Tuesday, October 23. 2012

Today's schedule is C-D-A-B

C Block Criminology 12 - Today, you'll be introduced to Edwin H. Sutherland's Differential Association Theory (he introduced the concept "white collar crime"). We'll take a few notes and see what we can find on the Internet about white collar crime....spoil alert LOTS!
National Check Fraud Center
Robert O. Keel White Collar Crime
Canadian Encyclopedia White Collar Crime
Federal Bureau of Investigation White Collar Crime Division
Understanding White Collar Crime
News Stories of White Collar Crime
After, we'll watch some Chapters from the movie "The Corporation". Please do not forget that the documentary is an opinion piece...it is trying to persuade you that a corporation acts like a psychopath. Not all business is bad but we do need to understand the "corporate view" of white collar criminal activity.

D Block Social Studies 11 - Today with Ms. Curry ...you can relax now - you got through WWI! Today, we'll start looking at what was going on in the world after the war. We'll talk about what was going on in Russia (the Bolshevik Revolution) and what effect that had on Europe and Canada. You'll read the first few pages of Chapter 3 in your textbook and use these as guiding questions while you read:

1. What did soldiers returning to Canada after WWI face?

2. What rewards did workers, who had taken wage reductions during the war, face afterwards?

3. Why were there so many strikes in the years after WWI?

4. What political ideas may have influence union leaders in western Canada in this period?

5. What was the OBU?

6. Define collective bargaining.

7. What did Winnipeg’s metal and building workers demand when they went on strike in 1919?

8. Describe the effects of this strike on Winnipeg.

9. How did the Citizens Committee of One Thousand see the strike?

10. What was the federal government’s response?

11. Describe the events of Bloody Sunday. What happened to the strikers after it was all over?

12. Which side do you think was right? Explain.

13. Who was JS Woodsworth?

 

A Block Law 12 - Today with Ms. Curry ...you'll be checking out Chapter 5 today and defining these terms and answering these questions:

Please define and explain the following: lineup, accused, detained, summons, warrant, Police Services Act, telewarrant, evidence, disclosure

1. What are the duties of police officers?

2. What process do police have to go through in order to search for evidence?

3. What are the rules of search laws?

4. Look at the R. v. Clayton case on page 156 and answer questions 1, 3 and 4.

5. List three rights a Canadian has on being detained or arrested.

6. What happens to the fingerprints and photographs of people who are acquitted of a crime? Do you agree with this procedure?

7. What are the steps to getting arrested?

8. What are citizens’ rights?

9. What happens during the Awaiting Trial period?

10. Read the piece on Alan Borovoy on page 172. Answer questions 2 and 3

B Block Geography 12 - Today we continue our look at chemical weathering by focusing our attention on karst topography and caves. We'll look on Google Earth at Guangxi province in China, Ha Long Bay in Vietnam, and Arecibo in Puerto Rico. If you go to the Geoscape Nanaimo webpage you can find some really good graphic and information about Karst on Vancouver Island (on the left hand panel click on "Our Rock Foundations" and you'll find the subsection on caves and karst). For homework you'll need to define: stalactite, stalagmite, flowstone, sinkhole/doline, and karst valley. You'll need to answer question 17, 20, 21, and 23 from page 443 in your Geosystems text and explain how tower karst (pagodas) forms and identify where it can be found. We'll watch the Planet Earth Cave episode and you can see the opening sequence here. This will help you with the week 7 questions on Karst topography and solution cave formation. Check out the National Geographic article "Cave of the Crystal Giants" which is about Cueva de los Cristales, or Cave of Crystals, a limestone cavern with glittering selenite crystal beams discovered in 2000 nearly a thousand feet below ground in the Naica mine in northern Mexico.

For cool pictures of solution cave formations check out The Virtual Cave. Also if you wish to see these features "live" you could travel 40 kilometres south and go to the Horn Lake Caves.