Thursday, December 1, 2011

Historical changes in population (demographic shifts)

In the old time back then, the world population is growing normally as it should be. Then the population began to become unstable or be naturally growing as it supposes to be. The reasons might be that some people might die from disease, and some might die from accidents. Also that includes “terrorism” and “thieves” also.
The oldest terrorism would be assassinations which happen in around before 13th century. The terrorism in this era doesn’t count as a huge murders and troubles for many people. However, in the 1793, the original of the modern world terrorism began here. Whoever study in Middle School or High School should all know the “French Revolution”. In French Revolution, there is a guy name “Maximilien Robespierre” who executed many people in that era. He used a machine call “the guillotine” executed many people who were against him. For more information about Maximillien Robespierre, you can go to the link I recommended right HERE.
The terrorisms have changed the population in the past and still existing until the early time in 21th century. Obviously that the terrorisms killed many people and many times people lost their money and their properties. Imagine that they have almost nothing after the disaster, what would happen to them? Will they migrate to another country? Find a better job? What will they do for their relatives that die from the terrorism attack? The 9/11 event can clearly show us on how the population, economy and the resources has dropped from one suicide-attack from Osama bin Laden.
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Friday, November 18, 2011

Future Migration





Future Migration
Migrations mean the movement from place to place. It basically means moving from one place to another. The word migration mostly use in move to another country, or another region, or even inside your country. It began since the world separated into many regions call “continents” and “countries” up until now. There are many people who try to predict what or how the migration in the future will occur based on the existing data that we have.
If people have no jobs? :
From what I’ve got from my research on the economy, America is the largest and the most technologically powerful economy in the world. Although I didn’t research, I believe that most of us will already know. The country itself creates even new and better products. From the others’ point of views on America, it’d be the best country to go if you can’t find a job, money, trusted friendship, and many other good things. Many people really believe that it’s the best country in the world. Even now, many foreigners migrate to America to find jobs. I believe that even in the future, more and more people will migrate to America. They will be fine, and able to find jobs there.
If Thailand’s flood situation hasn’t gone done yet? :
Now I’d like to talk about Thailand’s future migration. In the year 2011 or currently right now, Thailand faced a flood crisis problem which caused a lot of problems to many citizens and dramatically to economy and government. Government gave citizens the wrong information on the time that flood will be coming to 4-5 times or even more than that. That makes the reason for why many citizen started to not believe in their information, but the information that they’ve gained by seeing the real situation themselves. Many schools are closed due to currently flood situation. Indeed no one can travel easily around in this kind of situation. Even my school has to close. Many foreigners have migrated, or in the other words go back to their home countries. The situation is not easy to change back and too hard to pay for the destruction of citizen’s property itself. Many Thais went to another countries and wait for the situation to cool down. I’m also live in Thailand, and I hope it will really get better soon.
What about other countries? Like Ireland with problems and China with overpopulation?
Many migrations and trades will keep happening in the future. Ireland currently has many people migrated to another countries due to the problems that they couldn’t find a jobs nor good food in their countries. China is currently trying to fix the overpopulation problems. Many people already migrated due to the type of government or communism because they want to be richer, or gain more money, or find themselves better jobs. However, in the end I’m still believe that in the nearby future, or even the far away future, America will have more and more population because of the reasons I did mention in the 1st paragraph.

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Thursday, November 17, 2011

20th century mass migration from global south to global north

20th century mass migration from global south to global north
In the long time ago, there was a huge migration from Southern America to Northern or Eastern America called “The Great Migration”. The Great Migration was the movement or migration of more than 6 million people to North America. Most importantly all 6 million people are not an ordinary people, their skins are black. Yes, they are the 6 million blacks who moved to the global north.



