Friday, October 23, 2015
Thursday, October 22, 2015
Legal Voluntary Migration, Christina Veraza's Story, Chapter 3: Migration
Scenario- Voluntary Migration
Outline- Christina Veraza was born in Mexico City, her family moved to Spain when she was in second grade for one year so her father could get her degree. Then she returned to Mexico until 6th grade. Then in 6th grade she moved to the U.S at a bilingual school to learn English. She would then go back to Mexico to finish her high school career. After attending college in Mexico, and working a few internships, she would marry Carlos Veraza. They moved to Guatemala for a year to work before returning to Mexico and having Jorge and Sophia. When Sophia was only a few months old, Mr. Veraza took his family to Dallas in search of a better job, pay, and opportunity. They would stay in Dallas for seven years, before moving to Omaha, and then from Omaha to where they reside now in Lafayette Colorado. She enjoys living here because of the safety, the opportunity for Carlos, and the environment that is best for raising kids.
Essential Details- She was only in Spain for one year so her father could finish his studies. After they moved back to Mexico her father sent her and her sister to the Oceanside public school in California to learn English. She then moved back to Mexico and finished high school and college and then met Carlos Veraza. The major push factors for Christina was the safety of her family was in jeopardy in Mexico. The major pull factor for Christina was diversity and new job opportunities.
Terms used- Voluntary migration, push factors, pull factors, international migration
Script-
She was born in Mexico City, Mexico
She lived there until 2nd grade
Her family moved to Spain for a year so her father could finish his studies. This is an example of international migration.
She returned to Mexico and lived there till 6th grade
The following year Her father then sent her to a bilingual school called ocean side public school in America to learn English
After a year she returned to Mexico to finish her high school career at the American school in Guadalajara
She attended college in Mexico and worked a few internships before meeting her husband, Carlos Veraza
Her and Carlos moved to Guatemala to work for a year
They moved back to Mexico for 3 years and had their first son Charlie. Then they voluntarily migrated to Atalanta, Georgia for a job at Coca Cola
After 2 years in Atlanta they moved back to Mexico with Charlie so Carlos could work for Frito-lay
In these three years in Mexico Jorge and Sophia were born
Christina and her family then moved Dallas for a new job opportunity for Carlos
While this was a voluntary migration a push factor for them to leave Mexico was that it was not the safest place for Christina and her family beciase they were a wealthier family
They lived in Dallas for 7 years before moving to Omaha, Nebraska for a new job opportunity for Carlos
They did not like Omaha because the people were so closed minded
They spent 3 and a half years in Omaha before moving to Lafayette, Colorado where they currently reside
Carlos found a great job in Colorado and Christina loves raising her family here because of the safety Colorado provides
All of Christina's migration was voluntary and most of the time it was international migration as well
The pull factors for Christina and Carlos were always new job opportunities and a safer home for their children
The major push factor for Christina and Carlos was the violence in Mexico which could affect their children's lives. The kids would have needed body guards and a chauffeur to go out and Christian did not want them to have to deal with that
The Veraza family loves living in Colorado and have Just sent their first son, Charlie to college while Jorge and Sophia still attend dawson school
Map- 
This map shows Syria and the countries surrounding it. This is relevant to our chapter because people are migrating out of Syria into the surrounding countries which are colored in this map.
Sentence- The Syrian people wanted to change the government in Syria but it did not happen and the government stayed in place so they wanted to leave and then they began migrating into the surrounding countries.
Saturday, October 3, 2015
Thoughts and Ruminations on Chapter 2: Population, ThePopulationFizzle,The Population Surprise , and U.S. Population Drop
Jack Shams
AP Human Geography
10/1/15
The Population Fizzle
The Population Surprise
U.S. Population Drop
Chapter 2: Population
Thoughts and Ruminations
Essay Question- How do the terms population explosion, total fertility rate (TFR), and population distribution used in chapter 2 relate to The Population Fizzle, The Population Surprise, and U.S. Population Drop.
One of the most present topics in today's world is population growth. People have become increasingly worried with the population explosion in the past two centuries. According to Max Singer who states in his article The Population Surprise, "the worlds population has grown from one billion to over six billion in the past two centuries." People believe that the population will continue to grow until our world can't support us any longer, but as one takes a closer look that does not seem to be the case. According to The Population Fizzle by Anne H. Ehrlich, a demographer named Nicholas Eberstadt anticipated the population will stop growing and immediately start to shrink in the year 2050. Eberstadt states that the population size will just surpass 9.4 billion in the year 2050 and then the population will begin to drop quickly due to higher death rates than total fertility rates. Demographers believe that there is a low chance that this variant will be followed.
Even thought this variant has a low chance of being followed Eberstadt makes quite an accurate prediction. With TFR's slowly dropping in areas like the United States the population should peak within the next 50 years and then begin to decrease. While we might not see an immediate and drastic drop off it should begin to happen. According to the article U.S. Population Drop by Derek Thompson, "the U.S. government announced that our birthrate fell to 'another record low' in 2012, following a long, steady slide since the Baby Boom after World War II." The reason fertility rate is dropping is because people are just having less babies compared to past centuries when TFR's were much higher due to instances like WWII.
Even if only the US stays on this path, which it is likely they will not be the only ones, the overall population of the world will begin to drop after a certain point. The reason that the overall population of the world could drop even if only the U.S. has a significant population drop is because of population distribution. Population Distribution is the arrangement or spread of people living in a given area, and North America has the fourth highest population distribution in the world. Connecting those dots, if the U.S.'s population were to take a hit the entire world would feel it due to the large amount of the world's population that lives here.
