Thursday, April 29, 2010

Nelson Mandela and Apartheid


Apartheid is a system of legal the separation of different kinds of human race of daily life, that enforced by the government of South Africa, between the year 1948 to 1994. Under the right of the South Africa, by the whites were maintained.
Nelson Mandela, born in July 8, 1918. The president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. Before he was a president, he was an anti-apartheid activist, and the leader of Umkhonto we Sizwe, the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC). Also he was in prison for 27 years, and release from prison on February 11, 1990. Mandela supported reconciliation and negotiation, and helped lead the transition towards multi-racial democracy in South Africa. At the end, many praised Mandela, including former opponents. In South Africa he is known as Madiba. And he wrote many books, too. Such as "Long walk to freedom." After ralease form prison, he spent his time on his biography.

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

African Independence

In the late 19th century, European was taken control the African, and during many cause and effects, the African finially wanted their own independence.
Jomo Kenyatta, he is from Kenya, he was the president of Kenya during 1964–1978. And he is another leader of the independence. He created the organization which is called Mau Mau. It's like a group of people that is trying to make the British move out of the highland.

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Film Lesson: "The Right Stuff"

The movie "The Right Stuff" is about the cold war between US and Russia, it was about the invention, it happened two years after the world war 2. The Russian invented a spaceship to sented up to the space, and when the US government found out about this, the government were trying to do something that is more better than the Russian, and then the US were trying to invent the ship that could carry mans up there, so they were looking for mans that are healthy, and they were making a lots of test, so at last, they found seven mans. They tryed to invent the ship, but they couldn't do it, their invention kept on fairing. And at last they sented a monkey up there, but the US still under the Russian, because the Russian sented a man up there, and they became the first country that a man had ever in space.

Monday, April 12, 2010

NATO and The Warsaw Pact

NATO is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. NATO includes the countries in Europe and North America. The reason that the NATO is form because that the countries involved wanted a mutual defense alliance so that if one of them were attacked all of the other countries, NATO would come to help them. Warsaw Pact is mostly consisted the Soviet Union. The other name of Warsaw Pact is the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance.
The NATO were against the communist, and warsaw pact were communist, and so they were against each other.