William Henry Fox Talbot's Demographic Research

In Alexander Gardner’s Photographic Sketchbook of the Civil War, the haunting image “Harvest of Death” catches one’s eye with the seemingly endless field of corpses. The jarring facial expression on the figure in the foreground draws one into the narrative of the piece. However, our initial understanding of the image’s narrative is limited to what we can see and what we know of the circumstances surrounding it. While we know it was taken during the American Civil War, by simply looking at the photograph, we cannot know who is depicted. In black and white, it is difficult to even tell what side of the conflict these fallen soldiers fought for. We can interpret the image for our own readings, but we cannot tell what the artist intended us to see or what message he wanted to impart with it. These unknowns, however, are addressed in the related text associated with the image. These short passages can tell us a great deal about the photographer’s intentions and influence the way we read the image. Through the excerpt, we not only learn the intended meaning of the photography, but we also learn about Gardner’s political intentions and the key points he wanted his viewers to note within the image. Published as a pair, Gardner used his text to contextualize his images and inform the way we perceive them. This is clearly illustrated in “A Harvest of Death” and its accompanying passage.

During the pre-Civil War era, the technology of photography was rare or still in development. All renderings of war were either in paintings or in literature. Since artists were the only people capable of creating

Created in 1901 by Irish artist Henry McArdle, the artwork titled “Ben Milam Calling for Volunteers,” depicts an episode during the Texas Revolution that does not portray a typical battle scene with blood and violence. Instead, McArdle chooses to focus on a particular moment with a particular person, Benjamin Rush Milam, whose actions during the revolution led to an eventful victory for the Texans. During the early hours of December 4th, after having fought in the Battle of Concepcion, the Texas troops waited for Burleson’s decision on whether or not to fulfill the assault that was planned against Mexican forces in order to gain control of San Antonio. It is in the seconds after Lt. Burleson announces the cancelation of the assault, that the

Located in the Cook and Kane countries, in the northen part of the state of Illinois, Elgin registered an impressive population growth during the past 2 centuries.

Bill A.3080 states that prisoners who are part of the “special population” are not allowed to be placed in segregated confinement for any length of time, this includes twenty-one years or age or younger; (b) fifty-five years of age or older; (c) with a disability as defined in subdivision twenty-one of section two hundred ninety-two of the executive law, including but not limited to, for purposes of mental impairment, persons with a serious mental illness as defined in paragraph (e) of subdivision six of section one hundred thirty-seven of this chapter; (d) who is pregnant, is in the first eight weeks of the post-partum recovery period after giving birth, or is caring for a child in a correctional institution

The historical context that surrounds this photo starts in 1854 with the Border War in Kansas. The

As the title of the event suggests, the panel talked about the practice eugenics and scientific racism in the Pacific Northwest. More specifically there were three panelists: Dr. Kristin Johnson, who gave a brief overview of the Eugenics Movement in the United States; Michael Dicianna, an OSU 2012 graduate, who spoke on the Oregon State College’s history of eugenics; and Dr. Linda Richards, who presented on Linus Pauling, and whether he was a eugenicist. Overall, all three panelists did an amazing job in presenting their topics, and in an order that had a nice flow to it.

For our analysis, we used cohort data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER9) Program of the National Cancer Institute with data spanning from 1973-2012. The SEER database collects cancer surveillance data from population-based cancer registries in the United States with an approximate coverage of 30% of the entire US population. This data is de-identified and publicly available data and therefore did not require the approval of an institutional review board.

Franklin has developed an awesome essay addressing the evolution of technology used in Americas` wars also the media’s presentation of theses wars to the public in the U.S. He emphasized mostly the media’s presentation of war, the forms and methods that it has gradually evolved to, and its lies and biases. Franklin discusses, however, how the projection of the war was romanticized at the beginning since paintings was the only way to visualize and express the war . However when photographs and videos were invented, it was a normal effect that the image of war was deglamorized. One of the results that, these images showed more truth than the previous romanticized paintings of old wars. Unfortunately, not all of these wars were candidly projected like the Civil War, but do not please be surprised to know that, the American government manipulated that technology only to their favor to portray a fake victory for America rather than a big failure.

The American Civil War is, to date, the bloodiest and the most real war in the eyes of American citizens, with every battle raging in American back yards and farm fields. This great war of ours holds battles such as Shiloh, Antietam, and Stones River all known for being exceptionally violent and casualty heavy. However, none of these can compare when it comes to the amount lives lost or importance to the outcome of the war itself as the Battle of Gettysburg; the three day engagement fought between the North-bound men of Robert E. Lee’s confederates and the union soldiers under Meade’s command.

The Anglo Population developed differently from the Comanche tribes in a multitude of different ways. The first and the beginning of the Anglo Population development was the Parker family. The Parker family was one of the first to move into the area of present-day Dallas, which, at the time, was in Indian Territory. Needless to say, this was an extremely dangerous area. They built the dream of some settlers, “…a one-acre fort on the property containing four blockhouses, six log cabins, and a bullet proof front gate, all enclosed by sharpened, cedar-timber was fifteen feet high” (Gwynne 14). Even though the Native Americans destroyed the fort and kidnapped some people, including Cynthia Ann Parker, it still was the beginning of the development

Historical records of American demography start with the settlement of Jamestown, Virginia in 1607. Puritans landed in Plymouth and made a home for themselves with the help of Native Americans. These first immigrants in the colonies (British, Dutch, and German), moved to America between the early 17th and late 18th centuries in what was known as Old Immigration. During the colonial period, the birth rate was high but the life expectancy was low. It was common for people to live up until their mid-thirties and families consisted of six to eight children, of which usually just three survived past childhood. The population of the colonies rose to over two million by 1765. The birth rate and life

For most of people, it is difficult to read extensively in a short time. However, the purpose of infographic design is to convert variety of massive and complicated statistic into data visualization, which could make people clearly and swiftly comprehend the main ideas of a text. Nevertheless, to devise an infographic is considerably difficult because the designer has to turn a complex subject into a digestible and enchanting experience. Therefore, there are three things I faced when I designed the infographic.

Demography is the study of the components of population variation and change. Death rate and birth rate are two determinants of population change. Theory of Demographic Transition is comparatively recent theory that has been accepted by several scholars throughout the world. This theory embraces the observation that all countries in the world go through different stages in the growth of population. A nation's economy and level of development is directly related to that nation's birth and death rates. Population history can be divided into different stages. Some of the scholars have divided it into three and some scholars have divided it into five stages. These stages or classifications demonstrate a

Demography is a social science, but especially is a political science. One of its most common uses is to arouse fears, revealing a future disaster that can only be avoided if undertaken with urgency determined demographic policies. I mentioned here the Decline of the West Oswald Spengler, an outstanding example of how demography was used, a century ago, to predict the decline and implosion of all Western civilization by the falling birth rate, aging and outside threat. The article which I now is, instead, one of the best exponents of alarmism other extreme, radically opposed, that frightens us with excess growth.