12/16

Today in class we concluded with our discussion of India.

12/15

Today we started a class discussion about India.

12/13

Today in class we continued working on our project.

Building Modern India

The people that build India are the lower class people that do hard labor.
All of the builders that work for less than $2.00 specifically are the ones that fuel the economy.
Banks also fuel India's economy
Just one of the bank businesses is a $23.5 billion business
Corruption also fuels India's economy
The corruption that takes place involves government officials and it also involves builders

12/10

Today in class we started working on a India project.

12/9

Today in class we finished watching Slum Dog Millionaire.

12/8

Today in class we continued watching Slum Dog Millionaire.

High Population in India and what It does to the Country

The large population in India contributes to a lot of things. One of the things it contributes to is India's poverty. Right now the population in India is 1,173,108,083. That number of people is huge for just one country which is what makes poverty in India so big. And because of the poverty, a lot of these people have to live in slums. In India the fertility rate is 3 kids born per women. It is hard for all these people to get a job that pays well which is what makes it more likely you will be born into a slum.

Twenty five percent of people in India make less than a dollar a day. You could only imagine how hard it would be to just live off a dollar a day.  Twenty five percent of the people that live in India live below the poverty line. Another thing about India is that 57% of the country is in dept. These problems are a factor of how people would live. These affect where the people would live, like in slums or in more well off areas. People make so little a day a in Dharavi and yet they are still able to afford a television and rent a house.

Slums in India (or just in general) are terrible places to have to live in. Slums mainly consist of buildings made out of sheet metal and whatever people can use to make the walls for the building. The slum of Daravi in India is one of the largest in the world. It consists of over one million people. Dharavi also provides the cheapest rents in Mumbai for $4 in United States currency. To add to some of the problems in Dharavi, there are quite a few sanitation problems in Dharavi. One of them is quite a major one. It is that the ratio of toilets in Dharavi is 1 to 1440 persons. You can only amagine where people would normally go to the bathroom. They would go in their drinking supplies and maybe even in a back ally. Even though conditions in slums can be this bad, surprisingly most of the residences in Dharavi have colour televisions. Statistics also show that half of the people in Dharavi have gas stoves Seventy percent of buildings in Dharavi have been converted to resturants and other buisinesses. The main buisinesses in Dharavi are pottery and textile buisinesses. Dharavi is also starting to have an increasing recycling business. 

12/6

Today in class we had a sub and we worked on a essay and the internet went out so we had to do the essay for homework.

India Problems

India faces many problems including child exploitation, human trafficking, and forced labor. People are tracked in India so they can be used to do the back breaking jobs that nobody wants to do. Girls are tracked for the purpose of commerce sexual exploitation. Sometimes people are even trafficked for marriage. Children that are tacked are forced to work in factories, beg, and agricultural work.  Children are also sometimes used as suicides in terrorist groups. Child exploitation and forced labor are factors of human trafficking. Men women and children are held in dept bondage because of the human trafficking problem in India. Children that are trafficked in India are also forced to make clothes and some that make the clothes are younger than 10. Because of forced labor, the people that do the jobs don't get paid much or if anything at all for doing them, which causes the families to not get a lot of necessities to survive. Child exploitation is a big issue in India. One of the reason that it is so big, is because of human trafficking. Many people are just trafficked for sexual exploitation. The Indian government has made an effort to prosecute the traffickers and protect the victims that are being tracked. The government in India is putting very little effort in to stopping human trafficking and child exploitation, so sadly, it is still a big thing to traffic people in India to exploit them.

12/2

Today in class we continued watching Slum Dog millionaire.

Slum Dog Millionaire Questions

1. Compare the motion picture industry in India and the United States.
    All Bollywood films are some sort of musicales.

