THE END...

Ladies and Gentlemen,

our "world tour" is over now...

Thank you for participating in this course and the high working moral you all have shown! I enjoyed being your teacher... By the way I am going to pay attention to your feedback (positive feedback and criticsm!) and try to realise some aspects next year with the new "English in the internet" class :-)

I wish you all the best for your future and hope that you all can reach your personal aims...

Yours,

F. Polat

Kingston

Kingston is theCapital of Jamaica.Kingston is in the south of the Island.
Kingston was build in 1693 out of Port Royal.Port Royal were destroyed because of an earthquake.The people who lived in Port Royal had to live for the first time in Tents.John Goffe designed the Plan of the City and already in 1716 was Kingston the biggest City of Jamaica.
Kingston is the Centre of the economy in Jamaica.
In kingston ther es a big habour and a airport so that is really good for inport and export of products.
30% of the population has no work and jamaica get bigger and bigger,because more and more people move to Jamaica.
22% of the population works in the farming buisness.
Popular Products of jamaica are Bananas,Coffe,Pepper,Potatos,Rice and Coconuts.
In Kingston you will find the Ward Theatre and the Museum of Bob Marley.Other interesting buildings are the Jamaica House and the seat of the president.

Von Angelina&Alina

Jamaican Landscape and Geology

Jamaica lies on the northern edge of the Caribbean plate, which lies next to the North American plate. That's the reason for many earthquakes in the country. Two-thirds of the western and middle country are covered by chalkstone, lots of the mountains up to 900 metres height are based of it. The chalkstone is the reason, why in Jamaica aren't many lakes. In the coast of Jamaica lies one of the deepest ocean deeps, the Cayman Trough with 7680 metres depth. Bauxite is the most important natural resource, it's the basis for aluminium. Other important recources are cast and marble. Jamaica's highest mountain is the Blue Mountain Peak, it's 2256 metres high and lies in the mountain range Blue Mountains in the east of the country. Many short rivers characterize the countryside of Jamaica, the most of the rivers flow to the north ot the south. Probably the longest river in Jamaica is the Rio Minho, it's 92,5 kilometres long. Other important rivers are the Black River (53,4 kilometres), the Cabaritta River (39,7 kilometres) and the Rio Cobre, which is important for the farming and the electricity of Spanish Town, a big city.

© Maurizio

Sports

Cricket is the most widespread sports in Jamaica. The Briton brought Cricket to the island and widespread in 19.centenary. The cricket player who have been succesful played in great britain. Today in Jamaica are two stage. International Jamaica played with other States in the west indian team. In the year 2007 the semi final was in Jamaica. the athletes provided for consider with the Summer Olympics in Helsinki, they won gold and silver medallions. This success produced ones consider with the youngsters, more and more youngsters aim at this achievement. The youngsters are pulled by the street and have to protect the possibility as athletes to themselves a sure source of income.

Chiquita

Jamaica is a banana exporter and because of this, we should know something about one of the three biggest banana (fruit) corporations of the world: Chiquita.

Chiquita, a US corporation, is founded in 1899 and grew because of its trade with tropical fruits like bananas (mainly this). Today, Chiquita bananas wear the "Rainforest" sticker, so they want to show that their bananas are produced fair and environmentally friendly. But it doesn't seem to be like this: There's much information about bad work conditions, poisonous pesticides and workers who are made redundant because of their commitment in an union (like the german Gewerkschaften).

Chiquita says that the workers on Chiquita plantages get more money than workers from other plantages, that their workers have protective clothing and work times which are shorter than work times at other plantages. According to different internet articles this is true. Workers at Chiquita plantages have better conditions than ones from others, but this conditions aren't good. I'm sure that the workers aren't treated fair- They are lucky if they have every possible job, because they need the money. In a report about the conditions on African flower plantages a worker (who was made unrecognizable) said "Our work conditions are really bad, but a little bit money is better than no money.". This dependence of workers on the one side and the avarice for profit of corporations on the other side give rise to the suspicion that workers, not only of Chiquita, are put-upon by big corporations.

Now a lot of people will say something like 'Oh, that's really terrible' while chomping into a 'normal' banana. They justify it by saying 'I'm not a corporation, I can't do something' but that's wrong.

