Day 79 - Tuesday January 18. 2011

A - Introduction to Law 9/10 - Today is our last day in the library to work on our Forensic Science web page project. The deadline is Friday...that means if it's not in by the line you're dead...it's only worth 20% of your term grade...that's one fifth of your final mark...no pressure. Here are some previous examples for you to look at if you'd like:
Forensic Pathology
Forensic Serology or Forensic Serology
Forensic Anthropology
Computer Forensics
Forensic Physics
Forensic Odontology
Forensic Toxicology
Forensic Voice Identification

D - Geography 12 - Today we'll spend a few minutes working through the Doñana wetlands case study that I briefly reviewed with you yesterday and then we'll watch the next two sections of the Human Footprint DVD we started last Friday. After that, we'll watch a 20 minute on line video called the Story of Stuff.


For more on the Doñana wetlands check out:
Iberia Nature Doñana wetlands
WWF Doñana wetlands site
UNESCO Doñana National Park site

C - Law 12 - Today we'll finish looking at family law, focusing on support obligations. For more on Child Support in Canada check out About Child Support in Canada or see the schedule of tables used to calculate support here.

From the Department of Justice:

The guiding principle of Canada’s child support law is that children should continue to benefit from the financial means of both parents just as they would if the parents were still together. Therefore, if you are divorced or separated from the other parent, you are both responsible for supporting your children financially. The Federal Child Support Guidelines (Federal Guidelines) are regulations made under the Divorce Act. They set out some rules and tables to show how much child support parents should pay when they divorce. The child support amounts in the tables reflect what parents living in the same province, with the same incomes and the same number of children would spend on their children.

For the second half of the class we'll begin watching the black comedy of The War of the Roses, based on a book by Warren Adler. From the All Movie Guide by Hal Erickson:

The War of the Roses can best be described as a slapstick tragedy concerning the decline and literal fall of a marriage. After 17 years, Oliver and Barbara Rose want a divorce. Not for this couple is there anything resembling a "civilized understanding": Barbara wants their opulent house, and Oliver isn't about to part with the domicile. Barbara nails the basement door shut while Oliver is downstairs, Oliver disrupts Barbara's fancy party by taking aim at the catered dinner, Barbara lays waste to Oliver's sports car....and so it goes, culminating in a disastrous showdown around, about and under the living room's fancy chandelier.

We will watch this movie today and tomorrow in class. Thursday and Friday are in class exam days and your civil law project will be due by the end of the working day Friday...no pressure.