The Art of Peace; Thursday, Third Period [12/01].

[sake_shinigami]

"Good morning, good morning, my little peaceful ducklings ♥!" Shunsui smiled from the discussion circle with his hot cocoa contentedly, lifting up his own little mug and having a sip. Sure, he would have preferred to have had the eggnog for himself, but this was class, and there was no reason he couldn't enjoy a bit of that later. "This week, we are going to have a look at the particular brand of pascifism known as being a conscientious objector. In brief, this is technically an individual who has claimed the right to refuse to perform military service on the grounds of freedom of thought, conscience, or religion, though it certain bears some principles that can be carried over into every day life ♥. Some countries will allow a conscientious objector serve through civilian services; some countries will allow them to serve not at all...As far as this world goes, the United Nations Commission on Human Rights have roundly agreed that an individual has the right to be a conscientious objector to military service if it goes against their beliefs ♥.

( OBJECTION! )

"And so ♥," said Shunsui, finishing with a smile, "let's hear your own thoughts on the matter ♥. Or, of course, you can always conscientiously object and keep your thoughts to yourself ♥."

Sexy Crimes, Thursday - 2nd Period

[ohvalleyofpenis]

Cara and Jaskier had broken out the aviator sunnies for this class, so you knew it was going to be a tough one.

"We've moved onto the most, shall we say, obscure crimes for the theme of this class," Jaskier said. "In this case... tax fraud. Which I'm not familiar with as I don't pay taxes."

Because he was a travelling bard who completely forgot about his familial land holdings.

"Mord'Sith don't really pay taxes either," Cara admitted. And who knew what actually happened with their pay for teaching.

"But it's a very popular crime here for some reason!" Jaskier added. "So... our challenge is to make it sexy."

The biggest challenge you could imagine.

"Because there has to be something sexy in," Cara looked at her notes. "Refusing to contribute to the good of society by helping pay for infrastructure."

"Anarchy can be sexy," Jaskier volunteered. You know. Helpfully.

"But is it really anarchy when you're using the system to commit your crime?"

Children, help them. Please.

Library, Thursday 12/1

[noonedecidesmyfate]

Belle had no idea where the large television screen had come from. Belle also had no idea why it was showing soccer (or was it football?). She really had no idea why there were tiny flags planted around the library.

Belle was just going to be at the desk, away from the football (or was it soccer?) and reading.

And daydreaming of a nice hot shower that wasn't full of chocolate. At least she'd noticed early enough to avoid disaster!

Intro to Palaeontology - Thursday, 1st Period

[itsananomaly]

Cutter had not been paying attention this morning when he’d gotten in the shower and realised too late that only eggnog seemed to be coming from the pipes and now he was smelling a lot like eggnog, so that had been a rather unexpected start to the day.

Even though Cutter had also been rather distracted since his trip back home and his subsequent conversation with Connor and what he had learned about what was to happen to Stephen, he had poured himself into his work to try and distract himself and had ended up finishing his notes on the remaining extinction events that he had to cover.

“So I know the last class I gave an assignment on one of the extinction events and the causes of it that we’d previously covered, I realise Thanksgiving was last week,” he had actually forgotten that it before he had issued the assignment, “so if you have prepared an assignment already, we’ll spend a bit of time doing the reports before we continue on with the lecture,”

Once any reports had been given, Cutter passed out the notes on the last two extinction events that they had left to cover in the class, “so the remaining extinction events that we have to cover are the Triassic-Jurassic Extinction event and the Cretaceous-Tertiary Extinction Event“

“The Triassic-Jurassic Extinction event occurred roughly 201 million years ago,” Cutter began the lecture, “it resulted in 76 percent of marine and terrestrial species being wiped out and it is believed that this extinction event is what allowed dinosaurs to become the prominent species of the planet, the cause of this extinction event is believed to have been the result of climate change and rising sea levels, particularly as this was caused by a sudden release of large amounts of carbon dioxide,”

“The final extinction event is the Cretaceous-Tertiary Extinction Event is the third worst extinction event on record and took place roughly 66 million years ago, this event saw the destruction of 80 percent of all species of animals and if you recall earlier in the semester when I covered the Cretaceous period that this extinction event is was responsible for the extinction of the dinosaurs, it is now a commonly accepted theory that an asteroid or comet was responsible for the chain of events that led to this extinction event,”


“Next week we will also be going on a field trip instead of a lecture, I’ll be taking you to visit a …” he hesitated as he tried to think of how to describe the ARC without going into too much detail before the trip, “research facility where I worked before I became a teacher here,” he settled, “that focuses on dinosaur research,” well that was technically the truth.