India's economy

For our powerpoint presentation, i had to reached india's economy.
Heres what i have . . .

India's economy :

• India is delvoping into an open-market economy
• An open economy is an economy where there are no barriers to international trade - FREE TRADE : no taxes, no tariffs, no regulation of trade by the government, only property protection

• India's diverse economy compasses traditional village farming, modern agriculture, handicrafts
• Indian development is clever because their economy increased a lot, even if population is still poor for them
• They accomplished a green revolution (a series of research, development, and new  technology), that increased agricultural production in India
• Expanded farming areas
• Double-cropping existing farmland
• Used improved seeds

• It has increased the pace of government - owns more companies

• Both government spending and taxation are among the lowest in the world

• Has limited employment opportunities, and insufficient access to basic and higher education
• Labor force is 467 million people, it is 2 in comparison to the world
• Agriculture : 52%
• Industry : 14%
• Services : 34%

• Unemployment rate is 10.7%, it is 124th in comparison to the world
• Population below the proverty line is 25%

• Industrial production growth rate is 9.35, it is 8th in comparison to the world

• 6th in oil imports with 2.9 million barrels/day

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/in.html

http://www.indiaonestop.com/Greenrevolution.htm

Flim vs. Reality Project

Lastly, where do you live if you are the richest man in India?  Check out Soaring Above India's Poverty, a  27-Story Home.

• sheath of steel and glass soaring 27 floors into the sky.
• The parking garage fills six levels
• Three helipads are on the roof.
• There are terraces upon terraces, airborne swimming pools and hanging gardens in a Blade Runner-meets-Babylon
• There are nine elevators, a spa, a 50-seat theater and a grand ballroom.
• Hundreds of servants and staff are expected to work inside
• The tower, known as Antilia, is the new home of India’s richest person, Mukesh Ambani, whose $27 billion fortune also ranks him among the richest people in the world

India Notes - 12/10/10

• Minunim Wange in America is $7 an hour, in India they got $3 for 8 hours
• Jobs are constustion and carrying brick on your head for money
• If you went to school, you would probably make more money

• People earning little from work, they live in small aparaments with big families
• A building collasped becasue it was 3 stories high
• Many people were harmed, to get money
• They live here because they have no money, they pay cheap rent
• A family of 5, lived in a 10 by 10 foot aparament
• They Indians know/do pay or brib cops

Daily Post - 12/9/10

Today we finished Slumdog Millionarie.

• Jamiel won Who wants to be a Millionarie?
• Lakitia is freed by Samel
• Samiel was killed

INDIA ESSAY BELOW

Daily Post - 12/8/2010

Today we spent the first mod of class EMAILING mr shick.
For the second mod, we continued to watch Slumdog Millionarie.

India Essay - 12/6

There are many things I learned in this unit about India. I learned about the harass lifestyles they have living in the slums, dealing with poverty, and human trafficking. I also learned about some important locations in India such as Bollywood, Bombay/Mumbai, the Taj Mahal, and the Babri Mosque. 

India is home to many, with about 1,173,108,018 people. It has the world’s second largest population. More than 75% of this population lives in poverty. The Human Development Report of the United Nations ranks the countries of the world by poverty. It ranked India 119^th out of 169 countries. India also has many people living in slums or shanty towns. Shanty towns are slum settlements of impoverished people who live in dwellings made from scrap material often sheets of metal or plastic. Many slums do not have proper education. They have school in a small room which is crowed by students. Dharavi is the largest slum in India and in the world. Dharavi is one unending stretch of narrow dirty lanes, open sewers, and cramped huts. Sadly, it is home to more than one million people. Another cruel issue in India is human trafficking. Human trafficking is like modern day slavery. People trick others into working for them under their harass conditions. Men, women, and children are forced to work in brick kilns, rice mills, agriculture, and factories. Children are forced to work as factor works, domestic servants, and beggars. Beggars sit on the streets and beg for money. Some masters hurt their beggars so they would look more pathetic and get more money. Girls are sold at a young age and suffer with diseases such as HIDS or AIDS. Girls are sometimes forced into the circus and forced to marry their masters. They can even sold by their parents or masters if money if needed. As you can see, India is a very poor county and will do anything to earn some money.

