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Wednesday, November 19, 2008

West africa today

West africa has a very vast range of countries. Some have very strong economies/political parties, but some others have very poor and corrupt economies/political parties. For example Nigeria has a very strong economy and a population of over 130 million people, they also have a pretty strong going political party. But Sierra Leon has a very poor economy and a corrupt political party mainly because they have been in a civil war for years, thus messing up the country. Although some countries have rich economies and political parties and some dont, almost all economies in West Africa have an oil based economy.

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

West africa current event

This west african news story from Nigeria is mainly about "slave" trafficking infants and kids. About how they did/how its done, and how the police caught them. Also, some stories about the captured people by the group.
This artical is important mainly because it raises awarness about the terrible child trafficking that is going on is Nigeria, and just to tell people that this is happening in africa. Also to inform people that this has been stopped mostly in Nigeria.

Monday, November 17, 2008

West Africa history

West Africa has a very diverse culture, religion, people, language, clothing, family and way of building homes. For example in west africa the religions vary from Anism to Christianity and Islam. Also, there cultures reflect influences like from traditional African, European, culture and Islamic. Clothing families and homes, because of influence such as religion and climate. People and language, because it depends on what type of ethnic group your in (Hausa, fauni, yoruba, and Igbo).
Europeans had a big effect on west africa by colonizing and politically re-layed out the region of Africa, the west africans were not happy about this.

Saturday, November 15, 2008

The Scramble Of Africa

My group tried to take over the places that had natural resources such as rivers, and also places other groups wanted so they would trade us for better land that we wanted. I think we won, because we did all the things that were are tasks on our card and claimed almost the most land on the map. I think spain lost, mainly because they had a big disadvantage of only rolling three dice, and out of these dice two fell of the table. Also, they didn't take over that much land,

Thursday, November 13, 2008

West Africa 2

This news story from Ghana (west africa), is about hundreds of moslim and christian women have gone on a proccession trying to get a peaceful electon on december first. They want a peaceful election so their children can have a good life and so someone can get into office peacfully.
This story about west africa in ghana is very important, because it shows that lots of people want a peaceful election in ghana, and it show that the people are concerned about it. Also, it informs the reader that people want a peaceful election, but most importantly the election is coming up soon.

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

west africa paragraph

I think this news story is definately news worthy especially for soccer lovers. this news story is important, because soccer is the national sport of most of west Africa, and Samuel Eto'o is one of the best players from west Africa. Also this is news worthy, because it informs who one the game and who scored. As you can see, this news story is very important.

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

south west africa

West Africa has a pretty important physical geography. it consists of two main physical features, the Niger River and many plains and high lands. West Africa has very distinct climate and vegetation zones. They vary from arid in the north to tropical in the south. Also, west Africa has great minerals and natural resources which may one day help the economies in the region.

Monday, November 10, 2008

to be a slave

I would believe that this book, "to be a slave" is trust worthy because it has excerpts from former slaves. Also, the author was really into the civil rights movement, so he must have lots of relevant facts. Finally the book has been published, publishers would not publish a book that had incorrect information.

west africa news

Samuel Eto'o a Cameroonian player for Barcelona, scored an amazing four goals in a game against Valladolid on Saturday night (November 8) . The striker scored all of these goals before the half time break and left the field to a standing ovation. He told reporters: "I did my job, which is to push the ball in. The team played fantastically." He was awardeed the team ball after the game.

Friday, November 7, 2008

MR HELP

- this picture uses movement, because the people probably came to this temple from somewhere else.
- region, because it represents Indias physical characteristics.
- human/ environment, because the stone had to be moved from somewhere else
- location, because its relatively located in south india
- place, because not very many places look like this and its over 1,000 years old

Sunday, November 2, 2008

does violence turn to more violence

I would say most of the time violence turns to more violence. For example, after Julius Caesar gets killed a civil war starts. As you can see a simple killing of one man could resort in a war where thousand of men die. I also think that violence could turn to peace. For example in world war 2 by defeating Hitler, most of Europe was at peace.