Maori - The indigenous people of New Zealand

The Maori's are the indigenous people of New Zealand. They first immigrated from the eastern Polynesia in 950. The immigration is said to happened in three waves. First in 950, 1150 and 1350. They brought with them their own plants and animals. There is no animal on New Zealand that has its origin from New Zealand, except the bat.

In their new land, the Maori's developed their own culture, where they lived in small villages. The villages was actually very nice. Despite that the Maori's did not know about any form for metall, they still had houses made out of big wooden pieces, and with nice carvings.

Since there often occurred conflicts between the different tribes, the villages was often equpied with defence materials, such as walls, traps etc...

What I think about The USA

The USA

What do I like about the USA?

The first thing that poppes up in my head is the cultural influence USA has on the rest of the world. Movies, music, food etc...

I can say that I like something within all of these three topics. The American food, mostly known to be fast food, is very good, but unhealthy. I usually eat McDonalds or something like that once a week. I cannot go a day without my music, and the music I listen to is mostly from USA. I am not a person who watches movies 24/7, but the movies I have seen during my lifetime has its origin from USA, for the most. I am now watching Prison Break, which is a TV-series from the USA. So in genreal, there is alot of things to like about USA, after my opinion.
   
One other thing to include about USA, is that they are great at developing bikes. Cervelo, which is an Canadian bike, but developed i San Diego, USA,  to become as aerodynamic as possible, is used by several proffesional cycling teams in the world. They are also known in the cycling community for their good bike components. Especially wheel. Zipp is one of the hottest wheel-brands on the market for a cyclist and has changed the cycling cutlture, when it comes to aerodynamics.




Besides the cultural effects, there are some other things I easily can relate to USA, such as the President in the USA and their election, a big country with much great nature and their history such as WWII and Vietnam.

Scotland

So we are to write about a country in the UK. I have choose to write about Scotland. The capital city in Scotland is Edinburgh, but the largest city is Glasgow. In Scotland they speak scottish. It is quite similuar to English but with some changes. There are aproximatly 5.000.000 people living in Scotland, and it is slowly increasing because of less death, immigration and more children are born.

The climate in Scotland is temperate and oceanic, and tends to be very changeable. Scotland is warmed by the Gulf Stream, and therefore has much milder winters, but cooler and wetter summers. Scotland is quite famous for their highlands. The highlands are seperated into two different areas; North West Highlands and Grampian Highlands. These two areas are divided by Glen Mor, wich is lower land, and contain many lakes. Among these lakes are Loch Ness. The highest mountain in Scotland is Ben Nevis, wich is located west in Grampian Highlands.

The scottish education system is very distinct from the rest of the UK. Scotland was the first country after Sparta in ancient greece, to establish an public education system. Scotland is also known for a long history of universal provision of public education.

Scotland has prtial self-government, as well as representation in the UK parlament. In 2011 the Scottish National Party (SNP) won the election. They had a majority within the parlament, after winning 69 of the 129 seats in parlament. This was the first majority in the modern parlament wich was established in 1999. Scotland does not have a prime minister, but instead there is one for the whole UK. David Cameron is the sitting prime minister.

The fish is a very important source of food and export for the Scotts. Fishing stations in the north of Scotland stands for almost 2/3 of all the fish caught in Great Britain. On the main land is grain and other corn-products grown. Sheep breeding is very common on the highlands in the north.

It was not untill the 18th century that Scotland started to develop heavy industry. It began with ironworks in Falkirk, before the River clyde came to use. Clyde provided UK with more than half of the shipping. But the most important manufactured contributing £800 million to the scottish economy, is whisky. The heavy industry is very reduced today, because it has slowly turned over to high technological industry.



I have been to London twice, and im going there next weekend. Besides shopping, there is not so much to do, unless you like to see monuments, but for me, that's boring. But it is not boring travelling to London. You don't really need more then four days, because you just walk around all day long, it is not like warmer places, where you lay on the beach for 5 hours, so if you are not used to stand for too long, you might get tired after a while.

Some fun-facts:
- Edinburgh was just like Rome, built on seven hills.
- Edinburgh was the first city in the world to have its own fire-brigade.
- The official animal of Scotland is Unicorn.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotland#Government_and_politics
http://snl.no/Skottland
http://www.10-facts-about.com/Scotland/id/30