Everyone can do something- No one is forced to buy this bananas, everyone can send a sign to the big corporations by buying bananas from fair trade. This bananas are sold everywhere- All bananas at Tegut are Fairtrade-bananas, even Lidl has some Fairtrade-bananas (look at the Fairtrade symbol!).

So I call you for stop buying bananas which are cultivated by put-upon workers and start buying bananas with the Fairtrade symbol to change the world a little bit to a better, a more human world.

pictures from:

http://www.teleboerse.de/

http://www.guardian.co.uk/

Usain Bolt - World's Fastest Man

The famous sprinter from Jamaica, is known because of his domination in the 100 and 200 metres competitions, leading to 3 world records in the first category and two in the second. Jamaica, also the homeland of a world record setting sprinter Asaf Powell, has enjoyed the class of the 1.96 metres man, who only weighs 86 kilos, whose success resets Jamaica on the map of countries with popular sport athletes, admired in the whole world. Early in his youth, it became clear he would be one of the greatest ever, breaking lots of records in junior competitions in the categories 100 and 200 metres sprint. When his first Oplympics 2004 started with a breakdown in the forerun because of a injury of his calf, he was utterly frustrated. In the year of 2006, he nearly beat the record set in the Athletissima meeting, one year later he succeded and became the third fastest man in the world, at an age of 20. In the May of 2008 he showed an increasing fitness by setting new personal bests in the 100 metres sprint. The summer olympics 2008 finally lead to his best 100 metres performance ever, coming along with a time of 9,69 seconds and the new world record, the first Olympic gold medal of the 100 metres sprint won by a Jamaican. The most impressing fact is, he ran part of the distance with undone laces and slowed down at the end to wide his arms and celebrate his safe win. He also won the 200 metres sprint, facing headwind. 2009 no on in the world could doubt his greatness, because he even improved his time by setting a new world record on the 100 metres, 9.58 seconds, reached in World Championships in Athletics in Berlin, when everyone expecting him to succed as he did. He didn't let anyone down. His second competition, the 200 metres also lead to a new world record and now he earned himselfthe title of the world's fastest man. Be honest: can such sheer greatness be honoured enough? In Jamaica he's very popular, as in the rest the world and he's earned most of his money by getting commercial contracts. So his succes holds on, when it will end, no one knows.
Lukas and Jonathan

Bob Marley

Robert Nesta Marley was born at the 06.02.1945 in a place in Jamaica that's called Nine Miles, it's in the north. His father was a 50-year old member of the british army, his mother was about 18 years old and she had to raise him up herself. After a while the family moved into the capital city Kingston, they wanted to built up a new life but they endet up in a slum. He became interested in a new way of music, music from the USA like Ray Charles, James Brown, Curtis Mayfield and some else. So he and his friends started to play music, they were thought by Joe Higgs. They named themselves "The Wailing Wailers".
After some years they became really famous in Kingston. In 1966 he married his wife Rita, but he moved to the US with his mum later. He just wanted to collect some money for his band but when I came back, after 8 months, he was a religious man and a member of "Rastafari".
Even if their label was bankrupt after a while, they got to know a guy called Lee "Scratch" Perry, who was an producer. With "Soul Rebel", "Duppy Conqueror", "400 Years" and "Small Axe" they had their first break-trough. They had some new members and they changed their name to "The Wailers".
After many exciting years, full of trouble, full of travelling around and of music about politics, love, redemption, peace and all that, he was nearly dying in the most succesfull years he had. After a football-match his foot was injured and he passed out, the diagnosis was canser in his brain.
He was patient of a special natural therapy, but nothing helped. On his way back to Jamaica the 36-year old Bob Marley died, in Miami at the 11.05.1981.
Even after his death people are buying his music, they're thinking of him and his influence is still part of the culture.

Sarah & Sophie

Fun in Jamaica by Pascal Stieler

Jamaica is very famous for tourists. There are many attractions for tourists. For example there is the Bob Marley museum. From outside the Bob Marley museum looks like a simple, little family house. But inside you can see the whole life of Marley. It's located in Kingston. Kingston is a famous urban in Jamiaca.


This is the Bob Marley museum from the outside. Behind the house ther's a garden with more information about Marley.







