Uganda-Idi Amin

-spoken language: english, suaheli, suganda

-capital city: Kampala

-president: Yoweri Kaguta Museveni

-Independence Day: 9.oktober 1969

-In the years of 1971-1979 there was the terror regime in Uganda under the control of the current president Idi Amin.

 His tyranny caused the death of about 300.000 people of oppositionel parties and thousands of citizens who were affillated to other tribes.Amin brought the country, which was once called “the pearl of Africa”(by Winston Churchill),

to ruine but many  african presidents saw him only as the big clown who joked about the british empire

although they knew about his crimes and murder.

Uganda never really recovered  from the “economic war” and after Amin was dispossessed by an tansanian army

 he fled to Saudi  Arabia and  lived the rest of his life in harmony with his family.

Colonial times

Since 1840 the country called “Buganda” started to trade slaves and “Elfenbein” with the arabs. This was the time when parts of the country got islamic. To stop the diffusion of the isalm religion the king of Bugand  invited missionarys to his country. At first the work of the missionarys was only bordered to the capitals but after e few time more and more europeans came to Bugand and bigan to abolish the monarch system.

My first ideas of a topic

 My very first idea of the topic for my “Facharbeit” was to write about the terror-regime of Idi Amin in Uganda

and the genocide he practiced to force his ideas.

I think it’s interesting to deal with this theme because Amin brought so much misery to Uganda (his nation)

without being forced in the end or being deprived of his power by other nations.

Also I could imagine to write about the chances of african countries on the global market

and the effect of the (western) globalisation for Africa especially concerning Mali.

But this is a very current topic and I think there could be  some problems with potential sources.

“From poorhouse to powerhouse”

 Reflection:

-ppt

During the work at our power point presentation we spent a lot of time for our design and for choosing the most wise sentences for our transparencies.. But nevertheless I think that there was to much text in the ppt.

Like I already said in class I think that’s the most complicated point concerning a ppt: choosing the most meaningful statements which doesn’t include too many words.

Because this is a little bit difficult to manage (by reason that every single headword is somehow important and otherwise you have to learn to much my heart) I am not a really big friend of power-point-presentations.

Coming to our presentation again I think that the layout was good, the pictures were supporting and I guess that we named all the “different faces” of the globalisation complex which were named in “poorhouse to powerhouse”.

But,  the statements were too detailed.!!

-about me

 I think my biggest mistake was that I misspoke some times and began a little bit to stutter because of my agitation.

Also there could have been some grammatical mistakes in my speech but beside  thatI was satisfied with Paulas and my presentatin.  I think it was easy to understand and to follow and we only chose the most important facts from the “spiegel” article.

Working process:

We started the work at our “Spiegel-India” article with reading it at first and  abolishing the majority of our vocabular questions.     Then we split up the text into some  meaningful categories and collected  appendant statements from the given article.

After we agreed on the message and the context of the text we informed  about different topics named in the India article.

At least we sort out the most nonrelevant facts and created as short as possible headwords for the power-point-pesentation which was made in the end of all our work.

Consistent with our topic we chose a supporting layout-and design for out ppt and achieved the whole process with some demonstrative pictures!

Frank Zappa- Bobby Brown

 

Frank zappa

youtube

Hey there, people, Im bobby brown
They say Im the cutest boy in town
My car is fast, my teeth is shiney
I tell all the girls they can kiss my heinie
Here I am at a famous school
Im dressin sharp n im
Actin cool
I got a cheerleader here wants to help with my paper
Let her do all the work n maybe later Ill rape her

Oh God I am the american dream
I do not think Im too extreme
An Im a handsome sonofabitch
Im gonna get a good job n be real rich

(get a good
Get a good
Get a good
Get a good job)

Womens liberation
Came creepin across the nation
I tell you people I was not ready
When I fucked this dyke by the name of freddie
She made a little speech then,
Aw, she tried to make me say when
She had my balls in a vice, but she left the dick
I guess its still hooked on, but now it shoots too quick

Oh God I am the american dream
But now I smell like vaseline
An Im a miserable sonofabitch
Am I a boy or a lady…i dont know which

(I wonder wonder
Wonder wonder)

So I went out n bought me a leisure suit
I jingle my change, but Im still kinda cute
Got a job doin radio promo
An none of the jocks can even tell Im a homo
Eventually me n a friend
Sorta drifted along into s&m
I can take about an hour on the tower of power
long as I gets a little golden shower

Oh God I am the american dream
With a spindle up my butt till it makes me scream
An Ill do anything to get ahead
I lay awake nights sayin, thank you, fred!
Oh god, oh god, Im so fantastic!
Thanks to freddie, Im a sexual spastic
And my name is bobby brown
Watch me now, Im goin down,
And my name is bobby brown
Watch me now, Im goin down, etc.

Interpretation:

 Frank Zappa wants to express his opinion concerning the american dream, and the americans living it.

In the stanzas he describes the american dream as bad as possible. Sarcastically he describes his almost criminal way of living the american dream.

He shows some other , more negative, sides of the american dream and what consequences it can have like: arrogance and violence.

It seems like although the american dream should be the most desireable way of living, his life is confusing and exaggerated.

 In his eyes the american dream is a myth and impossible to reach.

Reflection

At the beginning when I searched  an article about apples in conjunction with our globalisation theme.                     I tried to choose some examples of apples coming from far away.                                                               

But finally I was very surprised how far is far away.  Very quickly, I found an article on the “stern” site concerning apples comming from Argentinia. Also there was said that the world’s biggest apple deliverer is China. And that’s what I call bizarre.

