Matthew Bishop 11/25/19 Guns, Germs and Steel Viewing Guide: Guns, Germs, and Steel: Episode 1 Directions: Before viewing the film, read each question below so you know what information and ideas you should be looking for as you watch Episode 1. Record your answers to each question by providing as many facts, details, and examples as possible to answer each question. 1. According to Jared Diamond, what are the three major elements that separate the world’s “haves” from the “have nots”? Three elements are Guns, Germs and Steel. 2. Jared Diamond refers to the people of New Guinea as “among the world’s most culturally diverse and adaptable people in the world”, yet they have much less than modern Americans.Diamond has developed a theory about what has caused these huge discrepancies among different countries, and he says it boils down to geographic luck. Give several examples from the film to sup
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Matthew Bishop 11/20/19 Economic Challenge of Japan's Aging Crisis 1. Increase in the proportion of the elderly in the total population. Slower growth of the population, which rose directly from the declining fertility rate. 2. 1/3 of 33 percent of the population will be 65 or older. 3. The direct economic impact is that there is a slower growth of the population, this affects the economic performance because it increase the social security burden and benefits. 4. They are pressuring and giving incentives to companies to hire more women and giving them higher position ranks to female workers.
Matthew Bishop 11/14/19 China's One Child Policy 1. The official definition of the One Child Policy is that it is an official program initiated in the late 1970 and early '80s by the central government of China, the purpose of which was to limit the great majority of family units in the country to one child each. 2. The central government, headed by leader Deng Xiaoping gave serious consideration to the law in the late 70s. On September 25, 1980, a public letter published by the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party called upon to adhere the one-child policy. This is considered the "official" start date of the policy. 3. The program was supposed to be enforced universally but it became uneven over time. The policy was strongest in the city while being lenient in the countryside. Methods of enforcement included financial incentives, preferential employment opportunities for people who co
Matthew Bishop 11/15/19 The Theory of Population 1. Malthus says the general nature of animated life is to increase beyond the nourishment provided for it. 2. Malthus believes that man will never be able to escape the consequences of uncontrollable population increase so they would prevent contributing to the growth. 3. He believes that the population will level out to the food supply with population statistics. 4. Malthus's theory was that in the world there are two types of checks that hold the population. One being positive checks, which are causes that can raise the death rate. Things like famine, war, disease, and natural disasters are examples of positive checks. The second type of checks is a preventive check. Preventive checks are checks that lower the birth rate. Preventive checks can include increased levels of abstinence, lack of economic stability, and increased access to birth control. 5. Personally, I don'
Matthew Bishop 11/13/19 The Global Fertility Crash Today, we researched what things factored in the impacts of children per woman in the countries of France, Saudi Arabia, China and Nigeria. Some of these factors include fertility rate, women's earnings compared to men's, literacy rate and percent of women in the work force. First, we have France, and in France, women are almost equally paid to men and are highly educated on average. This is because they have benefits such as day cares, that will accept babies at 3 months. In France, women's earnings are 72 % of men's. One of the craziest facts is that women are 99% percent literate in France. That means that almost every women in France can read and write! This impacts children per women because the more literate women are more likely to have less children, making the health of the country better. In 1960, the birth rate was 2.9. In 2017, it has dropped down to
Matthew Bishop 11/8/19 Human Geography Notes: Blog #16 The population has grown from 3 billion to 7 billion in the past 50 years. Most people come from Asian countries such as Bangladesh. In 1972, Bangladesh had an average of 7 babies per woman and the average life span was 50 years. In 2012, Bangladesh has an average of 2 babies per woman and an average life span of 70 years old. In 1063, the average babies per woman in the world was 5. In 2012, the average number of babies per woman in the world was 2.5 babies. In 1800, two parent had on average, 6 children. The reason the population went up so slow though, is because 4 of the 6 children died. This means only 2 of the 6 children would live to grow up and have children on their own. By the end of the century, demographers say the world population will be 11 billion.Right now the world code if 1114. 1 billion people in the Americas, Europe and Africa, while Asia will have 4 billi
Matthew Bishop 11/7/19 Mapping the World: Africa-Blog #15 1. Somalia 2. Ethiopia 3. Kenya 4. Madagascar 5. Tanzania 6. Mozambique 7. Swaziland 8. Lesotho 9. South Africa 10. Egypt 11. Sudan 12. South Sudan 13. Uganda 14. Rwanda 15. Burundi 16. Zambia 17. Zimbabwe 18. Libya 19. Chad 20. Central African Republic 21. Democratic Republic of the Congo 22. Angola 23. Namibia 24. Botswana 25. Niger 26. Nigeria 27. Cameroon 28. Equatorial Guinea 29. Gabon 30. Republic of the Congo 31. Algeria 32. Mali 33. Burkina Faso 34. Ghana 35. Togo 36. Benin 37. Morocco 38. Western Sahara 39. Mauritania 40. Senegal 41. Gambia 42. Guinea Bissau 43. Sierra Leone 44. Liberia 45. Dijibouti 46. Eritrea 47. Tunisia 48. Malawi 49. Guinea 50. Seychelles 51. Sao Tome and Principe 52. Cote d'Ivoire.
Matthew Bishop 11/3/19 Introduction to Population- Blog #14 In class today, we learned about population, demography, fertility rates, and mortality rate. Population refers to the size and distribution and collection of human beings in a certain place. As of today, there are 7.6 billion people on the world. That is the total population of the world. Demography is a social science which entails the statistical study of human populations. Through 1800 to 1950, the mortality rate of the world went down 10 percent. In 1800, it was 50 percent. this means that every two children born, one would die. In 1950, the child mortality rate was 40 percent. Out of every 10 children born, 4 would die. From 1990 to now, birth rates have gone down, which also means death rates have gone down. Presentation.pptx