Day 49- The Midterm Exam Essay

The mid-term exam essay for human geography was given today and was not as hard as I thought it was going to be. For the test I wrote seven paragraphs five on each stage of the demographic transition with an intro and conclusion paragraph. The essay only took about thirty-five to forty-five minutes and was a lot easier with the card. I wrote on my card things I thought I might forget while taking the essay, so I wrote it on there, and I think I got down all the things I wanted to put on it. For the exam I wrote that I think that the future for demographic transitions in unknown and can go either way and both ways could be good or bad because no countries are past stage five. For the first stage I wrote what I had on my note card of the countries moving from 1st through second either in the industrial revolution or during the medical aid in the 1960-70

Day 48- Midterm Essay

Austin Schmidt

Honors Human Geography

12/10/19

Mr. Schick

Option C Essay

Demographic transitions are not the most reliable way of describing a counties birth rate, death rate and total population in the future. There are five sections of the demographic transition but there could be more that we just don’t know about yet because they haven’t been lived through yet. With every year that goes by more countries are entering higher and higher sections of the transition. Because of these facts no one can truly know haw many transitions there are.

There are four different parts of the demographic transition everyone can agree upon but the fifth section I one that is still debated. The fifth part of the transition is predicted to take countries into decrease in population because of not many children being born and a very low death rate. There are only a few countries to be in the fifth stage but in the next few decades more could transfer into this stage. These facts about how we are going into a fifth transition that we don’t know what will happen.

Demographic transitions in the future could be different from the ones that we know of right now but could just restart like a loop. The future for demographic transitions is even less agreed upon because some people believe that it could go back to stage one or could create a new section that has a lower birth rate and a higher birth rate.

The final reason why they are not reliable for predicting the future is because what demographic transitions were like in the past. In the past before the industrial revolution there was no thought about different sections because most places were the same with a high birth rate and high death rate with a low population. Once the revolution started then countries started changing which could happen but almost a reverse where something kicks up the birth and death rates to keep countries steady.

To summarize my points the past and the future show how the demographic transition is only good for showing countries in lower parts of the transition and not good for the future.

Day 47- Geographic transitions

Today in class we took the test on geographic transitions. The test was very difficult compared to previous tests. I completely forgot what are two other stage 5 countries. Looking at the first part of the test I thought it would be easy but as soon as I turned to the second page I completely forgot what I was doing. The find the error problem stumped me at first but I think I got it. Since we only took the test today I am going to talk about something. I recently learned about a tool called 3utools and I have been using it all day. It is a tool that allows for decryption of screen time passwords, jailbreaking whenever and reading system logs. It also can install 3rd party IPA files which is amazing and maybe the most important. It can also turn your computer into a screen mirroring for iPhones.

Day 46-Revewing the Work from Yesterday

Yesterday we did the blog on the three video. My favorite video out of all three was the second one because it was easy to understand and had a lot of different facts. Today when we went over the videos and it was very good because it was easier to understand what it was about. The part on the specifics of the graph were a lot easier to understand why stage 5 isn't agreed upon. The reason it is not agreed upon because only a few countries are in that stage and they haven't been in it for that long so there are two main theory's. The first theory is the one that the population is going to go down until the population can be controlled again. The part about a countries going back in the steps is strange to me because when I think of steps don't think of going down

Day 45- Learning Videos

Video 1

The demographic transition model shows how modernization affects the countries population

You have to account for immigration and emigration when making the model

Countries don't need to go linear through the model

Video 2

There is something that is called a cultural lag where the mortality rate goes down without the population being able to do anything about it

In stage three girls go to school and have jobs which decreases the birth rate which is the starting point of a stage three country

Demographic trap is where the population goes over the carrying capacity of a nation which puts them back to stage 1

Video 3

Most countries in the 4th stage are having a smaller population

Immigration is what is keeping most European countries from having a decreasing population

High birth rates in third world countries is due to kids being useful on a farm 

Day 44- First Day of Demographic Transitions

Today in class we started talking about demographic transitions. Demographic transitions are a type of graph that is used to model birth and death rates and finding what stage of a country they are. There are four stages that everyone agrees with and a fifth that is disputed. stage one is a country with high birth and death rates but a very low rate of natural increase. A stage 2 country is one with a drastically lower death rate and a higher or steady rate of natural increase. The third stage is a stage where the birth rate goes down very fast along with the death rate which doesn't fall as fast. a stage 4 country is one with a very low rate of natural increase and the birth and deaths get close together until they level out. The last stage is one that is disputed and it is a country with a negative rate of natural increase which would mean that the death rate would need to be higher than the birth rate.