NOTES

John Bol Dau went to Syracuse. Panther and Daniel went to Pittsburgh.The Lost Boys worked at McDonalds, Factories, Grocery Stores, Worked for a bank. John Bol Dau's sister and mother came to see him in America. Panther got married. John Bol Dau made medical clinics in Africa and Panther made schools for Africa

In Class 10-28-10

In class today, we began by going over what we're doing for our project. Then we started working on it. Thats about all we did.

In Class 10-27-10

In class today we continued to watch the movie about the Lost Boys and what they are  becoming in America. It began with the Lost Boys that came to America spreading their point on why issues in Sudan should be solved. One of the Lost Boys said the solution to the Sudan issues is in Africa, the people there and the natural leaders that are born there. Panther decides to go back to Africa and meet his future wife and to see his homeland again. We also began talking about a group project that we will be starting tomorrow about news in Sudan and stuff like that.

In Class 10-22-10

In-migration: When a person who migrates to a new place.

Out-migration: When a person leaves a place.

Forced migration: When person migrates because they were forced, if they're life was in danger or something

Net internal migration: The net number of people leaving or moving into a state or country

Movers from abroad: People that have never traveled to a new country.

Internally displaced person (IDP): People forced to flee their homes.

The civil war in Sudan started in September 1983 when the Sudanese President declared that they are adding Islamic punishments from Islamic Law into the penal code. Southerners and non Muslims were subjected to these punishments. 

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/sudan-civil-war2.htm

In class we watched another part of the movie about the Lost Boys. In what we watched today, it showed the people getting into their new jobs, what they have to repay to the government (such as airplane cost and other costs the government lent them with) and during the end of the part we watched, it was Christmas time and they were unsure and had many questions about it. 

 

Lost Boys of Sudan

The  Lost Boys of Sudan had to run away from their home in Sudan because civil war broke out, killing thousands of innocent people in Sudan. Boys were specifically threatened by this civil war and thats why they were called the "Lost BOYS".
The Lost Boys left Sudan and walked to Ethiopia and lived there for a little, but after a while, Ethiopia's government toppled and they basically kicked the Lost Boys out, forcing them to walk to Kenya.
The refugee camps were really hard for the lost boys because they were short on food, water, and other supplies.

In Class 10-21-10

In class today we, learned life lessons such as opening the door for someone, and how to respond to someone saying 'thank you'. We also watched a movie on the "Lost Boys" of Sudan that had to run away from they're home because of civil wars over religion. It explained their 1000+ mile journey on their escape from danger in Sudan and how some of them were chosen to go to America.

In Class 10-20-10

In class all we did was went over our 100 point population quiz and I kept it for later

Over the Break Assignment. Pt. 2

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WNcEQJAqXQhzRXrl3R6khR3FrcYOOyh-5DPflWTQ87U/edit#

Over the Break Assignment. Pt. 1

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dnqRC_W6_gHCMPyHqqmU6QjK2SqShlf3zWrpK6dFXX8/edit?authkey=CL6I8e8L#

In Class 10-12-10

In class today, we took our population test, it is either 50 or 100 points, depending on what the rest of the class wants. I did pretty good since it was an open resource quiz/test. Since we had an hour to take our test I started working on the "over the break" assignment.

In Class 10-8-10

• Right now there are more people on the planet now then there ever has been. 
• 90% of this population growth takes place in the developing countries of Africa, South and East Asia, and Latin America.
• It took until 1804 to have our population to be 1 billion, that took over 10,000 years.
• To get the next billion, it was in 1927, that took 123 years.
• To get our 3rd billion in 1960, it took 33 years.
• To get our 6th billion in 1999, it took 12 years.
• This says that over the years, our population grew by the billion faster now, than in the 1800s and the early 1900s.
• In Japan, woman are expected to live a little over 7 more years than men.  
• In the USA women were expected to live a little over 5 years more than men. 
• In Swaziland women were expected to live just a little under a year more than men.
• Woman are expected to live longer because men have the more dangerous jobs, and more men are in combat in the military than woman. Also, men go to the doctor less than women. 
• Rate of Natural Increase doesn't count migration. 
• Germany has the opposite of the "Baby Boom" because they have a low of reproduction. 
• Germany is basically begging people to have kids, "Be patriotic and have a baby" according to Mr. Schick.