The whole migrations causes from just one person, Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863. He proclaimed an executive order which is called “Emancipation Proclamation” in 1863. It proclaimed a freedom of almost 3.1 million out of the total slaves number four million, and immediately free fifty-thousand slaves after the proclamation. When it was signed in the 1863, less than eight percent of the blacks were living in the north part of America or USA. Then thirty-seven years later in 190s0, the situations haven’t changed much yet. There are still more than ninety percent living in the Southern part of United States of America.
Between 1910s to 1930s, the African American population grew by 40% in the Northern America. More importantly those changes of population were highly happened in the major cities such as Chicago, Detroit, New York city and Cleveland. Those cities had some biggest increases in the early 20th century. Now those blacks who were free from slaves system, they gained rights to have a jobs, gain their lands, and able to migrate to Northern America. They were once live in the urban before, and now they were able to move into the cities, in the Northern America. There is also an estimation that more than 400,000 women migrated to the Northern America since 1916 to 1918. They took this chance to take an advantage of a labor shortage in the wage of World War I. However, this event leads to major changes of population in Northern and Southern America’s population.
In 1910s, the African-American population in Detroit was only 6,000. Then the Great migration and other migration from Eastern and Southern Europe began. These events changed the city’s population dramatically, and it became Northern America’s fourth largest in population. After that around 20 years, African-American population increased to 120,000.
In 1900, Chicago has a total population of 1,698,575. Then twenty years passed, in 1920 Chicago’s total population had increased by 1 million. From the free of slaves in 1863, it can change so much in the populations. After the second wave of the Great Migration in 1940 to 1950, the African-American numbers has increased again from 278,000 to 813,000. That make a huge different from before, and those population live in the cities.
The Great Migration also helps out in educated blacks people. When they are educated, they will be able to find jobs and money, or even have a family. Between 1910 and 1920, numbers of employed blacks are doubled from 500,000 to 901,000. A free of slave gave freedom to every single black.

Resources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Migration_(African_American)#New_Great_Migration
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emancipation_Proclamation

Migration of Chinese people to Thailand

Migration of Chinese people to Thailand


In Thailand, there are many people that actually are not Thai people who are still currently live in Thailand. Americans, Japanese, foreigners, but most of them are from China. We can see that some gold shop or even in the street or in the main shopping mall, there are Chinese people walking around. Many people who are not known of the Thai history may not know why so many Chinese came live in Thailand. Back then in the centuries, China has been trading with Thailand. Most of them are from Fujian and Guangdong. Both of them are in the south east of China which is near the ocean and makes trade and traveling a lot better. In the ancient time, not only that Thailand has been trading with China but also with Vietnam, Portugal, Spain, the Philippines, and Japanese as well.
China has been trading by first arrived at Ayutthaya in the thirteenth century. Most of them migrated to Thailand by using boats or ships. Some of them even got on the ship without paying the money. They came into Thailand with nothing, only their hardworking body. Some people might wonder why did they come even they have nothing? They also have reasons why they want to live in Thailand instead of China.
From what I’ve got from my research, in that time there was a corrupted of Qing Dynasty and the overpopulation problem or massive population increase in China. Taxes were highly increased, and jobs in China were harder to find. So most men were forced to leave their hometown to find works in order to feed themselves or feed their families. In 1825, Chinese populations in Thailand were 230,000. Then by 1932, Chinese population in Thailand dramatically increased like double to 792,000. That counts as 12.2%, the percentage of Chinese per total Thai population.
However, their population got decreased in the mean time. Between 1930s to 1950s, they were suffering discrimination under the military dictatorship Plaek Pibulsonggram. However, there are still Chinese people left today. In 1970s, they estimated that more than 90% of Chinese gain birth in Thailand also. They think that less than 200,000 people are the remains of Chinese people.
Many Chinese has come to Thailand to find jobs. Some of them succeed, and some of them not. Back then in the ancient time where it was the first time they came to Thailand. They have nothing, no money, or food, or even good clothes. It’s clearly shows us that they had been suffering from paying taxes or money problems in their countries, as I did mentioned in the paragraphs above.
They all start from those positions, the lowest one. As we know, Chinese lived in the hard and suffered environment which them or their habits to be a hardworking people. They started from physically working such as moving the crops that Thai people traded with China or any other countries, help with many things physically in the factory, but the main thing they do at first were using forces to carry something. They tried hard to gain more money, and finally become the owner of the job itself in the meantime. So many and more Chinese will come to Thailand in that time because many of them came here and find successful jobs.
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Sunday, November 6, 2011

