India Questions

5 facts about Mumbai
1. Used to be called Bombay
2.Most popular city in India
3.Richest city in India
4.Second most populated city in the world
5.The cpaital of India
6. 2 out of three people are Hindu, 1 of 5 are Muslim

what is Dharavi?  A slum in Mumbai

How many people live in Shanty Towns worldwide? 327 million people

How much is a Ruppe worth in American money? Roughly 2 cents, changes frequently

who is Amitabh bachcha? An Indian film actor and producer

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

2. What is the total fertility rate in India? 2.65 children born/woman.

3. What percent of India is below the poverty line? 12% percent of India’s population lives below the poverty line.

4. Briefly describe to terrorist attacks in India. On February 13, India was attacked by Islamic terrorists.  The bombed a restaurant in the northern city of Pune, killing 17 people.  ON the same day, New Delhi was attacked.  Terrorists bombed a small bakery, 9 people were killed and 57 were wounded.

India and China's Gigantic Population

• India: 1.35 billion
• China: 1.21 billion
• 40% of the world live in either China and India.
• China and India are bigger than the entire western hemisphere.
• In the mid 1950  China and India's fertility rate was 6 children per women. Now it has gone down considerably.
• In China, it is better to have a boy than a girl

Top Five Coffee Websites

1. From the Seed to the Cup! Click here


2. Coffee Plants lick here


3.  How is Coffee Made? Click here


4. General Coffee Information Click here


5. How Coffee Works Click here

terms and questions

Questions

• Coffee is the most heavily traded agricultural crop in the world

• How is coffee produced?

• How is it transported? by ship

• How is coffee made?
• How much coffee beans does one cup of coffee take?
• Who exports the most coffee? Brazil
• How long does coffee stay fresh?

Define 

• Standard coffee
• specialty coffee
• flavored coffee- coffee mixed with a different flavor
• sustainability - growing the crop year after year. 
• organic- coffee that has been grown without the use of pesticides or chemicals. 
• define fair trade coffee? produced from grower. (little companies)

AYYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYA!

Today in class we finished the documentary, God Grew Tired of Us.  It was really good.  I think we should have John Dau speak at our school.  How cool would that be!? Anyways in the documentary John Dau gets reunited with his mother who she has not seen in 17 years.  It was amazing to see how happy she was.  In Africa they have a custom that when celebrating the women make a loud high pitch noise like AYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYA! I can't really describe me you would have to hear it, but anyway John Dau's mother fell onto the floor making that noise.  It was so... I don't it was like so nice to see how happy she was but then you kinda got to be like, okay you're sort of embarrassing yourself ( I think John and his sister who he was also reunited with were kind of embarrassed to tell you the truth.)  But all in all it was a very happy story.

"Do you enjoy the freedom here?"

Today in class we went over the homework from this past weekend and talked about the war in Sudan for a while.  We talked about how the lost boys have to walk into 7/11 in groups instead of one big pack and that made me think...are we really free? Then we watched more of the documentary.  All in all a pretty normal class.

P.S. People still can't hold doors for other people correctly.