Reflection 1

 

In this semester we started late because of changing the teachers and schedule many times, but now we are back on the track again.

We started to learn how to write a summary; it was very easy for us because we used to do this. The first practice was Emirati police patrolling; the next practice was North African Houbara bustards; both practices provided some good new information about the topic , and it helped us to know how to write a summary about any subject with our new writing skills.

After finishing the summary practice we started the real work, the assessed summaries; they are worth a lot of marks. The first one was desert milk and the other was desert survivals; they gave us good interesting information too. Mr. Hedley helped us with correcting our writing mistakes to get excellent marks; great thanks to him.

We ended the two assignments before Eid Al Adha ; after that directly Mr Hedley gave us an idea about new assignments and an idea about accurate referencing.

 

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horsemen patroling

The horse men is a group of RAK police division their job is to patrol and search in the areas where cars cant reach and to look up for gangs who use the desert as a refuge for drug dealing or etc ..they were kandora and face scarf  like Arabian knight  armed with just mobile phones , and walkies - talkies .Horsemen only use Arabian horse because they have good stamina and can walk alot of time without being tired , also these horses are specially trained to not be scared of cars noises . They horsemen do their rounds quietly without been noticed ,standing near farms or abandon area to listen for trouble makers. About  80% of horsemen are Indians or not local.

desert milk from farm to fridge

The UAE is an arid desert land where it is not possible for a cow to live in spite of that  people enjoy drinking milk and have all kinds of dairy products in stores , They get it from Al marai company . AL mari company was founded only in 1977 and started prouducing milk with only 300 cows,this breed was developed in the Netherland humdreds of years ago.Now they have a herd of 135000 herd  of hoslien  cows . Al marai keeps its herd in six "super farms" outside Riyadh.The desert cows eash produce an average of 135.000 liters of milk every year double the average of their european sisters.Al marai follows the production process from udder to fridge. The milk goes through processing plants to get rid of all the germs and sort it. half century ago milk in the arabian penninsula came from camels and goats , it was stored in earthenware jars.

The desert is a hard environment to live in because of hot weather and the rare resources of water . Beduins adapted to the desert so they started to dig wells and look for any source of water . The second benefit of wells besides water is they can guide or navigat through the desert . In order to find a perfect digging spot for a well they followed bird flight or looked vegetation .They chose one man to do the job with his own bare hands,it took maybe 3 to 4 months to finish the job.They named the well after his name to honour him.There is a substitute for water and its the milk of camels and goats . Bwduins can survive without water for maybe more than 24 hours because their bodies adjust through sweat.

The African haboura

The African houbara bustard has become endangered because of over-hunting and destroying the environment they live in.  These birds live in small areas of land, in a few countries.  An organization called the Emarati Center for Wild Propagation has observed that danger so they made a moves and plans to prevent it. They wanted to protect the birds and reproduce them.Between opening 1995 and last year they has produced more than 60000 of the birds and its cost allot of money to  let  that happened  .The centres are financed by the Abu Dhabi Government and they have been successful in increasing the density of the bustard population.which  has increased in the past ten years, they keep most of it and send few numbers to nature ,they also train houbara for hunting ,so they can be familiar by humans and to be easy to be used .