Cole Bauer

December 7, 2010

Human Geography

There have been many things I have learned about India over our studies in class. I learned that India is hugely populated. In one city there can be as many as 4 million people. To me this is amazing because even I haven’t even probably seen that many people whether it be in a television show or in real life. I have also learned that the India slums are horrible. Kids and adults alike have to live their life with hardly anything every day.

The adults who live in the slums that do have kids have to produce even more necessities so that their family may survive. The children of the slums are a whole other story. The children are beaten at home and even at school. For the kids that don’t go to school sometimes they have to go out onto the streets and beg. As we saw in the movie they had a sort of begging company. They would make the kids go with them and then make the children go out on the streets and beg for money.

The children get money by any means necessary. They will go up to anyone anywhere and beg for money so that they may bring it back to the people that brought them in to “help” them. We also learned about the India film industry. In India the film industry is huge. Anyone who is anyone goes to watch movies in India. Even some people in the slums are able to go and watch movies. Now the movies in India are different because they are shorter. In America the movies can be as long as three hours. In India the movies are much shorter than three hour. You may think that they cannot be big in film if their movies are short, but they make so many movies that it levels out.

I have also learned that India’s population is 1,173,108,018 people. I have also learned that the percentage of the Indian population that live below the poverty line is 25%. The country of India also has problems with getting clean water.  One of the major rivers, the Yamuna River, has a lot of pollution. In Hindu mythology the river was known as the water from the heavens. Now, the water is so disgusting no one wants to drink from it. The Indians are lacking the necessity for sewage disposal.

India

India is a source and transit country for men, women, and children trafficked for the purposes of forced labor and commercial sexual exploitation. Internal forced labor may constitute India’s largest trafficking problem; men, women, and children are held in debt bondage and face forced labor working in brick kilns, rice mills, agriculture, and embroidery factories. While no comprehensive study of forced and bonded labor has been completed, NGOs estimate this problem affects 20 to 65 million Indians. Women and girls are trafficked within the country for the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation and forced marriage especially in those areas where the sex ratio is highly skewed in favor of men. Children are subjected to forced labor as factory workers, domestic servants, beggars, and agriculture workers, and have been used as armed combatants by some terrorist and insurgent 

groups.

India is also a destination for women and girls from Nepal and Bangladesh trafficked for the purpose of commercial sexual exploitation. Nepali children are also trafficked to India for forced labor in circus shows. Indian women are trafficked to the Middle East for commercial sexual exploitation. There are also victims of labor trafficking among the thousands of Indians who migrate willingly every year to the Middle East, Europe, and the United States for work as domestic servants and low-skilled laborers. In some cases, such workers are the victims of fraudulent recruitment practices that lead them directly into situations of forced labor, including debt bondage; in other cases, high debts incurred to pay recruitment fees leave them vulnerable to exploitation by unscrupulous employers in the destination countries, where some are subjected to conditions of involuntary servitude, including non-payment of wages, restrictions on movement, unlawful withholding of passports, and physical or sexual abuse. 

12/6/10

Today Mr. Schick wasn't here and we went to a different room. We had to write a 500 word essay which stunk like anything. The classroom was cool I guess and I don't have anything else to write about.

Bombay Riots

Facts:
1.  Bombay Riots usually refers to the riots in Mumbai, in December 1992 and January 1993


2. Around 900 people died in these riots, and 2,000 people were injured.


3. Several members of Shiv Sena were indicated for these riots.


4. The targets of the riots were the Muslim people.

Movie Questions

1. Compare the Indian motion picture industry to the American's industry.


The Indian film industry is the largest in the world in terms of ticket sales and number of films produced. The industry is supported mainly by a fast film-going Indian public, and Indian films have been gaining increasing popularity in the rest of the world. One third of the Indian film industry is mostly concentrated in Bombay, and is commonly referred to as "Bollywood" as an amalgamation of Bombay and Hollywood. Indian films are made filled with action, romance, comedy, dance and an increasing number of special effects.


In 1878, Eadweard Muybridge demonstrated the power of photography to capture motion. In 1894, the world's first commercial motion picture exhibition was given in New York City, using Thomas Edison's Kinetoscope. The United States was in the forefront of sound film's development in the following decades. Since the early twentieth century, the U.S. film industry has largely been based in and around Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. Picture City, FL.


