12/17 class

today we had a party. some people brought in food and other people brought in Indian foods.

December 16th

in class we finished our discussion about different things in India.

December 15th

today, we put our chairs in a big circle and talked about India. we talked about the problems in India and how we could possibly help. after that we talked about India's richest man, Mukesh Ambani, and how he is worth about $30 billion and how he lives in a twenty-seven story house.

12/14

i wasn't in class today; i was sick.

December 9th

today we finished the movie Slumdog Millionaire. It was also mr. schick's birthday

12/8

today we started watching Slumdog Millionaire again.

life in India

                I have learned that life in India isn’t always easy.  Some parts of the country are really poor, and people will do almost anything to make some money.  Some people will make children work for them, basically like a slave.  Other children might find jobs for themselves.  They might work in carpet-making factories, or even on plantations.  In the movie Slumdog Millionaire, one of the boys stands outside of one of their only outhouses and collects money when someone comes to use it.  Some people don’t even use the outhouse. Maybe this is because there are very little of them.  One in a thousand people actually do use the outhouses.

India is a very poor country with a very large population of 1.21 billion people.  This country has the second largest population in the world.  It is also one of the poorest.  Forty to eighty percent of the population is below the poverty line.  People have to try to make money in any way that they can, sometimes they even sell their family members to work for someone.  Because of its population and amount of poverty, most of the population lives in slums.  Slums are groups of houses in a very bad condition with really poor sanitation.  Life in the slums is probably very crowded because over one million people live in Dharavi, which is the largest slum in Asia.  Eighteen thousand people are crowded into one acre of this slum.

India has a major problem with human trafficking.  Human trafficking is forcing people from their homes and making those people work for them.  Today, about 2.5 million people around the world are forced into slavery.  People trying to make money will get children to work for them so they can make money without actually working.  In India, there are 11.2 million children working in India, whether they’re being forced to work or not.  Children anywhere from ages five to fourteen are currently working.

In India, they have a Hindi film industry.  This industry produces over two thousand films a year.  In America, we only make about one thousand films or less a year.  They call their film industry Bollywood.  They came up with this name by combining Hollywood and Bombay.  Their films are a major source of entertainment with an audience of over three billion people.  Hindi, Urdu, and English are the most commonly used languages in the Hindi film industry.

I think that the movie Slumdog Millionaire did accurately show how life in India really is today.  It showed what people have to do in order to make some money and how they continue to live their lives every day.  I think that, like the boy in the movie, people growing up in India could learn a lot of things without having to go to school.  According to the movie, the children living there encounter a lot of experiences in their lives every day that teaches them important things along the way of their everyday lives.  They might not think some of the things they face are important, but maybe someday they will be.

studying India

                Every year, India faces problems with human trafficking. Human trafficking is basically taking people by force and making them work, like a slave. This is considered a crime against humanity. This act deprives people of their rights when they are taken because of the right of free will. Today, an estimated 2.5 million people are forced into slavery. Some of the women that are taken are forced into marriage. India is known for trafficking people, but they don’t have any evidence for the increase in this act. India has the second largest population in the world. However, India is also one of the poorest countries. Some people even sell their own family members just so they can make some money.

Child exploitation is also something that happens in India. People kidnap, or even sell other people, to someone who chooses to exploit the child or abuse them. There are approximately three hundred thousand to five hundred thousand child prostitutes in India. Some men believe that being with a virgin will cure their diseases so they find a young girl, no matter the age, and sleep with them in belief that they will be cured.

Millions of children are also exposed to forced labor. Based on estimations, 11.2 million children, from ages five to fourteen, are working somewhere in India. With its large population, India has the most children workers in the world. Some places that children have jobs at are in carpet making factories, in glass blowing places, different things on plantations, in someone’s house, or even making fireworks.

http://theresurgence.com/2010/02/22/what-is-human-trafficking

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

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/jun2006/indi-j08.shtml

http://www.childlabor.in/child-labour-in-india.htm

http://www.lisaling.com/childtrafficindia

http://www.uri.edu/artsci/wms/hughes/india.htm

http://www.indianchild.com/child_labor_india.htm

12/3 class

today we reviewed the homework from last night. then we continued watching Slumdog Millionaire.

12/2 notes and hw

• millions of people were killed in the Bombay riots.
• damage- 3.6 billion
• reason for riots- religions were different. Hindu's became convinced that the Muslims kidnapped 2-3 babies that they were going to be sacrificed to Allah.
• they were about religious tension that "exploded."
• they each burned the others' places of worship.

hw:

• India has the largest major motion picture industry in the world and produces more than 2,000 films a year. America makes less than 1,000 films a year.
• the main characters (the "three musketeers" names) are Jamal, Latika, and Salim.
• a chai wallah is a person who provides tea (by selling or bringing it).

http://www.thecolorsofindia.com/interesting-facts/cinema/index.html

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_movies_are_made_each_year

http://www.funtrivia.com/askft/Question3669.html

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1010048/faq#.2.1.28

The Taj Mahal

1. one of the eight wonders of the world.
2. beautiful monument built by the Mughals (Muslim rulers of India).
3. made completely out of white marble.
4. was built in marble to seem like an illusion of a dream.
5. took twenty-two years to build by 20,000 workers.

http://www.islamicity.com/culture/taj/default.htm

December 1st

i wasn't in class today. i left early for a dentist appointment.