A1 for English & Lit & Chinese & History. One B4, two C6/7s, one D and one F.


oh yes, I'm very intelligent.


OH BTW I PASSED GEOG. BOTH. Yeah i passed the test by half a mark. 'twas re-marked, you see.


And I passed the geog individual reflection when almost everyone else failed. :3
Is that a cause for celebration or would that be considered sadistic and mean?
Mm, it aint no high pass anyway. 12/20
Teacher said: Gd tt you have statistics. :) But compare more to pre-war please.


I like teachers with ang-moh surnames. =D
likelikelike


Mrs. Sherwood! She's chinese yeah but prob'ly married some caucasian.


And i like it cos I can casually refer to her as sherwood. Mrs sounds stuffy. =


Like, well, we still refer to some teachers as 'wong' or 'sushilla', meh, but it doesna sound as spiffy as a non-Asian surname. :3


GO SHERWOOD GO!


oh man oh man, I got 65.2% for my overall PPR. That's my lowest ever. Next term i shall ace everything, EVEN ART. Well i mean c'mon Mr. Foo fails everyone for art except for Pei Hwa and Weng Jun. That's the bad thing bout having an art connoisseur for an art teacher.


But I like art lessons themselves, though. It's nice to sit there in the airy place, and then mr. foo talks to us for roughly half an hour, and we have about 30-40 to commence with the actual DOING of the lesson itself. It's so slack and open, it's brilliant.


I think i shall try out a new method of studying. Name blog-studies.


Features of a DTM:


Shown as a line graph.

Does not show specific male/female populations.

Shows total population as a separate line.

Shows details of country by stage.

Shows r'ship between birth and death rates and how they directly affect the total population.

Only needs one diagram to show all stages.


Whee, correcto!


Now, characteristics of a -


oh fcuk. I just realized, hahahahhhha. Nevermind.


Stage1
Less access to contraceptives. (damn my ulcer hurts)
High IMR, so families have more children in hope that more will live.
Need more children to help em farm.
Religions encourage more children.
High DR b'cos of poor hygiene, poor diets, famine, disease, little access to medical service and generally low life expentancy.


Stage2
Improvements in quality/quantity of food, sanitation, medical services, water supply. Decrease in IMR.


Stage3
More access to contraceptives.
Industrialization and modernization require less labourers.
Low IMR, people thus less inclined to have large families.
Increased desire for material possessions overrides desire for large families due to increasing wealth.
Women are more educated, more career oriented, more likely to marry late and have less children.


Stage4
Low BR and low DR with the occasional fluctuating population due to baby booms/disease. Results in steady population.


There!


What's a dtm? A...


A model showing how dynamic population is, with population change shown in two ways: change over space and change over time. Former: number of countries at same time can exhibit characteristics of different stages. Latter, country theoretically progresses through stages.


1950s - encouraged to have more children
1959-61 - Great Leap Forward. Disastrous economic project by communist government to speed up industrialization and rural modernization. Farmers shifted from agricultural communes to work in village industries, leaving few to bring in the harvest. Famine famine famine, woot!


BR declined until 1964.


From 1964-74, cultural revolution, BR rose. Ba-by boom whee! Needed farm help, wanted to 'replace those who died', etc.


Then wanxishao. Later, longer, fewer.


1979- one child policy implemented. BR declined.
Was relaxed in 1985 but a BR rise was inevitable anyway since women born from 64-74 were then of child bearing age.


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Should do this more often. :3


OMG IT'S THE END OF TERM ONE ALREADY.