WAIT.

actually, i take that back.
if you do know the schedule for the whole week, can you please post a comment.
thank you.

the schedule for this week.

hey everyone.
i was just wondering if anyone knows the agenda for this week.
like the dates homework is due.
well, basically friday. is anything due on friday?

if you know, please leave a comment. THANK YOU!

EMQ 2

For the Extra Material Questions #2 we have to refer to certain articles. Where can i find the articles? or are they going to be posted on the blog? Please help, if anyone knows. Thanks.

about the homework...

Thank you Mr. Lewis for not giving us any homework due Monday!!!

However, I can't seem to find the homework that is due Tuesday. I don't know, is it not yet posted? If it is, can someone re-post it on the blog please? Thank you.

Change in schedule

No homework for this Monday for any class.

HW DUE MON

HELLOITOS EVERYONE. I CANT SEEM TO FIND THE HOMEWORK THATS DUE ON MONDAY CAN ANYONE PUT IT UP HERE OR SOMETHING PLEASE I NEED TO GET IT DONE TONIGHT. THANKS.

BOOKS ARE IN!!!

Books are in!!! Go to Room 131 to get your book ASAP! Woo Hoo!

thanks everyone for helping me

the comments i recieved on my questions really helped

those who posted, thank you, and you know who you are...

im still confused on number 2 and 3

can soeone explain them to me? like arent they basically the same question? except one is for germany while the other for the US? i don't understand how (or where from) we're supposed to use the 3 different vocabulary words...

im still confused on number 2 and 3

i mean, what are we supposed to be talking about? i thought it was just about the guest worker program, but it says to use 3 different vocabulary words (from where, GRA?)...

also, from what i know, the main reason for both of the programs (#2 and 3) were made for the same reason, basically, so would repeating most of the stuff for both questions be wrong?

am i missing something here? i mean, i saw a post about the Berlin Wall. no offense, but i don't see anything similar about the Berlin Wall and the guest worker program...

Help?

Question Two

By going to the link, it describes the proposed Guest Program by the Bush Administration in 2004.

http://www.usimmigrationsupport.org/guestworkerprogram.html

Question One

This website helps for question one, 

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB5044/index1.html

Good luck..

help???????????

ok. so i kinda think i have an idea about how to answer number three, but i'm really not sure. can anyone help me with number three?? please!?!?!?!?

Question 3

Can annyone tell me where to find info on teh German Worker Program?? Thanks

Question 1

can someone explain question 1 to me, i dont think i get it. And for number 2, can we use past information, or does it have to be based on Bush's speech?

Vocabulary

I am having a real tough time using vocabulary words to explain the 3 questions with.
The questions themselves are not that hard to answer and i already answered them but its really hard to find vocabulary words to go along with the answers. Can anyone please help???

i am having the most difficulty with number 3 in particular. I mean i must have read the vocabulary list like 5 times and i cannot find 3 words to describe the guest worker program in germany.

Here is homework again

These are the Migration Questions you need to answer for Friday. Don't forget: Write answers in paragraph form and include vocabulary!

1. Describe how migration patterns effect the demographic transition. Provide a specific example where some of the effects you described are seen.
2. Describe the the proposed guest worker program in the United States. Use at least three vocabulary words from the migration section of your vocabulary list.
3. Explain the guest worker program in Germany. Use at least three DIFFERENT vocabulary words from the migration section of your vocabulary list.

If any one needs help on guest workers

check out this website to fully understand the concept of what being a guest worker was....

http://www.cis.org/articles/2001/back501.html

later

-Peter T

I was wonderin if anyone knows where to find the homework that is due friday because im a little lost here. Thanks

take a quick look.

hey everyone.
umm, well if you start this homework assigment late don't worry about it.
it's a really quick and easy assignment, especially if you have your GRA by you the whole time.
One quick pointer for #1 is that it sounds like an easy question, but you may have trouble wording what you want to say.
if you run into this problem look at the migration and population section of your GRA which is the 2nd page. [ it's REALLY helpful and there is SOO much vocabulary.]

also, if anyone could maybe help me with number 3 i would really appreciate it.
i did look at the provided link posted by someone, but for some reason i'm still a little stuck!

THANK YOU.

Guest Worker Program

Hey does anyone know if the worker program in the U.S. is the Bush thing where he is giving back to the immigrants or is it something else??

Is it okay if most of my answers revolve around the country being developed and having scientific advances such as medicine?
(2:30 AM, insomniacs lose)

7A

Isnt there like nothing similar in stage 1 to stage4. stage 1 is high birth and death rate and stage 4 is low birth and death rate and the population is being slowly stabilized. i dont get it whats similar?? thanks.

help!

Can somebody tell me what are the questions 4 2morrow's assignment?

2b & 2c help please

Does anyone have any ideas for 2b and 2c?

where did you guys get your information on Sweden and Mexico

I'm totally lost, because i don't know where we're supposed to get the information (CBR, CDR, NIR, etc.) and how are we supposed to answer the questions? I mean, is this like a research pper or something? For #1, for example, it says from the information given... I mean, did we get something I'm not realizing we got?

Please help me; it's 9pm, and I just started... (not because I'm lazy, but because I had other homework...)

HELP!!

I cant find the Mexico and Sweden questions....can please post them?!?!?

alright, i have a lot of questions.

1. alright, so for most of the questions did you guys answer with short answers?
2. Can anyone help me with 4d?
3. Also, can you help me on 8b and 8d?
4. LAST, are we suppose to draw the NIR on both of the graphs?

THANK YOU SOO MUCH!

Does Anyone

...have the graph for mexico???

Good source for Friday's homework

I found a really good source for Friday's homework especially for number 2 and 3 so I though i would post it on the blog.
http://repositories.cdlib.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1032&context=igcc

Whats the homework for Thursday?

just alittle lost!!!!

Whats the homework for Thursday?

just alittle lost!!!!

DTM stands for the demographic transition model.

