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How could sex, ethics, politics and the California political crisis not score with professors for a research paper topic! At Paper Masters, we are constantly trying to give our readers fresh ideas on how to approach writing research papers with fresh ideas and angles that will give professor’s something interesting to read about while illustrating a thorough understanding of the topic area. Mike Duvall is a gift from the Research Paper Gods! Last July, Duvall, a second-term California assemblyman, gets ready for a televised committee meeting, not knowing his microphone is on. The self-proclaimed christian conservative with staunch family values begins spouting off about his sexual conquests with a lobbyist and his many other triumphs of philandering, cheating on his wife and various other activities associated with bodily fluid emission. Read more…

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Partisan politics at its best! President Obama gives a back to school speech encouraging excellence and participation in politics in students and the GOP goes nuts! Tuesday’s back to school speech included encouragement from President Obama for students to write letters on how they can help the President or what they admire about him. Conservatives in Washington went ballistic with claims that the President is pushing a liberal agenda in schools and trying to sway students to liberal politics. In light of pre-speech backlash, President Obama canceled the lesson plan that was prepared by the White House to go along with the speech, as it aired in schools across the nation. However, amazingly, the President was able to send the message of “stay in school and work hard” to the students without any Republican backlash. Whew! Read more…

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I always appeal to the intellect of the nations youth when I read stories like the one from the Associated Press on ground up baby chickens. Are omelets, eggs over easy or my once beloved Huevos Rancheros really worth it? Undercover video was shot by Mercy for Animals showing how male baby chicks are ground up alive as a means of quick disposal of the unwanted chicks. Since male chickens produce no eggs and hatchery’s do not raise chickens for slaughter due to the length of time it takes to fatten them up, what else can they do but grind them to shreds alive. Some are pushed to the floor to be swept away and die slowly with the other debris in the hatchery. So what does this have to do with you, my college aged friends?

Everything. This story of the male chick is only one of the many ethical dilemmas that will come along as you move through college life. Do you recognize that every egg you eat contributes to the industry that carelessly disregards and wastes potential life. Whether it’s life for consumption and sustenance or life for the sake of being a living creature, the waste is unforgivable and there is something you can do.
Think about how bad you need that egg next time you go to the commons and choose your breakfast. Don’t support the industry that makes common practice of grinding baby chicks alive or sweeping them away like trash to die a slow death. United States Egg farmers should know better…send them a message that you know better too and you’re not going to stand for it.
Not convinced? Take a look for yourself – Hatchery video

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College students across the country are returning to campuses and getting initiated with the same tired old speeches on how to study effectively, don’t party too much and, oh yes, don’t forget how to avoid swine flu. It seems college campuses across the country are concerned about the close quarters of college students and the potential havoc that swine flu could cause. Orientation kits include more than condoms this year; hand sanitizer is the hot item for the freshman class of 2010.
The nature of college dormitories and the propensity for young adults to be close to their friends and peers has health officials concerned about this high-risk population. Georgia Tech has already had 100 cases of swine flu. This winter is expected to be the worst of the flu epidemic in the United States and health departments are preparing themselves for turbulent times.

College campuses are advising students to do all the right things – eat right, keep your immunities up don’t share cups, razors or any items that germs can be passed upon. Basically common sense health care and diligence will keep college students safe from the spread of any flu virus. Swine flu isn’t that unique among flu viruses except for the fact that those with compromised immune systems can become extremely sick. Eat right, exercise and get plenty of rest and more than likely swine flu will not be a concern to any college student. Be careful of stress, as stress weakens the immune system and is responsible for a fair amount of sickness in young people today.

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One decade after the start of Napster, the world is still fighting over how to settle file sharing issues and Pirate Bay is the latest victim. Pirate Bay term papers have been ordered repeatedly for the past year at Paper Masters and we still get research paper orders for them weekly. (As term paper pimps, we can tell the hot topics for colleges just by how many orders we get on particular subjects. Thank God Sarah Palin never made it beyond an election campaign!) Anyway, Pirate Bay is such a hot topic that we thought you may want a brief primer on the nuances of intellectual property.

Napster raised significant issues regarding copyright law when it appeared on the public horizon. Napster created nothing short of an internet revolution. In 1999, a college student named Sean Fanning wanted to find an easier way to share music files. With his uncle, he started a company that involved P2P file sharing. P2P is peer to peer file sharing. P2P does not rely on clients or servers; instead the peers function as both clients and servers. Napster was extremely user-friendly and focused mainly on MP3 music files. College students often overloaded their university’s servers downloaded free music and making mixed CDs. No royalties were paid to the owners of the copyrights.

