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SOS – term 1

Hello readers,

Hope you all are having a good start of the year. This week in Social Studies we our looking at significant events around the world. We had to do this on maps and pin down 5 points of any events that happened around the world, mine was are pretty well know that you all should know. Here is the link for my points!

Significant events

Thank you all for reading my post! Hope you all found this intresting and something new to learn. Is there any big events I missed, if so let me know in the comments. Have and amazing day bye!!

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Birmingham Campaign Storyboard

Background

Birmingham, Alabama was founded in 1871 at the crossing of two rail lines near one of the world’s richest deposits of minerals. Alabama’s most populous county. In 2022, Birmingham had a population of 1,115,289, and is the largest metropolitan area in Alabama as well as the 50-most populous in the United States. From its founding through the end of the 1960s Birmingham was a primary industrial center of the South. The pace of Birmingham growth during the period from 1881 through 1920 earned its nicknames The Magic City and The Pittsburgh of the South.

Why?

The Birmingham campaign, also known as the Birmingham movement or Birmingham confrontation, was an American movement organized in early 1963 by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.  They did it to bring attention to the integration efforts of African Americans in Birmingham, Alabama.

Phase 1

Martin Luther King got arrested on April 12th along with the other leaders that marched with them. Then on April 20th Martin got released to find out that the movement (march) was losing its steam, and they needed to get more people marching.

On August 28th, 1963, more than a quarter million people participated in the historic march on Washington  for jobs and freedom, gathering near the Lincoln memorial. 

Phase 2

On May 2nd Over 1000 young people march into the city center. 959 arrested on Connor’s orders, they were between the ages of 6 to 18. On May 3rd more than 2500 turned out to march. There was a mixture of adults and children. Connor ordered firemen to turn their high pressure hoses on the protesters. Protesters were injured as the water pushed them into the ground, crashing them into buildings and each other. Police dogs were also being used for biting the marchers.

Results of the Campaign

White and coloured signs removed from bathrooms and water fountains.

Lunch counters open to both races andwhites began to hire black workers. Libraries, schools and public buildings eventually desegregated Showed the black community that nonviolent methods worked, even in the face of violence Paved the way for the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

What happened next?

The images of protesters being attacked were shown throughout the USA. President Kennedy said that it made him “sick” watching children being attacked with dogs and hoses. In Birmingham the marches continued with many more people getting involved, Connor continued to use hoses and dogs on protesters. Demonstrations continued until 10 May while business owners create a settlement with the civil rights leaders about desegregating.

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Martin Luther King

 

 

A midsummers night’s dream

Welcome, readers

My English class has been researching and summarising a midsummer night’s dream over the past few weeks. We had to respond to the queries on the document that Miss Clark created. I’ve really enjoyed doing this, which is akin to an essay over the weeks we had to complete it. I hope you all find the William Shakespeare novel I’ve started interesting. This is most of all the work i’ve done so far in the weeks.

Hope this was useful to everyone! Do you enjoy anything written by William Shakespeare? Goodbye, have a great day!

 

Is it living?

Salut readers, this week for science we our looking into MRS C GREN. Mrs c gren is to decide if something is living or non-living. Scientists use a list of reqiurements called life processes. I choose an animal and will be telling you all about it like their movement, respiration, sensitivity, circulation/control, etc. Without anymore explanation lets get into it. The animal I choose is a artic fox.

Movement: 

In Alaska, Artic foxes migrate from their fall breeding grounds and travel to coastal areas, returning in the late winter or early spring. Large-scale mirgrations have been recorded in Canada, Russia and the Scandinavian peninsula.

Respiration:

Foxes have two lungs that are subdivided into lobes. Air is inhaled through the mouth or nasal cavity and travels into the trachea. From the trachea air enters two bronchi, which lead into the lungs. Inside the lungs, there is freshly oxygenated, and depleted, or stale, air.

SENSITIVITY:

Sensory modalities The Arctic fox has a functional hearing range between 125 Hz–16 kHz with a sensitivity that is ≤ 60 dB in air, and an average peak sensitivity of 24 dB at 4 kHz.

CIRCULATION/CONTROL:

The fox’s circulatory system enables the transport of nutrients to various parts of the body. It transports oxygen, nutrients, hormones, and chemicals to tissue, and carries waste and carbon dioxide away from tissue.
GROWTH:
Fully grown arctic foxes weigh from 6 to 10 pounds. They average 43 inches (109 cm) in length including the tail, which is about 15 inches (38 cm) long. Their short legs and body, short ears, and dense winter fur give them a stocky appearance compared to their slightly larger relative, the red fox (Vulpes fulva).
REPRODUCTION:
Two months before the end of winter, arctic fox start to pair up for mating. The gestation period is between 51-57 days. The mating pair stay together throughout pregnancy and raising of young. An average litter of 11 pups is born in late May/early June.
EXCRETION:
The skins excretes waste by secreting liquid water from it’s glands but because of the lack of area where there is only skin and no hair the red fox also has another medium to cool body temperature which is called panting.
NUTRITION:
Arctic foxes are opportunistic feeders, eating practically any animal alive or dead. They rely on populations of rodents, especially lemmings, voles, and other small mammals. They will also eat birds, insects, eggs, berries, reptiles, and amphibians.