What is DTM?

anybody? anybody? anybody?

help on #8

hey guys for the homework, i cant really think of any reasons why the Sweden graph fluctuates like for 8a. And the rest of 8 i do not really know what to put, can someone help me out?

For Everyone That Is Still Confused.

The negative numbers go under the most bottom line.

RNI

hi everyone. im not quite sure what RNI means is it a type-o where its supposed to me NIR? and how do you calculate it? is it birthrate-deathrate=NIR? thanks.

Quick Q.

hey everyone.
um, well i just have a quick question that may sound dumb but i'm a little confused.
for the mexico graph, are we suppose to plot the data on the lines provided or in the middle of the years.
i've asked a few people, and i've gotten different answers from everyone.
does anyone know FOR SURE?

Migration Homework Questions

For thursday there is no period 1 and 2. If we did not learn migration yet, how are we going to do the Homework for Friday. Ms. Schencker period 1 only have population notes.

Homework due Friday

These are the Migration Questions you need to answer for Friday. Don't forget: Write answers in paragraph form and include vocabulary!

1. Describe how migration patterns effect the demographic transition. Provide a specific example where some of the effects you described are seen.
2. Describe the the proposed guest worker program in the United States. Use at least three vocabulary words from the migration section of your vocabulary list.
3. Explain the guest worker program in Germany. Use at least three DIFFERENT vocabulary words from the migration section of your vocabulary list.

This information can be found in class notes and through internet research. Remember, you NEED to use dependable websites to obtain information!

How the questions should be done.

I think Mr. Lewis would like it if we type out the work or right the answers on another sheet.

For the homework, I know that we have to print out the graph and plot and stuff, but for the questions, can we print out the sheet and answer on there?

do we have to post comments to get participation points??

M.I.A. Today!

Since I have this class 3rd period and it was cancelled today, how do I go about finding the information needed to complete the homework? Was it in the notes taken today?

Cool article relating to Population Unit

Hey everyone! I was watching the Colbert Report and he did a quick bit on this issue. I thought it was pretty funny and related to this class so I jumped online and found a few articles on it. I would have posted the video clip but I wasn't sure if posting Stephen Colbert was gonna be okay (Comedycentral.com should have the clip if you really wanna go looking for it. It's the Septmeber 20th episode and the "Threatdown" segment).

Also, I read in a shorter article on this that the region's birth rate has increased 4.5% from last year. So, go figure.

‘Make babies, win prizes,’ Russian province tells couples

Agence France-PresseLast updated 06:06pm (Mla time) 09/12/2007

ULYANOVSK, Russia -- Bureaucrats in Russia's Ulyanovsk province urged residents Wednesday to do their patriotic duty and make love, with prizes for anyone producing a child on the country's constitution day in exactly nine months.
The offbeat idea, dreamed up by Ulyanovsk Governor Sergei Morozov, has the serious aim of helping Russia stem a nationwide demographic crisis.
"Family Contact" day, dubbed "Conception Day" by locals, kicked off with parties in kindergartens, the first stage of an action-packed program promoting love, family and babies.
Morozov is already famous for awarding prizes, ranging from a television to a Russian-made all-terrain vehicle, to mothers who gave birth on Russia's Constitution Day on June 12.
"Give Birth to a Patriot on Russia Day," runs the governor's slogan.
President Vladimir Putin has made fixing Russia's ongoing population slump a national priority, signing a law granting mothers 250,000 rubles (about $9,555, or €7,000) for having a second child.
Russia's population has been rapidly declining for decades. The population was 149 million in 1992, just after the Soviet collapse, and is barely more than 142 million today -- a drop averaging 700,000 people a year.
Officials have trumpeted an increase in birth rates registered this year as a turnaround, with Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev on Monday promising that the country's population would rebound to 145 million by 2025.
Other demographers have argued that the emphasis on birth rates is misplaced, saying a larger problem is Russia's dismal life-expectancy, with men dying on average at 58 -- 16 years younger than in western Europe.
The Ulyanovsk drive is taking place for the third year, although this time the program has expanded dramatically, with dozens of events and many employers giving workers a day off to do their patriotic duty.
Procreation brochures have been distributed in schools, libraries and schools around the region.
"The purpose is to improve the demographic situation and support family values," a spokeswoman for the administration told Agence France-Presse ahead of the festivities.
The day of action was to end later in the evening with an exhibition, "Create a Family and Save Russia."
While next year's prizes have not been announced, authorities have promised that patriotic parents will be rewarded.
The tradition of awarding prizes for giving birth dates back to Soviet times, when women could be named "Hero Mothers" for having especially large families.
The city of Ulyanovsk, previously Simbirsk, located 900 kilometers (560 miles) east of Moscow has a special place in national mythology as it was named after the founder of the Soviet Union, Vladimir Lenin, whose real surname was Ulyanov.

NIR

How would I figure out how to do the NIR for both the Sweden and Mexico graphs?

Homework

Due to the changes in scheduling today, your Mexico and Sweden homework is now due on Thursday. This applies to ALL APHG classes.

Third Period: Make sure to start the Mexico and Sweden homework and we will catch up on the notes missed today.

Important Reminder

It seems that a reminder is needed about proper spelling and grammar. This is a school-related blog and your teacher is reading this on a daily basis. Slang is NOT acceptable. Blog use is part of your participation grade.

Link to Mexico and Sweden Population assignment

http://mrlewishistoricalsociety.com/demotrans1.pdf
http://mrlewishistoricalsociety.com/demotrans2.pdf
http://mrlewishistoricalsociety.com/demotrans3.pdf
http://mrlewishistoricalsociety.com/demotrans4.pdf
http://mrlewishistoricalsociety.com/demotrans5.pdf


Do not need to printout any of these except for the graph. Just answer the Qs and complete graph.

does nebody noe where i can find Demographic Transition Model: Sweden and Mexico -35 handout tats due on 25th......

