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Get a Level 8 honours degree in 3 years with our BSc (Hons) in Sports Therapy awarded by London Metropolitan University (LMU). This is one of the first such degrees in the UK. In Ireland the demand for skilled, highly trained Sports Therapists is at an all time high. Knowledge and understanding of Sports Therapy is developed through an integrated programme of teacher-led lectures, tutorials, seminars and laboratory based practical sessions, and through the guided use of student centred learning activities such as problem solving exercises, case studies, directed reading and e-learning. Year 1 provides a solid foundation of general subjects underpinning Sports Therapy including anatomy, human physiology and sports science. In-depth studies of the Sports Therapy examination and assessment protocol and rehabilitation and are the focus of Year 2 and during Year 3 the emphasis is placed on advanced and applied aspects of Sports Therapy including manual therapy, electrotherapy, placement work, related theory, clinical reasoning skills and business developments in sport.
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Year 1 (Level 6)
Essential Principles in Sports Science
Sports Anatomy and Physiology
Practical Sport Experience
Science, Research and Application
Year 2 (Level 7)
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Sports Rehabilitation
Sports Therapy
Sports Science Research Methods
Biomechanics of Human Movement
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Work Placement and Electrotherapy
Principles of Sport Psychology
Biomedical Implications of Exercise
Business Developments in Sport
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- Have a thorough systematic knowledge of the various scientific and clinical topics studied
- Show an ability to apply knowledge in practical settings involving sport, exercise and rehabilitation from injury
- Have the capacity to demonstrate the advanced scholarship required to execute and critically evaluate research relevant to exercise science, injury and rehabilitation
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- Be able to understand and develop clear & logical arguments in support or criticism of medical and scientific theories with support from primary sources of evidence and scholarly reviews
- Demonstrate an ability to solve problems by applying underpinning knowledge to the clinical situation
- Be able to analyse medical and patient information to provide a diagnosis and treatment plan based on current evidence
- Show fluency with appropriate quantitative and numerical skills, involving relevant mathematical and statistical methods
- Demonstrate academic and scientific literacy at graduate level
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- Be able to demonstrate strong decision-making skills and work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary sports or medical team to prevent injury and diagnose and rehabilitate post injury
- Demonstrate a range of other key transferable skills including active involvement in learning, exercise of initiative and judgement, use of appropriate resources and technology
- Appreciate the skills necessary to secure and retain employment, including: punctuality, professionalism, communication, consideration for others, creativity, and commitment
- Demonstrate an understanding of the need to continually develop professionally
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- Be able to analyse patient information and derive a diagnosis and treatment plan supported by current scientific and medical evidence
- Be able to make informed judgements to competently and safely implement treatment and rehabilitative strategies to a patient with a sports injury
- Have an understanding of the main philosophies of practice in the sports rehabilitation arena whilst appreciating the limits of knowledge
- Demonstrate an ability to lead and motivate others with an awareness of the different needs of patients
- Demonstrate an understanding of practical skills relating to sport and exercise science, from psychological inventories, and in implementing appropriate interventions
- Be able to suggest appropriate methodologies for a variety of measurements in sports and exercise science
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The student will develop the subject-specific knowledge and the ability to relate it to the clinical situation. To understand the evidence-based nature of the therapies, it is essential that a level of understanding of science be achieved. Thus there is a substantial component of human and exercise science in the course. As the Society of Sports Therapists set the competency benchmarks for membership, these are reflected in the topics studied throughout the degree. It is essential that the students develop an ability to problem solve and clinically reason. These skills are the foundations for accurate diagnosis and treatment formulation. The course aims to develop these critical and analytical skills to ensure that practice remains current but supported by a body of scientific knowledge. The ultimate aim is to produce a contemporary course that reflects current clinical practice in sports therapy. The students obtain a high level of clinical competence through practice and the problem based learning. The course develops these skills by directing the students to the resources that help them find solutions. Practical demonstrations and presentations ensure that they achieve the benchmarks for society membership. The course encourages student interaction and contribution by developing their ability to work independently, in proposing and developing solutions to problems in a systematic and effective manner, and in communicating confidently and clearly both in writing and verbally.
