India Essay

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India's Struggle

In India there are many problems that include child labor, human trafficking, and child exploitation. Human trafficking in India is for things like forced labor and basically child prostitution. Men, women, and children that are in debt are forced to work in places like rice mills, and embroidery factories. No professional studies on this human trafficking in India have been done but some NGO's say that the human trafficking affects tens of MILLIONS of Indians. India only has about 1.21 billion people so a good percentage of the Indian population is affected by human trafficking. In India children under the age of 14 are forced to work in glass blowing industries and carpet-making factories. It is reported that there are about 20-50 million child laberors and it has become acceptable in Northern India. Not only do the kids have to deal with being forced to work for extremely low wages, but they also have to work in unhygienic conditions. Child exploitation is also a growing problem in India. Exploitation means to take advantage of so basically it means people in India are taking advantage of children. This is the basically the same thing as rape in America but it is nowhere near as big of a problem as it is in India. Child exploitation could either mean taking advantage of children by making them do labor, or using them sexually. 

Mumbai Riots

1. What is Kaun Banega Crorepati? An Indian game show that is basically like Who Wants To Be A Millionaire. This is the game show Jamal is playing in Slumdog Millionaire.
2. List five essential facts about Bombay (Mumbai).

• Has a literacy rate of 85.6%
• Estimated to have 28 million people by 2020
• Rupees are the currency
• It is home to both the National Stock Exchange and the Bombay stock exchange.
• Accounts for 16% of income tax collections and 35% of corporate tax collection in the country

1. What is Dharavi? A slum that has been known to be "The biggest slum in the world"
2. What is a shantytown?  How many people live in shantytowns worldwide? A shantytown is an area in the slums where people live in unauthorized houses made from scrap metal.
3. Who is Amitabh Bachchan, and what does he have to do with Slumdog Millionaire? He is an Indian actor that acts in movies from Bollywood. He plays himself in the beginning of the movie when Jamal gets his autograph and the first question of the game show was "Who is Amitabh Bachchan"
4. What is Bollywood? Bollywood is basically an Indian version of the United States' Hollywood. It produces around 2,000 films a year.
5. How much is 250,000 rupees (or any amount of rupees) in American dollars? (Hint: find a currency converter.) 5,379.48$

In Class 11-30-10

In class we started to watch Slumdog Millionaire to show about poverty in India. In the movie we saw Jamal get beaten because he won Who Wants to be a Millionaire but they think he cheated because hes a "Slumdog".


Mumbai:
#1: Has a literacy rate of 85.6%. Men with 90% and women with 82.7%.
#2: Rupee is the currency.
#3: Accounts for 16% of income tax collections and 35% of corporate tax collection in the country
#4: Estimated to have 27 million people by 2020 and will be the second largest city in the world after Tokyo
#5: It is home to both the National Stock Exchange and the Bombay stock exchange.

http://onlybombay.blogspot.com/2007/01/interesting-facts-about-mumbais.html
http://www.mumbaiproperties.com/Mumbai_-_Fact_File/page_748140.html

Dharavi: A slum where over 18,000 people crowd into one acre and has been known to be "The largest slum in the world." It's found right in the middle of Mumbai
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2007/05/dharavi-mumbai-slum/jacobson-text

Bollywood: The film industry of India. It is described as commercial Hindi films, producing only 1500-2000 films a year. Only 15-20% of Bollywood films are successful each year.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&defl=en&q=define:bollywood&sa=X&ei=OwP1TNWlKsOB8gbgtLDhBQ&sqi=2&ved=0CBMQkAE
http://www.sepiamutiny.com/sepia/archives/001907.html

India Questions

#1: What is the current population of India? About 1.21 billion http://www.theglobalist.com/StoryId.aspx?StoryId=8719
#2: What is the total fertility rate in India? 2.65 children per 1 woman https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/in.html
#3: What percentage of the Indian population lives below the poverty line? 25% https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/in.html
#4: Briefly describe two terrorist attacks inside India? 1: On Feburary 13 Islamic terrorists bombed a restaurant killing 17 people. 2: 9 people were killed and 57 were wounded in a bakery explosion. 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. What is India ranked? 119th http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/19/world/asia/19iht-letter.html?ref=india
#6: Briefly describe the effects of monsoons on India? It made water levels rise above 350 ft. flooding the town. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/01/world/asia/01india.html
#7: What are some of the problems India has getting clear water to its people? Raw sewege pours into the city through the river http://video.nytimes.com/video/2006/09/28/world/1194817098866/part-1-water-woes-in-india.html
#8: What is the litarcy rate in India? 61% https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/in.html
#9: What are the major religions in India? Hindu, Muslim, Christian, and Sikh https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/in.html
#10: When did India achieve independence, and from what country? August 15 1957 from the UK  https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/in.html

China & India

China and India are the only two "population billionaires"

China: 1.35 billion
India: 1.21 billion

40% of the population, live in China or India.