I was just wondering....???

is there anything due on monday???

Hey look its 1:28 in the morning!

Isn't it great staying up late to finish your AP homework???

quiz!!!

does anybody know what are we supposed to study for our quiz besides the countries?

MAP QUIZ TOMORROW

http://sheppardsoftware.com/Geography.htm

USE THIS WEBSITE TO STUDY!!!! IT HELPS ALOT!!!!!!!! TRUST ME, I HAD MR. LEWIS BEFORE =]

LCD and MCD #2

LCD can stand for "less developed countries" and MCD can stand for "more developed countries"

Well this is what i found on the net in case people were wondering what these two terms meant.

Good Luck...

the online quiz due today...

i know this is kind of late, but can someone please post or reply with the exact website for the online quiz due today? i can't find it for some reason... thank you?

the online quiz due today...

i know its kind of late, but can anyone post up the exact site for the online quiz due today? i can't find it for some reason... thank you?

Tomorrow's Quiz?

So what exactly is tomorrow's quiz going to be like?
I know that it's going to be countries from South America, and what other maps?
Is it going to be culminative? (like the maps that we took last Friday, North America & Central America)

#2 and #4?

Does anyone understand #2 and #4? I need help, fast! If you do, then please explain it to me.

...edline

is anyone able to see their grades on eldine yet?

#2 what is ldc and mdc

help!

Can anybody help me with number 2 and 4??? I am completely lost and have no idea what to do :9 I appreciate it, thank u!!!

What's due tomorrow??

what are we suppose to have done by tomorrow???
the 4 Population Charts and Models Questions and the quiz right???

because on the homework section it says Population Pyramids Questions and we already did those while it has the population charts and model questions set due on the 25th?
im confused

#4

Can someone help me with number 4 please. thanx

Medical Revolution

Does anyone know if there is an exact definition for Medical Revolution??

does anybody know the e-mail which we are supposed 2 use 2 send our quiz answers? Thank u!!

quiz...

is it due friday or tomorrow by 11:59?

can anyone explain wat number two means?

Question 4

do we draw the chart or explain how Malthus would draw the chart differently?

TFR AND IMR

heyz what does tfr and imr stand for? can anyone tell me? thanks.

This is for number 4

Can anybody tell me where the questions are located for the population charts and models?
Thank YOu!!!

This is for Number 2

demographic transition graph

For the demographic transition chart, can someone who has the book and a scanner please scan it in? It would be very helpful.

I'm not sure about medical revolution, but I know it has something to do with advancments in medicines, which is why the death rate drops in stage two of demographic transition.

CBR is crude birth rate which is the number of babies born each yearfor every 1,000 people and CDR is the crude death rate which is the number of deaths each year for every 1,000 people.

No. 3

Does anyone know what medical revolution, CBR and CDR mean?

For defining the words

do u want like short sentence or 3-4 sentences? can we use the GRA?

Graphs on Population Chart and Models

Where can you find the graphs of questiong No.2 and No.4 on the Population Chart and Models questions in the Handout section of the website? Seem to have trouble finding it...

exact link to the online quiz

http://wps.prenhall.com/esm_rubenstein_humangeo_8

Exact link?

Ive been clicking around the website to try and find the quiz for a while now, and still can't find it, can anyone help me out?

HMWK Chapter Quiz 2

The online quiz for chapter 2 is due Thursday. Remember Lewis classes, email my gmail account

HMWK Correction

The population charts and model question set will be due Friday along with the quizzes. So big day Friday

#3 help

the GRA handout has some information on sustainable development. it gave me a better understanding of what exactly it is. the information is on page 5 of the handout and it is about 2/3 of the way down.

sustainable development

Sustainable development refers to the balancing of human needs with the protection of the natural environment so that these needs can be met in the present and for future generations. the example which we can't use is oil. oil is one of our major needs. therefore, we need to use it wisely and we have to protect the environment so we can continue getting oil and so the future generation can have this need too. thats what i think sustainable development is.

the questions

I can't seem to find the questions for the assignment due tomorrow. Where are they posted or what are they?

need help on number 3...

yeah if you can explain that to me that would be really helpful...

People were asking for help on Enviromental Possibilism...

Class Notes for Enviromental Possibilism:

The physical enviroment places SOME limits on human activity (as opposed to determinism where the belief is that it limits all human activity)

People have the ability to adapt to envioroment (Ex. learning to grow food in the desert)

Culture has effect (ex. American lawns)

Help...

There are undefined words in the paper, are we supposed to define them?

help-#3

hey guys. if anyone knows how to explain and answer number 3 that would be helpful. the question is kind of confusing for me.

Environmental possibilism A philosophy seen in contrast to environmental determinism that declares that although environmental conditions do have an influence on human and cultural development, people have varied possibilities in how they decide to live within a given environment.

I understand part of what a J curve is, but im not sure when i would use it? Help

And when is this due???

When is the GRA assignment due?

Environmental possiblism?

The only and best definition i found is the exact definition on the GRA! should i try to make one up based on comparisons to Environmental Determinism?
HELP!

Not Running out of ink...

If you don't want to run out of ink... you have to click properties in the print page setup and then under quality click FastDraft. it is very fast and very ink preserving

the GRA assignment...

is all the way at the bottom of the Handouts section on the website. It is about 25 pages, so have fun printing :)

and these are the questions that we are supposed to do with them: (posted by mr. lewis -- this is just another copy of the questions)

Add in a definition for environmental possiblism.
Explain a situation wherein you would use a J curve.
What is sustainable development and give one example of an issue facing America in regards to this issue (other than oil)?

where do we find the questions for the GRA??

GRA Questions

do we need to find any missing definitions for the GRA?

which map and chart do we need for the Population Charts and Models Questions?

GRA

Does anyone know where you can find the GRA that needs to be printed out? If so, can you please inform me? Thanks.

you have to add on to the definition

Wondering???

