Monday, October 1. 2018

Today's schedule is ABCD

A&D Blocks Human Geography - So today we'll start to examine the key issue "Why Do Countries Face Obstacles to Development"? Developing countries are confronted with two fundamental obstacles in attempting to stimulate more rapid development:

Adopting policies that successfully promote development and
Finding funds to pay for development.

Developing countries can choose one of two models to promote development...self-sufficiency or international trade. In the self-sufficiency model, countries encourage domestic production of goods, discourage foreign ownership of businesses and resources, and protect their businesses from international competition. The idea is that this will promote all parts of the economy, leading to jobs and development. The International Trade Path sees the sale of raw materials, food, or manufactured products in the world market bringing funds into a country than can be used to finance development.

You'll need to complete the chart in the week 5 package with notes from the text on the two different models of development.





B Block Criminology - Today we are going to the library to work on our next blog / journal entry. Below, you'll find a question on hyper-masculinity, male socialization, and sexual assault. I will need you to answer that question and then find a news story about a sexual assault. You will need to try to explain the motivation and roots of the behaviour of the assaulter in the story.

Explain how sexual behaviour could be socialized in males. Do you think that males who commit sexual assault are "hyper-masculine"? Why and where do men learn "hyper-masculine" behaviour?

The factors that predispose men to commit sexual assault include evolutionary factors, male socialization, psychological abnormality, and social learning. Most criminologists believe that rape is not sexually motivated. The evolutionary and biological factors of males suggest that sexual assault may be instinctual and developed over the ages in an effort to perpetuate the species. This notion holds that men who are sexually aggressive will have a reproductive edge over their more passive peers. Conversely, the male socialization view argues that men are socialized to be the aggressors and expect to be sexually active with many women. Sexual insecurity, then, may then lead some men to commit sexual assault to bolster their self-image. Hyper-masculine men typically have a callous sexual attitude and believe that violence is manly. Finally, another view is that men learn to commit sexual assaults as they learn any other behaviour.

Before you write your blog for the day PLEASE read this article: "The conversation you must have with your sons" AND this article "Why campuses are too often the scene of sex crimes".

Then, think about the media we are exposed to in youth...Check out the official Miss Representation website.