2. What are the names of the 3 main characters in slumdog millionaire?
Jamal, Latika, and Salim

3. What is a Chaiwallah?
They make tea.

4. Tell us 5 things we must know about the Taj Mahal.
    It is one of the eight wonders of the world.
    It is widely considered one of the most beautiful buildings in the world.
    It first started construction in 1631.
    Emperor Shah Jahan was in reign.
    Three artists designed it: a Persian, an Italian, and a Frenchman.
  

12/1

Today in class we continued to watch Slum dog Millionaire

Bambai Riots

1.  Riots first broke out in 1992 and 1993 because the Hindus destroyed the Babri Masque. Hindus destroyed the mosque because they claimed it stood on one of their god's, called Lord Rama, birthplace.
2.  2,000 people were killed in the riots, mostly Muslims.
3. 200 Quran's were said to have burned in the fire of when the mosque was burning down.
4. Since the riots the government has deployed 48,000 police officers across the city of Mambai to ensure no more riots like these will happen again

11/29

We started watching slum dog millionaire.

Slum Dog Millionare

Rupee - form of currency in India
Amitalh Bachchan - A famous Bollywood film actor (He was on Kaun Banega Crorepati)
Kaun Banega Crorepati - India game show based off of the European game show (so you wanna be a millionaire)

Mumbai:

• Used to be called Bambai
• It is the most populated city in India
• Lies on the west coast of India
• It houses India's premier Nuclear Facilities
• It is the commercial and entertainment capital of India

Shantytown - A shanty town (also called a squatter settlement) is a slum settlement (sometimes illegal or unauthorized) of impoverished people who live in improvised dwellings made from scrap materials: often plywood, corrugated metal, and sheets of plastic
How many people world wide lives in one: 1 billion

Dharavi - is a slum and administrative ward over parts of Mumbai. Has the population of over 1 million and is the largest slum  in the world.

India Questions

1) 1,730,108,0108
2) 2.65 children per women
3) 25%
4) One terrorist attack killed 17 people with a bombs strapped on 5 guys. Another one was when 150 people were killed by a bomb.
5)
6) The affects of monsoons in India destroys crops and kills live stock and a lot of people. The latest one killed 120 people and killed 4000 cattle.
7) It can not be transfered through pips, especially in the slums, and water is usually obtained through rivers that are dirty.
8) The literacy rate for males is 73.4% and females is 47.8%.
9) Major religions in India is are Hindu 80.5%, Muslim 13.4%, Christian 2.3%, Sikh 1.9%, other 1.8%, unspecified 0.1% 
10)  India achieved their independence from China / Pakistan.


Sources:

The Battle of the Billionaires: China Vs. India
CIA Factbook
New York Times articles about terrorism in India
Understanding the Puzzling Nature of Poverty
Often Parched, India Struggles to Tap the Monsoon
Water Woes in India

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UXYhee79gOoPRf6isyaBEzXzBgqJW6BaFLYLIdL9RdE/edit?hl=en&pli=1#

11/22

Today in class we finished presenting our projects.

China VS India

• Worlds only population billionaires with China at 1.35 billion and India at 1.21 billion. 
• China and India contain nearly 2 out of every five people in the world (they hold 40percent of the worlds population)
• China or India are bigger than every country in Europe added together.
• Life expectancy in China is 73 years and life expectancy in India is 64 years.
• China is gonna be more of an Ural country than India
• China TFR is 1.8 will India's is 2.8
• India's population is growing faster than China's

11/15

Today we continued working on our coffee project which will be due by Wednesday.

11/11

Today in class we started working on our new coffee project.

11/10

Today in class we went over our homework.

11/8

Today in class we started watched a video about coffee.

Coffee

Notes:
Coffee is the most heavily traded crop in the world.
United States spends billions of dollars a year on coffee.
It is important to communicate with the people who grow the coffee.
Some coffee grows better at higher altitudes than lower altitudes,
The coffee growers need to have communication with the higher business men buying the coffee to keep the coffee better and higher quality coffee.

