Sunday, June 9, 2024

Monday, June 10. 2024

Today's schedule is ABCD

A Block Criminology - Today we'll finish the documentary 15 Minutes of Shame, which looks at public shaming in modern day culture. This original documentary film examines social behavior by embedding with individuals from across the U.S. who have been publicly shamed or cyber-harassed – while exploring the bullies, the bystanders, the media, psychologists, politicians and experts in between. Clearly Nancy Grace and her 5 year (still doing it today too) public shaming of Casey Anthony could be seen in a range from free speech/public knowledge to obsessive harassment along with everything in-between. So, we'll watch we'll watch "15 Minutes of Shame"

We need to think critically about how and why media are made; examining the impact that media have on us and on society; and reflecting on how we use digital and media tools. So what is true crime, in terms of media, why is it produced? What stories get told? From the News Literacy Project:
As high-profile court cases unfold, journalists monitor and sort through hours of proceedings in real time. News organizations work to spotlight and explain standout moments for their audiences, who may be aware of a trial but aren’t following it gavel-to-gavel. So, how do journalists decide what to cover? Understanding the criteria that standards-based news organizations use to determine what is “newsworthy” is a key news literacy concept. The poster [below that I've added] outlines the factors that determine newsworthiness, which impacts what issues and events get covered — and how prominently. These factors include how timely, important, interesting and unique a story is. What happens, for instance, when a story is timely without being particularly important, interesting or unique? Is it still newsworthy? Do some factors weigh more heavily than others, depending on the story?  
How do true crime stories get packaged and then what might coverage of true crime media tell us about North American society? What makes a true crime story newsworthy?

Remember you have a question to answer...and I do need you to use some of the information from the 15 Minutes of Shame documentary (specifically schadenfreude)

Why do you think True Crime is such a popular content area/genre in mass media and what are the potential effects of consuming it? Are the voyeurisms of consuming the True Crime genre of media an example of curiosity or exploitation? Does it teach? Does it normalize? Does it Rationalize? Does it Trivialize?




And from the article
“Schadenfreude is one way we try to cope with jealousy and vulnerability,” said clinical psychologist Emily Anhalt, co-founder of Coa, a mental health app. It’s an “ego protector” that shields people from pain and reinforces social bonds within a group, like when joy erupts among sports fans after their rival faces a humiliating loss. One study found that schadenfreude on social media can ice out empathy, making people less compassionate toward those who differ from them. Other research suggests that delighting in the mishaps of others can actually lower a person’s self-esteem, especially when they are comparing themselves to high achievers.

B Block Legal Studies - Today we start straight away in the Library / Learning Commons where we'll look at professional negligence. Before we do that, however...FYI in a case that may look familiar to your project


For your civil law project, there are things you should know about Professional Negligence and standard of care:

Reibl v. Hughes (1980, SCC) 


The Court held that the actions of the doctor in this case were negligent. The relationship of doctor -patient gives rise to a duty for the doctor to disclose all material risks relationship to the recommended surgery.  The Court held that the doctor failed to adequately communicate to the appellant the risks of the operation that he was to undergo. The doctor was negligent in leaving the patient with the opinion that he would be better off for having the operation. The doctor should have more clearly explained the incidences of mortality and the incidences of morbidity. He was also negligent in not making it plain to the plaintiff appellant that the operation would not cure his headaches. There was no neurological deficit that mandated the surgery. There was also no emergency that required the surgery

1. Lack of informed consent won't lead to liability for battery unless there is no consent at all, where there is fraud, or where the treatment went beyond the consent.  However, negligence principles are to be applied.

2. modified objective test - relies on a combination of objective and subjective factors in order to determine whether the failure to disclose actually caused the harm of which the plaintiff complains. It requires that the court consider what the reasonable patient in the circumstances of the plaintiff  would have done if faced w/ the same situation.

1st QUESTION: Whether the Dr. gave the warning?

2nd QUESTION: Would the patient have gone ahead anyway?

To succeed there are 3 steps:

1. Plaintiff must show that material risk existed
2. Plaintiff must show that material risk was not disclosed
3. Plaintiff must show that had risk been disclosed plaintiff would not have consented - prove using the subjective/objective test



C Block Human Geography - Today we'll continue with the key question "Why Do Ethnicities Engage in Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide?" and our focus will be on Africa (Rwanda, Darfur, and Ethiopia).








If you are interested, Daniel Goldhagen's ground-breaking documentary "Worse than War" is linked below. In his documentary he states, "By the most fundamental measure -- the number of people killed -- the perpetrators of mass murder since the beginning of the twentieth century have taken the lives of more people than have died in military conflict. So genocide is worse than war."


And your questions are:
  1. Give the historical background of the two rival groups in Central Africa’s countries of Rwanda and Burundi. 
  2. What is the situation in Rwanda and Burundi today? 
  3. Why might the European colonial powers have preferred to place in leadership positions members of the minority Tutsis rather than members of the majority Hutus?

D Block Physical Geography - Today, we'll start with our last unit package...Climate, Climate Change, Overconsumption, Resource Use and Management and we are going to take a look at climatology and climate types on the planet. 


We will make sense of the Koppen climate classification system specifically the following climates: Af, Am, Aw, Cfb, Cfa, Dfb, Dwb, Dfc, Dwc, ET (don't say it!), Bw, and Bs (Many thanks to Michael Ritter for his on line Physical Environment textbook!).  

For help with Köppen - Geiger see:
Blue Planet Biomes - World Climates
Physicalgeography.net - Climate classification

You have three questions to answer:
  1. Describe the two ways moisture reaches the humid subtropical climate regions.
  2. Describe at least three locations where desert and steppe climates occur on Earth and provide the reasons for their existence in these locations (p. 166-7 Geosystems Core)
  3. Describe the five principal components that determine the Earth’s major climate groups (p.154-5 Geosystems Core)

Today's Fit...


 

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