Monday, November 15, 2010

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Top Richest Countries in Africa Country GDP per capita
1.
Equatorial Guinea
$30,200
2.
Botswana
$15,800
3.
Gabon
$14,900
4.
Libya
$14,900
5.
Mauritius
$12,400
6.
South Africa
$10,400
7.
Angola
$9,100
8.
Tunisia
$8,000
9.
Algeria
$7,100
10.
Egypt
$5,500
11.
Namibia
$5,500
12.
Swaziland
$5,100
13.
Cape Verde
$4,200
14.
Morocco
$4,000
15.
Congo, Republic of the
$3,800
16.
Djibouti
$3,800
17.
Cameroon
$2,400
18.
Nigeria
$2,200
19.
Sudan
$2,200
20.
Mauritania
$1,900
21.
Kenya
$1,800
22.
Senegal
$1,800
23.
Cote d'Ivoire
$1,700
24.
Chad
$1,600
25.
Lesotho
$1,600
26.
Benin
$1,500
27.
Ghana
$1,500
28.
Zambia
$1,500
29.
Sao Tome and Principe
$1,400
30.
Tanzania
$1,400
31.
Burkina Faso
$1,300
32.
Gambia, The
$1,200
33.
Mali
$1,200
34.
Comoros
$1,100
35.
Guinea
$1,100
36.
Madagascar
$1,100
37.
Uganda
$1,100
38.
Mozambique
$900
39.
Rwanda
$900
40.
Togo
$900
41.
Ethiopia
$800
42.
Malawi
$800
43.
Central African Republic
$700
44.
Eritrea
$700
45.
Niger
$700
46.
Sierra Leone
$700
47.
Guinea-Bissau
$600
48.
Somalia
$600
49.
Liberia
$500
50.
Burundi
$400
51.
Congo, Democratic Republic of the
$300
52.
Zimbabwe
$200

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Teddy afro Interview

Teddy Afro Quote

There is a speech on work but there is no work in Speech unless we work
Don’t call my albums older because I can’t sing while in Jail
Every civilization has its own value accordingly
We don’t have to go American way to be civilized
We are the same like Americans except the cash money
Our growth should assist our culture and history
Even though speech is important, it doesn’t do the job
I would like to accomplish more than I speak
There is character, identity, answer in every job
Like cold affect your immunity, your spiritual problem has consequences in your life
The man’s identity is not only what you see there are invisible things that leads him in his way
Life is not a journey away from spirit
Problem is hard until it ends but the result shapes you for better
Advice and kick is easy for the doer
It is hard to be kind in hard time
Life without meaning is not life
Every body’s life is our life

Thursday, November 4, 2010

American revolution Black women and white women

African Americans and white women were among the most affected people in the Revolutionary War. The Revolutionary War helped African Americans to start fighting for freedom, and gave white women opportunity to demonstrate their ability to manage life without men.
African Americans played a major role in the formation of independence. At the time of the Revolutionary War, there were about 500, 000 black slaves in the colonies. Most black slaves were working in large plantations in Virginia, Maryland, and South Carolina. About 5,000 of them served as soldiers for the Continental Army, and about 20,000 served in the British Army. The English and the Continental Army looked for African Americans to fulfill their demand for more soldiers.
After the War, Quakers viewed slavery as sin and freed most of their slaves however, some Quakers were not willing to fully abolish slavery. Many states began to implement a law that granted civil rights for slaves who were born after July 4th 1776. “The revolution neither ended slavery nor brought equality to free blacks. But it did begin a process by which slavery eventually might have been extinguished” (Boyer Paul, p168). Some slaves got freedom in the North following the War. The slave masters granted them freedom like a prize for their participation in the Revolutionary War. The South didn’t make any change for the sake of its plantations. Some African Americans from the South either joined the British Army or moved to the West Indies to get freedom.
White women’s involvement in American politics started way before the Revolutionary War, and their participation increased during the war. Before the Revolutionary War, White Women participated in the Tea Party Movement. During the revolutionary war Women worked as nurses for the soldiers. They also cooked food and washed clothes for soldiers. Since men left home for the war, women got the opportunity to manage the farms. They showed that they can do more than housekeeping. After the War, Women acquired more property than they had in American history. Some women also joined the combat beside men.
Before the war, people thought women were naturally dependent on their husbands. They didn’t have a voice in a household as a child. Before the Revolutionary War, only few women got elementary education. College for women was unthinkable, but after the war school was founded for only women.
The Revolutionary war played a major role in shaping American politics and social structure. African Americans and White women were among the parts of colonials’ society who were affected by the Revolutionary War. After the Revolutionary War even though black slaves did not get full freedom, they made some progress. White women got better educational opportunities. Women showed their abilities to lead a farming business. Even though gender and race equality did not change right after the Revolutionary War, The War helped African American and White Women to fight for equality.

