10/13

Today in class my group and I worked on gathering research for our project. I am researching about the poverty of India. I hope our project turns out well.

12/8

Today in class we didn't get to watch a lot of the movie because people needed to turn in work that was late before we started. It took a whole mod before we were watching it.

Hard Times For India

 Today in India there are many problems with human trafficking, child exploitation, and forced labor. India is one of the worst countries with these problems, and it needs to be stopped.

                Human Trafficking is when people own other people and they put them up for trade or money. This is a giant problem in India because some people think that they can own other people and make them do a lot of jobs for them. Human Trafficking is basically like slavery, and slavery is completely wrong and you should not be a loud to make other people do work for you unless they are getting paid in some way.

                Another huge problem in India is child exploitation and that is when people will use children to have sex with or just get pleasure from. An estimated number of 158 million children at the ages of 5-14 are engaged in child labor because they were rapped or forced into bad situations. I think that this is disgusting and that they should not ever be putting children into these problems, because then the young girl will have to deal with a little child and raise it while she is still being raised.

                The other main problem in India is forced labor. Forced labor is a horrible problem because while they are doing the labor and getting threatened they are most likely not getting any food or drink, and both of these things could lead to death for the person anyway. It should be a law in India that people cannot make you do anything and if they are you betting be getting a little bit of pay.

                I think India needs to work on many of these problems and I hope everything gets betting for the people in that country. 


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

India Essay 12/6

So far in human geography class, I have learned a lot of stuff about India. I have learned about India’s population, India’s poverty, India’s problems with human trafficking, and the life in the slums of Mumbia. I also think that the movie Slum Dog Millionaire is a good and honest example of India, because it has all the problems and poverty that India in real life has. 

                In India poverty is a huge problem and many people are homeless or dying because they don’t have money to get themselves food or water. Many people live in shanti towns, which is basically a bunch of trash pulled together to make a house for themselves. It is sad to think about it because India has a population of 1,173,108,018 and 25% of all those people are living under the poverty line in India. Also another huge problem is Human Trafficking. This is when people own other people and they put them up for trade or money. This is a giant problem in India because some people think that they can own other people and make them do a lot of jobs for them. Human Trafficking is basically like slavery, and slavery is completely wrong and you should not be a loud to make other people do work for you unless they are getting paid in some way.     

                The lives in the Slums of Mumbia are very difficult, many people have barely any money and they will do absolutely anything to get some money to get themselves food or water. The people in the slums are very poor and the shanti towns that they usually live in are very crowded and busy.

                The movie Slum Dog Millionaire is a great example of real India because it shows pretty much everything in that movie. It shows the poverty, the trafficking, what people will do for money, and how the people live in the conditions. I have learned a lot from the movie and I hope we continue to watch it in class.

                I have learned a lot in class about India and their problems and I hope to continue learning about them and hopefully it will get better in their country.

12/3

     In India there are major problems such as forced labor, commercial sexual exploitation, and human trafficking. They force men, women, and children into doing certain things. India has been on the Tier 2 watch for five years in a row. They have failed to show evidence that they are trying to end human trafficking. Human trafficking is the practice of slavery in our world today. It is the fastest growing criminal industry in the world. Billions of dollars are made each year from human trafficking. Mostly the women and girls are used for commercial sexual exploitation and forced marriage. The children are usually used for forced labor as factory workers, domestic servants, beggars, and agriculture workers. It is founded that around 17,500 foreign nationals are trafficking each year in just the United States. Annually around 200,000 American children are highly at risk for trafficking in the sex industry. Bombay is Asia’s largest sex-trade center. India has around 1.3 million children that work in sex-trade centers. They take the children from very poor areas and use them. In India there are about 10 million prostitutes. It was found that 2.5% of prostitutes that are in India are Nepalese and 2.7% are Bangladeshi. 20% of the women that prostitute are under the age of 18. Almost 200 women and young girls start prostituting each and every day. 80% of those girls are forced into doing it. It is terrible that 95% of the children that are born from a prostitute will become prostitutes themselves. This will only increase the amount of people trafficking. This issue continues to just get worse and worse. To make things worse 60% of prostituted women are infected with STDs and AIDS. That means that they are spreading and catching different diseases.

