Day 49 - Friday, November 19. 2010

A- Introduction to Law 9/10 - Today we'll start by finishing up work on our "Typical Victim" of Assault. Don't forget to look through the crime statistics in your course booklet on page 4 for help. Who will most likely be assaulted and why? Now you are taking information and enhancing stereotypes for the people you are drawing. The stereotypes you're basing your drawings on are an example of profiling. Next week we'll take a deeper look at criminal profiling starting with a look at what psychopathy really is along with the differences between serial and mass murder. For the second portion of the class we'll watch an episode of "I Detective". In this show the investigation of a crime is followed and at key points the narration stops and you'll be asked to make a decision as if you were a detective in the case. I will ask you to keep track of your choices and we'll see what kind of criminal investigator / detective you'd make!

C - Law 12 - Today for the first 40 minutes we will we'll continue our look at criminal law defenses; specifically we'll work on the cartoon activity on criminal law defences:

Create a comic strip that shows and explains five (5) separate criminal law defences (alibi, self-defence, legal duty, excusable conduct, mental disorder, intoxication, automatism, consent, entrapment, mistake of fact, and double jeopardy). You will need to show the person committing the crime (choose a crime out of the Criminal Codes that I have in the class) and then you need to show how that person could defend themselves in a court of law.

This assignment is due Monday (November 22nd).

For the remaining portion of the class we will watch a Law & Order episode on Alzheimer's disease and the required Mens Rea for a crime to be committed ("Sundown" episode 9 from Season 10). There is a question sheet that goes along with the episode and I'd like you to have that finished for Monday's class.

Observed at: Comox Airport Date: 9:00 AM PST Friday 19 November 2010

Condition: Light Snow Pressure: 101.0 kPa Tendency :falling Visibility: 19 km
Temperature: 1.2°C Dewpoint: 0.3°C Humidity: 94 % Wind: NW 9 km/h

D - Geography 12 - As you can see above it is snowing today...there is also an arctic outflow warning. This means that wind is blowing from the interior of British Columbia through the coastal valleys and 5 to 10 centemetres of snow is expected this evening. Today we'll begin our look at stratospheric ozone. After looking at the ways that ozone protects us and understanding how it can be destroyed by CFCs you'll need to complete questions 8 and 9 from page 90 in your Geosystems textbook. For more information on Ozone look at:
US Environmental Protection Agency Stratospheric Ozone page
European Commission on the Environment Ozone page

We'll talk about air pollution, specifically the anthropogenic additions to our atmosphere. We will look at the effects of nitrogen oxides and sulphur dioxides on human health and terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.
Environment Canada Air Pollution site
David Suzuki Foundation Air Pollution Site
National Public Radio site on the London "Killer Fog" of 1952
EPA website on acid rain

Pau Hana!