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.

Podcast

We are learning about migration in Human Geo. Therefore Mr.Schick wants us to talk about current events in the world that have to do with migration. Since not many people know about what is currently going on in the world and certain events we decided top listen to a podcast in order to gather information. After gathering information then we will have a debate where some of the class will be asked to say they are for migration and the rest saying that we should limit it. Some of the information I gathered is that a problem similar to ours today occurred in the United States in 1951.The United Nations decided to try and get countries to sign off on a treaty. This treaty said that if you are facing Persecution then you should be granted asylum. There were a few requirements to be granted it though. The requirements were race, nationality, political views and social groups if you were facing groups in any of those categories then you could be granted asylum.

Interregional Migration

Interregional Migration is the permanent move from one country to another. Most of the time perceived economic betterment typically compels individuals to make interregional migrations. Interregional Migration has become bigger as the population has grown and developed. Historically, the enticement of abundant available land on the American frontier would cause Interregional Migration to the United States. But in the present, most jobs especially in services are clustered in urban areas. This causes many of the people migrated to the United States to move into big cities of economic activity. Also Westward expansion played a huge role in Migration. When Lewis and Clark found more land in the West of the United States there was more land so more people would move to the United States since they had lots of land.

Migration

Migration is the moving from one place to another whether its for 1 year or the rest of your life. There are two different types of migration. The first type is immigration. Immigration is when someone is moving into a place or country. The other type of migration is Emmigration. Emmigration is when a someone is leaving a place or country and moving to a new one. This could occur for many reasons. Whatever makes someone read is a push factor and whatever makes some one move to is a pull factor. We know this because of Ravenstein's law. Ravenstein's laws states that Most migrants relocate a short distance and remain within the country and Long distance migrants to other countries head for major areas of economic activity. These laws are mostly true because just think about it usually when someone you know moves far away they either live in or near a major city in that region, state or country.

Hans Rosling quiz

We took a quiz today. I definitely did not do well on that quiz. I wasn't prepared, it was on Hans Rosling. The quiz was only 10 questions and before we took the quiz we did go over a worksheet with similar questions on it. Thank gosh we did that because if not all of the questions I got would have been wrong. Some of the questions asked about the 5 stages and graphs. For example one question asked what Hans Rosling used as the x-axis and y-axis In his video. Another question asked which country in currently in stage 5 then it would list 5 countries and you would have to circle which one you thought was in that stage. Overall I feel that I did okay on the pop quiz today considering that I had no time to study or even knew it was happening. I hope that I did well and next will have time to study it.

Hans Roslings 200 years in 4 minutes.

We watched a short clip in class of a man name Han Rosling. In the video he was explaining  what has happened to the population over 200 years. Han is a college professor and teaches Global Health. He uses simple tricks in order for us to understand what he is saying more. For example he color coded a few regions. Europe was brown, Asia was red, the Middle East was green, Africa (south of the Sahara) was blue, and The Americas were yellow. With these colors he created a graph. The y-axis on the graph represented lifespan and the x-axis represented income. Based on income and lifespan the colored dots would move up or down. If you are closer to zero then your area is poor and sick but if you have a high lifespan and income then you are rich and healthy. Hans made it easier for us to understand the information he was sharing by doing this.