Ireland: Population Pyramid and Demographic transition discussion

Ireland: Population Pyramid and Demographic transition discussion

This is a population pyramid of Ireland in the year of 2011. It shows the numbers of men and women in the Irish population. We can see that the graph is not perfectly a triangle. If the graph is a perfect triangle, it means the country’s population is stable. However, the population started to drop from the ages around 30-34 to ages of 0-4.  In 2011, Ireland has more old women more than old men. It seems to have the lowest population on the ages around 15-19, and the highest population around 30-34. From the information in the population pyramid above us, we can see that men’s populations are more than women’s in the ages of 0-70.  There seems to be more young men than young women. Apparently, more men are being born than women during these days. Also from what I’ve researched in the HPSC website, women seems to have more diseases th. The Diseases appear to be on Old men and women too, but it seems like most diseases seem to be happen on the ages around 10-14, and that is a reason for why the population started to fall down from those ages. In an old time, Ireland once had a problem on potato crops failure. Irish people eat potato as their foods for breakfast, lunch and dinner. So when potato crops failure event comes, more and more people starved or died from starving.


This is the information of birth rates, and death rates in different years that I got it from the Census website. I will use this to represent the demographic transition model. What’s Demographic transition model? It is a transition from high birthrate and death rate to low birth rate and death rate. As we can see in the graph above, in the next 4-14 years the birth rates will start to drops. Meanwhile the death rates start to increase a bit by bit. This obviously shows us that in the future, Ireland’s population might drop from a little to a huge numbers of them. The birth rate and death rate are not the only case why Ireland’s population might drop.
From What I’ve researched about, in 2009 more than 23,000 Irish people immigrate to Australia.  Ireland’s economy isn’t so good. One of the immigrants said that his father still has no jobs, but he will be alright”. Many people want to immigrate to another country to find jobs, money, and much other stuff.
Approximately around 10,000 people die each year from cardiovascular disease, and other circulatory disease. The largest numbers of death mainly base on heart attack. More importantly, it seems that 22% of the deaths are in young people (under age 65)
In many years ago, Ireland had a problem on Potato crops failure which leads an event to less population and immigrations. Many people start to immigrant because there is no food, nor works. Also in the graph about Demographic Transition, the death rate is higher than the birth rate. Both of them change bit by bit, and that’d also leads to a factor that less population of Ireland will surely happens.

This is my population pyramid that I made by myself. 

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Thursday, October 6, 2011

7 billion people:top 10 most important

10. Medicines, sanitation, and more health care allow people's life to be last longer than its normally be.
9. More resources are needed for more population. Farmers has to work hard for more food, and maybe for more money.
8. In the year 2045 or earlier than that, Earth will hold more than 9 billion people on the planet, and it won't be able to feed all of them.
7. Forcing of people (women) to reduce or decrease their birth rate in order to be able to survive through the problem.
6. Birthrate will began to drop dramatically if all women are educated about over population and proper way of marriage. They will know how to control the birth control.
5. People should improve their lifestyles and mostly on rural area. They need to have more resources in order to feed everyone in the village. For an example, China use every single fertile area to plant more resources to fix the overpopulation problem.
4. The overpopulation problem cause a migration which leads to a problem that the area people moved, has less resources and some might even live in a slum.
3. Population's death rate began to decrease more and more from better medication and education, also the birth rate start to drop a bit but not as much as the death rate. All of this will cause the overpopulation problem.
2. Most of the overpopulation problem occurs in the countries that are poor such as India.
1. The population of the world increases too much for the world to handle them. More population means more resources needed to be consume, but we might not have enough resources.

