fandomhigh | Speech Comm

201--Speech
Today is brainstormign and composition day. I'd like you to write a 5-7 minute speech on friendship. Be sure to include an anecdote about someone you consider a close friend. Include why.
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301--Friendship

[The desks are all gone, the room is open. There are snacks at the front of the room]

Today we are going to touch. Friendship and intimacy is often conveyed through non-sexual sensual experience. We hug, we kiss, we lean on one another [Looks at Chip]...and we express our closeness in a miriad of ways, everyday.

Ok, so as always, no forced participation, but please move around the room talking to one another and make physical contact in some way. Skin to skin...for example, holding hands, would be best...but do only what you are comfortable with [Looks at Rory]. I'm in on this too, so don't feel like I'm putting you on the spot.

Oh, and just a note...I don't care about your grades in other classes, and whatever you may have been commanded to do by another ethical student or instructor is null and void inside this classroom.

Ok, gang. Go.

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*Jack approaches Liz* Hey. Um, I'm told you were one of the ones who helped get me to the clinic the day I went psycho in here. I wanted to say thanks. *offers his hand*

*She smiles at him, and takes his hand* Not a problem... Jack, isn't it? I'm just glad you're feeling better now.

Yeah, Jack. And I am feeling much better.

*smiles* That's good.

*incidentally, he hasn't let go of her hand* *he raises it to his mouth and kisses it* So... help me out, here. Classes going okay?

*blushes slightly, but doesn't pull her hand away*

*sighs* All except ethics, yeah. How about you?

Pretty good. I got to build a lego model of Fandom High for Quantum Physics yesterday. Gotta love school, you know.

[OOC: I'm aware of Liz's problems with Ethics, but Jack isn't. Want to vent to someone or should he stay away from the topic?]

A Lego model? Oh, that's awesome. Have you still got it?

[ooc: He can touch on it briefly, if he wants. Liz has no problems venting about how she thinks the assignments wrong]

[OOC: Yay! Excuse to use my new icon!]

Yup. I'm building a model of Fandom Town, so I took it back with me after the class. I've got it up in the third floor common room, if you want to see ~~my etchings~~ it.

So, what's up with Ethics? I've been hearing a lot but I'm not really sure what's going on?

[ooc: *dies and loves your new icon very much*]

*grins* Oh, that's really cool. I'll have to come up and see it sometime. I've not played with Lego in... a while.

*sighs* Professor Maclay decided that a slave/master assignment would be a good idea. To try and show us that slavery's not always bad.

Well... *uncertain* I suppose that could be fun. So, which are you, master or slave?

I was assigned as the master, but I'm not doing the assignment.

*despite being a teenage boy, is not entirely thick* You didn't like the idea of bossing someone around?

Giving orders, I can do. Having a slave is an entirely different matter.

*shrugs* What's the difference?

Because when you give orders to people in a chain of command, the people you're giving the orders to have chosen this way of life.

A slave is owned by another person, isn't paid and has no rights. They cannot leave an owner or employer without explicit permission, and if they escape, they'll be returned.

But... this isn't that kind of slavery, right? Two different things.

*shakes her head* People under a chain of command still have rights. Slaves don't.

I mean, the whole Master/slave thing... isn't the same kind of slavery as what you're describing.

No, it's controlled. But I can't do it. Not when I've seen what happens to children who have been sold into slavery.

Hey, I'm sorry. *touches her shoulder*

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