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I smelled the leather of his jacket before I ever saw him. It was a welcome respite from the pervasive stench of unkempt bodies in the crowded space. Coupled with the pleasant fragrance of his skin as he swept past me, it was an overwhelming blow to my senses. He might as well have punched me in the face. My hunger lurched inside me and I clenched my jaw against the subtle urge to attack. My nose followed after him and my eyes fell on him, young and slender and remarkably fresh. Such a stunning complexion, that kind of pale that seems to be lit from within, with a hint of amber. It contrasted beautifully with his black hair, which shone too vibrantly to be a mere dye job like most of the mortals there. He idly tossed his hair out of his face, a coquettish little gesture that briefly exaggerated the seductive curve of his throat. I moaned and closed my eyes for patience. I moved closer, carefully inhaling his scent, gauging how he might taste. He stretched to his full height as I approached, tilting his chin upward to better see the band over the heads in front of him. That throat. The hollow ache of desire gathered in my chest. I wanted so badly to put my mouth on that throat. My canines ached and my vision became distinctly sharper as my instincts prepared for attack. I had no intention of killing this enticing young thing tonight, but he was my first drink of the night and I could already tell he would be profoundly savory. I could hear his heart beating, slow but remarkably strong and assertive. He was the absolute pinnacle of health, so I could take more from him than I normally would without really causing harm.
I scanned his immediate thoughts, pleasantly surprised as I was met with vivid images of the Salzburg Cathedral accompanied by the German psalms in his head. He brought his hand up to his brow to brush away the hair that had fallen back into his eyes. Gracefully slender, white fingers. He had a pianist's hands. I caught a glimpse of his wrist over the hem of his sleeve, a red and orange tribal pattern tattooed there, indicative of the indigenous people of the area. I pushed deeper into his thoughts, which were riddled with visits to an old woman on one of the nearby reservations. An Austrian-Native-American hybrid. It certainly explained the alluring hue of his complexion. Lovely.
He stiffened slightly, a subtle reaction that would have gone unnoticed to another human, and his hand impulsively disappeared into his left pocket in a gesture that reminded me of someone reaching for a weapon. He turned and looked directly at me in the same moment, warm cinnamon eyes modestly outlined in black eyeliner. There was a flash of confusion in his glance, followed immediately by concern. What a unique reaction. Oh, I would dine on this lovely gentleman tonight. A fleeting little interaction with him, and I planted the seed in his head. You will follow. I kept my ears trained on his heartbeat as I waited for him, and as expected, he dutifully joined me on the mezzanine. He was so overwhelmingly pure, the general undercurrent to his thoughts one of constant charity and acceptance. There was no way he would taste good, though his scent certainly suggested otherwise.
He came into my arms as willingly as any lover would have, giving a delicious little tremble as I pressed my mouth to his pulse. I toyed with him, teasing myself with the taste of his skin, the increasing throb of his artery against my lips, the soberest realisation in his thoughts as he acknowledged what was happening to him. He was strikingly calmer about it than most. Striking ever still was the first eruption of his blood down my throat, which was more divine than I could have imagined. That flavour, though...I knew it. I'd tasted it before. Guilt. Ah, yes. A devout Catholic. One whose faith was built on more than just ritual and superstition. Guilt at the fact that he knew of suffering in the world but was powerless to do anything about it. Guilt that he hadn't been good enough to have experienced the stigmata. Guilt that he could do nothing about the vociferous extremist zealots of his kind. I deliberated on just draining him to death right there. I immediately decided against it. I couldn't let such a paragon of virtue die in such a vulgar manner. I also didn't want to waste something so delectable in one night. I'd prefer to savour this one for a while. I memorised his scent, attuned myself to the unique beat of his heart so that I might find him when I hungered for him again, and left him safely with no recollection of the event.
"You should have done it."
I scoffed in contempt at the familiar hollow voice behind me, not bothering to face him. I was too focused on finding my next drink of the night. I needed to kill. I hadn't killed anyone in days. I was starting to feel agitated, and I'm sloppy when I'm agitated. I think most of us are. That obligation planted into our instincts by nature; we become useless and weak if we don't heed it.
"He would have been very gratifying," he pressed. "And since when have you ever practised restraint?"
I was pulled from my momentary distraction as I was hit with a vague sense of alarm, and I whipped around to face him, narrowing my eyes. "Where is he? Have you done something with him? I swear to god - "
"Yessss, you swear to God," he hissed with cloying eagerness, sweeping me back into a wall, where he brought his mouth close to mine. "Why don't you ever swear to me?"
