Something Like a War

One way to destroy the vicious cycle of high birth rates is to empower women through social change, specifically, education. There is a proven connection between the education level of a mother and how many children she will have, statistically. In the United States, birth rates of women with less than 12 years of total education are more than triple their college-educated counterparts. This can logically be applied to Guatemala’s situation to find that if more women are educated, not only in school, but in proper child care and contraception use, their Total Fertility Rate should rapidly decrease to a more sustainable level. This is a one-two punch: not only will women have less children, the ones they do have will likely be raised more effectively and are less likely to die of disease in infancy. Guatemala must engage in a campaign to enroll more girls in school. This will be difficult, due to the culture of the country. Women are expected to stay at home and work the fields. Culture must shift to make progress, as it so often does.

Over population is an extremely serious problem facing the world today. According to an article from Newsweek in Oct. 2009 called “Where do babies come from?”, today’s world population has reached over 6.6 billion people. Also the article mentioned that in 2009 57.4% of all new born babies who were born this year came from Asia alone. This is an issue because over population can lead to hasty consumption of resources. China who has one of the largest population in the world with over 1.3 billion people, has taken a stance against over population.

Overpopulation is an issue that many persons fail to bring attention, but don’t know the underlying effects that it can have on the United States itself. The hardships of overpopulation, affects the economy, the available of resources, and also the success of the future generations to come. Without much thought, someone may have children not knowing that it can affect the livelihood of the future generations who plan to land that job or that position they were aspiring to get. There are those individuals that continue having children, knowing that they are not financially capable of supporting another innocent child. In result this negatively affects the quality of living. If there are more births, it foreshadows that there are more jobs to be created, which causes employment hard to acquire, nevertheless, causing the economy to make a turn for the

I picked a ridiculously silly subject title for this rather serious post (that is one of the best and funniest Mean Girls quote though). On a more serious note now, I believe that contraceptions and empowerment of women will help with slow the continued population growth. Sex is a natural act for people all over the world. Sadly, not all women are not educated about contraceptions, do not have access to contraceptions, not allowed to use contraceptions and some do not support the use of contraceptions (which is their right). The textbook discusses the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) which "focused on individual rights, especially women's rights, including their right to make reproductive decisions" (410). The conference also discusses the important of educating women and educated women typically engage in safe sex and have more access to family-planning methods. Contraceptions and family-planning is still a prominent topic today in the United States; however, women typically in the middle east and third world countries have no real access to these preventions at all. According to a New York Times article on birth control by Nicholas Christof, "women in Afghanistan, Chad, Congo, Somalia, East Timor and Ugana all have six or more child each, the U.N. says. In rural Africa, I've come across women who have never heard of birth control. According to estimates from the Guttmacher Institute, a respected

Today it is hard to imagine war breaking out on American soil. Though war has most definitely not ceased to exist as a constant worry in our minds, most Americans do not have to fear a stray bomb to drop into the yard. The Civil War, though, had exactly that kind of effect on the American population, both of the Union and the Confederacy. Civilians often found themselves at the mercy of either army, in some cases both, and were forced to choose a side even if they wanted no part in the war. As the films Shenandoah (1965) and Ride with the Devil (1999) portray, for many people the war invaded their lives, and forced them to take matters into their own hands against the evil-doing soldiers as irregular troops waging guerilla warfare. Other times, as the film Pharoah’s Army (1995) depicts, helpless civilian families and their homesteads came under occupation by the opposing side. When neighbors begin warring, nobody could escape the crossfire and people found themselves entangled in the war whether they wanted to take part or not. Primary documents from Major Problems in the Civil War and Reconstruction, edited by Michael Perman, tend to support the films’ points on the depiction of the role of the civilians, such as the anonymous letter from the plain folk protesting the burden of the war from February of 1863.

