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Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
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Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
The French Revolution, which began in 1789, was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France. It marked the decline of absolute monarchies, the rise of secular and democratic republics, and the eventual rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. This revolutionary period is crucial in understanding the transition from feudalism to modernity in Europe.
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The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
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2. Once an active volcano over 10 million yeas ago Round Top is one of four volcanos in the
region. One of the highest peaks in the area, Round Top is 1,763 feet above sea level ("Sibley
Volcanic Regional Preserve," n.d.). At the time of its eruption this volcano was “born
southeast of modern-day San Jose (Slack, 2005). Over the 10 million years the land has shifted
and upturned along the Wildcat and Calaveras Faults, and through excavation of materials
from rock quarries in the 1940’s, layers have been exposed showing sedimentation underneath
lava flows (Slack, 2005).
*Sibley Volcanic Regional Preserve
3. Illustration by Carl Buell (Slack, 2005)
This is what the eruption may have look like 10.2 million years ago, looked upon by the
long-necked camels, three-toed horses, and other creatures form the middle Miocene
Epoch. Today, modern horses are permitted to be ridden through parts of the park,
however they are descendants of horses brought from the east when settlers traveled to
North America.
(Zell, 2010)
4. California Poppy
Eschscholzia californica
Native Perennial
Poppy Family
(Legard, 2006)
Ithuriel's Spear
Triteleia laxa
Native Perennial
Lily Family
(Legard, 2006)
May weed
Anthemis cotula
Introduced Annual
Sunflower Family
(Legard, 2006)
The big leaves are that of the
Cow Parsnip
Heracleum lanatum
Native Perennial
Carrot Family
(Legard, 2006)
This are is home of many
native and introduced wild
flowers. There are over
“2,000 species of native and
naturalized plants [which]
grow wild in the San
Francisco Bay Area” (Legard,
2006).
5. Left is a basalt dike which fed into the crater of
the volcano. As the dike cut through the
surrounding pebbly mudstone is created
Autoclastic basaltic breccia, seen on the left.
("Sibley Volcanic Regional Preserve," n.d.)
6. *Quarry and Labyrinth
Seen here is a large pit dug for
quarying basalt, which began in the
1940’s (Slack, 2005). What was
exposed is the interior of Round Top
volcano you can see, on the steep cliff,
lave which capped off the crater after
it was filled ("Sibley Volcanic Regional
Preserve," n.d.).
7. Here you can see a large conglomerate of river
gravels, sand, and mudstone, known as Orinda
Formation ("Sibley Volcanic Regional Preserve,"
n.d.). These formations sometimes contain
fossils of plants and animals. ("Sibley Volcanic
Regional Preserve," n.d.)
8. In another quarry pit there can be seen a set of
thick lava flows tilted, nearly vertical, from
uplift. ("Sibley Volcanic Regional Preserve,"
n.d.). The uplift caused and an angular
unconformity, seen in the picture on the left.
9. Here is a sequence of lava (right)
atop basaltic ash, the resulting
brown on the right is do to the
high temperatures of the lava
baking the layer underneath it.
These bake zones cause the
steam which makes the iron in
the bands to oxidize make the
red color ("Sibley Volcanic
Regional Preserve," n.d.)
("Sibley Volcanic Regional Preserve," n.d.)
At the top of this picture you can see the
possible beginnings of an angular
unconformity. As weathering and erosion
have eaten away at this tilted
sedimentation, dirt and soil have been
deposited on top.
10. Here is yet another example of severe shifting and uplift as a result of tectonic shifting along
fault lines, which shows two separate layers of lava flows have been lifted. It can be assumed
that the lava flow on the left is younger than that on the right, through the law of
superposition, because you can see the red and brown bake zone to the left of the lava flow.
*An uplifted crosscut of two separate lava flows
with a period of sedimentation between them.
11. References
Legard, W. (2006). Sibley volcanic wildflowers. Retrieved June 12, 2016, from http://www.ebparks.org/Asset2341.aspx
Monroe, J. S., & Wicander, R. (2015). The changing earth: Exploring geology and evolution (7th ed.). Stamford, CT: Cengage.
Sibley Volcanic Regional Preserve. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.ebparks.org/parks/sibley.htm
Slack, G. (2005, April 1). Voice of the Volcano - Bay Nature. Retrieved from http://baynature.org/article/voice-of-the-volcano/
Zell, H. (2010, September 29). Equine evolution [Skeletal Evolution]. Retrieved from
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Equine_evolution.jpg