I glared at him in annoyance. "That has never been funny or clever. I'm not kissing you. You can back away from me now."
He searched my eyes for a moment, then reluctantly relinquished his grasp on me. I studied him in silence, then snorted and turned away, slowly pacing away from him. His vanity and his capriciousness had recently led him to change his appearance every time he took earthly form, and lately he seemed to have been tweaking it specifically to appeal to me. Frivolous creature. On this particular night he was a masquerade of dark eyes and angular features, mahogany hair pulled back and tied with a ribbon. He dressed in a contemporary high-collared doublet trimmed in red and gold. The very embodiment of a wealthy European eccentric. And tomorrow he would assume an entirely different appearance altogether. I lifted my chin a little, sniffing the air, searching for my Catholic on the light winds.
"You don't trust me," he said flatly.
"Where is he?" I repeated.
"What do I care? You know I'd have no business with him."
"What do you want, then?"
"What I always want. To indulge. To influence. ...To enjoy all the carnal pleasures this form can give me." He was hovering just behind my shoulder, the tip of his nose nudging my jawline.
"You certainly have a penchant for attempting to appease those urges in all the wrong places."
He abruptly stepped back. It was difficult to tell if he was legitimately offended or being facetious. "You weren't nearly this frigid a century ago."
I laughed despite myself. "Yes I was."
He fell into step beside me, and we walked in silence for some time as I listened desperately for someone worth a kill, scanning the thoughts of anyone in the immediate vicinity. I'd become picky in my old age, and I longed for the brutality of the nobles from centuries past. The Age of Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution really did do wonders for the human race, but it also effectively killed the necessity for evil in mortals. Leisure replaced the struggle for survival and it was having a disappointing effect on my lunch. I'd probably have to go out of my way and find some evangelical Christian boot camp in the midwestern wilderness to fulfill my hunger tonight. That lot have always been fairly consistent in primitive, barbaric behaviour over the centuries, regardless of social or intellectual advancement, though they aren't nearly as ubiquitous as they were before the secularisation of society. I could feel my agitation growing with my prolonged hunger.
"Really, though. Why are you here?" I wasn't asking because I cared, I just needed something to distract myself.
"Mmm. I'm waiting for someone."
I stopped abruptly, causing him to nearly trip on me as he kept walking. "Waiting for someone? What, to die?"
"Hmm. You know, the really valuable ones take forever to finally go. I'm too impatient for this kind of cruel foreplay."
"Mephis," I said sternly, clamping a hand on his shoulder. "Here? Someone worth you coming to collect yourself? ...Is he still in favourable enough condition to lose a little blood?"
He laughed at me, a hearty, mocking chuckle at my expense. "She. And she's in relative peak health, though she's liable to self-terminate at any moment. Not for lack of already trying, either. Something keeps...holding her back. I've come to get her twice already and the wench keeps deadlocking to her body. I've been waiting for this one for years, but she just won't die already. It's...frustrating."
I cast him a doubtful sideways glance. "Be a gentleman, show me to her. I could...perhaps speed along the process for you."
That mocking laugh again. He swept his arm around my waist and kissed me, and I made a half-hearted attempt at returning it out of the futile hope that I'd get something out of it.
"But my darling," he said as he released me, "you tease me, I tease you...it's a game we play." He turned and continued down the way he'd come, leaving me alone under the waning moon.
Of course not.
I should have just killed the goth kid. It would have been extra work for me, as he surely would have been missed. I'd have to fabricate some story and plant evidence as to why he disappeared and his body was never found. But he may have been worth it. I will see him again soon.
24 October
He's so delightfully pliable. The goth ones always do tend to come a bit easier, of course. They're intoxicating in their fascination of us. He's such a wealth of innocence, yet he doesn't shy away from pleasure like most Catholics. It's strange. It's almost as if he embraces hedonism as a gift. He has a strong head for justice. He is perfect, if I were to be completely honest with myself about it. But I won't make the same mistake I did with Adrian.
