A 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.
B 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?
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?
After the video, you'll have time to finish up questions 1, 2, and 3 from page 133 of the All About Law text.
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?
From Lumen Learning, Foundations of Culture and Identity
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.
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
D Block Physical Geography - Today we finish Dante's Peak and don't forget that you have a series of questions to answer about the volcanology of the movie (in your Volcano work package). Today we'll get to the main portion of the volcanic eruption and the effects that Dante's Peak takes on the small town that sits in a valley near its base. Dante's Peak produces a Plinian eruption (lots of material ejected and very active). The order of eruption at Dante's Peak is:
- Tectonic Earthquakes
- Harmonic Tremors
- Vertical Eruptive Cloud
- Spreading of the Eruptive Cloud and Ash Fall
- Lava Flow
- Relative Calm...cue the slasher movie music
- Lahars
- Pyroclastic Cloud
- End of Eruptive activity - relative calm
- USGS Vulcanologist Harry Dalton hooks up with Mayor Rachel Wando and presumably live happily ever after
Now, here is what I think: I hate Dante’s Peak. It isn’t really the lack of much scientific basics – sure, they mostly understand how volcanic monitoring works but they miss the boat on how volcanoes actually work. It isn’t the acting – Linda and Pierce are good and believable. It isn’t the coffee-loving USGS geolackeys (that is accurate). However, it is the combination of everything – the over-the-top response from Harry about the volcanic rumblings, the resistance from his boss, the recalcitrant grandmother, the deus ex machina mine shelter. The damn dog jumping in the truck as they drive over an ACTIVE LAVA FLOW. The film is, at the same time, trying to be realistic while being wildly unrealistic, and in most cases, there was no need to be unrealistic when it comes to an eruption in the Cascades threatening a town. But no, we can’t take the time to actually portray real events (“Dante’s Peak” lacked a scientific adviser). Sure, it can be exciting but, for me, it was so frustrating that I couldn’t get over it.My friend I agree, wholeheartedly. Check out the archived Geological Guidebook to Dante's Peak and from the LA Times archive Volcanologists Survey ‘Dante’s Peak’ or Dino Jim's Dante's Peak Geological Overview
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