There is already a definition for environmental possiblism so do we just copy the definition for the first question for the GRA?

Goes along with what we learned about Pakistan

Saudi women seek right to drive

September 18, 2007

JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia -- Women in the only country that bans female drivers have formed a committee to lobby for the right to get behind the wheel, and they plan to petition King Abdullah on Sunday for the privilege.

The government is unlikely to respond because the issue remains so highly sensitive and divisive. But committee members say their petition will at least highlight what many Saudis -- both men and women -- consider a ''stolen'' right.

''We would like to remind officials that this is, as many have said, a social and not a religious or political issue,'' said Fowziyyah al-Oyouni, a founding member of the Committee of Demanders of Women's Right to Drive Cars.

The driving ban applies to all women, Saudi and foreign, and forces families to hire live-in drivers. Women whose families cannot afford $300 to $400 a month for a driver must rely on male relatives to drive them. AP

Well Done! I seem to be the last person on here for the day, and I am very impressed with the questions and help that is being posted. Keep up the good work and try to freak out a little less.

Pay attention to the short GRA assignment that is posted below. You are to print out the vocabulary list and answer the two questions posted. This is due Wednesday.

hw for Wed.

what is the homework for Wed? I'm starting to get so confused... do we write some essay???

NG number 2!

I read and read but can't find the answer to number two... can someone just tell me??? lol

what is #5 saying what is secularization or where can i find the answer

help

only certain articles open for me, and they come upside down, whenever i try to rotate it it wont let me and the article goes away... =[

is anyone having a problem opening page 1 of the NG thing it says the file was damaged and do you need page 1 for any of the questions and if so which ones

GRA Qs for Wednesday

Add in a definition for environmental possiblism
Explain a situation wherein you would use a J curve
What is sustainable development and give one example of an issue facing America in regards to this issue (other than oil)

#2

I know some other people have been asking about this too, but can anyone tell me the page where i can find the answer to #2. It would be really helpful.

Nat. Geo Queston # 2

I know what # 2 is asking but I can't find info on conservatives or extremists. I'm probably just confused, because I thought that extremists are diffusing their ideas pretty well but the question says why do conservatives diffuse ideas better...

I'm trying to view the articles, but they're coming out upside down on my computer, so how am I suppose to read it?

Help with NG1

Hi, I was just wondering if in question #1 for the national geographic if I had to just state the things I observed about the poplulation? I'm not sure (I donno if I understand the question correctly) please help ^_^

help me.

i cant view the article =( at all. i downloaded the adobe reader,
but its still not working. i don't know what to do.

help???---NG #2

i'm not sure how to answer this question... help?

do we have to print out the articles and bring them to class or something? Because I remember hearing we had to bring some article to class, but I wasn't sure if it was for tomorrow or Wednesday

I need help on number 5 for the Pakistan NG article? help please

idk why but my computer isn't lettin me down load the article.. it keeps saying there was damage n it couldn't be repaired or something like that..does any one have a solution to this problem that im having?????

ahhhhh

my computer wont let me download the article....what do i do?!?!?!?!? HELP!

NG assignment if you couldn't find it.

National Geographic Article and Quesitons
1. How would you describe the population demograpics of Pakistan? Use information and vocabulary we learned from class and extrapolate from material in the handout.
2. What methods have the more conservative Muslims used to diffuse their ideas and why have they been more successful?
3. How are women treated and how would this relate to population issues?
4. How do the conditions of Pakistan and the high population growth rate help to create the radicalism that exists there?
5. Why has secularization had a hard time developing in Pakistan?
National Geo Article 1
NG2
NG3
NG4
NG5
NG6
NG7
NG8
NG9
NG10
NG11
NG12
NG13
NG14

i cant open the ng files can anybody post them on the blog?

still due tuesday?

is the homework still due tuesday even though it was just posted?

just wondering =]

hey i cant find the questions to the ng assignment, can someone please copy and paste the questions to me? thanks.

hey fo the hw i copied and paste the link on the browser but it doesnt work...

When is the National Geographic assighnment due?

Hey guys is the assignment due Monday?Please tell me quickly!

NG Reading

Although the readings below cannot be clicked on, if you copy and paste the links into your browser, you will be able to see the scanned pages and pictures you need to answer the questions.

Ms. Schencker's Classes

I tried posting grades on Edline Friday afternoon as promised. It is not working. I have to find out why this week. Please e-mail me, or stop by 222 after school if you would like to know your grade. I will post as soon as I figure out the problem.

National Geo handout here for now on handout page are Qs

http://mrlewishistoricalsociety.com/ngpakistan1.pdf
http://mrlewishistoricalsociety.com/ngpakistan2.pdf
http://mrlewishistoricalsociety.com/ngpakistan3.pdf
http://mrlewishistoricalsociety.com/ngpakistan4.pdf
http://mrlewishistoricalsociety.com/ngpakistan5.pdf
http://mrlewishistoricalsociety.com/ngpakistan6.pdf
http://mrlewishistoricalsociety.com/ngpakistan7.pdf
http://mrlewishistoricalsociety.com/ngpakistan8.pdf
http://mrlewishistoricalsociety.com/ngpakistan9.pdf
http://mrlewishistoricalsociety.com/ngpakistan10.pdf
http://mrlewishistoricalsociety.com/ngpakistan11.pdf
http://mrlewishistoricalsociety.com/ngpakistan12.pdf
http://mrlewishistoricalsociety.com/ngpakistan13.pdf
http://mrlewishistoricalsociety.com/ngpakistan14.pdf

National Geographic Article

I need to know where I can find the National geographic article and its questions that are due by Tuesday. If anyone knows, plz tell me! Thanks. =)

about the homework...

where are the questions? can anyone post them up or something if they find them?

Tuesday's Homework

WHERE DA NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC STUFF BE AT?

Grades

Hey! did any of u got the grades on edline?? They were supposed to be posted Friday but, i don't have anything..

