Nestled away, in the back corner of G.P. Vanier, you'll find room 115 (we used to be 611). Lurking in the shadows of this room is Mr. Young...waiting to pounce on unsuspecting students and natter on about volcanoes, hail, psychopathy, criminal law defenses, cultural diffusion, media theories, crime, and urban models of city development. He loves his job in 115 and can't wait to work with you this year.
C Block Human Geography 11 - Today we'll look at the key question "Why Do Farmers Face Economic Difficulties"? Commercial and subsistence farmers face comparable challenges. Both commercial and subsistence farmers have difficulty generating enough income to continue farming. Rice farmers of the Philippines from Dan Chung on Vimeo.
The underlying reasons, though, are different. Commercial farmers can produce a surplus of food (as we saw yesterday), whereas many subsistence farmers are barely able to produce enough food to survive. Because the purpose of commercial farming is to sell produce off the farm, the distance from the farm to the market influences the farmer’s choice of crop to plant. A commercial farmer initially considers which crops to cultivate and which animals to raise based on market location and the von Thünen model tries to help explain this.
Answer the following questions about von Thünen’s model:
Who was von Thünen?
According to this model, what two factors does a farmer consider when deciding what to plant?
How does cost determine what farmers grow?
How does transportation cost influence profitability of growing wheat?
How could von Thünen’s model be applied at a global scale?
First is the Bling Ring, the crew of Southern California teenyboppers who burgled celebrity homes by tracking their marks’ whereabouts via the Internet. The band of seven, which included E! reality star Alexis Neiers, burglarized the homes of Lindsay Lohan, Megan Fox and Brian Austin Green, Orlando Bloom and Miranda Kerr, Rachel Bilson, Audrina Patridge and Paris Hilton, who was reportedly robbed a total of five times by the group.
Second is the Brody Jenner type reality TV star, an L.A. rich kid who dated his way into pseudo-stardom.
Third, there is a version of the Lindsay-Dina Lohan mommy-daughter psychodrama, complete with lots of heavy talk about living through/off your children.
When we're done we'll talk about celebrity, fame, and how they fit into the social order and structure theories we looked at this week, then you can work on the missing things in your grades.
B Block Physical Geography 12 - Today we'll continue our map/poster on severe weather for elementary school students or our weather report for a newscast project in the library. Check the blog for sites to help. If you are doing the forecast option, Mr. Ingram is in room 003 and that is where the green screen is. You should have your script and props ready before you go and seeing as though there is no more class time, realistically today is the best day for your video recording.
D Block Criminology 12 - To start today, you'll have time to work on the two questions from this week along with a new one...They are:
Have you ever perceived anomie if so what and why? What causes anomie? Is there more than one cause of strain?
Have you ever been given a negative label, and, if so, did it cause you social harm? How did you lose the label, or did it become a permanent marker that still troubles you today?
Is conflict inevitable in all cultures? If not, what can be done to reduce the level of conflict in our own society?
Next, speaking of anomie and strain, we'll look at the "Bling Ring". From Nancy Jo Sales article The Suspects Wore Louboutins
The most audacious burglary gang in recent Hollywood history–accused of stealing more than $3 million in clothing and jewelry from Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, and other stars–appears to be a bunch of club-hopping Valley kids, motivated by vanity and celebrity-worship
Pretty Wild, which aired in 2010 (and was produced, oddly enough, by Chelsea Handler), was intended to follow 19-year-old Alexis Neiers as she lived a glamorous party-girl life on the fringe of the Hollywood club circuit. But then real life intervened: In the very first episode, Neiers is arrested for crimes connected to the Bling Ring, the gang of larcenous teens who stole from celebrities like Paris Hilton and Orlando Bloom...Suddenly, the manufactured reality of these Kardashian-emulating lifestyle shows begins to rub up against the very definite reality of a teenager's descent into criminality
These kids were raised in a culture in which attention equals power, regardless of the value of that attention and the actions that captured it. We have long showered the likes of Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan with such power. The Bling Ringers are only flowing in line with what they’ve been taught, or learned through osmosis depending on your point of view. It’s not what magazines and websites say about the celebrities that the Bling Ringers listen to; it’s the fact that they’re saying stuff about them at all.
Of course Dateline had an episode titled "Secrets of the Bling Ring"
The on line reaction was less than favourable
ABC got in on the act and did a bit on "Inside Hollywood's Bling Ring"
And of course TMZ and E! News were all over the story
By the way...2013 saw the release of Sofia Coppola's movie version of this story called "The Bling Ring"
Then in 2014 Vice profiled Alexis Neiers about he "struggles with addiction, her criminal involvement in the real-life Bling Ring (the inspiration for Sophia Coppola's 2013 film of the same name), and her former Playboy Bunny mother, as well as her new role as a sober mother, attempting to help her ex-boyfriend find a way out of his own crippling heroin and crack addiction".
This sets us up for tomorrow's Law & Order Los Angeles episode "Hollywood".