I took an unsteady deep breath, exhaling slowly as I stared blankly at the vintage script on the page. I couldn't read any more. Admittedly I shouldn't have even been reading it in the first place. I felt terrible, having committed such an invasion of her privacy. The sun was close to setting and she was nowhere to be found, and she'd left me to my own devices in what I'm assuming was an empty house. I'd already marveled at the collection of her library, entertaining the idea of how much more impressive her collection might be in one of her European homes. And then I'd happened across it, a small leather-bound logbook, chronicling various occurrences that dated back two years. I'd only read the latest entries, and wasn't sure if I should feel panic or offense at being objectified as nothing more than an expendable meal. Theoretically, I was very aware of how close to death I'd been in that first moment she drank from me. But seeing how dismissive she'd been about it, how I'd nearly been relegated to a mere appetiser...it was disturbing and insulting. I'd felt such an indescribable intimacy in those moments, a vulnerability I'd yielded to no one, and here it culminated in a basic instance of predator and prey. I felt foolish.
I didn't like the feeling of emptiness that began to swell in my chest, that hollow sensation that creeps up when you're about to be sick. I slowly closed the little book, only just noticing how my hands shook as I held it. It certainly put things into perspective for me, and I had to look at it rationally; I had willingly accepted the company of a killer. I was favourable...to a killer. I wasn't sure how I felt about that. I had an open mind enough to acknowledge that she didn't kill for fun, that it was a necessity. A necessity likely instilled in her by the very god to which I'd pledged my devotion my entire life. But the Catholic in me frequently warred with the rationalist in me, and naturally my thoughts kept wandering to the people she might have killed, who they might have been, what they might have meant to other people.
I nearly jumped out of my skin when I felt her cold little hand on my shoulder. I froze, still holding the diary, and kept my head down as I anticipated what would likely be a furious response. She reached out and delicately took the book from my hands.
"Oh dear," she said softly.
I risked a glance back at her. She was frowning slightly, but didn't look angry. More solemn than anything else.
"My apologies," I said in what I'd meant to be more than a whisper, though I was too panicked to draw breath enough to speak.
"No no," she said hastily, setting the book down on a nearby writing table. "I never told you where not to go and what not to read, you couldn't have known. Besides, it's only fair. I've eavesdropped enough of your thoughts at this point."
I said nothing. I couldn't look at her, and I was visibly shaking.
"Oh, Quinn," she said, a tenderness to her voice that rivaled that moment on the rooftop with Adrian. She warmly embraced me, holding me against her as I shook uncontrollably. For the first time, I noticed she had a heartbeat. I wasn't sure what I'd expected, but I was shocked by it, nonetheless. She has a heartbeat. That was comforting, at least. She laughed softly as she gently stroked my hair.
"Of course I do, Quinn. Our entire existence is dependent on blood. It would make little sense if we lacked a vascular system."
I returned the embrace, pressing myself against that heartbeat and wishing she were just a little warmer. "I didn't realise how casually you might have killed me," I whispered.
She tightened her embrace on me, her lips brushing against my neck. I might have cringed, but somehow I knew she wasn't going to bite. She merely kissed me, letting her lips linger there as she was no doubt delighting in the way my pulse felt against her. "Yes. I won't lie to you. You very well could have died that day and I wouldn't have given it a second thought. But things have changed. It's personal now. I've seen inside your head, I've seen your beauty. I don't think I'd be able to do it, even if I was starved and delirious and you were the only human for miles. Quinn, my lovely Quinn. It would break my heart if you feared me."
But I did.
In my childlike fascination of the idea of her, in my longing to see her again when she'd been gone, I never quite understood the reality of what she was and what that might mean in relation to me. I had to genuinely think about how I wanted to die, and if I was okay with it being because I happened to be convenient to a predator. I had a habit of romanticising everything, even death - whether that was a byproduct of me being a goth kid or a Catholic, I knew not - but I'd always assumed I'd end up dying doing something stupidly heroic. Now I was faced with it in a very realistic setting and I found it remarkably unpleasant.
I delicately pulled out of her embrace, and I was still unable to look at her. "I think...I don't know if I can do this." My voice wavered a little. I probably would have been close to tears if I hadn't felt so numb. "If I asked you not to come to me anymore, would you honour it?"
I caught a glimpse of her expression from my peripheral vision, and she looked mildly troubled. She inhaled slowly and nodded. "Of course," she said quietly. "Of course I would."
"I'm just not sure I'm - "
"I know." Her tone was calm and reassuring. "I understand."
I could feel my heart breaking as I turned and left. I wanted to turn back and say something more, but I knew if I looked at her, it would break my resolve and I would never be able to leave.
