A Block Criminology - Again vigilantism. We'll finish the full doc of Superheroes today and tomorrow we'll jump into true crime coverage in the media and speculate as to why it may lead to vigilantism.
If you have Spotify then check out the podcast Vigilante
Vigilante is an investigative podcast about people who take justice into their own hands—for better or for worse. In both multi-part seasons and standalone episodes, the show spotlights everyday people driven to drastic measures. What motivates a vigilante? What are the structural forces that make them feel it's necessary to operate outside of the law? And what are the human consequences of those actions?
BBC has a podcast called Bad People and episode 102 was Paedophile Hunters: Do vigilantes help or harm justice? - This is linked to our look at shaming, vigilantism, Chris Hansen and the "To Catch a Predator" thing (more on that next week)
And there is an app called Citizen which in its mission states:
We believe in public information for the good of the public. In being able to act on safety alerts in real time. In transparency that bonds and that empowers everyone in a community, from city council to residents. We believe in giving people a way to use their phones to protect a neighbor, to prevent a tragedy, and to count on one another. And to create a safer world for each other, with each other.
We'll try to use our critical media lens and make sense of what the documentary is trying to tell us. My question is
How do the "superheroes" explain why they are part of this subculture and what are their core values?
B Block Legal Studies - Why is Personal Injury/Tort Law important? Seinfeld mocked it. Letterman ranked it in his top ten list. And more than fifteen years later, its infamy continues. Everyone knows the McDonald’s coffee case. It has been routinely cited as an example of how citizens have taken advantage of America’s legal system, but is that a fair rendition of the facts? Take a look below to see what really happened to Stella Liebeck, the Albuquerque woman who spilled coffee on herself and sued McDonald’s.
In the case of Liebeck v. McDonald’s Restaurants (1994), 79-year-old Stella Liebeck spilled McDonald’s coffee in her lap, which resulted in second- and third-degree burns on her thighs, buttocks, groin, and genitals. The burns were severe enough to require skin grafts. Liebeck attempted to have McDonald’s pay her $20,000 medical bills as indemnity for the incident. McDonald’s refused, and Liebeck sued. During the case’s discovery process, internal documents from McDonald’s revealed that the company had received hundreds of similar complaints from customers claiming that McDonald’s coffee caused severe burns. At trial, this led the jury to find that McDonald’s knew their product was dangerous and injuring their customers and that the company had done nothing to correct the problem. The jury decided on $200,000 in compensatory damages, but attributed 20 percent of the fault to Liebeck, reducing her compensation to $160,000. The jury also awarded Liebeck $2.7 million in punitive damages, which, at the time, represented two days’ of McDonald’s coffee sales revenue. The judge later reduced the punitive damages to $480,000. The case is often criticized for the very high amount of damages the jury awarded. Your textbook states:
Many Canadians regard civil suits like Stella Liebeck’s as frivolous (silly or wasteful). What do you think?In the time that's left over we'll take a look at the main differences between civil and criminal law. I would like you to read the Thomas v Hamilton Board of Education (1994) case and we'll talk about it together. Here are the questions for the case that you and a partner should discuss:
- Why do you think Thomas and his family brought a suit against the school board and the coaches?
- What would you have decided if you were the judge in this case?
Lastly, you'll get your final assignment today (civil litigation/personal injury/tort project).
C Block Human Geography - Today our topic is "Why Do Conflicts Arise among Ethnicities?" As with your big thinking question on religious conflict, there is no easy answer to this inquiry. In some cases, ethnicities compete in civil wars to dominate the national identity. In other cases, problems result from division of ethnicities among more than one state. We'll briefly look at the Quebec, Scotland, and Catalan nationalist movements then focus on Sri Lanka
Next, we'll look at Sri Lanka and the conflict between the Tamil minority and Sinhalese majority. For help ThoughtCo. has a nice piece on the Civil War as does Al Jazeera. If there's time, we'll watch the Anthony Bourdain Sri Lanka episode of Parts Unknown as well.
D Block Physical Geography - We are in the Learning Commons/Library for work on our Weather Forecast project. First, a reminder. You will only have this week to work on it as next week we look at Climate and Climate change. The following week you have a test and then your final exam to work on
I will have a computer with the Windy webpage and you can adjust the filters to show what you'd like. Or you can put the windy image on the whiteboard if you've memorized your script (or have written it out on cue cards large enough to read). We can flip the image so that you can adjust your body accordingly. After you can snip or game DVR the windy moving image so that you have an active background image to use with the chroma key green screen video you record. Alternately you can have a static background and then all you need to do is have the image you want to be as your background.
There are lots of intuitive Chroma Key video editing apps for your phone or software for your computer for editing and rendering after. Also don't forget there's lots of royalty free weather forecast green screen Stock Footage Video...do some searching on-line. Above all get it done and have fun! like this...
But seriously...
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