Immigration

On October 31, 2018, the Trump administration promised to send up to 15,000 troops to the Mexico border. The migrants are seeking asylum from dangerous and oppressive conditions in their home country. They have banded together to protect each other on the dangerous trek and to avoid using human traffickers. On January 26, 2018, Trump released an immigration plan. It would offer a 12-year path to citizenship for 1.8 million immigrants who arrived in the United States illegally as children. It would replace President Obama's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.On April 24, 2018, the Federal District Court for the District of Columbia ruled that the Department of Homeland Security must better explain its reasons for canceling DACA. If it doesn't do so in 90 days, the department must resume processing DACA applications.DACA offers a two-year deferral of deportation for eligible immigrants. Eligible people are those under 31 who were illegally brought to the United States as children. President Obama launched the program with an executive order in 2012. Since then, it has given 787,580 “Dreamers” a work permit. The Cato Institute estimated that elimination of DACA could cost the economy $215 billion over 10 years. That's the amount of lost spending power from these employed young people. On August 4, 2018, a federal judge ruled the Trump administration must fully restore DACA. On November 8, 2018, the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals upheld DACA

 

Migration

Migration is the movement by people from one place to another with the intentions of settling, permanently or temporarily in a new location. The movement is often over long distances and from one country to another, but internal migration is also possible; indeed, this is the dominant form globally. People may migrate as individuals, in family units or in large groups. There are pull and push factors that encompasses in each causes. The causes include social, political and economic aspects; the effects also vary for both sending and host countries. Firstly, human migration is due to social factors such as, racism, sexism and religion. 

The rate of Mexico-U.S. migration has declined precipitously in recent years. From 25 migrants per thousand in 2005, the annual international migration rate for Mexican men dropped to 7 per thousand by 2012. If sustained, this low migration rate is likely to have a profound effect on the ethnic and national-origin composition of the U.S. population. This study examines the origins of the migration decline using a nationally representative panel survey of Mexican households. The results support an explanation that attributes a large part of the decline to lower labor demand for Mexican immigrants in the United States. 

Belle is stressed

I was feeling good after break. Excited to see my friends and go to class because my grades are doing well. As soon as I step into class, we get a full lecture on how exams are coming up and we should start studying now. Also exams are worth 20 percent of our grade so if you bomb it then you're in a tough situation. Anyways, in class today we took some notes on migration. I didn't realize how much of Amercia's population is immigrants. Today, more than 40 million people living in the U.S. were born in another country, accounting for about one-fifth of the world’s migrants in 2016. The population of immigrants is also very diverse, with just about every country in the world represented among U.S. immigrants.

BREAK

I am so excited about break! For Thanksgiving, all of my family comes over to my house. I wish that we went to my grandparents, but its way easier for the whole family to come to ours. My cousins, grandma, and mom are the ones who cook. Me? No. Cooking is not my thing. I will burn everything I touch and poison everything I lay my eyes on. I'm much more comfortable with hanging out in the basement with most of the guys. We usually go outside and play lacrosse or basketball. If we're not outside then we're all talking by the fire and sneaking some early snacks. Once it's time for the feast, we all gather and eat for about 3 hours. We just sit and talk forever, it's truly the best. The day after Thanksgiving we all decorate for Christmas. That is the best because we goof around and listen to Christmas music all day.

Hans Roslings Video

Hans video is about the Demographic Transition and how it changes over time acoording to the nation and its culture. Rosling’s review of the past 200 years leaves me rather optimistic about the years ahead. As he has outlined elsewhere, there are serious problems facing us in regards to exponential population growth and global health. Yet there are also solutions to humanity’s grand challenges of poverty, health, energy, etc. Demonstrations like this one could help broader audiences not only grasp the seriousness of the situation, but have hope that we can improve the world with out policies and technologies. As Rosling shows, the world is always changing and our beliefs must change with it. Perhaps colorful graphs and exciting lectures will help us reshape how we think of the world. At the very least they’ll change the way we think of statistics.