We learned about important locations in India such as Bollywood, Bombay/Mumbai, the Babri Mosque, and the Taj Mahal. The Taj Mahal is located in Agra, India. It was built by Emperor Shan Jahan in memory of his third wife which died during child birth of their 14^th child. It is considered to be the seventh wonder of the world.  Mumbai is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the most populous city in India, second populous in the world, with a population of 14 million people. It is the richest city in India and has the highest GDP of any city in South West or Central Asia. Bollywood is a popular name for the film industry in India. It combines the name Hollywood and Bombay, the older name for the city Mumbai, where the Indian film industry is based. Bollywood is the largest flim producer in India and one of the largest centers of flim production in the world. It is only part of the Indian cinema. India films usually end with a big musical number.  

I think the movie that we are watching in class, Slumdog Millionarie, portrays life in India very well and clearly. The main characters, Jamal, Latika, and Salim struggle living in the slums. Soon, they become beggars and are harmed to earn more money. Sadly, this does happen in present day India. There are many young people suffering and might suffer for their whole life. This movie does a good job showing how difficult it is to live in the slums.

582 WORDS!

Studing India Homework

Human Traffricking

     India has many cruel and harass issues such as human trafficking, child exploitation, and forced labor. Human trafficking is like modern day slavery. People trick others into working for them under their harass conditions. Men, women, and children are forced to work in brick kilns, rice mills, agriculture, and embroidery factories. Women and girls are forced into marriage. Children are forced to work as factors workers, domestic servants, beggars, and agriculture workers.  They are trafficked for the purposes of labor and commercial sexual exploitation. Girls are sold at a young age and suffer with diseases such as HIDS or AIDS. India is a destination for women and girls from Nepal and Bangladesh. In India, there are millions of children from poor families who are subjected to forced labor. There are more than 250,000 Nepalese girls and women in Indian brothels. Brothels are any house, room, conveyance or place, or any portion of any house, room, conveyance or place, which is used for purposes of sexual exploitation or abuse for the gain of another person. They are either sold by their parents or tricked into employment.  Local recruiters sell them to brokers for 10 USD. Brokers sell them to brothel owners for 1,500. India has been placed on the US human trafficking tier 2 watch list.
    
     Some say that the cause of human trafficking in India is because of lack of human rights and money. But what does the law say? Well, in1956 the Government of India passes the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act. It states that brothels are illegal but in practice they are restricted in a certain location, that sex work is neither legal nor illegal. Punishment for keeping a brothel or allowing premises to be used as a brothel is punishment up to 3 years. Human trafficking  is happening in India every day; many people are suffering and might suffer for the rest their lives.



Resources:
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/in.html
http://www.centralchronicle.com/viewnews.asp?articleID=9042
http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/human-trafficking/what-is-human-trafficking.html
http://floatingsun.net/udai/files/SJC_HumanTrafficking.pdf

4 Questions on video

Compare the motion picture industury in India and in the United States.

Hollywood produces 500 films per year on average and has a worldwide audience of 2.6 billion whereas Bollywood produces more than 1000 (not consistently) films every year and has a worldwide audience of 3 Billion. In terms of vieweship, Bollywood overtook Hollywood in 2004 and has been leading ever since. Bollywood made a revenue of $1.75 Billion in 2006(estimated to rise to $3.4 Billion in 2010) which is only half the revenue of what one Hollywood studio, Walt Disney made in 2006 – and that is saying a lot. However, while Hollywood’s market inside the US has almost saturated, India’s 500 million population under the age of 20 will ensure that the market inside India will grow exponentially in the coming years. *Bollywood is only part of the Indian industry. Bollywood makes more movies. America gets more money. Indian flims have musicals in the end.*
http://mutiny.wordpress.com/2007/02/01/bollywood-vs-hollywood-the-complete-breakdown/

What are the names of the three main characters in Slumdog Millionarie?

The three maskters are Jamal Malik, Latika, and Salim Malik
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slumdog_Millionaire#Cast

What is a chai wallah?

A wallah is one who perfroms a task. A chai wallah makes chai. Chai wallah are everywhere.Chai wallah's make tea. To stand out from the rest, many chai wallahs developed a sylized preparation and presentation for their chai. Most chai wallah prepare their chai in small batches on a per order basics.
http://chaipilgrimage.com/2008/11/28/what-is-a-chai-wallah/

List 5 things to know about the Taj Mahal.

