Monday, May 22, 2023

Tuesday, May 23. 2023

Thanks to all of you who came on the Mount Rainier/Mount Saint Helens trip this year


Today's schedule is CDAB 

C Block Human Geography - Time to work on your questions from last week:
  1. How was Hinduism's origin different than universalizing religions? When did it originate?  Where did it originate?  What two ancient peoples’ beliefs blended to form Hinduism? 
  2. Complete the chart describing the origins and branches of the major universalizing religions (Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism)
  3. Give three explanations for the diffusion of Christianity.  Identify the type of diffusion of each explanation. 
  4. Give three ways in which Islam spread. 
  5. What does the term diaspora mean in the context of the migration patterns of Jews? 

D Block Physical Geography - Time to work on your questions from last week:
  1. Why are anthropogenic gases more significant to human health than are those produced from natural sources? (page 24 Geosystems Core text)
  2. How are sulphur impurities in fossil fuels related to the formation of acid in the atmosphere and acid deposition on the land? (pages 24-25 Geosystems Core text)
  3. Summarize the commitments Canada has made to improve air quality. (page 25 Geosystems Core text)
  4. List several types of surfaces and their albedo values. What determines the reflectivity of a surface? (p. 37 in Geosystems Core)
  5. Define the energy concepts of: Absorption; Diffuse Radiation; Conduction; Convection (p.35 in Geosystems Core)
  6. What are the similarities and differences between an actual green-house and the gaseous atmospheric greenhouse? Why is Earth's greenhouse changing? (pages 38-39 in Geosystems Core text)
  7. Generalize the pattern of global net radiation. How might this pattern drive the atmospheric weather machine? (pages 10-11, 40, 42-43 in Geosystems Core text)
  8. Explain the effect of altitude on air temperature. Why is air at higher altitudes lower in temperature? Why does it feel cooler standing in shadows at higher altitudes than at lower altitudes? (page 46 in Geosystems Core text)
  9. Explain the difference between marine and continental temperatures. Give geographical examples of each from the text: Canada, United States and Norway, and Russia. (pages 47-49 in Geosystems Core text)
  10. Describe and explain the extreme temperature range experienced in north– central Siberia between January and July. (page 53 in the Geosystems Core text)

A Block Legal Studies - In the Learning Commons today, we will look at criminal law defenses focusing on Alibi (disputing the Actus Reus) and automatism (disputing the Mens Rea), Intoxication, Insane Automatism, and Battered Woman Syndrome. After we look at automatism as a defense, we'll also look at the "excusable conduct" defenses of self-defence, necessity, duress, ignorance of the law, entrapment, legal duty and provocation. We'll go over your handout that has some really good notes to help you with defenses. 


Remember, your discussion section presents the laws (such as legislation, cases, and defences) and how they can be applied to the case to get a solution. There are two ways to write this information:

I.R.A.C. (Issue / Rule / Analysis / Conclusion).
C.I.R.A.C. (Conclusion / Issue / Rule / Analysis / Conclusion).

The most used is the second format, since it’s more comfortable to understand the order of events and is more persuasive since it presents the conclusion twice.

From Law Tutors...I.R.A.C means:

Issue - Begin with a short thesis sentence that briefly identifies the issue and the applicable rule and states a short answer. You should also mention, if applicable, the procedural posture of the case and the burdens and standards of proof.

Rule and Rule Explanation - Next, you should follow with a paragraph that states the rule, citing any cases or statutes upon which the rule is derived, setting out the elements and sub-elements of the rule, and clarifying how they relate to one another. You should also mention any rules of interpretation pertinent to the law you are applying. You should identify any undisputed issues and explain why they are not in dispute, then state the order in which the remaining issues will be discussed.

Application - After explaining the rule, you should compare the facts and the reasoning of the cases to the facts of your case, to the extent that the facts/rules in the cases are relevant.  You will need to analogize and distinguish the cases, showing why they are similar or different from the facts in your fact pattern to explain to the reader why he/she should follow one case precedent more than another. You will also want to address any counter-arguments that could be raised but why you believe they will not prevail.