With all of these points in mind there is truly no exact way to predict how the world's population will change in the future completely accurately. This is because there is no way to see what might happen in the future. If another world war to break out there might be another huge increase in TFR's, causing the population to increase rather than decrease. The only true way one would find out what exactly is going to happen to the worlds population would be to sit back and see what the future centuries bring.
The Indian government wanted to help stop population growth in their country but there were not many options for women who accidentally got pregnant so they began family planning programs in 1965 and then the total fertility rates were cut in half.
http://www.mapsofindia.com/my-india/society/family-planning-in-india-its-history-programmes-importance-and-impact
This map shows the fertility rate in India. The average fertility rate is around 2.4-3.2 With the help of family planning programs that were put in place by the Indian Government the fertility rate was cut in half. If the Indian Government continues to use family planning programs the fertility rate should continue to drop.
The Demographic Transition Model (DTM) seeks to explain the transformation of countries from having high birth and death rates to low birth and death rates. In developed countries this transition began in the eighteenth century and continues today. Less developed countries began the transition later and are still in the midst of earlier stages of the model.
Source of info on the DTM: Rosenberg, Matt. "What Is a Demographic Transition Model?" Web. 3 Oct. 2015.
Video Link: http://youtu.be/q1sIpRuvO6w
Tuesday, September 29, 2015
Tuesday, September 22, 2015
Presentation Link
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1AriVdVuGAeOxLamMDWMTYwk6KQHpDsNduq1uMVJIe6E/edit
Monday, September 14, 2015
Friday, September 11, 2015
Thoughts and Ruminations Chapter 1: Introducing to Human Geography in aBottle, and The Tipping Point
Jack Shams
AP Human Geography
9//15
Globalization in a Bottle
The Tipping Point
Chapter 1: Introduction to Human Geography
Thoughts and Ruminations
Essay Question: How are the terms Hierarchical Diffusion, Relocation Diffusion, and Contagious Diffusion discussed in chapter one and how do they relate to Globalization in a Bottle and the Tipping Point?
In today's world the Coca-Cola symbol is the most widely known trademark in the world. This may be due to its addictive taste and cute polar bear commercials at Christmas time, but don't let these small aspects fool you. The Coca-Cola brand built their empire through war and United States military. This may sound crazy at first, but it truthfully was genius. As World War II began and thousands of American troops began to mobilize the president of the Coca-Coal company, Robert Woodruff, decided that, "Every man in uniform gets a bottle of Coca-Cola for five cents, wherever he is, and whatever it costs the company." With the drink already popular among American troops, this caused even more of them to start drinking it. In fact, it was so popular that the military itself began to supply it to the troops because it was a refreshing non intoxicating beverage. With the entire United States military endorsing Coca-Cola, the general population of America got on board as well. This is called Hierarchical Diffusion. This means that once a popular figure such as the military began drinking Coca-Coal regular American citizens began endorsing it even more. This caused the Coca-Cola brand to take off in America and soon it would take off outside of America as well. With the military now supplying Coke to the troops overseas, people who had never heard of Coca-Cola were being introduced to the popular American brand. This is called Relocation Diffusion. This is when a group of individuals have already endorsed a certain idea or product and take it somewhere els and begin to spread the ideas or product. In this case the American soldiers had endorsed Coke and with Americans being so present in other countries Coca-Cola naturally followed them. This allowed the Coca-Cola brand to be introduced to the rest of the world which eventually caused it to become a globally endorsed company.
Husk Puppies are a well known shoe in today's world, but before 1994 that was not the case. The the early 90's Hush Puppies were not a hip or in style brand that could barley sell 30,000 pairs a year. On set at a fashion shoot two Hush Puppies executives, Owen Baxter and Geoffrey Lewis, made a huge discovery. A stylist from New York told them that Hush Puppies had suddenly become popular in huge New York City clubs. He continued to tell them that people were going out of their way to go to the small village stores that carried them to buy them up. With this sudden resurgence of the Hush Puppy Baxter and Lewis were baffled. They did not know why this was happened or what caused it, but Hush Puppies continued to become one of the most popular shoes in America. In 1995, some of the biggest designers from around the country wanted to feature Hush Puppies in their new collections. After this over 430,000 pairs of Hush Puppies were being sold and each year that number grew. In 1996 Hush Puppies won the prize for best accessory at he Counsel of Fashion Designers award dinner. One might be asking how did such a dead brand become a staple in America style so quickly. The answer is Contagious Diffusion. This is when a small group of individuals decides to begin endorsing something for reasons such as the certain thing, is not popular anymore and they want to stand out, or they just think it looks cool to them. Whatever the reason may be, this causes others to being doing the same and a certain type of domino effect beings to take place. In this particular situation, the group of people who began wearing the Hush Puppies to clubs made other people think they were in style again, and therefore many people began wearing them again. This infectious spreading of the Hush Puppies caused them to go down in history as one of the most popular shoes of all time.
Somebody wanted to connect similar groups of people and ideas on social media but all the ways that people were coming up with were too complicated so he tired using the pound sign (#) then it became known as the hashtag.
http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2013/11/07/good-question-how-did-the-pound-sign-become-a-hashtag/
This map shows where the hashtag started and the two largely populated states. The hashtag started in San Francisco, California when Chris Messina, a former Google developer, sent a tweet in 2007 bringing up the idea of the hashtag. Messina's tweet read, "How do you feel about using the # (pound) for groups. As in #barcamp?" This tweet started the hashtag rage. The hashtag spread from San Feancisco to other densely populated cities such as New York City and Dallas. This caused many people to begin using the hashtag making it a widley known symbol and idea. This sudden surge in the social media world caused stocks to rise and brought over 30 million dollars to the social media companies. Today the hashtag is a symbol almost everyone is familiar with and uses on a daily basis.
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