News Recording

                Today in Human Geo we listened to a news recording. Conveniently enough the recording that was playing also came with a script, since sometimes I needed to read over (repeatedly) what the person said. As we went through the recording, Mr. Schick would occasionally stop the recording to have a discussion about what was said. The overall news report was about the upcoming election and what ethnicities were voting for who. This tied in directly with our population pyramids, because they were discussing types of people and what the population consisted of. Most pyramids are centered around age and sex, where those statistics tell the ages in five year periods. Some other population pyramids are based off of other statistics, such as race or religion. America mostly consists of whites, and most whites vote. In comparison with other races, American whites vote more than other ethnicities. During the news report, two people were interviewed. Each lived as a child during the 50’s. Each discussed whether or not life was good during that time period, where the white woman said that it was good. However, the black (man or women, I don’t remember) said that her experience was not so good. As I suspected, civil rights during that time were not as good for blacks as whites, leading to better privileges for some than others.