• Located in Agra, India
• Built in 1632-1653 in took 22 years to buildOne of the most reconiziable structures in the world
• Built by Mughal Emperor Shan Jahan in memory of his third wife, Mumtaz Mahal - which died during child birth - die during the 14th child, a daughter named Gauhara Begum
• Considered to be the seventh wonder of the world
• The walls and dome of Taj Mahal were covered with semi precious stones and gems that were later plundered in successive wars.
• Some European scholars claim that Taj Mahal was designed by an Italian architect by the name of Geronimo Veroneo. However, there is no hard evidence to prove this claim.
• The construction of this monument took a time period of 22 years. A workforce of 20,000 laborers was brought from here and there for building the Taj Mahal.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taj_Mahal
http://www.bharatonline.com/uttar-pradesh/taj-mahal/facts.html

Babri Mosque Notes

Bombay rites:

• Babri Mosque - it was destory, burned, in 1992 when a poticical rally devolped into an involving 150,000 people
• More than 2,000, mostly muslisms, were killed in ensuring riots in many indaian cities including Munbai and Delhi  
• Babri Mosque was one of the largest mosque in Uttar Predesh, a state in India with some 31 million Muslisms
• Mosque became the largest, due to the importance of the disputed site
• Construsted in 1527 and destoryed, burned, in 1992
• They destoryed it becasue they wanted to get even for their God

Video Questions Homework - pt2

What is Kaun Banega Croepati?

An Indian reality/game show based on the UK game show Who Want to Be a Millionaire? It is hosted by Amitah Bachchan (see notes below). This show was hugely popular in India.


List five essential facts about Bombay (Mumbai)

• Capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra
• Most populous city in India, second populous in the world, with a population of 14 million people
• Seven Islands : Bombay Island, Parel, Mazagaon, Mahim, Colaba, Woril, and Old's Women's Island
• Commerial and entertainment capital of India
• Richest city in India and has the highest GDP of any city in South West or Central Asia

What is Dharavi?

• is a slum
• largest slum in the world
• Asia's largest slum
• It is home to more than one million people 
• A city within a city, it is one unending strtch of narrow dirty lanes, open sewers and cramped huts   
• exports goods (pottery and plastic) all around the world
• Rents can be as low as 185 rupess ($4) per month
• Dharavi has a large number of thriving small-scale industies

What is a shatytwon? How many people live in shanty worldwide?

• Shanty town - a slum settlement of impoverished people who live in improvised dwellings made from scrap material often sheets of metal or plastic
• Do not have proper sanitation, electircity, or telephone service
• As of 2005, one billion people, one-sixth of the worlds population, live in shanty towns
• first appeared during the laq in reemployment after world war 1, rising on dump heaps or wastelands within or at the edges of large industral cities. Also in the Great Depression. "The shanties were constructed and occupied by single men who had fitted into an economy of abundance as transient workers. Forced to  stay in one place, they built crude homes of any free material available, such as boxes, waste lumber, and tin cans. Some occupied abandoned boilers, boxcars, and caves. They continued to take odd jobs when they could be found, living on the scant wages with the extra aid of social agencies."

Who is Amitah Bachchan, and what does he have to do with Slumdog Millionarie?

• Amitah Bachchan is an Indian huge flim actor and producer
• Gained popularity in the early 1970s as the "angry young man" of Bollywood cinema
• One of the most prominent firgures in the history of Indian cinema
• Actor, producer, singer, tv presenter 
• The host of Slumdog Millionarie, he was the answer to the first question
• He played the genie in Aldain (:

What is Bollywood?

Bollywood is a popular name for the flim industry in India. It combines the name of Hollywood, the capital of cinema in the US and a defacto symbol for movies worldwide, and bombay, the older name for the city of Mumbai, where the Indian flim industry is based.
Bollywood, formally referred to as Hindi cinema, is popularly used for the Hindi-language flim industry based in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. The term is often incorrectly used to refer to the whole of Indian cinema; it is inly part of the total Indian flim industry, which includes sereval regional flim industries sorted by language. Bollywood is the largest flim producer in India and one of the largest centers of flim production in the world.

How much is 250,000 rupees (or any amount of rupees) in American dollars? (Hint: find a currency converter)

250,000 Nepalese Rupees are converted to 3,467 in US dollars. 

