Drew Evans Blogs

Today we watched more of the documentary on Jerry DIamond. When watching the video we all figured out that people from New Guinea can adapt to any environment very fast because they can build almost anything. Ont thing Diamond said was all great places have 3 things in common. Advanced Technology, A large population, and an organized workforce. In new Guinea they still hunt and gather to get food. One way they gather is getting a pulp from a tree and making a dough out of it to cook.

Jerry Diamond, professor at UCLA college has a question about white supremacy. "Why do white men have so much cargo and New Guinea people have so little?". Diamond dwelled on this question and wrote a best selling book about it, Guns Germs and Steel.  This book describes how geographical luck influences a country's success. This book also talks about why there is racial inequality around the world. Diamond hits the nail on the head with age old world questions.

Out of 195 countries in the World most of them have a problem with population. Whether that problem is with overpopulation or underpopulation every country has a problem. Some of the problems are completely the countries fault and some of them are not at all. Other common population issues consist of a very substantial birth rate and death rate which would not be good for a country. On the other hand, it could have a very inadequate birth rate which causes a colossal decline in population.   One example of a country with a population problem is Japan. Japan has a very large number of elderly people and not enough children. Japans birth rate is very low because more than half of the people there are over 45 years of age. Their death rate is very low as well which means people live very long there. Since Japan has low death and birth rates their population is declining. If Japan wants to fix this problem their leader should start trying to convince people to start having c...

This is what I have so far. Out of 195 countries in the World all of them have a problem with population. Whether that problem is with overpopulation or underpopulation every country has a problem. Some of the problems are completely the countries fault and some of them are not at all. Other common population issues consist of a very substantial birth rate and death rate which would not be good for a country. On the other hand, it could have a very inadequate birth rate which causes a  colossal  decline in population.   One example of a country with a population problem is Japan. Japan has a very large number of elderly people and not enough children. Japans birth rate is very low because more than half of the people there are over 45 years of age. Their death rate is very low as well which means people live very long there. Since Japan has low death and birth rates their population is declining. If Japan wants to fix this problem their leader should start tr...

today in class we took the test. I feel I did just decent. Not good but not bad. I think I got about an 80% overall. I got a bit confused on the first 3 questions about the DTM model. Eventually i'm pretty sure I got them right. Other questions I got confused on were the ones about the scenario that you had to correlate to a stage. Another question I got confused on was the ones that either affected or did not affect a change in a select population rate. Fortunately, I did get the one where you had to change the equation to make it correct. Overall I think I did decent on this assessment.

So monday is the test and i'm kind of nervous. I understand what the demographic transition is but I have trouble determining the stage of the country by a select scenario. I understand the general concept of the demographic transition. Today's class was pretty easy, all we did was first go over possible test questions and then we got the rest of class to go over it and study for mondays test.

I wasnt in school 12/4 and 12/5.