Also there are many natural activities like deep-sea-fishing and visiting a nutural park. Jamaica has a lot of free time activities.
The Dunns River Falls are very famous in Jamaica. It's like natural waterslide and many people are travelling to those Falls.

Just look. Small rocks. It looks good and it makes a lot of fun.









Also there are many Soapbox races in Jamaica. The people have fun to race down a hill with their self-made Soapbox. Nitro Circus in Jamiaca. Soapbox race.


The team of Nitro Circus drove with native people.





You should hang out at the Blue Lagoon. It's a beautiful place.
You can rent a boat or you can even swim there. The water is very clear and the nature around this place is beautiful.













This were just some ideas and there are a lot of activities in Jamaica.

-Reggae music-

Reggae is a music form coming from Jamaica. Reggae originates in the 60s in the island state, particularly from the existing music traditions, from the Ska and the Rocksteady – a heat period is not quite unconcerned supposedly in it which forces the musicians to play slower, or more carefully. In Jamaica was already a rather active, independent music industry which distinguishes itself by the fact that new developments are tested directly on the street, in a sort of street disco.

Still today known interpreters are Desmond Dekker and Lee "Scratch" Perry. At the beginning 70th follows the group The Wailers, with Bob Marley, Bunny Wailer and Peter Tosh, the most important formation till this day of the reggae.


In the first years after the independence of England (1962) originated, reggae is an expression just of this independence, born from the ruins of colonial immovables, in the poverty (resulted by European exploitation).

Reggae is an address which turns unusual for Europeans, not to Europe but against European, all taking in and the culture and to themselves direct against Africa where (just in and around Senegal and in East African Ethiopia, but also in South Africa) big reggae scenes develop.


Made by Elena & Madelaine :)

Jamaika: Criminality

Short overview about the main problem and how it happened

In Jamaika, there are a lot of social and criminal problems, which exist already a long time. Since the inflation around the world in 1980, the prices grew up because of the expensive US-Dollar. The import became more and more less. The export couldn't really grew up because of the prices and the minority of workspaces. They can' really built a good economy and especially the farmers suffered under this situation.
A lot of people lost a lot of money in this crise and couldn't recover from this hard time.
Because of this problem, the people from the land and the villages moved into cities like Kingston and Portmore with the hope of finding a job and becoming financial independent. But this couldn't really help them, because of the small living room and and the missing houses. The government from Jamaika tried to construct some flats and apartments for them, but that didn't change their social problems.


Problems in the cities

The people don't live as long as people from western countries. Because of the bad hygiene and the horrible circumstances, the criminality and the social difficulties grew up in the last years and play a big role in the population, especially in the life of the younger people. Drugs and extortion racket leave its mark on them and give the youth a bad picture of their future. The regime from Jamaika and a lot of unions support some criminal groups since 1970 and make money by supporting their illegal work. Also the young people haven't any chance of getting out of this circulation and grow up with this criminal situation. Most of them want to make money as fast as they can and deal with drugs or work in a criminal band.


















Death and clarification rate

Every year, a lot of people were killed by criminal acts. In 2005, nearly 1674 died because of social and criminal problems. If you want to make a picture of this, you can say that nearly 60 people of 100.000 inhabitants were killed by someone else. That is a lot more than in the USA, although there live a lot more people and similiar high social problems. In 2002, circa 5,7% of 100.0000 died on a criminal way.
The death rate take more and more place in the population and the government is not as innocent as it looks like. In 2006, 277 people died because of a shot of a soldier. But not only the crime rate seems very high, also the clarification rate is below average. Only 40% get a well clarification.

Prisons and drugs

The prisons in Jamaika have a bad hygiene and they are overcrowded with a lot of inmates. The drug trade is very popular for this country, because especially for South-america and North-america, its easy to bring a lot of the stuff into the other part of this continent. Estimates claim that nearly 80 tons cross the border of Jamaika.
Smuggling in Jamaika is big theme and a big part of the population join in these acts. Especially the coasts and the martitime regions (Küstenregion) are occupied with criminal groups because of the polices in the cities, who fight only against mafiosos there and not on coast sides.
Although the cooperation between the USA and Jamaika, it can't delete the high corruption between the workers and the civil servants. 'Transparency International' notices them on the 87. place of their report of corruption.

