C Block Human Geography - Today we'll look at the key question, "Why Is English Related to Other Languages"? English is part of the Indo-European language family. A language family is a collection of languages related through a common ancestral language that existed long before recorded history. Indo-European is divided into eight branches. Four of the branches—Indo-Iranian, Romance, Germanic, and Balto-Slavic—are spoken by large numbers of people while the four less extensively used Indo-European language branches are Albanian, Armenian, Greek, and Celtic. English is part of the West Germanic group of the Germanic branch of the Indo-European language family.
And to help you with language diffusion for Indo-European languages (remember the question about the nomadic warrior and sedentary farmer hypotheses?)
You have two charts to fill in a three questions to work on for me today
D Block Physical Geography - Today we'll look at glaciers and we'll make sense of how they erode the landscape and examine the land forms they create. We'll understand the differences amongst the various alpine and continental glaciers and we'll define: cirque, arete, pyramidical peak, hanging valley, truncated spur, esker, drumlin, kettle lake, and fjord; along with some questions from your Geosystems Core text.
For glacier websites check out:
Geoscape Nanaimo ice age legacy
USGS Glaciers of Canada book
National Snow & Ice Data Center All About Glaciers
Tongass National Forest Icefields & Glacier facts
USGS Glacier terminology
Eastern Illinois University Department of Geography glacier notes
Encyclopedia of the Earth: Glaciers
Rocky Mountain National Park glacier basics
We'll watch the BBC Earth - Power of the Planet episode on Ice
A Block Criminology - Today I'm going to show you a television show called White Collar. Before we do, however What is it that makes a successful business person and what kind of ethical behaviour is valued by corporate culture?
From USA network:
White Collar is about the unlikely partnership of a con artist and an FBI agent who have been playing cat and mouse for years. Neal Caffery (Matt Boomer), a charming criminal mastermind, is finally caught by his nemesis, FBI Agent Peter Burke (Tim DeKay). When Neal escapes from a maximum-security prison to find his long-lost love, Peter nabs him once again. Rather than returning to jail, Neal suggests an alternate plan: He'll provide his criminal expertise to assist the Feds in catching other elusive criminals in exchange for his eventual freedom. Initially wary, Peter quickly finds that Neal provides insight and intuition that can't be found on the right side of the law.
The episode I’d like you to show is called Hard Sell from season 1, which deals with stock manipulation and churning the value of stock in a boiler room (metaphor). From tv.com...
The scam is a "pump and dump", in which a group of "junior Gordon Gekkos" is selling bad stock. The guy in charge buys a large amount of dollar stocks, and has his men inflate the price by selling it over the phone. When the price peaks, guy in charge dumps the stock and leaves the buyers holding worthless shares. The average person loses $30,000, and some victims have lost their homes. The boiler room is mobile, moving to a new location after each stock dump
What is the "Profit Motive"
B Block Legal Studies - Today we'll watch an episode of Law & Order from Season 23 "Human Innovations" A big tech CEO replaces hundreds of employees with an AI, then is murdered. After the chief suspect's confession is thrown out, Nolan and Maroun must decide whether to use a video which purports to show the murderer killing the victim—but which could have been a deepfake manufactured by that same AI. In some ways, the fearful future depicted in this episode is already here.
After, your questions from yesterday...
AAL p. 187
3. Why is it important for judges to be impartial?
4. Why is the role of a court recorder so important to the appeal process?
AAL p. 194
1. Describe the steps followed in jury selection.
2. Identify eight categories of people who are excluded from jury duty, and give one reason why you think each category is ineligible.
3. Explain the difference between a peremptory challenge and a challenge for cause.
Today's Fit...
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