1a. China and Japan are both industrialized countries where population is decreasing; however, they are both decreasing due to different social, economic, or political factors. With 1.33 billion people, China has been one of the world’s most populous countries, however due to the overpopulation crisis; it caused implications and strain upon the country’s energy and resources. This called for the government attention to fix the issue of overpopulation by developing the “one-child policy” which limits couples to having only one child each. The overall outcome of the policy was to reduce population growth, increase economic growth, limit poverty, and to create better health for the citizens of China. Governments

Although this was a problem, it was fairly brief. Since India gained their independence, the country has faced many problems. These problems include ethnic and religious conflict, poverty and overpopulation. These problems have been attempted to be solved by the Indian democracy. For example, The prime minister, Indira Gandhi (1966-77 & 1980-84) embarked on the “green revolution” this increased agricultural yields for India’s eight hundred million people. This solved problems of poverty for a short period of time, this is because India has one of the fastest growing populations in the world. Gandhi realized this and took stringent action by calling for a state of emergency form 1975-77. During this time period she imposed very repressive birth control policies, even involuntary sterilization. Over eight million people were sterilized in an effort to control the overpopulation problem. This was not the end of India’s problems though, in 1980 the religious divide proved to be a deadly one. Gandhi took it upon herself to fix the problem, ordering the army to attack a sacred temple which harbored Sikh extremists. She did this all because this particular religion wanted more autonomy in the Punjab region of India. A short time later she was assassinated by two of her

China and India are the two countries that have the highest population in the world. Both countries have realised that family planning and population control had to happen around the 1950's for India and the 1970's for China. This essay will seek to compare and contrast China and India, focusing on what the major problems facing both are, why have they both had to implement policies regarding population control, and the long-term and short-term effects that these policies have on the two countries.

To Begin, if families cannot have the amount of children that they want, they may feel that they are missing part of life. People say that the population is full. It is not “The world is not experiencing runaway population growth”. This means that they world isn’t overpopulating in anyway. In China a reason that there is population control is because of the food supply. The government does not want to have any problems with the amount of food they need. If the United States would help the part of the world like china with getting enough food, they

Another thing that countries could try in order to decrease the overpopulation is increase the focus they put on their women. Developing countries tend to have higher rates in childbirth the ration to parents to kids are higher. The more children that people have the more children that can go to work , bring in money or cook and clean around the household. Women and girls in these countries have little to no education. They have to stay at home and raise their children or help out with brothers and sisters.Women that live in countries like the United States and Canada have low birth rates and tend to wait until they are older to have children if they have any.These women are bought up to go to school and then further their education.After

American involvement in Vietnam was largely in response to Cold War polices and Strategies. Kennedy took a much more laid back approach to Vietnam than Eisenhower did. He only wanted to support the South and not give them direct military aid by getting involved. Kennedy believed that the nations themselves should bear the burden of fighting the war and America would merely give them supplies and political support. However, the administration’s attempt to help the South largely failed because neither the South Vietnamese nor the Americans knew how to deal with guerrilla warfare. Another issue was that Diem’s support quickly declining to the point where it was just about his own family. He never trusted any popular government official in

Population is the major determinant of national affairs. It leverages power and determines public policy and revenue allocation as areas with higher population are entitled to a greater share of the national resources in terms of state creation, representation and other national consideration. Moreover, politics especially democracy thrives on numbers. So, population figures also shapes election result, since a more population place will justifiably cast more voters. It, therefore, a power toll. Both for economic and political activities (Ezukanma 2003).

One reasonable solution to control the human population mass is the one-child policy that was first implemented in 1979 due to the rapid concerns about the social and economic issues China was facing. Penny Kane, a professor of the Office for Gender and Health, reports, Since the beginning of [China’s One-Child Policy] it has prevented over 400 million births and helped ease the overpopulation issue (Kane 2). Since this new policy suggested that every couple or family should only possess one child, it is evident that the efficiency of this new law clearly regulated and managed to lower the number of children each woman had. As the number of expected births decreases then the number of food sources, government resources, and educational

In India, women are being manipulated to stop having children after their second birth. Officials claim that by regulating population and the pregnancies of women after their second child they will be able to empower women by offering them contraceptive choices and child care facilities. In reality, if women do not agree to be sterilized after their second birth they will be

There are many factors contributing in the population explosion in India, and the increased population has led to many others consequences. Anyhow, steps are taken by the government of India to control this predicament.