a. Globalization/pg. 29: The growing interconnections among nations due to the expansion of capitalism
The Real Slumdog’s documentary was very interesting and eye opening. The amount of businesses that are run in the one square mile area of Dharavi affect the entire capitalism of the world. Look at it this way, the Slumdog’s as they’re called make crappy money to make some very intricate products. These products will be shipped from Mumbai to the rest of the world eventually. As the products are marked up by middle men, the money does not filter its way back to the Dharavi slum. Thus, the products might be ten dollars in a store, but initially the slum workers get paid barely anything and do not get to see the profit that they could. These people work to survive. Mumbai is a very intricate and bustling city, and has a large amount of money and products moved through it each day. In the inner city though, it is not as cheap to make the products. There also are not the massive amounts of laborers that are found in Dharavi. Moving away from product production we can look at the dumps of Dharavi. A large amount of the trash from the inner city is sent to the slum to be processed. The workers that sort through the trash are called rag pickers. The rag pickers make very little money for what they do, but the work that they do is very important. They separate the waste into different categories to be processed and recycled accordingly. They separate the metals from plastics, and
The next documentary was titled “Megaslums”. It showed us a different perspective. It had more in common with the functionalist perspective. This is because the people within the Megaslum was independent from the rest of Mumbai. This is because they function on their own, they make their own money, businesses, and everyone has their own duties to the Megaslum. The video we watched was about a mega slum named Dharavi. It is in Mumbai, India. They have around or over one million people living in an
leaders of the film production India is one of the biggest film production country. Following the breakthrough of the Lumiere brothers producing the screening of a motion film, the trend soon followed into European and Indian countries during the 1890’s. By July 1896, the city of Bombay had films produced a variety of films in the same area as where the Lumiere brothers had there first film screened in India. The next year, the first featured show was presented at the Calcutta Star Theatre. The first
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Shahrukh Khan
Born 2 November 1965 (1965-11-02) (age 44)
New Delhi, India
Other name(s) Shah Rukh Khan, King Khan, SRK, King of Bollywood[1]
Occupation Actor, producer, television presenter
Years active 1988–present
Spouse(s) Gauri Khan (1991–present)
Shahrukh Khan (Hindi: शाहरुख़ ख़ान, Urdu: شاہ رُخ خان; born 2 November 1965), sometimes credited as Shah Rukh Khan, is an Indian actor and a prominent