Non-Green Features of the Buldings in St. Albans College

 Green Features of the Buildings in St. Albans College

Earth Summit

1. It is a conference that is held every ten years to discuss environmental problems from around the world.
2. The United Nations.
3. In 1992 in Rio de Janeiro.
4. Rio de Janeiro.
5. In 2002 in Johannesburg.
6. To discuss environmental problems and the sustainability of the earth for future generations
7. The Earth Summit’s outcome was captured in the following documents:
• Rio Declaration on Environment and Development
• Agenda 21
• Forest Principles
Moreover, two important legally binding agreements were opened for signature:
• Convention on Biological Diversity
• Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
8. Because it helps to raise awareness of issues that have to be solved collectively between countries and it is also a great platform for governments to produce solutions to these issues.
9. Yes because it raised awareness to many environmental issues from around the planet but also many solutions were found for these issues.
10. Because sustainable development is discussed alongside environmental problems from around the world and how these two topics can work in tandem.

Activity 8

1.       African nationalism- the nationalist political movement for one unified Africa.

2.       African Nationalist Party- 1960, Aborigines' Rights Protection Society- 1897, National Congress of West Africa- 1920, African National Congress- 1912

3.       Pan-Africanism is a movement that seeks to unify people of African descent or people living in Africa, into a "one African community".

4.         Pan-Africanism is the idea that Africans should form a unified Africa, while African Nationalism is a movement for Africans to obtain independence from colonialism. Pan Africanism also calls for unity between everyone of African descent while African Nationalism calls for unity within Africa.

5.       They both fought against colonialism and strongly supported the pan-Africanist movement. They believed in a unity of all African peoples and people of African descent.

6.       The song is about African slaves who were used in the fight against the Native Americans in the western US. They were known as buffalo soldiers by the Native Americans because of their shaggy hair and their bravery. In the song it says how Africans were stolen from Africa and that is a view that is shared by many Pan-Africanist African Americans. It is the idea of freedom from the white oppressors and unity that is conveyed in this song that relates to African Nationalism and Pan-Africanism. In many of his other songs, speeches and quotes he conveys his support of pan-Africanism and African Nationalism.

The Final Solution to the Jewish Question

Martin Luther King, Jr.

1.       He, his father and his grandfather were pastors at the Ebenezer Baptist church in Atlanta. They all attended Morehouse College in Atlanta.

2.       Segregated public schools in Georgia, he graduated from high school at the age of fifteen.

3.       He lead “the first great Negro non-violent demonstration of contemporary times in the United States…” this was the bus boycott which succeeded in making buses unsegregated so  that whites and African Americans could ride the bus as equals. The boycott lasted 382 days. He also met and married Coretta Scott.

4.       He became the pastorate of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery Alabama.

5.       On the 1^st of December 1955 martin Luther king initiated the Bus Boycott in which many African Americans boycotted the busses to protest segregation on public transport. The boycott lasted 382 days and on the 21^st of December 1956, after the Supreme Court declared the laws that required segregation on busses unconstitutional, whites and African Americans could ride the bus as equals.

6.       His goal was to provide new leadership to for the now burgeoning civil rights movement, and to use Christian ideals together with Ghandi’s passive resistance tactics in order to gain equality for black people.

7.       High pressure water jets and police dogs.

8.       On the 28^th of august 1963.

9.       President Lyndon Johnson.

10.   On the 4^th of April 1968 he was assassinated while he was standing on the balcony of his motel room in Memphis, Tennessee. He was there for a protest march in sympathy with the striking garbage workers of that city.

Malcolm X: Article Activity

1.     Malcolm’s original last name was “Little”

2.     Malcolm’s family was large as he was one of 9 children and a few of his family members were quite unstable.

3.     His life in his Youth was dodgy as he spent 3 years in juvenile detention< dropped out of school and started dealing in drugs.

4.     In prison Malcolm changed completely and in the article “saying it was Malcolm’s salvation completely after being released he joined a African American Muslim non-racist group.

5.     Malcolm changed his last name to X because he was completely committed to the Nation of Islam.

6.     Malcolm started fighting racism against African American’s after he was released from prison.

7.     Travelling and visiting many African and Muslim Countries altered Malcolm’s view on white people.

8.     Malcolm’s life ended with him getting assonated while speaking at a rally. Many people came to his funeral.

Activity 6: The Holocaust

1.      When six million Jews in Germany and other parts of Europe were systematically exterminated in an act of genocide.

2.      They blamed them for the many economic problems that Germany was experiencing.

3.      They first boycotted Jewish shops and businesses they had prejudicial laws placed against them, they had firing squads kill many Jews and they had many of them gassed in concentration camps like Auschwitz.

4.      During the war they did not have the opportunity or man power to free the Jews from these camps and end the oppressive regime because they could not break through the German lines. After the war they had many of the Nazis tried and then executed and the freed all of the Jews out of the concentration camps.