What we did in class!

Today we continued to do our debate or class discussion and we talked about cricket and how our money should be spent!!!

What we did in class!

Yesterday we put all of our desks in a circle and and we started debating and talking about issues in the world and what we should do about it or not do. We will continue to it today also!!!!!!

What we did in class!

Today we worked on our Power Points as a group and it is due tomorrow!

What we did in class!

Friday we started to do our PowerPoint, with our groups!!!!

What we did on class!

Today we continued to watch Slumdog Millionaire and we are at the part when Jamal finally found Latika was let free from Salem and she is trying to find Jamal, but class ended and we could not see what happened!

500 Word Essay!

In this unit on India I have learned a lot from the movie.  For example I learned how horrible of a life style it must be to be living in the slums such as Dha Ravi.  We learned what happens with human trafficking and how it happens with children and adults.   Also we learned common things that you should now about India.  For instance, the capital city of India is Mumbai and it is the most crowded or populated country in India and it is also the second most populated area in the world.  

The country of Mumbai is the 2nd most populated country, behind China, with 1,173,108,018 people.  The birth rate for India is 21.34 birthrates. Its death rate is 7.53 deaths/1,000 populations.  In the movie you can most defiantly tell how crowded and over populated the whole city was and how many diseases and sickness would have been going around at that time and moment.

India is also a very poor.  In the movie people would do anything for money no matter how extreme the consequences are.  India is so poor that it falls below the international poverty line of US$ 1.25 a day, and it is a third of the world’s poor of percentage.  If you were to live in the areas that some of these strong and courageous people live you would be able to respect them a lot because of the objects and the situations they have to work with due to their lack of money.

I've also learned about the slums in Mumbai.  Slums in India are always something that has always been there and sadly always will.  Today people that live in the slums make up 60% of Mumbai's population that is about seven or eight million people who are living in those bad conditions.  Slum Up-gradation Project was a project that targeted only 10-12% of the slum population, those who were capable of upgrading their homes would not receive as much help and money as the ones who are starting from scratch.

India problem with human trafficking is a very serious issue.  It is when children or adults are forced to labor and commercial sexual exploitation.  Women and girls in India are trafficked for things such as commercial sexual exploitation and forced marriage.  Children are forced into labor such as factory workers, domestic servants, beggars, and agriculture workers.          Like in the movie it shows disabled children begging and singing.

I feel that the movie is very accurate with real life in India. I say this because all of the stuff that we learned about such as Human trafficking, population, and slums of Mumbai are all demonstrated and are explained and played out great. Jamal and Salem are both part of human trafficking in the movie. When it flashes back to Jamal’s and Salem’s childhood it shows how overly populated and how bad the conditions are if you live in the slums of Mumbai. In the movie, right now human trafficking going on for Latika for close to her whole life.  

What we did in class!

Today we worked on the essay that is due tomorrow before class and we will watch more of Slumdog Millionaire!

Studying India! In a Different Way!

India has a major problem with child labor .People in India have a really tough time making money, so they become people who use children. India suffers from much poverty which leads to desperate measures like child trafficking.  Some people use children to get money by being beggars. Like it was in the movie the children with disabilities go to the coroners of streets and sing song to get money from people walking around. If kids ran away or was killed they would find more kids in India towns disable most of them. Also they would make the children work until they could not work anymore due to their health. There are actually laws that have to be followed that say that kids over 14 can break the law so they can make money.  These gangsters literally owned these children like they were some sort of object and possession. The reason why most of the children stayed is because most of the children had lost their parents and close friends in the Bombay riots. These gangsters would act like their friends by giving persons good meals, drinks, and a place to stay. These children did not know what to think and they were fooled and sometimes hurt, physically. I know that if I was part of this horrible situation I would run away just like Jamal and Salem. Hopefully things like this have changed over the years in India and organization like UNICEF are trying to keep away all of these gangsters that are taking these kids chances of being successful human beings and making them into gangsters of their own by treating them this way.

12/2 Homework/ Questions

Today in Class
We continued to watch Slum Dog Millionaire and it is very good!!! 




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

The United States make more movies then anyone on this earth. Bollywood produces more than 800 films a year which is twice as much then the United States

What are the names of the three main characters (the "three musketeers") in Slumdog Millionaire?

Jamal Malik

Latika

Salem Malik

What is a “chai wallah”?

Chai from India is a sweet aromatic spiced milk tea, also known as masala tea. This product  and coffee are very similar.

Tell us five things we must know about the Taj Mahal.  Include a fantastic photo.

1. Location- Agra, India.

2. Construction began around 1632 and was done around 1653

3. Builder- Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his dead third wife.

4. His third wife, died during the birth of their fourteenth child

5. You can take tours of it during the days and some tours are available at night.

6. It took 21 years to build the amazing building.

Information on Bombay Riots

- They are riots in Mumbai. In December 1992 and January 1993 about 900 people died.

- After that on 12 March 1993 Bombay Bombings, about 250 people died that were mostly Hindus because it is their most popular religion.

- 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.

What we did in class!

Today in class we talked about the facts that we had to find last night for homework. We covered the Mumbai facts and the Amitabh and his afilliation with Slumdog millionaire. Then we watched the movie and paused it several times so we would understand what was going on!