Ryan Matuszewski Blog

This week in class we discussed many interesting topics. The most interesting topic I think we discussed this week was the topics about migration and immigration. I thought it was very interesting to find out why people move to where they do and why people come to the United States from where they previously lived. Migration is the movement of place and immigration is when you cross boundaries. People migrate to other places for many reasons such as climate, location, size, family, friends, or job opportunities. Many people immigrate to other countries for a better way of life. When it comes to migration and immigration push and pull factors always influence movement to a place. Today we face a problem that so many people are coming to the States that there could possibly be a large problem due to overpopulation. Research shows that one day Arizona State University is expected to have 90,000 students, and Phoenix is expected to have seven to nine million people. Immigration today is sometimes seen as a problem, but it is actually a good thing. Immigrants do the cheap labor jobs that keep this country functioning that most born American citizens would not do. Data reguarding population and migration can be discoverd through the models we made, and learned about. These models used math formulas and calculations to find out the population. Although not all models were accurate, they were interesting to create. As a result of this data we found out that a healthy normal population is 51% women and 49% men.