Pocahontas

The movie Pocahontas was mostly inaccurate. Even though the movie based its plot on the true history of Pocahontas, It wasn’t consistent with the historical documents in its plot and characters. The death of Kocoum while fighting with John Smith, Pocahontas flying from uphill and falling into the water, and the scene of her talking to her grandmother’s spirit that resembled a tree, and the way John Smith got wounded were all fiction.
The movie started when John Smith started his journey from Great Britain. He departed from king of England with a little ceremony hoping to find gold in the new world. On his voyage, due to high water wave, one of the crew members fell into the ocean and John Smith swam and rescued him. His fellow crew members admired his job. While John Smith was on his way to the New World Pocahontas was dreaming in the New World. She dreamed about meeting a new man and talked to her grandmother’s spirit and her grandmother told her to follow her heart and she declined her father’s offer for a husband Kocoum who was one of the great warriors of the Powhatan John Smith arrived in the new world eager to find gold. He met Pocahontas in the New World. He asked her where he could find gold, but she didn't know what is gold. Pocahontas fell in love with John Smith. While Pocahontas was having an affair with John Smith, Kocoum saw her and got jealous. Kocoum fought with John Smith. While he was fighting, One of John Smith’s young crew member shot him with a gun killed him instantly. The natives caught John Smith to kill him. Pocahontas begged her father to release him then he was released. The English army and the natives confronted to fight. The general of the English army shot to kill Pocahontas’s father, but John smith saved his life. The bullet hit John Smith and wounded him. Then he was sent to England.
According to history, John Smith with other fellow sailors traveled to Virginia looking for gold. The purpose of their voyage was clearly seen on the movie. While on voyage the sailors’ conversation was about gold. They joked about getting gold. Even though it wasn’t proved by historians, the story that Pocahontas saved john Smith’s life was recorded in John Smith’s historical journal. This incident was the main story of the movie.
On the other hand, the movie has a lot of inaccuracies compared to historical documents. In the beginning, the movie showed Pocahontas flying and falling into the water like a bird. It is impossible for a human being to fly like a bird.
The movie also showed Pocahontas talking to her grandmother’s spirit that resembled a tree. This story is not accompanied by the historical documents. The movie also showed her having romantic time with John Smith in the beautiful jungle, kissing each other before John Smith was kidnapped. This story was not consistent with the historical document.
At the end, the movie showed the English sailors and the Indian Army comfort to fight and the Natives were about to kill John Smith. Pocahontas saved his life by asking her father to release him. While her father was releasing him, the general of English Army shot to Pocahontas’s father. John Smith rescued him from the gun shot. This incident was not in the historical document. It was a fiction. The movie also showed that John Smith got wound while he was trying to save Pocahontas’s father. This contradict the history that John Smith wounded by explosion while he was in English’s sailors camp.
In history, we have learned that Kocoum died war when he was fighting with other Indian tribes in the new World but the movie showed Kocoum and John Smith fighting because Kocoum got jealous while Pocahontas was having love affair with John Smith. This led John Smith and Kocoum to fight. While they were fighting, the young sailor from England killed Kocoum with gun. This is not in history.
Most of the characters in the movie are wrong. For example the movie showed many times Pocahontas asking advice from a talking tree like spirit named “Grandmother Willow” and Grandmother Willow advising her. This story was not in historical documents.
According to history, Pocahontas was so young. Historians believed she was between the ages of 10-12 years, but the movie showed as she was as old as John smith. This was inaccurate John Smith was way older than her.
Children shouldn’t watch the movie because the movie mostly contradicts the true history. Children should learn accurate history that is written based on primary historical documents. Cartoon movies are the best way to teach history to children. As it is being said since children learn from the past and know what to expect in the future, cartoon movies shouldn’t change history. History should be preserved; therefore Disney shouldn’t arbitrarily change history.