12/2

 1. Compare the motion picture industry in India and the United States

- The United States has the oldest film industry (and largest in terms of revenue), and Los Angeles (California), is the primary nexus of the U.S. film industry. The Indian film industry is multi-lingual and the largest in the world in terms of ticket sales and number of films produced. The industry is supported mainly by a vast film-going Indian public, and Indian films have been gaining increasing popularity in the rest of the world—notably in countries with large numbers of expatriate Indians. One third of the Indian film industry is mostly concentrated in Mumbai (Bombay), and is commonly referred to as "Bollywood" as an amalgamation of Bombay and Hollywood. The remaining majority portion is spread across North, West and South India (in Punjabi, Bengali, Marathi, oriya, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Telugu speaking areas). India makes 3 times as many as the U.S. The U.S makes like 600. Yet U.S is number one in sales. They get more money than India. 


2. What are the names of the three main characters (the "three musketeers") in Slumdog Millionaire?
-The three main characters were Jamal, Salim, and Latika


3. What is a "chai wallah"?
-Chai is simply the Hindi word for tea. A chai wallah is a person who provides tea, either by selling or bringing it. This is Jamal's position in the call center where he works when he appears on the game show.


4. Tell us five things we must know about the Taj Mahal. Inculde a fantastic photo.
-Year of Construction: 1631

Completed In: 1653

Time Taken: 22 years

Built By: Shah Jahan

Dedicated to: Mumtaz Mahal (Arjumand Bano Begum), the wife of Shah Jahan

Location: Agra (Uttar Pradesh)

Building Type: Islamic tomb

Architecture: Islamic

12/1 Bombay riots

Bombay Riots: (4 facts)
- They are riots in Mumbai. In December 1992 and January 1993 about 900 people died. 
- After that on 12 March 1993 Bombay Bombings, perpetuated by underworld elements with alleged help of ganglord Dawood Ibrahim and his D-Company syndicate, about 250 people died that were mostly Hindus^.
- An estimated 575 Muslims and 275 Hindus died and 2,000 people were injured in the riots and 250 people mostly Hindus died in the blasts.
- An investigative commission was formed under Justice B.N. Srikrishna, but the recommendations of the Inquiry were not enforced. 
- In 2008, several members of the Shiv Sena were indicted for their involvement in the riots.

11-29

Today in class we started to watch the movie Slum dog millionaire. It is so far a good movie and I think I am going to learn a lot from it.
1. Mumbai:

• -  The population is 18 million, projected to reach 28.5 million by 2020.
  - Marathi, Hindi and English are the main languages.
  - Mumbai is the capital of the state of Maharashtra.
  - Bombay was renamed Mumbai in 1996.
  - Mumbai's literacy rate is 85.6%
  2. Dharavi:
  -is a slum and administrative ward, over parts of Sion, Bandra, Kurla and Kalina suburbs of Mumbai, India.
  3. Shantytown:
   - It is a slum settlement of impoverished people who live in improvised dwellings made from scrap materials: often plywood, corrugated metal, and sheets of plastic.
  4. How many poeple live in shanty twon world wide?
  - One billion people worldwide live in slums and the figure will likely grow to 2 billion by 2030.
  5. How much is a rupee worth in the U.S?
  - In America 1 rupee is worth .02 dollars.
  6. Who is Amitabh Bachchan?
  -   Bachchan was born on October 11, 1942 in Allahabad. He is an Indian film actor and producer.

India Facts

1. What is the current population of India? 1,173, 108, 018
2. What is the total fertility rate in India? 2.68 children born/woman
3. What percentage of the Indian population lives below the poverty line? 37.2% - 77%
4. Briefly describe two terrorist attacks inside India. On Feb. 13, people thought to be Islamic terrorists bombed a restaurant in the northern city of Pune, killing 17 people.  Indian authorities on Saturday issued a national alert after 9 people were killed and at least 57 were wounded when a bomb exploded at a bakery in a neighborhood popular with foreign tourists in the western Indian city of Pune.
5. The Human Development Report of the United Nations ranks the countries of the world by poverty.  Where does India rank on this list?  India ranked 119th of 169 countries.
6. Briefly describe the effects of the monsoons on India. In less than three days, at least 120 people died. More than 4,000 animal carcasses were later hauled out of the mud. Two weeks after the floods, Surat’s diamond-polishing factories were practically empty of workers, who had fled fearing disease. An industry group estimated the losses at $60 million.
7. What are some of the problems India has getting clean water to its people? They have it extremely polluted with methane gas, they dump toxic waste into it, dead babies, and human waste flows into it from the city.
8. What is the literacy rate in India? The literacy rate of India is 76.9% for men and 54.5% for women.
9. What are the major religions in India? The major religions of India are Hindu 80.5%, Muslim 13.4%, Christian 2.3%, Sikh 1.9%, other 1.8%, unspecified 0.1%.
10. When did India achieve independence, and from what country? India achieved independence in 1947 from Great Britain.