The population in 1950 is about equal to the population of China and India combined

The United States is the third biggest in population with 318 MILLION.

Each of their population is bigger than the whole western hemisphere's population.

The life expectancy for China is 73 years, and India's life expectancy is 64.

International migration is not that big of a deal to them, they don't like it, but they're not worried about it.

Homework

Organic Certified Coffee: Is coffee grown by farmers who emphasize the use of renewable resources and the conservation of soil and water to enhance environmental quality
http://www.groundsforchange.com/learn/organic.php


Fair Trade Coffee: Coffee that is made sure that more money goes to the people that produce the coffee 
http://www.lwr.org/coffee/


Crop: A plant or animal product that can be harvested for profit. 
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/crop

Commodity: An economic good.
http://dictionary.weather.net/dictionary/commodity

Poverty: When someone doesn't have a acceptable amount of money or belongings
http://dictionary.weather.net/dictionary/poverty?show=0&t=1289417475

All my other questions are already answered on my blog yesterday

Notes 2

We watched videos in class and we had to find five terms we are unfamiliar with. They are:

Coffee is the most heavily traded crop

The money that is made by selling coffee isn't being given to the people in poverty that make it.

Specialty Coffee: special coffees.

Who consumes the most coffee in the world? Finland

Where is the only place in America that makes coffee? Hawaii


Who makes all the money in selling the coffee? The people who actually sell it (Starbucks, McDonalds, etc.). Not the people that grow it.

Fair Trade Coffee: Changing the fact that before the coffee industry was like a sweat shop.

Organic Certified Coffee:


What is changing as big company's buy coffee? They ask more questions that shows they are starting to care about these growers more.

Who is the number 1 exporter of coffee? Brazil

Crop: Anything you consume as a person.

In Class 11-3-10

In class today, like every other class for the past few days, we got together into our groups and finished up our projects that are due Friday.

NOTES

John Bol Dau went to Syracuse. Panther and Daniel went to Pittsburgh.The Lost Boys worked at McDonalds, Factories, Grocery Stores, Worked for a bank. John Bol Dau's sister and mother came to see him in America. Panther got married. John Bol Dau made medical clinics in Africa and Panther made schools for Africa

In Class 10-28-10

In class today, we began by going over what we're doing for our project. Then we started working on it. Thats about all we did.

In Class 10-27-10

In class today we continued to watch the movie about the Lost Boys and what they are  becoming in America. It began with the Lost Boys that came to America spreading their point on why issues in Sudan should be solved. One of the Lost Boys said the solution to the Sudan issues is in Africa, the people there and the natural leaders that are born there. Panther decides to go back to Africa and meet his future wife and to see his homeland again. We also began talking about a group project that we will be starting tomorrow about news in Sudan and stuff like that.

In Class 10-22-10

In-migration: When a person who migrates to a new place.

Out-migration: When a person leaves a place.

Forced migration: When person migrates because they were forced, if they're life was in danger or something

Net internal migration: The net number of people leaving or moving into a state or country

Movers from abroad: People that have never traveled to a new country.

Internally displaced person (IDP): People forced to flee their homes.

The civil war in Sudan started in September 1983 when the Sudanese President declared that they are adding Islamic punishments from Islamic Law into the penal code. Southerners and non Muslims were subjected to these punishments. 

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/sudan-civil-war2.htm

In class we watched another part of the movie about the Lost Boys. In what we watched today, it showed the people getting into their new jobs, what they have to repay to the government (such as airplane cost and other costs the government lent them with) and during the end of the part we watched, it was Christmas time and they were unsure and had many questions about it. 

 

Lost Boys of Sudan

The  Lost Boys of Sudan had to run away from their home in Sudan because civil war broke out, killing thousands of innocent people in Sudan. Boys were specifically threatened by this civil war and thats why they were called the "Lost BOYS".
The Lost Boys left Sudan and walked to Ethiopia and lived there for a little, but after a while, Ethiopia's government toppled and they basically kicked the Lost Boys out, forcing them to walk to Kenya.
The refugee camps were really hard for the lost boys because they were short on food, water, and other supplies.

