The March

there wasn’t already polarization between the movement and the institution, there surely was now. In the eyes of the movement, an individual was either with the movement or actively fighting against it and fighting against justice and democracy. The March on Washington On August 28, 1963, over 200,000 people flocked…

Community Event Details of the LGBTQ Ally March On April 13th, 2017, the 8th annual LBGT Ally March took place in the Reeve Ballroom at UW Oshkosh. The doors opened at 5:00 PM for attendees to enter. The beginning of the event was for participants to check out the resources that were displayed for the public. These resources included Career Services, University Police, LGBTQ Resource Center, Women’s Center, Counseling Center, and many more. The event involved three phenomenal speakers who…

The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom was an event organized by major labor unions, church groups, youth organizations and civil rights groups. The march included several speeches in front of the Lincoln Memorial with over 200,000 people attending and covered on national television. A large purpose of the march was to help pressure the government into passing Kennedy’s Civil Rights Bill. Here, Martin Luther King, Jr. was the keynote speaker where he gave his famous and enduring “I Have a…

“Even if the government allow me to march tomorrow morning, this will be my last speech on the sacred banks banks of the Sabarmati.” These words were spoken by Mohandas Gandhi in his speech, “Dandi March,” the eve before the event took place. Gandhi is very successful in using ethos, logos, and pathos in this speech. The first thing to point out is how Gandhi uses pathos. In the speech, “Dandi March,” Gandhi warns his people “Our starving millions can by no means afford this enormous…

I found an article about March Madness that deals with statistics. Listed throughout this article are a few different ways that statistics are used or should be used while filling out a March Madness bracket. The first concept is averages/percentages. To find the average of how many points a player averages per game, you take the points made divided by the total number of games a player has played. Let’s say a player from Kansas has a high scoring percentage, someone might pick Kansas to win…

The March on Washington, an enormous protest march occurring in August of 1963. 250000 people congregated near the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C., aiming to get others to take heed of the injustices African-Americans faced. To support the civil rights of all Americans, demonstrators at the march made their way from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial, ending with Martin Luther King Jr’s famous “I Have A Dream” speech. Although the United States has gone through a Civil War,…

The March to the Sea is still one of the most destructive and devastating battles of the Civil War yet and more battles to come. This horrible tragedy started in Atlanta not long ago on November 15, 1864. This battle led all the way to Savannah on December 21, 1864. The Union General William T. Sherman did this to prove that the Confederate government could not protect their people from an aggressor. After William T. Sherman had captured Atlanta on September 2, 1864, he decided to move his base…

protest took on new meaning, as they had heard of the royal guard dishonoring the tri-color cocade, showing their antipathy for the Third Estate. The ideas of those involved in the march are the very definition of revolution, and the actions of those involved helped to ensure fundamental change in France. During the march to the Palace of Versailles, many had joined the initial group, growing to roughly ten thousand women. From the source “Vanguard of Women going to Versailles”, there are…

On 9 November, I took part in the March of Resilience here on Yale’s campus. A description of the event on Facebook stated the following: “This is not a protest; it 's an interruption. Leave class, skip section, reschedule your meeting--we need each other now.” Over one thousand students, professors, and administrators took part in this march across Yale’s campus whose path began at the Afro-American Cultural Center and trudged along next to the other three cultural centers on campus before…

How Significant was the Long March in order for the CCP to establish power in 1949? Intro Before the Long March, there was a conflicting and war torn infrastructure between political parties and warlords. At the time of the creation of the communist party in 1921, the Guomindang, the most powerful single force in China, were seeking to unite the county under Chiang Kai-Shek’s leadership. The Communists who were on the brink of annihilation, had been persecuted and forced into the countryside by…