Today in class we talked about migration and the political policies put on immigration. After discussing the immigration policies, we all came to a common agreement that we do not want every illegal immigrant to come to our country, but we also do not want a complete ban on immigrants. Talking about our political views made me realize that we need to stay opened minded and accept peoples differences. we are all different and entitled to our opinions.

- 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

- 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

Today we took a quiz. The quiz was about the video we watched called "200 years in 4 minutes." The quiz was easy but I feel like I messed up on one or two questions. The quiz asked a lot about what stage a country is in based on RNI so if you knew what RNI was you should have gotten a good grade. If I could retake this quiz again I would most likely look over my work because I never look over my work once I finish. It's a bad habit I have but with time I can perfect it and become a better test taker. Hopefully I got a good grade.

Today in class we watched “200 years in 4 minutes.” The video explained the progression of all the countries throughout the Industrial Revolution. Most countries improved there medical systems, technology, housing, and economy in just over 50 years while the African countries have not progressed at all. After 100 years the US started to reach stage 3 and we started to improve our systems a lot. Now after 200 years we have become one of the most powerful and technologically advanced places on Earth. We have a great Economy and most of our population in America lives somewhat comfortably. The video taught me things I have never even thought of, and made me realise how thankful we should be to live in US.

1.) Population structure

Sex ratio
- The number of males per 100 females in world population

- Women tend to live 7 years longer than men

Demographic transition
- Why natural increase rises and falls?
- No country has ever reverted to a previous stage in either the beginning, middle, or end

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

Declining birth rates
- 2 strategies for lowering birth rates

1.) improve education and health care

2.) contraception

Why is global population increasing?


Components of population growth?


Natural increase
- About 82m people are added to the population of the world annually
- 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
-Number of deaths of kids under 1 year old
per 1,000 births
- IMR is 5 in developed countries and 80 in sub-saharan africa

In class we went over our test and talked about the key issues on it. Overall I did good on the test finishing it with an 87. I cannot wait for the next test so I can hopefully get an A on it. I am doing pretty good in your class except I forget to do blogs here and there. I will make sure that I do my blogs and that I will not forget. I think I need to invest in a planner so I don't forget to do blogs.

today, we took a test. I felt i did decent but I didn’t know a few questions. I found most of the questions easy but I feel like I could have done a little bit better. The cia.gov questions were the easiest in my opinion, I found those questions super quick. The second section of the test where we had to fill in the blanks stumped me a little. It took me a little bit longer than usual to find the answer. At the end of the test where we had to match the population pyramid with the right question was a little hard. Those questions were probably the hardest.  At the end of the test we had to draw cartoons and draw as many as we could. I started to run out of ideas and couldn’t figure out what I wanted to draw next but overall I thought the test was good.

Today in class we went over what will be on the test, and how to efficiently find things on the CIA World Factbook. I am feeling pretty good about the test but some of the contents are a little confusing, if I study and search around a little more then I should get a good dead’s. After we talked about the test, you told us about the movies you were in, and what you did to help with the movie. I thought it was pretty awesome that my teacher helped work on Home Alone because it’s my favorite movie but I was more impressed with all the famous people you got to meet. I could only wish meeting these people one day. When you said you have met Morgan Freeman, Kevin Bacon, Harrison Ford, etc... I was amazed. These people are some of the best actors in the world and you got to meet them and work with them for months at a time. After all, today was a pretty interesting day in class but also a pretty awesome one.

Yesterday in class we mainly just watched videos about population pyramids and TEDEd talks. We watched a TEDEd talk where a woman who was a model went into a deep thought. She walked on the stage as if she was walking and doing a photo shoot. As she changed into casual clothes she changed the perspective in which people saw her. She made people realize that not everyone is looked at the same. She made the people realize that we are privileged due to the way we look and what color we are. She then discussed getting pulled over by a cop that let her go just because she was pretty, white, and privileged. This made her realize that our appearance influences the decisions of others. By the end of the speech she brought up the point that if it was a black person wearing baggy clothes they would be harassed and told to get out just because they don’t have pretty white skin. I didn’t really agree with this but I guess some people do.

I was not in school due to sickness