In Class 10-21-10

In class today we, learned life lessons such as opening the door for someone, and how to respond to someone saying 'thank you'. We also watched a movie on the "Lost Boys" of Sudan that had to run away from they're home because of civil wars over religion. It explained their 1000+ mile journey on their escape from danger in Sudan and how some of them were chosen to go to America.

In Class 10-20-10

In class all we did was went over our 100 point population quiz and I kept it for later

Over the Break Assignment. Pt. 2

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WNcEQJAqXQhzRXrl3R6khR3FrcYOOyh-5DPflWTQ87U/edit#

Over the Break Assignment. Pt. 1

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dnqRC_W6_gHCMPyHqqmU6QjK2SqShlf3zWrpK6dFXX8/edit?authkey=CL6I8e8L#

In Class 10-12-10

In class today, we took our population test, it is either 50 or 100 points, depending on what the rest of the class wants. I did pretty good since it was an open resource quiz/test. Since we had an hour to take our test I started working on the "over the break" assignment.

In Class 10-8-10

• Right now there are more people on the planet now then there ever has been. 
• 90% of this population growth takes place in the developing countries of Africa, South and East Asia, and Latin America.
• It took until 1804 to have our population to be 1 billion, that took over 10,000 years.
• To get the next billion, it was in 1927, that took 123 years.
• To get our 3rd billion in 1960, it took 33 years.
• To get our 6th billion in 1999, it took 12 years.
• This says that over the years, our population grew by the billion faster now, than in the 1800s and the early 1900s.
• In Japan, woman are expected to live a little over 7 more years than men.  
• In the USA women were expected to live a little over 5 years more than men. 
• In Swaziland women were expected to live just a little under a year more than men.
• Woman are expected to live longer because men have the more dangerous jobs, and more men are in combat in the military than woman. Also, men go to the doctor less than women. 
• Rate of Natural Increase doesn't count migration. 
• Germany has the opposite of the "Baby Boom" because they have a low of reproduction. 
• Germany is basically begging people to have kids, "Be patriotic and have a baby" according to Mr. Schick.

In Class 10-7-10

In class today we went over "Population Studies" again because some people weren't in class yesterday, and the notes were really important so we did a quick overview of what we went over.
Pull Factor: A positive factor that would make someone want to come to a country.
Examples: Good government, good health care, good weather, political/religious freedom, rights.


Push Factor: A negative factor that would make someone want to leave their country and come to another.
Examples: Bad health care, not a safe environment, bad government, bad weather.

The population pyramid is a graph, one side is males and the other side is females. Its a two sided bar graph the male side bar graphs are right to left and female side bar graphs are left to right and in the middle is ages of people. The population pyramid shows distribution of people of various ages.

Baby Boom: any period marked by a greatly increased birth rate.

Germany has the opposite of baby boom. because they're birth rate is at a low.

In Class 10-6-10

In class today we went over our "Population Studies" blog answers and we went over why our answers on birth rate, death rate, rate of natural increase, total fertility rate, and net migration rate are what they are. We said that African countries have the highest birth rate because they don't have the knowledge about safe sex and birth control.  We compared the life expectancy of Japan and the United States and said Japans life expectancy is higher than the United States because Japan is more healthy than us. Japan doesn't eat as much fast food as us, they walk everywhere unlike us who drive down the street to get McDonald's or something.
 A country or region needs a total fertility rate of 2.1 for the population to remain the same, if the total fertility rate is under 2.1, the population will decrease, and if the total fertility rate is over 2.1 then the population will increase. Immigration is when a person comes into a region, emigration is when a person leaves a region. When someone immigrates to somewhere else, they also are emigrating.

In Class 10-5-10

In class we went over our 100 point test that we took last week that i got a 82% on. I was given a disgusting dum-dum for a right answer on the test, but then got a better tasting smartie after i answered a second question right. The class average was 74.1%, so I got 8.9% better than the rest of the class. Also Mark told Mr. Schick that he was his first male teacher ever, and Mr. Schick went on to tell us that he got a sex change. He was "kidding".

