The Perfect Crime [Thursday, Period Five]

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"Ambiguity, misdirection, red herrings," Rick began, listing him off on his fingers. "These are three things which the mystery writer loves, but your average detective hates with a vengeance. The smallest detail could be the thing which cracks a case wide open, but following up on leads takes time and resources, and if it goes nowhere, or means something completely different to what you thought, it makes it that much harder to catch the responsible parties. In a worst case scenario, the waters might end up being so muddied that even if you catch the bad-guy, their lawyer is able to use that whole reasonable doubt thing to get them to walk."

"Which brings us to today's class. We're going to be watching a murder mystery," he said with a broad grin. "But this movie's a little unusual, because it's got three endings, and not in the last instalment of King of the Bracelets sense, but three separate endings. Now all three ending are on this version, but when it originally came out, each reel of the film had one of those three endings picked and used at random. This means that every clue in the film up to the reveal had to point towards all three of those endings, and trust me, even doing that for one ending is pretty hard."

"What I want you to do is to pay close attention to the film and see if you can work out who our killers are before the reveal. Bonus points if you can figure out the motive too."

[OOC: OCD up.]

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Library [1-29]

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Dan decided to honor the passing of one of his favorite authors today by shunning any schoolwork and settling behind the front desk with meta for Catcher in the Rye. He had read the book about a hundred times but he never got tired of it.

Battles That Changed History, Second Period, Friday 1/29

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"Due to circumstances beyond my control," by which Steve meant 'all my materials were wrecked,' "your scheduled lecture for this week has been canceled. However, I've found an alternative way for you to learn about one of the battles we would have covered that I think you'll all enjoy." Steve gestured to the bowls of popcorn and the sodas that indicated that yes: this was movie week. "We also have refreshments. I encourage you to learn about the Battle of the Nile and the Sack of Rome on your own, but in the meantime, we're going to watch a film that starts at a fictionalized version of the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest. Enjoy the movie."

Business 102: Friday, Period 3, Class 4

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"Networking," Jim said after the bell rang. "That's when you talk to someone, even if it's not actually about work, in order to set up some career advancement or set them up to make a sale, something like that. It's also usually no fun at all. You have to sell yourself the whole time and that mean's you're not nearly relaxed enough to make it worth your while in anything but a professional way."

"Fortunately, there are ways to network with absolutely no positive professional ramifications."

( A bad example of a different kind of networking would be NBC )