Her driver was of course instructed to take me anywhere I wanted to go, and I returned home. My house never felt so empty. I sat at my piano in the dark, the piano on which I'd learned to play when I was five, idly playing one-handed arpeggios just as a way of numbing my mind. I did this for a straight hour, and had nearly effectively hypnotised myself into catatonia when my phone buzzed abruptly on the bench next to me, startling me into mashing the keys in comical dissonance. I snatched the phone up and glared at it in frustration, my demeanour immediately softening when I saw it was Em. I smiled to myself, then went to the door and opened it for her. She was leaning casually against the post on my front porch, a bottle of prosecco in her hand.
"Really?" I said, standing aside so she could enter.
"Liquor rep was giving them out. Told me to push it. I figured I'd share it with you."
She was already familiar with my kitchen, and went straight to the cabinet I reserved for glassware. I came up behind her and took the bottle from her, popping the cork off and shutting the cabinet door before her.
"Fuck glassware," I said, taking a drink directly from the bottle. She furrowed her brow, slowly breaking into a devious grin, then took the bottle from me and followed suit.
"Fuck glassware," she repeated matter-of-factly.
She leaned against my countertop and we stared at one another in silence, then I firmly took the bottle from her hand and set it down beside her, lifting her up onto the counter and pulling her thighs up around my waist. I kissed her a little too sincerely than our casual arrangement might have permitted, but it wasn't so uncharacteristic of me that it raised alarm. Her body was warm and I appreciated the way it felt against me. I pulled her against my chest and playfully bit her shoulder, evoking a light chuckle from her.
"You've seemed a little disturbed lately," she mumbled, resting her forehead against my chest as I continued nibbling at her shoulder.
"I know."
"You wanna talk about it?"
"Not really."
She nodded and left it at that. It's what I always loved about her, that she could be there when being alone wasn't ideal, but wouldn't pry if it would have been difficult to be entirely forthcoming about one's own demons.
"Mmm. Fuck me, Quinn."
It was a polite, nonchalant request, but it incited the primal male in me and I grabbed her about the waist and swept her off the counter, hauling her toward the bedroom as she instinctively reached out to grab the bottle of prosecco before I could drag her away from it.
It was a much needed reprieve. The physical contact alone was therapeutic. The warmth, the basic carnal connection with another human being. I always took it for granted, but in that moment, I really, really appreciated it. I appreciated that I could get a little rough with her and she could take it.
And that was a particularly gratifying bottle of prosecco.


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[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-279?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=13008648#comment-13008648 ] Chris Douglas commented on MAPREDUCE-279: ----------------------------------------- bq. Why not contain a ContainerLaunchContext to specify the container in which to run the AM? Seems like lots of duplicated fields. Agreed. Fixing this also addresses the URL as insufficient for resources. The \_todo form was introduced to effect this, and remains in-progress. bq. how does one access stderr/stdout contents? both while they're being written and after a container has terminated? (maybe I just haven't gotten to that bit yet somewhere else) This is still a TODO (working on it now). In the short term, something similar to what the TT does is probably sufficient, I hope. bq. Did you consider making the ids all strings instead of ints? The pro would be that there could be canonical formats, like "AM-<hex id>" for app masters vs "C-<hex id>" for containers. Some of the implementation ended up relying on a consistent mapping of int ids to strings, so going all the way could make sense. On the other hand, parsing strings to determine relationships between containers and applications is regrettable. bq. the URL record is missing user/password used for http basic auth or s3n auth Agreed, full URIs should be supported, though pushing that all the way through FileContext and FileSystem could be painful. bq. just to clarify, APPLICATION visibility means "only to this application submitted by this user". ie if joe and bob both submit MapReduce 2.x.y jobs with identical jars, it still won't share, even if sha1s match? Right. The target layout for the NodeManager looks roughly like this: {noformat} for x in localdir: $x/filecache # public cache $x/usercache $x/usercache/$user $x/usercache/filecache # private cache $x/usercache/$user/appcache $x/usercache/$user/appcache/$appid $x/usercache/$user/appcache/$appid/filecache # application cache $x/usercache/$user/appcache/$appid/$containerid $x/usercache/$user/appcache/$appid/output # output retained after container exits, i.e. intermediate data {noformat} So the end of the container and application can just delete those subdirs. Matching a job jar between invocations would require one to register that resource as PUBLIC/PRIVATE. The APPLICATION scope is more for job.xml and the like. > Map-Reduce 2.0 > -------------- > > Key: MAPREDUCE-279 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-279 > Project: Hadoop Map/Reduce > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: jobtracker, tasktracker > Reporter: Arun C Murthy > Assignee: Arun C Murthy > Fix For: 0.23.0 > > Attachments: MR-279.patch, MR-279.patch, MR-279.sh, MR-279_MR_files_to_move.txt > > > Re-factor MapReduce into a generic resource scheduler and a per-job, user-defined component that manages the application execution. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira
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Zwart, R.S. and Thompson, J.P. and Godwin, I.D. (2004) Genetic analysis of resistance to root-lesion nematode (Pratylenchus thornei) in wheat. Plant Breeding, 123 (3). pp. 209-212.
