Hero Management- Monday- Period 3- Class #3

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Today the students would find themselves in a simulated department store, minus all the pesky customers who didn't understand how to steer a cart around other people or kids throwing tantrums or any of the other fn stuff you might see in a normal store. Mainly because today Hermione did not feel like putting up with that today.

"Welcome back to being back to normal," she greeted them "Now let's get right to it, shall we? Oftentimes you might get dragged out on some sort of adventure or mission or whatever you'd like to call it, and most people don't think to prepare as well as they should. Sometimes you're not able to prepare, and have to rush off to do something with very little warning and very little time to gather supplies. Or you might not know much about where you're going or what you're headed into and you won't know exactly what you need. Those times can get annoying, mostly after the fact when you realize there was something you should have brought of when you find yourself in trouble and thinking 'I wish I had this thing I don't have!'

"Today we're going to work on preparation. I didn't think the island would be moving already, and I haven't had the appropriate amount of time to change my lesson plan to be specific to where we are now, so we're going to be operating as if we were still in Egypt." And if she sounded a little annoyed at that, well, she was a little peeved at the island today. "You're going to be headed out into the desert, let's say to find someone who's gone missing, not knowing exactly how long you'll be gone. It could be a few hours, it could be a few days. Taking what you know about your setting, I want you to go through the store and find what you feel are the necessary supplies you'll need to survive or just to help your search. You can work together, if you'd like. and at the end of class I'd like you to explain some of what you've gathered and why you think it's important."

Destiny & Free Will, Week III [Monday, Period 2]

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There was no sky.  Instead, there were machines.  Forbidden technology roamed free here, machines with the minds of men, and Ghanima loathed it.  The entire place itched under her skin, an infection that she desperately felt the need to clense.  Every inch of her, Fremen and Atreides alike, felt defiled even breathing this air.

Somehow, she thought Principal Winchester might not be too pleased if Ghanima executed a coup while they were here, but it was tempting. 

"Today, children, we discuss semantics," Ghanima said briskly from her seat on her desk.  They were meeting inside today, and in a fit of stubbornness, Ghanima had appropriated some plants from the teacher's lounge and stuck them in her classroom windows.  No one ought to be forced to look at that monstrosity of a city.  "Although the words are used interchangeably in many cases, fate and destiny can be, and should be, distinguished."

"Modern usage defines fate as a power or agency that predetermines and orders the course of events. Fate defines events as ordered or "inevitable". Fate is used in regard to the finality of events as they have worked themselves out; and that same sense of finality, projected into the future to become the inevitability of events as they will work themselves out, is Destiny."

Hopping off her desk, she meandered to the front of the room.  "One word derivative of "fate" is "fatality", another "fatalism". Fate implies no choice, and ends fatally, with a death. Fate is an outcome determined by an outside agency acting upon a person or entity; but with destiny the entity is participating in achieving an outcome that is directly related to itself. Participation happens willfully."

"Used in the past tense, "destiny" and "fate" are both more interchangeable, both imply "one's lot" or fortunes, and include the sum of events leading up to a currently achieved outcome."  Ghanima grabbed her chalk and began writing quickly on the chalkboard.  "For instance, if we were speaking of a previous event, say, Boudicca's battle against the Romans, we could safely say that "it was her destiny to be leader" or "it was her fate to be leader", and both would be correct." 

"Fate can involve things which are bound within and subject to larger networks. A set of mathematical functions arranged in a grid and interacting in defined ways is Fatelike. Likewise the individual statues in a larger work of counterpoint art are aesthetically Fated within the work. In each case Fate is external to every individual component, but integral to the network. Every component acts as Fate for every other component. The entire world can be seen as existing within such a network, a kind of mythical spiderweb controlled by unseen forces."

"Today, I'd like to talk about these words, and others, that you associate with the future, free will, destiny, and other such concepts."

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Outdoor Activities, Monday Period 1, Week 3

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The weather this week should be more agreeable, and therefore workshop started on time, with Steve giving the students a few minutes to warm up and stretch before he peeped his whistle and they set off on their run.

"PEEP!"

The run was getting a little longer each week, not that Steve had told the students yet. They would build up some endurance or else, darn it.

Cupcake War Crimes, Week 3 (Tuesday, Period 1)

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Upon entering the classroom today, students would find the usual baking setup (including, up front, the two alien boys in charge of the workshop) and two large covered trays of cupcakes, but in the center of the front counter was a large strainer bowl full of vegetables. Carrots, celery, red and green peppers, a particularly leafy bunch of green kale, cucumbers, radishes . . .

( Vegetables? In your cupcake class? It’s more likely than you think. )