Speech Comm

[prof-cregg.livejournal.com]

She walks in, sunglasses on, carrying a large bottle of water. She's faintly green and speaks quietly...


Ok, gang. The unit for this week is obedience. we're going to hammer out the why's and how's of obedience to authority, and how that behavior relates to trust and influence...and respect. *Looks at O'Neill and Harkness*

Why do you obey? Some of you obey better than others. Why do you defer your personal power? Is it to gain something? If so, that is, as Elizabeth explained so well week before last, hegemony. *Writes HEGEMONY on the board* This is when you do something that decreases your personal power in order to gain something, in either the short or long run.

Ok, so obedience to authority. Everybody stand up and push the desks out of the way. Quietly please.

*Watches as they do it (or at least some of them*

Good. Now question yourself...why did you just do what I told you? Why were you obedient? Is it because I'm the teacher? Is it because I'm older? Is it because you've been conditioned...*writes CONDITIONED on the board* to comply with a simple request?

You cna put the desks back if you want to sit down. I'd like to get a discussion going regarding your perceptions of obedience. Ok, go.

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[http://users.livejournal.com/sydney_bristow_/]

Sydney nods. She's not sure what to think of all of this yet, but she doesn't know that she should add anything to the discussion because she is not exactly keen on authority and obdeience, in and out of school.

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

*passes Sydney a note*

Your dad is a freaking scary man. Why didn't you tell us?

P.

[http://users.livejournal.com/sydney_bristow_/]

He's not that scary. To me. What'd you guys do anyway?

Syd

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

Alien Landing Pad on the roof of the dorm. Can't figure out how he caught us. You're lucky you didn't come with. The man's an ice machine. No offense.

Wanna help us soap it down? I'm planning on getting various guys wet with buckets of water while we're doing it.

P.

[http://users.livejournal.com/sydney_bristow_/]

Word of advice, nothing gets past my dad. We'll see, I may have homework or something to do. Was that your punishment? To clean whatever up? What happened to your hair anyway?

Syd

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

Cleaning *everything* up, grounds service 'til Friday. Will be too damn tired to enjoy Homecoming, if we don't get help. Also? Medical experimentation, at Dr. House's discretion. Am hoping for mercy.

Dyed it in a fit of caffiene-intensity and sleep deprivation in order to avoid being ID'd. Too bad Professor Tick got too good a look at us for it to be useful.

Parker

[http://users.livejournal.com/sydney_bristow_/]

Yikes. You didn't try lying to him, did you? Because that would not be smart.

Syd

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

Parker just pounds her head on the desk at this, having been caught passing notes by C.J., and sends Syd one eye-rolling look of "what do you think?"

[http://users.livejournal.com/sydney_bristow_/]

Sydney makes a face. Lying to Jack Bristow is a bad idea, he could see right through it.