D Block Physical Geography - Today you'll need to define anticline & syncline (use page 228 in the Geosystems Core text Chapter 8.7 Deformation, Folding, & Faulting) and answer the question "What is a migrating terrane, how does it add to the formation of continental masses and how is it related to British Columbia?"(use page 238 in the Geosystems Core text 8.10 Mountain Building)
So, BC is geologically weird, right? We are a series of parallel mountain chains that were formed somewhere else and added to the continent by plate tectonics. An orogeny is a mountain-building episode, occurring over millions of years as a large-scale deformation and uplift of the crust. The resulting volcanic or folded and faulted mountain chains are found at the plate margins (this is BC). While Pangea split apart, North America (Laurentia) rotated northwest away from the rest of the supercontinent. The Canadian Shield, also called the Laurentian Plateau is a large area of exposed Precambrian igneous and high-grade metamorphic rocks (geological shield) that forms the ancient geological core of the North American continent (the North American Craton or Laurentia). Some of the rocks in the Canadian Shield are over 3.96 billion years old, and Laurentia has been together in its present form for the last billion years.
So, this move away from the bulk of Pangea created a subduction zone where oceanic crust slowly sank beneath the continent’s west coast (which incidentally was the Alberta/BC border). This subduction brought two chains of volcanic islands, the Stikine and Quesnellia arcs closer to North America (Laurentia). These crustal fragments are called Tectonostratigraphic Terranes...shortened to Terrane. So, the buoyant continental crust of the Stikine and Quesnellia terranes collided with and welded to North America about 180 mya which forms what is now eastern British Columbia (The geologic name for this area is the Intermontane Superterrane). The Wrangellia Terrane (that has the Mg rich Karmutsen Formation of Basalts) formed in the ocean basin about 230 mya. It's a part of the the Insular Superterrane which arrived on what was the west coast and got welded to the continent (think of the west coast of Vancouver Island and Haida Gwaii as well as chunks of Yukon and Alaska) between 120-100 mya. At roughly the same time, the Coast Range Granite Batholith intruded into the Insular Superterrane about 100 million years ago, which formed what we now call the Coastal Mountain Range.
Confused? To help, we'll watch a bit of Geologic Journey to understand
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:
- 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?
- 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?
B Block Criminology - You did some really good work yesterday and now today I'd like you to consider, "Why is violence entertaining"? Why are we so drawn to violent entertainment? Violent films, video games and stories are very popular, as were brutal gladiatorial Roman contests and gory 14th Century jousts. What explains this enduring attraction to violence? I'll have you answer the following:
- What is the attraction of violent films and video games?
- Is there more violent imagery in media now as opposed to the past (think graphic, realistic visceral)? Why / Why not?
- What kinds of people are drawn to violent imagery and what kind of violent images draw them to that form of entertainment?
- What is “morbid curiosity”?
- Are there any equally satisfying substitutions for violent entertainment?
- What draws our attention to violent media events (news) that are not intended to entertain?
A Block Legal Studies - Today we'll continue looking at discrimination in Canada focusing on women's issues of injustice connected employment and pay equity, sexual harassment, and discrimination against pregnant women. On a global scale consider this: From the UN HDI GII...
From the OHRC While sexual harassment occurs across different occupations and industry sectors, research suggests that it is more common in certain types of employment. For example, sexual harassment complaints are high in traditionally male-dominated work environments, such as the military, policing, firefighting, mining and construction work.
"Gender inequality remains a major barrier to human development. Girls and women have made major strides since 1990, but they have not yet gained gender equity. The disadvantages facing women and girls are a major source of inequality. All too often, women and girls are discriminated against in health, education, political representation, labour market, etc. with negative consequences for development of their capabilities and their freedom of choice".
From the OSSTF In 2016, a report conducted by Statistics Canada showed that one in five Canadian women had been harassed at work in the past year, compared with one in eight Canadian men. The women who were most vulnerable to this type of abuse were young, single or unmarried. Indigenous women and those persons who identify as LGTBQ+2 were also disproportionately targeted by harassment.
From the Canadian Human Rights Reporter:
The Supreme Court of Canada held that the Government of British Columbia's aerobic standard used to test the fitness of forest firefighters discriminated on the basis of sex, and further that the Government failed to show that the discriminatory standard is justified as a bona fide occupational requirement ("BFOR").
Most B.C. women have experienced gender discrimination: Poll
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| From the Canadian Women's Association |
I'll have you work on the following questions:
1. What are some of the current barriers to equality facing women?
2. What is pay equity?
3. How are different jobs compared under pay equity?
4. What is employment equity?
5. What groups are protected under employment equity laws?
1. What are some of the current barriers to equality facing women?
2. What is pay equity?
3. How are different jobs compared under pay equity?
4. What is employment equity?
5. What groups are protected under employment equity laws?
And the videos we didn't get to...
*warning there is potty mouth in the following videos so please be aware and watch with care
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