11/29/18

Today we debated and had a poll about whether we thought the world's international migrants level was either 3 percent or 7 percent. most of the class was voting for the 3 percent side and then we had another poll about whether we think donald trump is doing the right thing or not. most people said they didn't know and at first, i was saying that he is but then i thought to myself and i have no idea what donald trump is doing so i think i shouldve gone to the "I dont know" side. Then we talked about asylum. We got into examples of how the holocaust was starting and how america didnt accept the jews that came over by boat and then later realizing how many lives we costed and how many we couldve saved.

11/29/18

international - permanent move to a different country

forced
voluntary

internal - permanent move within the same country

aproxx. 9% of the worlds population are international migrants
global patter reflects migration tendencies from developing countries to developed countries

net out-migration
 - asia latin america africa
net in-migration
 - na eu oceania

u.s. has more foreign born residents than any other country: approx 43m as of 2010 (1m increase each year)

11/27/18

Migration

- where are migrants distributed?
- where do people migrate within a country?
- why do people migrate?
- Why do migrants face obstacles?

Mobility is generalized term that refers to all type of movement
Short-term repetitive acts of mobility are refered to as circulation

a permanent move to a new locations constitutes migration

ravenstein's law for the distance that migrants typically move
- most relocate with the same country
- long distance migrants to other countries head for major centers of economic activity

11/20/18

we took a test on the worksheet we worked on yesterday about hans rosling. I don't think i did good because i was confused on the part about the different stages like stage 1 stage 2 and so on. other than those two questions it was pretty easy. I am happy its thanksgiving break because i get to take a break from school to hang with friends and be stress free for a little. i also get to wake up and fall asleep whenever and not have to worry about a thing. I cant wait to spend time with the family over the break. I had out of uniform today and im happy i dont have to dress in regular uniform too.

11/19/18

Europe - brown
asia - red
middle east - green
africa sub sahara - blue
america (north and south) - yellow

the bigger the circle, the higher population in the higher the population

life expectancy of every nation was 40 or less only about 200 years ago

industrial revolution pushes mainly europe to more wealth

first world war really made europe increase to the rich and healthy portion of the chart.

Hans Roslin Comprehension
- Global health
- wealth
- life expectancy
- poor and sick
- rich and healthy
- stage 2
- early 1800s
- japan
- stage 1
- great britain

11/16/18

population structure
sex ratio
defined as the number of males per 100 females in the world population
women tend to live 7 years longer than men do

demographic transition
why natural increase rises and falls - 4 stages
historically no country has ever reverted to a previous stage
beginning middle and end

stage 1 - low growth
stage 2 - high growth
stage 3 - moderate growth
stage 4 - low growth

declining burth rates
2 strategies for lowering birth rates
1. improve education and health care
2. contraception

11/14/18

Why is global population increasing?
Components of population growth
natural increase
about 82m people are added to the population of the world annually
more than 95% of the natural increase is in developing countries
fertility
total fertility rate
tfr for world is 2.5
tfr exceeds 5 in sub-saharan africa and 2 or less in many europe countries
Mortality
infant mortality rate
shows death rate
number of deaths of kids under 1yo
per 1,000 births and not percentage
imr is 5 in developed countries and 80 in sub-saharan africa

sick

i was sick therefore i couldnt do a blog

11/8/18

Key issues

- where is the world population distributed?
- why is global population increasing?
- why does population growth vary among regions?
- why do some regions face health threats

Where is the world population distributed?
- population concentrations
1. 2/3 of the worlds population are all in...
a. east asia
b. south asia
c. southeast asia
d. europe
2. site and situation of population clusters
a. low lying areas with fertile soil and temperature climate
b. near an ocean or near a river with easy access to a near by ocean
3. sparsely populated regions
a. humans avoid clustering in certain physical environments
1a. dry lands
1b. wet lands
1c. cold lands
1d. high lands
- places considered too harsh for occupancy have diminished over time.

11/7/18

today, we took a test. I thought it was a fairly easy test but some of the questions were tricky. In the beginning, i thought i was going to stress out because of the cia.gov questions but thank you for limiting the questions just down to 12. I felt that i did decent although i didnt know a few of the questions. I also thought it was funny talking to other people and looking at their drawings. I had no idea what to draw at first and then i looked at someone elses drawings and i thought it was a good idea. I did something like his but i changed it up a little. It was based on the same thing because the cartoon was supposed to be on what we learned. The person behind me was making me laugh because she was stressed out far worse than i thought i was going to and she was funny about it.

11/6/18

Today, we went over what was going to be on the test. I made sure that I had all my notes so I could prepare and I made sure I was ready. Mr. Schick gave us questions that were similar to the ones on the test. We were told how to use CIA.GOV and made sure we were all fluent in it so we didn't have any difficulties doing so. He told us that the first 15 questions were going to based on the CIA.GOV website and we would have to finish the 15 questions in 15 minutes which doesn't seem like too much of a problem since the ones he gave us only took at most 30 seconds each for the whole class.

11/3/18

Mr. schick gave us some good tasty muffins, they really were good. :)

Today, we just pretty much ellaborated on the population pyramids but also, we learned about TEDed talks. We watched a TEDEd talk where a woman who was a model went into a deep thought. She entered the stage as if she was walking and doing a photo shoot but she changed into different casual clothes which changed the perspective of herself to other people. She talked about how privileged she is and went into a conversation involving her speeding. She got away with it because she was a white young women who the cop considered attractive and that made her think what would happen if she was a black man wearing saggy and baggy clothes. She told us to think about how we see people and that it's what matters on the inside and not what people see on the outside.

11/1/18

Today, we talked about different states in America and looked at their population pyramids and examined them. for example, ft Bragg had mostly men because it was a military base and mostly men serve in the army. Some place in Massachusetts had mostly girls because it was an all girls college. We looked at other countries such as Japan and saw that the population was a lot lower than now. we saw that some African countries had very high birth rates. We saw that Punta Gorda in Florida was mostly older people because it was for retired people and it was a nicer place. we talked about how the younger people were mostly people that worked for them or were taking care of their families.