Abuja

This interesting city is the capital of Nigeria, ABUJA.

I want to deal with that issue because it´s important to know the capitals in the world and maybe you can compare European capitals with some of Africa. The area has a magnitude of 250 km² and in an area of ome km² live 729,7 inhabitants.

We compare this fact with the population density of Berlin, the capital of Germany:

Our successful capital has a area of 891,85 km² and the population density is 3.879 inhabitants.

You can see that Abuja isn´t so much full of people when you look at the population of Abuja (ca. 2.500.000 inhabitants) and it´s density in comparison to Berlin´s population (ca. 3.500.000 inhabitants).

Abuja is in the middle of Nigeria and also the capital of the Federal Capital Territory ( it´s an other form of a state.

One part of the city has five districts and they are: Asokoro, Central, Garki, Maitama and Wuse.

The districts Asokoro and Maitama are really distinguished and there are a lot of noble, rich families. The other part of Abuja is designed with the districts: Dakibiyu, Durumi, Dutse, Gudu, Jabi, Jahi, Katampe, Kaura, Kukwaba, Mabushi, Utako, Wuye and Yado.

Some ring roads surround the districts and are in contact with the airport.

Before the year 1991 Lagos was the capital of Nigeria but then politicians wanted to build a new modern capital for getting more money and more tourists and a city was born that doesn´t seem to belong to the rest of Nigeria, Abuja. Some planned pedestrian routes are today´s empty area and slums changed into residential area. Poor people had to go and rich people found new villas. The world is unfair.

http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/africa/9807/07/abiola/map.nigeria.abuja.jpg

http://hydrogencommerce.com/images/nigeria_slum.jpg

Wellington

Wellington is the capital of New Zealand. There are 448.956 inhabitants. New Zealand is separated in the north Island and south Island. Wellington is located at the south of the North Island. Because of the location it is often extremely windy and therefore the capital is called “Windy Wellington “. Besides Wellington is known for the extremely danger of earthquakes. Around the capital you find different landscapes. In the south there are areas, that are covered with knows. In the north you see long beaches with white sand. In the east you find areas, where wine grapes are grown and in the west there are the mountains. In Wellington you have got more sunny days than in other cities and the amount of rain is less than in several other cities like Auckland and Sydney. The highest temperature in summer is on the average 20.6°. Winter months are from May to August.

Lake Chad

The Lake Chad was a big sea in Africa because he shranks as much as 95% of his size from 1963 to 1998. He is on the edge of the Sahara Desert between Chad, Cameroon, Niger and Nigeria.

Lake Chad gave its name to the country of Chad. The name Chad is a local word meaning "large expanse of water," in other words, a lake.
There are about 179 fish species in the whole Lake Chad but they are divided into the Niger River, the Nile River and the Congo River. And so the Lake Chad it selfs only holds 85 fish species.
In 4000 BC he was 400,00km² big but in 1960 he covered only 26,000km² because of the civilization. They needed water from the lake to live and so he shranks until now. Today he is only 1500km² big. The people around the lake don't want to stop this shranking and they don't want to stop fishing , too. So it's very hard for the birds and fishs to live their and the birds may not land their in a few years for wintering.

Victor Agali, Nigeria

Victor Agali is a football pro from Nigeria and
he was born on the 29th december in 1978 in the capital Lagos.
With 17 years he was the top scorer in the 2. liga in Nigeria and in 1996 he transfer to Olympique Marseille, in 1998 to Hansa Rostock and in 2001 to FC Schalke 04. FC Schalke bought him for 5,1 million euros, what was the biggest tranfer for Hansa Rostock
In 2002 he was DFB-Pokal winner with FC Schalke 04 and in 2004 he swichs to OSG Nizza in french.

Then in 2005 Kayseri Erciyesspor , 2006 MKE Ankaragücü and in 2007 back to Hansa Rostock, but he wasn't so good like in 1998. In 2008 he tranfer to Skoda Xanthi, in 2009 Anothosis Famagusta, in 2009 to PAE Levadiakos and now he is by Jiangsu Sainty.

