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.