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 (: