Sunday, May 06, 2007. <http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2007/05/06/2003359695> (Sunday, May 06, 2007, 5:30pm.)

Link to new article: http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2007/05/06/2003359695

What new Information has emerged?

            The new information which has emerged is the Tamil Tigers have struck again with boats. The navy saw a group of boats coming to the coast of Pulmoddai. The group had 10 big boats, 12 small ones and 4 suicide boats. Two sailors had minor injuries.

What did I find interesting about this topic?

            What I found interesting about this topic was everything. The reason I say everything is because I am really interested in aircraft and boat wars. I like aircraft and boat wars because they are different from just a another war with people running at each other and things like that.

What did you like about the initial blog posting?

            I liked how Oscar put the information in bullet points. This made it easier for me to read and it made it look more professional because he is stating the important facts and making it look like he knows exactly what is going on. I liked how at the bottom he said that little note, “All information correct at time of post. Oscar does not stand responsible for any incorrect information.” This made me feel like he knew exactly what he was doing because he read the article, understood it, then put his information straight from that article.

 Citation: AP, COLOMBO. “Sri Lankan Navy Destroys Tamil Tiger boats” Taipei Times.

Sunday, May 06, 2007. <http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2007/05/06/2003359695> (Sunday, May 06, 2007, 5:30pm.)

Link to new article: http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2007/05/06/2003359695

What new Information has emerged?

            The new information which has emerged is the Tamil Tigers have struck again with boats. The navy saw a group of boats coming to the coast of Pulmoddai. The group had 10 big boats, 12 small ones and 4 suicide boats. Two sailors had minor injuries.

What did I find interesting about this topic?

            What I found interesting about this topic was everything. The reason I say everything is because I am really interested in aircraft and boat wars. I like aircraft and boat wars because they are different from just a another war with people running at each other and things like that.

What did you like about the initial blog posting?

            I liked how Oscar put the information in bullet points. This made it easier for me to read and it made it look more professional because he is stating the important facts and making it look like he knows exactly what is going on. I liked how at the bottom he said that little note, “All information correct at time of post. Oscar does not stand responsible for any incorrect information.” This made me feel like he knew exactly what he was doing because he read the article, understood it, then put his information straight from that article.

picture of event

 http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41148000/jpg/_41148904_tamilrebels3_203crap.jpghttp://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41148000/jpg/_41148904_tamilrebels3_203crap.jpg

 Map

http://www.tamilnet.com/img/publish/2002/06/map_pulmoddai.gifhttp://www.tamilnet.com/img/publish/2002/06/map_pulmoddai.gif

If I could do this assignment again, the thing I would change is nothing really. I like how the wiki turned out. The tiniest thing I would change is making sure I made goals for when I am going to have a certain task finished, this will make me not so stressed. I am pretty happy because Ankita was able to join in our group when Mei Huii changed blocks.

I think that group E ‘s wikispace was done well because I really liked the music they played on their movie, I also like how the people who were reading the information spoke very clearly. The thing I liked most and kept my attention was the changing and colourful pictures and writing in the movie.  That is a presentation that caught my eye a lot.

At the start of the year I didn’t know very much about the ancient civilizations Africa, I only knew what I had learnt in 5th grade. After doing this project on wiki, I have learnt so much about the Kongo Kingdom from all of the research I have done, now I know so much about Ancient Africa! This my knowledge comes what food they had available, what they did in their everyday life, where they were located, how they lived together, what clothing they wore and many more exiting things.

2. Did you find this difficult or easy? Why?

In this project I did have my easy points which were adding pictures and making the webpage look abit better. What I found extremely difficult about this project was researching and finding the information that I needed for this project. I got so annoyed because they would keep on giving me web pages that I didn’t need, so I would press the –thing and then the word and it would still show the same results. (1000000000000000000 results found in 0.1 seconds.) The Boolean operators did help me a bit. I did enjoy the project when all I had to do was add some pictures.

3. What would you change about the process you went through to complete the wiki if you were to do the assignment again?

Even though I did get my work finished on-time I think the project would’ve been easier if I had done a little bit of research on the holiday even though I didn’t have a computer. I really enjoyed doing the last touch-ups of the wiki because it wasn’t hard.

