Demographics of France

Harvard professor Edward O. Wilson, in his nonfiction book, The Diversity Of Life, narrates Wilson’s life while elaborating on the topic of biodiversity. Scientists, Flockhart et al., in their scientific journal article, “Unravelling the annual cycle in a migratory animal: breeding-season habitat loss drives population declines of monarch butterflies,” hypothesize the causes of butterfly population loss. While Wilson’s purpose is to discuss science in a narrative manner to provide reading for…

continent. Several factors set Turkey apart from the rest of the world’s demographics, not just the staggering population of one religion – Turkey identifies as 99.8% Muslim – and a city linking two continents together. Turkey is most demographically known for its above average youth dependency ratio, its total fertility rate, and the high yet increasing percentage of the population living in urban areas. When looking at the demographic table for Turkey’s indicators in comparison to the world,…

The University of Illinois is one of the most culturally diverse schools in the nation. This diversity leads to many celebrations of the different nationalities represented in our school. I went to one such celebrations on April 1st, 2016 where the Indonesian Students Club hosted an Indonesian cultural night. This event, held once a year, took place at UIUC’s Lincoln Hall and was attended by many students, town people and even the Acting Consulate General of Indonesia in Chicago. Many of the…

Immigration Australia’s population growth rate is declining at a rate of 1.6% (OECD, 2016). Over the span of 50 years from 1962 to 2012 the birth rate of Australians has decreased from 3.43 babies per woman to 1.89 babies per woman (Gapminder). This societal shift has had a huge impact on population, and therefore has also severely impacted Australia’s economic growth rate. A solution for economies experiencing a loss in population is an increase in immigration. “The purpose of migration is to…

What do people see? This answer to this question is very difficult to answer because what people see may not be what people actually want to see or what they were supposed to see. The visual world around individuals is tinkered with by the individuals who sit at the top of the social pyramid. The marketing strategies that are implemented by the individuals at the top are responsible for are changing the visual world around the common man. Ethan Watters in his essay “The Mega-Marketing of…

In experiment 1, the growth of Paramecium aurelia fits the curve of the logistic population growth because they have limited resources as the intraspecific competition, influencing negatively on fitness for both individuals. From Day 0 to Day 12, with unlimited resource, Paramecium aurelia is at the acceleration phase, more growing cells than dead cells. Day 12 where the inflection point is indicates the growth rate changes to constant. After Day 12 and until Day 14, the growth enters the…

This observation took place at the Central Citrus Little League Ball filed. The subjects were a combination of four and five-year-old boys. The young beginner athletes were actively participating in warm-up sessions, just prior to game play, as well as game performance on the field. The players were only able to remain focused for short periods of time. However, they do have the ability to follow simple instructions like running to the line, picking up a ball, and running back. Waiting…

Overpopulation occurs if the number of people in a group exceeds the carrying capacity of the region occupied by that group. According to Grondona, one of the fundamental questions occurring when thinking about high fertility rates is. “Is an even-increasing population desirable? Is there a limit imposed by environmental carrying capacity?” (Grondona).Nowadays overpopulation is considered to be one of the hotly discussed environmental issues, due to its possible negative outcomes. Many scientist…

The basic demographic equation is an effective way to determine future population rates, without the influence of political policy. The equation says that “growth rate = birth - deaths + net migration.” Europeans are dying out; their population is shrinking. One factor, fertility, has increasingly dropped. The European crude birth rate, or the number of births per 1,000 people, was 10.1 in the year 2014. Almost half a century before, in 1970, the birth rate was 16.4. Europeans seem to be…

of the nineteenth century? Ancien Regime France was the financial, demographic and cultural hub of Europe. A large unified landmass, a vast rural population and effective centralized governance, positioned the Hexagon to thrive in pre-industrial world. A combination of economic, social and political changes turned many of these strengths into weaknesses. The Industrial Revolution, meant…