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.