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    Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an activist in the Civil Rights Movement‚whom the United States Congress called the “first lady of the civil rights and the mother of freedom Movement. Rosa Parks was born February 4‚1913 and died October 24‚2005. On December 1 1995 after a long day of work at a Montgomery department store where she had worked at as a seamstress Rosa Parks board the Cleveland Avenue bus for home She took a seat in the first several rows that were only for “colored passengers”

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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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    Music became the dominant in the United States during the 1940 and 1950. It was quite radical in fact; this is the decade that began rock and roll‚ the civil rights movement‚ better family living. In the forties and fifties were looked at more as a state of mind‚ a way of living rather than just another decade or time era in history. It was more peaceful during them times; the economy was doing better than it had been before. Teenagers were having more fun than ever. Rock n’ roll was making head

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    The civil rights movement We all are equal; in some type of way and shouldn’t be treated like we are nothing to no one .we as the people need to start respecting other because it shouldn’t matter what you look like or where u came from we all are one of a kind and should treat each with respect There was a good man named Thurgood Marshall he worked for the NNACP to bring justice everyone. Also he was very good at his job he had won 29 cases out of 30 but when he had lost that cases he said it means

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    However‚ with new people in government the trends were reversed and policies were aimed at individual responsibility instead of relying on the government. Federal legislation transferred more of the responsibility of welfare programs to the states instead of the federal government. ”This approach involved privatization‚ a policy that transfers control from government to private enterprise that allocated public funds to private profit-making or nonprofit entities that then provide benefits or services”

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    cave. This part of the cave had the strongest reverberation so it is speculated that early Neanderthals discovered the reverberation as well and experimented with it. This fascination with sound helped women in the workplace‚ aided in the civil rights movement‚ and allowed people to see something for the first time. First‚ in 1857‚ Edouard-Leon Scott invented the phonautograph‚ which was able to record sound through a horn and triggered vibrations to etch waves on paper. The problem was that there

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    through social movements; the Civil Rights Movement and the Women’s Suffrage Movement. These movements emerged from changes in the social and political values of the country. The Civil Rights and the Women’s Suffrage Movement were successful due to many factors. Three of them are that protest group features created organization and unity‚ protest group actions targeted social issues‚ and the international pressures from war. These factors created mass mobilization and spread the movements across

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    Born into slavery in 1795 Dred Scott just seemed like every other black slave in the South‚ but down the road he would be one of the biggest influences in the civil rights movement and the progression of slavery. Dred Scott tried to earn his freedom in a very unusual ways for the black slaves back then‚ he fought like the white men would; in court. This case would later influence the South succeeding into the confederacy‚ and most certainly making a big point into slavery coming to an end. Dred

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    minorities in America were free‚ but still oppressed and treated differently because of the skin they were born in. Civil leaders all over came together to organize strikes‚ boycotts‚ and marches. Minorities and police officers were at odds because some Americans didn’t see anything wrong with not allowing minorities to have the same rights as others. The goal was to bring attention to the civil issues. One of the key issues that African Americans faced was voting. Martin Luther King Jr. knew that voting

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    Malcolm X Malcolm X was a very influential man when it came to the civil rights movement ‚and he showed determination throughout his whole life and was very determined to bring about change to the world. Malcolm X father (Earl Little) and Marcus Garvey were part of an organization for the black militant universal negro improvement association. Garvey and his supporters wanted African Americans to return to Africa to escape the oppression against blacks in the US. White vigilantes terrorized the

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