In Class 10-7-10

In class today we went over "Population Studies" again because some people weren't in class yesterday, and the notes were really important so we did a quick overview of what we went over.
Pull Factor: A positive factor that would make someone want to come to a country.
Examples: Good government, good health care, good weather, political/religious freedom, rights.


Push Factor: A negative factor that would make someone want to leave their country and come to another.
Examples: Bad health care, not a safe environment, bad government, bad weather.

The population pyramid is a graph, one side is males and the other side is females. Its a two sided bar graph the male side bar graphs are right to left and female side bar graphs are left to right and in the middle is ages of people. The population pyramid shows distribution of people of various ages.

Baby Boom: any period marked by a greatly increased birth rate.

Germany has the opposite of baby boom. because they're birth rate is at a low.

In Class 10-6-10

In class today we went over our "Population Studies" blog answers and we went over why our answers on birth rate, death rate, rate of natural increase, total fertility rate, and net migration rate are what they are. We said that African countries have the highest birth rate because they don't have the knowledge about safe sex and birth control.  We compared the life expectancy of Japan and the United States and said Japans life expectancy is higher than the United States because Japan is more healthy than us. Japan doesn't eat as much fast food as us, they walk everywhere unlike us who drive down the street to get McDonald's or something.
 A country or region needs a total fertility rate of 2.1 for the population to remain the same, if the total fertility rate is under 2.1, the population will decrease, and if the total fertility rate is over 2.1 then the population will increase. Immigration is when a person comes into a region, emigration is when a person leaves a region. When someone immigrates to somewhere else, they also are emigrating.

In Class 10-5-10

In class we went over our 100 point test that we took last week that i got a 82% on. I was given a disgusting dum-dum for a right answer on the test, but then got a better tasting smartie after i answered a second question right. The class average was 74.1%, so I got 8.9% better than the rest of the class. Also Mark told Mr. Schick that he was his first male teacher ever, and Mr. Schick went on to tell us that he got a sex change. He was "kidding".

Population Studies

Life Expectancy: Statistically, how long your expected to live.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_expectancy

Crude Birthrate: The childbirths per 1,000 people per year. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birth_rate

Crude Death Rate: The deaths per 1,000 people. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortality_rate

Rate of Natural Increase: The crude birth rate minus the crude death rate. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rate_of_natural_increase


Total Fertility Rate: The average number of children to be born to a woman. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_fertility_rate

Net Migration Rate: The difference of immigrants and emigrants, divided per 1,000 inhabitants. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_migration_rate

Population Pyramid: A graph that shows the distribution of various age groups in an human population. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_pyramid

Life Expectancy:
Japan: 82.12 years. 3rd in the world
France: 80.98 years. 8th in the world
Kenya: 57.86 years. 189th in the world
Cuba: 77.45 years. 55th in the world
United States: 77.11 years. 49th in the world
Germany: 79.26 years. 32nd in the world

Crude Birth Rate:
Japan: 7.64/1,000. 222nd in the world
Kenya: 36.64/1,000. 29th in the world
Ethiopia: 43.66/1,000. 7th in the world
United States: 13.83/1,000. 154th in the world
Germany: 8.18/1,000. 220th in the world

Crude Death Rate:
Afghanistan: 17.83/1,000. 7th in the world
Kenya: 9.72/1,000. 67th in the world
United States: 8.38/1,000. 99th in the world  
Japan: 9.54/1,000. 69th in the world
Mexico: 4.8/1,000. 192nd in the world

Total Fertility Rate:
Niger: 7.68 children/1 woman. 1st in the world
Afghanistan: 5.5 children/1 woman. 13th in the world
Japan: 1.2 children/1 woman. 218th in the world
United States: 2.06 children/1 woman. 126th in the world
Germany: 1.42 children/1 woman. 196th in the world

Net Migration Rate:
Mexico: -3.61/1,000. 153rd in the world
United States: 4.32/1,000. 25th in the world
United Arab Emirates: 22.98/1,000. 1st in the world
Argentina: 0/1,000. 73rd in the world
Saudi Arabia: -7.6/1,000. 171st in the world
Uganda: -8.83/1,000. 173rd in the world