Promising Future?
October 13, 2006
Usually having mentioned in your curriculum vitea that you have a University Masters Degree will land you a pretty good job. I’m not quite sure what the following Masters Degree will bring you. Maybe you can become a consultant for the police to give them an inside look on how thieves think or you can become an expert witness explaining the “Robin Hood Syndrome” I cannot really understand how this kind of degree is actually taken serious or why people would even try and study…
“A university is offering a masters degree in Robin Hood studies.
Nottingham University will provide the course to students, reports the BBC.
During the one-year course students will work with 15th century manuscripts in looking at the outlaw’s place in English society.
The course will also use stories, songs and plays to investigate the medieval world of the Nottingham legend.
The course will start in October next year.
Dr Rob Lutton, medieval history lecturer, said: “The course provides an exciting opportunity for anyone with an interest in the origins and development of England’s most enduring legendary figure.”
Final question: if you have already seen the 1991 version of “Robin Hood prince of thieves” would you then be considered for an advanced placement or do you begin on the same level as everyone else?
Is this kind of honesty honorable or stupid
October 13, 2006
Today I read the following article:
” A Belgian man who ordered a burger from a McDonald’s restaurant was amazed to find £10,000 cash in the same bag.
Marco Parra-Martinez, 23, ordered his meal from a McDrive restaurant in Waterloo, reports Het Laatste Nieuws.
Inside the paper bag, as well as his burger, was an envelope containing 15,000 euros, the equivalent of more than £10,000.
“I hesitated one moment, asking myself if I shouldn’t keep the money,” admitted Mr Parra-Martinez. “But my parents taught me to be honest at all times.”
So he returned the envelope to the restaurant.
McDonalds said the cash was restaurant takings that had accidentally been put down next to Mr Parra-Martinez’s order. They promised him a reward for his honesty.”
I’m not sure whether to admire or slap this person. McDonalds will probably give him a few free burgers but do you know how many burgers you can buy with that kind of money? How on earth can that kind of money “accidently” end up in a paper food bag and how could the person placing the food in that bag not notice there was something else in the bag? Why did the manager leave a bag with that kind of money lying around (ever consider anyone could possibly steal it?)
All these questions lead me to believe that if and when people make this kind of mistake they actually deserve losing the money…