Sunday, September 18, 2011

Review for Modern World History's Friday test


Review in Modern World History test on September 23, 2011
          In the first part of the test, there will be matching and identify and explain the meaning of the key terms that are provided in the sheet by Mr. Timothy. 
 - Human and environment
 - Human and Other humans 
 - Human and Ideas
 - Big History
 - Common phenomenon
 - Comparison
 - Diffusion
 - Syncretism
 - Accident 
 - Contingency
 - Conjunction 
Those are the vocabs or key terms that are most likely to appear on the test. Human and environment, human and Other human, and human and ideas are the ideas between humans and the environment, other human, and ideas. For the human and environment, it might be a Thailand and flooding problem in this time period. From the example, we can tell that humans and environment are how humans' actions effect the environment. Humans cut many trees in order to build more buildings and have more spaces for creation or create a business. The outcome of the actions are flooding because from the less amount of tress we have, there's not much thing left to drain rains, and water in order to prevent flood. 
Humans and other humans is how they live, how their actions effect each other, and how they related to each other. Humans and Ideas is how humans think of the ideas, or think of the history "what did happen?".
There are 5 major terms for history class we are learning. There are Big history, diffusion, syncretism, common phenomenon, and comparison. Big history are a lists of events explained in the time line. For an example, French Revolution or American revolution. Diffusion is the spread of ideas, cultures, or believes. We can say that spreading the idea of American is the best nation in the world is also count as Diffusion. Diffusion mostly on believe or ideas about technology or messages. Common Phenomenon are the common things between two cultures. It can be natural disaster, cultures, ideas, and many other things. Common phenomenon cannot be something to ordinary or common all around the world. It can be tsunamis happen in America and Thailand nearly the same time. This event can be Common phenomenon. Syncretism, it is a combination of ideas and cultures between two or more cultures. For an exmaple, the combination of guitar, drums, piano, and flute may become a rock music band. Basically, it is a combination of cultures to create a new culture. The last terms of history is Comparison. Comparison means compare a different and common things between two or more cultures. We can say that Thailand and Japan have the different language, dress, food, but same kind of uniform. Accident and Contingency are not the same thing. Although the meanings sound similar but accident is more likely a event that occur by a coincidence, but it cannot be a event that might happen. Conjunction means combination of something.

The Main Ideas: (10-15 mutliple choice questions)
·     Main Ideas include the 5 World History Methods which include Big History, Diffusion, Comparison, Common phenomenon, and syncretism as I've said in the paragraph above. Some questions might ask you to apply principles of accident, contingency, and conjuncture to some history that Mr. Timothy will be provided in the multiple questions that we will take on September 23, 2011. We also need to able to identify and explain about SOAPSTone process & PERSIAN categorization chart. We might need to apply this two or write the questions for each of the topic for an example S in SOAPSTone stands for "subject". So once we understand the SOAPSTone process, write 2-3 questions that include all of the Subject's question. We need to understand the concept of SOAPSTone and PERSIAN chart. Some questions may ask about proper search tools for an example "~" and "-" means find the synonym, or "-" means find the words that means the same meaning as the word but not the word itself. The Humans and environment, ideas, and other people will also be include in this part. 
        - Name and give examples of the seven themes of World History

Document analysis: (from a document , write down specific questions needed to create a point of view statement).

Writing Prompt:
In this part, Mr. Timothy will give you 4 topics out of the 6 topics below here 
which include ...  
·         What makes World History different from other types of history?
·         Explain the principles of Big History and give examples.
·         Relate the principle of diffusion to your own life by giving specific examples from your experience.
·         Reflection: In what ways should a social studies class in 2011 be significantly different than a social studies class in 1985? How should it be different? 
·     
Here is some advice for prompt writing: 
Prompt writing
1.) Addressing a command : give examples and reasons
2.)First sentence must cover the answer and resolution
Answer 1 }++
Answer 2 }++++ one sentence that cover
Answer 3 }++
3.) Connects, relationship, importance 

      Objective:  
        - Choose one event, person, and idea from the board and write a paragraph about the ways they can be connected.
·       - Identify a common phenomena that exists and provide details for why it exists and it’s significance.

Citation Links:            
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1faLuEhmKEX2NhIX6FbvPeaiOjvrSSD3zFaKGFnGyuD4/edit?hl=en_US
http://www.class.csupomona.edu/his/Doing%20World%20Hst.html
http://www.cbalincroftnj.org/files/ccarroll/AP%20WORLD%20PERSIAN%20CHART.pdf 

Tips:
When you're in the test and have a problem, smile, make your mind clear and try to calm. You will be able to answer the question if you're not in a hurry and calm :)))