Working on our essays

In Human Geo class today we had time to work on our Essays. I am sooooo thankful for this time because I need to redo my essay since I realized how bad and all over the place it was. I was able to get a good amount of my essay done in class but I definitely still had somethings to work on at home for it. I did my essay on Iceland, Aruba, and Zimbabwe and how they face different migration problems.

Essay for exam 1

Mr. Schick was not in class today so mrs. Gauthier was our sub. For our class time we were supposed to write our essay for the exam. The essay is do Friday. I am choosing option A because I think that its the easiest one for me today and I am most interested in that one. I am going to use the CIA world Factbook to find information on the 3 countries that I am doing. I plan on doing a European country, an island in the Carribean and an African country. In conclusion I should really be working on my essay because I haven't even started and I have a lot to do with studying for other classes exams lol.

Test on migration/podcast

We took a test today in Human Geo class. Although I completely forgot we had one until this morning I still think I did pretty well considering that I forgot. The whole front page of the test was matching. It would have a statement then you would have to match the answer to it and you could only use each letter once. For example if the statement is when someone is moving willingly. If I thought the answer was A voluntary migration then I would write A next to that statement and I wouldn't be able to use the term for the rest of the matching. The second and third pages were all multiple choice. The multiple choice was way harder then. matching. If I would have known that we had to know the dates of laws and stuff then I definitely would have studied more.

Powerpoint on the packet

In Human Geo we took notes on a powerpoint. The powerpoint was pretty much information that was in the packet that we looked at the day before but this time they took out the more important important information from the packet. Some of the important information that I wrote down is about peoples attitudes about immigrants. Most United States citizens have very strong opinions about border patrol whether it be building a wall or not. I also have information about Ravensteins options on immigration. He believed that most immigrants are adults, most are people seeking jobs without and children and that most long-distance immigrants were adult males.

packet

Today in Human Geo we looked at a packet. The packet had facts and important information about immigrants and and migration. I wrote down the things that I thought were important in the packet. For example I wrote down information about Quotas, migration with children, Labor force, years in the United States, Distribution and the source country. Some info that I wrote down about quotas are the years that each of them were signed and what the quotas were about. The quotas were in the years 1924, 1965, 1978, and 1990. Most of these quotas had something to do with limiting the amount of people per country that could immigrate each year.

Unauthorized immigrants in the United States

In the United States we have an immigration problem. Some statistics that I found in the packet we read were about Distribution, Labor Force, Years in the United States, Children, Source Country. One of the statistics that I found about Distribution were that California and Texas have the largest numbers of unauthorized immigrants and Nevada has the largest percentage of immigrants all together. Another statistic that I found is that more than 1 half of unauthorized immigrants emigrate from Mexico and the remainder of the immigrants are evenly divided between Latin American countries and other regions of the world. The last statistic that I found is about labor force there is approximately 8 million unauthrorized immigrants that are employed in the United States.

Immigrants vs Tear gas

In class today we listened to more of the podcast on migration. The podcast was definetley biased against Trump as they used information about how he is hurting the migrants. For example they talked about how border officials used tear gas in order to make migrants settle down. Honestly I'm glad they did that. The migrants attacked the border officials so the border officials fought back. What are we supposed to just let them throw rocks at us? Then when we fight back are we supposed to feel sad or ashamed that we did? NO the migrants attacked us first and its not like the tear gas killed anyone. I am sorry, but if you want to be violent like that then face the consequences and don't act like we should feel sorry for you.

Podcast continued

We listened to more of the podcast yesterday in Human Geo. I think it is very interesting what the reporters in the podcast have said. I believe that they are biased against Donald Trump. They use facts and statistics that make him look bad. Illegal immigrants is a real problem and people need to realize that. One thing that we learned from the podcast is that Barack Obama added domestic violence to the list of reasons that the United States can grant asylum. But Donald Trump has now wanted to take that off the list. I think we should take that off of the list of reasons to grant asylum.