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

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/19/world/asia/19iht-letter.html?ref=india

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/india/terrorism/index.html?offset=25&s=newest

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/19/world/asia/19iht-letter.html?ref=india

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/01/world/asia/01india.html

http://video.nytimes.com/video/2006/09/28/world/1194817098866/part-1-water-woes-in-india.html

http://www.theglobalist.com/StoryId.aspx?StoryId=8719

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

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

11/22 China vs. India

China and India are to population giants. They are the only countries in the world that have over a billion people in population. 2 out of e very 5 people in the world are out of these to countries. Which is equal too 40% of the world population. Either one of these countries is bigger than all of Europe. China is further along in it's demographic transition than India. Life expectancy in China is 73 and in India it is 64. The median ages are 34 and 25 respectively. China is going to have more of there people living in cities in 2015. While in India will have most of there people will be a rural country. International migration is not a factor to there population. The consequential demographic trend for the growth of these two billionaire nations concerns fertility. China's fertility rate is dropping and India's is growing. India's rate is growing twice as fast as China's. Males dominate these factors.

11/15

Today we continued to work on our project and i feel as if we are making a lot of progress.

11/10

Today in class we went over our notes. For homework we had to find four websites that could help solve our questions from our last blog.
http://www.sustainableharvest.com/relationship-coffee/
http://www.coffeeresearch.org/politics/organic.htm
http://www.zokacoffee.com/what-is-specialty-coffee.htm
http://www.wisegeek.com/what-are-coffee-roasters.htm

Coffee Trade

Fair Trade Coffee - is an organized social movement and market-based approach that aims to help producers in delvoping coffe obtain better trading conditions and promote susbiniality. 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
Relationship Coffee - is an alternative to the traditional coffee supply chain. 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

11/4/10

Today in class we continued to work on our project. Me and Clark are almost done.

10/28

Today in class we started our new project. We each have partners and we got to pick what subjected we wanted to write about.

10/28

Today in class we started our new project. We each have partners and we got to pick what subjected we wanted to write about.

10/27

To begin class we talked about where we are in the movie.  We finished the movie today. John Bul Dau was reunited with his mother and sister. Panther went back to Africa and got married. Daniel has yet to fin his family. All of the men have had success with their new lives. They have gotten degrees. Some of them have opened different places. To end the class we talked about our upcoming project. I have been pared with Clark Grube and we are doing our topic about the Dinka tribe.

10/25

Today in class I was put in charge of class with Kelly Stifler. We went over the weekends homework with the class and asked them questions about the movie that we are watching, "God Grew Tired of Us." After we finished going over everything, we continued with the movie. The section that we watched today was about John Bul getting ready for college. He soon realized that some of his family is still alive and he wants to help them. He decided to hold off college and work two or three jobs to send money to his family. He also wants people to be aware of what is happening in Sudan, so he and some of his friends go on a peace walk. John hopes to be able to bring his family to America someday. 

Lost Boys contiuned

 TERMS:

• in-migration- to move into or come to live in a region or community especially as part of a large-scale and continuing movement of population.
• out-migration- to leave one region or community in order to settle in another especially as part of a large-scale and continuing movement of population.
• forced migration- the forced movement of a person or persons away from their home or home region.
• net internal migration- Any change of residence across the borders of the United States. The number.   
• movers from abroad- People who move somewhere different across some sort of line. Moving from one country to another. 
  
• internally displaced person (IDP)-persons or groups of persons who have been forced or obliged to flee or to leave their homes or places of habitual residence. in particular as a result of or in order to avoid the effects of armed conflict, situations of generalized violence, violations of human rights or natural or human-made disasters, and who have not crossed an internationally recognized State border. 

 Civil War of Sudan



      The Second Sudanese Civil War began in 1983. The first civil war of Sudan took place 1955 to 1972. The second war was just a continuation of the first one. It was fought  mostly in southern Sudan. It happened to be one of the longest lasting and deadliest wars of the later 20th century. Around 1.9 million people were killed just in southern Sudan. Also, there were more then 4 million people that were forced to flee their homes when the war began.  

 Movie Summary

      Today we watched more of the Lost Boys. We learned that it is very difficult for them to adapt to how it is in America. They still want to make sure to keep all of their tradition and their culture because it shows who they are. The boys don't forget about the people they left behind. The people in Kenya are constantly on their minds and some day they hope to help them. They realized that people here in America aren't the same as their people. They aren't aways as friendly. People in America don't just talk to random people like they the boys do in their country. Also, they have learned how to use American stuff. They had to get a social security number before they started to find jobs. They are very grateful for whatever money they make. Although, they don't like that you don't have time for family. They are beginning to get a little lonely without their other people. 