Population Studies

Life Expectancy: Statistically, how long your expected to live.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_expectancy

Crude Birthrate: The childbirths per 1,000 people per year. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birth_rate

Crude Death Rate: The deaths per 1,000 people. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortality_rate

Rate of Natural Increase: The crude birth rate minus the crude death rate. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rate_of_natural_increase


Total Fertility Rate: The average number of children to be born to a woman. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_fertility_rate

Net Migration Rate: The difference of immigrants and emigrants, divided per 1,000 inhabitants. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_migration_rate

Population Pyramid: A graph that shows the distribution of various age groups in an human population. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_pyramid

Life Expectancy:
Japan: 82.12 years. 3rd in the world
France: 80.98 years. 8th in the world
Kenya: 57.86 years. 189th in the world
Cuba: 77.45 years. 55th in the world
United States: 77.11 years. 49th in the world
Germany: 79.26 years. 32nd in the world

Crude Birth Rate:
Japan: 7.64/1,000. 222nd in the world
Kenya: 36.64/1,000. 29th in the world
Ethiopia: 43.66/1,000. 7th in the world
United States: 13.83/1,000. 154th in the world
Germany: 8.18/1,000. 220th in the world

Crude Death Rate:
Afghanistan: 17.83/1,000. 7th in the world
Kenya: 9.72/1,000. 67th in the world
United States: 8.38/1,000. 99th in the world  
Japan: 9.54/1,000. 69th in the world
Mexico: 4.8/1,000. 192nd in the world

Total Fertility Rate:
Niger: 7.68 children/1 woman. 1st in the world
Afghanistan: 5.5 children/1 woman. 13th in the world
Japan: 1.2 children/1 woman. 218th in the world
United States: 2.06 children/1 woman. 126th in the world
Germany: 1.42 children/1 woman. 196th in the world

Net Migration Rate:
Mexico: -3.61/1,000. 153rd in the world
United States: 4.32/1,000. 25th in the world
United Arab Emirates: 22.98/1,000. 1st in the world
Argentina: 0/1,000. 73rd in the world
Saudi Arabia: -7.6/1,000. 171st in the world
Uganda: -8.83/1,000. 173rd in the world

In Class 9-29-10

I wasn't in class today because we had a game against Calvert Hall. In class we were supposed to take a 100 point test so i guess thats what you all did. So its probably a good idea if i made that up tomorrow. But since i wasn't in class thats all i have to say.

In Class 9-28-10

In class today, we spent a good amount of time getting some peoples final grade in for their 9/11 paper in the grade 'book' for their mid-quarter grades. After we got over all these grades and stuff, we started going over whats going to be on the test on Wednesday because its a 100 point test and that will affect our overall grade really bad. We talked about how America was the only country that has ever dropped a nuclear bomb, but Iran HAS a nuclear bomb. Iran won't be able to drop that bomb on us though because we have so many jets and satellites that go through the air at all times so we are protected from an aircraft from other countries. We also told how Iran and Iraq would try to take Israel off the face of the planet, either politically or literally. Mecca is Islams most holy place in the world. I asked if we would bomb Iran's nuclear plant with a little bomb that would set off Iran's nuke that they are building, and Mr. Schick told me that there are people in the government that are trying to do just that. Al-Quida, the terrorist group formed by Osama Bin Ladin, was the group that attacked us on 9/11. Christianity is the largest religion in the world, with 2.2 to 2.3 billion followers. Islam's holy book is the Qur'an, the Judaism holy book is the Torah, and the Christian holy book is the Holy Bible. Christianity and Judaism's holy place is Jerusalem. Judaism has 14 to 17 million followers. Islam has over 1 billion followers. All three religions (Islam, Judaism, and Christianity) are Abrahamic religions. Iran has a theocracy, this means they live by the law in the Qur'an. By law, Muslims have to prey to Mecca five times a day. I'm pretty sure that was a good enough blog to get a 100% in your class for the year.

In Class 9-24-10

In class we all presented our prezis. Everyone took notes about what they heard that was important into their blog. My notes were:

• A Muslim a follower of the religion of Islam. The word Muslim means one who submits to God
• The Qur'an is the Islam Holy Book
• The Holy Bible is the Christian Holy Book 
• Christians believe in The Father, The Son, and The Holy Spirit is three in one
• All three religions are monotheistic
• Jews believe Jesus was a prophet, but believe Yahweh is the only real God
• Mecca, Medina, and Jerusalem are the three major holy sites that Muslims believe in an prey to.
• Christian population is 2.1 billion, the most practiced religion in the world
• Islam believes that Allah is the all mighty God.
• The Jewish population is 13-14 million, the 12th largest religion in the world
• The Jewish Holy Book is the Torah 
• Christianity has many different denominations. They all have the same basic idea about Jesus Christ and God but some churches are more orthodox then other churches within Christian beliefs 
• Jesus was born onto earth as a Jew, but brought the faith of Christianity. 
• All three religions began in the Middle East. All pretty close to each other. 