Kilian Kraft

Oleku - A nigerian Band

Oleku Band formed in 2006 from a group of Nigerian musicians that had settled in and around Dublin over the preceding 6 years. Lead by composer/arranger Allen-Taylor Adeniyi, originally from Abeokuta in SW Nigeria the birth place of Fela Kuti, the band plays authentic Afrobeat and Highlife from their Nigerian (Yoruba) roots. Oleku made their debut Irish performance in 2007 at a festival in Cork City and have since graced many stages at festivals around Ireland, including The National Ploughing Championships in Tullamore, and the Festival of World Cultures in Dun Laoghaire on a number of occasions. In 2010 Oleku toured Ireland aided by funding from the Music Network touring awards where they played at festivals in Kinsale, Letterkenny, Dun Laoghaire & Cork as well as venue concerts in Bray, Waterford.

In April 2011 Oleku travelled to Eger in Hungary where they performed at Eger Ethno-Fest to great acclaim, they are now Eger's favourite African Band, were filmed by the local TV station and feted by the press. Around this time they were also being filmed by Ireland's national TV station (RTE) for their news & current affairs programme 'Nationwide' on RTE 1 and to be broadcast in May 2011. Singing lead vocals, mostly in Yoruba, Allen-Taylor also plays the Saxophone & Hammond XB2 organ with backing vocals supplied by his wife Tomilola, Segun Akano and Otolorin 'Oto' Olalaleye the trumpeter. Oleku's rhythm section features Segun Akano on keyboards/percussion with Otto's son Sammy on bass guitar and Felix Oludare on drums. Before moving to Ireland trumpeter 'Oto' featured in Femi Kuti’s band (The Positive Force) based in Lagos.

Originally playing covers of songs by Fela & Femi Kuti all the songs in Oleku's current repertoire are now written and arranged by the Oleku Band. As all the musicians are multi-instrumentalists Oleku Band are able to tour as a smaller than usual Afrobeat band (as small as a 6 piece) thus reducing tour costs Allen Taylor released his 3rd album, the spiritually inspired 'Oba nla' in early 2009, and the new Oleku Album 'Awesome' has just been released.

INSTRUMENTATION:

Tenor/Alto Saxophone, Trumpet, Stick Congas, Bongos, Shekere, Clef, Bass Guitar, Electric Guitar, Hammond XB2 Organ, Korg Trinity, Korg M1, Drum Kit & Vocals



Made by Madelaine & Elena :)

Nigerian civil war by Pascal Stieler

The civil war in Nigeria took over 3 years. The main conflict was between the Biafra, Republic of Benin and Nigeria, Egypt. The conflict was supported by UK, UdSSR, Syrien, Sudan, Tschad, Niger and Saudi-Arabien at the site of Nigeria. The Biafra were supported by Israel, South Africa, Rhodesien, France and Portugal.
The situation was the same as the situation in the Mogadischu conflict. Several Warlords ruled over several urbans and said that they only want peace but in real they wanted more land. Their best arm was hunger. Many people died because they had no food before the supporters came. After the supporters arrieved all people had food but the war continued even with more power.
There was no clear winner of the war but Nigeria ruled the most land and the Biafra were defeated. The Biafra underestimated their enemy.
Today there is still a conflict around the Nigerdelta because the corrupt warlords are getting the whole money from the Oil and the civillians have very little money.

The Biafra war was a sign for all corrupt warlords in Nigeria and today most warlords have given up their fights.

There's a great film about the civil war (this is the trailer in German):

Cooking in Nigeria

The biggest part of nigerian people are working on farms, so it's easy for them to get fresh vegetables, fruits and meat from their own animals. They're planting tomatos, onions, rice, Maniok (special radix), corn,
oranges, pineapple and so on. Lots of the nigerian recipes are based on spicy things like chillis.
Even if there had been a huge problem about colonization, there aren't many influences from other countries, it's pretty traditional.
All the recipes are given from mothers to daughters, it's unusual to write them down.
Some gestronomic specialities are Suya (grilled spits with liver and beef, mostly really spicy - second picture), Kilishi (flavoured and dried meat), Egusi soup (stew with meat, dried fish and melon pits - first picture) and Boli (baked plantains - third picture), as a drink you mostly serve Zobo (dried leaves from a special plant and fruitjuice with water).
Beer and wine are also produced on their own land.
Even if there're nice recipes like that, you have to be careful, for not getting ill, so it's better to eat cooked meal and to drink safe drinks, nothing from your water-tap.