18th Century women and 21st Century women

Martha Ballard's Diary was the most important document to study women’s lifestyle in America in the 18th Century. Besides housework, Martha was an active participant in the community, especially in helping pregnant women. Martha kept a record, her diary, which was uncommon for women in the 18th Century because most women in the 18th Century were uneducated. Martha wrote her diary from 1785 until her death in 1812. From her diary one can see the huge differences between women’s way of life in the 18th Century and now. 18th Century women were abused, obligated to do all housework and farming by themselves, didn’t have the opportunity to attend school, had no participation in politics, and gave birth in traditional unsafe methods.
Women had to do many tasks in the 18th Century. They washed clothes with their hands. Women’s work included both housework and farming. As Martha stated in her diary “a woman’s work is never done.” Women used to do the house work by themselves without help from their husband. On the contrary today’s women usually share house work with their husband. They use machines to do laundry. Women do any kind of job men do.
Now, women’s participation in politics is increasing. Currently, there are 78 women in the US House, and 18 women in the Senate. That is so much progress compared to 18th Century women where women cannot participate in politics in all count.
In the 21st Century, women can give birth much safer than in the 18th Century. In the 18th Century women gave birth at home with cultural remedies. Due to that reason many women died during child birth. Now days, as a result of development in science and technology, there are better medical equipments. Women can be treated well starting their first day of pregnancy until they give birth therefore; women can give birth much safer than in 18th Century in hospital with modern medical equipments. In the 18th Century, women bore many children with little gap without enough time to recover. For example Martha had nine children with two years age gap between five of her children. Giving birth to too many children without complete recovery leads to reproductive diseases and possibly death. Now, with a better education women give birth with enough gaps to recover their body that decrease women and infants death at birth.
When “The Declaration of Independence” is issued by the Continental Congress, Abigail Adams wrote a letter to her husband John to consider women in the constitution for the thirteen colonies. John’s response was no, but today women’s right is included in the constitution.
18th Century writers did not record women’s achievement. Even though Martha Ballard helped women to give birth to over one thousand children, her achievement is not recorded in any historical documents. If her diary was not discovered, we would not know about her. But in the 21st Century there are books about women like biography of Rosa Parks. There are also advice books for women like “Get rid of him “by Joyce Verdal. In the 18th Century women had no right to choose their mate, but now they can choose their loved one freely. In the 18th Century royal families chose men physicians than women even though most child births in 18th Century were done in the hands of female.
In education there is a huge difference between today’s women and 18th Century women in America. Most 18th Century women were uneducated. Few women were literate. Martha was among the few women who were literate. Now days, more women graduate from college than men. According to the newspaper USA Today right now women make up 57% of all college students in Minnesota.
Even though there is a lot different between Martha’s life and women’s life in the 21st Century, There are some similarities. Women in the 21st Century cook food, take care of children, and do most house works like 18th Century women.
Martha Ballard's Diary was the most important document to study women’s lifestyle in America in the 18th Century. Besides house work, women were an active participant in the community. Despite their great accomplishment, historians in 18th Century didn’t keep enough historical records about women. If Martha’s diary was not discovered, it would be hard to learn women’s work in the 18th Century. From the diary one can see the huge difference between women’s way of life in 18th Century and now. 18th Century women were obligated to do all house works and farming without the help of their husband, didn’t have the opportunity to go to school, had no participation in politics, and gave birth in traditional unsafe methods. In past two hundred years women’s rights had changed slowly, but still there is room for improvement. Till this day some men in America are not aware of the equality of men to women, the huge contribution they made in the society and their potential to contribute more if they get equal opportunity.