Should contraceptives be given to Africa

The more people who inhabit the Earth, the more they must compete for its resources. Although human population has grown steadily, developments in recent decades have been encouraging. Globally, women today give birth to an average of 2.5 children, half as many as in the early 1950s. Extreme growth threatens Africa's development and stability. Africa needs a new approach to slowing its population rise, to preserve peace and security, improve economic development and protect environmental sustainability.International donors shifted their focus to promoting general health care reform including fighting HIV/AIDS and other deadly diseases.Better education of young men is also vital. Young people of both genders who complete comprehensive sex education courses are more likely to delay having sex which reduces early and unwanted pregnancy.

Demographic transition

Demographic transition (DT) is the transition from high birth and death rates to lower birth and death rates as a country or region develops from a pre-industrial to an industrialized economic system. The Demographic transition model (DTM) is a model used to explain the process of shift from high birth rates and high death rates to low birth rates and low death rates as part of the economic development of a country from a pre-industrial to an industrialized economy. It is based on an interpretation begun in 1929 by the American demographer Warren Thompson of prior observed changes, or transitions, in birth and death rates in industrialized societies over the past two hundred years. Most developed countries are beyond stage three of the model; the majority of developing countries are in stage 2 or stage 3.

More notes...

Today in class we took the best class selfie. Everybody smushed together and clung together so that we could fit in the frame of Sydneys Photo Booth on her computer. There are so many different filters you can use to distort your face and some can even make your face look better. I personally think that the swirl feature makes me look the best, but its all in what you like. After the photo was taken, everyone wanted a copy so we had to get everyones emails. After we gathered everyones emails and sent it everyone Mr. Schick returned. I just realized I never even mentioned he left. Well he did, but just for a little. Then we told him all about our selfie, but something tells me he didn't really care.

Extended Notes on Population

Since a lot of students are out because of the play we did some extended notes on population. The notes were from an AP Human Geography class powerpoint. After guessing if the next slide was going to be a map, graph, or more notes the class started to ask Mr. Schick more personal questions. For example, if he remembered memories from his childhood. He then looked up his school after it got hit by a tornado. He told us in vivid detail the tornado hitting the school and how he had to hide under a mattress so that he would stay safe with his family. A tornado is a violent rotating column of air extending from a thunderstorm to the ground. The most violent tornadoes are capable of tremendous destruction with wind speeds of up to 300 mph. They can destroy large buildings, uproot trees and hurl vehicles hundreds of yards. They can also drive straw into trees.

Test Day

Today in Human Geography we took our test on the material we learned the past 2 weeks. The test was fairly easy in my opinion. I think that I did well, especially on the cartoon pictures at the end of class. I drew a picture of a man that was surrendering because he was shot in the heart with an arrow. Pretty interesting, right? Well maybe not to some people, but I thought it was quite interesting. The best part about taking a Human Geography test is that when you get an A the bell rings. It's like scoring the winning goal or finished that run. It feels like all the hard work paid off. It also looks good on my grade, which may be the best part but the bell is cool too.

Areas of the world and their population patterns

Today in class, we were shown a place in our country and their population according to age and gender. We saw how a city that has a big college has an influx of people from the age 18-26. This is because the majority of people there are students in college. We saw how a military bases population is mainly men because more men decide to go into the war. There was also a fair amount of kids at the base because many of the solider's significant others come along with them and live in housing on the base. Mr. Schick informed us that a military base isn't a bad place to start a family and in fact it's an overall good place to have children. We looked at a city and Florida and saw how many elderly people choose to retire there. I would not want to live in a place with that many old people, but thats just my opinion.

Prymaids

There are three types of population pyramids: cone, Christmas tree, and box or better known as ;expansive, constrictive, and stationary. Expansive population pyramids depict populations that have a larger percentage of people in younger age groups. Populations with this shape usually have high fertility rates with lower life expectancies.Constrictive population pyramids are named so because they are constricted at the bottom. There is a lower percentage of younger people. Constrictive population pyramids show declining birth rates, since each succeeding age group is getting smaller and smaller. The United States has a constrictive population pyramid. Stationary population pyramids are those that show a somewhat equal proportion of the population in each age group. There is not a decrease or increase in population; it is stable. Austria has a stationary population pyramid.