Fort Hays State University Department of English Syllabus for English Composition I Course Title: English Composition I Course Number: English 101 Section I Hours: TTh 12:00 - 1:15 Course Location: RH 348 Instructor: Professor Carol Poster Email: c_poster@fhsu.edu Office Hours: TTh 10:30-12:00; 1:15-2:00 and by appointment Office: RH 359 Course Description This course includes the study and application of rhetorical principles of writing with particular emphasis on
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Part 1: 1964 Alaska earthquake http://www.iris.edu/hq/files/programs/education_and_outreach/aotm/31/Alaska1964EarthquakeCauses.mp4 A lot of excellent information is packed into this short video. 1. How many minutes did the shaking last? The shaking lasted 4.5 minutes. 2. What was the magnitude of the earthquake? The magnitude of the earthquake was 9.2. 3. This earthquake occurred just as geologists were figuring out plate tectonics. What principle of plate tectonics did the earthquake
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was Britain able to retain control over decolonisation in Africa between 1959 and 1964? By 1959 decolonisation in British Africa was well under way‚ for example‚ the Gold Coast in West Africa had become independent in 1957‚ Nigeria and Sierra Leone were well on their way to independence‚ and agitation and advances towards independence were already taking place in Kenya and Tanganyika in Eastern Africa. By 1964 this had spread throughout Britain’s African territories and many more had either become
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anti-discrimination law that probits the employment discrimination based on race‚ colour‚ religion‚sex or national origin. The civil rights bill passed on July 2‚ 1964. The president of the United States Lyndon B. Johnson’s sighned the civil rights bill by radio and television remarks. The president gave the speech to american citizens regarding passing the bill in 1964. The president had guided the bill through congress. The chair of the house rules committee‚ refused to allow the bill to clear and become a law.
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Red dress-1946 is a short story from Dance of the happy shades (a collection of short stories) by Alice Munroe. It is about the great social pressures faced by the narrator‚ surrounding the chronological events that take place before‚ during and after a school dance. The ‘Red dress’ is the dress her mother makes her for the dance‚ when she would clearly like to buy one instead from a store‚ this suggests to us that she can-not afford readymade clothes which then leads us to presume she is of a lower
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Civil Rights Act of 1964 Ylanda Arora GEN 162-45 American Government Mrs. Cunteh November 6‚ 2012 Introduction 1955 Rosa Parks (42 year old black women) sparked a new era for African American freedom and equality. Racism was practiced and evident everywhere in the southern states. Although segregation was very prominent at that time‚ transportation seemed to be the only thing that didn’t totally separate blacks and whites. Blacks were looked upon as dirty‚ in humane‚ and diseased. Therefore
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for being themselves. While many people ignored these problems it was in the 1950s that they stood up for themselves and proved they were more than what they were seen as. These conflicts led to the passing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed in order to point out these conflicts that were faced by these people throughout their lives which resulted in a compromise of the ending of discrimination‚ oppression
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Civil Rights Act of 1964 RJDT Task 1 Mary Bristol Western Governors University A. Constructive Discharge In constructive discharge an employee resigns when they have been subjected to unlawful discrimination. The employee in this case was employed before the change in policy in shift work. Before the policy change‚ the production shifts were Monday to Friday. With the new policy the production team works a rotating shift schedule where at times the schedule rotates to work on Saturday
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law on July 2‚ 1964 in Washington D.C. It ended discrimination based on race‚ color‚ and religion. Since Reconstruction‚ it is often called the most important U.S. law on civil rights. This law allowed the federal government with the powers to enforce desegregation. Title VI of the act banned the use of federal funds for segregated programs and schools. In 1964 only Tennessee and Texas had more than
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Civil Rights Act 1964 The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits the legal discrimination of any one person for any reason another person may come up with. The whole Civil Rights Act was based on one document entry that summarizes the entire Civil Rights Act of 1964 in one sentence: "To enforce the constitutional right to vote‚ to confer jurisdiction upon the district courts of the United States to provide injunctive relief against discrimination in public accommodations‚ to authorize the Attorney General
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