Self Defense and Kickassery for Dummies; Thursday Fifth Period [7th. Class]

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Usually, the students would enter the Danger Shop just to find Faith doing whatever she was doing, keeping to herself in silence until the actual class started. Usually, they would listen to her talking about a self defense fighting style, see her beating a guy without abusing of her Slayer powers, or just being told to fight here and run there.
( This time was different )

[OOC: Incoming OCD, wait for it IT'S UUUUUUUUP!!]

Being Marooned [Thursday, June 24]

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"Today, me hearties," Jack said from where he stood balanced easily on a gangplank (for they were all on the water today, floating a few hundred yards from a desert island (except for the Ikea in the background)), "you will put everything I have taught you to the test."

He pointed grandly to the Isle of Ikea Totally Deserted Island of Doom. "This is the Totally Deserted Island of Doom!" he said. "Forage for food! Create shelter! Make fire! Find a way to escape!"

He grinned. "And most important of all, have a good story t' tell when you have." He pointed to the first student. "Off you go, then. Please do try not to die. It would involve what I've been told is a truly terrifying amount of paperwork."

Anatomy of a Trial [Period 4, Class #7, 6-24]

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( Closing Arguments and Final )

Logical Fallacies, Thursday, Period 3

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"Welcome to our last class of the term," Cindy greeted. "It's been a small, short class, but rather fun--even if we did miss out on bad movie bingo. My apologies, Peter, for not being better prepared." She gave the four of them a grin and continued.

"One more lesson for today, and then a discussion," she said, leaning against the side of her desk. Next to her was a large, white bakery bag. "Today, we're covering the straw man fallacy, which is a convenient way to try to win an argument without actually having to address your opponent's points. A straw man is a caricature of an argument--it differs from a parody, in that audience is not meant to regard the exaggeration and distortion as funny and an an invalid portrayal of a real point of view; the straw man is intended to be taken seriously and solely for the purpose of making the original argument easier to mock and refute."

"Rather than making the attempt to properly argue against the original point, the creator of the straw man fallacy will come up with a flawed, superficially-similar position and argue against that. For example, the straw man for arguing that safer-sex procedure should be taught in schools might be suggesting that teachers are encouraging children or have premarital sex. Another option is painting all opponents of your stance in a negative light: describing all atheists as having an agenda to outlaw religion and murder the faithful and all people of faith as howling zealots enslaved to dogma."

Cindy reached into the bakery bag and pulled out a cake, along with napkins, paper plates, and plasticware. "Let's settle in with some cake and discuss, okay?"

[OCD is up! Have at!]