The main character name is Jamal Malik.
People beat him and tortured him because they thought he cheated on the Kaun Banega Crorepati.(who wants 10 million)
His childhood was rough and hard.
He jumped in poop to get an autograph.

1. Mumbai used to be known as Bombay , is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra.
2. It is the most populous city in India.
3. The second most most populated area in the world.
4. Mumbai is the commercial and entertainment capital of India.
5. As of 2009, Mumbai was named an Alpha world city.

Dharavi: is a slum and administrative ward, over parts of Sion, Bandra, Kurla and Kalina suburbs of Mumbai, Indiau.


A shanty town: is a slum settlement  of impoverished people who live in improvised dwellings made from scrap materials.
Over two million people live in a thousand shanty towns in the surrounding.
10,000 rupee's equals $409 U.S dollars.

Today in class :
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 Maoists. 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. Monsoons cause floods in India. Floods are already a perennial and costly affair. For example the southwest monsoon killed 2,545 people in less than four months this year. It is just causing major havoc in the India area with all the floods and such. 

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 the 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. 

today in class 11/22/10

Today in class :
40% of the world live in India and China.
There is a bilion more people in china then the U.S.
China's and India's demographic size may also be appreciated by nothing that each of their populations is larger than those of africa , europe , or the entire western hemisphere.
China is a rural area about to be a urban area.
North korea spends most of its money on its army  , and doesnt do wellfeeding his people and doing things for them.
The family average of India and China is about 6 kids per family.
China has a policy , for one child a family.
In china they dont like having girl children.

today in class 11/15/10

Today in class we watched some pretty interesting videos on YouTube about John Carroll or an event that took place in the the school. Also we were to work on our coffee project due Thursday.

Today in class 11/12/10

Today in class we worked and worked hard on our coffee projects.  We gained progress , Kamau and I hope to be finished by this weekend. Today was productive and crazy because the lights and stuff went off. That was crazy.

Today in class we went over the questions and answers that we were suppose to post on our blog for homework. There were a lot of good questions between all the kids in our class. There were some I didn't even think of. In addition a lot of terms I didn't know about coffee beans. In addition a dude came in to take pictures and Colby posed for it. Today was a fun class.

1. The ladies are picking up anything that's not suppose to be in with the beans and any bad beans.
2. It takes 42 beans to make one cup of coffee.
3. Fair trade coffee is coffee which is purchased directly from the growers for a higher price than standard coffee.
4. Brazil exports the most coffee.
5. The first step in the process of coffee making is picking up every cherry carefully. The picking of cherries has to be very precise because if the cherry is picked up to early it will lack of essential sweetness, but if the cherry is picked up to late it will be sour. The second step is the process in which they take out all the soft juicy fruit of the cherry and leave the coffee bean pealed. This is called “despulpado.” During this process the coffee is separated the by altitudes, and quality.

The next step to follow is fermentation, in this process they leave the coffee beans in long tanks for the coffee to release all the honey left from the pulp. The third step washing the coffee beans. During this process the beans are placed in large tanks filled with water pressure, which leaves the beans with no honey leftovers. It also separates the coffee beans by quality, the beans that float are the low quality beans and the ones that are in the bottom of the tank are the good quality beans.

During the drying process all the beans are arranged in a patio outdoors, the wind and the sun are in charge of drying the beans. The last step roasting the coffee, in this process is where the roaster will decide the taste of the batch of coffee being roasted. All these steps to follow are the steps coffee beans go through before consumers can actually drink it. It is important to have knowledge of things that are involved in our lives like coffee.

The Process of Making Coffee." 123HelpMe.com. 08 Nov 2010
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notes in class today

• Coffee is the most heavily traded crop in the world.
• what are the ladies doing when they are picking at the beans?
• What is fair trade coffee?
• Coffee is usually mad from a coffe tree in latin ameerican countries.
• What is the process of making cofee and getting it to the unites states?
• why are coffee beans red and coffee is black or brown?
• how many coffee beans are mad in to one cup of copy?
• who exports the most cofee?

11/5/10 "Magazine finished"

Today in class me and Zach finished our magazine. We proof read our work , in class and turned it in by emailing Mr. Schick. That's about all we did in class today. It was a fun class period.

Today in class finishing magazine

Today in class we just about finished our magazine that we worked on in our groups . When we finished me and Zach discussed what we will do tomorrow.We successfully finished the magazine. Its 2 pages and we worked hard. that's what we did today.

Today in Class 11/3/10

Today in class we went to the TV production room to work on our magazine project. That what was the whole class period. Work , work , and work on my project. Today was also confusing i was almost late for class.