starting slumdog millionaire

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. What is the current population of India?- 1,173,108,018 (July 2010 est.)country comparison to the world: 2    cia factbook https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/in.html
2. What is the total fertility rate in India? 2.65 children per woman http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/india/terrorism/index.html?offset=25&s=newest
3. What percentage of the Indian population lives below the poverty line? 25% (2007 est.) https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/in.html
4. Briefly describe two terrorist attacks inside India. 17 people died by a bomb in one attack and 150 died in another bombing http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/india/terrorism/index.html?offset=25&s=newest 
5. The Human Development Report of the United Nations ranks the countries of the world by poverty.  Where does India rank on this list?
6. Briefly describe the effects of the monsoons on India. the affects of monsoons in india destroys crops and kills cattle and many people. the latest one killed 120 people and killed 4000 cattle.
7. What are some of the problems India has getting clean water to its people? It can not be transfered through pips, especially in the slums, and water is usually obtained through rivers that are dirty.
8. What is the literacy rate in India? males-73.4% femals-47.8%
9. What are the major religions in India? Hindu 80.5%, Muslim 13.4%, Christian 2.3%, Sikh 1.9%, other 1.8%, unspecified 0.1% 
10. When did India achieve independence, and from what country? India achieved their independence from China / Pakistan

china's and india's rocketing population

the worlds only population billionaires are china and india, at 1.34 billion and 1.21. these countries combined hold 40% of the worlds population. .China’s and India’s demographic size may also be appreciated by noting that each of their populations is larger than those of Africa, Europe or the entire Western hemisphere. China does have a bigger life expectancy which means better health care and treatments.

http://www.theglobalist.com/StoryId.aspx?StoryId=8719

finishing the projects

today we did some final touches on out project and presenting them tomorrow

class 11/11/10 start of coffee project

we just got assigned our group projects all on differnet subjects.

coffee

• coffee is the most heavily traded crop in the world
• Hawaii is the only state in America that produces coffee, so America has to import it from other countries
• coffee comes from all over the world
• profits of coffee do not make it to the poor small workers way at the bottom, they do the labor and if they cannot get connected the supply line of coffe may stop.
• people look for cheaper coffee over quality of coffee

• fair trade coffee-The United States consumes one-fifth of all the world's coffee, making it the largest consumer in the world. But few Americans realize that agriculture workers in the coffee industry often toil in what can be described as "sweatshops in the fields." Many small coffee farmers receive prices for their coffee that are less than the costs of production, forcing them into a cycle of poverty and debt. 
•  globalization-  describes the process by which regional economies, societies, and cultures have become integrated through a global network of communication, transportation, and trade
• relationship coffee-  is an alternative to the traditional coffee supply chain

continuing magazine project

today we continued our magazine projects that are due tomorrow