India Mini Project

1.) The current population of India is about 1,173,108,018.
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/in.html

2.) The total fertility rate in India is 2.65 children born per woman.
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/in.html
3.) 26% of the Indian population lives below the poverty line.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/19/world/asia/19iht-letter.html?ref=india

4.) One of the terrorist attacks in India was when nine people were killed when a bomb hidden in a bag detonated in the western city of Pune. Another terrorist attack was when another bomb ripped through an eatery in Pune.

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/india/terrorism/index.html?offset=25&s=newest
5.) India ranked 119 on the list of poverty.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/19/world/asia/19iht-letter.html?ref=india
6.)The monsoons in India have pretty much "swallowed" the cities, killing hundreds of people and animals and causing the city to lose millions of dollars in damages.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/01/world/asia/01india.html
7.)  India struggles to get clean water to its people because the water contains trash, human waste, methane gas, and even dead bodies.
http://video.nytimes.com/video/2006/09/28/world/1194817098866/part-1-water-woes-in-india.html
8.) The literacy rate in India is 61% of the total population: 73.4% are male and 47.8% are female.
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/in.html
9.) The major religions in India are Hindu (80.4%), Muslim (13.4%), Christian (2.3%), Sikh (1.9%), and other (1.8%).
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/in.html

10.) India achieved their independence on August 15, 1947 from the United Kingdom.

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/in.html

Today.... 11/12/10

Today I missed class because, again, I was in the play matinées for a couple middle schools :) 

Today.... 11/11/10

Today I missed class because I was doing the play matinées for the middle schools :) 

Today in class... 11/10/10

Today in class we had to find websites that supported our facts and definitions about coffee from the homework that we completed the other night. The websites are listed below.

http://www.coffeefacts.com/

http://www.ota.com/organic/faq.html

http://www.hollandbymail.com/coffee/coffee_trade.html

http://www.madehow.com/Volume-1/Coffee.html

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/coffee/map.html

Today in Class... 11/9/10

1.) Who is the biggest coffee exporter in the world? Brazil

2.) How is coffee made? It come from the coffee bean.

3.) Coffee is the most heavily traded crop in the world.

4.)  commodity - anything that people buy and sell

5.) Coffee fuels tons of coffee allover the world

6.) You can pretty much buy coffee anywhere in the world.

7.) Where is most coffee made? In other foreign countries.

8.) Who consumes the most coffee per person?

9.) per capita - per person

10.) Where does the U.S. grow coffee? Hawaii (the Tropics).

11.) Who makes most of the money when you buy a specialty coffee? The companies that sell it; not the farmers who make it. 

12.) Fair Trade coffee -an organized social movement and market-based approach that aims to help producers in developing countries obtain better trading conditions

13.) Organic Certified coffee - an item has been grown according to strict uniform standards that are verified by independent state or private organizations.

14.) High Quality Coffee -  something that is superior (the best of the best)