Resources:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/world/06/dharavi_slum/html/dharavi_slum_intro.stm
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rls=com.microsoft%3Aen-us%3AIE-SearchBox&rlz=1I7RNSN_en&ei=tpr2TJb0Csb_lgfCsMnFBQ&sa=X&oi=currency_onebox&ct=currency_onebox_convert&resnum=1&ved=0CB0Q6wgwAA&btnFOB=Convert&q=250000+NPR+to+USD
http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-bollywood.htm
www.wiki.com

Munbai Homework

Munbai/Bombay

• Capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra
• Most populous city in India, second populous in the world, with a population of 14 million people
• Seven Islands : Bombay Island, Parel, Mazagaon, Mahim, Colaba, Woril, and Old's Women's Island
• Commerial and entertainment capital of India
• Richest city in India and has the highest GDP of any city in South West or Central Asia



Dharavi

What is Dharavi?

• is a slum
• largest slum in the world
• exports goods all around the world

What is shanty town? How many people live there worldwide?

• Shanty town - a slum settlement of impoverished people who live in improvised dwellings made from scrap material often sheets of metal or plastic
• Do not have proper sanitation, electircity, or telephone service
• As of 2005, one billion people, one-sixth of the worlds population, live in shanty towns
• first appeared during the laq in reemployment after world war 1, rising on dump heaps or wastelands within or at the edges of large industral cities. Also in the Great Depression. The shanties were constructed and occupied by single men who had fitted into an economy of abundance as transient workers. Forced to stay in one place, they built crude homes of any free material available, such as boxes, waste lumber, and tin cans. Some occupied abandoned boilers, boxcars, and caves. They continued to take odd jobs when they could be found, living on the scant wages with the extra aid of social agencies.

http://www.answers.com/topic/shanty-town (US History Encyclopedia)

Kaun Baneda Crorepati Notes

It is an Indian reatily/game show based on the UK game show Who wants to be a Millionarie?

• Hosted by Amitah Bachchan
• Amitah Bachchan is an Indian huge flim actor and producer
• Gained popularity in the early 1970s as the "angry young man" of Bollywood cinema
• One of the most prominent firgures in the history of Indian cinema
• Actor, producer, singer, tv presenter 
• The host of Slumdog Millionarie, answered the first question
• He played the genie in Aldain
• Cash prize is 1 million dollars
• Final prize amount was doubled to 2 crore rupees
• CORE = a unit in the Indian numbering system equal to ten million

10 questions on India

• What is the current population of India? 1,173,108,018 (CIA)
• What is the total fertility rate in India? 2.65 clidren born/woman (CIA)
• What percentage of the Indian population lives below the poverty line? 25% (CIA)
• Briefly describe two terrorist attacks inside India. 1) Feb 13, Isamic people bombed a resturant in Pune killing 17 people. 2) Indian soldiers fought terrioists at the Taj Mahal Hotel in 2008 in Mundai, India killing 163 people.
• The Human Development Report of the United Nations ranks the countries of the world by poverty.  Where does India rank on this list? 119th of 169 counties
• Briefly describe the effects of the monsoons on India. People and animals dying, then two weeks later there was flooding, workers fled their jobs, fearing diease.
• What are some of the problems India has getting clean water to its people?
• What is the literacy rate in India? 61% (CIA)
• What are the major religions in India? Hundu, Muslim, and Christians, Sikh (CIA)
• When did India achieve independence, and from what country?

Extra Credit

690,001,799! This was at 3:47 in the morning. I took this picture on my phone because i was to tired to open my computer (:  I set my alarm at 3 am, i was to early. Next i set it to 3:20, i was to early. Then i set it at 3:40, i was to late. But i was close!

Notes 11/22

• The world's only population billionaries are China and India - at 1.35 billion and 1.21 billion
• China and India are two out of every five people in the world - 40% of population
• China or India is bigger than of all the counties in Europe, of the countries in the North and South Amerixa
• Life expectancy in China is 10 years higher than India, at 73 years vs. 64 years
• China's population is also much older than India's, with median ages of 34 and 25 years
• Chinese and Indians still live in rural, villages and farm, areas - 55% and 70%
• China will soon become urban, many people live in the cities
• International migration don't play a big role due to the huge population
• They are objective anout illegal mirgration from North Korea and Bangladesh
• Many people from China and India come over to America and Europe to study in colleges - best in the world
• Growth of these two billionaire nations concerns fertility
• About six children per woman - TFR have declined much faster in China than India, due in part ot China's one-child family policy
• China's TFR is one child less than India's - 1.8 compared to 2.8 children per woman
• India's population is growing more than twice as fast as China's - 1.4 versus 0.6% annually
• India's population is growing faster than China's population

Link to "Coffee Project"

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Fk61XXAUTigZyPZ7VpZeoIRfNt0jX63mmLTX8m4HEG0/edit?hl=en&authkey=CNemxOUL

Daily Post - 11/15

Today we worked on our coffee project.