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The inheritance of resistance to root-lesion nematode was investigated in five synthetic hexaploid wheat lines and two bread wheat lines using a half-diallel design of F1 and F2 crosses. The combining ability of resistance genes in the synthetic hexaploid wheat lines was compared with the performance of the bread wheat line 'GS50a', the source of resistance to Pratylenchus thornei used in Australian wheat breeding programmes. Replicated glasshouse trials identified P. thornei resistance as polygenic and additive in gene action. General combining ability (GCA) of the parents was more important than specific combining ability (SCA) effects in the inheritance of P. thornei resistance in both F1 and F2 populations. The synthetic hexaploid wheat line 'CPI133872' was identified as the best general combiner, however, all five synthetic hexaploid wheat lines possessed better GCA than 'GS50a'. The synthetic hexaploid wheat lines contain novel sources of P. thornei resistance that will provide alternative and more effective sources of resistance to be utilized in wheat breeding programmes
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|Triticum aestivum; Pratylenchus thornei; combining ability; diallel crosses; root lesion nematode; synthetic hexaploid wheat.
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Race Relations in the USA 1955-1968 [22 Questions]
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1. How did the population of black people in America originally come to exist?
- America used to be joined to Africa by a strip of land, and some black people travelled there many centuries ago.
- The black population were indigenous to America, but were reduced to a minority when the Whites settled there.
- Slaves were originally brought to America to work the cotton and tobacco plantations in the south.
- Black arrived as immigrants looking for work during WWI.
- Blacks were employed by the Americans to fight for them during the civil war.
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2. What was the purpose of the 'Jim Crow laws' (1828-1964)?
- They made segregation legal in southern states.
- They made race riots in the north illegal.
- They allowed a white man to legally kill a black man.
- They gave black men the right to vote.
- They stopped black people from occupying positions of power.
3. Why were the Ku Klux Klan rarely convicted for their crimes?
- 90% of the population were KKK members in 1965.
- Anyone who spoke out against them knew that they would be a target for violence.
- They were often protected by police officers who were KKK members, and white juries were reluctant to find KKK members guilty.
- The Imperial Wizard (leader of the KKK) had an underground system of bribery for all areas of power. This included some areas of government.
4. Segregation was founded on the doctrine of 'separate, but equal'. How did the NAACP use this to their advantage in the 'Brown vs. Topeka' case?
- They said that segregation in schools could never lead to equality because the white children would always be treated with more respect than the black children.
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5. Which of the following is NOT true of the 'Brown vs. Topeka' incident?
- The court case gained a lot of support from the black community.
- It was the start of the civil rights movement.
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From its county population in 2000 of 2606 to its current population estimate of 2315, the county has experienced a growth change of -291.
Quitman County, in southwest Georgia, was established by an act of the state legislature in 1858. It became Georgia's 128th county and was named for General John A. Quitman within five months of his death. Quitman never lived in Georgia, but as the governor of Mississippi in the mid-1800s, he spoke persuasively in defense of states' rights and was instrumental in shaping Georgia's decision to secede from the Union. The legislature acknowledged his popularity and named the new county in his honor.
The Cotton Exchange functioned as the sole mercantile facility for both the county and city, but around 1920 its owner absconded with an entire cotton crop and all of the cash on hand. He was later apprehended and prosecuted, but his crimes caused Georgetown to be without banking services for nearly eighty years. By 1970 the county population had dwindled to 2,180 persons, but by 2000 it had grown slowly to 2,598. According to the 2010 U.S. census, the population decreased slightly to 2,513.
