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
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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
ReplyDeleteGood 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.
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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!!! :)
ReplyDeletenicee title! You have a really good topic sentence and evidence. I think you should add some more transitions so your paragraph will flow smoother.
ReplyDeleteThanks Natasha and Ghiho! I will try make smoother transitions throughout my paragraph and at the end to finish it off.
ReplyDeleteHey 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.
ReplyDeleteI think the topic sentence does a really good job of summarizing the main point.
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