Class Today

In class today, we had a test on the movie we had been watching and the Lost Boys of Sudan. It was an easy test and it was much easier than I thought it would be.

Missed Blog

I forgot to blog yesterday but we were assigned a project on the Dinka tribe of Africa. We also have a quiz. Notes:
in-migration: people moving into one place from another place within a nation
out-migration: people moving out of one place to another place within a nation
net internal migration: the numerical difference between in-migration and out-migration
movers from abroad: people coming into a nation from another country or part of the world
net migration: the difference between net internal migration and movers from abroad
internally displaced person (IDP):  someone who is forced to flee their home but who, unlike a refugee, remains within their country's borders.
John Bul, Daniel, and Panther
travele 1,000 miles
Left Sudan because they were being persecuted by muslims. Muslims in the north and Christains in the South.
Ethiopia then to Kenya
Kakuma Kenya refugee camp
Kakuma means no where
John Bul separated from family for 17 years
Sudan was peaceful before the war
Lost Boys went to Syracuse: John
Pittsburg: Panther, Daniel
John went to africa and created a medical clinic
Panther went back to africa and got married and he made plans to create a school

Homework monday

In class we watched more of the movie. The boys did well adjusting to life in the U.S. They tried to find their families. The boys kept donating to Africa.

Lost Boys of Sudan Friday Homework

In-migration- migration to a country that some one is not native to that they are going to settle in.
Out-Migration- Migration that is getting away from someone's native country.
Forced migration- When someone is forced to move out of the country for a reason.
Net Internal Migration- total number of people migrated in a country
Movers from abroad- Someone that has moved from one country to another
Internally displaced person (IDP) - when some one is in a country that are being forced to leave.

The Sudan Civil War- The British gave Sudan Independence and Muslim and Christain in one country. These gruops do not get along. Sudan had a civil war in 1983. In that year,  President Nimeiri announced that Sudan would Punish people that were not Islam. They used old Islamic methods of punishment thsat were  very harsh.

Most of the southern part of Sudan was not Islamic so a fight broke out between the two north and south. People in the South started to flee the country of Sudan because of the punishments.
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/5424.htm

In class we watched more of the movie. In it, the teens came to the U.S. and they had to transition to their new life like how to use electricity. They  missed their friends that they had to leave behind.

Lost Boys of Sudan

The boys left Sudan because there was a Civil war in Sudan.
They couldn't stay in Ethiopia because Ethiopia's government fell.
Life was hard because there wasn't much food or clothing.

Original Picture from:
http://www.geographyiq.com/images/su/Sudan_map.gif

They traveled about 1,000 miles

Thursday Class

In class we watched a movie about Life of boys fleeing Sudan.
Leaned how to say your welcome and hold the door ( Mr. Schick style)

Human Geography over the weekend paper part 2

From what I have found out about my family, they have been here a long time. My mom’s mother’s side of the family came in about the 1700’s. My mom’s grandfather’s side of the family came about the late 1800’s. My mom was born in Baltimore in the late 1960’s. My dad was born in the late 1960’s in Baltimore. My dad’s mom was born in the country of Chile. My dad’s dad was born in Baltimore. My mom’s mom was born in Baltimore. My mom’s dad was born in Baltimore.  My mom’s grandparents on her dad’s side of the family were born in Baltimore. My mom’s grandparents on her mom’s side of the family were born in Baltimore. From what I have found most of my family was from Baltimore the furthest back I can go on my dad’s side is my great grandmother. She was my grandfather’s mother. She was born on February 2, 1908 and she died September 16, 2010. The furthest I can go back on my mom’s mother’s side is one of my relatives who were born in Germany. He was born in 1743 in Germany and his children were the first to be born in the United States in my family.  The furthest I can go back on my mom’s dad’s side of the family is one of my relatives who were born in Massachusetts. He was born in Provincetown, Massachusetts in 1848. My dad’s mom’s parents were originally from Britain. Her father moved around a lot because of his job so, that is how she was born in Chile. She was born in Santiago, Chile.  She was from a British family and she tried coming into this country as a British person but the United States had already let in the limit of people from Britain, so she ended up coming into this country as a Chilean. I don’t have much information on my dad’s side because his family hasn’t kept as good of records as my mom’s side of the family.       