2.What are the three names of the main characters in the movie?
 The names of the main characters are Jamal, Latika, and Salim


3.What is a "chai wallah"?
A chai wallah is someone who makes chai tea.


5 Things to know about the Taj Mahal:
1. The Taj Mahal today would cost $100 million U.S
2. It took 22 years to build the Taj Mahal
3. The Emperor ordered to cut off the hands of everyone who built it because he didn't want anyone else to make one like it.
4. 28 types of semi-precious stones were molded in with the marble.
5. Over 1,000 elephants were used to transport the needed materials.

Mumbai

Important Facts of Mumbai:


Bombay was renamed Mumbai in 1996. 

The total size of the city is 170 sq. miles. 

The population is 18 million, it is going to reach 28.5 million people by 2020. 

Mumbai is the capital of the state of Maharashtra. 

Marathi, Hindi and English are the main languages that these people speak. 


1. A shanty town is a small, poor place that people live in and are sometimes illegal or unauthorized. They are made out of scrap metals and anything else they can find.


2. A rupee is worth 0.02 dollars in America.


3. Amitabh Bachchan was a very famous actor and film producer in India. He became very popular in the 1970's.


4. Kaun Banega Crorepati is the Indian game of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire".

India

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

What is the total fertility rate in India?
             a. The total fertility rate of India is 2.65

What percentage of the Indian population lives below the poverty line?
             a. The percentage of the Indian population that live below the poverty line is 25%.

Briefly describe two terrorist attacks inside India.
             a. The first terrorist attack inside India was an India train cash. This was tied to Moaists. At least seventy one people were killed after the train derailed. An Indian passenger train and sent it flying into the path of a freight train. The second terrorist attack was a bomb explosion in a bakery in the western Indian city of Pune. There were nine people killed and fifty seven people wounded. The suspected terrorist group was Lashkar-e-Taiba.

The Human Development Report of the United Nations ranks the counties of the world by poverty.  Where does India rank on this list?
              a. The rank of India on the list of poverty is 119.

Briefly describe the effects of the monsoons on India.
             a. 

What are some of the problems India has getting clean water to its people?
             a. One of the major rivers, the Yamuna River, has a lot of pollution. In Hindu mythology the river was known as the water from the heavens. Now, the water is so disgusting no one wants to drink from it. The Indians are lacking the necessity for sewage disposal. The government is having trouble supplying water to their country because they have a population of over 17 billion people.

What is the literacy rate in India?
             a. The literacy rate of th total population of India is 61%. The total male rate is 73.4% and the female rate is 43.8%.

What are the major religions in India?
              a. The major religions in India are Hindu (80.5%0, Muslim (13.4%), Christian (2.3%), Sikh (1.9%), Other (1.8%).

When did India achieve independence, and from what country?
               a. India received independence  in 1947, and it was from Britain. 

India

- 40% of the world's population live in China and India

- India and China are bigger than all of North and South America

- China's age expectancy is 73

- India's age expectancy is 64

- China will become urban in nearly2015

- For 30 years now India's fertility rate has been growing faster than China

- China is sex-selective and abortion is prohibited but in both countries it has been difficult to prevent

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Coffee, Coffee, Coffee

https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1xAA9V57vQzBoTLUyqUVlWz3mkmxIwC8im25cW750kzQ

1. What is the most heavily traded agricultural crop in the world?
  Coffee.
2. Why did coffee makers  come to the U.S. to see their product?
  To see how their product was being portrayed and how popular it is.
3. How does coffee get from where it is grown to the marketplace?
  By a plane, then by a truck to the store.
4. Who exports the most coffee?
  Brazil
5. How many coffee beens are made into one cup of coffee?
  42 beans

Fair trade- coffee that is being produced from the producer or the grower in order to help smaller companies often in developing counties
Sustainability- to be able to grow a crop year after year
Organic Coffee- coffee that ha been certified by a third party agency that ensures that the coffee has no pesticides or other artificial items

• They were separated from their families for 13 years
• Sudan was beautiful before the war started
• The lost boys went from Sudan to Kenya to Ethiopia
• John Bul Dau went to Syracuse, New York

• Panther and Daniel went to Pittsburgh, Pennyslvania

• The three lost boys at the end of the movie:

1. John founded a medical center
2. Panther helped build plans for a school

Ay YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAAYYAYAAYYAYAYAYAYAYA

Today in class we watched the movie and finished it. John was reunited with his family and he was so happy to see them. His mother was rejoicing and singing the whole time she was shown. In the end of the movie it showed where the people are now. John now has a foundation for trying to improvemedical conditions in Sudan. All of the others either found their family and are helping them or still looking for them. With the money they earned and the life they have the lost boys can truly change the world.