Questions and Answers:
How  much money does the United States spends on coffee in one year? - Over a billion dollars
What is the best coffee selling company in the United States? - Starbucks
Why is coffee so important to Americans? - It helps us get the day started.
What is the most traded crop in the world? - Coffee
Why is it so hard for smaller companies to trade coffee? - Because it is harder for them to get good coffee from different places in the world because it is expensive to do that.


Terms:
Relationship Coffee:A business model featuring individual long-term relationships between roasters and growers, based on quality rather than on wholesale prices dictated by the commodity market. www.safehousecoffeeandtea.com/page48.html


Fair Trade Coffee: Coffee that has been purchased from farmers at a “fair” price as determined by international agencies. The true “fairness” varies with the fluctuating market price paid to other farmers, and is sometimes even lower.www.thebeanery.com/news/coffee-definitions


Globalization:growth to a global or worldwide scale; "the globalization of the communication industry. wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

11/4

Today in class me and my partner put our finishing touches on our magazine project which will be due tomorrow.

11/3

Today in class we continued to work on our magazine project which will be do by Friday.

10/28

Today in class we started working on our magazine article.

10/27

Today in class we finished watching the movie and we all of the guys went to college and they went to Africa to help their people and John Bul is now the leader of a non profit company that helps his Lost Brothers.

10/25

Today in class we discussed our homework which was the terms, researching the war in Sudan, and discussing what we did in class. We also continued watching the movie God Grew Tired of Us. They have been in the United States for one year now and Daniel is going to college and has to leave Panther. Everyone is apply to a college or going to a college. One of the guys wants to help his family that is in a refugee camp in Uganda and decides not to go to school and instead to work and send his family money. One of the boys has gone missing. He was found a few days later. They also celebrated July 4th. Some of the other lost boys came to America. They are now 3 years in America.
Names of the people in the movie: John Bul Dau, Panther, Daniel

God Grew tired of us Notes

in - migration - to move into a place 


out - migration - when people move out of a country

forced migration - when people are forced to move out of ones country

net internal migration - crossing into a country or state and staying there for a long time

movers from abroad - movers from over seas

internal displaced person -  is someone who is forced to flee their home but who, unlike a refugee, remains within their country's borders.


In class we saw how hard it was for the people from Sudan to adjust to the american life style.  


About the Civil War in Sudan:
The civil war in Sudan started in 1958 between the Muslims and the Christians. The war has displaced more than 4 million people and has forced them to travel into another country. The war has left millions of kids without families. The people who left couldn't earn money to buy food and therefore malnutrition had become wide spread. Because of the war the south's economy crashed which caused all of these people to lose their homes and be kicked out of their country. Over 2 million people have been killed because of this war. This war has affected the lives of many people who live in Sudan and the countries around it. Approximately 600,000 people became refugees.
Sources:
http://www.hrw.org/campaigns/sudan98/testim/house-01.htm
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/sudan.htm

10/22

Today in class we continued to watch the movie that we started yesterday.

10/21

Today in class we watched a movie called "The Lost Boys of Sudan". It is about boys who lived in Sudan and left it because of a civil war in their country.

Lost Boys of Sudan

1) The lost boys ran away from their home because there was a civil war and the government that  was fighting them ordered the soldiers to kill all of the Sudan boys.
2) They couldn't stay in Ethiopia because the government crashed and the government couldn't afford them to stay in their country.
3) Life in the refugee camp was hard because their was little food and water and sometimes they went  weeks without food or water.

They traveled about 1000 miles to their refugee camp.

10/20

Today in class we went over the quiz we took last week.

10/18

Today in class we started to go over our projects and we marked where we came from on a map on google.

My Ancestry

Migration Project

10/11

Today in class we took a test on population terms and population pyramids.

10/7

Today in class we took notes on population and settlements.

Population And Settlement Notes

• 90 percent of the population growth takes place in the developing countries of Africa, South and East Asia, and Latin America.

Notes

Push factors forces people to migrate from one country to another such as religion and how your being treaded and how your country is treaty your society. Countries also has pull factors which causes peolpe to want to go into a country.