National Geographic Homework

Where can I find the questions for this assignment?
I'm not sure what their title would be in the Handouts Section...

Helpful Central America Link

http://www.destination360.com/maps/central-america-map.gif
shows all the countries

Answer # 5 site!!!

This site is perfect for number 5! http://www.leeds.ac.uk/demographic_entrapment/Disentrapment_North_and_South.htm

do we need to know the states of the US for the quiz tomorrow?

or is it just the countries of north and central america?

MAP QUIZ

USE THE LINK!!!! mr lewis, if at all possible, please add this to the links at your website. it is VERY HELPFUL!!!!
http://sheppardsoftware.com/Geography.htm


P.S.. I NEED HELP ON NUMBER FOUR FOR TODAYS ASSIGNMENT =D

Rwanda?

For number 4, do we need specific data or can it be our general estimations?

Tomorrow's Quiz

Is there a certain map we could look at to help us study for the quiz tomorrow?

Rwanda Assignment

Rwanda Assignment
1. How could you use agriculutral densities to explain the crisis in Rwanda?
2. Create a likely population pyramid of Rwanda before the genocide and explain
how you arrived at that pyramid.
3. Explain how the lesson about the ancient Mayans relates to the issues Rwanda faced.
4. Draw a chart of the natural increase rate in Rwanda before, during and after
the genocide. Explain how you arrived at that chart and use any relevant terms.
5. Explain Malthus' theory in detail and how it relates, citing facts, to
Rwanda (longer answer expected).

incase anyone couldnt find it.

where is the rwanda assignment?

Rwanda

for number 2 do we have to draw the pop. pyramid or just describe it?

Can someone help me with number 1 and 3!?

ABOUT THE QUIZ TOMORROW...

WE ONLY NEED TO KNOW THE STATES AND COUNTRIES, NOT THE CAPITALS RIGHT?

RWANDA??

UMMM... I NEED HELP WITH NUMBER 4!?!?!?!

The Rwanda Assignment

Can anyone help me on how to do #4 on the Rwanda assignment, about drawing the chart of the natural increase rate in Rwanda before, during and after the genocide? because Im lost.

Agricultural Densities?

I need some clearing up of things in the Rwanda assignment. For instance, what is agricultural density and how is it referring to the first question of the assignment?

L'Shana Tova!

That means Happy Jewish New Year! Did I miss any important information today in class? Is there any new homework assingmnets that I should know about? And for the map quiz tommorow, do we have to know all countries in North and Central America or just the big ones? Was any more specific information given about that quiz?

Info from Rwanda slides

The Belgians felt the Tutsi were natural rulers. The Belgians elevated Tutsis into positions of authority while subordinating Hutus and Twa.



Not even the most elementary practices were done to stop soil erosion.
Nothing was done to protect the soil as a result much of the soil started flowing down the river in mudslides
The average family had to small of a farm in many areas and in the area of Kanama, a family was usually only getting about 77% of its calorie needs. As a result people were desperate for jobs that could get them money for food.



As Rwanda's population density rose after independence, the country carried on with its traditional agricultural practices.
The growing population was supported by draining marshes to gain farmland shortening fallow periods and by trying to extract two to three consecutive crops from a field in one year.
By 1985, all arable land outside of national parks was being cultivated
This is the Malthusian dilemma.
Why did the collapse could come rapidly and harshly?




According to Malthus, population tended to increase at a geometric rate (1,2,4,8,16...) while food supply would only increase at a arithmetic rate (1,2,3,4,5...).
Checks would keep the population down. Positive checks like war, disease, poverty and lack of food would keep population down.

Malthus saw the tension between population and resources as a major source of misery in humanity
He also believed in preventative checks like educating the lower classes, higher pay for the lower classes and the postponement of marriage. He believed all people wanted to have many children but that these measures would delay the number of children.
He believed hunger and sex were major desires for people.
His views hold very well with stage 2 countries.


You can examine the population of Rwanda and see that before the crisis, high crime rates were associated with high population density and per-capita availability of calories

In Rwanda today, the population is increasing at 3% per year, the average woman has her first child at age 15 and one feels “a sense of being surrounded by a sea of children”

article I found online about Malthus and Rwanda

In recent years, despite the early fascination with his "An Essay on the Principle of Population," Malthus has lost ground among the skeptical classes. His predictions have not come true, deriders say. Despite mankind's well-documented carelessness in regulating its procreation, widespread poverty has NOT yet scourged the Earth or doomed us to extinction.

Yet, now, because of developments in the last 40 years, we must come up with a strong "Yes, but..." for recent conflicts in the world tell us that Malthus' views are indeed all too alive and well. Malthus' famous essay was printed exactly 200 years ago this year, in 1798, and he died in England in 1834, but as the great poet Pablo Neruda once put it, "Everything that is buried is not dead."

At one of a score of recent conferences being held on this Malthus anniversary, writer Robert D. Kaplan, the guru on disintegration in the world, discussed the conflicts he had sought out and seen firsthand for many years. He has come up with a new and still more terrifying play on the Malthusian fear, one that involves conflict rather than food.

"Malthus may have been wrong on specifics, but in general principle he was right," Kaplan told a small group brought together by the Biocentric Institute at Airlie House here. "All the countries with violent upheavals in the 1980s and '90s were the ones that showed the highest growth rate in the '60s! Every country where bloody internecine civil wars have occurred in recent years had a huge population preceding the conflict."

Could he be right? I went to U.N. population data. Rwanda, from 2.1 million in 1950 to 8 million today; Haiti, from 3.3 million then to 7.5 million today; Algeria, from 8.8 million to 30.2 million; Afghanistan, 9 million to 24.8 million; Zaire or Congo, 12.2 to 49 million; Nicaragua, 1.1 million to 4.8 million; Tajikistan, 1.5 million to 6.1 million; El Salvador, 2 million to 5.8 million; Ethiopia, 18.4 million to 58.4 million today. I was flabbergasted.

