Lebanon

Lebanon is one of the famous Arab countries .In the bible it's called (The land of milk and honey). Beirut is the capital and its nickname is (The Paris of the east).The famous singer is half Lebanese is Shakira. Lebanon is surrounding many countries such as Syria, Egypt, Jordon, Turkey and Cyprus.


From 1943 to 1948, Christians held the balance of power and Lebanese Muslims had little say in the running of the country. In 1975, thinking boiled over. Members of a radical Christian group, the Phalange attacked and killed a bus full of Palestinians in downtown Beirut. Revenge killings followed and violence began to spiral out of control. The result of the tensions is a complete breakdown in trust between followers of the two religions. In 1982 Israeli army invaded the city with the aim of removing the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO). The peace deal reached in 1989.Between 150,000 to 2000,000 people died during the civil war. Another 300,000 were wondered, nearly a quarter of the population left the country, and for years Beirut's economy was paralyzed. There is some current problems in the country that some people born in Beirut are not Lebanese and don’t have the Lebanese citizen rights.

Lebanon now trying to relapse the place level that lost it across the last years. There are signs of social and economic recovery in Beirut. For example the clock tower has been returned to its rightful place, the tourism is revived, building are restored and the people coming back to Beirut. In the future these signs will turn Lebanon to his previous place.

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Diamonds

Diamonds are the most precious stones in the world. Have you ever thought of how they get from the earth to onto yours finger? I will now describe important locations along the trade rout these most valuable of rocks pass.


The name of the biggest diamond mining company in the world is (DE Beers Consolidated).They do they mine most of their diamonds in South Africa. In addition the percentage of the world's rough diamonds trade do they control is 80%. In the early 20th century the company used to restrict the amount of diamonds on the market to keep the price of diamonds high. Antwerp is the city which has been a diamond center for years. There are 1500 polishers and cutters are left in this city. About 80% of the world rough diamonds pass though it. Indian people are associated with diamond trade .There is also 90% of the world's rough diamonds are cut and polished in India and the workers get paid about 40ents for each cut and polished gem. The rough diamonds come from special place such as Belgium and Tel Aviv. The city which has a growing reputation as a diamond hub is Dubai. 50 years zero tax holiday what the special governments incentive (deal) is attracting diamond traders to the city. Nearly 1billion bound is the business worth. Usually black pop stars buy a lot of diamonds.


In conclusions, diamonds is one of the important fortunes in the world. We must manage it with positive way avoidance of the problems which causes enemy countries and homeless families.

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Name: Muhanad Abdulla Al Shehhi

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Section: CYM


My name is Muhanad Abdulla Al Shehhi. I was born in RAK in 1988. Now I am 19 years old. I am going to turn 20 on the 16th of June. I moved to Au Dhabi in September in 1995. Now I live in Shahamah with my family, my parents, two brothers, three sisters and the housemaid. My favorite hobby is football, videogames and riding horses .












In my life as a child I was a crazy boy, because I thought that I am the smartest one in the world and all my ideas were intelligent. I opened machines such as TV, recorders and electronic games…etc and took their spare parts like wire, magnets and batteries….etc to do some stupid experiments, for examples cars, spaceship and satellites. One day, I tried to do some experiments to my bike. The bike had two tires and I want to make it with four tires. I broke my bike and started the work. The first time I failed and my father was very angry because the bike was destroyed. Although my friends were jeering but I didn’t give up and I worked for one week until I did it. My friends were amazed and the next day they came to me to do the same for their bike. When I was a teenager I always thought about the spaceships and planets but my idea was destroyed when my teachers at school told me that it was an impossible and hard job and there is no major for it at the UAE Universities. This was my first time I felt weak and I couldn't do any thing.






In my all life I traveled one time when I was a teenager to KSA for Al Omra with my school teachers and my friends for a week. It was a wonderful week. We prayed in Al Harm and we visited many history places like Ahd Mountain, zam zam spring and the old Souqu…etc. But our journey was ended with horrible problems when all groups of Omara got food poisoning from the hotel food. But thank God nobody died. They took us to the hospital and almost of us felt better. On the last day of trip we bought gifts for our families and we returned to the country with a quite bad feeing.



In my free time I love to play videogames for five or six hours. If I had the chance I would love to join a university to design videogames but those universities are not available in our country because less people think to study it and there is no job available for this major in the UAE. The thinking in the UAE that these are games for children but this is a wrong idea because it is clearly to see what happen to Japan and how they are be one of the important countries on the world. My favorite film is Rocky and my favorite actors are Vin Diesel, Sylvester Stallone and Will Smith. My belief is that the sports are important for all young or old and I didn’t know what will happen if the people stops doing sports, it will be a boring life, and it will cause many problems in the future.



In the second of November in 2004 the UAE lost the man who helps people everywhere, friend of the world and the UAE father he is sheik Zayed Bin Sultan. My life was change a 360 degree. I don’t know what happed and why but this is life people die and babies are born. At first I was upset but after a few days I understood what happed and I continued my life to work in his massage for the world and to keep the UAE improving year by year.



About my future, I want to be an engineer to be clear a civil engineer, because I want to improve our Emirates building to be more technological and to compete with other countries projects. If I could change anything in the UAE I would like to build a train station around the country to make the transport easy and faster, also to make streets less crowded and to eradicate the accidents from the streets. I hope my life change in the future for the best to become an important factor in the society.