10/6

Today in class we went over some terms.

10/1

Today in class we went over our notes we took yesterday.

Population for Countries and Defintions

• life expectancy: Definition - the probable number of years remaining in the life of an individualor class of persons determined statistically, affected by suchfactors as heredity, physical condition, nutrition, and occupation. click here for link to life expectancy (Japan: Male - 82.12yrs  , France: 80.98yrs, Kenya: 57.86yrs, Cuba: 77.45yrs, United States: 78.11yrs, Afghanistan: 44.40yrs)  
• crude birthrate: Definition - This entry gives the average annual number of births during a year per 1,000 persons in the population at midyear. link here for crude birth rate definition (Japan: 7.64 births/1000 pop. , Kenya: 36.64 births/1000 pop. , Ethiopia: 43.66 births/1000 pop. , United States: 13.83 births/1000 pop. ,Germany: 8.98/1000pop.)
• crude death rate: Definition - This entry gives the average annual number of deaths during a year per 1,000 population at midyear.click here for definition of crude death rate   (Afghanistan: 17.83 deaths/1,000 population , Kenya: 9.72 deaths/1000 pop. , United States: 8.38 deaths/1000 pop. , Japan: 9.54 deaths/1000 pop. , Mexico: 4.8 deaths/1000 pop.)
• RNI (rate of natural increase) Definition - the amount of people being born compared to the amount of people dying
• TFR (total fertility rate): Definition -  This entry gives a figure for the average number of children that would be born per woman. click here for definition of total fertility rate  (Niger: 7.68 children born/woman , Afghanistan: 5.5 children born/woman , Japan: 1.2 children, United States: 2.06 children, Germany: 1.42 children born/woman )
• net migration rate: Definition - This entry includes the figure for the difference between the number of persons entering and leaving a country during the year per 1,000 persons. click here for net migration rate definition   (Mexico: -3.61 migrant(s)/1,000 population , United States: 4.32 migrant(s)/1,000 population , United Arab Emirates: 22.98 migrant(s)/1,000 population , Argentina: 0 migrant(s)/1,000 population , Saudi Arabia: -7.6 migrant(s)/1,000 population , Uganda: -8.83 migrant(s)/1,000 population ) 
• population pyramid: Definition - a pyramid-shaped diagram illustrating the age distribution of apopulation: the youngest are represented by a rectangle at thebase, the oldest by one at the apex definition link to population pyramid

9/29

Today in class we took a test and I think I did well on it.

9/27

Today in class we took notes on what will be on our test on Wednesday.

Study Guide for Questions

• Religion for Countries
• The five countries that we studied have a valuable  good of oil.
• Not much land to grow crops in the 5 countries.
• Iran can make nuclear weapons and if they are able to make a nuclear bomb they would probably drop it on Isreal. 
• Know info about the 3 religions we studied.
• Know some info on 9/11 like what country and group caused it.

9/24

Today in class we presented our prezis about Christianity, Islamic, and Judaism religions and took notes on it.

Religion Notes

Jerusalem is the Holy City for Christianity, Islamic, and Jewish religions
Abraham is the father of the Jewish Religion
Judaism is 3500 years old
Jews are Monotheistic
Mecca is Islamic religion's holy city

Prezi Address

Religions of the world on Prezi

Christianity, Judaism, and Islam on Prezi

Comparing Religions on Prezi

Religion on Prezi

9/23

We finished our first Prezi.

9/22

Today in class we started looking at different religions and we looked at prezi.

9/20

Today we finished talking about the different countries.

