Every day we are going to start by looking at the synoptic forecast along with weather maps.
Data Streme
Envrionment Canada: Weather Office Comox
A Block Physical Geography - Today we'll begin our look at stratospheric ozone and air pollution. Ozone is a gas that occurs
both in the Earth's upper atmosphere and at ground level. Ozone can be "good" or
"bad" for your health and the environment, depending on its location in the
atmosphere. After looking at the ways that ozone protects us and understanding
how it can be destroyed by CFCs you'll need to
complete questions 8 and 9 from page 90 in your Geosystems textbook. We'll also look at air pollution, specifically the anthropogenic
additions to our atmosphere. We will look at the effects of nitrogen oxides and
sulfur dioxides on human health and terrestrial and aquatic
ecosystems. We'll also look at the Environment Canada Air Quality IndexFor more information on Air Quality look at:
BC Air Quality Readings
Real Time Air Quality Index Map
The Habitable Planet: Air Pollution
Environment Canada Air Pollution site
For more information on Ozone look at:
Environment Canada Ozone site
US Environmental Protection Agency Stratospheric Ozone page
Ozzy Ozone UNEP Kids Ozone Site
NOAA Ozone depletion page
EPA Health Effects of Increased UV Radiation
National Public Radio site on the London "Killer Fog" of 1952
EPA website on acid rain
From Vox: Why India’s air pollution is so horrendous
Check out last year's article on CNN indicating that breathing in Delhi air is equivalent to smoking 44 cigarettes a day
B Block Human Geography - Today we continue with our key question "Why Do Conflicts Arise among Ethnicities?" As with your big thinking question on religious conflict there is no easy answer to this inquiry. Today we'll on Lebanon, India and the Kurds. For the Kurds and Kurdistan a good primer is this GPS video from CNN with Fareed Zakaria as well as this article form the Economist or this article from Foreign Policy or the website "The Kurdish Project" following videos help too:
Next we'll look at Sri Lanka and the conflict between the Tamil minority and Sinhalese majority. For help ThoughtCo. has a nice piece on the Civil War as does Al Jazeera. And, of course, there is the partition of India which displaced fifteen million people and killed more than a million as the British left India and religious communities were pitted against one another. The Guardian has a good article Why Pakistan and India remain in denial 70 years on from partition and the Conversation has an article How the Partition of India happened – and why its effects are still felt today and there's also a good piece on the BBC Partition of India: My memories
OH WAIT...Don't forget Jammu & Kashmir
C Block Criminology - Over the next two weeks we'll look at Mass Media Theories and Media Literacy. Today we'll look at the elements of Media Literacy...one key element of media literacy is that:
Media are constructions - Media products are created by individuals who make conscious and unconscious choices about what to include, what to leave out and how to present what is included. These decisions are based on the creators’ own point of view, which will have been shaped by their opinions, assumptions and biases – as well as media they have been exposed to. As a result of this, media products are never entirely accurate reflections of the real world – even the most objective documentary filmmaker has to decide what footage to use and what to cut, as well as where to put the camera – but we instinctively view many media products as direct representations of what is real...So today we will partner up and work on our media analysis of an advertisement that I'll give you and your partner. Remember I want you to practice the skills of critical analysis of the message and the medium. After your presentations we'll go through your first handout for the course on media literacy and critical thinking.
D Block Law - Today we'll watch an episode of Law & Order from season 14 called "Hands Free". From tv.com..."When McCoy fails to win a murder conviction against an eccentric cross dressing millionaire for the death of his neighbor, he redoubles the effort to convict the man for murdering his second wife years earlier by demonstrating that he murdered a witness to the crime." This episode is connected to the Robert Durst murder. Who is Robert Durst? He is the son of New York commercial and residential real estate developer Seymour Durst and was also investigated in the 1982 disappearance and murder of his wife Kathie McCormack Durst in New York, the 2001 murder of his neighbour Morris Black in Texas, and the 2000 murder of his friend Susan Berman in California.
In early 2015, a six-part HBO documentary titled The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst described circumstantial evidence linking Durst to the 2000 slaying of Susan Berman, who was believed to have knowledge of Kathie Durst's 1982 disappearance. The documentary detailed the disappearance of Kathie Durst, Berman's subsequent death, and the killing of Durst's neighbor Morris Black. Against the advice of his lawyers, and his wife Debrah Lee Charatan, Durst cooperated with filmmakers, giving multiple interviews and unrestricted access to his personal records. In February this year (2016) Durst pleaded guilty to a federal gun charge in New Orleans, paving the way for extradition to California to stand trial for the 2000 murder of Susan Berman. His arrest in New Orleans coincided with the airing of HBO's documentary series, "The Jinx,". During the show, Durst was confronted with two handwriting samples — an anonymous letter that had been sent to police alerted them to a "cadaver" at Berman's house and another letter he sent to Berman — that appeared to be a match and had identical misspellings of Beverly Hills. Afterward, he blurted into a hot microphone: "There it is. You're caught," and "What the hell did I do? Killed them all, of course." After I'll have you explain the roles and responsibilities of the judge, the crown prosecutor, defense counsel, the court clerk, court recorder, and sheriff.
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