Earth Summit Activity

1. United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), also known as Earth Summit is an organization of nature experts that come together once every year and discuss what is good for our planet. 2.The United Nations (UN) organized Earth Summit. 3.The first earth summit was held in Rio, Brazil in 1992. 4.In South Africa. 5.The most recent earth summit was held in Durban, august 2011 6.The purpose of the earth summit is to create new ways of generating energy with sustainable resources and to protect the earth and looking after it. 7.The most important decisions made by the earth summit is the koyoto protocol. 8.I think it is necessary because we need to find ways to look after our earth and use resources in a way that they are sustainable, otherwise we could run out of resources and then there would be wars and other crisis’s. 9.Since the Earth Summit in Rio, the government has tried to find new ways of helping the environment.Also Agenda 21 is still a powerful long-term goal for balancing economic and social needs with the capacity of the earth’s resources and ecosystems. 10.Sustainable development is linked with Earth Summit because in order to keep resources on earth without them running out, we need to use them in a sustainable way so the earth still has that resource for its own natural needs, like trees provide oxygen during the day and water is one of the most important resources, so if we use resources in a sustainable way, it will be better for the earth.

Robert Sobukwe Time line

Apartheid Timeline

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChtFQjBXcNI&feature=youtu.be

Activity 8

1.  African Nationalism was a movement to fight colonialism and demand independence from the colonisers in Africa

2.  Zambia in 1973, Angola in 1575, South Africa in 1907

3.  Pan Africanism is a group for co-operation among Africans.

4.  Pan-Africanism is a movement for greater co-operation among Africans and African Nationalism was a movement to fight colonialism in Africa.

5.    Kwame Nkrumah led the Gold Coast’s anti-colonial struggle for independence  and Robert Sobukwe founded the Pan Africanist Congress in opposition to the apartheid regime.

6.    The song ‘Buffalo Soldier’ relates to Pan-Africanism because it states that there was a “Buffalo Soldier stolen from Africa in the heart of America.” The soldier was fighting for survival like Africans that were against colonialism. The soldier that Bob Marley was talking about in the song is himself.

Activity 6: The Holocaust

Activity 6

1.    The Holocaust refers to the deliberate, systematic, planned murder of the Jews in Europe.

2.  The Germans wanted to kill large numbers of innocent people because they were non-Aryans. For example the Jews and colored people.

3.  At first the German army had the Einsatzgruppen they were known as the special action groups or the killing squads. They carried out the genocide but the government soon realized that this was ineffective and too slow and also they were known for their heavy drinking. Then the German generals came invented the gas showers to kill large numbers of people at once. This was very effective and wasn’t expensive.

4.  When WOII came to an end all the concentration camps were set free by the allies. When all the people in the concentration camps were set free they didn’t have anything no money, no housing, no clothes, no nothing. The world was very angry at Germany after WOII because of everything they had done. Economically Germany was at its worst because everything had been bombed by the allies.        

Activity 5

Activity 5

I commented on Robert Gould’s blog.