Movie Time

Today in class we watched more of the movie. In it the africans were shown working so many jobs in order to send some back to their fellow brothers. It was amazing how hard they worked for their loved ones. Some of them also were enrolling into school. At the endof class it showed the boys havinga reunion with their brothers from Africa

Sudanese War

In-Migration - to move into a place you usually are not native to
Out-Migration - to move out of a your native country to settle in a new country
Forced-Migration - a forced movement for a person or many people to move out of their country
Net Internal Migration - the difference between in-migration and out-migration
Movers from Abroad - people who move from one place to another
Internally Displaced Person - people who have been forced to leave their homes in order to avoid armed conflict, voilations of the law, and many other things

Summary of the Second War of Sudan:
In September 1983 ,as part of  the islamizication campaign, President Nimeri decided to enforce traditional Islamic punishments into the penal code. Over time the laws had become more and more harsh. The war was mostly fought in southern Sudan. In 1986 the government began negotiations. In the same year Sudanese political parties met and agreed to banish all Islamic laws. In 1988 they finally agreed on a plan and all Islamic laws were frozen.
(http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/sudan-civil-war2.html)

In the video the people from Sudan came to the U.S. They had to learn all the ways of living in america. They also had to learn how to eat food. People showed them how to do everything from using the bathroom to going to the grocery store.Finally they all got jobs and plan to help their fellow brothers back in Africa.

Life As We Know It

Today we talked about the world birth rates and death rates. Many countries have a declining RNI. We also talked about the terms that we researched. We also talked about push and pull factors. The class also looked at the population pyramids.    

Lost Boys of Sudan

- The boys of Sudan had to leave their homes because of the threats of civil war. They were also killing all of the boys in Sudan. Even the family members of the boys were being shot and killed. No one was being spared, every person the people could get their hands on wouldbe killed.

- The boys could not stay in Ethiopia because the government was falling. The government didn't want to spend money on refugee camps anymore and decided to send all of them out. So, the lost boys then wentto Kenya to search for a place to live.

- Life in the refugee camp was very hard, they were given very little food and there was not much to do. The boys did have some radios and they often danced to the music. They also have black days where they all go around in a group and just have fun. They have these just to pass the time and have fellowship with their non-biological brothers. Evryone is a big family at the camps and they take care of one another. Life in the camps is hard but the lost boys have learned to get through it until they get fly over to America.


Lost Boys of Sudan Journey

Their Total Journey Was About: 1,000 miles

God Does'nt Want Us

Today in class we watched a movie and it was very good. It talked about the boys who fleed from Sudan because of civil war. They then had to move to Kenya and they stayed there. Finally I saw many of the boys living there getting to go to America.

Personal Migration

Cole Bauer

October 17, 2010

Human Geography

Personal Migration

In eight short years I will have completed high school and college and there are many places in which I would like to live. The two main places that seem to fit my description is Italy or Colorado. These two places are so beautiful during both the summer and the winter. In Italy the food is so good and there are many historic places to visit and Colorado is the perfect place for skiing. My dad’s side of the family they is from Italy and it would be nice to visit where they lived. Italy is such a big part of my family through the traditions and custom but most importantly, the food. Colorado is my second choice because of the mountains. I really love to ski and Colorado is the perfect place to do this. The snow is just a fluffy heaven you glide through the snow as graceful as a bird flies. Italy to me has so may pull forces like the historic sites and the warm weather. Depending on where you are in Italy they also have very beautiful coastlines. There are many reasons why Italy is not a good place to live. One is that, in some places in Italy there are many robbers and thieves. Some of them even steal car tires when people park their cars. Another reason is that Italy is not a good place to live is because some of the people that live there are very mean. As for Colorado a pull force is definitely the mountains. The mountains are so good for skiing and they attract many people. A disadvantage of living in Colorado is definitely the cold weather. To me, moving is such a hassle and I would definitely not like to move more than once. Moving just means that you have to get all of your stuff and transfer it to somewhere else. The only good part of moving is that you get to start over. If you didn’t like your neighbors you can get new ones, or if you didn’t like your house BAM new one. The great move after college is the very important step in your life and I think you should be able to live in your dream place. Many people are afraid of the change of moving and I say just do it.

