Instructions
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First Task: One Dozen Nations. You pick at least twelve nations and tell us how you came to do that particular selection. You do this task in five steps (A-E), starting Sept 9.
Your experience in contrast to their regions & the ten largest nations in the world.
A. Using the US Census data think about you, your family and where you were raised.
1. population
2. family size
3. infant mortality rate & gender data
4. your city's population & area / region
5. density
6. the nation's you selected are?
B. Using the same six criteria above apply these to all the nation's that you selected and make a table, based on eveidence taken from the World Population data sheet. Only evidence taken from and verified on the World Population Data Sheet is acceptable.
C. How do the ten largest nation's data differ from your twelve nation's data?
D. Review what you have written, revise that for clarity and post that to Blackboard™.
Create a personal page for your self on the Population class wiki to which you can post your draft writing throughout the term.
If your posting to Blackboard™ passes the lowest acceptable data score, you post for a second time, the revised & refined description to our class wiki's Contry-comparison page.
(Post to Wiki): this means you will put a list of your nations with a rationale for how you selected them on the class wiki this week. Your earn credit for that.
What is a nation's region?
- 1) from the World Population Data sheet.
- 2) from the wiki's natural areas and regionalism page.
Compare these numbers, called metrics, to the terms, numbers and formulas used in chapter one of the e-book on line.
Sept. 11 Metrics (measures) One: Population formula. Siry, 1 on Be Fruitful and Multiply e-book on line.
E. The final selection of nations in a list form with the data suggested above is due on September 11, The initial submission is revised and resubmitted on 9/30, again on 10/30, and again on 11/20.
So five percent is determined by completing this task. This first task allows you to earn further percentages of your grade as you revise your list to include more comprehensive data. Starting with the list and a rationale for why you selected these dozen nations can eventually earn you more than 10 to 25 percent of your grade in the class.
You also earn a greater percentage of your grade when you analyze this data with respect to the readings, on 10/30, and again on 11/20.
Without completing this initial task, for which you are rewarded, there is no data for you to effectively analyze in the coming weeks.
Steps: (A - B - C - D -E)
next week
Next week
Start writing about the facts and opinions in Swift to get ready for Malthus' essay.
Sept. 16 Metrics Two: Impact formula (SS-1) & Rev. Thomas Malthus: "Essay on Population"
Sept. 18 A Great Debate: Swift vs. Malthus & their critics. Swift MP, 1722, & Malthus, Essay 1798
Last Week.
Siry Introduction: C.S. Lewis quote, power.
Swift's "A Modest Proposal", What did he argue?
Were his examples global or regional in his actual suggestions?
The perspectives: Did his viewpoint alter your views and say how your views were reinforced, altered, or unaffected by what he wrote?
your views were What How because? reinforced, altered, unaffected,
Bloom's Taxonomy of learning criteria by which to judge submissions of this task.
E-book Population & Environment table of contents.
