The Coachella Valley (Palm Springs) is home to more than 120 golf courses in the Mojave Desert...
There are over 400 golf courses in Arizona, with most being in either Scottsdale or Phoenix, along with Tucson in the Sonoran Desert...
There are over 80 golf courses in Clark County (mostly Las Vegas) in the Mojave Desert...
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)
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some videos to help are:
Golf’s Colorful Language Goes With Any Green
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. To help your question on placelessness with check out Places: Relationships and connections and
George Ritzer in "The McDonalization of Society" argued that homogeneity, predictability, efficiency and calculability are the core elements of the McDonaldization processes (the convergence of global culture - homogeneity). These elements endow McDonald's with a reliability and familiarity that both enforces the iconic status of the brand and appeals to customers throughout the world. It is these qualities that have contributed to the firm's success as a global force in addition to its association with Western or American culture. According to Ritzer, the homogenizing tendencies of globalization eliminate cultural distinctiveness, which he describes as a loss of meaningfulness or “nothing.” This would be an example of placelessness or homogenized cultural landscapes.
There were 165 Starbucks stores in 1992, and 3,501 in 2000, and as of the most recent count, there were 31,795 around the world, if you include the ones in grocery stores and airports. You can get Starbucks in the air. You can get Starbucks at sea. It is not only transnational but trans-elemental.
It's ubiquitous, it's everywhere. So, What does Starbucks Mean Anymore?
So, if you're up for it....here's Chapter 10 of his book, "The Starbuckization of Society?"
D Block Physical Geography - So we'll look at video from the last few days of posts (yesterday and last Friday), we'll continue our look at the Mississippi delta and floodplain and check out some other deltas. Lastly you have a few questions to finish before we dive into coastlines tomorrow:
- Describe the main features of a floodplain, and explain the role played by natural levees, oxbow lakes, and riparian marshes. (p.282-3)
- Explain why the country of Bangladesh is so susceptible to devastating flood. What factors upstream in the Ganges basin explain its form and pattern? Assess the consequences of settlement on this delta. (p.284-5)
A 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 look at individual exploitation of an institutional position, influence peddling & bribery, theft and employee fraud, client fraud and corporate crime. A great example of embezzlement and swindling was presented by John Oliver on Last Week Tonight...
*Warning potty mouthed adult humour so please watch with care*
Another really good example of a text message scam can be found in a CBC news story...where bad cheques are forged and passed on to unsuspecting victims. Perhaps you have received an unsolicited email with the promise of some amazing money windfall for you and the person who has emailed you? These advanced fee "419" scams are called so because the section of the Nigerian Criminal Code that makes it illegal to obtain money under false pretences is section 419. Millions of North Americans and Europeans are being targeted by scammers from Nigeria with very few being arrested or suffering any consequences.
419 is a modern day version of the 1500's Spanish Prisoner con when after the English defeated the Spanish armada in 1588-89, there were still a lot of English sailors who didn’t make it home. Letters began arriving to wealthy English families using the same idea, "if you can give me a small amount of money, then I can free this English prisoner.” In the same way then as today, the con man keeps squeezing more money and eventually begins threatening the victim. Canadian author Will Ferguson received the Giller Prize in 2012 for his book 419 - the tale of an email scam and a woman who sets out on a wide-ranging search for those she believes responsible for her father's death.
We'll also see what we can find on the Internet about white collar crime....spoil alert LOTS!
B Block Legal Studies - We'll continue with our trial procedure work today. There are basically seven steps in every criminal trial:
1. The case is called.
2. The trial begins.
3. The judge makes the “exclusion of witness order” if asked by either the Crown or Defense.
4. The Crown prosecutor presents the Crown’s case. Defense may cross-examine (question) each witness called by the prosecutor.
5. Defense presents their case by calling witnesses and possibly the defendant speaking themselves. The prosecutor can cross-examine Defense witnesses.
6. Both Defense and the prosecutor make closing submissions to the judge.
7. The judge makes a decision.
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.
You'll need to work on questions 2 & 4 from page 200; questions 1 & 2 from page 207; and questions 2, 3, & 4 from page 211 of the All About Law textbook.
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