News 3-

"Toyota asks for credit"

Why? Because of the crisis they cant afford to do that inversion.

When? 03/03/09.

Where? In japan.

Who? Toyota .

What? They are searching for a loan to help its car finnancial unit.

Back in japan toyota is looking for a loaned money to get his car financialing the bad thing about this is that toyota makes all the selling in the united states and if they dont get the aproval they wont be albe to sll and they will go to a crisis.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7920379.stm2

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Based on the article below answer the following questions.

1. Who is Robert Mugabe? How long has he been in power? How popular is he?

Robert Mugabe is the President of Zimbabwe. He has held power as the head of government since 1980, as Prime Minister from 1980 to 1987, and as the first executive head of state since 1987.

2. Who is Morgan Tsvangirai? Whicgh is/ has been his political role?

He is the Prime Minister of Zimbabwe.And a key figure in the opposition to President Robert Mugabe. He lost the elcetions in in 2002 presidential election, losing to Mugabe .Mr Mugabe at first refused, but in the end agreed to have one minister from each side.

3. What happened during last year's elections? Which was the outcome?

Mr Tsvangirai becomes prime minister and heads a new council of ministers, while Mr Mugabe continues to chair cabinet meetings. Mr Mugabe at first refused, but in the end agreed to have one minister from each side.

4. Whis is the economic situation in Zimbabwe? How do the people feel about this?

They feel very bad because they have a infection a cholera outbreak and they need to spend money in zimbabwe. also they have food shortages, and spiraling hyperinflation. the cholera outbrake is chained with a crisis and the have the world s highest inflation rate.

5. What do you think about the celebrations and the lavish party?

i think they are doing stupid things because they are spending a lot of money in a party when the country needs money and start to prevent the cholera crisis, and the people are argumenting that it is only one more year and they cant spend that amonunt of money in that.

I think that they had gone overboard doing that party because like the article says we need to improve zimbabwe s crisis spending money to kill the virus or get medicines . not doing a party

Based only on the article below, define a conflict.

a) Give the conflict a name and explain why you think it is a conflict.

i think that two people are figthing dicretely and the people are suffering the damages, and political figths.becouse conflict is a struggle between 2 or more opposite forces.

b) Who is involved and why?

The president Mugabe and Morgan Tsvangirai and the peolple of zimbabwe and the partys.

c) Explain in detail why the conflict has happened.

the party that is in power is spending money in personal affairs , like the birthday instead of fighting the cholera and the food shortage like i comented before.

d) Give a timeline of events (at least 5) related to the conflict.

Aug 2008: cholera break

Feb 2009: Robert Mugabe spent $250 000 USD in his personal birthday party.

Feb 2009: Mugabe's 85th birthday(non relevance for the people)

Feb 2009: Tsvangirai visits a hospital and says it needs 30,000 dollars to keep operating.

Feb 2009: Mugabe is opressed by the people.

e) How do you think this conflict can be solved and why?

i think that they shoulkd talk about their problems and solve thme because they are playing battlefield and the people is suffering because of their problems ,and later on that they solve everything they should invest in the cholera.

Pakistan A Nation Divided

Which is its location,What countries does it border with?

Pakistan is ubicated in East Asia. It borders are India, China, Iran.

What does the geography say about the country?

the climate is very rare sometimes you have very heat days or you have very cold days is very rocky and has a lot of peaks.

What is the dominant religion? Which other exist?

The religion is Islam while there is also Hindu, Christian, Parsi, Buddhist, and a lot more others.

What are the different ethnic groups?

Sindhi,Punjabi , Baloch,Pashtun Muhajir

Which ones are the main customs and traditions?

i think they respect a lot theyre religions they are like sacred but they have and respect a lot family and grandparents because they know a lot of knowledge they respect them a lot.

How is this his life different from yours?i think not much beacuse they do a lot of things as i do but the religion is the one that exceeds.

