D/C Blocks Social and Environmental Sciences - Today you'll be with Young all morning looking look at the problem of overproduction of food in the developed world and food waste. Food waste occurs throughout the growing, processing, packaging, selling and consuming processes. You'll watch the documentary “Just Eat It” and answer a series of questions about global food waste, food waste attitudes, solutions and their own food waste habits.
- What are some reasons we have so much food waste in Canada? Take a look at your own food waste at home and explain some of the reasons for the problem.
- Explain how food waste is found all along the production line from seed to table.
- How can we reduce the amount of food waste in our own homes? List three solutions from the film.
- Are aesthetics important to you when you buy and eat produce? Do you ever eat fruit or vegetables with blemishes or bruises on them? Would it bother you if a banana had a different curvature or if a zucchini had a slight bulge in the middle of its body?
- Should supermarkets have a separate dumpster for wasted food for people to better access? Why or why not?
- Why do we have expiry dates on our food?
- Have you ever eaten something past its due date? What was it and what made you make that decision?
- Why isn’t more food donated or used in a more constructive way? In your opinion what needs to change?
B Block Human Geography - Today the Internet and Social Media.
We'll examine the Internet and Social Media's influence on popular culture. The Internet has been a key factor in driving globalization. At its core, globalization is the lowering of economic and cultural impediments to communication between countries all over the globe. While some political and social barriers still remain, from a technological standpoint there is nothing to stop the two-way flow of information and culture across the globe.
So, the Internet has made pop culture transmission a two-way street. The power to influence popular culture no longer lies with the relative few with control over traditional forms of mass media; it is now available to the great mass of people with access to the Internet. As a result, the cross-fertilization of pop culture from around the world has become a commonplace occurrence.
Valerie Berset-Price wrote a lovely piece called From Pop Culture to Global Culture: How Millennials and Technology Are Influencing Our World. In it she states
Today you'll need to answer:
Has technology changed cultural taste?
How the Internet has Changed Pop Culture
So, the Internet has made pop culture transmission a two-way street. The power to influence popular culture no longer lies with the relative few with control over traditional forms of mass media; it is now available to the great mass of people with access to the Internet. As a result, the cross-fertilization of pop culture from around the world has become a commonplace occurrence.
Valerie Berset-Price wrote a lovely piece called From Pop Culture to Global Culture: How Millennials and Technology Are Influencing Our World. In it she states
For Millennials (although you are iGen in the context of this quote that would be you - my inset), two things are happening simultaneously: culture is impacting technology, and technology is impacting culture. On one hand, culture serves as a standard of judgment. It places an importance on what is acceptably good, valuable, and ethical. It conditions how and what we communicate, and it is the lens by which we perceive the world and, in some ways, the way the world perceives us. On the other hand, technology has served as a force for sweeping cultural change, joining the ranks of war, colonization, religious influence and military expansion as cultural modifiers. The expansion of the internet has allowed global communication and information to permeate everything from apartment walls to international borders...Such global exposure has provided the basis for peaceful international homogenization as well as deep conflicts of perspective, and technological advances have increased the speed and frequency of both.In addition to individuals contributing to culture, Multinational, nongovernmental corporations can now drive global culture. This is neither entirely good nor entirely bad. On one hand, foreign cultural institutions can adopt successful American business models, and corporations are largely willing to do whatever makes them the most money in a particular market. However, cultural imperialism has potential negative effects as well. From a spread of Western ideals of beauty to the possible decline of local cultures around the world, cultural imperialism can have a quick and devastating effect. (from Understanding Media and Culture: An Introduction to Mass Communication).
Today you'll need to answer:
- Social media (Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube) is changing the way that popular and folk cultures are diffused. Give and support an argument for how the Internet might aid the preservation, or even expansion, of some folk cultural elements.
- Why do many governments consider it important to limit the freedom to use social media?
- A recent study of University of Maryland students found that not using any electronics for 24 hours produced anxiety, craving, and other symptoms akin to withdrawal from alcohol or drugs (FOMO). How do you think you would react to a 24-hour ban on all electronics?
Has technology changed cultural taste?
How the Internet has Changed Pop Culture
Freedom House "Internet Freedom Status Map" *Good One!
A Block Legal Studies - You have the block to work on two things:
- Questions 2, 3 and 4 on page 231 of the All About Law text
- "Key Components of Criminal Code Offenses" worksheet, which you'll get today. You may work on this activity in partners. For the Elements that Must be Proven section you will need to identify both the Actus Reus (yes that means explain what the physical act or omission that it is which constitutes the crime) and the type of Mens Rea (yes that means explain what the Intent, Knowledge, Recklessness or Willful Blindness is for the crime - you have this in your text but you do not need to worry about general intent or specific intent for this activity) in each scenario you're given. For the Maximum Penalty section feel free to use the Wikibooks Canadian Criminal Sentencing/Appendix/Offence Charts for questions regarding narcotics you'll need to look at the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act and the Cannabis Act
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