"You must understand," Kaplan went on, "that in these conflicts the underlying causes come first and the beginning comes last. Take the civil war in Algeria. It all started with the '92 elections (when the military rescinded them because the Islamic fundamentalists were winning.) But actually that 'beginning' was the end of a long culmination of events in the '60s when Algeria began to show one of the highest population growth rates in the world. That brought hordes of children into the cities where infrastructures were collapsing, and soon unemployed young men were roaming around with nothing to do. "1992 was merely the spark."

In short, to cite two other examples, it is no accident that before the Rwandan genocide of 1995-96, Rwandan women were giving birth an average of eight times. It is also no accident that, in Haiti during these last years of implosion and civil war, Haitian women were giving birth an average of six times. These high population rates do not actually cause the slaughters, of course, but they exacerbate all the other problems and remove the possibilities of easier or quicker solutions. They also throw people too closely together and swiftly involve them in a fight for food and water and make genocide an acceptable alternative.

In my own 34 years in the foreign field, I have seen how the sheer crowdedness of increasingly dingy and untenable urban centers (33 million in the valley of Mexico City alone now, and it's getting harder and harder even to breathe, much less move) causes frustration and then conflict on every possible level. I find myself writing more and more about the environmental scarcity that is upon us everywhere -- the sobering disappearance of water in China, for instance.

And meanwhile, we continue to have to live on this Earth, which had 1.6 billion people at the beginning of the 20th century and will have 6 billion by the dawn of the 21st.

Being an optimistic sort, I also write about the countries that are making it because they are smart and disciplined, and because they care about the quality and evolution of life. One of these is little Tunisia on the north coast of Africa, which in those same '60s, when all these other countries were confounding their fates with overpopulation, introduced birth control. That is one major reason given by Tunisians for a thriving populace, which is bettering itself today.

Kaplan has the last word in trying to answer the critics of Malthus. "A man can only write at the time in which he is living, and Malthus was very daring for his time," he said. "In an indirect, subtle sense, Malthus was right."

article I found online about Malthus and Rwanda

In recent years, despite the early fascination with his "An Essay on the Principle of Population," Malthus has lost ground among the skeptical classes. His predictions have not come true, deriders say. Despite mankind's well-documented carelessness in regulating its procreation, widespread poverty has NOT yet scourged the Earth or doomed us to extinction.

Yet, now, because of developments in the last 40 years, we must come up with a strong "Yes, but..." for recent conflicts in the world tell us that Malthus' views are indeed all too alive and well. Malthus' famous essay was printed exactly 200 years ago this year, in 1798, and he died in England in 1834, but as the great poet Pablo Neruda once put it, "Everything that is buried is not dead."

At one of a score of recent conferences being held on this Malthus anniversary, writer Robert D. Kaplan, the guru on disintegration in the world, discussed the conflicts he had sought out and seen firsthand for many years. He has come up with a new and still more terrifying play on the Malthusian fear, one that involves conflict rather than food.

"Malthus may have been wrong on specifics, but in general principle he was right," Kaplan told a small group brought together by the Biocentric Institute at Airlie House here. "All the countries with violent upheavals in the 1980s and '90s were the ones that showed the highest growth rate in the '60s! Every country where bloody internecine civil wars have occurred in recent years had a huge population preceding the conflict."

Could he be right? I went to U.N. population data. Rwanda, from 2.1 million in 1950 to 8 million today; Haiti, from 3.3 million then to 7.5 million today; Algeria, from 8.8 million to 30.2 million; Afghanistan, 9 million to 24.8 million; Zaire or Congo, 12.2 to 49 million; Nicaragua, 1.1 million to 4.8 million; Tajikistan, 1.5 million to 6.1 million; El Salvador, 2 million to 5.8 million; Ethiopia, 18.4 million to 58.4 million today. I was flabbergasted.

"You must understand," Kaplan went on, "that in these conflicts the underlying causes come first and the beginning comes last. Take the civil war in Algeria. It all started with the '92 elections (when the military rescinded them because the Islamic fundamentalists were winning.) But actually that 'beginning' was the end of a long culmination of events in the '60s when Algeria began to show one of the highest population growth rates in the world. That brought hordes of children into the cities where infrastructures were collapsing, and soon unemployed young men were roaming around with nothing to do. "1992 was merely the spark."

In short, to cite two other examples, it is no accident that before the Rwandan genocide of 1995-96, Rwandan women were giving birth an average of eight times. It is also no accident that, in Haiti during these last years of implosion and civil war, Haitian women were giving birth an average of six times. These high population rates do not actually cause the slaughters, of course, but they exacerbate all the other problems and remove the possibilities of easier or quicker solutions. They also throw people too closely together and swiftly involve them in a fight for food and water and make genocide an acceptable alternative.

In my own 34 years in the foreign field, I have seen how the sheer crowdedness of increasingly dingy and untenable urban centers (33 million in the valley of Mexico City alone now, and it's getting harder and harder even to breathe, much less move) causes frustration and then conflict on every possible level. I find myself writing more and more about the environmental scarcity that is upon us everywhere -- the sobering disappearance of water in China, for instance.

And meanwhile, we continue to have to live on this Earth, which had 1.6 billion people at the beginning of the 20th century and will have 6 billion by the dawn of the 21st.

Being an optimistic sort, I also write about the countries that are making it because they are smart and disciplined, and because they care about the quality and evolution of life. One of these is little Tunisia on the north coast of Africa, which in those same '60s, when all these other countries were confounding their fates with overpopulation, introduced birth control. That is one major reason given by Tunisians for a thriving populace, which is bettering itself today.

Kaplan has the last word in trying to answer the critics of Malthus. "A man can only write at the time in which he is living, and Malthus was very daring for his time," he said. "In an indirect, subtle sense, Malthus was right."

