lil things 2 know 4 humanities Flashcards
1967 referendum
The proposed law (Constitution Alteration (Aboriginals) 1967) sought to give the Commonwealth Parliament power to make laws with respect to Aboriginal people wherever they lived in Australia. It also sought to make it possible to include Aboriginal people in national censuses.
most successful referendum, over 90% agreed that the constitution should be changed to allow the Commonwealth Parliament to make laws for all Australians including ‘Aboriginal People.’
Emmett Till
1955, 14 year old Emmett Till was beat and shot to death in Mississippi after being accused of flirting with a white woman. His body was dumped in a river. The men that murdered him were found not guilty in front of an all white jury in Mississippi. The two men later admitted to the crime in a magazine knowing that they could not be tried twice for the same crime. The case of Emmett Till became a major turning point for the 1957 Civil rights act.
Rosa Parks
She was arrested in Alabama, 1955 after refusing to give up her seat at the front of a bus for a white passenger. This arrest resulted in the boycott of the Montgomery bus service by African-American passengers. The boycott ended a year later when the city of Montgomery was ordered by the US Supreme Court to stop segregating black and white passengers on its bus services. This victory resulted in further efforts to end segregation in America.
what is a boycott
A boycott is an act of voluntary and intentional abstention from using, buying, or dealing with a person, organization, or country as an expression of protest, usually for moral, social, political, or environmental reasons
What are the MDG’s. Name 3
millennium development goals,
to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger;
to reduce child mortality;
to improve maternal health;
difference between hard and soft engineering
hard is building man made structures, such as sea walls and groynes
soft is using natural processes like beach nourishment or managed retreat
what is demography (demographic)
Demography is the statistical study of populations, especially human beings. Demography encompasses the study of the size, structure, and distribution of these populations, and spatial or temporal changes in them in response to birth, migration, aging, and death.
effects of coastal degradation
sand dunes being washed into the sea, as a result it changes the coastline
blooms of toxic algae are released and damage the environment
PQE
Pattern, Quantify, Exception
SHEEPT
A geographic method of describing the positive and negative impacts of tourism is to classify impacts as social, historical, environmental, economic, political or technological factors
What are the two world views
Human centered and Earth centered
What are the two subcategories of Human centered world views
Egocentric and Anthropocentric
Define egocentric
self centered “i am the most important creature on Earth”
Define Anthropocentric
Humans are the most important species, in charge of the earth and the natural world
What are the two subcategories of Earth Centered world views
Ecocentric and Biocentric
