A Block Physical Geography - Our next days in the library are Thursday and Friday this week. These should be filming days so I'll have the Chroma Key screen up and ready for you then. Today and tomorrow we are in the class working on our last Topographic map lab, which is the Okanagan Valley topographic map out of the Canadian Landscape Air Photo & Topographic Map textbook. The map can be found on pages 27-31 of the text and you will need to work on questions 1 a-c, 2 i, ii b & c (so, not a), 3 a & b, 5 a, b, c, & d, 6, 9 a, b, c, and 10. Please note that map 1 is 1:250000 in scale (1 cm = 2.5 km) and the contours are in feet while map 2 is 1:50,000 in scale (1 cm = 0.5 km) and the contours are in metres.
For an on line version of the NTS 082E (Penticton) 1:250,000 map here and the NTS 082E14 (Kelowna) 1:50,000 map here. You will have today and tomorrow to work on this assignment. If you need help with topographic interpretation check out the following websites:
How to Read a Topo Map from REI
Topographic Maps: The Basics from Natural Resources Canada (NRCan)
How to Read Topographic Maps from GAIAGPS
Lab 14: Map Skills I – Defining Location from Laboratory Manual for Introduction to Physical Geography – Second Edition (you know, like a first year post-secondary physical geography course text)
B Block Criminology - Again vigilantism. We'll finish the full doc of Superheroes today and tomorrow we'll jump into true crime coverage in the media and speculate as to why it may lead to vigilantism.
If you have Spotify then check out the podcast Vigilante
Vigilante is an investigative podcast about people who take justice into their own hands—for better or for worse. In both multi-part seasons and standalone episodes, the show spotlights everyday people driven to drastic measures. What motivates a vigilante? What are the structural forces that make them feel it's necessary to operate outside of the law? And what are the human consequences of those actions?
BBC has a podcast called Bad People and episode 102 was Paedophile Hunters: Do vigilantes help or harm justice? - This is linked to our look at shaming, vigilantism, Chris Hansen and the "To Catch a Predator" thing (more on that next week)
And there is an app called Citizen which in its mission states:
We believe in public information for the good of the public. In being able to act on safety alerts in real time. In transparency that bonds and that empowers everyone in a community, from city council to residents. We believe in giving people a way to use their phones to protect a neighbor, to prevent a tragedy, and to count on one another. And to create a safer world for each other, with each other.
We'll try to use our critical media lens and make sense of what the documentary is trying to tell us. My question for you to answer is:
How do the "superheroes" explain why they are part of this subculture and what are their core values?
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