Links to chapter on Rwanda

These links will take you to the chapter from the book where I got the ideas for the powerpoint

http://mrlewishistoricalsociety.com/rwanda000.pdf
http://mrlewishistoricalsociety.com/rwanda312.pdf
http://mrlewishistoricalsociety.com/rwanda314.pdf
http://mrlewishistoricalsociety.com/rwanda316.pdf
http://mrlewishistoricalsociety.com/rwanda318.pdf
http://mrlewishistoricalsociety.com/rwanda320.pdf
http://mrlewishistoricalsociety.com/rwanda322.pdf
http://mrlewishistoricalsociety.com/rwanda324.pdf
http://mrlewishistoricalsociety.com/rwanda326.pdf
http://mrlewishistoricalsociety.com/rwanda328.pdf

Thank you!

thank you!

You dont have to write the questions, just the answers.

Help on Numbers 5 and 6:

-A population pyramid that represents a country in stage 4 would be pretty much straight because it has a steady population (birth and death rates are low)
-A population pyramid that represents a country in stage 2 would be wide at the bottom and thin at the top, in the shape of a triangle. This happens because the birth rate is way higher than the death rate, so the popualtion is growing at a higher pace.

Just look at the pyramids and see if and how they convey the information above, that will be your answer.
Hope that helps!

help!!

does anyboyd know answers to number 5 or 6? I really don;t get them. I see the graphs and pyramids but I don't get the questions asking about the stages.

help!!

Does anybody know answer for number 5 or 6? I really don't get it, I see the graphs and the pyramids but I don't get the questions about the stages :(

do we have to write the questions for the population pyramids too, or just the answers?

Help!

does anyone know how to answer number 4 in the population pyramid section? My class hasnt talked about that part.

Hi Everyone!

just wanted to say hi....................that's all.

No, I'm pretty sure we don't have to do the population charts and models questions...just the population pyramid questions is all.

And you can find these questions in the handouts section of Mr.Lewis's website. It is the fifth one down.

Does anybody know if we have to do the population charts and models questions too???????

Unalaska

But Unalaska is only a single city in Alaska, is there a population pyramid of the entire Alaska? I'm referring to the post POPULATION PYRAMID #3.

PyrAmid homework

ok so i know that we have to use the pyramids to answer some questions but where do we find the questions are they in the book? because i dont have a book. where do we go to get the questions to the pyramids if we dont have the book?

POPULATION PYRAMID #6

Mr. Lewis, would you prefer lays chips or doritos with your habanero?

6. How does Cape Verde's population pyramid reflect stage 2 of the transition?
-See page 66

POPULATION PYRAMID #5

i better not get sued for this....

5. Explain how the population pyramid of Denmark reflects that it is in the 4th
stage of transition and explain how the population pyramid reflects what
you see on the chart to the right on page 67.

The questions for tonights homework is in the handout section. The question set is called Population Pyramid Questions, just scroll down until you see it.

Oh and thanks for scanning the map Raul!

POPULATION PYRAMID #3

Alright so i noticed mr lewis didnt post the Alaska one, so i scanned the one from the book page 64 for those who do not have it.








<=OK THE ALASKA ONE IS THE ONE TO THE LEFT ON THE VERY BOTTOM

the little caption FIGURE 3-16 says:
...blah blah blah... and now the part that is key....... Unalaska has a high percentage of Males, because it contains an isolated military base.
the bold is Word for Word from the book so i cant get in trouble... PEACE =D

Population Pyramids Question No. 3

For the population pyramids assignment, where can I find the population pyramid, if any, for Alaska for quesstion no. 3?

For the population pyramid questions, #3 is asking about Alaska's population, so is there a population pyramid for Alaska,too, because I don't see it in the pyramids Mr. Lewis posted.

Where are the questions?

can somebody tell me where are the questions for tonight's hw?

LIFE SAVER

Hello people, I'm a former student of Mr. Lewis and believe me when he says that you start off little and you add on more and more. Last year this website got me through all those quizzes and now I would like to share it with you. Its corny BUT IT WORKS!

Plus its better than just looking at the freaking map.
Try anything above Level 3. 2 if your unfamiliar with the country.

http://sheppardsoftware.com/Geography.htm

online quiz

which one of mr. lewis' email do we send the online quiz to?
do we send it as a text or an attachment? or does it not matter?

so the pyramid questions are not due tomorrow?

I thought the pyramid questions were due on Wednesday, until today I checked, and it said Thursday. Has the date been officially changed? Even in Mr. Lewis's class 8th period?

directions?

i see the maps over there, but what do we do with them?

thursdays homework

what are we supposed to do with the pyramids that mr lewis just posted? that's the homework for thursday right? is he going to post the homework later on?

Ms Schencker's Email

Ms.Schencker's email address is CRSchencker@aol.com

mr. lewis, i didn't recieve your e-mail...

can i get it anytime soon? i was in 8th period, and had to leave for the sophomore rules

p.s. (i'm Jan Zalinski)

does anyone know Ms. Schencker's email address?

denmark and capre verde pop pyr

city n-hood pop pyr

Hispanic pyramid

us pop pyramid for homework

Those Population Pyramids

About the population pyramid assigment due Thursday, where can people find the population pyramids if they do not have the book? I heard it was posted in the website...

online quiz

To do the online quiz, go to the class website and click on the links section. Go to the links section and look for APHG links. The first one is for the text book. Click on that and then look at the bottom of the text page and you will find a link to the edition to the previous to the most current one. You will then click on chapter one and do the quiz. I believe the link for the chapter one quiz is the concept review and you guys have the eight edition.

Or you can just click on this link:
http://wps.prenhall.com/esm_rubenstein_humangeo_8/0,9140,1362727-,00.html

Ahhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!

Does anyone know where to get the vocabulary words we're supposed to define???

.............Help............

