B Block Criminology - Today I'll have you work on the following based on our brainstorming activity yesterday:
- What is the attraction of violent films and video games? Use examples from your brainstormed lists
- Is there more violent imagery in media now as opposed to the past (think graphic, realistic visceral)? Why / Why not?
- What kinds of people are drawn to violent imagery and what kind of violent images draw them to that form of entertainment?
- What is “morbid curiosity”?
- Are there any equally satisfying substitutions for violent entertainment?
- What draws our attention to violent media events (news) that are not intended to entertain? To help, From the Urban Dictionary: "Disaster porn" is when the media puts horrific or tragic images on a 24 hour loop, constantly driving them into your head, and then refers to the events portrayed as an "unspeakable tragedy" . .. .despite the fact that they have four different talking heads analyzing it 24 hours a day.
Why are we so drawn to violent entertainment? Violent films, video games and stories are very popular, as were brutal gladiatorial Roman contests and gory 14th Century jousts. What explains this enduring attraction to violence? Helena Merriman talks to the Mexican director of Heli, a professor of fairy tales and joins one of London’s most gruesome serial killer tours to answer this week’s question.
A Block Physical Geography - Today we shift our focus (ha ha...see what I did there? Such a bad Dad Joke...turning into Arsenault now) to earthquakes.
Japan....New Year's Day 2024...Mw 7.6
We'll look at some video of the aftermath of the Gaziantep, Türkiye (February 2023) Mw 7.8 earthquake along the East Anatolian Fault zone. The Feb. 6 earthquake and aftershocks that killed over 51,000 people in Türkiye and Syria left at least 156,000 buildings either completely collapsed or damaged to the point where they require demolition. The U.N. Development Program (UNDP) says the resulting 116- 210 million tonnes of rubble are equivalent to an area of 100 square km (40 square miles), if it were stacked to a height of 1 metre. Earthquake footage shows Turkey’s buildings collapsing like pancakes. An expert explains why
I'll have you take some notes down about the three types of faults (use Geosystems Core text How Do Plate Motions Affect Earth’s Crust? Chapter 8.7 Deformation, Folding, & Faulting p.229). After, you'll have a series of questions to complete:
- Differentiate between the Modified Mercalli, the Richter, and the moment magnitude scales. How are these used to describe an earthquake? Why has the Richter scale been updated and modified? (Geosystems Core text How Do Plate Motions Affect Earth’s Crust? Chapter 8.8 p.230-231)
- What is the relationship between an epicenter and the focus of an earthquake? Give examples (Geosystems Core text How Do Plate Motions Affect Earth’s Crust? Chapter 8.8 p.230)
- What local soil and surface conditions in San Francisco severely magnified the energy felt in earthquakes? Will this be a problem in the Lower Mainland / Southwestern B.C. in an earthquake? (Use this link - Solid Rock and Bowls of Jello)
- How does science try to predict earthquake occurrences and why is it difficult to do so? (Geosystems Core text How Do Plate Motions Affect Earth’s Crust? Chapter 8.8 p.231)
You'll have tomorrow for this as well...in the meantime, check out the cool interactive activity at National Geographic Forces of Nature or the Today in Earthquake History at the USGS. For more information check out the Latest Earthquakes map from the USGS or the science of earthquakes from the USGS or Earthquakes Canada or BC Public Safety Earthquakes
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