Friday, March 11. 2022

Today's schedule is ABCD

A Block Legal Studies - we're going to look at the types of criminal offenses in Canada (summary conviction, indictable, hybrid). After we'll watch an episode of Law & Order "The Right Thing" From NBC, The COO of a major tech company is found murdered in Central Park. Price and Maroun work to untangle a web of deceit to expose a cunning narcissist.

B Block Criminology - We'll finish the documentary we started yesterday and then you'll have time to finish the two questions on sexual violence, 

1. Using the Crim text and this Sex Offender Typology website...Explain the three types of rapist according to Groth (anger-retaliation; power reassurance and assertive; and sadistic)
2.  Identify and explain the causes for sexual assault...You'll need to look at evolutionary and biological factors (remember Sigmund Freud's Thantos and Eros or instinctual drives that allowed species to be successful)? Look at modern male socialization (boys are taught to be aggressive, forceful, tough, and dominating...think about how boys play when they're young) and then at hypermasculinity (where some men have callous sexual attitudes and believe that violence is "manly"). Lastly consider both violent experiences (remember that those boys who were exposed to violence in the household are more likely to commit violent acts when they grow older) and sexual motivation (social, cultural, and psychological forces

For more info check out the following sites:

What Teenagers Are Learning From Online Porn
Pornography is more than just sexual fantasy. It’s cultural violence.
United Nations What is Sexual Violence
Why Do Men Sexually Assault Women? Sexual violence against women manifests, rather than violates, society’s norms
Government of Quebec Media Kit on Sexual Violence

C Block Human Geography - We'll watch some of the videos on yesterday's blog post and then you'll need to answer the following:

1. As you read pages 100-103, “Attitudes toward Immigrants learning Outcome 3.4.3 Describe characteristics of immigrants to the United States”, complete the Venn diagram to compare and contrast attitudes in the U.S. and Europe toward immigrants. 
2. Americans purchase products made in foreign countries using cheap labor. Is this any different than allowing low-cost labor to immigrate to the United States? How?  Why are employers who knowingly hire undocumented immigrants under less scrutiny than the immigrants themselves?
3. Why are new migrants to an area frequently the butt of racist or ethnic jokes? Explain in the context of the history of European emigration to the United States. Which groups were more frequently made fun of?

We'll start our immigrant project on Monday.

D Block Physical Geography - Today we'll look at the differences between 

 explosive and effusive volcanic eruptions (think silica and gas).

When it comes to liquids, viscosity is a measurement of how thick or flowy it is. When lava has low viscosity, it can flow very easily over long distances. This creates the classic rivers of lava, with channels, puddles and fountains. You can also get bubbles of lava filled with volcanic gasses that burble and pop on the surface of the lava. When lava has a high viscosity, it’s very thick and doesn’t flow very well at all. Instead of rivers of lava, you can get crumbling piles of rock flowing down hill. It can also clog up the volcanic vent and form blocks that resist the flow of lava. Viscous lava will trap pockets of gas within the rock, and not let them pop as bubbles on the surface.

The types of magma produced in the various volcanic settings can differ significantly. At divergent boundaries and oceanic mantle plumes, where there is little interaction with crustal materials the magma tends to be consistently mafic (which is a low viscosity magma). At subduction zones, where the magma ascends through significant thicknesses of crust, interaction between the magma and the crustal rock—some of which is quite felsic (which is a high viscosity magma)

For more on the differences between explosive and effusive eruptions see:
San Diego State University "How Volcanoes Work"
Volcano World "Volcanic Gasses"
Science World 2005 "When Mountains Fizz"