Project

Richest person in India is Mukesh Ambani. He has a $27 billion fortune. He owns the corporate company that makes India's most famous soap operas. He won a feud over natural gas rights in India. He is in the process of building a home in Mumbai. The home is called Antilia. It is 27 stories high. Some of the features include A six level parking garage, three helicopter pads, terraces, swimming pools. It also includes nine elevators, a spa, a 50 seat theater and a ballroom. He is planning to hire hundreds of servants and staff to work in the house. It has been a controveraial building because People say it will be too much of an annoyance. Locals say that it won't be a problem. Five people are expected to live in the house.

weekend hw

Human trafficking is when people are recruited, transported, transferred, and harbored against their will by force or threat. There are a lot of reasons people in India are involved in human trafficking. For some people, human trafficking happens because of dangers in the area. For example, there are gangs in the cities of India that might be threatening to some people. The problem is a lot of people are being trafficked because of threats. Many people are trafficked in India for forced labor. Men, women, and even children are trafficked for the purpose of labor. Another reason for trafficking is for commercial sexual exploitation. They are forced to work to pay debt back to who they owe money to.  Many places that these people work are brick kilns, rice mills, agriculture, and embroidery factories. Children are forced to work in jobs as factory workers, domestic servants, beggars, and agriculture workers.

Child exploitation is when children are taken advantage of like when they are forced into human trafficking.  Child labor is also a form of child exploitation. Many children are abused and some are forced into child prostitution. This is a big problem in India because it is happening so much. The government can not prevent child exploitation. Some are forced into places that can be dangerous. Some jobs are not fit for children to do that they are forced to do. They can be trafficked into child slavery. Many of the working conditions are not suitable for the children that work in them.

Classwork

India has an extremely large amount of people living in the country. In India, there are about 1,173,108,018 people living in the country. India has the second largest population in the world behind China which has about 1,330,141,295 living in the country.  It is expected that in the future, India will have the highest population in the world. India has a growth rate of 1.376% while China only has a growth rate of 0.494%. India will pass China in population in a few years because of the huge difference in population growth rate. Because India has so many people living in the country, it is hard to educate everyone in the country. The literacy rate of India is only 61% of the total population can read. One of the huge problems of the population of India being so large is that the country has a high poverty rate. Twenty five percent of the population of India live under the poverty line. This means that one of four people who live in India live under the poverty line. There are many problems that come with the poverty rate being so high. First it is hard for many people to get food and clean water to drink. One of the reasons this is so difficult is that many of the rivers don’t have clean water.  One of the major rivers, the Yamuna River, has a lot of pollution due to many of the large companies in India dumping industrial waste into the river. The Yamuna River is one of the largest rivers in India and it is located in the city of New Delhi. Another reason for the lack of clean water is that India does not have very good sewage systems so a lot of the sewage ends up in the Yamuna River. The city of New Delhi has 17 million people living there so this is a big problem for the government of India.  

Another large city in India is Mumbai. The population of Mumbai is 13 million. In the city of Mumbai there are many slums. Life can be very hard for the people living in the slums of Mumbai. A sum is an area where a lot of people who are poor live because it is not very expensive to live there. In India’s slums there are a lot of people who get money to buy food and water by begging for money. They will do almost anything to get money. Some of the things they will try is making people feel bad for them, showing off talents on the street for money, scamming, and even stealing from people. The slums of India aren’t a very good place to live. 

Human trafficking is when people are recruited, transported, transferred, and harbored against their will by force or threat. There are a lot of reasons people in India are involved in human trafficking. For some people, human trafficking happens because of dangers in the area. For example, there are gangs in the cities of India that might be threatening to some people. The problem is a lot of people are being trafficked because of threats.

Research Slumdog Millionaire

The three main characters are Jamal, Salim, and Latika

A Chai Wallah is a person who makes tea

The Indian film industry is the largest in terms of ticket sales Multi lingual largest in the world. over 2,000 films are made by India each year. India has a lot of musicals


The United States has one of the most famous film industries in the world makes about 600 films a year
United States makes the most money from film ticket sales.  One of the oldest industries in the world
The Taj Mahal is one of the most famous buildings in the world.
It is actually made of a few buildings.
One of the most vistited tourist spots in India

https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6E4p4zoKXpdu191RcbrfPGTefc_okUcritRxe0YTKPpQ6QtY6QWQFq2JKc8fFWwJLIHW8yoiXeNpG4yarWO8fcQYrQsP2FV4cpqINc-f8m6Sk9Fp8-CCrtJjslTQP8eWifjt9AYv47PA/s1600/taj-mahal.jpg

Bombay Riots Conflict

There were riots in Bombay because  In India there were riots because of religion between Hindus and Muslims. It started because there were rumors that Muslims were stealing Hindu babies to sacrifice.

