B Block Legal Studies - We are back in the Learning Commons / Library to work on our criminal law memo activity. First, we will begin our look at criminal law defenses focusing on Alibi (disputing the Actus Reus) and automatism (disputing the Mens Rea), along with Intoxication, while tomorrow we'll look at Insane Automatism, and Battered Woman Syndrome. Later this week, we'll also look at the "excusable conduct" defenses of self-defence, necessity, duress, ignorance of the law, entrapment, legal duty and provocation. We'll go over your handout that has some really good notes to help you with defenses.
In the 2013 movie "Side Effects" Emily Taylor, despite being reunited with her husband from prison, becomes severely depressed with emotional episodes and suicide attempts. Her psychiatrist, Jonathan Banks, after conferring with her previous doctor, eventually prescribes an experimental new medication called Ablixa. The plot thickens when the side effects of the drug lead to Emily killing her husband in a "sleepwalking" state.
Don't forget for your discussion section consider the principles of sentencing (deterrence, retribution, rehabilitation, resocialization, and segregation); the options for sentencing; along with considerations in sentencing; and finally sentencing, healing, and releasing circles. The Criminal Code has purposes and principles that provide judges with guidance in sentencing. However, it does not provide absolutes. The Criminal Code recognizes that each offence has its own specific circumstances and each trial and accused has its own specific considerations. From Criminal Sentencing Considerations at William Jaska Law (link above):
Judges must consider several principles:
- Proportionality: The sentence must proportional to the crime, and the offenders’ degree of responsibility – s. 718.1
- Totality: A component of proportionality, it ensures the sentence is proportional to the gravity of the offence – s. 718.2(c)
- Parity: The sentence should be similar to other sentences that involve similar offences and circumstances – s. 718.2(b)
- Restraint: The Judge must exercise restraint to ensure sentences are just and fair, carried out in a manner that is both appropriate and humane – s. 718(d), (e)
So, try to identify the best choices for your sentencing recommendations from among: absolute discharge, conditional discharge, probation, suspended sentence, concurrent sentence, consecutive sentence, intermittent sentence, indeterminate sentence.
Also don't forget Mitigating circumstances are a set of factors that can lessen the severity of a sentence. They do not justify or excuse criminal action, but they can result in lesser sentences or reduced charges (young offender/first-time offender/not a principal actor but a party to the offense/Significant Personal or Financial Stress/Non-Violent Crime). Aggravating circumstances are the reverse of mitigating circumstances. They are a set of factors that increase the severity of a sentence (Previous Criminal Record/Violence or Disregard for the Safety of Others/Planned or Pre-Meditated/Use of a Weapon/Cruelty or Malice).
There are Shakespearean and Gothic Horror overtones in the episodes. “Two-Face” is the first instance in the series where we see the origin of one of Batman’s villains as it is happening, providing a glimpse of the human before he becomes the monster (consider Mary Shelly's Frankenstein). Two-Face is one of Batman’s oldest foes, dating back to 1942. His origin in the comics is basically the same as what’s presented here, handsome district attorney, face scarred for life by a criminal, a mental breakdown and the release of a second violent personality obsessed with duality, justice, and chance. The Animated Series’ major addition to that story is that Harvey suffered from multiple personality disorder before the horrific scarring. When Harvey becomes Two-Face, it’s the climax of one man’s battle against his own self, a struggle which becomes laid bare for the whole world to see in gruesome fashion.
From Talking Comic Books... Perhaps the most standout moment in Two-Face Parts 1 & 2 is the reveal of Two-Face. Having been badly scarred and evoking Jack Nicholson’s Joker from Batman (1989), Dent screams for a mirror, before stumbling out from the Hospital room. As his fiancé walks towards him, lighting flashes behind him, before revealing his newly scarred visage to her. Like the Universal Monster movies of the 1930s, this sequence demonstrates the operatic monstrosity, the unleashed anger and, perhaps most of all, the tragedy that sits at the character’s core...Gothic literature at its core. Part One can be seen here or Here
D Block Physical Geography - Today we'll really make sense of the Coriolis force. Let's get this out of the way right now...no, toilets are not affected by the Coriolis force, but both meso (middle scale) and macro (large scale) scale weather patterns are.
We will look at winds and pressure circulations. We'll understand where the permanent areas of high and low pressure are on the planet and figure out what that means for a macro-scale pressure gradient wind pattern. We'll try to understand what the Coriolis force is and see how it affects wind. We'll also talk about the Horse Latitudes, the Bermuda Triangle, and the Doldrums.
You will need to complete some questions from the Geosystems Core text. Don't forget that every day we are going to start by looking at the synoptic forecast along with weather maps.
Envrionment Canada: Weather Office ComoxC Block Human Geography - Today we'll continue our look at the key question "Why Do Territorial Conflicts Arise Among Religious Groups"? It probably comes as no surprise that various conflicts have occurred between religions and governments and between governments or ethnicity using religion as an excuse. We'll try to understand religious conflict with three examples:
- Hinduism, the Caste System and social equality (tradition vs modernism);
- The "Troubles" in Northern Ireland (sectarian violence Catholic vs Protestant); and
- China, Tibet and the Dalai Lama (religion, culture, language, environment, oppression and control)
You have the rest of the block to work on your questions connected to this topic:
1. What three religions are in constant conflict over land in the Middle East? (p.216)
2. Complete the chart describing the three Abrahamic religions’ claim to this region. (p.220)
3. What was the military campaign by the Christians to recapture their Holy Land from the Muslims? What were the results? (p.216)
4. Why would the Chinese Communists feel it important to dismantle the religious institutions of a poor remote country?
5. Why is the Western Wall important in Judaism, and why is the Dome of the Rock important in Islam? (p.220)
6. What are some similarities and differences in the reasons underlying construction of the West Bank separation barrier and the U.S.-Mexico border fence? (p.219)
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