12.16.09

Today in class we handed in our Research Papers. Also, we went over the mini project that is due Friday and started working on it for the rest of the class

United States mini project!!

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
- Total Population: 307, 212, 123
- TFR: 2.05 children born/woman
- Birth Rate: 13.82 births/1,000 population
- Death Rate: 8.38 deaths/1,000 population
- Life expectancy: 78.11 years
- Infant Mortality Rate: 6.26 deaths/1,000 live births
- Gained there independence from: From Great Britain
- When: July 4, 1776
- United States is developed because the TFR and the infant mortality rate is high and the life expectancy is good.

South Africa mini project!!

SOUTH AFRICAN
- Total Population: 29, 052, 489
- TFR: 2.38 children born/woman
- Birth Rate: 19.93 births/1,000 population
- Death Rate: 16.99 deaths/1,000 population
- Life expectancy: 48.98 years
- Infant Mortality Rate: 44.42 deaths/1,000 live births
- Gained there independence from: ?
- When: May 31, 1910 (Union of South Africa formed from four British colonies: Cape Colony, Natal, Transvaal, and Orange Free State); May 31, 1961 (republic declared) April 27, 1994 (majority rule)
- South Africa is a developing country because the country is growing rapidly

Kenya mini project!!

KENYA
- Total Population: 39, 002, 772
- TFR: 4.56 children born/woman
- Birth Rate: 36.64 births/1,000 population
- Death Rate: 9.72 deaths/1,000 population
- Life expectancy: 57.86 years
- Infant Mortality Rate: 54.7 deaths/1,000 live births
- Gained there independence from?: From the UK
- When: December 12, 1963\
- Kenya is a developing country because the infant moratlity rate is low

Sudan mini project!!

SUDAN
- Total Population: 41, 087, 825
- TFR: 4.48 children born/woman
- Birth Rate: 33.74 births/1,000 population
- Death Rate: 12.94 deaths/1,000 population
- Life expectancy: 51.42 years
- Infant Mortality Rate: 82.43 deaths/1,000 live births
- Gained their independence from: From Egypt and the UK
- When: January 1, 1956
- Sudan is a developing country because the infant mortality rate is high and the popualtion is to low.

Ethiopia Mini Project!!

ETHIOPIA
- Total Population: 85, 237, 338
- TFR: 6.12 children born/woman
- Birth Rate: 43.66 births/1,000 population
- Death Rate: 11.5 deaths/1,000 population
- Life expectancy: 55.41 years
- Infant Mortality Rate: 80.8 deaths/1,000 births
- Gained there independence from: ?
- When: Oldest independent country in Africa and one of the oldest in the world - at least 2,000 years
- Ethiopia is a developing country because the popualtion is not very high and the TFR is extremely high

NIGERIA mini project

NIGERIA
- Total Population: 149,229,090
- TFR: 4.91 children born/woman
- Birth Rate: 36.65 births/1,000 population
- Death Rate: 16.56 deaths/1,000 population
- Life expectancy: 46.94 years
- Infant Mortality Rate: 94.35 deaths/1,000 live births
- Gained there independence from: The UK
- When: October 1, 1960

- Nigeria is a developing country because it’s a nation with a low level matieral

Tuesday 12.15.09

In class today we took "God grew tired of us" Test and went over it.
We talked about our research paper which is due tommrow and answered questions.

God grew tired of us

On December 8,9,10th we watched the Movie God Grew tired of us and took notes the whole class.

absent

i was absent today and yesterday so i did not know what we did in class and thats why i dont have blogs posted for those days.

Population and Settlment Essay !

Amelia Rodriguez 11/8/09 human geography
Population and Settlement.

More than 335 million people live in North America today; they are some of the world’s most affluent and highly mobile populations. Metropolitan clusters dominate North America’s population geography, producing strikingly uneven patterns of settlement across the region. This theme applies to North America because every day we have more and more immigrants migrated to our country and settling here. Mostly all immigrants migrate and settle in North America then they do in other countries. North America’s population has increased greatly since the beginning of European colonization. Before the 1900s high rates of natural increase produced large families. Waves of foreign immigration swelled settlement, a pattern that continues today. After World War 11 birthrates rose once again in the United States.


