterans from reaping
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ISC 2009 Class X -English Question paper General Instructions: 1. Attempt all four question. 2. The intended marks for questions or parts of questions are given in brackets. 3. You are advised to spend not more than 35 minutes in answering Question 1 and 20 minutes in answering Question 2. Question 1 (Do not spend more than 35 minutes on this question). Write a composition (350 – 400 words) on any one of the following:- (25 Marks) 1. Recall a remarkable event of social importance in your city or
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Ego Development Customer’s Name: Customer’s Course: Tutor’s Name: SENTENCE COMPLETION TEST FOR MEN Date:_____________ Name:__________________ Age:____ Marital Status:______ Educational Level:_________ Instructions: Complete the following sentences in a single session. 1. When a child will not join in group activities she/he may prefer solitary activities. 2. Raising a family is not very hard if you are financially stable. 3. When I am criticized I feel like crying. 4. A man’s
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______________________________________________________________________________ Student’s name : Test A Exercise 1. Put in semicolons‚ colons‚ dashes‚ quotation marks‚ Italics (use an underline)‚ and parentheses where ever they are needed in the following sentences. 1. The men in question Harold Keene‚ Jim Peterson‚ and Gerald Greene deserve awards. 2. Several countries participated in the airlift Italy‚ Belgium‚ France‚ and Luxembourg. 3. Only one course was open to us surrender‚ said the ex-major‚ and
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programs to gain points. 9. Why did Marcia advised John to rent a suite in a hotel? ANSWER: 10. Choose TRUE or FALSE. Marcia is still working in a travel agency. Question 2 Marks: 1 Choose the words/ phrases that best complete the sentence or question. Would you mind ___ with my luggage? Choose one answer. | a. giving me a hand | | | b. gave me a hand | | | c. give me a hand | | Question 3 Marks: 1 She changed her _______ blouse after the meal. It’s so dirty
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"Sentence Variety" Exercises In each exercise‚ you will practice combining sentences or using the following varieties: simple‚ compound‚ complex‚ compound-complex‚ prepositional phrases of location‚ adverbs of negation and time‚ and conditional sentence structures. Each exercise will give you specific instructions regarding the sentence type or subject verb inversion to use. Your goal is to complete ten exercises in a row‚ or until you feel comfortable using a variety of sentences structures in
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period and a capital letter or (2) a comma (if needed) and the joining word and‚ but‚ for‚ or so. Do not use the same method of correction for every sentence. Some of the run-ons are fused sentences (there is no punctuation between the two complete thoughts)‚ and some are comma splices (there is only a comma between the two complete thoughts). One sentence is correct. 1. Slovakia‚ a country in eastern Europe‚ was once ruled by the Austro-Hungarian Empire‚ it is now an independent country. 2
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Experienced writers use a variety of sentences to make their writing interesting and lively. Too many simple sentences‚ for example‚ will sound choppy and immature while too many long sentences will be difficult to read and hard to understand. This page contains definitions of simple‚ compound‚ and complex sentences with many simple examples. The purpose of these examples is to help the ESL/EFL learner to identify sentence basics including identification of sentences in the short quizzes that follow
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Complex Sentences Complex sentences are sentences that have several parts‚ each with a verb‚ and these parts are joined by ‘joining words’ (连词). For example‚ here are two simple sentences: “I know a man. He has five children.” If you join these two sentences by using the relative pronoun (联系代名词) ‘who’‚ it now becomes a complex sentence: “I know a man who has five children.” (By the way‚ ‘who’ is not pronounced with extra word stress here. You only stress this word when it means ‘ 谁?’‚ which
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the judge has no legal powers to sentence and can therefore only rely on a set mandatory sentence‚ (Scheb‚ 2008). It follows that mandatory sentencing has both negative and positive sides thus the pros and cons that are yet to be discussed. Pros of mandatory sentencing Scheb (2008) reveals that mandatory sentencing is an effective tool for preventing repetitive offences since it acts to deter future crimes. Potential criminals are aware of the type of sentence that they are likely to face and
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