Wednesday, April 2. 2025

Today's schedule is BADC

B Block Criminology - Today we'll finish our look at terrorism and violent crime (Quiz tomorrow). I'll have you work on the following questions:

1. What is terrorism? Why do some attacks on civilians count as terrorism and others don’t? How does the motive, race, ethnic background and/or religion of the attacker affect the way attacks are responded to?
2. Who carries out terrorism? Is terrorism always carried out by organized opposition groups? Can states be terrorists? Can individuals? Explain...
3. Is the motive behind an act important in deciding whether it is terrorism, or should only the act itself be considered? What is the objective of terrorism? Is terrorism "violence for an audience" -- an act committed to inspire fear in the public and therefore force policy changes? Or does a terrorist act have specific strategic objectives? Does it make any difference if the perpetrators consider themselves martyrs for a religious or political cause?
4. If a cause is considered legitimate, are any means to achieve its goals legitimate? How does one distinguish between a terrorist and a freedom fighter?
5. Which of the five drivers of violent extremism identified in the United Nations Secretary-General's VE Action Plan do you consider to be the most significant one, and why?
6. Governments have tried numerous responses to terrorism. Discuss some of these responses. 

From Public Safety Canada

From UN Intro to International Terrorism

From Our World In Data: Terrorism

Protecting National Security in Partnership with all Canadians

A Block Physical Geography - You'll have about half the class, today, to finish up your work on the Hawai'i Kai topographic map assignment.

After, we are watching one of the best/worst disaster movies of all time...Dante's Peak (oh Bond...James Bond; I mean Dalton...Harry Dalton of the USGS Cascade Volcano Observatory you dedicated vulcanologist yet tortured soul). You will have a series of questions to answer about the volcanology in the movie (they are in your Tectonics package). Believe it or not there are actually some good things about the movie. I'm a big fan of the lahars and the pyroclastic flow is a fairly decent recreation. What I really want is a truck that can drive over top and through a lava flow like the US Forest Service truck in the movie...That would be sweet! Seriously though there are too many errors in science to count but you'll need to try to identify a few. Today will be the first half of the movie...the character building and hints of looming catastrophe part…tomorrow is the good stuff (and stuff that's just wrong - wait for my maniacal laughter) 

Today's Fit...