slumdog millionare

how much is a rupee in american dollars- 10 million rupies=217,556.83 what is kaun banega crorepati- who wants to be a millionare
what is a shanty town - a slum town poverty and built of just shrap metal.
how many people live in shanty towns world wide- one billiontoday in class we watched the movie slumdog millionare and so far it is really good

india

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 Britten.
        

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

billionares china/india

both china and india have a population in the billions
together china and india contain nearly 2 out of every 5 people in the world and are equal in size to the world in 1950
the next biggest country the US only have 318 million
china and indias population is larger than africa europe or the entire western hemisphere
life expectency china-73
life expectency india-64
china will become predomently urban in the next 5 years
india is expected to stay rural at least untill the middle century
their fertility rate aree 6 children per woman in 1950
today chinas TFR is 1.8 below replacment
indias TFR is 2.8


today in class we went over and read this article on how chinas and indias population in the billions.

5 coffee websites

1. http://www.coffeeresearch.org/coffee/history.htm
2. http://www.coffeefacts.com/
3.http://cocoajava.com/java_trivia.html
4. http://www.justaboutcoffee.com/index.php?file=facts
5.http://didyouknow.org/coffee/

eating coffee beans

today in class we got to eat coffee beans, they tasted pretty good untill i relized that they are 2 months past the date to consume by. that made it not taste good. today we answered our questions that we asked yesterday and defined our words.

latin america/coffee

coffee is the most traded agricultiral commody in the world.
specialty coffee is coffee that has been hand picked and sorted to give the bestquality


how do the smal producers stay in poverty
hows its madewho profits from it

today in class we watched videos on coffee and how its made and define the terms.sustainability-able to grow year after year with the same quality
organic coffe- coffee which no fertalizer or pestisides added to keep bugs away, all natural all organic as possible