Monday, January 3, 2011

two koreas on tense situation

1.the Democratic People's Republic of Korea
2.Kim Jong-il, born 2/16/41, took office july 8, 1954
3. after war japan has to give up japan
4. north korea is in north east asia north of south korea.
5. North Korea borders the pacific east sea, gulf of west korea, russia, south korea, china.
6. The 38th parrallel is sinificant because The 38th parallel was first suggested as a dividing line for Korea in 1896. Russia was attempting to pull Korea under its control, while Japan had just secured recognition of its rights in Korea from the British. In an attempt to prevent any conflict, Japan proposed to Russia that the two sides split Korea into separate Spheres of influence along the 38th parallel. However, no formal agreement was ever reached, and Japan later took full control of korea.
7. the relationship between north korea and south korea is that north korea was controlled by russia and south korea was controlled by the u.s. the u.s. was in a cold war with russia so they made the two contries hate each other too.
8. on the north korean side life is terrible. there is no connections too the outside world. the government controles everything and the people in North korea dont even know. all they have been told is to hate america. the dictator in the country makes himself look like a god to those people. when ever something good happens he gets credit whenther he did it or not.
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10. Pyongyang.

Thursday, December 2, 2010

Homework for 12/2/10

assignment

1.compare the motion picture idustry in india and the U.S. ?
2.what are the names of the three main characters in slum dog millionare
3.what is a chaiwallah
4.tell us 5 things we must know about the Taj machal

1.
Bollywood was born in 1899 with the production of a short film and Hollywood’s birth happened 11 years later in 1910 with a Biography melodrama.
Hollywood produces 500 films per year on average and has a worldwide audience of 2.6 billion whereas Bollywood produces more than 1000 (not consistently) films every year and has a worldwide audience of 3 Billion. In terms of vieweship, Bollywood overtook Hollywood in 2004 and has been leading ever since.
2.Salim, Jamal, Latika
3.A wallah is one who performs a specific task. A rickshaw wallah drives the rickshaw, a dhobi wallah washes clothes and chai wallahs, you guessed it, they make chai. Chai wallah are everywhere in india. Everywhere. From busy urban street corners to hidden alleyways, at bus depots and railway platforms and walking through the train car, along riversides and on footpaths that lead to pilgrimage sites in the middle of nowhere — when you need a fresh cup of tea, the chai wallah is always near.
4. 1.  It is one of the most recognizable structures in the world.
2.  It was built by Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his third wife,
3.  It is widely considered as one of the most beautiful buildings in the world and stands as a symbol of eternal love.
4.The construction of the Taj Mahal was entrusted to a board of architects under imperial supervision,
5.  The construction began around 1632 and was completed around 1653

Monday, November 29, 2010

Kaun Banega / hw

KBC is a game show. the prize is a rube which is a currencey  in india

list 5 esenctial fact about mumbai / find out what dharavi is/shantitown/how may people live in shantitowns world wide.

1.the capital of the Indian state of Maharshatar.
2.population of 14 million
3.it is one of the most populous urban regions in the world
4. Richest city in india
5. It is the 2nd most populous cities in the world

Dharavi is a slum and administrative ward, over parts of Sion, Bianda, Kurla and Kalina suburbs of Mumbai, India. It is sandwiched between Mahim in the west and Sion in the east, and spread over an area of 175 hecters, or 0.67 square miles.

a shantitown is like a slum and about 1 billion people live in it

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

homework

1. 1,173,108,018 cia factbook
2. 2.65 children born/woman (2010 est.) cia factbook
3. 25% (2007 est.) cia fact book
4. Indian authorities issued an alert after nine people were killed when a bomb hidden in a bag detonated in the western city of Pune.
February 14, 2010    
 A lethal attack on two mosques of a minority sect was the result of years of ignoring religious diversity June 13, 2010
terrorism in india
5. 119 the globalist
6.With water brimming well past the permitted levels at the 350-foot Ukai Dam, according to official records, and the skies showing no sign of relief, the engineers apparently threw open the reservoir’s 21 sluice gates. Water then did what water does. It surged downriver, swallowing this city of three million people like a hungry beast. The diamond lanes of India became a warren of muck and ruin.         india struggles to  tap the monsoon
7. There is trash.... toxic waste.... and dirt. Water woes in india
8.male: 73.4%
female: 47.8% (2001 census
9. Hindu 80.5%, Muslim 13.4%, Christian 2.3%, Sikh 1.9%, other 1.8%, unspecified 0.1% (2001 census) cia factbook
10. British in 1947 cia fact book

Friday, November 12, 2010

class

Today in class we made groups. each group has same questions to do and also a different topic to research. this is what we have in class today. coffee is a beverage consisting of an infusion of the roasted ground or crushed seeds (coffee beans) of the two-seeded fruit (coffee berry) of certain coffee trees.(1) Coffee coms from various Tropical places around the world,  including Latin America, Brazil, Columbia, etc. Coffee is not grown in the United States except for Hawaii.  A type of coffee is fair trade coffee.  Fair Trade Coffee is coffee which is purchased directly from the growers for a higher price than standard coffee. Fair Trade coffee is one of many Fair Trade certified products available around the world. (2) Various coffee have changed in prices from 2009 to 2010. .