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St.Lucia and the USA. By: Joshua West and Madelyn Holmes. St.lucia adaptations. Most people in St.Lucia have houses and air conditioning They live a normal life like we do now In the past there were a lot of climate changes
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St.Lucia and the USA By: Joshua West and Madelyn Holmes
St.lucia adaptations • Most people in St.Lucia have houses and air conditioning • They live a normal life like we do now • In the past there were a lot of climate changes • The way they adapted to it was moving to different places and hunting animals for food
USA adaptations • People used resources nearby • People also used animal skins and bones for clothes, tools and weapons • The main animals people would hunt are whales, seals, caribou, foxes, squirrels and birds especially turkey and peacock • Also with animals the Inuit's (Indians) used them to build tents or they used driftwood
St.lucia Holidays • Independence day, February 22nd • Easter Weekend • Bastille day, June 30th • Emancipation day, First Monday in August • Fete Des Meres, August 30th • Discovery day, December 13th • Christmas, December 25th • Boxing Day, December 26th • New Years Eve, December 31st
St.lucia Food • These are some of St.Lucia’s most popular foods… • Fresh seafood(mostly lobster) • Green figs • Lamb • Salt fish • Fried plankton • Some drinks are… • Rum(cocktail punch) • Caribbean beer
St.Lucia Religion • Roman Catholic- 85-90% • Protestant- 10-15%
St.Lucia Clothes • St.Lucia has mainly three types of clothes they wear and they include… • Scrubs • Fabric dresses • And caps
St.lucia sports • Some of the spots they play in St.Lucia include… • Hiking • Water skiing • Jet skiing • Banana boating • Parasailing • Golf • Scuba-diving • Horse back riding
USA Holidays • New Years day, January 1st • Martin Luther King Jr. day, January 16th • President’s day, February 20th • Easter, April 8th • Memorial day, May 28th • Independence day, July 4th • Labor day, September 3rd • Columbus day, October 8th • Halloween, October 31st • Christmas, December 25th • Thanksgiving, November 22nd • Veterans day, November 11th • New Years Eve, December 31st
USA clothes • Jeans and denim • Leather
USA Religion • Christian- 78.4% • Other- 4.7% • Unaffiliated/none- 16.1%
USA Food • Some foods in the USA include… • Clam chowder • Shoofly pie • Pastrami • Smithfield ham • Fajitas • Chili • Sour dough • Oysters • and HOTDOGS
USA sports • Soccer • Cricket • Field Hockey • Tennis • Volleyball • Table Tennis • Baseball • Golf • Basketball • Football
St.Lucia timeline for goods • 1950’s- Bananas became the most important crop • 1960-1970- Bananas and sugarcane marketed and became very expensive • 1980’s- leather products and paper products were over powering bananas • 1990’s till now- bananas are the most popular crop
St.Lucia timeline for inventions and events • 1997- Kenny Anthony wins election • 2002- Tropical storm Lili hits and destroys all banana crops • 2003- A new criminal code passed • 2004- Volcano twins erupt • 2005- 25th anniversary • 2006- John Compton wins election • 2007- John Compton dies