Room 611: Thursday, March 7. 2024

Today's schedule is DCBA

D Block Physical Geography - Today we'll begin the class by looking at Yellowstone and caldera supervolcanoes 😯

Yellowstone Caldera is a volcanic crater some 40- by 25-miles large, left behind when 240 cubic miles of debris ruptured out of the Earth and into the air during volcanic discharge some 630,000 years ago. Lava flowed into the breach, filling it, which may account for the lack of a deeper crater. Long before that, 2 million years ago, volcanic activity blew 600 cubic miles of Yellowstone debris into the air. The upper chamber, which caused the historic blasts and is closest to the surface, is 2,500 cubic miles in volume and measures about 19 by 55 miles. The lower reservoir, which has a volume of 11,200 cubic miles, measures about 30 by 44 miles and is about 16 miles thick. An eruption in the next few thousand years, however, is extremely unlikely, the yearly chance sits at 1 in 700,000

and the really bad DocuDrama movie SUPERVOLCANO

You have your explosive and effusive Volcano 🌋 questions to work on

C Block Human Geography - Today we'll try to answer the Key Questions "Where are Migrants Distributed and Why Do People Migrate?" We'll look at the difference between a migrant and a refugee. We'll look at in-migration (immigration to) and out-migration (emigration from) and patterns of international migration. We'll look at a brief history of immigration policy in Canada (Hint hint it's kinda Eurocentric up to the late 1960's), Zelinski's migration transition (what stages of the DTM do we find in and out migration) and lastly push and pull factors for migration. You'll have some work to complete for me in your Migration Unit package.

UNHCR (United Nations High Commission on Refugees) Ukraine Situation

Government of Canada Ukraine immigration measures

2020 United Nations World Migration Report

International Organization for Migration Global Migration Trends

5 charts that bust some myths about migration

From east to west: 140 years of interprovincial migration

150 years of immigration in Canada

Canada: A History of Refuge

Building a Mosaic: The Evolution of Canada’s Approach to Immigrant Integration

Canadian International Development Platform Migration Flows

B Block Legal Studies - Today will be our last day in the learning commons for our Human Rights poster. I have poster paper for your Human Rights project and I'll give you the paper once I've seen your ideas (a rough sketch). Remember you need to create a visually appealing Human Rights Campaign Poster that addresses the human rights violation by incorporating key information (What is happening? Where is it taking place? What rights are being violated? Who is having their rights violated? Why are their rights being violated?) as well as pictures, symbols, and colours. Your poster, which is due Tomorrow, should seek to draw the attention of the public through the balanced combination of text and visuals in a creative, yet educational manner!

When that's complete, I'll have you work on the following questions from the All About Law textbook:

Questions 1-4 on page 94:

1. Explain the difference between civil rights and human rights.

2. How do prejudice and stereotyping lead to discrimination?

3. Explain the difference between a complainant and a respondent.

4. What is the difference between intentional and unintentional discrimination?

Questions 4 & 5 from page 97:

4. Explain the concept of a poisoned work environment. Provide an example.

5. Explain the difference between accommodation and undue hardship.

AND Question 5 from page 104:

5. What types of remedies are available under human rights law?

A Block Criminology - We'll continue our look at sexual violence today. I need you to answer the question:

Identify and explain the causes for sexual assault

So, to help answer the question, I'd like to share the CBC DocZone Documentary "Sext Up Kids" with you. The documentary exposes how growing up in a hyper-sexualized culture hurts our kids and sends the wrong messages that could potentially lead to sexual assaults. From the CBC site:

From tiny tots strutting bikini-clad bodies in beauty pageants to companies marketing itty-bitty thongs and padded bras to 9-year olds, images of ever-younger sexualized girls have become commonplace. Add to that: ever-younger boys with 24-7 access to hard-core internet porn. It saturates their lives - from skate parks to the school bus – by the time they’re eighteen, 80 percent of boys are watching porn online.

We'll watch the documentary and use information from it to help with our blog entry from Monday.

For more info check out the following sites:

What Teenagers Are Learning From Online Porn
Pornography is more than just sexual fantasy. It’s cultural violence.
United Nations What is Sexual Violence
Why Do Men Sexually Assault Women? Sexual violence against women manifests, rather than violates, society’s norms
Government of Quebec Media Kit on Sexual Violence

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