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    The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is the nation’s premier civil rights legislation. The Act outlawed discrimination on the basis of race‚ color‚ religion‚ sex‚ or national origin‚ required equal access to public places and employment‚ and enforced desegregation of schools and the right to vote. It did not end discrimination‚ but it did open the door to further progress. Although the 13th‚ 14th‚ and 15th amendments outlawed slavery‚ provided for equal protection under the law‚ guaranteed citizenship‚

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    Many people were talking about civil rights. Lyndon Baines Johnson was born in Stonewall‚ Texas‚ on August 27‚ 1908. At the age of twenty he taught at a segregated Mexican- American school in Cotulla‚ Texas. In 1931 Johnson moved to Washington‚ D.C.where he worked as a congressional aide. In 1937 he won the Texas seat in the house of representative. In 1948 Johnson was elected as a senator for Texas. Six years later in 1954 he became a majority leader in the senate. During his senate years Johnson

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    One of the major goals of the American Civil Rights movement was to give all people‚ regardless of race‚ equal rights. In the United States‚ civil rights are supposed to be for all people. Throughout history‚ people have had to fight for their rights when others tried to deny them. Today‚ all people get to do what they would like to and not have to withhold them. The March on Washington changed the course of history and without that march‚ things would not be as they are today. The March on Washington

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    soon after volunteered at the NCNW. Dorothy then became the president of the National Council Of Negro Woman. After that she was very influential in leading these organizations. She then got to work with Martin Luther King jr.‚ A. Philip Randolph‚ Roy Wilkins‚ Whitney Young. John Lewis and James Farmer. They were most of the time called the Big Six. In 1663 she got to sit close to Martin Luther King jr. when he gave his “I Have A Dream” speech. Dorothy was not requested to talk at this event even though

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    References: * George B. Julia ‚ Nursing Theories- The base for professional Nursing Practice ‚ 3rd ed. Norwalk‚ Appleton & Lange. * Wills M.Evelyn‚ McEwen Melanie (2002). Theoretical Basis for Nursing Philadelphia. Lippincott Williams& wilkins. * Meleis Ibrahim Afaf (1997) ‚ Theoretical Nursing : Development & Progress 3rd ed. Philadelphia‚  Lippincott. * Taylor Carol‚Lillis Carol (2001)The Art & Science  Of Nursing Care 4th ed. Philadelphia‚  Lippincott. * Potter A Patricia‚ Perry

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    1964 The Act That Changed It All On July 2‚ 1964‚ life in the United States would change. On that particular date in America‚ the Civil Rights Act of 1964 would be passed. The Act would be the starting point for another America like the first domino falling on a domino line. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a standout amongst the most noteworthy occasions in U.S. law on civil rights since Reconstruction‚ the period from 1865 through 1877 that took after the American Civil War which endeavors were

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    The theorists of this decade included Rogers‚ King‚ Orem‚ Travelbee‚ Levine‚ Neuman‚ Meleis‚ Paterson and Zderad‚ Roy‚ Barnard‚ Newman‚ and Watson (George‚ 2011‚ p. 11). Dorothea Orem’s Self-Care Deficit Nursing Theory focused on the independence of the patient and caring for themselves for faster recovery. This model can apply to different nursing settings. Her

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    J‚ H Ji. 2008. Next-generation DNA sequencing. Nat Biotechnol 26:1135-1145. Shiu‚ SH‚ JO Borevitz. 2008. The next generation of microarray research: applications in evolutionary and ecological genomics. Heredity (Edinb) 100:141-149. Siemens‚ D‚ B Roy. 2005. Tests for Parasite-mediated Frequency-dependent Selection in Natural Populations of an Asexual Plant Species. Evolutionary Ecology 19:321-338. Siemens‚ DH‚ R Haugen‚ S Matzner‚ N VanAsma. 2009. Plant chemical defense allocation constrains evolution

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    Timeline: Historical Development of Nursing Science Nursing science provides the basis for professional nursing practice. Nursing theories provide the critical thinking structures to direct the clinical decision- making process of professional nursing practice. The relationship between theory‚ research‚ and practice is circular in nature. As new knowledge and discoveries emerge in each of these realms‚ the cutting edge of the art and science of the discipline of nursing evolves. (1860) Florence

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    brought back up. John Lewis gave a speech during the march‚ he was the youngest speaker who is still alive today. He was in the (SNCC) student nonviolent coordinating committee. there were many other speakers who followed including NAACP President Roy Wilkins‚ actors Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis. During Martin Luther King’s speech‚ he said "I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ’We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal

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