JSLA Lesson Plan - Tennis

JSLA Lesson Plan - Tennis Number of people: 12 Ability of group: Disabilities: - Equipment: Tennis netsx3, Racquetsx14, Balls, Whistle First aid: - Safety: point out that they must not jump/climb over the net and stand a good distance away from each other when practicing to ensure they do not hit each other. Introduce lesson * Say what they are going to focus on in session - co-ordination and forehand groundstroke * Point out safety points (see above) WARM UP * Stand on one of the tramlines, run to the opposite tramline and back * Side step to opposite tramline and back * Cross overs to the opposite tramline and back * Stretch from neck downwards MAIN ACTIVITY Ball Skills - to improve co-ordination Show them how to hold racquet correctly - semi western * Simple ground strokes - hit the ball slightly above head, let it bounce then hit it up again. * Volleys - hit the ball continuously in the air without letting it bounce See how many can be done in 1min after a small practice Feeding and Hitting - to improve co-ordination in at a higher level than above Demonstrate perfect model forehand Work in partners (sort them out.) one partner hand feeds ball to hitting partner, hitting partner returns ball over the net their partner lets it bounce once and catches it. Count how many they get, change roles after 10 feeds. Kings and Queens (half court) Four

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Why did Eisenhower damage the civil rights movement?

Katy Fullilove 29/11/05 Why did Eisenhower damage the civil rights movement? Eisenhower's evolutionary approach was the main factor which damaged the civil rights movement; it caused a relative standstill. He did not carry through the momentum brought about by Truman, thus many potential developments were not made. On the other hand, some progress was made in the civil rights movement due to Eisenhower. His first significant action was to appoint liberal Southern Republican, Earl Warren, as a Supreme Court judge. In the BROWN v. THE BOARD OF EDUCATION, TOPEKA, KANSAS (1954) case, Warren said that even if facilities were equal, separate education was psychologically harmful to black children; the Supreme Court agreed. BROWN removed all constitutional reason for acceptance of racial segregation; it overturned PLESSEY v. FERGUSON. Eisenhower, in this instance, helped the civil rights movement by appointing Earl Warren in the first place. However, Eisenhower had unwittingly helped the case by appointing Warren; he was unsupportive of BROWN, claiming that 'all they (Southerners) are concerned about is to see that their sweet little girls are not required to sit in school alongside some big overgrown Negroes'1. Eisenhower took the evolutionary approach; he believed that forcing the issue would only cause

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Dr Martin Luther King And Sir Abraham Lincoln

English Essay Dr Martin Luther King And Sir Abraham Lincoln In 1863 Abraham Lincoln Performed his famous Gettysburg address speech to a crowd of people in Washington. Abraham Lincoln was preaching about civil rights and equal rights for all people in the U.S.A. Exactly 100 years later (1963) Dr Martin Luther King Preached His World Famous Speech "I have a dream" in front of 210,000 people on the centenary of the "Gettysburg Address". Martin Luther King's speech was directed at the people of America about equal rights for the black citizens of the United States of America. The speeches have many similarities in terms of syntax, i.e. both speeches use 'the rule of three' where the same point is emphasized thrice times creating an effect of recognition & remembrance. They also use 'direct address' where they talk directly to the people the speech is directed to using language like 'we',' 'our' and us e.g. "we cannot consecrate... We cannot hallow this ground" Creating an effect of togetherness and importance. Both the speeches use past, present and future tense when describing how they plan to conquer the problems in American society. The speeches tend to differ in terms of vocabulary and use of grammatical language i.e. Martin Luther Kings use of biblical terms and jesters like "Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of

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U.S. foreign policy after the World Wars.

Essay 25 U.S. foreign policy has always been characterized by a commitment to free trade, protection of American interests, and a concern for human rights. The United States foreign policy after World War I was isolationism and withdrawal from world affairs, in which they refused to join the League of Nations. After World War II, there was full engagement with world affairs on a global scale. In the United States foreign policy post World War I, there was restricted immigration with the Emergency Quota Act and the Immigration Act. These were intended as temporary legislation but these Acts proved in the long run the most important turning-point in American immigration policy. The United States entered a period of isolationism with the passage of the various Neutrality Acts of the 1930's. These were passed in response to the growing problems in Europe and Asia that eventually led to World War II. The US was sought to limit future warfare by the Kellogg-Briand Pact that outlawed war as a means of problem solving. The United States sought to find communists and other agitators through the Espionage Act and the Sedition Act. In the United States foreign policy post World War II, the US was heavily involved in foreign affairs through the policy of Containment hopes of stopping the spread of Communism. The Truman Doctrine stated that the US would support Greece and

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Why did desegregation of Southern schools become a major problem in the USA in the 1950s?

Why did desegregation of Southern schools become a major problem in the USA in the 1950's? In America in the 1950's American schools were segregated into all white and all black schools. They were taught separately and the black schools had limited funds in comparison to the white schools. Many whites in the southern schools still believed blacks should be segregated after the civil war. The black people had to fight for freedom. The aftermath of the civil war lead to segregation. One of the main problems that faced desegregation in the southern states was that white's stilled carried a hatred for the blacks. The northern states won the war and the southern states felt betrayed by the northern states and as though the Black people had turned their own against them. The whites then decided to oppress the black people. Soon Desegregation began to be enforced over the Southern states. A black girl Linda Brown had to walk two miles everyday to get to the nearest black only school. Just around the corner from her house was an all white school but as she was black she was not able to attend. This was happening all over the Southern states and the government believed it made black people feel as though they were worthless. In 1957 Little Rock Central High School enrolled nine black students to ease in the idea of desegregation. Governor Faukus made the Arkansas National Guard

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Brown v. Board of Education (1954)

