A Block Legal Studies - We are back in the Learning Commons / Library to work on our criminal law memo activity. It is due next week, right? You should be on your second case now. Please look at the blog posts for weblinks and assistance on the memo format along with resources for your discussion section.
B Block Criminology - So, when it comes to crime, is Vigilantism good or bad? Do we trust the police or do we cave to the moral panic that crime is out of control and take extreme measures ourselves? What is a moral panic?
Some people think that since there is so much crime happening they feel the need to take on crime themselves. Often the story of Catherine "Kitty" Genovese is cited as an example. This classic narrative of human failing was in fact hyperbole. From the LA Times article...
When Genovese died it was the New York Times that created the shocking narrative of indifference and apathy, with a front-page story two weeks after the murder that began: “For more than half an hour, 38 respectable, law-abiding citizens in Queens watched a killer stalk and stab a woman in three separate attacks in Kew Gardens.” The story - and the number 38 - apparently originated with a conversation between New York City’s police commissioner and Abe Rosenthal, then the paper’s city editor. But the number was substantially exaggerated and inadequately checked before being allowed in the paper.
This created a moral panic/urban legend-myth that bystanders were apathetic to a woman's cries for help and ignored her - to the point that she died. Some saw this as a clarion call to act because others wouldn't. Some are some costumed "super-hero" vigilantes, like in Seattle - members of the Rain City Superhero Movement. Check out the Seattle PI article on them here. You can check out the article and video from Good Morning America on Phoenix Jones broken nose here. You can watch the Young Turks video on the Rain City Superheroes here.
We'll watch some of the full doc today and tomorrow
C Block Human Geography - Today, we'll look at the key question "Why Do Territorial Conflicts Arise Among Religious Groups"? Jerusalem - Religious Significance for three Abrahamic Religions (Judaism, Islam, and Christianity). 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.”
Monday we'll try to understand religious conflict with three other examples:
- Hinduism, the Caste System and social equality (tradition vs modernism);
- The "Troubles" in Northern Ireland (sectarian violence Catholic vs Protestant); and
- China, Tibet and the Dalai Lama (religion, culture, language, environment, oppression and control)
D Block Physical Geography - Today we'll really make sense of the Coriolis force. Let's get this out of the way right now...no, toilets are not affected by the Coriolis force, but both meso (middle scale) and macro (large scale) scale weather patterns are.
We will look at winds and pressure circulations. We'll understand where the permanent areas of high and low pressure are on the planet and figure out what that means for a macro-scale pressure gradient wind pattern. We'll try to understand what the Coriolis force is and see how it affects wind. We'll also talk about the Horse Latitudes, the Bermuda Triangle, and the Doldrums.
You will need to complete some questions from the Geosystems Core text. Don't forget that every day we are going to start by looking at the synoptic forecast along with weather maps.
Envrionment Canada: Weather Office Comox
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