C Block Human Geography 11 - Today we'll continue to look at the Key Issue "Where Is Agriculture Distributed"? this time focusing on developed countries. In developed countries "agribusiness" include mixed crop and livestock; dairying; grain; ranching; Mediterranean; and commercial gardening. Agribusiness is a broad area that includes food production and services related to agribusiness like food processing, packaging, storing, distributing, and retailing. Canada is the 5th largest agricultural exporter in the world, and the agriculture and agri-food industry employs 2.3 million Canadians (that's 1 in 8 jobs)
We only have two questions to add to yesterday's work:
Why do some regions specialize in “milk products” like cheese and butter rather than fluid milk? Identify some of these important regions.
What country is the world’s largest producer of dairy products?
We'll try to look at the problem of overproduction of food in the developed world and food waste
B Block Physical Geography 12 - Today we'll continue our map/poster on severe weather for elementary school students or our weather report for a newscast project in the library. Check the blog for sites to help. If you are doing the forecast option, Mr. Ingram is in room 003 and that is where the green screen is. You should have your script and props ready before you go and seeing as though there is no more class time, realistically today is the best day for your video recording. Please remember don't wear green...
B Block Physical Geography 12 - Today we'll continue our map/poster on severe weather for elementary school students or our weather report for a newscast project that we started in the library yesterday. Check the blog for sites to help. If you are doing the forecast option, Mr. Ingram is in room 003 and that is where the green screen is. You should have a script and props ready before you go so realistically tomorrow is the better day for your video recording. Good luck!
D Block Criminology 12 - Yesterday we looked at Social Structure Theories and tried to see if the explanation of crime by the Crips fit within any of those theories (social disorganization, strain, and or cultural deviance). Remember the narrator in the documentary indicated that the Crips came out of an area that had poor schools, housing and an unemployment rate three times the national rate. Also Raymond 'Dhanifu' Cook said that they were "like bandits coming from the poor sections (of LA) to the more affluent sections (of LA) to requisition their material to bring it back to the neighbourhood" and 'Crippin' meant "are you ready to rob, plunder, pillage"? This kind of fits within the Social Structure theories. There are three major arguments among Social Process Theories that focus on how people learn to commit crime (Social Learning), how society fails to control deviancy and criminality (Social Control), and the impact of criminal labels on individuals subsequent behavior (Social Reaction). Today we'll finish the National Geographic "Inside the Bloods and Crips" show and to end the class I'll have you work on yesterday's question along with today's question:
Have you ever been given a negative label, and, if so, did it cause you social harm? How did you lose the label, or did it become a permanent marker that still troubles you today?
C Block Human Geography 11 - Today and tomorrow we'll look at the Key Issue "Where Is Agriculture Distributed"? Geographer Derwent Whittlesey mapped the world’s agricultural regions in 1936 which helped lay the foundation for the modern division of the Earth into agriculture regions. The five agriculture regions primarily seen in developing countries are intensive subsistence, wet-rice dominant; intensive subsistence, crops other than rice dominant; pastoral nomadism; shifting cultivation; and plantation and we'll look at those today. You'll need to answer the following:
What is pastoral nomadism and in what type of climate is it usually found?
How do pastoral nomads obtain grain (several ways)?
What is transhumance?
In what way do modern governments currently threaten pastoral nomadism?
How is land owned in a typical village that practices shifting cultivation?
What percentage of the world’s land area is devoted to shifting cultivation?
Describe the PROS and CONS of shifting cultivation, or the arguments made for it and criticisms leveled against it on the chart in the work package.
Define and describe plantation farming by filling out the chart in the work package.
C Block Human Geography 11 - Today we'll look at the key question "Why Do People Consume Different Foods"? The modern Canadian farm is mechanized and highly productive, especially compared to subsistence farms found in much of the rest of the world. This difference represents one of the most basic contrasts between the more developed and less developed countries of the world. Consumption of food also varies around the world, both in total amount and source of nutrients. These differences result from a combination of level of development, physical conditions, and cultural preferences. So today we'll try to examine these differences.
You'll need to work on the following:
Which of the three main cereal grains is most prevalent in your diet and why do you think that is so?
Compare world distributions of wheat, rice, and maize production. To what extent do differences derive from environmental conditions and to what extent from food preferences and other social customs?
How many kilocalories are in a Big Mac? You can use Google to find the answer. How does one Big Mac compare to the daily caloric intake of the average African?
Define undernourishment:
How much of the world suffers from undernourishment? Where are those places?
D Block Criminology 12 - Today we'll examine the role that socioeconomic structures within a society
affect criminality. Specifically, we'll examine the Social Structure view of
criminology that examines the impact of poverty on an individual’s chance of
committing crimes. There are three major branches of social structure theories
that include social disorganization theory, strain theory, and cultural deviance
theory and we'll look at the connection between social disorganization, strain
and deviance. A great TV show to look at that would help in order to understand
this is the Wire that ran on HBO from 2002-2008. In the show institutional dysfunction and the
decay of social structures cause urban Baltimore to become "gritty" and crime is
one result.
From IMDb...