Alrite, after we're done with the chapter review do we send it to whatever teacher we got or what? lol

about the quiz due by tue.

go to this website: http://wps.prenhall.com/esm_rubenstein_humangeo_8
then click on chapter 1 and click on Concept Review. Ms. Schencker said to take this test.

where is this?: 53-57 Online Chapter One Review and Vocabulary

53-57 Online Chapter One Review and Vocabulary

where can i find this?

Chapter 1 Quiz

Where is the review and vocabulary quiz on the website? There seems to be two reviews on the Chapter 1 quiz website.

For the quiz that we are supposed to take due Tuesday, do we go to Chapter One, then do the Concept Review? Do we have to take the Thinking Spatially part too?

quizz???

hey where can I find the link to take the quiz that we are suppose to take by tues.??

It wont let me take the quiz....

Do you have to have a text book to be able to get on the Rubenstein website to take the chapter 1 review and vocab quiz???

GIS???????

I NEED HELP WITH THE EXTRA MATERIALS QUESTION SET.... NUMBER 2C...HELP?

Projection

Is map projection the same thing?

i have no idea what to do with the second activity

LONGITUDE AND LATITUDE

Describe how longitude and latitude are used and include any other relevant concepts or terms.

Where can you find the answer for #4 on the maps and charts question?(the one about the regions and why they get used)

best state question 2??

can anyone help me with the information needed for Q 2 of the best state.

Concentration and Density?

Yea so I keep looking up and down the blog for this but either I missed it a bunch of times or its not there, but I cant seem to find the difference between density and concentration. I know what each is but Im not sure how to put it in words for this question, I have a vague idea, can anyone help me out?

cholera handout

http://mrlewishistoricalsociety.com/cholera1.pdf
http://mrlewishistoricalsociety.com/cholera2.pdf
http://mrlewishistoricalsociety.com/cholera3.pdf
http://mrlewishistoricalsociety.com/cholera4.pdf
http://mrlewishistoricalsociety.com/cholera5.pdf
http://mrlewishistoricalsociety.com/cholera6.pdf
http://mrlewishistoricalsociety.com/cholera7.pdf
http://mrlewishistoricalsociety.com/cholera8.pdf
http://mrlewishistoricalsociety.com/cholera9.pdf

I need help with this

I don't know where to find the difference between enviormental determinism and possibilism.

So peach is back

I was not expecting this but I guess the battle must rage on. I will find you peach.

Some help

a Explain uneven development
b Explain the concept of space-time compression
c Define globalization


Uneven development: refers to the way in which some countries develop but the development does not happen throughout the entire country. In India the south and the cities have developed quite quickly and have made rapid economic gains while the northern rural areas have fallen behind and are some of the world's poorest areas. In China, the cities near the coast have developed rapidly while the interior has remained poor. Uneven development has hit India harder than China. In most countries where this occurs, the city areas are developing and do trade with countries that are developed while the hinterland areas within their own countries have not so these rural areas stay depressed and more and more people flock towards the cities.

time-space compression Time-space compression often refers to technologies that seem to accelerate or elide spatial and temporal distances, including technologies of communication (telegraph, telephones, fax machines, Internet), travel (rail, cars, trains, jets) and economics(the need to overcome spatial barriers, open up new markets, speed up production cycles, and reduce the turn-over time of capital).

I was looking for statistics for the Best State Assignemnt, and i found that there was good information on the U.S Cencus website. Not all of the stats are there, but it is definately a good start.
www.quickfacts.census.gov

Oh my goodness....

Dear poor victims of Lewis' brainwashing,

By taking this class you have set yourself up for quite a school year, and that's why I am here.

Who am I you ask?

I am the bringer of justice, revealer of truths, and nemisis to the Blog Monster himself. I am Princess Peach, and I am here to help!

The Blog Monster (in case you haven't been warned) is here to provide ridiculous amounts of work, as well as insanely hard pop quizzes, to try and drain you of your humanity and your free time.

With the power of my magical binder I will do my best to check back here often and answer questions. I also have many things from this class documented already on my own webpage, which is www.xanga.com/blogmonstersucks . There are answers to tests (your future tests most likely) reviews, and some assignment help among other things. Although it is better to share your questions on the blog, you may also contact me by email at princesspeachrules64@yahoo.com .

This class is different from many in that you WILL have to work together to get through it successfully. You WILL come across something you may need help with. So make full use of the blog and help each other out! Together, we can bring down the Blog Monster once more!

Finally, I wish you all best of luck, and don't stress!
Sincerely,
Princess Toadstool
Peach

P.S. Oh yes Lewis.......PEACH IS BACK!!!! HAHAHAHA!!!!

the difference between a site and a situation, concentration and density

i was wondering if someone could help me with these questions. i cant seem to to find the hint to the concentration and density question and i dont really understand the difference between a site and a situation. thanks

For the last section of the extra materials questions, what text are we supposed to use? Should we use our books or research the terms on our own? If we should use the books, what should people who have not recieved books yet do?

in the extra materials questions, where do u find the cholera section for 2a, 2b and 2c?

for the best state handout are we supposed to find all the information in the year 1993 or just when it specifies like when it said population in1993

Dear Mr. Lewis,

I wasn't sure where exactly can we get the details/ information on the Best State and Maps Exercise question #2 about the Best State handout...
I understand that we have to choose a state, but how do we fill out the information?
Nationmaster only gives you details for the different countries...
but what about states?

hey. how many papers and questions are there total? i just want to make sure that i have everything done. did everybody write it out or did you type it?

i have a question on for the best state and map on number 2, i don't understand what exactly we have to do for that extra best state handout. thanks

hey for the best state assignment #4 says to choose 5 factors. Some example factors would be weather, crime and income, but what are other factors we can use?

About the Homework

Hey everyone, I just wanted to let all of you know that the summer homework is not due until friday so don't worry.

Dear Mr. Lewis,

I wasn't sure if we could type out the answers for our summer assignments or do we have to hand write it?

hey does anyone know how to do 1 and 2 on the Extra Materials Question, because on my computer the maps wont show up.