Slumdog Millionaire

1. What is Kaun Banega Crorepati? It is the Indian Version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
2. List five essential facts about Bombay (Mumbai). (http://mumbai.clickindia.com/general/facts.html and http://www.mumbaihub.com/facts-and-figures.html)
1. Bombay was renamed Mumbai in 1996.
2. The population is 18 million.
3. It is the capital of Maharashtra.
4. Marathi, Hindi, and English are main languages.
5. Tropical temperature
6. Richest city in India
7. 86.5 % is the Literacy Rate
8. Entertainment and cultural capital
9. 2nd most popular city in the world
3. What is Dharavi? It is a slum.
4. What is a shantytown?  How many people live in shantytowns worldwide? It is a district where people live in huts and shacks. People who live there are extremely poor. As of 2005 one billion people lived in shantytowns (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanty_town).  Houses made from things they find.
5. Who is Amitabh Bachchan, and what does he have to do with Slumdog Millionaire? He is an Indian actor and producer. He played himself in the movie.
6. What is Bollywood? It is a film industry of India.
7. How much is 250,000 rupees (or any amount of rupees) in American dollars? (Hint: find a currency converter.) One rupee is equal to $0.021757.

Nov 29

Today I missed school.  I guess i'll see what I missed on Wednesday.

India Questions

1. What is the current population of India? 1,173,108,018 (CIA Factbook)
2. What is the total fertility rate in India? 2.65 children born/woman (CIA Factbook)
3. What percentage of the Indian population lives below the poverty line? 25% (CIA Factbook)
4. Briefly describe two terrorist attacks inside India. (NY Times)
1. On Feb. 13 Islamic people bombed a restaurant killing 17 people.
2. A bomb was set off in 2008 killing 163 people in Mumbai, India.
5. The Human Development Report of the United Nations ranks the counties of the world by poverty.  Where does India rank on this list? 199th (NY Times)
6. Briefly describe the effects of the monsoons on India. People and animals dying, people fleeing fearing disease and loosing money. (NY Times)
7. What are some of the problems India has getting clean water to its people? There is pollution in the Yamuna River and the population has gotten very high so there is not enough water or distribution. (NY Times)
8. What is the literacy rate in India? 61% (CIA Factbook)
9. What are the major religions in India? Hindu, Muslim, Christian and Sikh (CIA Factbook)
10. When did India achieve independence, and from what country? Britain ruled India.  They achieved independence in 1947. (CIA Factbook)

World Clock!!!!!!!

This is the picture of the world clock when there were 6,900,000,000 people in the world.  For some reason though when i tried to get a picture of it, it skipped a few numbers but I'm pretty close still.

India vs. China

• They are the only countries in the world with more than a billion people.
• 2 out of every 5 people in the world are equal in size to the world population in 1950
• No one is even close to China and India
• China and India are bigger that those of Africa, Europe, and the entire western hemisphere
• Life expectancy in China 73
• Life expectancy in India-64
• China is going to be more of an urbane area
• international migration is not a big part of the growth of them
• they do not allow illegal migration
• they mostly concern fertility
• in 1950 fertility rate was 6 kids per woman
• they have declined more in China then in India
• China fertility rate-1.8
• India fertility rate-2.8

Coffee Project Link

https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1Fk61XXAUTigZyPZ7VpZeoIRfNt0jX63mmLTX8m4HEG0

Coffee

Today we had the freshman retreat so we didn't present.  We mainly did whatever we wanted.  We will present tomorrow. Hope it goes well.

Coffee Project

Today in class we finished up our coffee projects.  Because school is closed Wednesday the project is due Thursday.  We have to be ready to present when we walk in.

Coffee Projects

Today we worked on our projects more.  I worked on the questions mostly.  Hope we can finish by Wednesday.

Starting a New Project

Today we went over our test on God Grew Tired of Us.  We also started a project on coffee,  Tasha, Brynly, Emily, and I have the coffee crisis.  We will work on it again tomorrow.

Coffee

• Coffee is the most heavily traded crop in the world

Vocab

• Fair Trade Coffee- an organized social movement and market-based approach that aims to help producers in developing countries obtain better trading conditions and promote sustainability
• Certified Organic Coffee-coffee that has grown according to organic farming standards without using pesticides 
• Relationship Coffee- try to make a relationship between buyer and seller to make them want to buy their coffee
• Commodity- a economic good or agricultural product
• Trade Credit- an arrangement between businesses to trade goods or products.

Questions

• What is the top country in coffee production? Brazil
• Where do coffee beans grow? They are the pit of the coffee plant
• What rank are we in for coffee consumption? 16th
• How many liters do we consume per capita? 105.9
• Do we produce coffee in the US? in Hawaii

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/coffee/map.html
http://www.singleservecoffeeforums.com/top-50-countries-in-terms-of-coffee-consumption-t7688.html
http://www.globalexchange.org/campaigns/fairtrade/coffee/
http://www.sustainableharvest.com/relationship-coffee/
http://www.coffeeresearch.org/

Finally Done

Today we did our last touch-ups on our projects and turned them in.  It took a long time though because no one had to turn the file to a PDF.  Hope we got a good grade.

Finishing Up Our Projects

Tasha and I are almost done our projects and we think we did a good job.  We also worked on the front cover which also looks pretty good. I hope we do good.

Working on our Projects Still

We worked on our projects again.  We have until the end of class on Friday.  We have finished most of it but we had trouble putting in our video.  Were going to try again tomorrow and start on the cover.