Wednesday, May 29. 2019

Today's schedule is BADC-L

9:05 am – 10:05 am Block - B
10:10 am – 11:10 am Block- A
11:10 am – 12:00 pm Lunch Break
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Block - D
1:05 pm – 2:05 pm Block- C
2:05 pm – 3:15 pm Personalized Learning

B Block Human Geography - Today our key issue is, "Where Are Business Services Distributed"? We'll examine urban settlements known as global cities (also called world cities) that play an especially important role in global business services. Global cities are most closely integrated into the global economic system because they are at the center of the flow of information and capital. Business services (including financial institutions, headquarters of large corporations, and lawyers, accountants, and other professional services) concentrate in disproportionately large numbers in global cities. In the global economy, developing countries specialize in two distinctive types of business services: offshore financial services and back-office functions. These businesses typically located in developing countries for a number of reasons, including the presence of supportive laws, weak regulations, and low-wage workers. So a couple of videos and then questions for me

1. Explain why business services are disproportionately concentrated in global cities.
2. Why have LDC’s have been able to attract back offices?
3. Describe the type of job you’re hoping to start after college. Is it a service? What does this, along with your knowledge of where service industry jobs are clustered, tell you about the range of service jobs?
4. Would it be difficult to do well at the job you’ve described above if you lived in a very small town? Use the concepts of threshold, range, and central place theory to describe why high-paying jobs are easier to find in large cities

A Block Physical Geography -Today we shift our focus to look at ecosystem components. We'll identify what an ecosystem is (along with its abiotic and biotic components) and understand what a community is.  You'll need to work on questions 1, 4, 6, and 8 from page 661 of your Geosystems textbook. For help on ecosystems check out:
"The Concept of the Ecosystem"
Ecosystem Fundamentals
Ecological Systems
Province of BC: Plants, animals and ecosystems
BC Species and Ecosystems Explorer
Energy Flow Through Ecosystems


D Block Law - Today we are back in the Learning Commons for another work day on our civil law litigator project. I will, once again, bring in some previous student work for you to take a look at, while I go over what you've got laid out as a first draft. You have 22 classes remaining in the semester which makes 12 classes left in the learning commons. Tomorrow back in the class and we'll look at annulments, separation and divorce.

C Block Criminology - So today we'll watch Fly Colt Fly. From the press kit released by the production company that made the documentary...

Fly Colt Fly plays like a comic book action movie fused with documentary examination and introspection - a chase film about the evolution of a controversial anti-hero and
the effect his mythology had on his own fate.Combining documentary, dramatic recreations, and graphic novel style animation, Fly Colt Fly contrasts the story of a real kid who fell into burglary to keep from starving, and his mass media doppelgänger, The Barefoot Bandit.

Colt is a new breed of outlaw folk hero - a pure fugitive, a runner. Though non-violent, his name will go down in history with the likes of John Dillinger and Billy The Kid. While telling Colt’s larger-than-life story this film examines the public fascination with underdog anti- heroes and how that notoriety in turn has been the kiss of death to the outlaws we root for.

 Remember what Paul Ciolino said in the 48 Hours doc we watched yesterday,

Colton's journey does read like a movie plot, sprinkled with rich details - like the backpack he carried during his two years on the lam. Inside were keepsakes from a lost childhood: Sketches of airplanes, two photos from the fifth grade and a Boy Scouts of America certificate. 

"This is an incredibly sad story," Ciolino said. "I mean, he's been failed at every step of the way. Where does this kid go to reclaim his childhood? We created this criminal and he survived the only way he knew how."

I'll be interested to hear your take on both the documentary and on Colton