Climate March I learned new facts about climate change after I attend the climate march during April 29, 2017. The People’s Climate March was a huge protest which took place on Washington D.C.’s National Mall. There were hundreds of thousands of people protesting against the environmental policies of the UnitedStates President Donald Trump and his administration. I noticed a huge difference between the science march and the climate march after I marched for two hours. During the march, I saw many posters had sunflowrs, a sun, and a melting ice cream cone of the earth. Also, I noticed there is more racial diversity in the March. For instance, I saw hundreds of Native American people protesting and performed a native american dance. I learned
On this day, more than 200,000 black and white Americans gathered in Washington, D.C. and intended to dramatize the rights of black Americans to political and economic equality. This event focused on employment discrimination, civil rights abuses against African Americans, Latinos, and other minority groups, and support for the Civil Rights Act that the Kennedy Administration was attempting to pass through Congress. At the Washington Monument, they carried hundreds of signs that were made specifically for this event.
This march was to help with how the laws against blacks were taken down for good and how it affected their future. This is probably one of my favorite stories ever.
Climate change has been a subject of discussion in the media for many years, supported with the use of arguments against oil polluting the environment and extreme scare tactics of Polar ice caps flooding civilians backyards. The issue has been ignored by the majority of lay people as seeming too complicated, and with all the conflicting information in the media in the past, who can blame them? However, scientifically, climate change and what perpetrates it is fairly simple to understand and society as a whole is beginning to come to a clear consensus on climate change. Thanks in part to more readily available forms of media and information, people have become cognizant of the fact that climate change is a legitimate problem which requires immediate amelioration. While this may seem melodramatic, society is realizing that climate change is an issue which can no longer be denied if the human race wishes to continue.
The march consisted of all different kinds of people. There were blacks and whites, rich and poor, young and old, and Hollywood stars and normal everyday people.
event also brought in a lot of white supporters from across the united states about a quarter of the
The March on Washington is said to be the highlight of the civil rights movement. The march was not planned by one group, many civil rights activist groups gathered to plan this march. The agreed to all meet at the Washington Monument and march to the Lincoln Memorial. Almost 250,000 people showed up for the march, and this was the same day Dr. King Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream” speech. Also on this day John Lewis challenged President Kennedy, but not in protest or violence, according to the document he said "We will not stop. If we do not get meaningful legislation out of this Congress, the time will come when we will not confine our marching to Washington…. But we will march with the spirit of love and with the spirit of dignity that
250,000 black and white Americans converged on the nation’s capital for the March on Washington, often considered the high point of the nonviolent civil rights movement. Organized by a coalition of civil rights, labor, and church organizations led by Phillip Randolph, the black unionist who had threatened a similar march, it was the largest public demonstration in the nation’s history at that time. Calls for the passage of a civil rights bill pending before Congress took center stage. The march’s goals also included a public-works program to reduce unemployment, an increase in the minimum wage,
According to that image some people represented the equality in public schools in jobs and schools, others wanted voting rights and housing. Many people wanted many things and this march gave them a way to let everyone know. John lewis- “We are tired. We are tired of being beaten by policemen.
The article states that “more than 1 million people gathered in Washington and in cities around the country… to the inauguration of President Trump (Stein, Hendrix, and Hauslohner 1). These people marched in order to protest the treatment of women, minorities, and immigrants by Trump. They held signs and made their voices heard by people all over the world. This march can be compared to the march of Dr. King and his comrades to seek justice for the unfair treatment of people of color.
Even though, The way everyone started off was kind of risky, they still seemed interested in the significant purpose of the march and then identified their
The March on Washington was an immense protest march that occurred in August 1963, when some 250,000 people gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. Also known as the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the event aimed to draw attention to continuing challenges and inequalities faced by African Americans a century after emancipation. It was also the occasion of Martin Luther King Jr.’s now-iconic
Students may know Wendy Bishop as the Spanish teacher and the Swim coach, but those who attended the Women’s March protest know her as one of the brave voices who helped fight for the rights of citizens. This event took place on Jan. 21, 2017 in LA where 80,000 people were expected to protest, but in actuality, a whopping 750,000 attended the march. The LA Times calls the gathering that took place on Jan. 21, 2017 in LA the “largest gathering… since immigration rights protest of 2006.”(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjay_vm5abSAhUHi1QKHU0pDpEQFggcMAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailynews.com%2Fgeneral-news%2F20170121%2Fwomens-march-los-angeles-draws-estimated-750k-this-is-what-we-do-as-americans&usg=AFQjCNFV8P30HNhQQ847c3Qp6gQUIvgEVQ&sig2=BpUotXEMZXu43JEJ2VXfkQ)
March is about people coming together to come over an obstacle which was equal voting rights for everyone. In end the President Lyndon Johnson signed the 1965 Voting Right Act into law. Which started that no one should be discriminate and that everyone is allow to vote. And addition to book March book three showed the perspective of what African American had to go through from being discrimination to and not being allow to even register to vote then finally being able to vote. Unlike nowadays were many people are not willing to vote just because they don’t want to
Semiarid climates are found right outside of arid climates because of the the semi arid climates can be used as a farm but it can go without rain for months so it can be dangerous to.
In early years ocean surface currents were observed by simply noting how their vessels drift, and based on these ship-drift reports maps were prepared. According Niiler (2001) on 21 December 1872, the history of instrumental observations of ocean currents has begun when HMS Challenger, an ocean expedition, left Portsmouth, England, to navigate the globe in three and a half years. Since then, the oceanographers around the World have been improving instruments and instrumental techniques. However, the most significant breakthrough in the field was in 1980s when scientists began planning the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) where they recognized that large arrays of satellite-tracked drifters could be used to observe the entire global ocean near-surface circulation [Niiler, 2001].