Tuesday, June 8. 2021

Today's classes are:

9:15 - 11:50 C Block Legal Studies

12:30 - 3:05 B Block Human Geography

C Block Legal Studies - Your two criminal law memos are due next Monday, we'll be in the Learning Commons this morning for you to work on them. Don't forget for your discussion section consider the principles of sentencing (deterrence, retribution, rehabilitation, resocialization, and segregation); the options for sentencing; along with considerations in sentencing; and finally sentencing, healing, and releasing circles. Try to identify the best choices among: absolute discharge, conditional discharge, probation, mitigating circumstances, aggravating circumstances, suspended sentence, concurrent sentence, consecutive sentence, intermittent sentence, indeterminate sentence.

B Block Human Geography - Today we'll look at the key question "Why Do Territorial Conflicts Arise Among Religious Groups"?  It probably comes as no surprise that various conflicts have occurred between religions and governments and between governments or ethnicity using religion as an excuse. So, we'll watch the Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown episode on Jerusalem

Bourdain's words...

“One can be forgiven for thinking, when you see how similar they are, that two peoples, both of whom cook with pride, eat with passion, love their kids, love the land in which they live or the land they dream of returning to, who live so close, who are locked in such an intimate, if deadly, embrace, might somehow, someday, figure out how to live with each other? But that would be very mushy thinking. Those things, in the end, probably don’t count for much at all.”

We'll try to understand religious conflict on Friday with four examples:

1. Hinduism, the Caste System and social equality (tradition vs modernism);
2. The "Troubles" in Northern Ireland (sectarian violence Catholic vs Protestant);
3. Jerusalem (symbolic significance); and
4. China, Tibet and the Dalai Lama (religion, culture, language, environment, oppression and control)