Room 613 Student Blogs - 2005/2006

India, 1943- The British were reigning over India, forcing them to do things like carry passes, and not allowing them the same privileges as the British. (they soon left India in 1947) Then when the worst recorded famine in history swept through eastern India, they were totally unprepared. This food shortage was called The Bengal Famine. An estimated total of 4,000,000 people died of starvation in that one year, think of it, in ONE YEAR, alone! It took a long time for them to recover, and that process was sped up by The Green Revolution. The Green Revolution was a combination of more farming agriculture, and improved seeds. The Revolution didn’t start causing dramatic affects until 1967, when they had the technology to genetically improve seeds, and by 1978, most of India was self- sustaining, and was producing enough food for most of it’s people to live happily and healthy.

This paragrapph tought me much about The Green Revolution and the hardships the Indians had to face during the Bengal Famine. I learned that many of the improvements in India’s agriculture were from technology, and that without it India would probably cease to exist.

My recources can be found by clicking on The Green Revolution or

Bengal Famine

As I wrote about before, Venice Italy would be an awesome place to visit! But did you know that since being founded over a thousand years years ago, Venice has sunk under about six feet of water! The city is a popular tourist attraction, but little known to most people, it’s slowly sinking. The city wont be completely underwater for at least another 1000-2000 years, but I still want to visit it while it’s there.

Gaza City, Israel- One Palestinian militant is comfirmed dead after an Israeli airstrike. He was one of three Palestinians who were in a car on the outskirts of Gaza City. The soldiers were planning on attacking the city. Fortunately, an Israeli aircraft saw the danger and opened fire on the vehicle. The attack killed one man and wounded the others. Israel and Palestine are bitter enemies, seeing as Palestine was forced to give up some of it’s land by the United Nations, after they agreed to let the Jewish people have a country of their own. Palestine wants some, if not all, of the stolen land back, but the Israeli’s are prepared to fight for it. This is the reason that they’re at war, and the reason that things like this happen between them.

Theres one place in the world that I would like to visit, and that is the beautiful town of Venice, Italy. Venice is a place where children drink wine and the streets are water. People travel in gondolas instead of cars which saves them paying the cost of gas money. They live a peacful life with many tourist attractions. Also, it would be a great opportunity to learn many historic facts about things like why the city is partially underwater and I would love to visit there!