Rates of natural increase in North America are below 1 percent annually, and the overall population is growing older. North America’s settlement landscape reflects the population movements, moving regional economic fortunes. Settlement landscapes of North American cities boldly display the consequences of urban decentralization. Rural North American landscapes trace their origins to initial European settlement. Today, many rural North American settings face population declines as they adjust to the changing conditions of modern agriculture. United States farm populations fell by more than two-thirds during the last half of the twentieth century.
All of this work is cited from “Diversity Amid Globalization” textbook.

Hurricane Katrina

hurricane katrina killed many people. It took off the roofs of houses. Winds were blownig up to 100 miles per hour. Hurricane Katrina took place in New Orlenas, August 9, 2005. The leeves were broken down. The wsater started pouring over top of the leeves. Water were up to the top of the houses.The great flood of 1927 ported distinct suffered most.
Katrina hit gulf port. Cars were swept away, New Orleans bowl was filling up.

- 75% of new Orleans is now under water.
- Leeves failed.

Work we did in class 9/24/09 Real World

“Immigration and Emigration”
(nytimes.com) http://topics.nytimes.com
Summary: Immigration has been crucial to the United States. The United States has recently experienced another great wave of immigration, since the 1920s. An estimated 11.9 million illegal immigrants have been living here by 2008. Immigration has become the most non-stop issue on the political agenda. If we stop immigrants form migrating to the United States our population of Aides will decrease tremendously.

“World Population still climbing”
(news.bbc.com) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/

Summary: The United Nations Population Fund says the number of people in the world has doubled since 1960. Global Fertility Rate has declined faster than excepted and global life expectancy has grown from 46 years in 1950 to 66 today. In 61 countries containing about 44% of world numbers, couples are having fewer than the two children needed to keep the population stable. In 1969, world population was growing at 2.4% a year. Today the rate is 1.3%. But most of the growth is in south and west Asia and in Sub-Saharan Africa.

“Our low Birth Rate is killing us”
(googlenews.com) http://www.dailycommercial.com/voices/story

Summary: At this time Europe cannot remain as we know it today because of low fertility rate. France=1.8, England=1.6, Germany=1.3, Greece=1.3, Italy=1.2, Spain=1.1. The Fertility rate for all 31 countries of Europe stands on average1.3. In the last 30 years the Muslim population has increased from 82,000 to 2.5 million. By 2020 Germany will be a Muslim state.

Work we did in class ! 9/23/09

- Migration Patterns
Never before in human history have so many people been on the move.
Over 190 million people live outside the country of their birth, thus are officially designated as migrants by international agencies. Japan, Germany, France, Canada, the United States, Italy, and the united Kingdom are the seven industrial countries/developed countries. They tend to move to cities.
Persecution, Famine, and environmental destruction cause people to flee to safe havens elsewhere.

Refuges- A person who flees his or her country because of well founded fear. Based on race. Ethnicity, religion.

-Push and Pull Forces-
Push forces, such as civil strife, environmental degradation, or unemployment, drive people from their homelands. Pull forces such as better economic opportunity or health services, attract migrants to certain locations, within or beyond their national boundaries. Connecting the two are th informational networks or families, friends, and sometimes labor contractors, who provide information on the mechanics of migration, transportation details, and housing and job opportunities.

Net Migration Rates
- The amount of immigration and emigration is measured by the net migration rate, statistics that depicts whether more people are entering or leaving a country.
Some of the highest net migration rates are found in countries that depend heavily on migrants for their labor force, such as the United Arab Emigrates, with a net migration rate.

Homework Explaining the Section

Today in class, we went over the Demographic Transition Chart and we took done many noted.

Pagraph for homework- I read that In Europe, North America, and Japan growth declined as countries became increasingly industralized and urbanized. From this historical data, demographers generted the demorgraphic transition model, a four-stage conceptualization that tracks changes in birthrates and death rates through time as a population urbanizes. Death rates fall dramtically in stage 2 while irthrates remain high, producing a rapid rise in RNI. In both historical and modern times, the decrease in deathrates is usually associated withthe devolpment of public health measures and modern medicane. For many professionals, the demographic transition model is a resonable predictor of where and when we can except popualtion growth rates to slow in the devolping world. The demographic transiton concept is a useful tool for organizing information about the vast diffrence in birthrates and death rats found around the world.

Notes on birth rartes and Death rates pg 22 9/22/09

ndustrialize- Your country is starting to produce things

Demographic transition- a four stage conceptualization that tracks changes in birth rates and death rates, through time as a population urbanizes.