Missed notes notes

1. Kaun Banega Crorepati


2. City of Bombay 
Bombay has the highest the highest gdp in south Asia  
Population is 18 million 
Capitol of India
It has a tropical climate
entertainment capitol of India 
 67.9% of people are Hindu

Homework

What is the current population of India?
             a. The current population of India is 1,173,108,018

What is the total fertility rate in India?
             a. The total fertility rate of India is 2.65

What percentage of the Indian population lives below the poverty line?
             a. The percentage of the Indian population that live below the poverty line is 25%.

Briefly describe two terrorist attacks inside India.
             a. The first terrorist attack inside India was an India train cash. This was tied to Moaists. At least seventy one people were killed after the train derailed. An Indian passenger train and sent it flying into the path of a freight train. The second terrorist attack was a bomb explosion in a bakery in the western Indian city of Pune. There were nine people killed and fifty seven people wounded. The suspected terrorist group was Lashkar-e-Taiba.

The Human Development Report of the United Nations ranks the counties of the world by poverty.  Where does India rank on this list?
              a. The rank of India on the list of poverty is 119.

Briefly describe the effects of the monsoons on India.
             a. 

What are some of the problems India has getting clean water to its people?
             a. One of the major rivers, the Yamuna River, has a lot of pollution. In Hindu mythology the river was known as the water from the heavens. Now, the water is so disgusting no one wants to drink from it. The Indians are lacking the necessity for sewage disposal. The government is having trouble supplying water to their country because they have a population of over 17 billion people.

What is the literacy rate in India?
             a. The literacy rate of th total population of India is 61%. The total male rate is 73.4% and the female rate is 43.8%.

What are the major religions in India?
              a. The major religions in India are Hindu (80.5%0, Muslim (13.4%), Christian (2.3%), Sikh (1.9%), Other (1.8%).

When did India achieve independence, and from what country?
               a. India received independence  in 1947, and it was from Britain

Coffee project

https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1xAA9V57vQzBoTLUyqUVlWz3mkmxIwC8im25cW750kzQ

Homework Wednesday

http://www.starbucks.com/customer-service/faqs/coffee


http://www.ncausa.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=75


http://recipes.howstuffworks.com/coffee.htm


http://didyouknow.org/coffee/


http://www.coffeeresearch.org/agriculture/environment.htm

Coffee fair trade notes

Coffee is the most traded agfricultural crop in the world. U.S doesn't produce coffee except in Hawaii. Coffe needs to grow in tropical climate.


dark roast coffee- A term used to describe a darker color of coffee
organic coffee- coffee that has been grown not using chemicals or any other thing to help it grow
specialty coffee- Coffee that has a different flavor than traditional coffee
Fair trade coffee-  coffee that is bought directly from the grower at a higher price in order to help a smaller companies in developing counties to be sustainable and lift people out of poverty.
comodobe- crops
How many beans are in one cup of coffee?
42 beans
How is coffee produced?
form coffee beans
How long does it take to grow?
a few months
What are the growing seasons?
all year
What can coffee be made into?
coffee made into cappachinos
How much is Starbuck's worth?

Friday project due

In class, we had a project that was due today. The project was different for each group.  My group had the Dinka tribe of sudan as a subject.

Class Today

In class today, we had a test on the movie we had been watching and the Lost Boys of Sudan. It was an easy test and it was much easier than I thought it would be.

Missed Blog

I forgot to blog yesterday but we were assigned a project on the Dinka tribe of Africa. We also have a quiz. Notes:
in-migration: people moving into one place from another place within a nation
out-migration: people moving out of one place to another place within a nation
net internal migration: the numerical difference between in-migration and out-migration
movers from abroad: people coming into a nation from another country or part of the world
net migration: the difference between net internal migration and movers from abroad
internally displaced person (IDP):  someone who is forced to flee their home but who, unlike a refugee, remains within their country's borders.
John Bul, Daniel, and Panther
travele 1,000 miles
Left Sudan because they were being persecuted by muslims. Muslims in the north and Christains in the South.
Ethiopia then to Kenya
Kakuma Kenya refugee camp
Kakuma means no where
John Bul separated from family for 17 years
Sudan was peaceful before the war
Lost Boys went to Syracuse: John
Pittsburg: Panther, Daniel
John went to africa and created a medical clinic
Panther went back to africa and got married and he made plans to create a school

Homework monday

In class we watched more of the movie. The boys did well adjusting to life in the U.S. They tried to find their families. The boys kept donating to Africa.

