Andrew's Western Civ Blogs

Today in class we watched Hans Rosling's video where he was "animating data in real space". What his video showed was countries life expectancy and average income. This graph shows counties from 1810 to 2009, with a top lifespan of 75 years and top income of $40,000. This graph shows poor and sick countries at one end and rich and healthy people in the other. The graph shows in 1810 basically everyone is sick and poor, and life expectancy is around 40 years old. In 1948, or the end of world war 2, counties are very spread out on the graph and shows very sudden spikes or declines for different reasons. In general, the counties that haven't started their Industrial Revolution yet are stuck mostly in the poor and sick region. Well, that's all for me today, see you soon!

Today in class we looked at the video we saw yesterday about the population pyramid. A population pyramid is a graph that shows the number of people in five year intervals. One side of this graph shows the male population while the other shows females. This graph has gap in the middle where the ages are shown, which starts at age 0 and ends at 100 years and above. A wide base shows that a population's growing quickly, and shows a pre-industrial age. A graph that has growth in the middle shows that a population will grow slowly and an industrial age. The last one, which has growth in the post reproductive years shows a declining population, and also a post-industrial age. That's all for now, see you soon!

Today in class we got back our tests on Population and Migration, and I was surprised on how well I managed to do. I liked how we got to go on the CIA World Factbook because it was different then any other tests I've taken. There was only question that I didn't get, and that was the one that asks what a measure of a country's economic output that accounts for it's number of people. I said this was the population pyramid, but as we learned today, that wasn't the right answer. With these population pyramids, they compare the number of people of a certain age, and includes numbers for men and women.

Welcome back! Tomorrow we have the last test of the first quarter, so today in class we reviewed some of the things that should be one the test. We also said out loud what we think some of the test questions should be about, so now we have a general sense of what to expect on the test. This test will have 15 questions that we need the CIA world factbook to help us answer. We will also have to do some math on this test, which will include having to find the Net Migration Rate and the Rate of Natural Increase. Some of this will be having to divide the population by 1000 or subtracting the birth rate by the death rate. Well, see you on Test Day!

Today in class we took a look at the questions we did for homework last night. What he had to do was look at the CIA's world factbook. We learned that America is not the best compared to other counties in rankings such as the Infant Mortality Rate. We also saw that the average net worth for america was very low compared to countries like Monaco, but high compared to a country like Nigeria. Thats all for me for today, see you tomorrow.

1.        What is the population of China, and of India? The population of China is around 1,384,688,986. The population of India is 1,296,834,042. 2.        What is the Total Fertility Rate in Japan? The total fertility rate in Japan is 1.42. 3.        What is the death rate in El Salvador? The death rate in El Salvador 5.8. 4.        What percentage of the French identify “none” as their religion? Is this statistic verifiable, and why? 23-28% of French people identify as none as their religion. This statistic is not reliable because the last time the data was collected was in 1872. 5.        What percentage of Mexicans identify themselves as Roman Catholic? 82.7% of Mexicans identify themselves as Roman Catholic. 6.        What is the GDP - per capita (PPP) in the United States? The G...

Today in class we leaned about measuring population. We learned about crude birth rate which is the number of births per 1000 people, and the crude death rate which is the number of deaths per 1000 people. The find the rate of natural increase, you have to subtract the death rate by the birth rate. This gives the annual growth rate in percentage form. We also talked about the Net Migration Rate which is the difference between people entering and leaving. A person leaving a country is called an emigration while an immigrant is someone who enters a country. That's all for now, see you later!