viernes, 30 de enero de 2009

Activity 2: Pakistan a Nation Divided

Which is its location? What countries does it border with? Pakistan is located in south asia between Afghanistan, Iran, India, and china.

What does the geography say about the country? Pakistan is a country with a lot of different landscapes like deserts in the south and mountains in the north(the himalayas)

What is the dominant religion? Which other exist? The dominant religion is the islamism but there are some other religions like Buddhism, Hinduism, Catholicism, Judaism, and others.

What are the different ethnic groups? Punjabi, Pashto, Sindhi, Seraiki, Urdu, Balochi

Which ones are the main customs and traditions? In pakistan are a lot of different traditions because the variety of groups and religions, and each one have his own traditions like the Muslims have to pray every day in an specific hour no matter where they are.

How is this his life different from yours? They life in a country that has been in war for a long time, their traditions, the religion, the activities  they realized like go to a mosque.
Which custom caught your attention? They can't eat pork 
How does his religion affect his way of acting? The religion affects them in what they believe like what is good and what is evil, like some hindus think that cows are sacred animals.


martes, 20 de enero de 2009

World Politicians


1. Silvio Berlusconi - Italy
2. Michelle Bachelete - Chile
3. Hillary Clinton - USA
4. Hu Jintao - China
5. Álvaro Uribe - Colombia
6. Ehud Olmert - Israel
7. Gordon Brown - UK
8. Ban Ki Moon - Korea
9. Nocolas Sarkozy - France
10. George Bush - USA
11. Vladimir Putin - Russia
12. Fidel Castro - Cuba
13. Mahmoud Abbas - Palestine
14. Taro Asso - Japan
15. José Luis Zapatero - Spain
16. Kim Jong Il- North Korea 
17. Barack Obama- United states
18. Dalai Lama - India
19. Pratibha Patil - India
20. Thein Sein - Myanmar 
21. Robert Mugabe - Zimbabwe 
22. Hamid Karzai - Afghanistan 
23. Raul Castro - Cuba
24. Mohamed Osni Murbarak - Egypt
25. Dmitry Medvedev - Russia
26. Cristina Fernández de Kirchner - Argentina 
27. Abhisit Vejjajiva - Thailand
28. Ignacio Lula da Silva - Brazil
29. Angela Merkel - Germany
30. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad - Iran
31. Asif Ali Zardari - Pakistan


lunes, 12 de enero de 2009

The war between Israel and Gaza


3º Israel is divided in two territories
in Arab state(Palestinians territory) and Jew state.




1º Israel is located in the middle east between Egypt,Jordan, and Lebanon .

2º In 1948 the UN decide to create the state of Israel because in this territory where living huge population of Jews, thats why the UN decide to give the territory to the Jew population.


1º There's a conflict between the different cultures of the nation the Hamas (Palestinian terrorists) , and Jews the conflict began when the Hamas attack the Jew territory and they response the attack invading Gaza in the Palestinian territory.

2º  Its estimated that 900 Palestinians and 20 Israelis had been killed in Gaza

3º Hamas is a terrorist group

4º The USA invade Palestine

5º The Palestinians where in disagree so they attack

6º They agree peace, the creation of a Palestinian  authority responsible of the administration, they called for withdrawal of the Israel Defense Forces

a- To the old battle between Palestinians and Jews since the creation of Israel
b-Eliminate the Hamas 
c- It would affect the palestinians and the Islamic causing conflicts with the countries around them.
d- It could help the USA in his restoration 
e- Because of the war between USA and Irak
f- The attacks of Israel could not be successful. 
g-Egypt, Gaza, Lebanon
g-

domingo, 11 de enero de 2009

New 1

The UN agree a ceasefire in gaza

 

who     CNN News

where  Israel

when   January 6

why     The conflict in Gaza

what    the Un agreed to a cease-fire to allow the entry of humanitarian aid in Gaza