Lost Boys of Sudan Friday Homework

In-migration- migration to a country that some one is not native to that they are going to settle in.
Out-Migration- Migration that is getting away from someone's native country.
Forced migration- When someone is forced to move out of the country for a reason.
Net Internal Migration- total number of people migrated in a country
Movers from abroad- Someone that has moved from one country to another
Internally displaced person (IDP) - when some one is in a country that are being forced to leave.

The Sudan Civil War- The British gave Sudan Independence and Muslim and Christain in one country. These gruops do not get along. Sudan had a civil war in 1983. In that year,  President Nimeiri announced that Sudan would Punish people that were not Islam. They used old Islamic methods of punishment thsat were  very harsh.

Most of the southern part of Sudan was not Islamic so a fight broke out between the two north and south. People in the South started to flee the country of Sudan because of the punishments.
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/5424.htm

In class we watched more of the movie. In it, the teens came to the U.S. and they had to transition to their new life like how to use electricity. They  missed their friends that they had to leave behind.

Lost Boys of Sudan

The boys left Sudan because there was a Civil war in Sudan.
They couldn't stay in Ethiopia because Ethiopia's government fell.
Life was hard because there wasn't much food or clothing.

Original Picture from:
http://www.geographyiq.com/images/su/Sudan_map.gif

They traveled about 1,000 miles

Thursday Class

In class we watched a movie about Life of boys fleeing Sudan.
Leaned how to say your welcome and hold the door ( Mr. Schick style)

Human Geography over the weekend paper part 2

From what I have found out about my family, they have been here a long time. My mom’s mother’s side of the family came in about the 1700’s. My mom’s grandfather’s side of the family came about the late 1800’s. My mom was born in Baltimore in the late 1960’s. My dad was born in the late 1960’s in Baltimore. My dad’s mom was born in the country of Chile. My dad’s dad was born in Baltimore. My mom’s mom was born in Baltimore. My mom’s dad was born in Baltimore.  My mom’s grandparents on her dad’s side of the family were born in Baltimore. My mom’s grandparents on her mom’s side of the family were born in Baltimore. From what I have found most of my family was from Baltimore the furthest back I can go on my dad’s side is my great grandmother. She was my grandfather’s mother. She was born on February 2, 1908 and she died September 16, 2010. The furthest I can go back on my mom’s mother’s side is one of my relatives who were born in Germany. He was born in 1743 in Germany and his children were the first to be born in the United States in my family.  The furthest I can go back on my mom’s dad’s side of the family is one of my relatives who were born in Massachusetts. He was born in Provincetown, Massachusetts in 1848. My dad’s mom’s parents were originally from Britain. Her father moved around a lot because of his job so, that is how she was born in Chile. She was born in Santiago, Chile.  She was from a British family and she tried coming into this country as a British person but the United States had already let in the limit of people from Britain, so she ended up coming into this country as a Chilean. I don’t have much information on my dad’s side because his family hasn’t kept as good of records as my mom’s side of the family.       

Human Geography over the weekend paper part 1

When I am older and have graduated college I will have to choose where I want to live. If I had two choices my first choice would probably end up being Spain. A reason for wanting to live in Spain is because Spain has a good economy. Spain’s economy is the 12^th largest in the world. Right now Spain’s economy is on the recovery from the global recession so; by the time I move there the economy will be rising. If the economy is starting to recover the house market is probably still down so, after I buy the house the house market will recover. If I decide to move, the house that I bought will be worth more than I bought it for because then the house market will have recovered so, I might make a profit on the house. If I did move to Spain my job would be a construction worker because that is a job that pays well and one that is high in demand in Spain. A reason I might not want to move there is that it is so far away from my family. Also, I might not want to move there if the economy doesn’t recover. 

My second choice would be Germany. I would want to live there because it is in the middle of Europe which makes it a great place to live. It has a great countryside and you can easily travel anywhere in Europe from Germany.  Germany has the fifth largest economy in the world and Germany has the largest economy in Europe. Germany specializes in vehicles and household equipment.  If I lived in Germany I would probably get a job in the car industry because it is doing so well right now. A reason why I wouldn’t want to live in Germany is that it gets very cold in the winter.    

Pop Quiz

Today in class we had a pop quiz on population pyramids and vocabulary from the class.

Homecoming Week Friday Notes

90% of poopulation growth is in developing countries of Africa, South and East Asia, and Latin America.


Population will reach 7 billion by 2011

Life expectancy- Average number of years to be lived by a group of people born in the same year.