Websites

Today in class we discussed our defintions for the two coffee videos. We also discussed some of our questions. These are some resources where i got the informatioin from :
*http://www.sustainableharvest.com/relationship-coffee/
http://www.coffeeresearch.org/politics/organic.htm
http://www.zokacoffee.com/what-is-specialty-coffee.html
http://www.wisegeek.com/what-are-coffee-roasters.htm

Coffee Questions - Homework

Definitions

Fair Trade Coffee - is an organized social movement and market-based (sell to the economy, markets, good money and afforable) approach that aims to help producers in delvoping coffe obtain better trading conditions and promote susbiniality (have that crop growing and growing, continuing). www.wiki.com
Ceritifed Organic Coffee - are coffee beans that have been produced without the use of pesticides or herbicides. http://www.coffeeresearch.org/politics/organic.htm Enpowers farmers, lifts them out of poverty, helping people how are growing coffee. grown without the use of synthetic pesticides, herbicides or other chemicals to help protect and nurture the planet for this generation and the many more to come.
Relationship Coffee - is an alternative to the traditional coffee supply chain. Importer of high quality, small scale farmer, naturally organic coffee beans  grown according.  http://www.sustainableharvest.com/relationship-coffee/
Specialty Coffee - The term "specialty coffee" refers to the highest-quality green coffee beans roasted to their greatest flavor potential by true artisan roasters. These beans are then brewed to perfection as defined by industry standards established long ago. (begins with the planting of a particular type of coffee into a certain growing region.) http://www.zokacoffee.com/what-is-specialty-coffee.html
Roasters - the process of taking ripe green coffee beans and turning them into the brown or black coffee beans, which are then ground and used to make coffee. 1.  are professionals who obtain beans in large quantities and devise roast times to achieve certain types of tastes. 2. to a number of different machines, or sometimes the people who use them, that can be employed in the home to create coffee roasts in much smaller batches. http://www.wisegeek.com/what-are-coffee-roasters.htm



Questions

1. What are the biggest coffee exporting countries?
2. How does coffee get from the field to the breakfast table?
3. Why is there good and bad coffee? Does it depend on how you haresvt or import the coffee beans?
4. How are coffee beans grown and imported?
5. How many companies around the world import coffee? Who is #1 in import and exporting?

Notes

• Coffee is the most heavily traded crop in the world, more than wheat or rice
• There are many places where you can buy coffee
• It takes alot of work to make coffee
• Producers of coffe are not recieving enough, because they are

Daily Post - Nov.4

A last couple days, our class has been working on making a magazine about the lost boys and mirgration. Megan and I are doing ours about refugee camps. It due tomorrow, and im all most finished (:

Lost Boys of Sudan Ending..

Today we finished The Lost Boys of Sudan. I liked how they started out with nothing and ended up with jobs, clothes, food, and some with family. This movie shows me that anything is possible if you work hard. Pather flew back to Africa to married his wife. He went to college and wants to open a school in Africa. John Blu Dau was reunited with his mother and sister. They were so happy to see each other since 17 yearsed . He continues to supports his family, went to college, is public speaking about his experience and wants a medlical clinic. Daniel was not as lucky, and didn't find any of his family members. However, he did attend community college.

The war in Sudan, which was being fought between the muslims in the north and the christians and animists in the south.

~KAKUNA = Nowhere~

Lost Boys of Sudan Continued..

Today we discissed last nights homework. We also continued watching the lost boys of Sudan. Life is very hard and different for them. They hardly ever see their roomates because some of the boys have two, three jobs. One lost boy remembered the pain from the war and acted strangly on the bus and got arrested. They have to support the people in Sudan. They miss the paraiment groups they had, they have no time for them in america because of work. John (the tall guy) got a letter in the mail. It said that all his uncles and cousins were dead but his mom, brothers and sisters were alive. He was very happy. They invited their families in Sudan to America to help them. They were so happy to see everyone again but they also worried for them.

