Tuesday, March 1. 2022

Today's schedule is CDAB

C Block Human Geography - Today we will continue with the key question "Why Does Development Vary among Countries"? To help:

So, we'll look at the economic sectors that contribute to economic development

We'll even look at the economic argument connected to productivity

This will help with your questions about the Primary, Secondary, Tertiary and Quaternary sectors of the economy, trends in economic growth and your two really big thinking questions to work on for me connected to this topic:

1. If you were to create an index of development, what indicators would you use, and why (look at the UN HDI Indicators for Canada in the week 7 booklet)? How would you weigh each indicator? Could your index be used around the world, or would it be mostly relevant to our society?
2. The HDI is used to measure development at a whole-country level. Is it adequate to measure development within a country? Why or why not? (Another way of thinking about this: Are there minority groups that may be “glossed over” by the HDI?

D Block Physical Geography - Today I'll have you work on the Juan de Fuca Plate and Geothermal energy questions in your Week 4 package. For the Juan de Fuca question use Focus Study 11.1 "Tectonic Setting of the Pacific Coast of Canada" in the Geosystems text Chapter 11 pages 358-360 and for the Geothermal energy question use both the videos below and Focus Study 11.2 "Heat from Earth - Geothermal Energy and Power" also in the Geosystems text Chapter 11 pages 363-365 . I'll show you some information on geothermal energy plants and you'll get some time to work on the assignment.  For help with the geothermal energy check out:
USGS Other Energy Sources (Geothermal)
Canadian Geothermal Energy Association
US Energy Information Agency Energy Kids Geothermal

A Block Legal Studies - Today we'll talk about the LGBTQ+ community in Canada and the Civil Marriage Act (which legalized same-sex marriage in Canada on July 20, 2005). In Canada, same-sex sexual activities between consenting adults were considered crimes punishable by imprisonment before 1969. That year, the Canadian government passed a bill decriminalizing private sexual acts between two people over the age of 21 – a breakthrough in treating gay men, lesbians and bisexuals equally under the law. Almost ten years later, in 1977, Quebec became the first jurisdiction in Canada to amend its provincial charter of human rights to include sexual orientation as a prohibited ground for discrimination. In 1996, the Canadian Human Rights Act was amended to specifically include sexual orientation as one of the prohibited grounds of discrimination. In Egan v. Canada (1995) the Supreme Court of Canada held that although "sexual orientation" is not listed as a ground for discrimination in section 15(1) of the Charter, it constitutes an equivalent ground on which claims of discrimination may be based. 

Canadian Queer History

Government of Canada The human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, 2-spirit and intersex persons

A Chronology of Advances in LGBT Rights in Canada, and in BC

CBC TIMELINE | Same-sex rights in Canada

Finally we'll take a closer look at the concepts of bias, prejudice, and discrimination.

B Block Criminology - Today we will focus on the roots of violent crime. So what is violence? The World Health Organization defines it as

“The intentional use of physical force or power, threatened or actual, against oneself, another person, or a group or community, that either results in or has a high likelihood of resulting in injury, death, psychological harm, mal development or deprivation.” 

Now we know what crime is, so violent crime would be an act of force or power against a person or a group which results in injury, death or harm that society sees as repugnant and codifies as illegal behaviour. Okay so why does it happen? Time magazine asked that in 1993

It's tempting to make excuses for violence. The mugger came from a broken home and was trying to lift himself out of poverty. The wife beater was himself abused as a child. The juvenile murderer was exposed to Motley Crue records and Terminator movies. But do environmental factors wholly account for the seven-year-old child who tortures frogs? The teenager who knifes a teacher? The employee who slaughters workmates with an AK-47? Can society's ills really be responsible for all the savagery that is sweeping America? Or could some people be predisposed to violence by their genes?

Today we grapple with those questions. Where does violence and violent crime come from? We'll look at personal traits, ineffective families, evolutionary factors, exposure to violence, cultural values, substance abuse, and firearm availability to see if they are factors that lead to violent crime in Canada.

Now I know it's about War but this Crash Course asks whether humanity is naturally war like (aka Violent)