The Lost Boys of Sudan

1. The lost boys had to run away from there homes because a civil war started in Sudan that drove the boys to Ethiopia than they left Ethiopia and went to a refugee camp in  Kenya  and have stayed there for over 10 years.
2. They left Ethiopia because Ethiopia's government collapsed.
3. Live in the refugee camp is hard. they have no electricity, nothing to do, and they didn't have that much food to live off of. The boys created there own government called Parliament, they used the this to keep order in the camp. 

Personal Migration

Personal Migration: Part 1

In eight years I will hopefully be finished college and pursuing a career. Where I would be living is a difficult question for me to answer because I can’t see myself anywhere than where I am right now. But I was to move somewhere it would probably be either far south or far north. I love it when it is very hot and when it is very cold. If I moved down south I would love to live by the water in Florida. Some push factors is that it is nice and warm down there and I love the ocean so I would be very close to it. So pull factors are hurricanes and that I will not be able to experience all of the seasons. No matter what the factors are I still don’t think will end up living there but it would be nice too.

The other place where I would like to live in the future is Syracuse New York. I love the cold weather and that is pretty much the only weather Syracuse gets. I can see myself at Syracuse more than I can see myself in Florida because I like the weather better there and there are more ups than downs when it comes to the weather. Some push factors is I love the weather and I don’t have to worry about the hurricanes and stuff like that. The pull factor is that it is a little too much of winter, I love the snow but I also love to be a beach bum too. I love the winter but I need to have all of my seasons.

In the end I think I will end up staying closer to where I’ve grown up, because where I am right now is home and that is always going to be a part of me.

Personal Migration: Part 2

            With my family I don’t have many elderly people in my family who know where were from and when we came to America. When I asked my parents they called my family a “mutt”. I didn’t understand at first what that meant so had to go ahead and do some research. I found that y family isn’t based off of one culture we are from all over the world. From England to the Czech Republic.

           My mom is from Annapolis and my dad is from Baltimore. No one in my family knows who the first to arrive in America was. The farthest I got on that topic is that I think my grandfather on my dad’s side is the second generation to live in America. My grandmother on my mom’s side says that her side of the family is from Ireland and my dad says that Otenasek is Czech republican. So right now I know I’m English, Czech republican, and Irish. My family is from all over the world and I like that. I’m not from one specific place. The main thing I am is American and I like that.

10/8 class notes

• over 6.8 billion people on the planet right now
• increasing by over 80 million per year
• by 220,980 per day (in 2009)
• 14,000 births per hour
• 90% of this population growth takes place in the developing countries of Africa, South and East Asia, and Latin America
• the average number of years to be lived by a group of people born in the same year
   
  High:  Japan       (82.6 total:     79.0 men,  86.1 women)
   
  # 38:  U.S.           (78.2 total:     75.6 men,  80.8 women)
  
  
  Low:  Swaziland  (31.9 total:     31.6 men,  32.2 women)
  rude birth rate: number of births per 1000 of the population

  
  

  crude death rate: number of deaths per 1000 of the population

  
  

  rate of natural increase (RNI) 

  • produced by subtracting the death rate from the birth rate, then dividing by 10
  • this gives us the annual natural growth rate - in percentage form -  for a country or region 

   

  But don't forget about migration...!Net Migration Rate: the difference between the number of persons entering and leaving a country during a year

   

  an excess of persons entering the country is net immigration 

   

  • written as a positive number
  • example: Canada has 5.63 migrants per 1,000 population

   

  an excess of persons leaving the country is net emigration

   

  • written as a negative number
  • example: Mexico has -3.61 migrants per 1,000 populationpush forces
    
    
    • civil war
    • environmental degradation
    • unemployment
    • religious or ethnic persecution
    
    
    pull forces
    
    
    • better economic opportunity
    • better health services
    • religious freedom
    • political freedom
  TFR: average number of children born per woman

  for a population to remain the same, the TFR must be 2.1

  higher than 2.1: population rises

  lower than 2.1: population falls

  
  

  World TFR:      2.54

   

  US TFR:          2.05

  Europe's TFR: 1.45

  Africa's TFR:    5.14

  
  

10/6

Today in class we went over the definitions and explained the following terms.

life expectancy

birthrate  

death rate

RNI (rate of natural increase)

TFR (total fertility rate) 

net migration rate 

population pyramid