Tomorrow in human geo we will have a group discussion on Mexicans entering the United States of America illegally. I think it will be a interesting discussion that will hopefully not get out of hand. I just finished reading the first article which was the New York Times article which was surprisingly neutral until the end. It seems like the articles are making a big deal about the tear gas and it was cruel to use it. A quote from one of the Articles was, “We don’t even have weapons,” "We just wanted to cross" This quote was obviously from someone trying to enter the U.S illegally, and he is saying that they were defenseless against the police and did not deserve to be tear gassed. Tear gas is standard procedure for any type of riot that turns violent, in this case the immigrants were throwing objects at the border patrol. Tear gas is even used just to get people out of there house when they are getting arrested. The media is trying to make the situation MUCH worse that it already is, just making the two political parties hate each other even more. 

Today in human geo we looked up all our previous notes in a packet from the textbook. Although I liked the packet I think we should still mostly write notes. The packets are good but the  notes tell you exactly what you need to know. However, the packet will be very helpful if I missed class because of a track and field meet or I am absent. I finally got my school computer back from Microcenter. It said the fan broke but they ended up having to replace the whole motherboard so it took longer than expected. Although laptops are helpful in school, I wish schools just stayed with pencil and paper. I was hardly able to do any work for the past week because my computer was broken. The computer is also a major distraction for a lot of people in class, which can get you in trouble. They are also very expensive and some people may not be able to pay for one. It is helpful when you can check your grades and homework on Veracross but laptops in school have more cons then pros. This blog may be posted later because I have a test sized math quiz tomorrow and I was studying.

• Key Issues
• Where are migrants distributed
• Where do people migrate within a country
• Why do people migrate
• Why do migrants face obstacles
• Mobility is most generalized term that refers to all types of movement
• Journeying each day to work or school
• weekly visits to shops
• visit relatives
• Shorter and repetitive acts of mobility are refereed to as circulation
• College students moving to a college each fall and returning home each spring
• Migration- A permanent move to a location
• Net migration rate- difference between immigrants and emigrants
• Ravenstien's law is the distance that migrants typycally move.
• Most migrants relocate a short distance in the same country
• Long distance migrant who go to other countries head for cities
• Migration is divided into two categories
• International migration- permanent movement between countries
• Voluntary
• Involuntary
• Internal migration- permanent movement in a country
• Approximately 9% of the world's population are international migrants
• Global pattern reflects migration tendencies from developing to developed countries
• Net out migration- Asia, Latin america, and Africa
• Net migration- North America, Europe, and Oceania
• US has more migrants than any other country, 43 million and gaining 1 million per year.
• The eras of immigration, colonies in 18th century, European immigrants in late 19th and early 20th centuries.
• Asian and Latin America immigrants in late 20th and 21st centuries.

Today in human geo we finished the worksheet we had to do and then took a quiz on it. After that we whatched a video about how America is no longer the best country in the world. I was not a big fan of the video because they kind of stereotyped Democrats and Republicans. The Democrat’s answer was Diversity, which is kind of portraying them as that is all they care about, and Republican’s answer was “Freedom and freedom” which is portraying them as overpatriotic and almost jerky, both of which are not for most of the people in America. Anyway the news anchors points were that it used to be the best country until people started doing things like as identifying themselves as what party they are in. It is true because in the 40s and 50s, some years you would vote Republican and some years you would vote Democrat because they were both valid choices. But now if you are on one side of the parties you will most likely never switch to the other. This is causing a major split in the country and especially in politics. For example, Democrats are trying to impeach President Trump, simply because they do not like him. This has caused major problems in this country and I sadly do not see this changing in the future. I guess George Washington was right about splitting into different parties would be bad for America.

Today in humangeo we watched a video about population growth and answered questions on a worksheet about it. We then discussed how the narrator's opinion on how the world is goinng onto a upward trend was incorrect to today's standards. He was saying that the population was all going to go to the top of the charts in the future which we discussed may not happen anymore. I re watched the video and I realized that a European country in 1942 life expectancy dropped below 25 years. I do not understand how this is possible, even if it were a world war. It was most likely Germany but even what they went through was nothing that could make the average life expectancy drop to 25 years. Maybe it was another country who were feeling the struggle of WW2 like Poland or France, but this number still seems very low.