Case: Brown v. Board of Education (1954) Facts: Linda Carol Brown was an eight-year-old black girl, whose father, Oliver Brown, was an assistant pastor of a Topeka church. The browns lived in a predominantly white neighborhood on a short distance from an elementary school. Under stat law, cities with population over fifteen thousand were permitted to administer racially segregated schools, and the Topeka Board of Education required its elementary schools to be racially divided. The Browns did not want their daughter to be sent to the school reserved for black students. It was far from home, and they considered the trip dangerous. In addition, their neighborhood school was a good one, and the Browns wanted their daughter to receive an integrated education. They filed suit challenging the segregated school system as violating their daughter's rights under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Issue: Does segregation of children in public schools solely on the basis of race, even though the physical facilities and other "tangible" factors may be equal, deprive the children of the minority group of equal educational opportunities? Holding: (Vote 9-0) Segregation of children in public schools solely on the basis of race, even though the physical facilities and other "tangible" factors may be equal, does deprive the children of the minority group of

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Explain why Martin Luther King was considered an Uncle Tom

Transfer-Encoding: chunked Explain why Martin Luther King was considered an Uncle Tom There are a number of reasons as to why Martin Luther King was and still is referred to as an ‘Uncle Tom’ by some. An Uncle Tom is a black man who behaves in a subservient manner to whites. Malcolm X, among many other blacks, referred to King in this manner. Firstly, many blacks at the time saw King’s non-violence practices as being overly moderate and passive. This is for a number of reasons, mainly that the Negro extremists he criticised dismissed his passion for non violence and was charged as hindering the Negro struggle for equality. Many extremists and those who hoped to go about matters more actively saw King as shying away from the real problem and not confronting matters head-on. He was perceived by many radicals as being ‘all talk, no action’ having brought high the hopes of many young blacks, such as in riot-stricken Ohio, and having done nothing to fulfil the hopes. Moreover, Malcolm X considered King as an Uncle Tom because he was adamant on using non-violence as a political philosophy. Malcolm X sat King’s insistence on using non-violence as a principle, as being suicidal and argued that he was an ‘Uncle Tom’ because non violence only makes sense in a situation under which the person has control over. Malcolm X advocated the idea of self-defence and

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THE FAIRYLAND TIMES 24th January 2005

THE FAIRYLAND TIMES 24th January 2005 KING'S KILLER COOK THE KING narrowly escaped death yesterday after the police received an anonymous tip-off. Yesterday, at approximately 5.55 pm, the police received a tip-off informing them that the dinner to be served to the king that evening would be his last. The police instantly proceeded to the palace to come to his highness' aid. They discovered that the King's royal dinner, which was supposed to be beef pie, contained poisoned blackbird meat. The King's cook, who mysteriously disappeared last night just after she prepared the King's meal, is the subject of a nationwide search, and the police have officers and guards stationed at all airports. She is not the lone suspect however, as the police are following all possibilities, and the Queen and her maid are also under questioning. The Queen claims she was in her parlour. "I had just made myself a quick snack of bread and honey when I heard a commotion in the counting house," she said. "There was banging and shouting and when I went to have a look what was happening I was stopped by the police and I saw my husband being carried away to hospital. It was most frightening." The maid, who unfortunately consumed some of the pie while serving it to the King, is still in hospital awaiting an operation to have her nose removed. "Her nose was very badly infected by the poison and if we

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To what extent were the demands of the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Movement and the American Civil Rights Movement similar?

To what extent were the demands of the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Movement and the American Civil Rights Movement similar? During the 1960's, the civil rights campaign in the United States was televised all over the world. Catholics in Northern Ireland, who were at the time being discriminated against in areas such as employment and housing, were inspired to establish the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association. The aims of the NICRA were similar to those of the American Civil Rights Movement for example, both wanted equal voting rights, among other things, but there were also considerable differences. On the question of voting, the main demand from the A.C.R.M was for all Blacks to be allowed to register to vote. For as Martin Luther King says, "Many were being denied the walk to the ballot box." In Northern Ireland, however all Catholics did have the vote in Westminster and Stormont elections. What the N.I.C.R.A wanted was as end to restriction of voting in Council elections to ratepayers and multiple votes for businessmen. Much of the focus of the A.C.R.M was on bringing the removal of Jim Crow Laws. These state laws applied in southern states and ensured that Blacks were "kept in their place." They had to accept segregated restaurants, toilets, cinemas, buses etc. many of their facilities were inadequate compared to those of whites. No such laws applied in

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Racism: Case Study- The Ku Klux Klan

Racism: Case Study- The Ku Klux Klan The Ku Klux Klan, with its air of mystery and its long history of violence, is the most notorious -- and oldest -- of American hate groups. Although blacks have typically been the Klan's main target, it also has assaulted Jews, immigrants, homosexuals and, Catholics. Over the years, since it was formed in December 1865, the Klan has classically seen itself as a Christian organization, although in modern times Klan groups are provoked by an assortment of theological and political beliefs. It started during the rebuilding at the end of the Civil War, the Klan quickly assembled as an alert group to threaten the Southern blacks -- and any other whites who would help them -- and to stop them from enjoying basic civil rights. Strange titles (like Imperial Wizard and Exalted Cyclops), hooded costumes, violent "night rides" and the idea that the group included an "invisible empire" conferred a air of mystery that only added to the Klan's popularity. Execution, tar-and-featherings, rape and other violent attacks on those challenging white supremacy became a trademark of the Klan. After a short but violent period, the "first era" Klan breaks up after Jim Crow laws secured the power of Southern whites. But the Klan enjoyed a huge renewal in the 1920s when it opposed (mainly Catholic and Jewish) immigration. By 1925, when its followers staged a huge

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