Thursday, March 23, 2023

Friday, March 24. 2023

Today's schedule is BADC

B Block Criminology - Leaders of religious sects or cults may be psychopaths (charismatic) if they lead their followers to their deaths. This sub type often comes to believe in the fictions they create (which are often apocalyptic in nature) and are often irresistible (Jim Jones and David Koresh).

Today we'll watch an episode of Criminal Minds from Season 4..."Minimal Loss". In the episode two members of the BAU, Reid and Prentiss, are sent in undercover to investigate an alleged child abuse at an isolated property which is the home of a religious cult led by the charismatic Benjamin Cyrus. The real aim is to not only ascertain whether or not this is true, but also to look into the cult as a whole. The rest of the BAU, along with a plethora of other law enforcement agencies, are planning a raid on the compound, but when Cyrus gets wind of this, he imposes a lock down and unleashes a cache of weapons which make it pretty clear that he has no intention of being taken alive … and the same goes for his 'loyal' followers as well.

There are echoes to Waco Texas and David Koresh, the leader of the Branch Davidians.

A Block Legal Studies - Today we will watch a Law & Order episode on Alzheimer's disease and the required Mens Rea for a crime to be committed ("Sundown" episode 9 from Season 10).
Is a man with Alzheimer's Disease competent enough to stand trial for murder? And if he is found guilty, should he be subjected to the near-inhumane conditions common for prisoners of his type?

Are Persons With Dementia Responsible for Crimes They Commit?
People with advanced dementia have no place in court
When Frontotemporal Dementia Leads to Crime—Prosecution or Protection?

D Block Physical Geography - Today I feel like Oprah...You get an Extra Day, and you get an Extra day, everyone gets an extra day! I have the library reserved for the class so that you may finish work on your Orting College development project. I'll remind you that this assignment is due; it is crucial that you hand it in to me as we will be at the end of our unit. Last chance...get it done. These people are running away from a volcano, like what may happen with Mt. Rainier...they're not students running away from Mr. Young wondering where your assignments are.

C Block Human Geography - These are eternal questions... 

Who are you? 
How do you define yourself? 
What is cultural identity?
How would you describe your own cultural/ethnic background? 
What are some of the underlying values and expectations that you were culturally-conditioned to have?
What are some of the rituals of your family life that are important to you?
How do you relate to your surrounding community in terms of culture/ethnicity?
How does your personal cultural identity influence your interaction with persons from other cultures and ethnic backgrounds?


Today we look at the key question, "Where Are Folk and Popular Leisure Activities Distributed"? To start we need to ask..."What is Culture?"

We'll try to examine two aspects of where folk and popular cultures are in space. First, each cultural activity has a distinctive spatial distribution so we'll examine a social custom’s origin, its diffusion, and its integration with other social characteristics. Second, we'll try to see the relation between material culture and the physical environment. Our job today is to look at the differences between folk and popular culture and we'll do this through the lens of music, sport (soccer football, skateboarding, UFC) and clothing...

Popular Music (I know it's from 1971 but the video of the Marvin Gaye song below is of musicians from the world over singing a pop song)


Folk Music (Musicians from the Hawaiian Islands singing a song unique to the islands)


Football (not soccer)

I'm hoping that you are seeing some consistent themes in Human Geography this year. Remember that folk culture is traditionally practiced primarily by small, homogeneous groups living in isolated rural areas while popular culture is found in large, heterogeneous societies. Folk culture is influenced heavily by the environment that it develops in while popular culture depends less on the environment because it diffuses on a larger scale (globalization). With the larger globalized scale of popular culture (becoming more dominant), the survival of unique folk cultures is threatened...This is one of the themes I hope you are starting to see

 

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