The fire led to legislation requiring improved factory safety standards and helped spur the growth of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU), which fought for better working conditions for sweatshop workers.
Date: March 25, 1911
Deaths: 146
Location: Asch Building, Manhattan, New York City, New York, U.S.
Non-fatal injuries: 78
Critical analysis of the article by Carson, Clayborne. 2005.“To Walk in Dignity: The Montgomery Bus Boycott.” with the method of REEC is described below.
Explanation:
King reads a prepared statement to about 2,500 persons attending mass meetings at Holt Street and First Baptist Churches.
1 He urges “the Negro citizens of Montgomery to return to the busses tomorrow morning on a non-segregated basis.”
2 A Birmingham News account of the meetings reported that he admitted “it is true we got more out of this (boycott) than we went in for. We started out to get modified segregation (on buses) but we got total integration.
3 At six A.M. the following morning King joined E. D. Nixon, Ralph Abernathy, and Glenn Smiley on one of the first integrated buses. During the initial day of desegregated bus seating there were only a few instances of verbal abuse and occasional violence.
4 For more than twelve months now, we, the Negro citizens of Montgomery have been engaged in a non-violent protest against injustices and indignities experienced on city buses Often our movement has been referred to as a boycott movement. The word boycott, however, does not adequately describe the true spirit of our movement. The word boycott is suggestive of merely an economic squeeze devoid of any positive value.
5. We have struggle against tremendous odds to maintain alternative transportation. We have lived under the agony and darkness of Good Friday with the conviction that one day the heightening glow of Easter would emerge on the horizon.
Basically one involves the whole country and is more complex while the other only affects the state of Massachusetts.
Farming: The practice of agriculture might be the least impactful compared to ranching and mining. The consistent use of land for vegetation consumes all the nutrients a plot of soil can offer; crop rotation is a viable solution to this problem. The environmental footprint of farming becomes airborne (and still affects the soil) once insecticides are used to protect crops from potential plagues.
Mining: Mining can cause pollution in every medium possible, depending on the location it is practiced on. It affects air when unrefined materials are released to the surface; causes the destruction of soil and vegetation once these are removed to reach the minerals undergound; contaminate water when draining acid from mines and increasing sedimentation on water streams; reduces biodiversity by destroying natural habitats.
Ranching: The great amounts of livestock release high levels of carbon dioxide and methane into the atmosphere, degradating everything the gas emissions reach. This results in water degradation, biodiversity loss, air pollution, deforestation, and acid rain. Cattle is one of the highest factors that contribute to climate change.
It can be concluded that Mining and Ranching are similar in the areas of affection, but differ in the mediums to do it. Farming does not create as much pollution as these two, and its effects are somewhat reversible.
