Human Geography 101

Today in class we were writing our essays on one of the three options that we could chose from. I have been preparing since the first day I heard about it and I felt really confident when I was writing it during class today. I wrote five solid paragraphs that took up about one and a half front and back pieces of paper. I gave a lot of information about each stage in the demographic Transition as I chose option C. I met the criteria by describing all of the stages, and I mentioned a country or multiple and how they entered a certain stage, then I also added dates of when certain revolutions and such occurred. Then I also talked about how in the future certain countries could move into a stage 5 that isn't considered a stage yet, but some could argue that some countries like western and northern European countries could be in a stage 5 at this time.

Essay Draft               Starting a very long time ago, around the 1600’s or so, there was a chart that would process the change in a country’s population. This was discovered by looking at a country’s CDR and CBR and seeing if the CBR is greater than the CDR. If it was than their population was increasing, and if it wasn’t than their population was decreasing. This process was called the Demographic transition. It has been proven for most of human history is spent in stage 1. But every country has at least gotten to stage 2. There are 4 stages in the cycle, and some say there is some country’s that could be in a stage 5. But that stage 5 isn’t considered a stage in the process.               The first two stages are not similar at all besides the fact that they both have a high birth rate. They both had a high birth rate the whole way throughout these two stages, because women usually stayed at home and their job was to have offspring and raise the family. In stage one, th

This is what I have written so far for my essay, I chose option C: Essay Draft               Starting a very long time ago, around the 1600’s or so, there was a chart the would process the change in a country’s population. This was discovered by looking at a country’s CDR and CBR and seeing if the CBR is greater than the CDR. If it was than their population was increasing, and if it wasn’t than their population was decreasing. This process was called the Demographic transition. It has been proven for most of human history is spent in stage 1. But every country has at least gotten to stage 2. There is 4 stages in the cycle, and some say there is some country’s that could be in a stage 5. But that stage 5 isn’t considered a stage in the process.               The first two stages are not similar at all besides the fact that they both have a high birth rate. They both had a high birth rate the whole way throughout these two stages, because women usually stayed at home and the

Today we took our test on the stages of demographic transition and I don't fell like I did that well. The two questions that I know I got wrong was on the graph I labeled the total population as natural increase rate. Then also the second part of the countries in stage 5 because I said Germany and Russia because I couldn't think of another country. But there was some other ones that I think I might have gotten wrong but I think there is a chance that I got them right. I studied for this test but not as much as I did for the other tests and that's why I don't think I did as well. So it is my fault.

Today in class we were going over some possible test questions for the test on Monday. This test is on demographic transition and the four different stages of it plus a possible stage 5. Stage 5 isn't a real stage currently but there is rumors and some people are saying that some country's can be considered to be in stage 5. Stage 5 would have a negative increase rate after stage4 with a zero increase rate. Some country's in stage 5 are Japan, United States, and Germany. Stage 1 has a very high CDR and CBR with a low population increase rate since the two rates are pretty much even but the birth rate is a little higher in stage 1. Stage two has a high CBR and a rapidly declining CDR because of the industrial revolution in the mid 1800's and the medical revolution which was building hospitals, and getting health care, plus vaccines. Stage 3 has a rapidly declining CBR because women are having less kids since they are starting to live in cities because of economic chang

Today in class we went over the packet that we annotated yesterday by highlighting or underlining important parts of the passages. Stage one has a very high CBR and CDR and they have a Very low NIR which means their population isn't really changing. This is because they weren't really in need of food, but they also didn't have to much food so their population didn't increase or decrease. Stage 2 is they have a high CBR and a Rapidly declining CDR because of the medical revolution where they were having more hospitals built and better medical care. This was part of the main industrial revolution. Stage 3 is they have a rapidly declining CBR because they are having less kids since they mostly live in cities and their parents work in offices and stuff like that, instead of working on farms where they could have more children to do their tasks. Stage 4 has a very low CBR a low or slightly increasing CDR and a zero or negative NIR. It is similar to stage 1 with the no popula

Today in class, I am happy that we just worked on our own and highlighted packets because I was very tired from not waking up in the morning as early as today. But also the break went by very fast because I travelled to Virginia for 3 days and it felt like an hour when I came back. But the Packet was pretty simple to understand the concept of how its a cycle with four stages. Some say that you can argue for a fifth stage for western and northern European countries. Stage 1 is very low growth with high CBR and CDR, then a very low NIR. But every nation has moved on to at least stage two one time. Stage 2 is very High Growth with still a high CBR, but a rapidly declining CDR, and now a very high NIR Europe and North America entered stage 2 after 1750 because of the Industrial revolution which had manufacturing good and such like that. Africa, Asia, and Latin America didn't get to stage 2 until the late twentieth century because of a medical revolution. Stage 3 is moderate growth