D Block Criminology 12 - Today in Criminology class we're turning the clock back a week and a half. I'm going to show you a tv show called White Collar? From USA network:
White Collar is about the unlikely partnership of a
con artist and an FBI agent who have been playing cat and mouse for years. Neal Caffery (Matt Boomer), a
charming criminal mastermind, is finally caught by his nemesis, FBI Agent Peter
Burke (Tim DeKay). When Neal escapes from a maximum-security prison to find his
long-lost love, Peter nabs him once again. Rather than returning to jail, Neal
suggests an alternate plan: He'll provide his criminal expertise to assist the
Feds in catching other elusive criminals in exchange for his eventual freedom.
Initially wary, Peter quickly finds that Neal provides insight and intuition
that can't be found on the right side of the law.
The
episode I’d like you to show is called Hard Sell from season
1, which deals with stock manipulation and
churning the value of stock in a boiler room (metaphor). From tv.com...
The scam is a "pump and dump", in which a group of "junior Gordon Gekkos" is selling bad stock. The guy in charge buys a large amount of dollar stocks, and has his men inflate the price by selling it over the phone. When the price peaks, guy in charge dumps the stock and leaves the buyers holding worthless shares. The average person loses $30,000, and some victims have lost their homes. The boiler room is mobile, moving to a new location after each stock dump
The scam is a "pump and dump", in which a group of "junior Gordon Gekkos" is selling bad stock. The guy in charge buys a large amount of dollar stocks, and has his men inflate the price by selling it over the phone. When the price peaks, guy in charge dumps the stock and leaves the buyers holding worthless shares. The average person loses $30,000, and some victims have lost their homes. The boiler room is mobile, moving to a new location after each stock dump
This episode deals
with the white collar crime unit that we previously covered in Criminology and
I’d like you to have a discussion about this:
Agent Burke
describes the boiler room salesmen as "junior Gordon Gekkos". Gordon
Gekko was the mega-successful, totally ruthless stock trader played by Michael Douglas in the 1987 film Wall Street. Minor trader Bud Fox (Charlie Sheen) tries to break into the big time by following Gekko's merciless killer-instinct
methods. Along the way Fox discovers that Gekko-style success can cost dearly.
One of the most famous quotes from
the movie is when Gekko says “Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.
Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures, the
essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms; greed for life,
for money, for love, knowledge, has marked the upward surge of mankind and
greed, you mark my words, will not only save Teldar Paper, but that other
malfunctioning corporation called the U.S.A.”
So we’ve looked at psychopaths in
Criminology and we watched “The Corporation” which compared modern business to psychopaths…Gordon
Gekko is the embodiment of the psychopath in the 1980’s corporate world while
the boiler room characters in White Collar are a 2000’s version of the same
thing. So… does Avery Phillips (the “man behind the curtain”) exhibit
psychopathic traits and if he’s successful what does that say about business
(corporate) crime?
C Block Geography 12 - Today we'll briefly look at climate change. We'll examine the possible future for BC and Vancouver Island and see the issues that will confront us with water, drought, landslides, species migration, forest transformation, air quality degredation, glacial retreat, energy disruptions and coastal flooding to name a few. NASA has a good website (Earth Observatroy Global Warming) that tries to explain the concept of climate change and global warming without a biased political viewpoint for or against the subject. Check it out. You could also look at the Hyper Physics website from the department of Physics and Astronomy at Georgia State University. After we discuss this you should take some time to prepare for next week's final exam.
B Block Law 12 - Today you should spend some time preparing for your final exam next week. Some topics you should consider from the Introduction to Law unit are:
A Block Social Studies 11 - Your exam is a week from today (Thursday, June 21, 2012). I gave you a study guide for the Provincial Exam and by now you should have been reviewing it. You can get help and hints at LearnNow (check out the student section) or from StudyBuzz. You could also look at practice exams on the BC Ministry of Education Exam Site here. Whatever format you use to study (jeopardy style questions, flash cards, SQ3R notes) you should use the guide and start preparing today.
C Block Geography 12 - Today we'll briefly look at climate change. We'll examine the possible future for BC and Vancouver Island and see the issues that will confront us with water, drought, landslides, species migration, forest transformation, air quality degredation, glacial retreat, energy disruptions and coastal flooding to name a few. NASA has a good website (Earth Observatroy Global Warming) that tries to explain the concept of climate change and global warming without a biased political viewpoint for or against the subject. Check it out. You could also look at the Hyper Physics website from the department of Physics and Astronomy at Georgia State University. After we discuss this you should take some time to prepare for next week's final exam.
B Block Law 12 - Today you should spend some time preparing for your final exam next week. Some topics you should consider from the Introduction to Law unit are:
Chapter 1
1.
bill
2.
case law
3.
citation
4.
civil law
5.
Code of Hammurabi
6.
common law
7.
defendant
8.
lobby
9.
plaintiff
10.
precedent
11.
procedural law
12.
public law
13.
private law
14.
rule of law
15.
statute
16. substantive law
Chapter 2
1.
burden of proof
2.
democratic rights
3.
entrenched
4.
equality rights
5.
fundamental freedoms
6.
infringed
7.
legal rights
8.
mobility rights
9.
notwithstanding clause
10.
reasonable limits clause
11.
remedy
12. rights and freedoms
Chapter 3
1.
complainant
2.
discrimination
3.
employment equity
4.
human rights
5. intentional
discrimination
6.
pay equity
7.
prejudice
8.
stereotyping
9.
respondent
10. unintentional discrimination
A Block Social Studies 11 - Your exam is a week from today (Thursday, June 21, 2012). I gave you a study guide for the Provincial Exam and by now you should have been reviewing it. You can get help and hints at LearnNow (check out the student section) or from StudyBuzz. You could also look at practice exams on the BC Ministry of Education Exam Site here. Whatever format you use to study (jeopardy style questions, flash cards, SQ3R notes) you should use the guide and start preparing today.
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