Lost Boys of Sudan Summary and Vocab

Vocab words

Out-mirgration - to leave a region, community, etc., to move or settle into a different part of one's country or home territory
In-mirgrations - to move or settle into a different part of one's country or home territory

Forced mirgration - refers to the coerced movement of a person or persons away from their home or home reglion

Net Internal mirgration -  crossing a country or state and staying there for a while. Occurs when peoples cross state boundaries and stay in the host state for some minimum length of time

Movers from Aboard - People that relocated or move by aboard or overseas

Internally Displaced Person - someone who is forced to flee their home but who, unlike a refugee, remains within their country's borders. 

Civil War in Sudan

Sudan's Civil War started 1983, the year of independence. The war was between the north and south. Over 4 million people ran away from Sudan. Many people were killed and women were raped. Kids were brought in huts, then burnt to death. Some were couragous and esapced. But it was very hard to run away with little food and no where to go. People walked for miles not knowing when they would stop. They died of diease and poverty along the way. They killed about 2 million people and displaced 4 million. Many people went in refugee. The civil war formally came to an end when the two sides signed the Comprehensive Peace Agreement in January, 2005.

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

Lost Boys of Sudan

On friday we continued watching the lost boys of Sudan. It showed how different culture is. The lost boys have never seen electercity, or different kinds of food, and they don't understand that much. As we started the boys where on a plane to america. They discovered that butter tastes like soap and how to lock the stall of the bathroom. The lost boys were very thankful for what they recieved. After 3 months, they got jobs and soon were able to support themselves but they also had to repay the trip to america. With all this, the lost boy were thinking about their family they left in Kenya. DINKA IS THE TRIBE THAT JOHN, PATHER, AND DANIEL WHERE FROM IN SUDAN.

Movie Questions and Map

Video Questions

1. Why did the Lost Boys have to run away from their homes?The Lost Boys had to run away from their homes because there was a war in their country between Christian Muslims and animists.
2.Whycouldn’t they stay in Ethiopia?They couldn't stay in Ethiopia because their government crashed.
3.What was life like in the refugee camp?Life in refugee camps were horrible. There was hardly any food. Sometimes they would stay with days, or maybe even months without any food. There was a wired fence around the camp to kept killers out. They lived in clay shelters. They formed a "government" called a Parliament, or black days or white house to kept them enterianted and smiling.

                                                                         Maps

 The Lost Boys travled a distance of 450 miles, in all.

The same distance if I travel from John Carroll, I would end up in South Carolina.

www.googlemaps.com

Daily Post - 10/2o/10

    Today in class we went over the tests we got back. I did pretty good, i only got one question wrong about the population pyramids. I also didn't know that the world's average TFR is 2.54.

Daily Post - Oct.18

Today we turn we our migration projects. We also marked where our family came from on google maps. My family is from Naples, Italy. It was really cool to see the many places families came from. They were all over the world, most of them were in Europe.

Part One: Imagine Your Future

         There are a lot of things to think about when imaging your future. You will need to make many hard decisions like what to do for a living and where to live. I don’t know what I’m going pick as a career but I do enjoy art and math. My dad and most of my family are business owners of many restaurants. My mom does most of the accounting and banking for the restaurants. Maybe I would like to be an account, lawyer, or even go into business management. Two places where I would want to live in after graduation are Naples, Italy and North Carolina. I love the sun and I hate the cold and snow so I probably wouldn’t want to live in north. I also like to live near the water. I picked Naples, Italy because most of my family lives there. I grew up there as a baby and have a lot of memories. Our house there is right by the water; I could walk to the beach and be there in about ten minutes. I see my family every year during the summer time but it would be nice to live close to them. They don’t speak American, so they can’t move to the U.S. Europe has a good diet. They eat lots of fresh seafood from the Mediterranean and lots of steak. They don’t really have good health care system compared to the U.S.  A couple of my family members live in North Carolina. I usually visit them in the winter or spring. I really like it down there because everything looks more spaced out and seems calmer. The climate is warmer then Maryland. America also has good health care and job opportunities. The downside of leaving Maryland would probably be leaving where I spent most of my childhood and teenage years. If I do leave Maryland, I would also be leaving my family’s restaurants. I have a lot of memories that I would be leaving behind. But I would rather leave that behind to live with my family members that I only get to see once or twice a year. Many hard decisions are going to be made planning out the future. I'm glad I don't have to deciced now.

