C Block Human Geography - Today we'll try to answer the key question, "Why Do Folk and Popular Culture Face Sustainability Challenges, today focusing on environmental sustainability. For the question, "How is the playing of golf and golf courses an example of a popular custom which is not generally in harmony with the local environment? "You may disagree if you like, however it is important to note that Golf courses account for more than 5.1 million acres of land worldwide and use 13 trillion gallons of water every year (not to mention pesticides and herbicides) Check out:
A Dangerous Game: Documentary Examines Environmental Impact of Luxury Golf Resorts
After we'll look at the creation of uniform (homogenized) landscapes, landscape pollution and resource depletion. We end with a big thinking question:
Placelessness and uniform landscapes …… With the spread of pop culture throughout Canada (specifically restaurants, gas stations, coffee shops, national chains), are cities throughout our country losing their local diversity? Are we becoming a nation that looks the same no matter what city you are in? Explain.
Consider the article Graveyards of distinctiveness: how cities are making us all the same and then this quote to help:
After we'll look at the creation of uniform (homogenized) landscapes, landscape pollution and resource depletion. We end with a big thinking question:
Placelessness and uniform landscapes …… With the spread of pop culture throughout Canada (specifically restaurants, gas stations, coffee shops, national chains), are cities throughout our country losing their local diversity? Are we becoming a nation that looks the same no matter what city you are in? Explain.
Consider the article Graveyards of distinctiveness: how cities are making us all the same and then this quote to help:
Stroll into your local Starbucks and you will find yourself part of a cultural experiment on a scale never seen before on this planet. In less than half a century, the coffee chain has grown from a single outlet in Seattle to nearly 20,000 shops in around 60 countries. Each year, its near identical stores serve cups of near identical coffee in near identical cups to hundreds of thousands of people. For the first time in history, your morning cappuccino is the same no matter whether you are sipping it in Tokyo, New York, Bangkok or Buenos Aires.This is one example of many chains that populate many cities all across Canada...all where you can get the same product in a store that looks the same in a place that looks the same....same same same.
D Block Physical Geography - The transfer of rock and soil down slope due to gravity is called mass movement or Mass Wasting. Mass movement of material works to waste slopes and provide raw material for erosion, transportation, and deposition. You have some work in the Geomorphology package:
- Look at pages 258 – 260 in your Geosystems Core textbook and define the following terms (consider speed, consistency and moisture content): Rock fall; Debris Avalanche; Landslide; Mudflow; Soil Creep - For help you can also use Classification of Mass Wasting
- Define the role of slopes in mass movements using the terms: angle of repose, driving force, resisting force, and geomorphic threshold. (p.256) - For help you can also use Factors That Control Slope Stability
- What is scarification, and why is it considered a type of mass movement? Give several examples of scarification. Why are humans a significant geomorphic agent? (p.261) - For help you could also use Human Impact on Mass Wasting
And you know, because we live in BC...
A Block Legal Studies - We'll continue our look at trials and evidence. In a trial, witnesses must answer all questions put to them unless it is considered privileged. Privileged information includes:
i) discussions between a client and his or her lawyer in situations when the lawyer was acting in a professional capacity,
ii) any information tending to reveal the identity of a confidential police informant, unless disclosure is the only way to establish the innocence of the accused, and
iii) communication between spouses.
A witness is required either to swear an oath or to solemnly affirm that he or she will tell the truth. Section 16(3) of the Canada Evidence Act permits a witness who is able to communicate the evidence, but does not understand the nature of an oath or a solemn affirmation due to age (under 14 years) or insufficient mental capacity, to testify – as long as he or she promises to tell the truth.
The judge decides whether to admit or exclude evidence, as governed by the laws of evidence, case law, the Charter, the BC Evidence Act, the Canada Evidence Act, and the statute creating the offence. Evidence must be relevant to the facts in issue. The facts in issue are those that go to establishing the essential elements of the offence and any legal defence to that offence. Evidence may be presented with respect to other issues as well, such as the credibility of a witness, provided that the evidence does not offend the collateral evidence rule.
ii) any information tending to reveal the identity of a confidential police informant, unless disclosure is the only way to establish the innocence of the accused, and
iii) communication between spouses.
A witness is required either to swear an oath or to solemnly affirm that he or she will tell the truth. Section 16(3) of the Canada Evidence Act permits a witness who is able to communicate the evidence, but does not understand the nature of an oath or a solemn affirmation due to age (under 14 years) or insufficient mental capacity, to testify – as long as he or she promises to tell the truth.
The judge decides whether to admit or exclude evidence, as governed by the laws of evidence, case law, the Charter, the BC Evidence Act, the Canada Evidence Act, and the statute creating the offence. Evidence must be relevant to the facts in issue. The facts in issue are those that go to establishing the essential elements of the offence and any legal defence to that offence. Evidence may be presented with respect to other issues as well, such as the credibility of a witness, provided that the evidence does not offend the collateral evidence rule.
Lastly, you'll need to work on questions 2, 3, & 4 from page 211 of the All About Law textbook and finish yesterday's questions 2 & 4 from page 200 and questions 1 & 2 from page 207
B Block Criminology - Today we'll start our look at white collar crime. We will begin by learning how to identify a pyramid / ponzi scam (for more take a look at How Stuff Works). I'll introduce to Edwin H. Sutherland's Differential Association Theory (he introduced the concept "white collar crime"). We'll also see what we can find on the Internet about white collar crime....spoil alert LOTS!
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