Set in Baltimore, this show centers around the city's inner-city drug scene. It starts as mid-level drug dealer, D'Angelo Barksdale beats a murder rap. After a conversation with a judge, Det. James McNulty has been assigned to lead a joint homicide and narcotics team, in order to bring down drug kingpin Avon Barksdale. Avon Barksdale, accompanied by his right-hand man Stringer Bell, enforcer Wee-Bey and many lieutenants (including his own nephew, D'Angelo Barksdale), has to deal with law enforcement, informants in his own camp, and competition with a local rival, Omar, who's been robbing Barksdale's dealers and reselling the drugs. The supervisor of the investigation, Lt. Cedric Daniels, has to deal with his own problems, such as a corrupt bureaucracy, some of his detectives beating suspects, hard-headed but determined Det. McNulty, and a blackmailing deputy. The show depicts the lives of every part of the drug "food chain", from junkies to dealers, and from cops to politicians
Alas district rules preclude me from showing you this (you really should watch it) so we'll
instead focus on the Bloods and Crips in South Central LA.
Scott Kody joined the Crips in South Central Los Angeles in 1975 when he was in
grade 6. He was released from Folsom Prison on parole in 1988, at the age of
24. Kody was one of the most ruthless gang leaders in Los Angeles and the
California prison system but in 1985 he decided to reform. He adopted the name
of Sanyika Shakur, became a black nationalist, and began a crusade against
gangs. In Kody’s heyday, about 30,000 gang members roamed Los Angeles County.
Today there are more than 150,000. It is estimated that in 2002 there were
21,500 youth gangs in the United States with 731,500 members. So social
disorganization and strain can combine to develop a culturally deviant
subculture that can grow exponentially in size.
At the end of the video
I have a big question for you...and the question I'll have you work on for me
is: Have you ever perceived anomie if so what and why? What causes anomie?
Is there more than one cause of strain?
B Block Physical Geography 12 - It has been a few months now since your geographic consulting company created a successful report for the town of Orting Washington on the dangers of Mt. Rainier and building a new school to accommodate growth. With the profits that your company made from the Parks Canada contract, you decided to take some time off and headed to the American Midwest for a 10 day Tornado Alley tour with Violent Skies Tours. True to form you made some contacts with people through the owners of the company and both Environment Canada (EC) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have approached your company to create a map/poster on severe weather for elementary schools. Check out some examples at Canadian Geographic or National Geographic
Both EC and NOAA have indicated that the topics that you can research are: Tornadoes, Hurricanes, Thunder Storms, Lightning, Hail, Blizzards, Ice Storms, Drought, Flash Floods or Fire Storms (Forest Fires).
So you’ll need to either choose a topic (above) and identify the location where it affects the most OR choose a location in North America and identify the type of severe weather that affects that region the most (In the USA: Pacific Northwest; SoCal; Mountain West; Southwest; Midwest; West South Central-Tx; Gulf Coast-East South Central; South Atlantic; Mid Atlantic; New England; and Central Great Lakes; Hawaii; and Alaska. In Canada: SWBC; Okanagan; Rocky Mountains; Prairies; Northern Ontario-Quebec; Great Lakes; Atlantic Canada; Northern territories).
You will need to research the following about your topic:
What causes the Severe Weather Event to occur?
What kinds of damage does the Severe Weather Event inflict?
How is the Severe Weather Event detected and monitored?
Why does your chosen Severe Weather Event occur most often in the region you’ve chosen?
What safety precautions should one take in order to survive your chosen Severe Weather Event?
Give examples of the most extreme occurrences of your chosen Severe Weather Event that has happened in the region you’ve chosen.
A List of the websites that you used to assist in the compilation of this assignment.
WAIT...Of course, you may complete an alternate project as well. You and two others may become a weather forecaster and weather news interest broadcaster. So…
Congratulations you have received a job as a meteorologist with Environment Canada (or whichever meteorological organization you choose). You are to prepare a weather report for a newscast using the required information. You will be working in groups of three and each person is required to contribute to the creation of the weather forecast and the presentation.
What to Do:
1. Watch the news or the weather channel to see how they relay the weather.
2. Choose a job and complete the requirements for each job.
3. Work as a team to create a “live weather report” (forecast and a weather news on scene report) as a movie, using the green screen in room 003.
4. Create a script for your weather report (to be handed in)
5. Use a weather map from Windy tv as your forecast with a minimum of five days forecast.
6. Dress for success. Make sure you look the part of your character on the show.
7. The report should be 5-10 minutes long
For your green screen backgrounds consider using any of the following (you’ll need to edit backgrounds on your own)
B Block Physical Geography 12 - Today we'll conclude our look at tropical hurricanes.
While you are working on the questions I'll show
you some footage of Hurricane Ike and the damage done to Galveston Island (on
the Raging Planet Hurricane episode)
C Block Human Geography 11 - Today we start our two week look at agriculture. Our key issue today will be Where Did Agriculture Originate? I'll have you look at crop and domesticated animal hearths and have you understand the difference between subsistence and commercial agriculture;
B Block Physical Geography 12 - Today we'll continue our map/poster on severe weather for elementary school students or our weather report for a newscast project in the library. Check the blog for sites to help. If you are doing the forecast option, Mr. Ingram is in room 003 and that is where the green screen is. You should have your script and props ready before you go and seeing as though there is no more class time, realistically today is the best day for your video recording.