In 2006, citizens of Georgetown and Quitman County voted to become a consolidated government becoming the State's fifth consolidated government.
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Lake Walter F. George, created from the Chattahoochee River in 1967 by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, offers such recreational activities as camping, boating, and fishing. The county is also home to a portion of the Lake Walter F. George Wildlife Manag
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Wednesday, Chicago Public Schools announced a new curriculum that, according CPS officials quoted in the Chicago Tribune, "will allow teachers to incorporate African and African-American studies into core subjects throughout the year, bringing the district into compliance with the state requirement."
Around 9:15 a.m. Thursday, the Chicago Teachers Union sent out a tweet quoting a DNAInfo news story that emphasized how charter schools are exempt from this policy. Those opposed to charter schools will surely fuel the criticism against this exception.
The journalists reporting this situation and the voices rising in opposition of the charter-school exemption miss the true story. Chicago Public School's 2013 attempt to carry out this 1991 law (passed one year after I graduated from high school) proves to be a 1960s approach to diversity that, while well-intentioned, does not address the context of today's world.
In 2006, I was hired at one of the city's top selective-enrollment high schools to teach Latin American Literature as an elective. With standards-aligned lessons, challenging writing instruction, and complex texts, my instruction and students' engagement with the class helped me convince the school's administrators to offer this class as a core English option—yes, students were able to take Latin American Literature as their official junior or senior English class. It counted toward graduation.
The Illinois State Board of Education graduation requirements demand four years of English—no specific content required (see page 8).
The Chicago Public Schools graduation requirements also simply require four years of English. Thankfully, gone are the days where every student has to take British Literature.
After I left that top CPS school, the new administration decided to remove Latin American Lit as core-English option. Once again, it was an elective. A teacher and students engaged in a battle to maintain the class as a core-English option. After students organized in protest, the school re-instated it. Now, getting Latin American Lit or Latino Lit to be accepted as a core-English option at a neighborhood high school is a different type of battle.
In our 21st Century world, students need options. We also need to recognize that policies developed in 1991 cannot simply be enacted in 2013 without close review.
Critics and reporters who emphasize the charter exemption of the law need to change their view. The true problem with the "new" CPS policy is that it does not take into account the needs of today's world. The race conversation remains grounded in a black-white context as if there were only two sides. Unfortunately, this is usually what loud voices in Chicago's ed policy debate do; it's either this or that.
CPS's Chief Officer of Teaching and Learning Annette Gurley needs to recall her decision to carry out the 1991 law and, instead, devote her efforts to ensure that schools engage students with the complexity of 21st century issues:
- race conversations beyond black and white,
- women's studies,
- class and income issues,
- the effect of technology on our lives,
- LGBT issues,
- gun control and violence (see how students and I talk about gun violence in my classroom),
- the immigration debate,
- current events that affect our students' lives—whether they realize it or not.
We need to forget the 1991 requirement and prevent critics from focusing on the charter-school exemption. Instead, we need to update education policies for this century if Chicago's schools are to truly improve.
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New Delhi: India's pace sensation Ishant Sharma might have destroyed the reputed batting lineup of Australia, but he thanks his stars for not having Sachin Tendulkar as an opponent.
"Sachin Tendulkar is one batsman who is not easy to bowl to. Be it in nets or in the middle, he always bats as if he is playing a match. I am thankful to god that I play in his team. His experience is equal to my age," Ishant said.
Delhi's star bowler said besides Tendulkar, Ponting and Hayden were among his favourite batsman.
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"I was not a swing bowler but the one who would hit the deck and even today I try only that, but it is my good luck if ball gets movement," he said.
Ishant said he could not credit his success to one person as Zaheer Khan, Venkatesh Prasad and coach Gary Kirsten all helped him on various occasions but singled out the South African for his mature approach.
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"Kirsten is a very nice coach. He understands the strength of each and every member of the team," Ishant said.
"Recently in Delhi, I had dropped Michael Clark and also could not bat as the night-watchman but Kirsten said "in last one year this is your first mistake. It was you bad day. Tomorrow will be a new day".
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Against England, Ishant said, "I will try to repeat my performance against the Australia when I had picked wickets as required.
"We will use reverse swing weapon against England also. We"d used that against Aussies. You should know how to reverse swing if you are playing in the sub-continent," he said.
"In the sub-continent it is easy to bowl if you know reverse swing, you should know how to adapt to the conditions," he added.