Prezi Link

http://prezi.com/presentation/albacol14@jcpatriot.org/fhbrw7d/

In Class 9-23-10

In class today we got in our groups and put some information on Christianity, Islam, and Judaism in our prezi that we started the other day when i wasn't in class. My group was me, Jordan, Catherine, Colleen, and Cole and Cole was the one that was putting down the information on the prezi. 

In Class 9-17-10

In class today we got in groups and I was in a group with Amir, Jordan, and Jessica. We had to randomly pick a country out of a bucket and we got Iran. After researching Iran we went over all the groups told the class what they learned. Important things that were said by groups were; Egypt is located in between the Mediterranean Sea, Red Sea, and Nile River. There are over 76,000,000 people in Egypt, thats 16th most in the world, but they are not very ethnically diverse. Saudi Arabia's population is 28,686,633 they're #2 in oil production in the world and #1 in the world for oil exports. Saudi Arabia is 100% Muslim.  

Identifying Countries

#1: United States is found in North America

#2: France is found in Europe

#3: Iraq is found in Asia

#4: China is found in Asia

#5: Saudi Arabia is found in Asia

#6: Haiti is found in South America

#7: India is found in Asia 

#8: Japan is found in Asia

#9: Venezuela is found in South America

#10: Iran is found in Asia

#11: Russia is mainly found in Europe but some of it is in Asia

#12: The United Kingdom is found in Europe

#13: Israel is found in Asia

#14: Germany is found in Europe 

#15: Tibet is found in Asia

#16: Afghanistan is found in Asia

#17: Brazil is found in South America

#18: North Korea is found in Asia

#19: Egypt is found in Africa

#20: Kenya is found in Africa

#21: Pakistan is found in Asia 

#22: Vietnam is found in Asia

#23: Mexico is found in South America

#24: Cuba is found in South America

 https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2096.html?countryName=&countryCode=&regionCode=m

In Class 9-15-10

In class today we talked about how to use The CIA Factbook faster than just typing what your looking for in the search  bar. Also we talked about why 12 of the 13 countries with the highest birth rate are African countries.

In Class 9-14-10

In class today we figured out that only eight out of 19 people in the class successfully posted they're 9/11 essay to they're blog. Me, Mark, and Amir went around the room helping the other students that didn't know how to publish they're essay. Also in class Mr. Schick was threatened over the phone that he was going to get beaten by a stick.

9/11 Research Paper Link

https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=13k5I0FPvEqcAJtTHIWT9FhQi2mSmpu9A4f7L6pMUpYM

What We Did in Class 9-8-10

In class today we went over what happened on 9-11, and how it affected our economy. We also talked about Flight 93, the passangers that fought off the fourth airplane hijacking crashing into the ground instead of The Capital Building

In Class 9-7-10

In class yesterday we went over the definitions, largest religions, most populated countries and the population of the earth that we wrote in the last blog. We also went over how to find out wich sites are reliable and how to find out if a site isn't reliable.

End of week one blog

Geography: the science dealing with the areal differentiation of the earth's surface, as shown in the character, arrangement, and interrelations over the world of such elements as climate, elevation, soil, vegetation, population, land use, industries, or states, and of the unit areas formed by the complex of these individual elements.

Globalization: When a company expands to operate internationally

Population: The ammount of people in one region

Immigration: Non-native people moving to a new area to settle.

Industrialization: Introducing an industry to an area.

Re-worded deffinitions from dictionary.com


The population of the earth is 6,768,181,146 people.

Top 5 most populated countries on the earth:                 

#1: China: 1,338,612,968 people                                

#2: India: 1,156,897,766 people

#3: United States: 307,212,123 people

#4: Indonesia: 240,271,522 people

#5: Brazil: 198,739,269 people                          I got all of my population numbers from the CIA factbook.

The 5 largest countries in the world:

#1: Russia

#2: Canada

#3: United States

#4: China

#5: Brazil                                            found on :                www.aneki.com/largest.html      

Top 5 religions in the world:

#1: Christianity

#2: Islam

#3: Athiest

#4: Hinduism

#5: Chinese traditional religion

found on: www.adherents.com/Religions_By_Adherents.html

Video Statistics

In the video we watched in class today i learned that in India there are more honors students than the U.S has kids all together, this influences me becuase India is a third world country and they dont have as much money as us but more kids are getting a better grasp on what theyre learning. Also in the video it said that currently students are preparing for jobs that dont exist yet, this influences me because I'm a student so I'll have to soon prepare for these jobs that arn't yet jobs

six word assignment

I like playing Football and Baseball