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.