Thursday, January 10. 2019

Today's schedule is DCBA

D & A Blocks Human Geography - Today our key issue is, "Why Do Services Cluster in Settlements"? Services are clustered in settlements. Rural settlements are centers for agriculture and provide a small number of services; urban settlements are centers for consumer and business services. One-half of the people in the world currently live in a rural settlement, and the other half in an urban settlement. We'll look at clustered (circular and linear) and dispersed rural settlements and a brief history of cities:



The process by which the populations of urban settlements grow is known as urbanization. Urbanization has two dimensions: an increase in the percentage of people living in urban settlements and an increase in the number of people living urban settlements. These two factors have different global distributions and occur for different reasons. So, Vancouver?


Would you live in the downtown of a city or out in the suburbs?


Lastly questions...

1. How are strips of land allocated in a clustered rural settlement? 
2. In a linear rural settlement, why are settlements clustered around roads and/or rivers?
3. What early structures and permanent man-made features were associated with early public services?
4. What early structures and permanent man-made features were associated with early business services?
5. Why did large urban centers collapse with the fall of the Roman Empire in the 5th century CE?

B Block Criminology - Yesterday we watched part 2 of the 2017 Investigation Discovery documentary Casey Anthony: An American Murder Mystery so today we'll finish part 3...because you asked and because that proves my point about schadenfreude and media frenzies/circuses.
Remember you have a question to answer for me:

How does the concept of Schadenfreude apply to the Casey Anthony trial? How would low self-esteem make someone more likely to seek out schadenfreude-filled crime media?

HLN's Nancy Grace covered the Casey Anthony trial heavily in 2011. To her credit Nancy Grace was a criminal prosecutor in Georgia. Here is a CNN bio on her..