Countries like Germany for example, where every second household has an apple tree in his backyard (because we have good conditions for growing apples) imports such a native product from China.

When we started the globalisation topic it was quite dubious for me that an apple could be a perfect symbol of such a complex theme like globalisation. When I´m shopping with my parents, I never thought about the source of our delicious  Breaburn apples ( I hope it´s no surreptitious advertising?).

And I think it´s a pity that a lot of people also don´t worry about either.

Globalisation has a lot of negative aspects and not kowing what you buy or eat is one of them. Certainly a lot of people would like to back our German farmers but there should be more help to alert us from where the apples we buy come from.

 

Organic apples from Argentinia

 The organic apple plantation of Luis M.. is one of about five apple plantations in Rio Negro(Agentinia) but the only organic one in contrast with other ecological ones. Because the demand of organic fruits in Argentinia is so low the majority of Luis’ apples are delivered to Europe and the USA.

In Argentinia ecological fruits are favored. Only a few of Luis apples, those  which are damaged and not suitable for the export market, are sold for less money to argentinian, Polish or Russian factories for the production of  juices.The demand of organic fruits in Argentina is such a low one.

Each of Luis apples(of course only the perfect ones) will take part in a 13.000 km journey.They travel from Rio Negro, the little apple producing village, to San Antonio (a small harbour in Argentinia). From San Antonio the go by ship up to Montevideo (the Capital of Uruguay) in which the are reloaded into a container ship. From Montevideo the travel continues to a Brazilian harbour called Paranaguáá and from Paranaguáá it goes up to Europe (Rotterdam).From Rotterdam the apples are transported by trucks to Cologne and then on the direct way to branches like Lidl, Aldi and Edeka!

The 17 days journey of the 3000 containers which are filled with merchandise like e.g. meat, vegetables and Luis´s apples cause 163 gramm CO2 per kilogramme of apples.

So are Luis apples climate killers? Or is organic food beneficial for the whole world?

In contrast to the expulsion of CO2  there are a lot of jobs given on Luis’ plantation. At Luis M.´s plantation he gives 200 places of employment and his workers earn about 20 per cent  more than the average Argentinian workers.

In Germany many consumers are astonished about the masses of fruits which also grow in their region but fruits are delivered from countries like Argentinia.  90 per cent of german customers would prefer products from their own country. The more global and the more impersonally the organic market becomes the more people wish to eat original products from German growers.

Nevertheless foreign workers are are much cheaper than Germans. The export of Argentinian apples tripled during the last 10 years.( About 10.000  tonnes). And China for example is the world’s biggest apple deliverer. Every third apple descends from there.

The consequence is that many German farmers are angered about the plurality of overseas competitors and they wish a better assistance by German consumers and  increased awareness for buying regional products.

source: http://www.stern.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/maerkte/593835.html?p=2&nv=ct_cb

Notes for the argentinian apple article

 -Luis M.´s organic apples are delivered to the USA and to Europe

-None of them are selled in Argentinia 

èDemand of organic fruits in Argentinia is very low

- ecological fruits are favored

-Luis apples take part of a 13.000 km journey

-per apple 163 gramm CO2

-are his apples climate killers?-Luis gives 200 jobs on hin plantation

èworkers earn 20 per cent more than the everage argentinian worker

-german farmer are angered about the overseas competitors

-export of Argentinian apples triple in the last 10 years

-china is world biggest apple deliverer

The Co2-logo for products and food

  -some aspects concerning globalisation, referring to food are very questionable

-problem: on the one hand a lot of people living in the regions where the apples are being grown want to save the jobs in their region but on the other hand they buy foreign apples

-environmental problem: the CO2 ––emission is much bigger, when the apples are imported from china, Australia etc¼¼

-the quality of the apples form far away is worse

- often the decisions of the consumers would be to buy apples from their own country when they would have been informed correctly

- solution: a logo that informs the consumers about the Co2-emission

Low(yellow)       average(green)       high(red)

- the logo is supposed to impart a better conscious concerning food to the consumers

- it can also be transmitted on other products like meat etc.

by: Paula and Lela  

the box that makes the world go round!

-the new container ships can transport  more than 10.000 container boxes

>each of this containers could has a volume upto 24  tonnes

-the biggest ship which was ever built is up to 400 m long and 56m wide

<this danish ship could transport more than 13.000 tonnes

( that means when each container has a wight of 20 tonnes only the cargo would weight ca.26.000 tonnes)

-this giants are only authorized to call a few of ports (about a dozen)

>the  flexibility is very low so these giants arn´t  really economic

-in hamburg for eaxample the huge ships are only allowed to come into the habour with the half of their cargo

> onla ships with about 14m depth are permissesd to come into the most important german habour in hamburg

-the containers include gods like computers from aldi and lidl, cars from DaimlerChrysler, Porsche and BMW or gods like apples, steaks and fruits

-the transportation from one container to asia costs about 50 til 100 dollar, but the way back with the empty boxes costs about 1000 dollar

> so the transportation of a bottle of wine costs less tahn the further transportation from the northern to the southern germany

-at such a higt trnasportind rate there are a lot of accidents: -about 2500 containers are falling annualy into the oceans especially the pacific

> that dangerous for the environment and for the navigation when the boxes don´t decline to the floor of the ocean

about the topics!

I think all the three topics are very interesing but especially I would like to talk about the africa topic.My mother comes from mali( west africa) and the half of my family lives there so africa is a daily theme for me and I ´m lookink forward to talk about the politic situation and the development concernig africa!