Room 611: Wednesday, June 5. 2024

Today's schedule is BADC

B Block Legal Studies - For your project, there are a few things you should know about negligence.

This is an unintentional or an intentional civil wrong (tort). Negligence is the most common civil tort (inattention, carelessness, and the possibility of harm) and there are 4 components to the “Test for Negligence:

Duty of Care – The Plaintiff must prove that the Defendant had the legal obligation not to cause harm on their property (The “neighbour principle” – you have a responsibility to take reasonable care for the safety of anyone who may be harmed by your actions)
Breach in the Duty of Care (Standard of Care) – The Plaintiff must prove that the Defendant did not meet the expected standard of care owed to them (based on the “Reasonable Person Principle” – concept of “Foreseeability”)
Causation – Once the Plaintiff has proven the Defendant didn’t meet the Standard of Care there needs to be a determination of “direct causality” (“but for…” principle – but for the actions of the Defendant the Plaintiff would not have been harmed – sometimes the acts speak for themselves “Res Ipsa Loquitor”).
Actual Harm/Loss – The Plaintiff must prove that real damages occurred to them as a result of the Defendant’s negligent acts

So...

1. Did you have a responsibility to someone?
2. Did you fail in your responsibility-How?
3. Did you cause them harm?
4. Did the suffer an actual loss?

Conduct is negligent if it creates an objectively unreasonable risk of harm.

To avoid liability, a person must exercise the standard of care that would be expected of an ordinary, reasonable and prudent person in the same circumstances.

The measure of what is reasonable depends on the facts of each case, including:

• the likelihood of a known or foreseeable harm,
• the gravity of that harm, and
• the burden or cost which would be incurred to prevent the injury.

In addition, one may look to external indicators of reasonable conduct:

• such as custom,
• industry practice, and

• statutory or regulatory standards

A Block Criminology - So, True Crime...From the Ringer article The Bloody Bubble

Parrot Analytics - a media-tracking company that measures audience demand with a formula that accounts for streams, search-engine traffic, illegal downloads, and social media - said in April that the documentary genre as a whole had become the fastest-growing segment of the streaming industry, with the number of series growing 63 percent between January 2018 and March 2021. In data prepared for The Ringer in May, Parrot revealed that true crime was not only the biggest documentary subgenre, but that it was also growing faster than nearly any of the others. The current boom is most easily traced to the 15-month stretch across 2014-15 that saw the debuts of the podcast Serial, HBO’s The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst, and Netflix’s Making a Murderer.

And from VIVINT's study Popularity and Impact of True Crime Content

From NBC True crime: Behind America’s growing obsession | Cracking the Case

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?

Examining The Popularity Of True Crime And Its Impacts

True Crime: Insight Into The Human Fascination With The Who-Done-It

Is True Crime Binging Affecting Your Mental Health?

What is it that makes the true crime genre so fascinating to so many people?

Information or Exploitation? The Problems With True Crime

If it Bleeds, it leads: glamourizing crime in the media and its adverse effects

True Crime’s True Impact: Advocacy or Exploitation?

My Sister Was Murdered 30 Years Ago. True Crime Repackages Our Pain as Entertainment.

Is Our True-Crime Obsession Doing More Harm Than Good?

Half of Americans enjoy true crime, and more agree it helps solve cold cases

D Block Physical Geography - Today we'll continue our weather report/newscast project in the learning commons/library. Check the blog for sites to help. When you are filming the forecast, the green screen is ready for you in the classroom (#115)…please remember, for the green screen, don't wear green.

Don't forget

How to Create Your Own Green Screen Effects

A Beginner’s Guide to Green Screens

Green Screen Technology - What is it?

How to apply a green screen filter and Teleprompter (iPhone app or Android app) or Veescope (iPhone app)

Yourcaster App

C Block Human Geography - Today we'll start with a look at the Kurds. For the Kurds and Kurdistan a good primer is this GPS video from CNN with Fareed Zakaria as well as this article form the Economist or this article from Foreign Policy or the website "The Kurdish Project" following videos help too:

The Council on Foreign Relations 1920 – 2022 The Kurds’ Long Struggle With Statelessness

BBC News Who are the Kurds?

This should help you with the question from your Ethnicity and State package:

Discuss some of the issues that the Kurds suffer from.

You also have the block to work on your India/Pakistan questions

When the British ended colonial control of South Asia in 1947, how was the region divided politically, and how was the region divided ethnically (religiously)?
How many people found themselves on the “wrong side of the boundary” in the 1940s?
How many Muslims migrated from India to West Pakistan (Pakistan, today)?
How many Muslims migrated to East Pakistan (Bangladesh, today)?
How many Hindus migrated from East and West Pakistan into India?
What happened to many of the refugees as they traveled?
Why is the region of Kashmir a problem?

And your Sri Lanka question