Personal Migration

            Cole Bauer

October 17, 2010

Human Geography

My parents were both born in Maryland: my father in Baltimore City and my mother in Bel Air. My mother’s parents were born in different states, but moved to Harford County, Maryland after they married. My maternal grandfather was born in Winchester, Virginia with my maternal grandmother being born in Williamsburg, Pennsylvania. From that point, my maternal great grandmother and great grandfather were born in very small, rural towns near Williamsburg, Pennsylvania in or near Blair Four, Pennsylvania. Their families were farmers as they had been for generations. My great grandmother was one of fifteen children and my great grandfather was one of seventeen children. Their parents had migrated from Europe in the late eighteen hundreds. My maternal great-great grandmother, Elizabeth Gasper nee Budnar, and great-great grandfather migrated from small farming villages outside of what was known as Budapest, Hungary. Their families were farmers in Hungary and continued to be farmers once they settled in America.  I do not know much about my maternal great grandfather’s family. The history which has been passed down through my mother’s generation is that his family was Croatian and Slovakian. As to my maternal grandfather’s family, their family history in the United States goes back to the late 1600’s to early 1700’s. The Affleck family migrated to the United States from England, and more specifically from Scotland and the Isle of Man of the coast of England. Some genealogical records discovered to date have located at least one ancestor who was an Admiral in the Royal Navy in the 1730’s to 1750’s. My paternal grandparents were both born in Maryland. My paternal grandmother was born in Ellicott City, Maryland and my paternal grandfather was born in Baltimore, Maryland. My paternal grandmother’s family is originally from San d’notte, Italy in the Northern part of Italy near the Swiss border. I still have family there and hope to visit within the next four years. My great grandmother was born in Little Italy, in Baltimore, Maryland. Both of her parents had migrated from Italy in the late 1890’s to early 1900’s where her father had been in the stone cutting business. He continued to work as a stone cutter in the United States and owned a stone quarry on Bel Air Road near the Route 43 interchange.  

POPulation QUIZ

Today we took a population quiz and it was really easy. We even got to use all the blogs for help on the quiz. It was so easy.

Life As We Know It

What are some possible reasons for a low life expectancy?
Epidemic Diseases
War 
Bad Healthcare


What are some possible reasons for high life expectancy?
Good Healthcare
Great Eating Habits
NO War


China's rate is 0.655% because they recommend only having one child.

Population Studies

Definitions:
Life Expectancy- the number of years remaining in someone's life
Crude Birth Rate- is the birth rate per 1,000 people per year
Crude Death Rate- is the measure of deaths in a population
RNI- is the birth rate minus the death rate
TFR- is the average numnber of children a woman has in her lifetime
Net Migration Rate- the difference of immigrants divided by per 1,000 inhabitants
Population Pyramid- is an illustration of the various age groups of an area of the world


Countries' Life Expectancies:
Japan- (#3) 82.12 years
France- (#8) 80.98 years
Kenya- (#189) 57.86 years
Cuba- (#55) 77.45 years
United States- (#49) 78.11 year
Afghanistan- (#219) 44.4 years


Countries' Crude Birth Rate:

Japan- (#222) 7.64 / 1,000

France- (#162) 12.57 / 1,000

Kenya- (#29) 36.64 / 1,000

Cuba- (#175) 11.13 / 1,000

United States- (#154) 13.83 / 1,000

Afghanistan- (#20) 38.37 / 1,000

Countries' Crude Death Rate:

Japan- (#69) 9.54 / 1,000

France- (#89) 8.56 / 1,000

Kenya- (#67) 9.72 / 1,000

Cuba- (#124) 7.24 / 1,000

United States- (#99) 8.38 / 1,000

Afghanistan- (#7) 17.38 / 1,000

Countries' RNI:

Japan- (#217) -0.191

France- (#152) 0.549

Kenya- (#25) 2.691

Cuba- (#181) 0.233

United States- (#130) 0.977

Afghanistan- (#30) 2.576

Countries' TFI:

Japan- (#218) 1.2 / w

France- (#133) 1.97 / w

Kenya- (#37) 4.38 / w

Cuba- (#180) 1.61 / w

United States- (#126) 2.06 / w

Afghanistan- (#13) 5.5 / w

Net Migration Rate:
Japan- N/A

France- (#48) 1.48 / 1,000

Kenya- (#82) 0

Cuba- (#128) -1.56 / 1,000

United States- (#25) 4.32 / 1,000

Afghanistan- (#19) 5.22 / 1,000

Study for a Test

Today in class we reviewed all the things we learned like the three major religions, nine eleven, and the five major countries.

