Demography

Tarrytown is a quaint little village in the heart of New York that was established in 1645. Tarrytown is made up of many demographics. There are 11,299 people living in Tarrytown. According to the website areavibes “the median age in Tarrytown is 12% higher than New York. Also, the male/female ratio is 8 to 1. 67% people in Tarrytown speak English while 16% speak Spanish.” (p.1). Tarrytown is made up of many different races. Caucasians, African Americans, and Asians make up majority of the…

Thomas Robert’s Malthus hypothesize that in the future population will exceed food production, which will cause an extreme scarcity of food and disease. Eventually leading to something known as the Malthusian catastrophe. This would happen because the population greatly increased while food supply decreased. Without control of the population, humanity would be reduced to disaster, such as poverty or state of war according to Malthusian theory. Malthus had a resolution to such problem. He…

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…

Haiti is a country on the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea. Haiti makes up roughly the western 1/3 of the island.Their roots are very different. Haiti is primarily populated by African-Caribbean people with a history of French colonialism. Haiti is about the size of the U.S. state of Maryland, just over 10,000 square miles. The current population is roughly 7,500,000 in Haiti. Another million Haitians are living abroad in the U.S., Canada and France. It is difficult to know how many of…

When discussing population and demographics, two opposite theories came to fruition, namely, the Cornucopian theory and the Malthusian theory. When looking at population issues, it makes far more sense for one to be pro-Malthusian than Cornucopian. This is due to the carrying capacity, positive and preventative checks, and overpopulation not leading to new innovations. The Cornucopian theory is optimistic to the point of naivety, and as such the Malthusian theory should be seriously considered…

In 2009, there is an estimated population of 145 million rural-urban migrants in China, which represents 11% of the total population in China (Hu, 2012). Nearly 80% of the total migrants in China are located in the provinces of Guangdong, Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangsu and the cities of Beijing and Shanghai (Tuñón, 2006). Migration into urban areas has created overcrowding, increased competition for resources and congestion in transportations. The rural areas deserted by the migrants faced new…

Green Eyed The time was 10.19pm. The large traffic light rested at red for what seemed like a century. I quickly turned my head in both directions, looking left and right. I couldn’t see a single motor vehicle at all. I sighed. I was always late. Looking into the shiny rear view mirror a saw a mess of myself. My brown hair was unruly and my lipstick was smudged. After what seemed like ages, the light finally turned green. My driverless car shot forward into the night. I suddenly saw a silver bug…

1 Introduction Population ageing and urbanization are two global trends that together comprise major forces shaping the 21st century and at the same time as cities are growing, their share of residents aged 60 years and more is increasing. Older people are a resource for their families, communities and economies in supportive and enabling living environments. (WHO, 2015) The world is rapidly ageing: the number of people aged 60 and over as a proportion of the global population will double from…

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…

SSC109e TMA01 Nurul Aeiyuni Roslan K1610383 1a) Anthropology is the study of humankind. It is concerned with the relationships between human’s biological traits and the traits they pick up socially by living in a community. In Population In Brief 2015, (National Population and Talent Division, Prime Minister's Office, Singapore Department of Statistics, Ministry of Home Affairs, & Immigration and Checkpoints Authority, 2015) it stated that Singapore’s population as of June 2015 was at 5.54…