Month: June 2020

In the past two decades, glaciers have been melting more ice than they can replenish. According to an article by Brandon Specktor, Antarctica loses an average of 118 gigatons of ice per year, which is as much water as 400,000 Olympic-sized pools. This is caused by global warming, which happens when greenhouse-gases and other chemicals are emitted into the atmosphere. 

There are many consequences of global warming, like melting glaciers. This could cause the world with many disasters. To start, small islands can be submerged completely into the water because the sea levels have risen. In addition, bigger cities near the sea, like San Francisco, which is largely populated can be flooded. This could injure many people and even kill some. Although this may only seem of concern to people who live near the ocean, everyone who is worried about the economy of the world should care. 

However, there are countless ways to prevent all these tragedies from happening. First, one can start powering their home with renewable energy, like solar panels instead of fossil fuels, which damage the environment. Another thing that produces a lot of carbon is meat. From all the space the livestock takes up to the food it consumes, it creates harm to the air in multiple forms. Lastly, people could try to plant more trees as they are able to take in carbon and make it into oxygen, which is good for humans. These are just several of the methods to reduce climate change, and I believe we should put more effort into helping the world we live in. 

Many people have been fighting for their rights for the last hundred years. However, people are still arguing if racism has ended. Before America was even founded, blacks were sent to America to be slaves for wealthy white families. There was a time when blacks couldn’t even drink from the same fountain as whites, they couldn’t sit in the front of a bus. Whites ruled the roost, and black’s were castigated when they did things, no matter how small.

However, people still fought back. People like Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Harriet Tubman, and those who were not even remembered. Those people fought for their rights, no matter how burdensome it was. One of the greatest and most remembered act was Martin Luther King’s famous speech “I have a dream”. He spoke about how he wanted his little kids to be able to live in harmony with other races, to be able to hold hands with one another.

Yet to this day, we can still see racism in our lives, even through some may not admit it. Just a few weeks ago, there was the killing of George Floyd, a man who was killed by a police officer. There have been many other scenarios like this one, where racism can still be seen. If you ask me, I would undoubtedly say that racism is still there, whether or not you want it there. I repudiate that people can be treated this way just because of their skin color. In the depths of this argument between if there is still racism, I would say, that no matter how hard that people like Rosa Parks fought, humanity just can not take it away.

Uncle Willy is a weird person first he is addicted to dope and he also kills himself in the end of the story. So Uncle Willy is crazy, he says that he was tolled by this crazy person who was going to kill him and so he kills the crazy person and someone ladies drives him out of town. The main person thinks that Willy is a amazing person. Willy lives in a white house with this other person named Job. Job is very old he is a porter in a drug store and he cooks and kept the house. Willy liked the children and he used drugs and at the drug store he couldn’t fill a prescription in forty years. he doesn’t wash the window and doesn’t dress well because he says that no one could look at him. He bought ice cream for the baseball teams and he had these marks that went from his arm to his shirt. He would also go to school with the other children. Then after a few days when other people came he took the needle and stuck it into the his arm but he didn’t do it the usual way the person said that it look like he wanted it to go into his bone. He crashed the airplane and he asked the person again that he could run stuff and the person said yes.

Uncle Willy is a weird person but he has a good trait he is good to the children he helps them some I guess even if your old you can still do good to the world

Almost every person in America has heard of Martin Luther King Jr.’s iconic and inspirational “I have a dream” speech. On August 23, 1963, over 250,000 civil rights supporters gathered at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C to hear his speech. It became one of the most famous speeches in history, but why?

First of all, it had very strong and well chosen words. Probably the most famous sentence is this one:”I have a dream, that my four little children will one day live in a nation, where not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character” It is so powerful, and the rest of the speech is of equal strength, so you can see why it is so treasured.

Another reason why it is so empowering is how MTK was so brave and stood up for the entire black community. At the time, it was a bit dangerous to speak such bold words on racism and segregation. There were a lot of people who believed in segregation, and were definitely not a fan of the civil rights movement. Also, MTK gave a voice for the voiceless. A lot of people were scared to say what they believed, or weren’t heard because they didn’t have the right platform, but his speech spoke for them.

