D Block Physical Geography - Today, we'll start with our last unit package...Climate, Climate Change, Overconsumption, Resource Use and Management and we are going to take a look at climatology and climate types on the planet.
We will make sense of the Koppen climate classification system specifically the following climates: Af, Am, Aw, Cfb, Cfa, Dfb, Dwb, Dfc, Dwc, ET (don't say it!), Bw, and Bs (Many thanks to Michael Ritter for his on line Physical Environment textbook!).
For help with Köppen - Geiger see:
Blue Planet Biomes - World ClimatesPhysicalgeography.net - Climate classification
You have three questions to answer:
- Describe the two ways moisture reaches the humid subtropical climate regions.
- Describe at least three locations where desert and steppe climates occur on Earth and provide the reasons for their existence in these locations (p. 166-7 Geosystems Core)
- Describe the five principal components that determine the Earth’s major climate groups (p.154-5 Geosystems Core)
C Block Human Geography - Today you have the block to work on your food/agriculture questions:
- What is pastoral nomadism and in what type of climate is it usually found?
- How do pastoral nomads obtain grain (several ways)?
- What is transhumance?
- In what way do modern governments currently threaten pastoral nomadism?
- How is land owned in a typical village that practices shifting cultivation?
- What percentage of the world’s land area is devoted to shifting cultivation?
- Describe the PROS and CONS of shifting cultivation, or the arguments made for it and criticisms leveled against it on the chart in the work package.
- Define and describe plantation farming by filling out the chart in the work package.
To help
B Block Criminology - In the class this week as I would like you to look at the Casey Anthony trial and specifically the media coverage of her trial in the United States. From the Biography Channel,
Casey Anthony, a young, attractive, single mother, stood accused of the murder of her adorable two-year-old daughter, Caylee. Hailed as "the trial of a decade," the proceedings generated a media feeding frenzy as each shocking new disclosure provoked a blizzard of coverage leading up to the shocking verdictIn June 2008 Casey's daughter Caylee went missing and was found dead later that December. Due to inconsistencies in her story, her delay in reporting her child missing, and increased public pressure and scrutiny, Casey was charged with Caylee's murder. A ferocious media storm ensued and Casey Anthony's trial was conducted both in a Florida courtroom and the national media in June 2011. 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 later this week with the documentary "15 Minutes of Shame")
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, and Social Comparison Theory connected to Schadenfreude. Today we'll watch part 1 and some of part 2 of the retrospective 2017 Investigation Discovery documentary Casey Anthony: An American Murder Mystery which provides an interesting eye on the topic of the media, true crime, and infamy.
A Block Legal Studies - Today we'll look over information about damages. Here is some info to help:
Compensatory Damages - The basis: Compensation in tort law is based on the principle of restitutio in integrum. The Purpose: To restore the Plaintiff, in so far as money can do, to the same position as if no tort had been committed. It entitles Plaintiff to be compensated for their pecuniary and non-pecuniary losses arising from the Defendant’s tort. Compensatory damages are divided into Special and General damages. Special Damages include: Pre-trial pecuniary losses incurred by Plaintiff which includes lost income, nursing and personal attendant costs, medical expenses and consequential expenses. General Damages include: Future losses resulting from Defendant’s tort. A Plaintiff may be compensated for three heads of damages under general damages: (1) Inability to work; (2) future care cost; and (3) non-pecuniary losses. Each item of damage must be separately considered and compensated for.
Non-Compensatory Damages include: Punitive Damages: These are appropriate where Defendant’s misconduct was so malicious, oppressive and highhanded. Their Purpose: Punishment and deterrence. Nominal Damages: which are small amounts of money awarded when the plaintiff has successfully established a cause of action but has suffered no substantial loss or is unable to prove what that loss is. Their purpose: Vindication of the Plaintiff’s rights and a minor deterrence to the Defendant.
Compensatory Damages - The basis: Compensation in tort law is based on the principle of restitutio in integrum. The Purpose: To restore the Plaintiff, in so far as money can do, to the same position as if no tort had been committed. It entitles Plaintiff to be compensated for their pecuniary and non-pecuniary losses arising from the Defendant’s tort. Compensatory damages are divided into Special and General damages. Special Damages include: Pre-trial pecuniary losses incurred by Plaintiff which includes lost income, nursing and personal attendant costs, medical expenses and consequential expenses. General Damages include: Future losses resulting from Defendant’s tort. A Plaintiff may be compensated for three heads of damages under general damages: (1) Inability to work; (2) future care cost; and (3) non-pecuniary losses. Each item of damage must be separately considered and compensated for.
Non-Compensatory Damages include: Punitive Damages: These are appropriate where Defendant’s misconduct was so malicious, oppressive and highhanded. Their Purpose: Punishment and deterrence. Nominal Damages: which are small amounts of money awarded when the plaintiff has successfully established a cause of action but has suffered no substantial loss or is unable to prove what that loss is. Their purpose: Vindication of the Plaintiff’s rights and a minor deterrence to the Defendant.
After, Learning Commons to work on your civil litigation project. Start with ONE case and work it through to completion. Tomorrow we'll come back to damages.
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