10/28

Today in class we started our new project. We each have partners and we got to pick what subjected we wanted to write about.

10/28

Today in class we started our new project. We each have partners and we got to pick what subjected we wanted to write about.

10/27

To begin class we talked about where we are in the movie.  We finished the movie today. John Bul Dau was reunited with his mother and sister. Panther went back to Africa and got married. Daniel has yet to fin his family. All of the men have had success with their new lives. They have gotten degrees. Some of them have opened different places. To end the class we talked about our upcoming project. I have been pared with Clark Grube and we are doing our topic about the Dinka tribe.

10/25

Today in class I was put in charge of class with Kelly Stifler. We went over the weekends homework with the class and asked them questions about the movie that we are watching, "God Grew Tired of Us." After we finished going over everything, we continued with the movie. The section that we watched today was about John Bul getting ready for college. He soon realized that some of his family is still alive and he wants to help them. He decided to hold off college and work two or three jobs to send money to his family. He also wants people to be aware of what is happening in Sudan, so he and some of his friends go on a peace walk. John hopes to be able to bring his family to America someday. 

Lost Boys contiuned

 TERMS:

• in-migration- to move into or come to live in a region or community especially as part of a large-scale and continuing movement of population.
• out-migration- to leave one region or community in order to settle in another especially as part of a large-scale and continuing movement of population.
• forced migration- the forced movement of a person or persons away from their home or home region.
• net internal migration- Any change of residence across the borders of the United States. The number.   
• movers from abroad- People who move somewhere different across some sort of line. Moving from one country to another. 
  
• internally displaced person (IDP)-persons or groups of persons who have been forced or obliged to flee or to leave their homes or places of habitual residence. in particular as a result of or in order to avoid the effects of armed conflict, situations of generalized violence, violations of human rights or natural or human-made disasters, and who have not crossed an internationally recognized State border. 

 Civil War of Sudan



      The Second Sudanese Civil War began in 1983. The first civil war of Sudan took place 1955 to 1972. The second war was just a continuation of the first one. It was fought  mostly in southern Sudan. It happened to be one of the longest lasting and deadliest wars of the later 20th century. Around 1.9 million people were killed just in southern Sudan. Also, there were more then 4 million people that were forced to flee their homes when the war began.  

 Movie Summary

      Today we watched more of the Lost Boys. We learned that it is very difficult for them to adapt to how it is in America. They still want to make sure to keep all of their tradition and their culture because it shows who they are. The boys don't forget about the people they left behind. The people in Kenya are constantly on their minds and some day they hope to help them. They realized that people here in America aren't the same as their people. They aren't aways as friendly. People in America don't just talk to random people like they the boys do in their country. Also, they have learned how to use American stuff. They had to get a social security number before they started to find jobs. They are very grateful for whatever money they make. Although, they don't like that you don't have time for family. They are beginning to get a little lonely without their other people. 

The Lost Boys of Sudan

1. The lost boys had to run away from there homes because a civil war started in Sudan that drove the boys to Ethiopia than they left Ethiopia and went to a refugee camp in  Kenya  and have stayed there for over 10 years.
2. They left Ethiopia because Ethiopia's government collapsed.
3. Live in the refugee camp is hard. they have no electricity, nothing to do, and they didn't have that much food to live off of. The boys created there own government called Parliament, they used the this to keep order in the camp. 

Personal Migration

Personal Migration: Part 1

In eight years I will hopefully be finished college and pursuing a career. Where I would be living is a difficult question for me to answer because I can’t see myself anywhere than where I am right now. But I was to move somewhere it would probably be either far south or far north. I love it when it is very hot and when it is very cold. If I moved down south I would love to live by the water in Florida. Some push factors is that it is nice and warm down there and I love the ocean so I would be very close to it. So pull factors are hurricanes and that I will not be able to experience all of the seasons. No matter what the factors are I still don’t think will end up living there but it would be nice too.

The other place where I would like to live in the future is Syracuse New York. I love the cold weather and that is pretty much the only weather Syracuse gets. I can see myself at Syracuse more than I can see myself in Florida because I like the weather better there and there are more ups than downs when it comes to the weather. Some push factors is I love the weather and I don’t have to worry about the hurricanes and stuff like that. The pull factor is that it is a little too much of winter, I love the snow but I also love to be a beach bum too. I love the winter but I need to have all of my seasons.

In the end I think I will end up staying closer to where I’ve grown up, because where I am right now is home and that is always going to be a part of me.

Personal Migration: Part 2

            With my family I don’t have many elderly people in my family who know where were from and when we came to America. When I asked my parents they called my family a “mutt”. I didn’t understand at first what that meant so had to go ahead and do some research. I found that y family isn’t based off of one culture we are from all over the world. From England to the Czech Republic.

           My mom is from Annapolis and my dad is from Baltimore. No one in my family knows who the first to arrive in America was. The farthest I got on that topic is that I think my grandfather on my dad’s side is the second generation to live in America. My grandmother on my mom’s side says that her side of the family is from Ireland and my dad says that Otenasek is Czech republican. So right now I know I’m English, Czech republican, and Irish. My family is from all over the world and I like that. I’m not from one specific place. The main thing I am is American and I like that.

10/8 class notes

• over 6.8 billion people on the planet right now
• increasing by over 80 million per year
• by 220,980 per day (in 2009)
• 14,000 births per hour
• 90% of this population growth takes place in the developing countries of Africa, South and East Asia, and Latin America
• the average number of years to be lived by a group of people born in the same year
   
  High:  Japan       (82.6 total:     79.0 men,  86.1 women)
   
  # 38:  U.S.           (78.2 total:     75.6 men,  80.8 women)
  
  
  Low:  Swaziland  (31.9 total:     31.6 men,  32.2 women)
  rude birth rate: number of births per 1000 of the population

  
  

  crude death rate: number of deaths per 1000 of the population

  
  

  rate of natural increase (RNI) 

  • produced by subtracting the death rate from the birth rate, then dividing by 10
  • this gives us the annual natural growth rate - in percentage form -  for a country or region 

   

  But don't forget about migration...!Net Migration Rate: the difference between the number of persons entering and leaving a country during a year

   

  an excess of persons entering the country is net immigration 

   

  • written as a positive number
  • example: Canada has 5.63 migrants per 1,000 population

   

  an excess of persons leaving the country is net emigration

   

  • written as a negative number
  • example: Mexico has -3.61 migrants per 1,000 populationpush forces
    
    
    • civil war
    • environmental degradation
    • unemployment
    • religious or ethnic persecution
    
    
    pull forces
    
    
    • better economic opportunity
    • better health services
    • religious freedom
    • political freedom
  TFR: average number of children born per woman

  for a population to remain the same, the TFR must be 2.1

  higher than 2.1: population rises

  lower than 2.1: population falls

  
  

  World TFR:      2.54

   

  US TFR:          2.05

  Europe's TFR: 1.45

  Africa's TFR:    5.14

  
  

10/6

Today in class we went over the definitions and explained the following terms.

life expectancy

birthrate  

death rate

RNI (rate of natural increase)

TFR (total fertility rate) 

net migration rate 

population pyramid

10/4

Today we went over our tests. We went over that we need to read over questions carefully and that our blogs are our notes for the tests.