United States- 78 years

Swaziland- 32 years

Rate of natural increase is births minus deaths

Net Migration Rate- The imagrants minus emigration

More people migrating now than ever before

Push forces- enviornmental degradation, economic trouble

Pull factors- better economy, better health care


Total Fertility rate- average number of children born per woman in her lifetime

For a population to remain the same TFR must be 2.1

Thursday Notes

Talked about migration rate. Push factor-  Want to get out of a country for reasons like, Religion Ethnical differences. Pull factor- want to go to a country for reasons like, good economy better living.

Population Pyramid- Shows population by age groups.

Forgot to Blog Yesterday

I forgot to blog yesterday. Yesterday we wemt over the homework that was assigned. We compared countries.

Looking over a Test

In class, we worked on checking over our tests we took. I was surprised on how well I did on the test.

Human Geo Terms

Definitions of terms

Life Expectancy- The number of years that a person is expected to live depending on where they live, their heritage, country, and their health. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/life+expectancy

Crude birthrate- Rate of childbirths per 1,000 people per year. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crude_birth_rate#cite_ref-0

Crude deathrate- number of deaths per year compared to the population. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crude_death_rate

RNI ( rate of natural increase)- crude birthrate minus the crude deathrate. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rate_of_natural_increase

TFR ( total fertility rate) - the average number of children a woman has in her lifetime. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_fertility_rate

net migration rate- the difference of immagrants and emigrants of an area over time per 1,000 people that live in the area. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_migration_rate

population pyramid- a pyramid shaped graph that shows how many people a certain age, organized by gender.   http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/population+pyramid


life expectancy
Japan 82.2  3rd good eating habits and good lifestyle
France 80.98 8th good lifestyle
Kenya 57.86 189th
Cuba 77.45 55th
United States 78.11 49th
Afganistan 44.4 219th reason presence of war

Crude Birthrate
Japan 7.64 222nd
Kenya 36.64 29th
Ethiopia 43.66 7th
United States 13.83 154th
Germany 8.18 220th

Death rate
Afganistan 17.83 7th
Kenya 9.72 67th
United States 8.38 99th
Japan 9.54 69th
 Mexico 4.8 192nd

TFR (total fertility rate)
 Niger 7.68 1st
 Afghanistan 5.5 13th
 Japan 1.2 218th
 United States 2.06 126th
 Germany 1.42 196th

 net migration rate
Mexico -3.61 153rd
 United States 4.32 25th
 United Arab Emirates 22.98 1st
 Argentina 0 73rd
 Saudi Arabia -7.6 171st
 Uganda -8.83 173rd

Rain Day?

We didn't have class yesterday because we got out early because it rained 5 inches in one day!

Test

Today we had a test in Human geography. It was difficult but not too difficult.

Test review

In class today we reviewed for our test on the middle east and world religions. The three religions we studied were Islam, Judiasm, and Islam.

Class 9/17/10 Human geo

In class today we talked about the middle east and how it is mostly desert but controls a lot of oil supplies

Country Classwork

1.  United States - North America
2.  France- Europe
3.  Iraq-  Asia
4.  China - Asia
5.  Saudi Arabia - Asia
6.  Haiti -North America
7.  India- Asia
8.  Japan- Asia
9.  Venezuela- South America
10. Iran- Asia
11. Russia- Europe and Asia
12. The United Kingdom- Europe
13. Israel-  Asia
14. Germany- Europe
15. Tibet- Asia
16. Afghanistan-  Asia
17. Brazil- South America
18. North Korea- Asia
19. Egypt- Africa
20. Kenya- Africa
21. Pakistan- Asia
22. Vietnam- Asia
23. Mexico- North America
24. Cuba- North America

Website used :

"CIA - The World Factbook." Welcome to the CIA Web Site — Central Intelligence Agency. Web. 16 Sept. 2010. <https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/>.

September 11 Terrorist attacks assignment

      The morning of September 11, 2001 started like any other morning people were beginning their normal routines. A lot of people were watching the news that morning when after a commercial break the news stations had heard about what was a so called explosion at the World Trade Center in New York City. That turned almost everyone’s attention to New York City and the World Trade Center. At first people had no idea of what to think of this event. Some thought that the explosion might have been a missile, but it was actually a plane intended to take down the World Trade Center. There was a lot of chaos in New York City that morning. As news crews were covering this incident there was a second plane that crashed into the other World Trade Center tower at about 9:03 A.M. Countless witnesses gazed in horror as explosions were seen coming from the Second tower. People quickly realized that New York was under attack. People still had no idea who was responsible for these horrible attacks. Some people were suspecting that these attacks could be terrorist attacks. They were right but, people weren’t sure at the time. Later everyone would know who was responsible for these attacks. This day wasn’t over yet. No one knew but there were still more planned attacks for the day. One took place at the Pentagon, which is one of the military buildings for the United States. One side of it was severely damaged. There was one more plane that was hijacked it crashed in a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. The destination of that plane was unknown because the passengers of the plane had heard about what happened in New York City. So they decided to try to retake control of the plane. The passengers of the plane didn’t know how to fly it so it crashed in a field The United States had no idea who was responsible for all of these attacks. Since that morning, airlines have been extremely careful of what they allow on planes because of the threat of hijackers.






