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.

Nazi Germany

1.        

Date	Events
11 November 1918	Germany signs an armistice with the Allies to end  World War I, which Hitler came to regard as treachery against Germany
September 1919	Adolf Hitler joins the German Worker's Party, which later became the Nazi Party
October1920	The Sturm Abteilung (SA) is formed which later brought the Nazi ideologies to the streets and the beer halls
20 December 1924	Adolf Hitler leaves Landsburg Prison, where he wrote Mein Kampf
December 1924	The Nazi Party wins 24 seats in the Reichstag (parliament) for the first time
June 1925	The Schutz Staffeinel (SS), that is the secret police, is formed of ‘racially pure’ men
July 1925	The first volume of Mein Kampf is published
July 1927	The Nazi Party holds its first Nuremberg Rally.
20 May 1928	The Nazi Party loses support in the election, and  wins only 14 seats in the Reichstag.
November 1928	Joseph Goebbels, head of the influential German film industry, is appointed by Hitler to be the Nazi Party’s propagandist
December 1928	The second volume of Mein Kampf is published
September 1930	The Nazi Party now wins 107 seats in the Reichstag
December 1930	Unemployment in Germany reaches nearly 4 million due to the Great Depression
January 1931	Ernst Roehm is appointed Sturm Abteilung chief of staff, although he was later axed by Hitler because of his ambitious to lead the German army
13 March 1932	Paul von Hindenburg defeats Adolf Hitler in presidential elections.
24 April 1932	In Prussia the Nazi Party becomes the largest single party in the state parliament
31 July 1932	The Nazi Party wins 230 seats in the Reichstag
13 August, 1932	Adolf Hitler refuses to serve under Franz von Papen as vice chancellor of Germany
17 November 1932	Franz von Papen resigns as chancellor of Germany.
4 December 1932	Kurt von Schleicher becomes chancellor of Germany.
30 January 1933	Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany.
27 February 1933	The Reichstag catches fire and Hitler blames the Communists for this
5 March 1933	The Nazi Party fails to win an overall majority in the Reichstag
20 March 1933	The first Nazi concentration camp is formed at Dachau
31 March 1933	Hitler uses the Enabling Bill to exclude Communists from local government eight days after the Bill was passed by the Reichstag
26 April 1933	Herman Goering forms the Gestapo from the former Prussian police
2 June 1933	Adolf Hitler increases the number of Nazis in his government.
4 April 1934	Heinrich Himmler is appointed assistant chief of the Gestapo
29 June 1934	On the Night of the Long Knives the leadership of the SA was purged and the SS became more powerful
2 August 1934	Paul von Hindenburg dies and  Hitler becomes president as well as chancellor

2.       To get people to support them. They did this by promising “Arbeit, Freiheit und Brot” which means Work, Freedom and Bread.

3.       Blonde hair, blue eyes, thin nose and of German or Austrian descent.

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5.       Hitler and other members of the Nazi party made strong speeches to the German people. Also they made films portraying how the Jews were starting wars and keeping them going. In these films there were often battles portraying how brave and strong the German soldiers were. Another medium of propaganda was radio in which they played German music and broadcasted political speeches. Pamphlets handed out in the street also spread their ideologies. Youth camps designed for children and teenagers also helped to spread the Nazi cause.

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