today in class we talked about death rates and birth rates for different countries. We talked about how these rates affect the total population of a country. the birth rate in the united states is 2.06 but in order to keep the death and birth rate even it must be 2.1. even though our birth rate is only 2.06 we still have people immigrating to the united states there for the population remains steady in the united states. We also talked about the push and pull factors for countries. An example of a push factor is in Syria people are leaving at a large rate because of all the war that is going on there. an example of a pull rate is people coming to Canada because the health care there is so good, no terrorism, reduced crime, and they don't get involved with war often. that domes up todays class.