Urbanized-more and more people live in cites and leave the country

Old people got sick and baby got sick. They didn’t have much medicine

Predictors- they predict what's going to happen to a country

HomeWork for 9/17/09 Statistical Comparisons

Developed Country Japan in 2009- Total Fertility Rate- 1.2, Crude birth Rate-8, Births-971, Life expectancy at birth-82, Infant Mortality Rate-3, Under 5 Mortality Rate-4, Crude Death Rate-10, Deaths-1,212-Mid-Year Population-127,079~ Growth Rate -0.2
According to the Population Pyramid the population is going to increase while you get older.

Developing country- Brazil in 2009- Total Fertility Rate-2.2, Crude birth Rate-18, Births-3,663, Life expectancy at birth-72, Infant Mortality Rate-23, Under 5 Mortality Rate-27, Crude Death Rate-6, Deaths-1,262. Mid-year Popualtion-198,739~ Growth Rate 1.2
According to the population pyramid the population in both male and female are going to get smaller by age. When your about first born till you reach 45 is a bigger percentage but when you reach about 50 till 95 the percentage is decreasing in very fast. I think its rapid growth.

Classwork /Did you know? video 9/16/09

3 facts
-todays 21 year olds have watched 20,000 hours of tv
-More than 50% of U.S 21 year olds have created content on the web
-More than 70% of U.S 4 year olds have used a computer.

Today we took a quiz 9/15/09

In class today we took our quiz and wrote down some notes

Notes:earning Objectives

It can help human geographers determine what will happen to a countries population.
Population Pyramids
Elements of the population pyramid
-age-population pyramids visually present the population of a particular country broken down by age
-gender-population pyramids are split. One side presents the number of males in a particular population the other reflects the number of females within the same population

-young and old populations-Percentage of population under 15-global average is 30 percent (Africa) ; high number indicates great potential for future growth; Percentage of population over age 65:identifies need for health care and other social services.

-life expectancy-average number of years a person is excepted to live; affected by many factors.

What we did in class today

In classs today we just went over all our assignments we had to do yesterday with a group and we went over what was going to be on our quiz and when we are taking the quiz

Classwork on Paragrphs 9/9/09

THE PRO-GLOBALIZATION STANCE


-Advocats agrue globalization is a logical and inevitable expression of contemporary capitalism that will BENEFIT all peoples.
-Economic globalization can work such wonders, they contend, by enchancing competition, allowing the flow of capital to poor areas, and encouraging the spread of beneficail new technologies and ideas.
-Enhancing such geographical specialization, the pro-globalizers argues, creates a more efficant world economy.
-Economice Covergence- meaning that the worlds poorer countries will gradually catch up with the most advanced economies.

Identifying World Regions Part 2 9/8/09

1. United States -North America
2. France -Europe
3. Iraq -South East Asia and North Africa(middle East)
4. China -East Asia
5. Saudi Arabia -North Africa/Southwest Asia
6. Haiti -The Carribean
7. India -South Asia
8. Japan -East Asia
9. Venezuela -Latin America
10. Iran -North Africa/SouthWest Asia
11. Russia -The Russian Domain
12. The United KIngdom -Europe
13. Israel -North Africa and Southwest Asia
14. Germany -Europe
15. Tibet -East Asia
16. Afghanistan -Central Asia
17. Brazil -Latin America
18. North Korea -East Asia
19. Egypt -Subsahran Africa
20. Kenya -Subsahran Africa
21. Pakistan -South Asia
22. Vietnam -Southeast Asia
23. Mexico -Latin America
24. Cuba -The Carribean

found all my information from google maps

Identifying World Regions 9/8/09

1. North America j

2. Latin America D

3. The Caribbean L

4. Sub-Saharan Africa G

5. Southwest Asia and North Africa (The Middle East) I

6. Europe C

7. The Russian Domain E

8. Central Asia F

9. East Asia H

10. South Asia B

11. Southeast Asia K

12. Australia and Oceania A

Homework 9/2/09

Define globalization- the increasing interconnectedness of people and places through converging processes of economic, politcal, and cultural change.

Headings and things in colored fonts- Diversity and Globalization : A GEOGRAPHY for the twenty-first century
-converging currents and globalization
-Globalization and Cultural Change
-Globalization and Geopolitics
key word- Transnational firms which does global business through international subsidaries, disrupt local ecosystems in their incessant search for natural resources and manufacturing sites
- Environmental concerns
-Social Dimensions


What are the five themes of Geography?
The five themes of Geography is location, place, movement, region, and environmental interaction

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human geography

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