One last reason is that MTK Jr. wrote his speech in a completely peaceful way. Instead of calling out white people for segregation, he instead asked for unity without any rudeness to any race. He focused on how he had a dream to fix the problem, not how the problem started.

In the wake of the Black Lives Matter protest, we are once again reminded of Martin Luther King Jr.’s speech. It feels sad that even almost 57 years later, his dream has still not been fulfilled. Of course it is better, but there is still a lot of things that show that we still have a ways to go. America must keep trying to have more equal rights. The only reason these problems keep resurfacing, are because there is not enough change, and because setbacks are recurring in the most terrible ways. We must remember MTK Jr.’s words, and help reach the goal in his dreams.

In conclusion, the “I have a dream speech” is probably the most important civil rights speech ever. Everybody should remember Martin Luther King Jr.’s words, especially in hard times , and strive to make a difference. Hopefully, in a few years, his iconic and famous dream will finally be fulfilled, and we can all stand together as equals.

One of the most popular speeches in the whole United States was spoken by Martin Luther King Jr. He was the first black man to ever become a president because of whites’ discrimination against the black. Martin Luther King Jr. changed the course of history. He will go down as the president who played a key role in the American Civil Rights movement.

When Martin Luther King Jr. said, “I have a dream.” That was not true. The dream had him. The dream wanted to have him talk about discrimination and equal rights. Martin Luther King Jr. quoted the Declaration of Independence, all men are created equal. He wanted everyone to know, not just his race, but every other race.

Martin Luther King Jr. faced many hard and difficult challenges and he did not want it to get any harder so he thought of this very speech to tell everyone else. He did not want the black men to be negro slaves nor wanted them to be treated worse than the whites. The white race had better stores to buy from, better houses, and better schools.

Martin Luther King Jr. was talking about all the people who wrote the Declaration of Independence and the Declaration itself for everyone is equal and there is no better or worse person in this world. Everyone shall be equal and there should be equality in humanity.

I thought that this video was very powerful and the speech. The whole thing changed everyone’s thoughts and he changed many minds through talking. His dream, his courage, and his dignity allowed him to say this and change many minds, many thoughts, and many ideas.

The 1950s, 1960s and 1970s were tremendously difficult times for African-Americans. They were not treated like white Americans simply because of their skin color. And the laws protected the bad treatment they got. Laws requiring “separate” hotels, restaurants, schools, and even drinking fountains were common in many states. Martin Luther King was a leader in the Civil Rights Movement, a drive to get more equal treatment for all Americans, not just white Americans.

This speech was important in several ways:

• It brought even greater attention to the Civil Rights Movement, which had been going on for many years. King’s speech was part of the March on Washington, a gathering of more than 250,000 people in the nation’s capital. African-Americans still were not treated as equals. Marches like this one and ones earlier in Detroit and other cities called attention to this fact.
• The speech was given in the shadow of the Lincoln Memorial, the monument honoring President Abraham Lincoln, who issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed slaves in the Southern states. By giving his speech there, King was wanting to call attention to how things were so terrible a century before (during the Civil War) and how some things hadn’t changed so very much in 100 years.
• It brought Martin Luther King and his message of non-violence to a nationwide (and worldwide) audience. The speech was carried on radio and was reprinted in newspapers and magazines all over the United States and all over the world. After this speech, the name Martin Luther King was known to many more people than before.
• It made Congress move faster in passing the Civil Rights Act. This set of laws was finally passed the next year, in 1964. Many of these laws gave African-Americans more equal treatment than they ever had before.