This project was pretty fun!

Author: not specified

Title of Article: “Fiji military chief stages coup”

Website Title: BBC

Date Published: Tuesday, December 5, 2006

Website Address: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6208758.stm

Date you looked at this site: 17 December, 2006
Picture of the event:

Map of Fiji.

1. Some new information I have found on this topic is troops were not ordered to go and coup. Meanwhile Prime Minister Qarase told Reuters news agency: “The deadline has now passed. I have been informed that the new deadline is Monday midday.” However, there has been no word from Commander Bainimarama on a new deadline.

2. What I found really interesting about this topic was finding out what a coup. I have never heard of this word until now. What I also found interesting was a commander is going against the Prime Minister, that truly is interesting to me.

3.What I liked about the initial blog posting was how Joe clearly spread out the citation of the news article, this made it a lot easier for me to see where he got his information from. I also really liked his picture, it clearly shows that they are against each other because it has that line separating them.

Picture of the event:  

Map of the location:

?What Is The Issue?

The issue is a helicopter was making an emergency landing but went into a lake. One of the people in the helicopter died, 3 people are missing and 12 passengers survived the landing.  

?Who Is Involved?

The people that are involved in this accident are all of the people who were in that helicopter when it made it’s emergency landing.

?Who Is Affected and How?

The people that are affected are the people who were in the helicopter, close relatives to the people in the helicopter and U.S people because now they are scared that more helicopters will have to make emergency landings.

?What Would you do if you were directly involved?

I think the best solution to solving this problem is to make sure before a helicopter takes off that there are no technical problems with the helicopter and make sure it is armored if it is going into a war field. Peoples lives are impacted because some people lost ones they loved very much. They will feel not good at all. They will also miss those people who died very much.

Citation:

Associated Press. “U.S. chopper ditches in Iraq lake; 3 missing, 1 dead.” http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/12/04/iraq.main/index.html. December 4, 2006. <http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/12/04/iraq.main/index.html>(December 4, 2006).

Here is what I learned from the presentations:

The Kingdom of Gold

Indegious Religion

The people in Ghana worship their ancestors and only believe in one major god. They believed that if they treated their gods well, there would be not many disasters (natural disasters).

Sources of Ghana’s Strength

Ghana was a very strong country because of the tax and iron. The King was really good. Everyone was treated equal. The country overall was well run because of the King.

Trans-Sahara saving

Ghana was a safe place because there were a lot of military and soldiers. You couldn’t avoid paying tax because of the soldiers. If people couldn’t afford to pay money as tax, they could give food instead.

Islam

Islams were very religious people. They built a lot of mosques. The Islams were kept away from Ghana so Ghana wouldn’t become Islam and Islam wouldn’t become Ghana.

The Kingdom of Mansa Musa

Mali at it’s Height

Mali was remained powerful for almost about 200 years. Mali’s empire was twice the size of Ghana’s empire

Mansa Musa’s Pilgrimage

Mansa Musa’s Pilgrimage was bigger than the others. 500 slaves carried a bar of gold that weighed about 4 pounds. The gold was from Mansa Musa, he was a very generous man

Impact of Pilgrimage

Europeans put Mali on the map because of such great wealth Mali had. Prices went up because people were more rich in Mali now.

The fight

The fight of control was at Kirina. The fight was really bad. Both leaders used magic on the battlefield.

How the Songhai Empire grew to Greatness

Songhai Gains Independence from Mali

In the 15th century (1400’s), a person called Sunni Ali Ber helped gain independence from Mali.

The Empire under Askia Muhammad

Askia raised power and complete control and stated Islam as the state religion.

Songhai Empire at its Height

Songhai’s empire grew to be larger than Mali and Ghana’s empires combined! This was because of the Union that brought the two empires together. Songhai’s empire grew from fishermen and farmer (ancestors). Songhai was the last of the largest trading empires in Western Africa

What happened to Sunni Ali?