Which custom caught your attention?

they are very used to shoot guns in the street

How does his religion affect his way of acting? they need to follow the koran and can and cant do a lot of things.

Fidel Castro News

Who? Castro,Fidel

Where?Cuba
When?21,01,2009
What? The are affirming the health of castro is very deterioried
Why? because he is very old.
"I believe Fidel Castro is finally in his final days of life. In a not too distant future, he will cease to exist"
We can see that fidel s castro life is jeopardized by his age thats why he said he didnt see himself when obama period ends.

Who? Castro,Fidel
Where?Cuba
When?19,2009
What? Fidels Health is very bad nobody has seen his columns in the news.
Why? because he is sick or maybe dead.

He is very old he has 82 years and they havent heard from him in a lot of time the last time he published a colummn was december 15.

Activity #2

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-U.K

8. Ban Ki Moon-South 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-USA

18. Dalai Lama-China

19. Pratibha Patil-India

20. Thein Sein-Birmania

21. Robert Mugabe-Zimbawe

22. Hamid Karzai-Afghanistan

23. Raul Castro-Cuba

24. Mohamed Osni Murbarak-Egypt

25. Dmitry Medvedev-Russian

26. Cristina Fernández de Kirchner-Argentina

27. Abhisit Vejjajiva-Thailand

28. Ignacio Lula da Silva-Brazil

29. Angela Merkel-Alemania

30. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad-Israel

31. Asif Ali Zardari-Pakistan

The War between Israel and Gaza

The War between Israel and Gaza

1. Where is Israel? Locate it on a map?

2. Why was Israel created?

When the World War I finished the britishis were put on a task tu relocate the plalestinians, wich is now israel, the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and Jordan.Israel was created in 1948 after

a lot of fighting.

3. Where are the Palestinian Territories? Locate on a map.

1- What is happening in Israel and Gaza?

they are fighting for territories.

2- How many Palestinians have died and how many Israelis?

According to the Palestinian Center for Human Rights, 4,336 Gazans were wounded and 1,284 and 21 palestinians.

4- What was the U.S. response to the attacks?

U.s is supporting israel beacause it is his allied.

5- What happened when Israel was declared a state in 1948?

Arabs started atacking.

6- What did Israel agree in the Oslo accords?

to form one
wing of an emerging Palestinian state, along with the West Bank and a potential land corridor between them.

7- How did Hamas come to power in Gaza?

He won the elections.

The New Meaning of an Old Battle

a) To the consecutive batlle between those two countries since they were founded

b) to kill the power of HAMAS territories

c) How would a clear Israeli victory affect the region?
they would declare war beacuse they saw what happened

d) An international could clear the way for a restoration of political control in Gaza.

e) Because it sponsors Hamas and Hezbollah to spread its influence in the Arab world. A defeat of Hamas would undercut that strategyc.

f)beacause they have better weapons and everything and a much better army.

i) History suggests that Israel has a lot of probabilities to fail just as it did in lebanon on 1982.
j) they were making palestinian resitance.

k)ISRAEL learned to lower expectations and this time Israel is more prepared.
m) It came before president elect Obama went into power beacause he wasnt supporting war

All the violent reactions and hate will be sent to the past administration and no to Obama's

What is going on in the photograph?

a girl is hugging a teddy bear like seeing it as the last thing she has that it isnt destroyed.

-Who is pictured?

little girl

-What can you learn about how the main subject in the photo is feeling from his or her facial expression?

She is feeling pain.

-What might this person be feeling, given what is going on in the photograph?
to stop war

-What might this person want to say to the "opposite side"?

please stop

News 1

DEAD pirate somli found
Who: Pirate
Where: Mogadiscio,Somalia
When: 11/01/09
Why: His ship drowned
What: a somlï pirate was found dead in a beach ,with 153,000 USD in cash references say that they recieved a ransom of 3 million dollars in exchange of a saudi arabian tanker.