Tuesday, January 16. 2024

Today's schedule is CDAB

C/D Blocks Social and Environmental Sciences - We head to the Library/Learning Commons for two things:

First Block is for you to finish up work on Mount Arrowsmith and Hawai'i ecology questions for Benton and yesterday's Mauna Kea questions for Young. 

The second block is to get ready for our interview project...Remember you need to be ready for Tuesday (a week from yesterday). Benton and I asked you to find out as much as you can about a local environmental issue or group. The goal of this assignment is for you to find solutions to the local environmental issue you have defined by either discovering what a local group is doing to address the issue or through researching about community action regarding your issue. Benton and I will conduct an interview with you structured around a W5H approach (who, what, when, where, why, how). Remember you're looking at groups who are trying to solve an environmental issue. Consider the following questions:

1. Which do you think is the best way to address this issue in your community, community action or public policy

2. What are the advantages of this solution? What are the disadvantages? You will need to be able to address the disadvantages, as well.

3. List some influential individuals or groups who might be willing to support your proposal.

4. How might you be able to win the support of some of these individuals or groups?

A Block Legal Studies - Remember, your civil law project involves letters to potential clients. 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.

Some of you asked about creating letterheads in Microsoft Word...

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I'll remind you that you have the option of completing a video commercial for your law firm much like:

Or real life ones...like this:

 

 11 Best Lawyer Commercials (as of 2023)

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Tomorrow is Flex. I'll be away in the morning but will be here after 1 pm. Come get help if you need it.

B Block Human Geography - Today we'll continue with the key question "Why Do Ethnicities Engage in Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide?" and our focus will be on Africa (Rwanda, Darfur, and Ethiopia).

If you are interested, Daniel Goldhagen's ground-breaking documentary "Worse than War" is linked below. In his documentary he states, "By the most fundamental measure -- the number of people killed -- the perpetrators of mass murder since the beginning of the twentieth century have taken the lives of more people than have died in military conflict. So genocide is worse than war."

And your questions are:

1. Give the historical background of the two rival groups in Central Africa’s countries of Rwanda and Burundi. 
2. What is the situation in Rwanda and Burundi today? 
3. Why might the European colonial powers have preferred to place in leadership positions members of the minority Tutsis rather than members of the majority Hutus?

Today's Fit...