Blog 16: Independent Component 2 Approval

                           

1.  Describe in detail what you plan to do for your 30 hours.

• For my Independent Component two I plan to watch the tv series "American Crime Story." It's a series based on The people vs. OJ Simpson. I also want to collaborate my IC 2 with Paula Montano and she will be watching this for her IC 2. 

2.  Discuss how or what you will do to meet the expectation of showing 30 hours of evidence.

• To meet my 30 hours I plan on watching each episode up until the point of which the IC is due. During each episode I will take notes and compare them with Paula. Also I want to look up the case notes from the trial and any information I can find on it to see if the series is true to the actual trial. I will also be summarizing the penal codes, laws, and strategies used in the case during each episode and apply them to my project and especially to my answers and how they are cohesive. We also so want to try and interview someone who worked on the case at the time but that part will be tricky. 

3.  Explain how this component will help you explore your topic in more depth.

• This will help me go into more depth about my topic because I'm doing criminal law and this will be me watching an actual trial unfold. It will give me the experience of what it's like in a court room and allow me to look up laws and codes that are used in the trial. I'll have to look for key details while watching the show and my answers for my EQ are based upon methods and strategies and I'll be able to see if they use any of these in the trial. Watching this will further my understanding on how a court case is conducted, what the prosecution does, and how all of it ties together. 

4.  Post a log in your Senior Project Hours link and label it "Independent Component 2" log.

Independent Component 1

Confirmation

•  “I,          Nicole Giannini       , affirm that I completed my independent component which represents   34.5 hours of work.”
  
  During the process of my independent component I learned a lot of new information. I learned about different laws and policies that i didn't even know about before hand. My component 1 ties into my EQ and answer one because I had to read through and comb over so many cases that had over seventy different penal codes. A lot of penal codes repeated and I didn't have to look them up because I started to remember them. If you read over the same type of information several times it starts to stick. I also learned about this family automobile insurance policy, where anyone can drive the car and not have insurance of their own but if they're under the policy and get in an accident they will be covered. Anyone not under the policy and/or not a relative could have to pay out of pocket or depending on how serious, be charged with a crime. I understand not only how law works but different types not just criminal law. Having to summarize and pick apart all these documents and cases took a long time but it was really rewarding in the end. 

            All the sources I used below helped me to go into depth of my explanation of the cases. I would come across penal codes or policies that I did not know. So I basically looked it up to in all honesty, know what these cases were talking about. I also learned about different types of liability coverage and the policies you can obtain. A couple of the cases I had, had to do with liability coverage in car accidents. This all helped me further my knowledge into my topic and even though it was very time consuming I enjoyed it. 

My Sources

http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=pen&group=00001-01000&file=290-294

http://doi.nv.gov/uploadedFiles/doinvgov/_public-documents/Consumers/CC-280.pdf

http://www.dmv.org/insurance/liability-insurance.php

http://www.alllaw.com/articles/nolo/personal-injury/shared-blame-comparative-contributory-fault.html

http://woodsinsurance.com/a-guide-to-determining-who-is-at-fault-in-a-car-accident/

http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/things-you-should-know-before-renting-a-public-storage-space-164488

http://www.autoinsurance.org/will-auto-insurance-pay-for-a-car-accident-while-dui-or-dwis





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Blog 8: Independent Component 1 Proposal

             

                                            

         (Senior Year Guys, get it together)

1.  Describe in detail what you plan to do for your 30 hours.
 
For my first independent component I plan on using the 3 Little Pigs Court case trial that we did in class as a part of it. This is just a small part of it and I am going to build off of it. Since I was the prosecutor in the trial and that is my senior topic, I am going to use the hours from the case that I participated in. Also I did research before the trial, which will go towards my component. Lastly, I am going to talk to my my cousin who is a teacher and see if she will allow me to do the case in her classroom and see if there is the same outcome with the jury and the trial. It will be with elementary children, so I will also put work into writing a script for them to follow during the trial. I think this is going to work really well and I'm very excited for it.

2.  Discuss how or what you will do to meet the expectation of showing 30 hours of evidence.

To show evidence of my independent component, I will log the hours that we spent on the court case and show some of the documents we had during the trial. Since I knew I wanted to use the 3 little pigs trial as a part of my independent component I logged the hours I spent on research which was minimal. For the recreation of the trial in an elementary school setting I will provide the script that I will draft, pictures of them doing the trial in class, logging the hours, and writing a statement of the outcome of the case.

3.  Explain how what you will be doing will help you explore your topic in more depth.
To do more research, write the script and to recreate the trial in a classroom will allow me to overview the trial instead of being apart of it. It will help me understand how both the prosecution and the defense works. Doing a mock trial is good practice not only for me as an aspiring lawyer but good for the children to learn how a trial works and better their understanding on law. And if one of them wants to become a lawyer after the trial is over that would be awesome. It will give me a chance to write the script from a lawyers perspective and really dive in to the trial and ways to help both the prosecution and the defense. I will be allowed to see how they work with the case and make it fun for themselves and see it the outcome is the same as ours.

4.  Update your Senior Project Hours log.
    • Done!