Friday, September 14, 2012

On The Principle of Population.Julia Maney


ON THE PRINCIPLE OF POPULATION
By Julia Maney
Although it is human nature to reproduce, Malthus argues that personal and overall population should be proportionate to the amount of access of food though preventative and positive checks.  Thomas R. Malthus discusses that there are predominant difficulties in the limiting of the population because of two diversions.  First, mankind needs food to survive and secondly, that there will always be desire between the sexes, which causes them to reproduce.  Malthus says that “These two laws, ever since we have had knowledge of mankind, appear to have been fixed laws of our nature; and as we have not hitherto seen any alteration in them, we have no right to conclude that they will ever cease to be what they are now…” Since the laws of nature have such a great force, Malthus generates checks to attempt to limit the population.  Preventative checks are to make aware to mostly the poor and struggling that if you cannot feed a child, do not have a child.  This helps to decrease the personal population of families and to give more food to those who are living.  There are also the positive checks, which include wars, severe labor, poverty, disease, plague, famine, and all other natural causes that would limit the numbers of people by natural death.  Overall, Malthus asserts that all men will reproduce and obtain food, but he should only do so to the extent that he can manage.  Also, he states the checks in society that should be noticed to restrain the population numbers.t 

7 comments:

  1. fancy title, nice nice, maybe you could mention how malthus doesnt care about what the rich peolpe do, he only cares how the ppoor are making mistakes

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  2. Good work Julia. You really provide good details about what Malthus is trying do convey about in his work. My criticism would be attention to details such as quoting Malthus correctly and finishing off the paragraph with a smooth transition to the next.
    Good stuff.

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  3. GOOOODDDD JOB JULIA!!! I think that you have really goof analysis for preventive checks yet I feel like the analysis of positive checks is a little vague. Evidence, and topic sentence are really good though!!! :)

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  4. nicee title! You have a really good topic sentence and evidence. I think you should add some more transitions so your paragraph will flow smoother.

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  5. Thanks Natasha and Ghiho! I will try make smoother transitions throughout my paragraph and at the end to finish it off.

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  6. Hey cool title! I agree with Ghiho in terms of just smoothing out your transitions, which can all be done through some simple editing. Overall, nice paragraph and your argument is clear.

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  7. I think the topic sentence does a really good job of summarizing the main point.

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