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//Warning! this is a work-in-progress. When I remove this warning and all the other text in red, you can assume my work is finished and ready for assessment. // by Melissa China is very over-populated even though it is such a large country. There are many problems being caused because it is such a over-populated country. I know that since it is so over populated it is also becoming very polluted. I also know that the government is trying to get the population down. They are doing this by making a law saying that you cant have over a certain amount of children unless they are twins or something because you cant stop that.
 * One Piece of Land, Billions of People **
 * Part I--What I already know about my topic **

Why is China so over-populated? How over-populated is China? Will the government actually be able to bring the population down? How is the over-population affecting the government? How is it affecting the people? How is it affecting the environment? Is this a reason why China is so polluted? What is polluted ( the water, the sky, etc)? How bad is the pollution? Do the citizens care or even know about what is happening to the country? what can the citizens do to help? Are the citizens trying to help?
 * Part II--What I Want to Find Out **

I chose //China's Changing population// because it was exactly what my topic was about. It was about what the title says, China's population and how it changes. It is teaching me a lot about why the population is growing, and how the government is trying to reduce China's population. It explains to me the details of this problem. It is not really guiding my understanding. It is just informing me more about the topic. I am learning more about China, it's population, it's government, and why China being overpopulated is important. I have learned about the "one child" policy and how it is one of the main things helping lower the population and how now, the population is getting smaller. It is a really good book because it has so much information on the topic that I am working on so I don't need too many sources to find what I need to do my work. Another thing that is helping me with my work is the internet. I have found many useful sources for me. One of these sources is http://www.chinability.com/Population.htm. It has information on China and the "One child" policy too. It explains how the population went down because of that policy and why it went down. This web site gives a lot of statistics, a lot of numbers. For the interview, I could interview my family members. I could interview my mom or my dad. I could interview them because they grew up in China so they have the first hand experience. However, I could also ask my cousin who has just recently come over because his information on the country would be more recent and so he would know more about China today, while as for my parents, they would have more information about China in the past. I found this interesting because then I could see the difference between back then how the population affected the environment and how it affects the environment now.
 * Part III--The Search **

Possible Interview questions:
 * 1) How do you feel about the "one child policy"?
 * 2) What do you think of china's population now?
 * 3) Were there more people back when you were a child or now?
 * 4) How do you think the population affects the country?
 * 5) Do you think that the government is doing a good job with the country's population?
 * 6) What do you think will happen to China if it does get too over populated?
 * 7) Do you think that people can do something to help? And if yes, then what can they do?
 * 8) How does the population in China affect you? Does it affect you at all?
 * 9) How did you feel about the population when you were a child?
 * 10) Do you feel like the population is actually going down?

I chose my mom as the person that i should interview because my mom seemed to know about China now and from the past. This was because she grew up in China as a child and still visits from time to time. I learned pretty much what I had already learned. However, I did learn some new things. One thing that my mom told me was that having a population that is too large isn't good. this would be because then the people would use all the resources, cause a lot of pollution, and China would obviously just be way too crowded. I acctually don't really know if it is going down or not. I think that most people just go through their day without a second thought about it. I also think that the government is doing the most that they can about this problem. I think this because it would be pretty hard to do anything else. The government couldn't tell them to not have anykids because then there would be a big fight and they could not just do what ever if a person had twins or something it would be wrong.

** I learned many things about China and the over population. I learned how the population affected not only caused there to be less land but also many other problems. I learned that it is so important to bring the population down because if it doesn't or didn't come down then many problems could have occurred. The people could have used up most of China's resources, cause more pollution. or just put those things together and make China a rundown country. I also learned that it affects the people too. It can or does affect the citizens in China because it will become way too over crowded, dirty, and hard to live in. I also learned that the reasons above are why it is such a big deal to lower the population. I also learned that the "one child" polocy is working ad helping to lower China's population.
 * Part IV--What I Learned


 * Part V-- Works Cited**
 * Banister, Judith. //China's changing population//. 1st ed. 1 vol. Stanford University PressStanford University Press, 1987. Print.
 * "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China." wikipedia, 23 05 2010. Web. 24 May 2010. .
 * Last China Statistical Yearbook; National Bureau of Statistics web site.., . "China's population." China Statistical Yearbook; National Bureau of Statistics web site.., n.d.. Web. 21 Apr 2010. .
 * Rosenberg, Matt. "China One Child Policy - Overview of the One Child Policy in China." About.com, 04 011 2009. Web. 24 May 2010. .