Monday, January 18, 2010

Tiger wood might slept with your sister

Why Africans are poor while Americans are rich?
If you ask this question to different people, you might get different answers. Although most of the answers are far from each other, there is overlap between the answers. Sometimes you will get the same answers with different explanation.
While Americans are working on providing enough health coverage to their citizens, the Africans are worrying on how to get enough food to eat. While Americans are working in a lab to invent new drugs to prevent aging and over weight, Africans are not able to prevent very curable diseases like malaria. While Americans are saving to buy a car or airplane, Africans can’t afford bikes. While Poor people are trying to survive, rich people are on their way to live the perfect life possible. The gap is as huge as it is. A thousand miles away, but why? What is it really the core cause? As most people say is it colonization? or as some people say it is the way it is? Of course not! I don’t think it is colonization either
Have you asked yourself why Africans didn’t colonize Europe? A two year old know colonization has a great effect for today’s economic inequality between the two continents. As far as I am concerned it is not the root cause.
My high school biology teacher used to say that” Necessity is the mother of invention”
On the 18th Century, there were lots of reasons for Europeans to visit Africa. If some one don’t have a food and get hungry, he will look for it. He will use his mind, and energy to get what he needs. It was the same philosophy that drives European countries to travel to Africa. Most European countries were full of snow. Some countries have snow all the year round while others have seasonal snow. Due to this fact it was hard for Europeans to produce enough foods. This made them to work hard. Hard work changed to curiosity. Curiosity changed to exploration. Exploration resulted discovery, Discoveries followed by colonization.
The Europeans travel along the Mediterranean Sea and cross in to Africa. They were searching something new. They drew maps. Of course the Greeks made the first map! If they didn’t make it, who will? At that time, they are the one who really need it. The built ships since they have to travel over the water.
While they were exploring, they discovered Africa with full of resources they really need and they rarely get in their home land. History suggests they first travel to West Africa. The place called “Gold coast” the present day Ghana was among their targets. Yap! There were gold that is where the word Gold Coast come from. Gold was beyond their expectation. They crossed in to Africa bushes and forests defending the African lions. They created better weapons because they really need it. They told the Africans they came to introduce them modernization. Some African countries tried their best to defend but with no modern weapons it was impossible. Weather you call it stealing or taking the Europeans owned the goldmines found across West Africa. Then they export it to their country with no exchange.
The European powers didn’t end up with the gold. They demanded more. The more you have the more you want. They wanted the people. They loaded them on their ship and took them to USA. They used them as much as they wanted. They put price tag on them and sold them like commodity. That makes the western countries richer. This was one of the causes that results on today’s economic difference based on race. The other name for poor people happens to be black.
However, the root cause is not colonization or slavery. It is the European desire for better life due to luck of resources in their own land that give them the motivation to explore and find new things and use it as they wanted. But in contrary Africans were in their home country chilling. Due to the enormous natural resources they had. They did not have the necessity to explore. They have their own right. Why they needed to work hard since they had every thing in hand. In most part of Africa After you eat orange and throw the seeds any where, it will grow with no effort. The soil is too fertile. So why work? Therefore the Africans focused on exercising new cultures such as dances. That is also a treasure but it doesn’t make you rich in today’s world. It can not be food while hunger.