Human Geography over the weekend paper part 1

When I am older and have graduated college I will have to choose where I want to live. If I had two choices my first choice would probably end up being Spain. A reason for wanting to live in Spain is because Spain has a good economy. Spain’s economy is the 12^th largest in the world. Right now Spain’s economy is on the recovery from the global recession so; by the time I move there the economy will be rising. If the economy is starting to recover the house market is probably still down so, after I buy the house the house market will recover. If I decide to move, the house that I bought will be worth more than I bought it for because then the house market will have recovered so, I might make a profit on the house. If I did move to Spain my job would be a construction worker because that is a job that pays well and one that is high in demand in Spain. A reason I might not want to move there is that it is so far away from my family. Also, I might not want to move there if the economy doesn’t recover. 

My second choice would be Germany. I would want to live there because it is in the middle of Europe which makes it a great place to live. It has a great countryside and you can easily travel anywhere in Europe from Germany.  Germany has the fifth largest economy in the world and Germany has the largest economy in Europe. Germany specializes in vehicles and household equipment.  If I lived in Germany I would probably get a job in the car industry because it is doing so well right now. A reason why I wouldn’t want to live in Germany is that it gets very cold in the winter.    

Pop Quiz

Today in class we had a pop quiz on population pyramids and vocabulary from the class.

Homecoming Week Friday Notes

90% of poopulation growth is in developing countries of Africa, South and East Asia, and Latin America.


Population will reach 7 billion by 2011

Life expectancy- Average number of years to be lived by a group of people born in the same year.

United States- 78 years

Swaziland- 32 years

Rate of natural increase is births minus deaths

Net Migration Rate- The imagrants minus emigration

More people migrating now than ever before

Push forces- enviornmental degradation, economic trouble

Pull factors- better economy, better health care


Total Fertility rate- average number of children born per woman in her lifetime

For a population to remain the same TFR must be 2.1

Thursday Notes

Talked about migration rate. Push factor-  Want to get out of a country for reasons like, Religion Ethnical differences. Pull factor- want to go to a country for reasons like, good economy better living.

Population Pyramid- Shows population by age groups.

Forgot to Blog Yesterday

I forgot to blog yesterday. Yesterday we wemt over the homework that was assigned. We compared countries.

Looking over a Test

In class, we worked on checking over our tests we took. I was surprised on how well I did on the test.

Human Geo Terms

Definitions of terms

Life Expectancy- The number of years that a person is expected to live depending on where they live, their heritage, country, and their health. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/life+expectancy

Crude birthrate- Rate of childbirths per 1,000 people per year. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crude_birth_rate#cite_ref-0

Crude deathrate- number of deaths per year compared to the population. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crude_death_rate

RNI ( rate of natural increase)- crude birthrate minus the crude deathrate. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rate_of_natural_increase

TFR ( total fertility rate) - the average number of children a woman has in her lifetime. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_fertility_rate

net migration rate- the difference of immagrants and emigrants of an area over time per 1,000 people that live in the area. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_migration_rate

population pyramid- a pyramid shaped graph that shows how many people a certain age, organized by gender.   http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/population+pyramid


life expectancy
Japan 82.2  3rd good eating habits and good lifestyle
France 80.98 8th good lifestyle
Kenya 57.86 189th
Cuba 77.45 55th
United States 78.11 49th
Afganistan 44.4 219th reason presence of war

Crude Birthrate
Japan 7.64 222nd
Kenya 36.64 29th
Ethiopia 43.66 7th
United States 13.83 154th
Germany 8.18 220th

Death rate
Afganistan 17.83 7th
Kenya 9.72 67th
United States 8.38 99th
Japan 9.54 69th
 Mexico 4.8 192nd

TFR (total fertility rate)
 Niger 7.68 1st
 Afghanistan 5.5 13th
 Japan 1.2 218th
 United States 2.06 126th
 Germany 1.42 196th

 net migration rate
Mexico -3.61 153rd
 United States 4.32 25th
 United Arab Emirates 22.98 1st
 Argentina 0 73rd
 Saudi Arabia -7.6 171st
 Uganda -8.83 173rd

Rain Day?

We didn't have class yesterday because we got out early because it rained 5 inches in one day!