So looking at the weather it seems we will have off tomorrow. It is supposed to start sleeting at seven
O clock and continue for awhile. Although I like school it would be cool to be off tomorrow. This is mostly because my computer will be gone getting repaired until Monday at least. There is also a lot of computer related work tomorrow that I will not be able to do, making me have to do my homework at home on my other computer. But if we were off tomorrow I could just do that homework over the weekend. I would bring this one to school but I do not want to damage it. We are also getting an assignment in English I am not looking forward to. We have to do a sketch of some kind which I think is very unnecessary. Why can't we just read a book over the week and then write about it? Or just learn more vocabulary words, or even do grammar.

Demographic Transition

• The process of change in a societies population from high CBR and death rates and low RNI to a condition of low crude birth and death rates, low RNI, and higher total population
• Stage 1- low growth
• Very high CBR, CDR, NIR
• Stage 2- high growth
• High CBR
• Rapidly declining CDR
• Very high NIR
• Stage 3- Moderate growth
• Rapidly declining CBR
• Moderately declining CDR
• Moderate NIR
• Stage 4- low growth
• Very low CBR
• Low/ decreasing CDR
• zero or negative INR\
• Exam question- Describe the role of the  Industrial Revolution's affect and role in Demographic Transition. What phase?

• Why is global population increasing?
• About 82 people added to the population
• RNI affects the doubling time
• Components of population growth:
• total fertility rate
• TFR exceeds five in subSaharan Africa while two or less in nearly all European countries
• IMR in developed nation: 5 per 1,000
• IMR in developing nation: 80 per 1,000
• IMR is the amount of children dying per birth
• Summary of spatial patterns
• Spatial developed countries lower rates of natural increase, crude birth, total fertility, infant mortality
• developing countries higher rates of natural increase, crude birth, total fertility, infant mortality
• population structure
• fertility and mortality vary not only spatially but also temporarily within a country 
• y-axis
• age cohorts typically grouped in year intervals 
• youngest displayed at bottom and oldest displayed at top
• x-axis
• percent male displayed to the left zero
• percent female to the right of zero
• sex ratio
• number of males per 100 females
• two demo graphic transitions

Today has gone very very well, but I think now it will go very very bad... I just got home from the cross country championships and we won! The best part was we thought we did not win and when they called our name for first we all went crazy. I also got my personal record for the last race of the season. But now, I have a ton of homework. Because of the race, I missed Biology, Human Geo, and Math. I have a big biology test tomorrow and missed important review for it (thankfully Anthony sent me his notes) and I most likely missed notes for your class. I also missed the math drill and exit ticket so I will have to make that up as well. So for my homework I have to do my blog, practice speaking for my power point assignment, study for the biology test, study for my Bible test, and do my math homework, and it is currently 7:25. I hope I will be able to finish my homework but worst case Mr. Low will have mercy on me and give me a extra day to study because I missed class.

Today in human Geo we took our test on population. I think I did very well because even though I missed some notes, I remembered I could go to other people's blogs to see what notes they put down for past days. I will be missing your class tomorrow because I am leaving at eleven to go to the cross country tournament. This will probably be the last chance we have to win the tournament because all of the good runners are graduating. But because of it I will be missing biology notes that are needed for a fifty point quiz Friday. There is also a 200 point PowerPoint assignment due Friday that i am dreading because it is a speaking grade and I am horrible at speech. It was also a group assignment which makes it more stressful because I do not want to make my partner get a bad grade. I really hate group projects. They are just unnecessary and make everything harder. When I am with someone I do not know we hardly communicate on what  we have to do, and when it is with a friend we never get things done because we talk. If it is just my work I can do whatever I want and know everything I am doing.

I forgot to my blog yesterday. I guess it just slipped my mind because I had a lot to do. So I was looking at the Harford county and it took me awhile to figure out why there is a sip in people 19-25. I realized it was because there are no major colleges in Harford County. All of the college students will leave Harford county to go to a different college and when they are done college they would probably move back to harford county, explaining the dip and the rise back up. I was also looking at other country's population pyramids and I noticed a very weird one. The Middle Eastern country of Bahrain has almost double the amount of males than females. This is because a ton of male workers are either sent or bought to work at the oil rigs in Bahrain. I am worried about the test tomorrow because I missed a day of notes because I had the flu. I will hopefully be able to get notes from a friend and than I think I will be fine.

• Population Pyramids
• We use population pyramids to analyse growth or decline, fertility, mortality, and migration in cities
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• Christmas tree; developing nation. High birth rate, high pop growth, short life expectancy. Namibia, Bangladesh.
• The box; developed nation, slow growth, low infant mortality, slow population growth, long life expectancy. Sweden, USA.
• The cup; developed nation slow growth, low birth rate, shrinking population, long life expectancy. Italy, Japan