Part Two: Investigate Your Past

   I was born in Towson, Maryland on July 2, 1996. I am the only one in my family who was born in America. Both of my sisters and parents were born in Naples, Italy. I’m 100% Italian. Most of my family lives in Naples, Italy. I only have two aunts in America. My aunt and her family live in North Carolina, we are very close. My other aunt and her family live in Pennsylvania but we don’t see each other often. I was baptized in Italy and spent three years there while my sister, Pia, was born. Then my family flew back to the states when I was about four or five. Italian was the first language I learned and then English. School was really hard for me because I couldn’t speak English clearly and had an accent. Now we visit my family in Italy every summer. My family came to the states for job opportunities. Most Italians own pizzerias, like the stereo-type of the fat man with a mustache holding a pizza. My family owns three restaurants. My grandparents, great grandparents, and so on didn’t own any restaurants. Instead, they would grow food on their farm and raise animals. Sometimes they would find wild bunnies on their farm and would catch them, kill them, and eat them. My grandparents still do that. I have memories of watching them run around trying to catch a bunny. When we visit them in the summer that’s what they cook for us, bunnies in tomatoes sauce, my favorite. Italians have good taste in food. We have the best pizza, lots of raw seafood, and raw pig’s mouth which is actually really good. Many Italians immigrated to America. Every year there is a reunion in New York for Italians, Italians come from all over America and some people fly from Italy to come. Italians are very friendly and welcoming people. I am very proud of my ancestry.

Daily Post - Oct.11

Today we had a really easy test in class. It had all the notes we took on our blogs. We got to use the internet and all the other sources to figure out the answers.

Populaiton Facts 10/8

• Over 6.8 billion people on the planet right now
• Increasing by over 80 million per year by 220,980 per day
• 14,000 births per hour           
• 90% of this population growth takes place in the devoloping countries of Africa, South, and East Asia, and Latin America
• In 1804, the population reached 1 billion

Net Migration Rate: the difference between the number of persons entering and leaving a country during a year.
Total Fertiliy Rate: average number of babies born per woman in a county

Daily Post - Oct 7

Today we finished talking about net mirgriantation rate and we talked about population pyriamds.
I learned that poeple imgriant from one place to another because of push and pull factors, (like jobs, cite sites, health care, ecomony, ect.) We also talked about nuclear weapons.

Daily Post - Oct. 4

Today in class we went over our test we took on 9/11, countries, and the three regilions. I did pretty goood. I had some trouble in the end with the essay question and the chart on the three reiglions. It was pretty easyy. Now i know why kepting blog posts are so important (:

Daily Post - Oct.1

Today we went over the population studies. I learned that Japan has a higher life expectancy because they have a healthier diet, and also france because they walk everywhere. Afghanistan has a lower life expectancy because of there health care.

Population Studies

Life Expectancy:
 the probable number of years remaining in the life of an individual or class of persons determined statistically, affected by such factors as heredity, physical condition, nutrition, and occupation.

• Japan - 82.12 years...3rd comparsion
• France - 80.98 years...8th comparsion
• Kenya - 57.86 years...189th comparsion
• Cuba - 67.45 years...55th comparsion
• United States - 78.11 years...49th comparsion
• Afghanistan - 44.4 years...219th comparsion

Birth rate:
the proportion of births to the total population in a place in a given time, usually expressed as a quantity per 1000 of population.

• Japan - 7.64 births...222nd comparsion
• Kenya - 36.64 births...29thcomparsion
• Ethiopia - 43.66 births...7th comparsion
• United States - 13.83 births...154th comparsion
• Germany - 8.18 births...220th comparsion

Death rate:
the number of deaths per unit, usually 1000, of population in a given place and time.

• Afghanistan - 17.83 deaths...7th comparsion
• Kenya - 9.72 deaths...67th comparsion
• United States - 8.38 deaths...99th comparsion
• Japan - 9.54 deaths...69th comparsion
• Mexico - 4.8 deaths...192nd...comparsion

Rate of natural increase (RNI): the birth rate minus the death rate


Total fertility rate (TFR): average number of children women can have in a country.

• Niger - 7.68 children...1st comparsion
• Afghanistan - 5.5 children...13th comparsion
• Japan - 1.2 childran...218th comparsion
• United States - 2.06 children...126th comparsion
• Germany - 1.46 children...196th comparsion