Lebanon

Lebanon is one of the most historic countries in the Arab region and Beirut is the capital of Lebanon. It’s surrounded by five counties which are Jordan, Syria, Palestine, Turkey and Cyprus. Lebanon was called the “land of milk and honey” in the bible. Beirut is also called “Paris of the East”. Shakira is half Lebanese and she is one of the famous singers in the world.

In 1943, there was an increase in tensions between Muslims and Christians. At that time, Christians held the balance of power and Lebanon Muslims had little say in the running of the country. But in 1948 after the Arab-Israeli war, Muslims refugees left for Lebanon from Palestine. In 1975, the tensions reached their peak because the Phalange a Christian group attacked and killed a bus of Palestinians in downtown Beirut. Violence and lack of trust between the both side (Muslims and Christians) resulted. In addition, troops went to live on different side in the country. In 1982, the Israeli army invaded the city with the aim of removing the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). In 1989 a peace deal was reached. There were a lot of human and economic costs to this conflict. Between 150-200 thousand were killed, 300,000 were wounded and the economy was paralyzed.


Nowadays, there are signs of social and economic recovery in Beirut. For example, more than 17 different religions live together, people live in peace, development has taken place in the infrastructure (malls, beaches and cranes are everywhere) Beirut takes 3rd place in number of cars and phones. On the other hand, there are some current problems in the country. One of these is life remains hard and unemployment is very high. Finally, too much money remains in the hands of a few.



Bibliography:"Eye on Lebanon." Global Eye. 25 Spring 2006. Royal Geographical Society. 8 Apr. 2008 .

for more information go to these links:
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982_Lebanon_War
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebanese_Civil_War

Introduction to Global Warminig

You may have heard people talking about how the weather is very different today than it was ten years ago. You may have noticed changes in the weather yourself. The earth's climate has changed many times over millions of years, sometimes slowly, sometimes very quickly. What makes climate change different today?

It is the Global Warming and it is an increase in the near surface temperature of the Earth. Global warming has occurred in the distant past as the result of natural influences, but the term is most often used to refer to the warming predicted to occur as a result of increased emissions of greenhouse gases.

There are many problems could happened if the global warming continues for example, Water level will increase and it may cause a flooding ,People can also die from the heat stress and animals can be displaced because the environment will change.

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http://www.ypte.org.uk/docs/factsheets/env_facts/glob_warm.html

Global warming-An Inconvenient Truth

Albert Arnold "Al" Gore, Jr. was the forty-fifth Vice President of the United States, serving his country from 1993 to 2001 under President Bill Clinton. He was the Democratic nominee for president in the 2000 election . He is currently chairman of the Emmy Award. He also starred in the Academy Award - winning documentary on the topic of global warming, An Inconvenient Truth. , In 2007, Gore helped to organize the July 7 benefit concert for global warming, Live Earth. He is very serious man and he is interested in the climate change and is trying to get people’s attention about the dangers of the change in the environment, He wants to show how it is affecting humans and animals.

He discusses the problem of the warming and how it will affect the bears in the world. The glaciers around the world are melting and it’s dangerous for the polar bears around the world. That means that they will not find place to rest. Glaciers will melt, sea levels will increase and it may causes a decrease of a drinking water and drown some cities. Temperature and the CO2 concentration may both increase as is shown in the graph, that will mean more dangerous world.

The reason for his movie is to make a people awake of this coming disaster. As well as, what it can do for the world. Americans people made great things to face the problems of global warming. I can see that Al Gore is very convincing and we have to look at this issue carefully.

Global warming-An Inconvenient Truth

An Inconvenient Truth is a movie that discusses the problems of global warming by the lecturer Albert Arnold "Al" Gore. I enjoyed this movie and it was very interesting for me because it captured my attention to a looming disaster. It’s really useful in its details about the dangers of global warming.

The greenhouse effect is the most dangerous things that let me to be compelled by the movie because he showed us the bad sides of climate change. I agree with all points that were mentioned.

In my opinion, the background was very logical and effective with the facts. On the other hand, there were a supporting images and graphs that can help the movie positively. In my view, 9.5 out of 10 is the right evaluation of this movie. The statistics was 9.3 according to some sites, but I think that it deserves more.

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