Friday, November 2. 2018

Today's schedule is CDAB

D & A Blocks Human Geography - Today we'll look the the key question "Why Do People Preserve Local Languages?" This is the basis of your next project in Human Geography (for which we'll be in the library Monday - Wednesday next week). We'll look at multilingual states and linguistic diversity in Switzerland, Belgium, Nigeria and here in Canada. We'll try to examine of Celtic languages like Welsh, Irish, Breton, Scottish, and Cornish are being preserved along with Aboriginal languages (in Both Australia and Canada) and Maori (in New Zealand). Finally we'll look at English as a lingua franca and examine pidgin, Fringlish, Spanglish and Denglish.








B Block Criminology - Today, we'll finish the History Channel DVD "Scammed" From tvdb

There are essentially five cons that are the basis for every swindle since the dawn of man; today's Nigerian email scam is nothing more than a derivation of a Spanish conquistador's bait-and-switch con that started more than 600 years ago. In Scammed, Paul Wilson, dubbed the "World's Greatest Con Man," and his team take a detailed look inside the complicated schemes and micro-cons that have plagued unsuspecting people for hundreds, even thousands of years, showing how many of these scams not only survived but evolved to be brutally effective with the help of modern technology. In each episode, Paul plays out long cons on designated marks so that he can help expose the cons, hustles and schemes that have victimized so many people, while teaching others how to avoid them. Though the tricks may be the same, the stakes are higher; nowadays more than money is on the line. Social security numbers, bank account information, and loads of private information are there for the taking... but only if you let a con man in.

You'll have four questions to answer for me:

1. What’s the psychology behind the con and what can we learn from it? 
2. How does a con man identify a mark? 
3. What are the four phases of a con game? 
4. What is the one fact that instantly makes you harder to con?