Thursday, May 31. 2018

Today's schedule is D-C-B-A

D Block Human Geography 11 - Today we're back in the library for our recipe activity. Don't forget you need to:

1. Select a recipe that is associated with a particular culture, ethnic, nation, or other type of region. The best candidate is one of your favorite family recipes that has been passed down through the generations. 
2. Write the individual ingredients for the recipe in detail (as if from scratch). If you don’t have a copy of the recipe you will need to interview a person that does by phone or e-mail. 
3. Research on the Internet where the ingredients were originally domesticated. If there are certain ingredients that have not been domesticated, find their natural habitat (shrimp, cranberries, etc.). Research the domestication of animals (cows, chickens, etc.).
4. Create a map showing the diffusion of the ingredients into your recipe region. Print a blank world map of the Internet.
5. Write two paragraphs on how our region’s food has been influenced by diffusion/ migration (the Old Silk Road or Columbian Exchange). Discuss the climate and land use of the region where your ethnic dish is from.

C Block Criminology 12 - To start today, you'll have time to work on the two questions from this week along with a new one...They are:

1. Have you ever perceived anomie if so what and why? What causes anomie? Is there more than one cause of strain?
2. Have you ever been given a negative label, and, if so, did it cause you social harm? How did you lose the label, or did it become a permanent marker that still troubles you today?
3. Is conflict inevitable in all cultures? If not, what can be done to reduce the level of conflict in our own society?

Next, speaking of anomie and strain, we'll look at the "Bling Ring". From Nancy Jo Sales article The Suspects Wore Louboutins

The most audacious burglary gang in recent Hollywood history–accused of stealing more than $3 million in clothing and jewelry from Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, and other stars–appears to be a bunch of club-hopping Valley kids, motivated by vanity and celebrity-worship

and from the article  "Before You See the Bling Ring, Watch the Crazy Reality Show That Helped Inspire It" by Lindsey Weber  and Kyle Buchanan

Pretty Wild, which aired in 2010 (and was produced, oddly enough, by Chelsea Handler), was intended to follow 19-year-old Alexis Neiers as she lived a glamorous party-girl life on the fringe of the Hollywood club circuit. But then real life intervened: In the very first episode, Neiers is arrested for crimes connected to the Bling Ring, the gang of larcenous teens who stole from celebrities like Paris Hilton and Orlando Bloom...Suddenly, the manufactured reality of these Kardashian-emulating lifestyle shows begins to rub up against the very definite reality of a teenager's descent into criminality

and James Franco wrote on Vice

These kids were raised in a culture in which attention equals power, regardless of the value of that attention and the actions that captured it. We have long showered the likes of Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan with such power. The Bling Ringers are only flowing in line with what they’ve been taught, or learned through osmosis depending on your point of view. It’s not what magazines and websites say about the celebrities that the Bling Ringers listen to; it’s the fact that they’re saying stuff about them at all.

Of course Dateline had an episode titled "Secrets of the Bling Ring"

The on line reaction was less than favourable

ABC got in on the act and did a bit on "Inside Hollywood's Bling Ring"

And of course TMZ and E! News were all over the story

By the way...2013 saw the release of Sofia Coppola's movie version of this story called "The Bling Ring"

Then in 2014 Vice profiled Alexis Neiers about he "struggles with addiction, her criminal involvement in the real-life Bling Ring (the inspiration for Sophia Coppola's 2013 film of the same name), and her former Playboy Bunny mother, as well as her new role as a sober mother, attempting to help her ex-boyfriend find a way out of his own crippling heroin and crack addiction".

This sets us up for today's Law & Order Los Angeles episode "Hollywood".

B Block Introduction to Law 10 - We are in the library so that you may continue your work on the crime scene investigation project (Clue Us In). You'll have three more blocks of time in the library this week to finish up this crime scene reconstruction activity (no more time after that). Please remember that I have books on crime scene investigation in the classroom. Use these resources to aid you in the development of your project. Remember you need to create a crime...replicate the crime scene...investigate the crime as if you were an R.C.M.P. officer...and prepare a dossier file to hand over to Crown Counsel so that they may prosecute the case. Look at yesterday's blog entry for more information. Good Luck.

A Block Law 12 - Quiz day...you have your long overdue quiz on courtroom procedures and sentencing. After we'll continue our look at support obligations. We'll look at spousal support and self sufficiency along with child support.