B Block Human Geography - Today we'll continue to look at the key question "Where Are People Distributed Within Urban Areas"? This time our focus will be on Latin American cities. For Latin American city models, the "elite spine" and squatter settlements check out:
You have some questions to complete for me:
- Describe the elite spine sector developed in Latin American cities.
- What are the causes of squatter settlement?
- Define squatter settlements.
- Describe services and amenities in a typical squatter settlement.
- Cities in Africa, Asia and Latin America resemble European cities in their structure. This is not a coincidence because….
- Draw and label a sketch of a “pre-colonial city”
- Colonial cities often contained a new “European sector” to the side of the pre-colonial city. Contrast their various elements in the table provided.
Actually a freshwater lake, the Aral Sea once had a surface area of 26,000 square miles (67,300 square kilometers). It had long been ringed with prosperous towns and supported a lucrative muskrat pelt industry and thriving fishery, providing 40,000 jobs and supplying the Soviet Union with a sixth of its fish catch...The Aral Sea was fed by two of Central Asia's mightiest rivers, the Amu Darya and the Syr Darya. But in the 1960s, Soviet engineers decided to make the vast steppes bloom. They built an enormous irrigation network, including 20,000 miles of canals, 45 dams, and more than 80 reservoirs, all to irrigate sprawling fields of cotton and wheat in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. In the decades that followed, the Aral Sea was reduced to a handful of small lakes, with a combined volume that was one-tenth the original lake's size and that had much higher salinity, due to all the evaporation. As a result of the drying over the past decades, millions of fish died, coastlines receded miles from towns, and those few people who remained were plagued by dust storms that contained the toxic residue of industrial agriculture and weapons testing in the area.
The Colorado River —The Most Endangered River in America 2013 from Pete McBride on Vimeo.
For the Aral Sea please check out the following:
Aral Sea Foundation
National Geographic News Aral Sea
NASA World of Change Aral Sea
The Aral Sea Crisis at Columbia University
I need you to continue tracking your family's water consumption for the week and you can use the water footprint calculator at the H20 Conserve website. For more on water as a resource please check out:
Ministry of Environment: Water for British Columbia
United Nations: Water Topics
Encyclopedia of Earth: Water
And from TIME...After three years of unprecedented drought, the South African city of Cape Town had less than 90 days worth of water in its reservoirs two years ago, putting it on track to be the first major city in the world to run out of water. Read the article Cape Town Is 90 Days Away From Running Out of Water
D Block Law - After today there are 13 classes remaining in the semester, with seven more classes in the learning commons to complete your civil litigator project. You will have a final test on civil law (torts, negligence, and family law) next Thursday, June 13th. I will bring previous examples of the project with me to the learning commons for you to peruse if you'd like. Don't forget, if you need to film in front of a green screen you need to make arrangements with Mr. Ingram in room 003...preferably today.
C Block Criminology - Today we continue the Casey Anthony trial coverage from 2011 in the USA. Yesterday we watched part one of the 2017 Investigation Discovery documentary Casey Anthony: An American Murder Mystery that showed one perspective of the case and today we'll watch the second half of the 2017 Investigation Discovery documentary Casey Anthony: An American Murder Mystery
After this we'll talk about the German psychology/sociology term Schadenfreude. This term deals with a big concept - that as humans, we have a private rush of glee when someone else struggles (we take delight in another person's pain and misfortune). Schadenfreude registers in the brain as a pleasurable experience, a satisfaction comparable to that of eating a good meal.Schadenfreude is a common and normal part of life but can become dangerous if we lose empathy, fall into demonizing others, or lapse into “us vs. them” thinking.
There is a human fascination with murder as entertainment and news media companies have turned the story of the death of a toddler into a prime time circus...a story that we can safely watch and perhaps feel a little guilty pleasure in the fact that we're better than Casey Anthony. Her pain and suffering on television brings us delight and makes us feel good in that we are not the monster that the media has portrayed her out to be...sigh.
Matt Wild wrote a piece called The guilty (and not-so-guilty) pleasures of Dateline NBC and in it he stated
...for an alarming number of Americans—myself included—Dateline has become appointment viewing. Mad Men, Downton Abbey, and their ilk are fine, but there’s a distinct, guilty pleasure in staying home on a Friday night, dimming the lights, sounding off on Twitter with other like minded fans, and watching the sordid true-life tales of murderous spouses (usually husbands), sorrowful family members (usually parents), and sinister motives (almost always infidelity) unspool over the course of an hour, all narrated by the stern and sonorous Morrison, or the rumpled and incredulous Mankiewicz. Murder, shattered families, and desperate cries for justice: perfect for a cozy night of popcorn, wine, and incessant tweeting.So 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?Tomorrow our focus will be on Nancy Grace and her coverage of the trial.
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