Tuesday, April 29. 2025

Today's schedule is CDAB

We have a mandatory Mount Saint Helens Trip Meeting at Lunch today.

A Block Physical Geography - Today and tomorrow we are working on the Medicine Hat Topographic map. Medicine Hat, Alberta, incorporated as a city in 1906, has a population 63,260 (based on the 2016 census). From the Canadian Encyclopedia

Medicine Hat is located in the South Saskatchewan River Valley on the traditional territory of the Siksikaitsitapi (Blackfoot Confederacy). The Saamis Archaelogical Site, located in the valley of Seven Persons Creek, is a designated provincial historic site. The location was a winter campsite used by Plains Indigenous peoples prior to European colonization. Medicine Hat’s economy has historically been tied to two natural resources, natural gas and clay. The city’s numerous natural gas wells led to its nickname, “Gas City,” while the clay in the region supported the production of various items, including bricks. Twelve years ago (in June 2013) the South Saskatchewan River flooded Medicine Hat temporarily displacing 8,000 people and affected 2,845 properties. The South Saskatchewan River peaked at 5,460m3/s. The Government of Alberta announced $9.1 million in provincial funding for Medicine Hat to use for flood mitigation measures along the South Saskatchewan River. This included support for flood mitigation projects such as berm and dike building along with riverbank stabilization to help to limit future flooding caused by the South Saskatchewan River.  

This is downtown Medicine Hat looking downstream - east northeast towards Police Point:

This is what the meanders on the South Saskatchewan River look like

You need your Canadian Landscape topographic map book and the Medicine Hat map can be found on pages 40-42. You will need to work on questions 1 a, b and d, 2 a & b (which we'll do together in class) and then, 3 a-e, 4, 7 a-d and 8. This work is due on Tuesday and if you wish to work on this activity out of the class (and really who wouldn't?) I would highly suggest you ask me questions ahead of time. You can find topographic maps of Medicine Hat on Google Maps (Type in Medicine Hat Alberta on a Google search and click on maps at the top and then choose "Terrain" as an option). Thanks DKay Creative Productions for the vid of the Hat below

B Block Criminology - Finish your gang poster. You have large paper and markers. After, you'll display your posters for a gallery walk in the class today so Get it done. From the Daily Beast: The songs (Narcocorrido) sound like a cross between mariachi and polka and come from the norteño folk tradition. The first of these ballads go as far back as the 1930s, and the lyrics, while they’ve always dealt with drug traffickers and murderers, have, since the Mexican drug wars began in 2006, become exponentially swaggering in their brazen glorification of violence. Americans listen to gangster rap and love to watch mob flicks. We relish crime depicted well and expect a level of authenticity in the portrayal. It’s nothing out of the ordinary to hire mafia members as movie consultants. We might even prefer musicians with street cred. It seems that as consumers we demand the real thing, not some impostor. 

I guess it's kind of like a Mexican version of

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