I'll probably prepare something for next monday, either a special nigerian cake or something really nigerian: peanut balls, let's see if someone likes them.

Problems of Nigeria

Nigeria is an African state in the south-west of Africa. It has a large of 923.768 km² (Germany has 357.104 km²) and around 152 million inhabitants. It is independent from Great Britain since 1960, but that doesn't mean that Nigeria hasn't got problems.

Quite the opposite- Nigeria has stronger problems than we have and because of this, I want to show you the biggest problems of Nigeria.

First, POVERTY.

Although Nigeria has huge oil reserves, is the second-biggest oil exporter of Africa and one of the most important supplier of the USA, Nigeria is a poor country for its inhabitants- Just a few schools, streets and no work. Only 50% of kids in the school age visit a school, in special parts of Nigeria there are no schools now.

Second,

CRIMINALITY.
Besides the normal forms of criminality, there are especially three more. There is a lot of kidnapping, either to get money or to reach political demands, there is advance fraud; e.g. a lot of money is promised if you send a special amount of money, but after sending your money, you never hear about again, and at last criminal gangs tap the oil pipelines to get oil and to sell it on the black market. Because of the poverty a lot of inhabitants are in favour of this and do the same. The problem here is especially that it's very dangerous: there are many explosions with sometimes about 100 or 200 dead people (later more!).

Third,

HEALTHY.
If you are old, sick or poor and not a public servant (working for the country like police etc.), you are dependant of your family. There isn't a working healthcare- and pension system. Apart from this, there are epidemics often which have very bad consequences for the undernourished population and there are also a lot of cases of polio because of the inoculation ban (Impfverbot) which is actual in some regions of Nigeria. Another problem is that less than every second inhabitant of Nigeria has access to clean drinking-water.

Forth,

LOTS OF ETHNIC GROUPS.
On the first look, a lot of different ethnic groups together is great. But unfortunately it doesn't work: Some groups struggle for politic or economic power.

While my surfing and searching I came to the conclusion that one really really bad thing is that the big oil corporations like Shell exploit the Nigerian people in an inhuman way, so the Nigerian don't profit from their own ressources. I read about the big differences between city and land (in city big wealth, on land poverty) and the desperate people whose only way is it sometimes to get criminal. Apart from this their are not a few accidents at the oil pipelines or the oil refineries, often people die because of this accidents (it seem to be around 3000 the last years). The environment is affected, too.

At last I want to give you a convincing photo:

Pictures from:

http://www.welt-blick.de/landkarte/nigeria.html (card)

http://www.missio.de/de/jugend-und-schule/jugend-1/jugendaktion-2/jugendaktion2009/nigeria/interviews/ (woman in a 'house')

http://www.amnesty.ch/de/laender/afrika/nigeria/dok/2011/klage-shell-oelverschmutzung (shell man in front of an oil polluted place + oil polluted river)

The Super Eagles (Nigerian football national team)

The football national team from Nigeria is one of the most famous and successful football teams from Africa. Their biggest success is the reaching of the last 16 in the football world cup 1994 and 1998 and the victory of the Africa-Cup. In 1996 they were Olympic champions.
Football has a long tradition in Nigeria, even 1949 Nigeria has the first match against Sierra Leone. In the '70s there were more football clubs just in Lagos, the biggest city in Nigeria, than in whole East Africa.
The first official FIFA-match was 1960 against Ghana, they lost 1:4.
The colours of the team are green and white, their sponsor is adidas. Their highest victory was 8:1 against Uganda, their highest defeat was 7:0 against Ghana.
On the 1. march 2007 the German trainer Berti Vogts took the team over. His assistant was Thomas Häßler, Vogts was the 4th german trainer of the Nigerian football national team. In 2008, he was dismissed.
© Maurizio

Human rights

Human rights and their importance in the population: Information from Amnesty International, one of the most biggest human rights organziations worldwide

1. How does the people deal with human rights?


The situation in Nigeria is very bad. A lot of people suffer under this brutal condition and can't find a way out of this hell. In the prisons, there are too many people who were mistreated by the officers and should have to sleep in small rooms with a lot of other inmates.
The hygiene is a big catastrophe and a lot of the people in the prisons are taken ill with tuberculosis and HIV. But instead of these horrible circumstances, the people don't get any medecine help. That raises up the mortality rate and no one of the prison officers tries to change the situation. Quite the opposite; they mistreat and torture them to wring some informations out of them.


