The Reasoning Behind The Population Essay

I will start with fifteen officers from the Tupelo Police Department. The list consists of five street officers, three administrators, and seven training officers. These officers range from a mixture of statuses to get an idea as to who hires, what training is implemented, and the affects of that training on the streets. The area selected is a rural area in Lee County. I will get an official informed consent signed by the mayor of Tupelo to conduct the study and I will get an official copy signed by the chief of Tupelo Police Department, and the officers involved.

Thomas Malthus was an English philosopher who lived from 1766 to 1834, An Essay on the Principle of Population, is one of the most influential pieces of writing in history. Not only did it help to establish the modern field of economics, it aided Charles Darwin on his regarding evolutionary science. Malthus’ core argument that runs a majority of the book is dedicated to the ‘Iron Law of Population’. This essay will seek to examine the premises of Thomas Malthus’ 1798 an Essay on the Principle of Population and conclude on its argument as well as provide a justification of the invalidity of the argument. In addition, it will identify its multiple influences on historical contexts throughout time.

The United States is the third most populated country in the world. This country holds about 4.5% of the world’s population. The U.S. population is currently estimated to have 308.7 million persons. This number is more than double of the population from 1950. Besides the fact of the population has doubled its size, the population has also become qualitatively different from the one from 1950. As noted by the Population Reference Bureau, “The U.S. is getting bigger, older, and more diverse.” The growth of the population is the result of the trends over time in the relationship of increased births, decreased deaths, and increased net immigration.

K.H. Connell, in his paper “Land and Population in Ireland, 1780-1845”, describes and explains the significant population growth in Ireland prior to the famine of 1845 and how the uses of the Irish land changed with the population growth.

I wish to replicate the methodology utilized by Ariel, Farrer, and Sutherland (2015). These researchers conducted a randomized-controlled study with the Rialto Police Department in California. The purpose of their study was to observe the effects of body-worn cameras on the frequency of use-of-force incidents as well as citizens’ complaints. In my research study, I will test only the effect of body-worn cameras on use-of-force incidents. I propose to study the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department in Indianapolis, Indiana. This research setting is a lot larger than Ariel, Farrer, and Sutherland’s study. The Rialto Police Department covered an area of approximately 28.5 square miles, and they served a population of approximately 100,000 residents. IMPD covers an area of approximately 364.3 square miles, and serves approximately 824,000 residents. Rialto has 115 sworn officers whereas IMPD has 1,080 sworn officers (IMPD n.d.).

Arnold, P. (2009, December 4). Endangered Species Tasmanian Devil: Low Genetic Diversity as a Factor of the Tasmanian Devil as an Endangered Species. Retrieved March 8, 2015, from http://www.brighthub.com/science/genetics/articles/13897.aspx

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

In the expository styled documentary entitled Don’t Panic: The Truth about Population by Hans Rolling, he presents and supports the argument that despite the world’s growing population and the many challenges associated with this, there is still the possibility of creating a bright future for the generations to come. The universal truth presented throughout the documentary is that education helps people to evolve. Education is necessary for the development of future generations. This is observed through the quote “In my mother’s day, they use to get married young they had no chance to study. But now we can have big dreams of becoming a doctor or an engineer”

increases by 20 people from the 2014 Projected Total Population, what does this show you

In his essay “The Tragedy of the Commons” author Garrett Hardin presents several points for his argument against the population problem. The population is growing at an exponential rate leading to a decline in the quality of life for mankind. Due to the fact that the population is growing so must the energy available, if mankind is to survive. Hardin’s argument is that if the population continues to grow with the laws that are currently set in place, the quality of life will eventually decline. Hardin states “Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all” (Hardin 23).

After reading Paul Ehrlich’s Population Bomb, I can understand that people were scared about the news that there will be famine and people are going to die. That type of subject would scare anyone and definitely cause the public to be in panic about what will happen. It's a serious concern and the idea makes sense that if food supply is not increasing, but the population is there will be a higher need for food which could lead to famine(Ehrlich, 1968). I believe at the time they thought that population was very high and people were concerned about how many people our planet could support.

This impedes or lessens the external validity of the study as it would be hard to generalize this study to another environment (Maxfield & Babbie, 2015). Furthermore, the researchers use a snowballing method of sampling their population which comprises the reliability of the research. When a researcher allows for the police station to hand pick the participants, issues of bias could arise (Maxfield & Babbie, 2015). Obtaining the data has weaknesses in it as well. Having group interviews would pose problem as officers may be intimated by other officers, which could force them to reply to a question in a certain way (Ritchie & Lewis, 2013).

The whole group of comments that Perspective aims to draw a conclusion about is the population. It would be near impossible to have every comment filter through that system, which is why a sample is taken to reflect the whole population of comments.

For my infographic project, this year, I have researched and studied the impact of video game towards the time children spend doing homework. My main goal was to understand if video games act as a negative distraction towards children and if they prevent children from getting their work done. To collect all my data and, be able to answer my question, I employed both in person and online surveys. I spent a week going around my neighborhood asking both parents and children to answer a survey that I created. I later organized all my data and created an infographic that I used to diagram my data and summarize my conclusion.

For our survey we chose to use the population of voluntary grade 12 students attending Leamington District Secondary School. The survey inquired about the amount of physical activity a grade 12 student took place in over the course of an average week. This was recorded as hours per week if the answer received was a decimal it was rounded appropriately up or down. The data recorded is a sample representative of the grade 12 population however, only 24 male students and 25 female students participated in the survey.