Prezi On Three Major Religions

http://prezi.com/avw7c_9y3tlk/religion-comparisons-christianity-islam-judaism/

Today In Class

Today in class we talked about different countries that each group researched. We talked a lot about Iran and
how they are making a nuclear bomb. We also talked about the effects of a nuclear bomb on Israel. Finally we talked about how much oil Saudi Arabia has.

Identifying Countries

1.  United States- North North America(https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/)
2.  France-Europe (https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/)
3.  Iraq- Asia  East(https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/)
4.  China- Asia(https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/)
5.  Saudi Arabia-Asia(https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/)
6.  Haiti- North America(https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/)
7.  India- Asia(https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/)
8.  Japan- Asia(https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/)
9.  Venezuela- South America(https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/)
10. Iran- Asia(https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/)
11. Russia- Asia(https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/)
12. The United Kingdom- Europe(https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/)
13. Israel- Asia(https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/)
14. Germany- Europe(https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/)
15. Tibet-Asia(https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/)
16. Afghanistan- Asia(https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/)
17. Brazil- South America(https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/)
18. North Korea- Asia(https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/)
19. Egypt- Africa(https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/)
20. Kenya- Africa(https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/)
21. Pakistan- Asia(https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/)
22. Vietnam- Asia(https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/)
23. Mexico- North America(https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/)
24. Cuba- North America(https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/)

Nine Eleven (Cole Bauer)

Paper

https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1_ZVkxa25ljNSHtFvwGvLhSCBWaAvlBGXWe3dSbdYni4

Vocabulary (Human Geog)

DEFINITIONS:
geography- the study of the earth and its lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena
globalization- describes a process by which regional economies, societies, and cultures have become through a global network of communication, transportation, and trade
population- the total number of persons inhabiting a country, city, or any district or area
immigration- the introduction of new people into a habitat or population
industrialization- the process of social and economic change that transforms a human group from a preindrustrail society into an industrial one
culture- an integrated pattern of human knowledge, belief, and behavior that depends upon the capacity for symbolic thought and social learning
religion- is the belief in and worship of a god or gods, or a set of beliefs concerning the origin and purpose of the universe
wikipedia.com
dictionary.com
POPULATION:
World: 6,697,254,041
#1 China: 1,330,141,295
#2: India: 1,173,108,018
#3: United States: 310,232,863
#4: Indonesia: 242,968,342
#5: Brazil: 201,103,330
internetworldstats.com
RELIGION:
#1: Christianity: 2 Billion
#2: Islam: 1.2 Billion
#3: Hinduism: 785 Million
#4:Buddhism: 360 Million
#5: Judaism: 17 Million
www.godweb.org

Baseball Bats and Bikes

I like to play a lot of sports throughout the year and right now I am getting ready to play on a metro baseball team named the Harford Sox. This is the first year I have played for them and  hope it goes well. Metro baseball is almost all year round and I don't have many breaks which is hard. I also play basketball in the winter and I play tennis in the spring when i have time. As for my family I am an only child, my mom's name is Susan and my dad's name is Mark. I also have an awesome dog that is a Boston Terrier named Sam. I also have a dirt bike and i go riding around my house and near my friends house.

There are many goals in my life, some of them are easy and some of them are harder but i hope i can achieve every one.English is not really my my best class and my goal in English is to enjoy it and improve in it. I could get better at English by just trying my best to understand and if i don't i should ask for help. For being a freshman a goal would be to make as many friends as i can. This means that when is find someone i don't know, i should introduce myself to them.Another goal of mine is to run more than i do already. To accomplish this i can get up early in the morning and run before i have to leave for school. Like i said there are many goals in my life and some maybe harder than other but i just have to never give up.

Human Geography-Did You Know 3.0 (Cole Bauer)

The thing that struck me was that 31 billion searches are made on google every month. This means that the world is just relying more and more on technology than any other means. Google has not been around very long and it is amazing it has already 31 billion searches a month. Even computers have not been around that long and to have a search engine on a computer like google is really eye opening. This is truly the 21st century, a century where technology never stops expanding.

Cole Bauer (Human Geography)

Dirt bike rider; Baseball Player; Friend