Q and A with my mom.



Q: On the morning of September 11, 2001 what were you doing that morning?



A: I was at St. Margaret School working as a teacher’s aid for second grade and heard about it so I went on the internet and watched news clips. We didn’t tell the kids but a lot of parents were calling I got my husband Scott to pick up my son Andrew and i picked up my daughter Emily.





Q: Did you see the newscast of the twin towers? If so what was the first thing you saw?



A: Yes i saw the newscast I listened watched wasn’t really scared because I knew God would take care of whatever was going on.



Q: What was going through your mind when you saw this on the news?



A: I was worried about people I knew that might be near New York or the Pentagon. I thought that my husband came home the day before this happened he was visiting his friend in New Hampshire and his friend wanted him to stay another day but he decided to come home so if he had stayed any longer he would have been stuck in New Hampshire.





Q: Where were you when you first heard about this?



A: I was in the hallway talking to other teacher’s aids at St. Margaret School



Q: Explain what happened the rest of that day?



A: I got my kids out of school and we stayed home the rest of the day.



There were some long term effects of the September 11, 2001 attacks. On the day of the attacks the stock market did not open that day. The stock market did not reopen until September 17, 2001 and when it opened the stocks had dramatically dropped. The value of stocks dropped so much that a record was set for the largest drop of stocks in one day in U.S history. The Dow Jones industrial average closed at the lowest since December 1998. Airlines were shut down for many days. This made the airline companies loose extreme amounts of profits. Even after airlines were allowed to resume flights many people were afraid to fly because of the attacks on September 11th. Many airline companies went out of business and other were in danger of going out of business. There were some health effects because of the collapsing of the Twin Towers. Many emergency workers didn’t have masks or protection from the contaminates in the air. These contaminates were responsible for lung and heart damage for many emergency workers. A lot of the nearby buildings were damaged. Airplane travel eventually came back to where it was before the attacks but it took a long time to do.

BTS

Airline Networks: An Econometric Framework to Analyze Domestic U.S. Air Travel." RITA
Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS). Web. 13 Sept. 2010. <http://www.bts.gov/publications/journal_of_transportation_and_statistics/volume_07_number_01/html/paper_06/>.


"Markets Reopen, Plunge - Chicagotribune.com." Chicago Tribune Breaking News, Sports, Weather and Traffic in Chicago - Chicagotribune.com. Web. 13 Sept. 2010. <http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-010917markets,0,5287650.story>.



"The New York Times Log In." The New York Times - Breaking News, World News & Multimedia. Web. 13 Sept. 2010. <http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/11/arts/television/11dust.html?_r=1&ref=nyregionspecial3>.



"The New York Times Log In." The New York Times - Breaking News, World News & Multimedia. Web. 13 Sept. 2010. <http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/11/arts/television/11dust.html?_r=1&ref=nyregionspecial3>.

Human geo vocab

Geography - The features of the earth like landforms and populations of countries and states and the industries. http://www.dictionary.com/

Globalization- to extend all over the globe. http://www.dictionary.com/

population- total nuber of people living in an area like a country or sate etc. http://www.dictionary.com/

immigration- migration of people to another country who aren't natives of that country. http://www.wordreference.com/

industrialization- the development of industry. http://www.wordreferece.com/

culture- the tastes in art and manners by a social group. http://www.wordreference.com/

religion- a set of beliefs including why things happen in nature and the creation and purpose of the universe. http://www.dictionary.com/




top five world poulations according to CIA factbook

1. China
2. India
3. United States
4. Indonesia
5. Brazil

Top 5 world religions according to http://www.godweb.org/

1. Christianity
2. Islam
3. Hinduism
4. Buddism
5. Judaism

The estimation of the population of the world is about 6.7 billion www.google.com/publicdata

Human Geo Did you know?

It only took two years for facebook to have 50 million users and it took radio 38 years to reach 50 million users. This means that technology spreads much faster than before. New ideas can be spread much faster than before. I think it is good and bad.It's good because people can spread ides faster. It is bad because bad ides can spead faster too.

Human geo my life in 6 words

work hard and have some fun