2. How many people were killed by the government and the soldiers?

For Nigeria, it's still normal to kill criminal people. The executions didn't decrease in the last years. Since 1983, the official number of killing acts amounts to 1200 people. In 1977, it reduces itself on 33 people. 43 people are condemned to death. 800 people sat in prisons in the very same year.


3. What happends with the kids?

3.1. Are they killed, too?

In the northern part of Nigeria, there are a lot of muslims. Their belief and their rights allows them to kill criminal underage kids. This islamic right is known as "Sharia".
One of the victims were Chidiebere Onuoha. In 1997, he was 17 years old and was killed by soldiers in front of a lot of people who wanted to escort the killing act.
But the UN can't accept these rituals and agree a treat with Nigeria, which stops the murder of somebody.

3.2. What should they have to do in the population and how does the people handle with them ?

The life of the kids is very sad and is informed by violence, poverty, illness and a lot of hard work. Nearly 13 % underage persons in the age of 14 in Nigeria have to work under bad circumstances. The armed forces use a big group of the working kids to train them and send them into foreign countrys for defending Nigeria.
But also the life of the girls seems horrible. The girls are mistreated by soldiers and officers and get big and terrible wounds of the sexual violence, which don't heal for the rest of their life. Because of this extrem rape, a lot of kids contract with AIDS.



4. What happends with homosexual people?

In Nigeria, the homosexual people are persecuted by the officers and the government. Their law, the "sharia" rights allows them kill people, who love the same gender. In 12 federal states in North Nigeria, they introduce this law and kill them by stoning the people. Some of them were killed, some of the have to go into prison for the rest of their life.
The law with the title "The Prohibition of Relationships Between Persons of the Same Sex, Celebration of Marriage by Them, and for Other Matters Connected Therewith" represent what the government think about homosexual people. This law violates the condition of Nigeria and every agreement of national human rights organization like the UN. Some campaigns in Nigeria which defends these rights have to go into prison for five years.


5. How does Nigeria handle with the women?

150 years ago, the women were under the hand of the Islamic religion and they tried to life with the law of the islam. The women only teached themself and tried to help other women by passing on their knowledge to other female persons.
But today, everything changed and the woman in in Nigeria stand up for human rights and stop the oppression against them. There are a lot of associations which help these people by defending their rights.

NIGERIA

This week's topic is Nigeria...

Hello students of the "English in the internet"-class,

how I've told you, I'm not at school on Monday. So I want to give you some ideas for possible topics online. As every week, you've time till Saturday for peparing your entries... Have a nice week!

Possible topics:

- Conflict between Christians and Muslims in Nigeria

- Oil industry in Nigeria

- Lagos: The largest city

- Nigerian football national team: The black eagles

- Abuja: The capital

- Human rights in Nigeria

- Environmental problems

- Ethnic groups (more than 250 ethniticies)

- Crime in Nigeria

- Agriculture

- Ibrahim Babangida

- Goodluck Jonathan (Nigeria's president)

- Colonial history of Nigeria

- Lake Chad

- Nigerian Pidgin English

- Nigerian cuisine
- etc.

Of course you can also choose other topics which are related to this country! Greetings to Mr. Bach! :-)
By the way, I couldn't read your entries about New Zealand... But I will do that when I've a bit more time...



Agriculture and economy in New Zealand

I want to deal with agriculutre and economy in new Zealand because it´s a great job to clue up my classmates about that, what farmers grow up in the country where the ozone is very thin.

Every country has its own things that are abundant for exporting and of course natural goods like coal or iron ore. New Zealand has not much mineral resources, but the island exports a lot of lamb, beef and pork. Wool and milk-products are also exported while petroleum, plastics and machinery have to be imported.

Main customer-countries of goods from New Zealand are China, USA, Europe, Japan and Australia. Agriculture is very important for the island and it´s with 8% part of the gross domestic product. The fields are mostly sown with maize, wheat and barley. Some prople also have kiwi plantations and you associate that fact with the bird "KIWI".

