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Soc 201 and 310: Criminology and Death & Dying (10/31)

Grissom is in a shockingly jovial mood. He's even rocking a costume and has candy (without bugs) for his students. Must have some good Halloween childhood memories buried somewhere.

Criminology

Here is the study guide for your midterm exam. [it will be an 'essay question', but feel free to study/stress]

To review, in class today I would like you to discuss one thing you have learned in this class so far, and how it either surprised you, or changed your mind in regards to a certain topic. If that is not the case in any aspect, why not?

Death and Dying

Discussion: Your homework was to Choose a death by suicide from Shakespeare's work, and share a short reaction to it. Please do so.

Your midterm exam will be on Wednesday! It will be an in-class essay, in a similar vein to the homework you are turning in. Using what you have learned in class, and moving on to our accidental death chapter, please analyze A Darwin Award Winner or Honourable Mention. You may bring in notes on one 3x5 index card.

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I've got Skittles!

John enters class.

"That's a great costume, sir. The helmet is especially awesome." John clears his throat a few times before starting on the assignment. "I think the biggest thing I learned is how fine a line is woven between religion and government. In elementary school, we learned about the separation of church and state and I just figured they were far enough away from each other to never really clash. I was wrong. After that assignment, I see how easy it could be for government to become involved in religion and vice versa. I see how fine a line is walked each day and how hard it is to actually keep them both separate."

"Thank you, John." Grissom is truly pleased, and smiles. "And thank you for sharing your thoughts. That is an area that can be disturbing for some of us, *grumble* and is certainly a grey area. The fact that religious texts and legal texts are often built on the same templates is just one reason why they are hopelessly intertwined in our society, nevermind the power of religious beliefs as a force in our society. Very good." Grissom nods. "Also, have some candy."

John takes the candy and smiles. "Thank you, sir!"

Maia came in staring at Grissom's costume. "Nice look sir." She sat down pulling out her notebook and thinking... "I think the whole idea about genes and the inborn idea of criminal intent such as people being born bad has been interesting and changed my mind about predisposition and the criminal mind."

Maia takes a bow, grins and snatches some skittles

((OOC: so so sorry i posted this several times this is the right one now))

Grissom gives her a knowing smile, "Thanks."

Angela takes a few skittles and nibbles one thoughtfully. "I think the most interesting thing I personally learned is how complicated and interwoven our court system is. It always seemed really simple from TV, but there are just so many layers to it in the real world."

"What you see on television about the legal system, or forensics, is just untrue. Cases takes months, sometimes years, to resolve, with many people involved and much more limited budgets. I mean, a DNA test for a $200 Qwik-Mart robbery? Get real."

Cameron grins at the costume. "I didn't realise you liked flying, sir," he says with a smile.

"I think what I learned most is how delicate our system is. How difficult it is to balance bringing justice and not overstepping the power it brings you. That there is a real reason to why our system is so complex and that while it isn't perfect, it's probably the best we've got. Especially last week's class about obscenity make it clear how hard it is to make a law that is acceptable for a majority of the people."

"I do, very much," he admits. "Good thoughts, thank you, Cameron."

[*was insanely sick yesterday, omg*]

Chloe grins at Dr. Grissom's costume as she sits down. "One of the things I've learned is how important it is to have standards for laws. When we talked about ranking crimes from worst to best, it was interesting to see how differently people answered, and I think that drove in the knowledge of how important it is for lawmakers to be impartial, and to remember that there are some people who take certain laws very seriously, even if they themselves might not."

Grissom smiles, "Thank you, Ms. Sullivan."

Ooooh, Peanut Butter Cups!

Buffy signs in and starts working on her homework.

Grissom smiles, and offers Buffy some candy.

Buffy smiles and takes the candy.

"Thank you."

Rogue smiles at Grissom and takes a peanut butter cup. She hands in her assignment from last week:

Romeo's suicide was the overdramatic, childish action of a young man deep in lust. If he'd been a man enough to stick it out, the tragic deaths would never have happened. In fact, the majority of Shakespeare's suicidal characters shared these same flaws: impulsiveness mixed with selfishness. Suicide is the ultimate selfish act, and Romeo's is the epitome of that.

Grissom looks a little forlorn for a moment reading her thoughts, but then pulls himself together and smiles tentatively. "Very good work Rogue, thank you. And take some candy for your friends as well."

*Stark takes a peanut butter cup and nibbles at it experimentally. Then he nods to Grissom and takes his seat.*

Grissom nods at Stark and leans forward a bit, curious as to how Stark personally eats a peanut butter cup.

*Stark continues eating around the edges of the peanut butter cup until there isn't any candy left, and then turns his attention to the assignment due today. He's written out his response and has it on his desk. He's written about Romeo as well.*

Foolish. Or misguided. Maybe both. She wasn't even really dead. It's not hard, knowing if they're dead or not. Dying for someone already dead achieves nothing. Nothing at all. Then you are both dead. Maybe your spirits are together, but you can't be sure. If you were meant to be together, you will be later, no reason to die now if you don't have to. Much better to live, and to remember. I do understand the impulse though.

Sawyer snatches one and finishes up the assignment due today.

Marty turns in an essay on how Marc Antony was such a fool in Shakepeare's Antony and Cleopatra, he couldn't even fall on his own sword correctly and took a much longer time to die than necessary.

"Very true. I mean, screwing up with an ax is one thing, but a sword? Believe me, that gets messy. Oh, you probably knew that. Good work, Marty."

Harry wrote about the indecisiveness of Ophelia, who didn't want to kill herself, but didn't want to rescue herself, either, and how you sometimes just have to choose ~~just like those damned bisexuals should~~

"Interesting analysis, Harry. Thank you. ~~Off I go to a bisexual orgy!~~"

Allie takes a peanut butter cup and turns in an essay on Romeo & Juliet and how true love conquers all.

Grissom chuckles, charmed by Allie's naive nature. "Thank you."

Callisto writes about Othello, the main point of her essay can be distilled into two words.

Jealous idiot.

Grissom sighs, unwilling to get into an argument with Callisto because ~~he likes his testicles where they are, please and thank you~~ he doesn't want to admit identifying with a murderer. You know, again. He gives the essay a good grade for the clever writing, at any rate.

Susan comes in and sits quietly down the back, after eyeing the candy and decding against it. She looks tired. Her essay is a sarcastic deconstruction of Romeo and Juliet.

Grissom smirks, "I see Romeo and Juliet are real party favorites in the class. Thank you, Susan."

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