A Block Legal Studies - Today and Monday we'll watch the 2019 movie Just Mercy based on the life of Bryan Stevenson. Bryan Stevenson is the founder and Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative, a human rights organization in Montgomery, Alabama. Under his leadership, EJI has won major legal challenges eliminating excessive and unfair sentencing, exonerating innocent death row prisoners, confronting abuse of the incarcerated and the mentally ill, and aiding children prosecuted as adults.
A powerful and thought-provoking true story, Just Mercy follows young lawyer Bryan Stevenson (Jordan) and his history-making battle for justice. After graduating from Harvard, Bryan had his pick of lucrative jobs. Instead, he heads to Alabama to defend those wrongly condemned or who were not afforded proper representation, with the support of local advocate Eva Ansley (Larson). One of his first, and most incendiary, cases is that of Walter McMillian (Foxx), who, in 1987, was sentenced to die for the notorious murder of an 18-year-old girl, despite a preponderance of evidence proving his innocence and the fact that the only testimony against him came from a criminal with a motive to lie. In the years that follow, Bryan becomes embroiled in a labyrinth of legal and political maneuverings and overt and unabashed racism as he fights for Walter, and others like him, with the odds — and the system — stacked against them.
B Block Criminology - Today we'll try to understand how media reports crime and try to take a theoretical perspective on what we've viewed so far in the course. What crimes the media choose to cover and how they cover those crimes can influence the public’s perception of crime. Editors and assignment editors make complex decisions about what crime stories they will cover (or not) and what the headline will be. Journalists and reporters, in partnership with their assignment desks and producers decide what information about those crimes they will include or leave out, what experts they may go to for input, what quotes from that expert they will include, and where in the story these facts and quotes appear. The way in which the news is brought, the frame in which the news is presented, is also a choice made by journalists. So, a frame refers to the way media and media gatekeepers organize and present the events and issues they cover, and the way audiences interpret what they are provided. Frames influence the perception of the news of the audience, this form of agenda-setting not only tells what to think about, but also how to think about it, so the media can't tell us what to think but it can tell us what to think about.
We'll watch the 48 Hours Mystery episode on the Highway of Tears. From CBS:
FYI: The province of British Columbia has a higher number of missing and murdered indigenous women and girls than any other province or territory in Canada. British Columbia accounts for 160 cases, 28% of NWAC’s (Native Women’s Association of Canada) total database of 582 and is followed by Alberta with 93 cases, 16% of the total. NWAC has found that only 53% of murder cases involving indigenous women and girls have led to charges of homicide.This is dramatically different from the national clearance rate for homicides in Canada, which was last reported as 84%. (From Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women in British Columbia, Canada)
Since 1969, at least 18 women have gone missing or have been murdered along Canada's infamous Highway 16. Locals call it "The Highway of Tears." The Royal Canadian Mounted Police's Highway of Tears task force, Project E-PANA, consists of 13 homicide investigations and five missing peoples investigations.
FYI: The province of British Columbia has a higher number of missing and murdered indigenous women and girls than any other province or territory in Canada. British Columbia accounts for 160 cases, 28% of NWAC’s (Native Women’s Association of Canada) total database of 582 and is followed by Alberta with 93 cases, 16% of the total. NWAC has found that only 53% of murder cases involving indigenous women and girls have led to charges of homicide.This is dramatically different from the national clearance rate for homicides in Canada, which was last reported as 84%. (From Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women in British Columbia, Canada)
So we'll not only watch the episode, we'll compare it to other forms of coverage (On the blog below...Vice, Al Jazeera, or How Stuff Works or the CBC's Missing and Murdered website).
Should this have been the documentary?
For some more recent coverage check out the CBC Virtual Reality documentary on Ramona Wilson and the Highway of Tears...
or Vice TV's Searchers: The Highway of Tears
or Al Jazeera...
or How Stuff Works on the Highway of Tears
or if you get VICELAND as a television channel there is a great show called WOMAN and there is an episode on murdered and missing Aboriginal women; here's a preview:
Highway of Tears from Natanael Johansson on Vimeo.
And of course don't forget the REDress project
For some more recent coverage check out the CBC Virtual Reality documentary on Ramona Wilson and the Highway of Tears...
or Vice TV's Searchers: The Highway of Tears
or Al Jazeera...
or How Stuff Works on the Highway of Tears
or if you get VICELAND as a television channel there is a great show called WOMAN and there is an episode on murdered and missing Aboriginal women; here's a preview:
Highway of Tears from Natanael Johansson on Vimeo.
And of course don't forget the REDress project
D Block Physical Geography - Today we'll start looking at storms and "CYCLOGENESIS"...sweet! We will look at mid-latitude cyclones and the source regions of air masses that cause these storms to develop. We'll analyze the difference between the three dimensional structure of a warm front and a cold front. We will look at how thunderstorms develop and what damage they can do. I'll show you a few quick videos of hail and lightning to see how they form and then we'll watch the Lightning episode of Raging Planet.
FEMA: Thunderstorms
physicalgeography.net: Thunderstorms
While the Raging Planet video is on, you'll need to work on questions 1, 2, and 5 from page 147 and question 10 from page 248 in your Geosystems textbook. The following sites will help with cyclogenesis:
UCAR: How Thunderstorms WorkFEMA: Thunderstorms
physicalgeography.net: Thunderstorms
Michael Ritter's The Physical Environment: Cyclogenesis
National Weather Service Jet Stream on line weather school
University of Illinois WW2010 Weather World Project
Rapid Cyclogenesis Web lesson
Environment Canada Understanding Cyclogenesis
National Weather Service Jet Stream on line weather school
University of Illinois WW2010 Weather World Project
Rapid Cyclogenesis Web lesson
Environment Canada Understanding Cyclogenesis
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