Conclusion - For each issue or sub-issue, you should conclude as to how you think a court would likely rule on your facts.

Tomorrow we'll look at sentencing principles and options.

B Block Criminology - From Friday...I'd like to watch the Batman: The Animated Series Two Face (part 1) and  Two Face (Part II). These episodes provide an alternate origin story to Harvey Dent / Two Face than the movie The Dark Knight. There are Shakespearean and Gothic Horror overtones in the episodes. “Two-Face” is the first instance in the series where we see the origin of one of Batman’s villains as it is happening, providing a glimpse of the human before he becomes the monster (consider Mary Shelly's Frankenstein). Two-Face is one of Batman’s oldest foes, dating back to 1942. His origin in the comics is basically the same as what’s presented here, handsome district attorney, face scarred for life by a criminal, a mental breakdown and the release of a second violent personality obsessed with duality, justice, and chance. The Animated Series’ major addition to that story is that Harvey suffered from multiple personality disorder before the horrific scarring. When Harvey becomes Two-Face, it’s the climax of one man’s battle against his own self, a struggle which becomes laid bare for the whole world to see in gruesome fashion.

From Talking Comic Books... Perhaps the most standout moment in Two-Face Parts 1 & 2 is the reveal of Two-Face. Having been badly scarred and evoking Jack Nicholson’s Joker from Batman (1989), Dent screams for a mirror, before stumbling out from the Hospital room. As his fiancĂ© walks towards him, lighting flashes behind him, before revealing his newly scarred visage to her. Like the Universal Monster movies of the 1930s, this sequence demonstrates the operatic monstrosity, the unleashed anger and, perhaps most of all, the tragedy that sits at the character’s core...Gothic literature at its core. Part One can be seen here or Here

The animated series was a sort of watershed for crime serial animation in that it was styled after a "film noir" format (a gritty and dark Hollywood genre of crime dramas from the 1940's and 1950's). This episode is almost 30 years old (yep from 1992) and is a brilliant example of a cartoon series taking its audience seriously. It provided gripping, intelligent, and compelling episodes that did not shy away from important issues and was adept at examining crime from a criminology perspective (It even won an Emmy award in 1993 for "Outstanding Animated Program - for the episode "Robin's Reckoning"). It is sophisticated, mature, artistic, and faithful to the Batman cannon. From DC Comics (although they may be biased) it really is important to note just how much of an impact Batman The Animated Series had on the world of animation itself. With shockingly mature and often heartbreaking storytelling that addressed issues such as death, identity, family, and more, the series showed viewers that a cartoon could tell stories just as impactful and poignant as any other medium.

from TV.com...Harvey Dent, campaigning for a re-election, vows to rid Gotham of Rupert Thorne's crime and corruption. The tables turn when Thorne gets a hold of Dent's psychological records and discovers his alternate personality the violent Big Bad Harv. Thorne attempts to blackmail the DA with this, and the following fight in Thorne's chemical plant hideout results in an explosion that scars the left side of Dent's body, despite Batman's attempts to save him.

So when we finish the episodes we'll try to make sense of what messages they try to pass on to its audience (remember it's children), what the episode says of crime and what mass media theory we can use to explain how the creators (Bruce Timm and Eric Radomski) and writers (Alan Burnett and Randy Rogel) presented their ideas.


So, I want you to track your consumption of media for one day. Today we'll estimate how much time of the day you think you consume and interact with media. We'll look at this Kaiser Family Foundation study from 2010 and the Common Sense Media The Common Sense Census: Media Use by Tweens and Teens, 2019  it will give us a good idea about amounts. So for you...at the end of each four hour period that you are awake for one day I'd like you to write down what media format you interacted with for that previous time period and guesstimate how much time you interacted with it. I know that you are a generation of multi-taskers (and that you are interacting with this blog right now) so try to be as honest as you can about what you consume/interact with. Check out the infographics below as well...


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