fandomhigh | 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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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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