Jamaica “Land of wood and water”

“The land of wood and water” or “Xaymaca” had called by the first inhabitants in this island that call “Tainos” (Tainos were relatives of the Arawaks American Indians people of South America that arrive in this island, Arawaks were peaceful people who thrived by hunting, fishing and growing yams, beans and other crops including corn for eating and alcohol production) In 1494 the seafaring people from Christopher Columbus visit this island they said Jamaica as the fairest isle mine eyes ever beheld…and he claimed Jamaica for Spanish in that year he landed to this island.

Jamaica was the jewel of the British crown after they are colonialism of the British, Jamaica was the world largest producer of sugar, (But the product sugar was no longer in this island’s most useful export by 1838) yielding 22 percent of the world’s supply, under British rule Jamaica became wealthy colony and busy. Sugarcane not only cash crop grow up on the island but British also produced cocoa, coffee plants for trade. This success cam as great cost to the African people and many people were brought to the slavery for help British rise to caliber of economic power on the island as a result of the cruel and oppressive slavery system and had revolts than other West Indian island.

1831 feeling about anti-slavery grew in Britain and 20,000 slaves killed planters and ruined crops. After several more slave revolts British give promise of abolition which was never kept, after ward 400 slaves were hung and many more were whipped. After the product of sugar was not longer the colonists soon realized that bananas and coffee were more economically, bananas bolstered the island until the great depression.
In1834 anti-slavery sentiments grew strong in Europe, culminating in the Emancipation that made provision for all slaves under age of six to gain immediate freedom.

Jamaica have had passion and pain but today Jamaica is the good place to travel with nice beach, white sands and clear water and also rich with there own unique music dialect that make people who have been there will never forget this island.

USA Michael Jordan

Michael Jeffrey Jordan (born February 17, 1963) is a retired American professional basketball player and active businessman. His biography on the National Basketball Association (NBA) website states, "By acclamation, Michael Jordan is the greatest basketball player of all time. Jordan was one of the most effectively marketed athletes of his generation and was instrumental in popularizing the NBA around the world in the 1980s and 1990s.

After a stand-out career at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Jordan joined the NBA's Chicago Bulls in 1984. He quickly emerged as one of the stars of the league, entertaining crowds with his prolific scoring. His leaping ability, illustrated by performing slam dunks from the free throw line at Slam Dunk Contests, earned him the nicknames "Air Jordan" and "His Airness." He also gained a reputation as one of the best defensive players in basketball. In 1991, he won his first NBA championship with the Bulls, and followed that achievement with titles in 1992 and 1993, securing a "three-peat." Though Jordan abruptly retired from basketball at the beginning of the 1993-94 NBA season to pursue a career in baseball, he rejoined the Bulls in 1995 and led them to three additional championships (1996, 1997, and 1998) as well as an NBA-record 72 regular-season wins in the 1995–96 season. Jordan retired for a second time in 1999, but he returned for two more NBA seasons in 2001 as a member of the Washington Wizards.


Jordan's individual accolades and accomplishments include five MVP awards, ten All-NBA First Team designations, nine All-Defensive First Team honors, fourteen NBA All-Star Game appearances and three All-Star MVP, ten scoring titles, three steals titles, six NBA Finals MVP awards, and the 1988 NBA Defensive Player of the Year Award. He holds the NBA record for highest career regular season scoring average with 30.12 points per game, as well as averaging a record 33.4 points per game in the playoffs. In 1999, he was named the greatest North American athlete of the 20th century by ESPN, and was second to Babe Ruth on the Associated Press's list of athletes of the century. He will be eligible for induction into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2009.


Jordan is also noted for his product endorsements. He fueled the success of Nike's Air Jordan sneakers, which were introduced in 1985 and remain popular today. Jordan also starred in the 1996 feature film Space Jam. He is currently a part-owner and Managing Member of Basketball Operations of the Charlotte Bobcats in North Carolina.

Barack Obama The first African American President of the United States

Barack Hussein Obama, it’s the name American will have to remember, the “ FIRST” African American President of the United States. Barack Hussein Obama was sworn in as the 44th president of the United States on Jan. 20, 2009. He was born in August 4, 1961, to Stanley Ann Dunham, a European American from Kansas and Barack Obam, Sr., a Luo from Kenya. Obama's parents met in 1960 in a Russian language class at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa, where his father was a foreign student on scholarship.

In his 1995 memoir, he described his struggles as a young adult to reconcile social perceptions of his multiracial heritage. He wrote that he used alcohol, marijuana and cocaine during his teenage years to "push questions of who I was out of my mind."

Reflecting later on his formative years in Honolulu, Obama wrote: "The opportunity that Hawaii offered — to experience a variety of cultures in a climate of mutual respect — became an integral part of my world view, and a basis for the values that I hold most dear".

His parent divorce and after, his mother moved him to Indonesia and he was return to Hawaii to live with grandparents.

His father from Kenyan, he died from an accident in 1982, and his mother was American, she died of ovarian cancer in 1995.

Obama entered Harvard Law School in late 1988. He was selected as an editor of the Harvard Law Review at the end of his first year and president of the journal in his second year. During his summers, he returned to Chicago where he worked as a summer associate at the law firms of Sidley & Austin in 1989 and Hopkins & Sutter in 1990.

Barack Obama married with Michelle Robinson on October 18, 1992, they have two young daughters, the first daughter Malia Ann, was born on July 4,1998. On June 10, 2001 Michelle Robinson gave birth to a second daughter named Natasha or known as “Sasha”

In 1996, Obama was elected to be a state senator and began to navigate the sometimes troubled waters of racial politics with ease and grace. He move into the largest African-American community in the country which is the South Side of Chicago." Senator Obama has been able to develop innovative approaches to challenge the status quo and get results. Americans are tired of divisive ideological politics, which is why Senator Obama has reached out to Republicans to find areas of common ground. He has tried to break partisan logjams and take on seemingly intractable problems. During his tenure in Washington and in the Illinois State Senate, Barack Obama has accumulated a record of bipartisan success.

After seven years, Obama tried to unseat a former Black Panther from the House of Representatives, he decided to the US Senate.

That time Barack Obama chose to speak at the Democratic convention in 2004, that coasting to victory and destined for Washington. Two years for presidential campaign he have to fight with John Mc Crain for the President of the United States, he had many Hollywood supporters such as Barbra Streisand, Steven Spielberg, Leonardo Dicaprio, Ryan Phillippe, Jessica Biel, Scarlett Johansson. January 20, 2009 Barack Hussein Obama was sworn in as President of the United State after a hard fought two years of presidential campaign.
Mr Obama spent much of his first week trying to push his gargantuan stimulus package through Congress. The package includes some $275 billion in tax cuts and handouts and $300 billion in short-term spending, such as aid to cash-strapped states for providing health care, unemployment benefits and so forth.


Without a single Republican vote, President Obama won House approval for an $819 billion economic recovery plan as Congressional Democrats sought to temper their own differences over the enormous package of tax cuts and spending.
Mr Obama has fists as well as ears. Three days after his inauguration, missiles apparently fired from American drones killed eight suspected foreign terrorists in Pakistan, and more than a dozen civilians. Such attacks are unpopular with Pakistanis. Following Mr Bush’s practice, Mr Obama made no comment about them.
Meanwhile the defence secretary, Robert Gates, said that Mr Obama’s plan to double American forces in Afghanistan would probably lead to higher casualties.