Sunni Ali had died but his son was still alive at that time. The people who didn’t like Sunni Ali’s son’s policies, they turned against him. So then Askia Muhammad ruled the country and ruled other countries also and thats the second reason why the empire became so big.

Conquest of Songhai by Morocco

At 1580 a morracon man wanted to conquer Songhai. He made a very expensive army with high classed shields, armour, and very good weapons. He wanted to also get the salt and gold resources. He sent out musketeers to see the salt and gold mines. When they went it was deserted. So they went to Gau (the major city in Songhai) to conquer Songhai. Songhai surrendered to Morocco for an offer to pay tribute to slaves. The Morrocan rulers remained in Songhai.

Country Name: Albania

Type Of Government: Emerging Democracy

Political Leader: Annex Kosovo

Population: 3,581,655

Age Structure: 0-14 years: 24.8% (male 464,954/female 423,003)
15-64 years: 66.3% (male 1,214,942/female 1,158,562)
65 years and over: 8.9% (male 148,028/female 172,166)

Ethnic Groups: Albanian 95%, Greek 3%, other 2% (Vlach, Roma (Gypsy), Serb, Macedonian, Bulgarian) (1989 est.)
note: in 1989, other estimates of the Greek population ranged from 1% (official Albanian statistics) to 12% (from a Greek organization)

Religions: Muslim 70%, Albanian Orthodox 20%, Roman Catholic 10%

Languages: Albanian (official - derived from Tosk dialect), Greek, Vlach, Romani, Slavic dialects

Literacy Rates: age 9 and over can read and write
total population: 86.5%
male: 93.3%
female: 79.5%

Fertillity Rates: 2.03 Children per Woman

Life Expectancy: total population: 77.43 years
male: 74.78 years
female: 80.34 years

Infant Mortality Rates: 20.75/1000 live births

Step 3.

After the nation of Albania had been created, they have various problems, their Infant Mortality Rate is towering, their fertility rate is low and their debt total is up to a sum of about $45million. First of all, Albania’s Infant Mortality rate is relatively high. The exact rate is 20.75/1000 live births. This means that they are the 110^th country on the chart for Infant Mortality rate. That is just above average. It is not sufficient enough to be in that position because this means that countless children are dying. One way that they can fix this devastating problem is by trying to prevent the natural disasters that they face such as destructive earthquakes, tsunamis, floods and droughts. The next problem that Albania faces is their fertility rate is shockingly low. Their fertility rate is 2.03 babies are born per woman giving birth. Definition Fertility rate: How many babies are born per woman in 1000 women. In the country chart that shows the ranking from top to bottom of fertility rate, the top being the worst and the bottom being the best, Albania is a lot higher than average, they are ranked 106 in the world and the average rank is 133, this means that women don’t give birth to children frequently. A way that they can fix this is by telling people that they should get married, this should be presented in the newspaper. Finally, Albania’s last problem that is listed is their debt. They owe $45million. Most people do not make this much money in a year combined in Albania so how can they in such debt? I believe they should really try to find a way to pay back at least half of that money in a couple years time. If they can’t find a way to pay back their enormous debt then Albania will start owing so much money that they will never be able to get rid of it . Debt rate Definition: The amount of money that someone or a group/community of people owe. All in all Albania does truly have some challenges and will continue to confront difficulties in the future. Some of them can be changed really quickly but they just don’t put the time and effort into it. Hopefully in a couple years they will have solved most of the challenges that they face today.

Economy: GDP Per Capita: $4,900

% Living Under Poverty Line: 25%

% Internet Users: 2.1%

% Cell Phone Users: 30%

What I learned From this Task:

From  this task  I  learned  that google earth isn’t just about looking at places around the world but for putting information on it about that country. I learned that google earth is a very good source to use as a globe if your globe at home isn’t available. I learnt how to use html which is a very good skill to use when making a website sometimes. I found this task medium difficulty because the html was hard to remember and finding the information and calculating the % of cell phone users etc.. on cia.com was pretty difficult. I would like to learn how to find a country on google earth and make it so that it isn’t a fuzzy view from the satellite. I am thinking about starting up a country information chart on google earth. It will go on every country.