Criminology

After watching the 48 Hours episode on the Highway of Tears and the How Stuff Works video on the same topic, I've noticed a few differences. Of course, a documentary is going to have a contrast to a YouTube video, despite being about the same topic. The documentary focuses on a few particular cases, especially the one of Madison Scott. In the How Stuff Works video, it doesn't go into any particular case. However, it does address the astonishing number of Aboriginal women as victims as well as an overview of what qualifies as a Highway of Tears case.  I think because of the lack of focus on the other official Highway of Tears cases, the 48 Hours episode likely wanted to tell more about the vanishing of Madison Scott instead. I think that by doing this they avoided talking about the real issue here which is why there are so many of the Highway of Tears cases still unsolved and unrecorded. I would say about 80 percent of the documentary was about Madison Scott, and though her c...

Tracking Media Consumption 9:30am  - 12pm TV= 10 min Social media= 50 min School= 15 min Music in background= 40 min Total= 2 hrs 12pm- 4pm Social media + TV= 120 min  Total= 1.5 hrs 4pm -10pm Social media alone= 85 min Music in background= 30 min TV/movie + social media= 170 min Total= 4.75 hrs 10pm- 1am TV= 3 hrs Total= 3 hrs Overall (9:30am- 1am) TV alone= 190 min (3.1 hrs) Social media alone= 135 min (2.25 hrs) TV+ social media= 290 min (4.83 hrs) Music in background= 70 min (1.1 hrs) School= 15 min (0.25 hrs) Overall Total= 11.53 hrs Out of the 15.5 hrs I was awake, 11.53 of those were spent consuming media. That's 74% of my day consisting of watching TV, scrolling through social media, and listening to music. I think the other 26% (3 hrs) was spent going into town to Canadian Tire with my dad (to be fair, I was also practicing driving, so that's at least a little productive.) Of course, I will allow myself a b...