Party!

Today we had a party in class and it was the last day before Christmas Break!!!!!

Discussion Group Day 2

Today we did the same thing as yesterday.  I didn't get to talk a lot again because I was not feeling well at all.  I don't think I'm going to get the best grade but at least I tried.

Discussion Group

Today in class we had a discussion group.  Its big part of our grade but it is hard to talk when everyone else it.  I'll try tomorrow.

Building Modern India

 People who cannot read or write work as laborers

·         They get $3 for 8 hours

·         24 hour work site

·         Giving them stability keeps them from leaving during peak of agricultural season

·         800-900 people

·         Once and 15 days someone gets hurt

·         Give them safety belts and helmets

·         People regret not studying when they got the chance because they could have been making better money

New Arrivals Strain India’s Cities to Breaking Point

·         They apartment collapsed because it was unsafe and India’s Poor Struggle for shelter

o    built to many floors 

o    the basement was flooded

• Since they don't get a lot of money they have to live in places that do not mean the criteria of the living conditions  which i unhealthy and unsafe
• One family of 5 lived in a 10x10 house before they lived in the apartment that collapsed
• 3/4 of the people in India have either bribed or know someone who has bribed a cop
• Many people died
• There were 400 people crowded into the building
• Cheap rent
• The government has been forcing people to evacuate unsafe places now

India’s College Exam Season

·         Exams take month of many tests

·         People work really hard to get into good colleges

·         There is limited slots in the country’s system of higher education

Souring above India’s Poverty, a 27-Story Home

·         The tower is known as Antilia

·         Home of India’s richest person Mukesh Ambani

·         He has $27 billion fortune

·         Ranks him among one of the richest men in the world

·         60,000-400,000 sq. ft.

·         The cost was about $1 billion

Answering the Questions

1.    Who builds such a fast growing country?

The laborers are building the buildings

DLF is building an Office Park (not physically)

2.    What happens when huge numbers of people hit the cities looking for these jobs?

The failing threatens to undermine the nation’s ability to vault its multitudes out of poverty and share the fruits of its nearby double-digit growth more widely

3.    Where- and how- do you live when you work on a big construction project?

You live in cheap places that do not fit the criteria of the living conditions

4.    What if you don’t want to be a laborer?

Middle class people study and work hard to try to get into college because there are limited spots available.

5.    Where do you live if you are the richest man in India?

You live in a 27-story house called the Antilia. 

India

• They apartment collapsed because it was unsafe
• built to many floors 
• the basement was flooded
• People in India with no education work for people that only give them $2 a day
• Since they don't get a lot of money they have to live in places that do not mean the criteria of the living conditions  which i unhealthy and unsafe
• one family of 5 lived in a 10x10 house before they lived in the apartment that collapsed
• 3/4 of the people in India have either bribed or know someone who has bribed a cop

India Paragraph Revised

In this unit on India, I have learned a lot.  Mostly I have learned about the large population of India, life in the slums of Mumbai, and India’s problems with human trafficking.  India’s population is 1,173,108,018 and is the second highest in the world.  The population growth rate is 1.376% and the birth rate is 21.34 birth/1,000 population.  The reason India’s population is so high is because of many things.  One is because of poverty and illiteracy.  Because jobs are hard to find, families think that having a bigger family would be better for manual labor.  Another reason is because there are many middle class families in India.  They think that having a bigger family is a blessing.  Others are lack of education on the subject and because of their religion.  The United States population is 310,232,863 and nowhere close to what India’s is.  India’s population is probably partially part of the cause of the problems below.
       According to Webster’s Dictionary a slum is a densely populated usually urban area marked by crowding, dirty run-down housing, poverty, and social disorganization. The slums in Mumbai started in 1950 and since the independence of India has tripled.  Dharavi is the biggest slum in Asia.  It is located in Mumbai.  It is 530 acres and has 100,000 residents.  That is about 18,000 people in one acre.  Around 60% of Mumbai’s population is living in a slum.  The conditions of the slums are horrible.  The people who live in these slums have to battle many struggles like lack of water and public transportation, constant migration, no sewage waste facility, pollution, and of course housing shortage.  They housed they live in are shacks, huts, and homes made out of scraps they find.  Life in the slums are not a great place to live and most of India’s population have to live in these terrible conditions every day.

            The final thing I have learned is about India’s problems with human trafficking.  Human trafficking is tricking people and getting them to go away from their homelands to work under exploitative conditions.  In India there is Human Trafficking with men, women, and children.  With men it is mostly manual work.  They work in brick kilns, rice mills, agriculture, and factories.  Women and girls are forced into marriage and they are trafficked for the purpose of commercial sexual exploitation.  Children are trafficked by being forced to work in factories and to be servants and beggars.  Sometimes they even are forced to work in circus shows.  There are penalties to do this in India. Under the ITPA you could be in prison from as little as 7 years to as many as life in prison.  Indian authorities use Penal Codes saying that they cannot kidnap or sell minors into prostitution.  The punishment for this is 10 years and having to pay a fine.  They are also on the Tier 2 Watch list. That means that India is not fully complying with the smallest of standards for the elimination of trafficking but they are trying their best to do so.  India is on this list for the fifth year in a row.  Trafficking is an important issue that not only is happening in India but around the world.  This is what I have learned so far on our unit about India.

December 8

Today in class we had to wait a long time before we got to watch Slumdog Millionaire but we finally did.  It was about when Jamal found Latika.  When he found her he asked her to run away with him.  When she did she got caught and Salim took her.