12/16 Class
Today we just continued our discussion from yesterday. In our discussion we talked about causes of why people are blind in India, so many girls in India are skinny, bad economy - like how their rupees are way less than the amountof our dollar, and some other topics.
12/14 Class
Today we just got into our groups that we already had and continued to work on the assignment. I am with Kate and Elena and we are doing a poewrpoint about Mumbai, the Bombay Riots, nd Slumdog Millionaire. This assignment is due tomorrow.
12/10 Class
Today we watcheda couple of videos. One video was about a building crashing because the landlord instructs the builders to build more floors even though that is violating a building code. As a result the building are weak and one o the buildings crashed which killed and injured a lot of people. It was also about the Mall of India that is being built which is going to be bigger than the Mall of America! The Mall of India is oing to be the biggest makk in th world.
12/9 Class
Today we finally finished the movie which I really liked. I liked how we can base a whole subject off of just one movie. Also, how we got to watch it in class I think that makes class a lot more fun. Even though we had to write two papers I still liked it.
12/8 Class
Today we finished watching Slumdog Millionaire. Thankfully, we dont have any written assignments tonight and I am so happy.
Indian Essay
India is the second largest country in the world. The population is 1,173,108,018 as of July 2010. The only country above India is China. India has a billion more that the United States which is one below India. It has been increasing ever since.
Human trafficking is a major issue in India. Trafficking means the movement of vehicles, ships, persons, etc., in an area. In India it is very populated by men, women, and children and therefore is much trafficked. For the fifth consecutive year India is on the Tier 2 Watch List. The Tier 2 Watch List is a list of all the countries whose governments do not fully comply with the TVPA’s minimum standards, but are making significant efforts to bring themselves into compliance with those standards. The Tier 2 Watch List has sub categories where countries are separated into instead of being generalized. Also, “the absolute number of victims of severe forms of trafficking is very significant or is significantly increasing; or there is a failure to provide evidence of increasing efforts to combat severe forms of trafficking in persons from the previous year; or the determination that a country is making significant efforts to bring themselves into compliance with minimum standards was based on commitments by the country to take additional future steps over the next year”. However, India is on the Tier 2 Watch List because of its failure to provide evidence of increasing efforts to combat human trafficking in 2007.
In the movie Slumdog Millionaire, India was not portrayed accurately. This movie only showed the slums and shantytowns of India. Amitabh complained that Mumbai was portrayed as a third world country. Obviously, Slumdog Millionaire only showed the slum parts of India and not the major cities. They did it that way because the point of the movie was to show a kid from the slums knowing all the answers on a game show, called “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?”. The idea was not to show the best parts of Mumbai, it was to show the shantytowns and the bad parts of Mumbai.
It is incorrect when people say that Bollywood is the whole India cinema which is only part of the total Indian film industry. Bollywood is the largest film producer in India and one of the largest centers of film production in the world. The name Bollywood originated from the combination of the two words Hollywood and Mumbai.
India has the largest number of child workers in the world. Many of the children work in hazardous industries. A Madras School of Social Work study found that among children employed as mechanics, factory and construction workers and weavers, 31 percent worked 10 to 11 hours daily and 22 percent worked 12 to 13 hours. In the unorganized sectors, children were paid piece rates, resulting in even longer hours for very low pay. In India’s commercial capital, Mumbai (Bombay), there are thousands of small units known as “zari factories”. Boys aged 6-14 work 20 hours a day, seven days a week, kneeling at low tables sewing beads and colored threads on to vast lengths of fabric.
Human Trafficking In India
Trafficking means the movement of vehicles, ships, persons, etc., in an area. In India it is very populated by men, women, and children and therefore is much trafficked. For the fifth consecutive year India is on the Tier 2 Watch List. The Tier 2 Watch List is a list of all the countries whose governments do not fully comply with the TVPA’s minimum standards, but are making significant efforts to bring themselves into compliance with those standards. Also, “the absolute number of victims of severe forms of trafficking is very significant or is significantly increasing; or there is a failure to provide evidence of increasing efforts to combat severe forms of trafficking in persons from the previous year; or the determination that a country is making significant efforts to bring themselves into compliance with minimum standards was based on commitments by the country to take additional future steps over the next year”. However, India is on the Tier 2 Watch List because of its failure to provide evidence of increasing efforts to combat human trafficking in 2007.
India has the largest number of child workers in the world. Many of the children work in hazardous industries. A Madras School of Social Work study found that among children employed as mechanics, factory and construction workers and weavers, 31 percent worked 10 to 11 hours daily and 22 percent worked 12 to 13 hours. In the unorganized sectors, children were paid piece rates, resulting in even longer hours for very low pay. In India’s commercial capital, Mumbai (Bombay), there are thousands of small units known as “zari factories”. Boys aged 6-14 work 20 hours a day, seven days a week, kneeling at low tables sewing beads and colored threads on to vast lengths of fabric.
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Research Questions
- Bollywood alone produces more than 800 to 1000 movies which is one-third of the entire Indian film industry. .......................................
- The three main characters in Slumdog Millionaire are Jamal Malik, Latika, and Salim.
- A "chai wallah" is a sweet spiced milk tea.
- Five things you must know about the Taj Mahal:
- it is the pride of India
- one of the Seven Wonders of the World
- built by Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan, after the death of his dearest wife Mumtaz Mahal, as a memorial
- in the city of Agra in Uttar Pradesh, on the banks of river Yamuna
- literally means ‘Crown Palace’
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Bombay Riots
- The result was 3.6 billion dollar in damages
- between the Muslims and the Hindus
- seven day riot
12/1 Class
Today we continued to watch Slumdog Millionaire. It is about this young man who goes on the show Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? and gets farther along in the game then most lawyer and doctors. That is so mind boggling because this man grew up in the slums of India and he had very little education. The producers of the show think that he is cheating because they think that just because a man who grew up in the slums cannot know all the answers. Therefore, they report him to the police who punish him to confess that he was cheating, which he was not. As the movie goes on it shows how he knows the answer to all of the questions.
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