Wednesday, May 24, 2023

Thursday, May 25. 2023

Today's schedule is DCBA

D Block Physical Geography - We will finish our Seasons activity from yesterday 
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

C Block Human Geography - Today we'll finish looking at yesterday's topic of pilgrimages...from PBS Sacred Journeys Six stages characterize every pilgrimage:
  1. The Call: The opening clarion of any spiritual journey. Often in the form of a feeling or some vague yearning, that summons expresses a fundamental human desire: finding meaning in an overscheduled world somehow requires leaving behind our daily obligations. Sameness is the enemy of spirituality.
  2. The Separation: Pilgrimage, by its very nature, undoes certainty. It rejects the safe and familiar. It asserts that one is freer when one frees oneself from daily obligations of family, work, and community, but also the obligations of science, reason, and technology.
  3. The Journey: The backbone of a sacred journey is the pain of the journey itself. In India, pilgrims approach the holy sites barefoot. In Iraq, they flagellate themselves. In Tibet, the more difficult the trip the most merit the pilgrim acquires. In almost every place, the travelers develop blisters, hunger, and diarrhea. This personal sacrifice enhances the experience; it also elevates the sense of community one develops along the way.
  4. The Contemplation: Some pilgrimages go the direct route, right to the center of the holy of holies, directly to the heart of the matter. Others take a more indirect route, circling around the outside of the sacred place, transforming the physical journey into a spiritual path of contemplation.
  5. The Encounter: After all the toil and trouble, after all the sunburn and swelling, after all the anticipation and expectation comes the approach, the sighting. The encounter is the climax of the journey, the moment when the traveler attempts to slide through a thin membrane in the universe and return to the Garden of Origin, where humans lived in concert with the Creator.
  6. The Completion and Return: At the culmination of the journey, the pilgrim returns home only to discover that meaning they sought lies in the familiar of one's own world.
After we'll look at the purpose of religious calendars and the talk about ceremonies connected to death rituals in various religions

B Block Criminology - Two Face Part 2 

So, District Attorney Harvey Dent has a dark secret: multiple personality disorder and a violent other self. Crime boss Rupert Thorne attempts to blackmail Dent, leading to an explosion, a scarring, and the creation of the supervillain Two-Face. In this episode, it seems like Two-Face/Harvey is entirely justified in his actions. Two-Face isn’t Harvey Dent, and he isn’t Big Bad Harv. What he is is a twisted combination of the two. Big Bad Harv’s rage and disregard for human life is kept in check by a new form of justice: the flipping coin. A two-headed coin, one end scratched, the other pristine: This is the ultimate decider in Two-Face’s mind, having lost faith in a legal system that can’t keep criminals behind bars. Thorne is a criminal who blackmailed him, scarred him, and threatens the life and security of everyone else in Gotham. And if we accept the premise that Batman’s extra-legal crime fighting (vigilantism) is okay, then nothing Harvey does in this episode is that bad. He robs an illegal casino, he cripples Thorne’s finances, raids Thorne’s lawyer’s office, and in the end he was planning on doing the right thing and turning over evidence to the police to put Thorne in jail for good. Do the ends truly justify the means here? It appears so. 

Part One was gothic...part two equally so. Merriam-Webster's encyclopedia of literature indicates that Gothic Literature was expected to be dark and tempestuous and full of ghosts, madness, outrage, superstition, and revenge...hmmm fits the bill here. There are less than subtle Phantom of the Opera allusions with Harvey and the veil that covers half of his face in the conclusion. Both tragic, deformed figures, pining for love....much like Frankenstein's monster, Dr. Jekyll, Dorian Gray, and Count Dracula


There is actually a third episode in this story arc...


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? 
 
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. Some questions to ask of your work...
  • Are all the legally relevant facts included, no matter how inconvenient?
  • Have you raised all the legal issues, even if they complicate your analysis?
  • Does your analysis and prediction discuss all sides?
  • Have you covered all the counterarguments?
  • Are you straightforward in describing the risks?
  • Have you explained what is debatable given the particular facts?
  • Have you considered all reasonable interpretations of the cases, statutes, and client facts, and explained arguments and counterarguments?
Please look at the blog posts for weblinks and assistance on the memo format along with resources for your discussion section. Although you are not at Law School in University, I do expect that you'll demonstrate some high level legal thinking with this activity, right?

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