Thursday, December 14. 2017

Today's schedule is D-C-B-A

D Block Criminology 12 - To start today, you'll have time to work on the two questions from this week along with a new one...They are:

1. Have you ever perceived anomie if so what and why? What causes anomie? Is there more than one cause of strain?
2. Have you ever been given a negative label, and, if so, did it cause you social harm? How did you lose the label, or did it become a permanent marker that still troubles you today?
3. Is conflict inevitable in all cultures? If not, what can be done to reduce the level of conflict in our own society?

Next, speaking of anomie and strain, we'll look at the "Bling Ring". From Nancy Jo Sales article The Suspects Wore Louboutins

The most audacious burglary gang in recent Hollywood history–accused of stealing more than $3 million in clothing and jewelry from Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, and other stars–appears to be a bunch of club-hopping Valley kids, motivated by vanity and celebrity-worship

and from the article  "Before You See the Bling Ring, Watch the Crazy Reality Show That Helped Inspire It" by Lindsey Weber  and Kyle Buchanan

Pretty Wild, which aired in 2010 (and was produced, oddly enough, by Chelsea Handler), was intended to follow 19-year-old Alexis Neiers as she lived a glamorous party-girl life on the fringe of the Hollywood club circuit. But then real life intervened: In the very first episode, Neiers is arrested for crimes connected to the Bling Ring, the gang of larcenous teens who stole from celebrities like Paris Hilton and Orlando Bloom...Suddenly, the manufactured reality of these Kardashian-emulating lifestyle shows begins to rub up against the very definite reality of a teenager's descent into criminality

and James Franco wrote on Vice

These kids were raised in a culture in which attention equals power, regardless of the value of that attention and the actions that captured it. We have long showered the likes of Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan with such power. The Bling Ringers are only flowing in line with what they’ve been taught, or learned through osmosis depending on your point of view. It’s not what magazines and websites say about the celebrities that the Bling Ringers listen to; it’s the fact that they’re saying stuff about them at all.

Of course Dateline had an episode titled "Secrets of the Bling Ring"

The on line reaction was less than favourable

ABC got in on the act and did a bit on "Inside Hollywood's Bling Ring"

And of course TMZ and E! News were all over the story

By the way...2013 saw the release of Sofia Coppola's movie version of this story called "The Bling Ring"

Then in 2014 Vice profiled Alexis Neiers about he "struggles with addiction, her criminal involvement in the real-life Bling Ring (the inspiration for Sophia Coppola's 2013 film of the same name), and her former Playboy Bunny mother, as well as her new role as a sober mother, attempting to help her ex-boyfriend find a way out of his own crippling heroin and crack addiction".

This sets us up for tomorrow's Law & Order Los Angeles episode "Hollywood".

C Block Human Geography 11 - Today we'll continue to look at the Key Issue "Where Is Agriculture Distributed"? this time focusing on developed countries. In developed countries "agribusiness" include mixed crop and livestock; dairying; grain; ranching; Mediterranean; and commercial gardening. Agribusiness is a broad area that includes food production and services related to agribusiness like food processing, packaging, storing, distributing, and retailing. Canada is the 5th largest agricultural exporter in the world, and the agriculture and agri-food industry employs 2.3 million Canadians (that's 1 in 8 jobs)


 We only have two questions to add to yesterday's work:

1. Why do some regions specialize in “milk products” like cheese and butter rather than fluid milk?  Identify some of these important regions.
2. What country is the world’s largest producer of dairy products?

We'll try to look at the problem of overproduction of food in the developed world and food waste



B Block Physical Geography 12 - Today we'll continue our map/poster on severe weather for elementary school students or our weather report for a newscast project in the library. Check the blog for sites to help. If you are doing the forecast option, Mr. Ingram is in room 003 and that is where the green screen is. You should have your script and props ready before you go and seeing as though there is no more class time, realistically today is the best day for your video recording. Please remember don't wear green...