india questions

Who
is Mukesh Ambani?

How did Mukesh Ambani get so wealthy and does he
give back to the community?

What
is Antilia?

It is a huge 27 floor sky scraper funded by Mukesh
Ambani; it has 3 helipads, grand ballroom, 50 Seat Theater, nine elevators,
airborne swimming pools and a spa. And only five people are living in this
enormous house!

What
is the percent of poverty in India?

How
many people can read and write?

Why
does the government continue to use all their money to make huge buildings and
not support the poor people?

Why
do the police and government agree on taking bribes from people?

Why
is it a law to only have a building that is three stories high, when they
definitely have the supplies to make bigger and safer building?

What
percent of the people in India are living under the poverty line?

 25% of India
is living under the poverty line.

Where
is Altamont Road?

 Upmarket residential street in South
Mumbai

What
percent of India lives in the slums?

Roughly 62%

How
many criminal charges does the building owner Amrita Singh have?

Over 25

What
is the average number of floors in neighborhoods?

How
many residents died in the fall of the illegal building?

About 70 people

the birthday boy

today it was mr shicks birthday and we celebrated it by christy kim getting sent to te office. and she brought back CUPCAKES!!!! way to go christy

this is horrible!!

            
In India there are  problems such as forced labor and commercial sexual exploitation. They force people to do things they do not want to. India has been on the Tier 2 watch for five years in a row. human trafficing It is the fastest growing criminal industry in the world. Billions of dollars are made each year from human traficking.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 aound 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 prostutes. Mostly the omen and girls are used for comercial sexual expotation. The children are usually used for forced labor as factory workers, domestic servats, beggars, and agriculture workers. It is founded that around 17,500 forign nationals are trafficking each year in just the United States. 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 wrong and very disgudsting to do that to children.

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/