Ca. 2 million tourists travel to New Zealnd every year and the main reason of that is mainly the various landscapes. Some people say that every tenth person in N.Z. works for the tourism and it´s another part of the fluently working economy.

The north part of the island is mainly dealing with trade while the south-side is the agriculture-side.

I can´t imagine that people in N.Z. have to import necessary machinery like some robots for automobil-industry but myself don´t know if we in Germany import machinery. I always think that we are a strong country and produce our own machinery but I think I have to check this in the internet.

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Auckland

Auckland has got 1,3 million inhabitants and is the lagest City of New Zealand.
The Countryside of Auchkland is characterized by the 50 Vulcanos the Sea bays and the Parks around the City.A lot of people from other countries live in Auckland, especially Britain and Asia. One of the reasons why people from other countries come to Auckland is because there is a lot of work available there.
Another reason is the Weather in Zew Zealand.So many people want to live in Auckland that it is over populated and they need to make more room for people who would like to live there.Near the city there are a lot of beautiful beaches that are good for swimming, surfing and relaxing.
by angelina

Vulcano Newzealand

Newzealand has 7 volcanos at an area of 268,680 km ²:

Egmont-> became it of mana Iceland to the north island of New Zealand converted

• Ruapehu-> is the highest volcano of the country with 2797 m.
• Taupo-> a gigantic Caldera volcano; it belongs to the few super volcanos of the earth1886 from him went outbreak more strongly
• Tarawera-> many people died
• Ngauruhoe and Tongariro-> lies just besides the Mount Ruapehu in the Tongariro national park
• White Iceland -> the most active volcano the last years
  
  
  

The island archipelago of New Zealand consists one means mostly from over 700 islands and rock isles, anyway when one talks about New Zealand, the two main islands which simply are called north island and the south island.
There are volcanos only on the north island which owe to her existence of the pacific plate.
Most volcanos of the New Zealand north island extend along the 350 km long Taupo-Volcanic zone.Not only the super volcano Taupo lies in her but also confessed volcanos like Ruapehu, Ngauruhoe and White Iceland.
The last great outbreaks took place in 1981 and in 1983. It came to a smaller eruption in July 2000. On this occasion a new crater arose.

Vanessa

Christchurch, big earthquake by Pascal Stieler

On 22 February 2011, Christchurch, New Zealand's second-largest city, was hit by a magnitude 6.3 earthquake.
While parts of the city have been badly affected, the city as a whole continues to operate. Local business people have responded innovatively and created thriving entertainment, education and business hubs on the outskirts of the Central City.
Temporary repairs have been put in place ahead of a major rebuild of the city's wastewater networks and roads.
In spite of the earthquake, Christchurch is still the gateway to the South Island, and the home of new opportunities. A friend of mine just reported me about the big earthquake in Christchurch. His name is Martin and he lives in a village not far away from Christchurch. He said that the earthquake destroyed many houses in Christchurch. Also the economy took much damgage because several factories were destroyed.

After all Christchurch is also important for New Zealand's economy because many companies have their main building there and many important banks are in Christchurch.

Christchurch is a wonderfull and big city but the earthquake destroyed many parts of Christchurch. But Christchurch will rebuild itself and it will become as wonderfull as it was before the earthquake.

Rugby in New Zealand

Rugby is a sort of football and has an influence of American Football, Canadian Football and Austrailian Football.

Rugby arose in the city Rugby and this sort of football established as a separate sort of football.
One of the first games that were played was the game between Scottland and England, which was the first international cap, in 1871.
Rugby is very popular in countries like New Zealand, Austrailia and England.
From 1900 to 1924 Rugby was a event of the Olympic Games and today there are many sorts of rugby.

Rules

The target is to bring the ball over the rival by run with the ball or kick it, so you can make points. And you can't pass the ball to a team mate who stands in front of you. To hinder the rival to make points you can tackle him. There are muich more rules, but I won't tell them all. :)

Rugby in New Zealand

The most rugbyplayers in New Zealand where from normal worker families and not rich. In Ireland, France and Scottland was rugby very popular too and the players were also mining wokers.



That is the popular Haka dance from the team All Blacks

Kilian Kraft