C/D Blocks Social and Environmental Sciences - Once again (because it's raining) we head down to do a Towhee Creek enhancement Study taking a look at the current state of fish habitat (particularly Coho and trout) providing winter habitat for Tsolum River salmon populations in the watershed. We'll see what we can find with Caroline Heim, Program Coordinator of the Tsolum River Restoration Society. So far in 2021, over 7,000 wild salmon smolts have been captured from Towhee Creek ponds using small traps and beach seines, and then transferred into the Tsolum River. Typically, during high winter flows in the Tsolum, young fish move into smaller quieter areas such as Towhee Creek and other off-channel areas to seek refuge from floodwaters. By around late April, these fish are close to 10 cm. in size and get the urge to migrate to the ocean as smolts. Due to factors such as less spring rainfall, timing of the migration, and low flows, many of these fish are stuck and unable to leave Towhee Creek
Then we'll work on restoration (clearing and enhancing) the stream bed - Many aquatic animals rely on stony stream beds, where they live on and in-between the stones. Sediment from soil erosion (eg, as a result of deforestation, earthworks or storms) in the catchment can cover the stones and degrade the habitat for fish and aquatic invertebrates. We'll look at stream shading - Trees provide shading that reduces temperature extremes, limits light and keeps water cooler to help limit algal growth, keeps water cooler to hold more dissolved oxygen (invertebrates and fish need oxygen to survive) and provides falling leaves and insects as a year round supply of food for aquatic animals. Finally we'll determine the bank stability, which is provided naturally by trees and plants. Root systems hold the banks together and are particularly effective when they grow right down to the water’s edge. Bare banks, erosion and bank slumping show instability.
A Block Criminology - Remember, over the next few weeks we'll look at Mass Media Theories and Media Literacy. Remember I want you to track your consumption of
media for one day. Yesterday I asked you to estimate how much time of the day you think
you consume and interact with media. So for you...at the end of
each chunk of time (6 am to 9 am; 9 am to noon; noon to 3 pm; 3 pm to 6 pm; 6 pm to midnight; and if necessary midnight to sleepy time) that you are awake for one day I'd like you to write down what media
format you interacted with for that time and guesstimate how much time
you interacted with it. I know that you are a generation of multi-taskers (and
that you are interacting with this blog right now) so try to be as honest as you
can about what you consume/interact with.
Today I'd like to watch the Batman: The Animated Series Two Face (part 1) and Two Face (Part II). These episodes provide an alternate origin story to Harvey Dent / Two Face than the movie The Dark Knight. There are Shakespearean and Gothic Horror overtones in the episodes. “Two-Face” is the first instance in the series where we see the origin of one of Batman’s villains as it is happening, providing a glimpse of the human before he becomes the monster (consider Mary Shelly's Frankenstein). Two-Face is one of Batman’s oldest foes, dating back to 1942. His origin in the comics is basically the same as what’s presented here, handsome district attorney, face scarred for life by a criminal, a mental breakdown and the release of a second violent personality obsessed with duality, justice, and chance. The Animated Series’s major addition to that story is that Harvey suffered from multiple personality disorder before the horrific scarring.
Today I'd like to watch the Batman: The Animated Series Two Face (part 1) and Two Face (Part II). These episodes provide an alternate origin story to Harvey Dent / Two Face than the movie The Dark Knight. There are Shakespearean and Gothic Horror overtones in the episodes. “Two-Face” is the first instance in the series where we see the origin of one of Batman’s villains as it is happening, providing a glimpse of the human before he becomes the monster (consider Mary Shelly's Frankenstein). Two-Face is one of Batman’s oldest foes, dating back to 1942. His origin in the comics is basically the same as what’s presented here, handsome district attorney, face scarred for life by a criminal, a mental breakdown and the release of a second violent personality obsessed with duality, justice, and chance. The Animated Series’s major addition to that story is that Harvey suffered from multiple personality disorder before the horrific scarring.
From Talking Comic Books... Perhaps the most standout moment in Two-Face Parts 1 & 2 is the reveal of Two-Face. Having been badly scarred and evoking Jack Nicholson’s Joker from Batman (1989), Dent screams for a mirror, before stumbling out from the Hospital room. As his fiancé walks towards him, lighting flashes behind him, before revealing his newly scarred visage to her. Like the Universal Monster movies of the 1930s, this sequence demonstrates the operatic monstrosity, the unleashed anger and, perhaps most of all, the tragedy that sits at the character’s core...Gothic literature at its core. Part One can be seen here
The animated series was a sort of watershed for crime serial animation in that it was styled after a "film noir" format (a gritty and dark Hollywood genre of crime dramas from the 1940's and 1950's). This episode is almost 25 years old (yep from 1992) and is a brilliant example of a cartoon series taking its audience seriously. It provided gripping, intelligent, and compelling episodes that did not shy away from important issues and was adept at examining crime from a criminology perspective (It even won an Emmy award in 1993 for "Outstanding Animated Program - for the episode "Robin's Reckoning"). It is sophisticated, mature, artistic, and faithful to the Batman cannon.
from TV.com...Harvey Dent, campaigning for a re-election, vows to rid Gotham of Rupert Thorne's crime and corruption. The tables turn when Thorne gets a hold of Dent's psychological records and discovers his alternate personality the violent Big Bad Harv. Thorne attempts to blackmail the DA with this, and the following fight in Thorne's chemical plant hideout results in an explosion that scars the left side of Dent's body, despite Batman's attempts to save him.
So when we finish the episodes we'll try to make sense of what messages they try to pass on to its audience (remember it's children), what the episode says of crime and what mass media theory we can use to explain how the creators (Bruce Timm and Eric Radomski) and writers (Alan Burnett and Randy Rogel) presented their ideas.
B Block Physical Geography - Today we'll continue our look at weather; working on an activity called “Sunlight and the Seasons” ("Solar energy and the reason for seasons"). After you have finished this activity you need to complete questions 17, 19, and 20 from page 62 in your Geosystems textbook. If there's time we'll see what Bill Nye has to say about seasons. Below you'll find what the rotation of the Earth on its axis -giving us seasons-look like and mean for us?
Don't forget that every day we are going to start by looking at the synoptic forecast along with weather maps.
Data Streme
Envrionment Canada: Weather Office Courtenay
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