Martin Luther King continued to speak out for civil rights and for nonviolence. Sadly, he was killed in 1968. Remembered for its powerful imagery and its repetition of a simple and memorable phrase, King’s “I Have a Dream” speech has endured as a signature moment of the civil rights struggle, and a crowning achievement of one of the movement’s most famous faces. The Library of Congress added the speech to the National Recording Registry in 2002, and the following year the National Park Service dedicated an inscribed marble slab to mark the spot where King stood that day. The memory of his famous “I Have a Dream” speech and the message it contains live on.

The largest glaciers in the world are losing ice way too fast for us to replenish it. Two satellite images remind us that Earth’s ice sheets are losing so much mass that it’s becoming obvious even from space. In the maps published as part of a study, they show 16 years of ice loss in Greenland and Antarctica as seen by a NASA satellite. The images show rapid melt in both regions, far more than the ice-mass gains.

Greenland lost an average of 200 gigatons of ice per year, while Antarctica lost an average of 118 gigatons per year. One gigaton of ice is enough to fill 400,000 whole Olympic-sized swimming pools. All of the melting ice was about a total 0.55 inches of sea-level rise between 2003-2019. That puts Earth on the track for the worst global warming scenario. This would put hundreds of millions of people living in coastal communities at risk of losing their homes, or even their lives because of flooding.

A new research shows, while the ice shelves have thinned and melted over the last two decades, grounded ice has also became thin and melted. The new analysis shows that the response of these ice sheets to the changes in our climate reveals clues to why and how the ice sheets are melting. That is a good sign because now they partially know that problem for the melting glaciers.

MLK was one of the most memeral people on the planet. He made use of friendship and being able to even be together. If it was not for him then i would not be writing this right now. MLK gave a speech or his dreams now this one saying “I have a dream” was made from MLK. In this writing I will be writing about why dreams and especially his were super important.

MLK made many dreams from being able for “blacks” and “whites” to go to the same school, the same bus and even the same restaurant. All and every single one of his words in that speech were very important. Neither did she want those dreams to come true. He fighted for them. For us, everyone that was there with him listening to every word. The dreams aren’t just any birthday dreams. They are life changing to lots and people everywhere. From Florida to India. Very far places. 

Why are dreams so important? Well these dreams are things or wishes you really want. For example your dream pet is a dog. Dreaming for a dog is not a very big dream. MLK dreamed for many life saving dreams and life changing dreams. From being able to wish a birthday wish to changing lives

Now people all around the world are super thankful for what MLK has done. MLK was a hero to everyone. So when i say dreams are important. I mean they really are. MLK soon became super popular and everyone knew him.

So I suggest everyone around the world do one act of kindness and caring. This explains that MLK was a very nice and caring person. Saved lots of people from danger and also kept in mind the one quote “I have a dream”

Martin Luther King Jr. ‘s speech was about slavery and how he belives that one day, white and black boys and girls will become good friends and that, they will sit, walk, and do stuff together.

He also says that he believes that one day Mississipi, a state with a heart of injustice, will one day be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

I think that MLK really wants his nation to be treated equally among all the kinds of people in the world. He is also concerned about how an American, signed the Emancipation Proclamation, five score years ago, which I think is proclaiming freedom for slaves. A hundred years later, the slaves still, have not been released from captivity, racism, and discrimination.

So, I think that in the future, no matter what skin colour you are, we all, should be treated equally.

Antarctica and Greenland are known for its ice, or ice shelves — but that might not be true after a few decades. Data from NASA’s ICESat-2 satellite, which launched in 2018 to monitor elevation changes on land (and ice) around the world by bathing the planet in laser beams, were used. “‘It’s like an architectural buttress that holds up a cathedral,’ study co-author Helen Amanda Fricker, a glaciologist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, said in the statement. ‘The ice shelves hold the ice sheet up. If you take away the ice shelves, or even if you thin them, you’re reducing that buttressing force, so the grounded ice can flow faster.'” This means that the ice shelves — enormous ledges of ice floating over the ocean — are essential to keep the ice intact. This is bad because when more water intrudes the ocean, it can flow anywhere (as long as it follows the Coriolis effect), and flooding may occur sometime soon, annihilating the place.