A Block Legal Studies - Remember, your civil law project involves letters to potential clients. You can find tips on plain language legal writing from the Canadian Bar Association. Plain language legal writing refers to legal writing that is well thought-out, well organized, and understandable to the client without interpretation: the language is clear, the legal concepts are explained and the technical terms are defined. For your Information, the professional code of conduct (ethics) for the BC Law Society states, it is a lawyer’s duty to:
- promote the interests of the state
- serve the cause of justice
- maintain the authority and dignity of the courts
- be faithful to clients
- be candid and courteous in relations with other lawyers
- demonstrate personal integrity.
So, what Defenses are there for Negligence?
The best defense is no duty of care (in other words you did not have a responsibility to the plaintiff). Another defense is that the Defendant actually met the Standard of Care expected (you acted in a manner that was responsible and brought no harm to the plaintiff). Other defenses include no actual loss or harm to the Plaintiff (although you may have been responsible for negligence, the plaintiff experienced no real harm to them) and…
1. Contributory Negligence – if the Plaintiff and Defendant are both negligent then damages can be split between them. In this the Defendant must establish that the Plaintiff was partially at fault
2. Voluntary Assumption of Risk – This implies that you accept factors that may lead to harm or injury. This means you assume risk. The Defendant must prove that the Plaintiff clearly knew the risk involved in their actions and chose to assume it. Waivers – are not always enforceable The Defendant must establish that the Plaintiff made a conscious decision to sign the waiver and knew what it implied.
You have the rest of the block in the learning commons to work on your project (including your law firm commercial if you choose that option).
B Block Criminology - Cindy, Casey, and Caylee Anthony...I want you to try to make sense of the crime (Casey and Caylee Anthony), the media's coverage of the crime (particularly Nancy Grace), feminist perspectives on criminology, the bad mother motif, Schadenfreude, and the way fictional crime media represented the story (Law & Order: Special Victim's Unit).
Remember this crime is relevant in that it represents a massive shift in what crimes are reported, spectacle culture and what is considered "newsworthy", how crime reporting changed with different media platforms, the polarization of society connected to injustice and outrage. Nancy Grace helped to shape a decade’s worth of suspected murderers and rapists in the public imagination, stressing their cruelty and alien coldness, tapping into a cultural enthusiasm for righteous witch hunts and armchair convictions (Lots more on this tomorrow and then next week with the documentary "15 Minutes of Shame")
This series provides an interesting eye on the topic of the media, true crime, and infamy (episode 2 is titled "Media Frenzy")
Today we'll watch part 2 and a little bit of part 3 of the retrospective 2017 Investigation Discovery documentary Casey Anthony: An American Murder Mystery
This series provides an interesting eye on the topic of the media, true crime, and infamy (episode 2 is titled "Media Frenzy")
Today we'll watch part 2 and a little bit of part 3 of the retrospective 2017 Investigation Discovery documentary Casey Anthony: An American Murder Mystery
And after watching some media coverage of the media coverage tomorrow...you'll have a question to answer for me:
Regardless of your opinion of Casey Anthony is it possible for her to escape the negative label of "Tot Mom" and will she ever be able to avoid the horrible mother image presented by CNN and Nancy Grace? Use examples from the Casey Anthony trial to explain your ideas. How does the concept of Schadenfreude apply to the Casey Anthony trial? How would low self-esteem make someone more likely to seek out schadenfreude-filled crime media? Is Social Media (Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat) good or bad for criminal trials and the news/media coverage of them? Use examples from the Casey Anthony trial and from either Monica Lewinsky's story or those in the 15 Minutes of Shame video (Matt Colvin or Emmanuel Cafferty) to explain your ideas
You should consider the following when answering your question:
- Think about who reports information and how that information is used.
- Think about your privacy and how you manage your on-line presence.
- Think about how social media can be introduced as evidence at trials.
- Think about how social media can be used for reporting during trials.
- Do viewer/user comments about media coverage of a trial provide valuable feedback for discussion or not? Why?
- Is public shaming protected by the right to free speech or is this a case where our old norms and principles have simply been exposed as unfit for a new era?
C Block Human Geography - Today we'll look at the key question "Why Do Farmers Face Economic Difficulties"? Commercial and subsistence farmers face comparable challenges. Both commercial and subsistence farmers have difficulty generating enough income to continue farming.
Rice farmers of the Philippines from Dan Chung on Vimeo.
The underlying reasons, though, are different. Commercial farmers can produce a surplus of food (as we saw last week), whereas many subsistence farmers are barely able to produce enough food to survive. Because the purpose of commercial farming is to sell produce off the farm, the distance from the farm to the market influences the farmer’s choice of crop to plant. A commercial farmer initially considers which crops to cultivate and which animals to raise based on market location and the von Thünen model tries to help explain this.
Answer the following questions about von Thünen’s model:
Who was von Thünen?
According to this model, what two factors does a farmer consider when deciding what to plant?
How does cost determine what farmers grow?
How does transportation cost influence profitability of growing wheat?
How could von Thünen's model be applied at a global scale?
D Block Physical Geography - Natural climate forcing and climate feedbacks today
First, Milankovich Cycles (eccentricity, or orbit; obliquity, or tilt; and precession, or wobble) and
then the Thermohaline circulation system,
First, Milankovich Cycles (eccentricity, or orbit; obliquity, or tilt; and precession, or wobble) and
then the Thermohaline circulation system,
You have three questions to address:
- How do volcanoes act to both increase and decrease temperatures on Earth? (Page 185 Geosystems Core)
- What are the three components of the Milankovitch cycles and what are their timescales? (Pages 182-3 Geosystems Core)
- If the major currents in the oceans were to slow down or stop, how would that affect the distribution of heat on Earth, and what effect might that have on glaciation?
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