Middle East Countrys

Iran: Areable land - 9.78
Unemployment rate - 11.8 percent
Military Service - At age 19 you must serve/At the age of 15 and 16 you are alowed to volonteer
Life Expectence - Male 69.65 percent/Female - 72.72 percent
Oil production -  Imports 4.72 mil barrels/Export 2.21 mil barrels
Has Been designated the sponsored terrorism state
We dont trade with them
Have nuclear weapon ambisions

Saudi Arabia: Areable Land - 2 percent
 Religion -100 percent Muslim
Literacy Rate - Male - 84.7 percent/Female - 70.8 percent
Most Valuable Good - Oil

Iraq:Literacy Rate - Man - 84 percent/Women - 64 percent
GDP - 110.1 billion (World Rank: 158 )
Main Religion - Muslim (98 percent)
We are in an current war with them
1990 they tried to take over Kuaite

Israel: Literacy Rate - Male - 98 percent/Female - 95 percent
Religion - Jewish, Christian, Muslim
Language - Hebrew
Life - 80.73years
Focus of a lot of conflict in the middle east

Egypt: Population - 78 million (World Rank: 16)
Areable Land - Less than 3 percent
Literacy Rate - Man - 83 percent/Women - 71 percent
Infant Mortality Rate - 27/1000
90 percent of Population is Muslim
Military Service - 18 to 36 years (Has compulsery service)
Government - Republic
Main Language - Arabic
Unemployment Rate - 9.4 percent

9/17/10

Today in class we worked with the CIA factbook.

9/16/10

Today in class we did an assignment on idententifying the regions of the world.

Identifying Countries

1.  United States - North America
2.  France - Europe
3.  Iraq - Asia
4.  China - Aisa
5.  Saudi Arabia - Aisa
6.  Haiti - North America
7.  India - Aisa
8.  Japan - Aisa
9.  Venezuela - North America
10. Iran - Aisa
11. Russia - Aisa
12. The United Kingdom - Europe
13. Israel - Aisa
14. Germany - Europe
15. Tibet - Aisa
16. Afghanistan - Aisa
17. Brazil - South America
18. North Korea - Aisa
19. Egypt - Africa
20. Kenya - Africa
21. Pakistan - Aisa
22. Vietnam - Aisa
23. Mexico - North America
24. Cuba - North America

http://www.movingplanets.com/world/continents/

https://www.cia.gov/search?q=Tibet&site=CIA&output=xml_no_dtd&client=CIA&myAction=%2Fsearch&proxystylesheet=CIA&submitMethod=get&x=1&y=13

What We did in Class 9/15

We learned how useful the CIA factbook can be and how to use it.

9/13/10

Today in class we did our paper and discussed how to cite sources.

9/11 Project

https://docs1.google.com/document/edit?id=1H6HlPLUkWk0TxOBohcEzp0OEGnUs5VVhrDNK_zsfBXM&hl=en&pli=1#

Geography - The science dealing with the areal differentation of the earths surface as shown in the character, arrangement, and interrilations over the world of elements such as climate, elevation, soil, vegetation, land use, industries, or states, and of the unit areas formed by the complex of these individual elements.
Globalization - to extend to the other or all parts of the globe
Population - the total number of persons inhabiting a country, city, or any district of area
Immigration - people moving from one country to another
Industrialization - to introduce industry into an area on a large scale
Culture - The quality in a person or society that arrises from concern for what is regarded as excellent in arts, letters, manners, scholary pursuits, etc.
Religion - the specific fundamental set of beliefs and practices generally agreed apon by a number of persons of sects


Population of World - 6,768,181,146

Five Largest Religions in the World - 1.Christianity  2.Muslims  3.Hindus  4.Buddists  5.Sikhs

Five Largest Countries in the World - 1.China - 1,338,612,968  2.India - 1,156,897,766  3. United States - 307,212,123  4.Indonesia - 240,271,522  5.Brazil - 198,739,269
Sources: Dictionary.com , CIA - The World  Factbook

Did You Know

That if Face book was a country it would be the third largest in the world. Which I found that  was very interesting because that means it would be just under India. What was also interesting was that it took Facebook only 2 years to get 50 million accounts on it but it took radio 38 years to get 50 listeners. Which means technology controls our world.

6 Word Memoir

I always have had brown hair.