Andrew's Western Civ Blogs

Today in class we started our work on the essay question for the exam, and I chose the first option for the essay. This was the one where you choose three countries and explain further into the challenges it faces and population statistics. The three countries I chose were Mexico, America, and Nigeria. I thought these would be good countries to pick because they are all so different from one another. For instance Mexico has a steadily increasing population while America will start to slowly decrease soon. Nigeria on the other hand has a rapidly increasing population. That's all for today, see you tomorrow!

Today in class we took our quiz for the demographic transitions, and I felt pretty confident in it, as I thought I knew the majority of the questions. The hardest question on it was probably the one with the math involved because that was what I had the most trouble understanding in the videos. We also got a study guide for the exam, and just looking at all these reviews makes me nervous of how well I can do on them. Hopefully my essay will turn out nice because we have the two classes to work on them. See you soon!

Today in class we re-watched the Khan Academy video on demographic transitions and took a few notes on an example of a demographic transition. In this video we did another of our now famous "okay stop" game, and we saw what was more accurate in this and what wasn't. It seems like the fifth stage it going to start happening soon on some more developed countries. It's hard to predict, so it seems like we just have to wait it out and see. Well that's it for today, see you on Monday for the quiz!

Khan Academy Video: Faith can play a major part in how many kids are born in a family. Now children are seen as an economic burden, rather then having the kids bring back money for the family through factory jobs. The population may stabilize one day due to lack of resources and hunger. Kim Smith Video: It takes about two decades for the population to adapt to technology, which decreases mortality rates. There is something called a Demographic Trap, which some believe can set a country back into stage one.  Stage two is when sanitation and and health care make the mortality rate go down and people start to live longer. Why Populations Grow There are more children in developing countries due to both fewer contraceptives, and a need for labor around the farm. A reason of a high death rate could actually be from something like a lack of education. The two main and biggest reasons for growth is Net Migration and The Rate of Natural Increase My favorite video from the t

Today in class we learned more about Demographic Transitions by watching two videos on it, and looking further on the stages in our packet. In the packet we saw the 5 stages that the counties of the world have been through/are in right now. In my opinion the better video was the second one, as I definitely learned more from it because of the visuals they explained. We also learned about the demographic trap, which seems to be a controversial statement because of the thought that this gap can push a country back into the first stage. That's all for today, see you tomorrow!

Today in class we started our lesson on the demographic transitions, and it seems to be pretty confusing to look at. We read a paper and highlighted the important parts, and there shows 4 parts to this transition. The first is low growth, the second is high growth, the third is moderate growth, and the fourth is low growth. Stage one has a very high CBR and CDR but a low NIR, and there are no countries left in this stage. The second has a high CBR and very high NIR, but a rapidly declining CDR. Stage 3 has moderate growth with a rapidly declining CBR and a moderately declining CDR. It also has a moderate NIR. The 4th and last stage shows low growth with a low CBR and CDR, and a zero or negative NIR. That"s all for today, see you tomorrow.