The first lawsuits against Napster began in 2000. Metallica discovered that one of their songs had been leaked to the website before its release. They sued. Dr. Dre had also asked that his material be removed. When it wasn’t, he also sued. Madonna had originally planned to work with the website, but when one of her singles was leaked to the website before its release, she retaliated with a lawsuit as well. The irony was that the lawsuits brought more attention to the website and millions more flocked to it, bringing more copyrighted material to the website and sharing more files. Read more…

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All dressed up and no place to go, maybe. The state budget impasse in Pennsylvania has left 172,000 college students wondering if they will be able to get back to school in two weeks. Without grant money, students cannot pay the tuition and fees at Pennsylvania colleges. Without students paying tuition, more state workers, i.e. teachers, will be laid off. Its a vicious cycle that has been getting Pennsylvania deeper and deeper in the murky waters of fiscal fiascoes akin to those in California.

The new fiscal year began July 1st, and still no resolution. State workers have seen pay reductions, forced days off and layoffs for the past two months. However, direct pain to the private sector has been minimal, until now. College financial aide offices have been overwhelmed with calls and concerned students and parents flooding the office in an attempt to determine if school will start for them without their finances in order. Read more…

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If you cheat, there’s a chance it is your teacher’s fault, so says a CanWest News Service article by Amy Minsky entitled Cheating stats getting out of control: Researcher. The American Psychological Association met in Toronto this past Saturday and sited the problem of cheating as a growing concern. One of the statistics sited at the convention is that 75% of college students cheat, according to Eric Anderman, an Ohio State professor of educational policy and leadership . Interestingly, Anderman blamed academic pressure on on students to achieve as the source of cheating. This falls in line with the findings on plagiarism we reported on from Susan D. Blum in My Word! Plagiarism and College Culture.

Two unanswered questions stand out.  The first is, How is it that students are apparently unaware of the level of cheating that is going on around them?  Jordan (2001) found that students greatly underestimated the percentage of their peers who cheat.  Yet the literature shows that the majority of students are cheating.  Could it be that because students are aware that cheating is unethical they do not conceive of it being a widespread problem?  And if students believe they are in the minority when it comes to cheating, is there a level of guilt and or shame that they feel?  Could this be used somehow to decrease the incidence of cheating?

The second unanswered question is, Why is there so much cheating in colleges?  Jordan (2001) cites reasons such as extrinsic motivation and Stearns (2001) cites “mean” and “unfriendly” professors but cheating would not be necessary even in these cases if the students were familiar and comfortable with the academic material.  Therefore, the question becomes are students cheating because the material is too advanced for them or are they simply too lazy to put in the required amount of time and effort to write their own papers or take their own exams?  Or are there other factors involved such as the need to work to earn money to attend school or the modern day need for a college degree forcing students into college who might not otherwise have chosen to go?

Despite these unanswered questions, two very important and surprising facts are learned from the research.  First, students who cheat in college are more commonplace than students who never cheat.  And second, neither college administrators, teachers, nor the research experts know what to do to effectively stop the cheating.  My own viewpoint on this issue is that professors in each class should remind students of the dire consequences of cheating when giving out each assignment and before handing out each exam.  Students should be made to sign an honor pledge on their assignments and exams and understand that expulsion from school is the only consequence to cheating.

Given the amount of fraud one hears about everyday being committed by corporations and government officials though, it should not come as a surprise that there is so much cheating going on in colleges.  After all, the cheating students of today are the corporate moguls and elected officials of tomorrow.

Jordan, Augustus E. “College Student Cheating: The Role of “Motivation, Perceived Norms, Attitudes, and Knowledge of Institutional Policy.” Ethics & Behavior. Jul2001, Vol. 11 Issue 3, p233.

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Now I run the risk of alienating the men who read this but really, it just has to be pointed out – What is the problem with Sonia Sotomayor?

The world is in an uproar about her comment in a 2001 speech “I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.” Seems a no-brainer to me. A wise Latina woman is certainly going to be a far better asset to this nation than any white man or white woman, given the changing dynamics of the nations population and the need for understanding of the urgency in minority problems such as adequate health care and equality in education. Give me a wise anyone who has seen first hand the struggles of a minority that is rapidly becoming the majority and I’ll vote them in! The status quo was the Bush administration; please embrace the brilliance of change and vote in “wise”, “different”, “open mouthed” and, not to overuse this word but heck, it sums up the new era, “hope”.

And then there is the woman thing…Yes, the Supreme Court needs a bit more balance in that arena also.The “wise Latina” comment has induced some to say that Sotomayor will be biased, either for her gender or towards Latinos, because she singled them out in a speech and put a “wise Latina” on a pedestal. Hmm…again, show me the fault in this. The problem with criticizing her for this statement rests in prefacing her reference to a Latino woman as “wise”. You just can’t criticize someone with her intelligence and track record in life experience for singling out someone as wise. We should all be listening and taking note of who is “wise” rather than worried about bias. I’m biased towards “wise” people too and I loath ignorance.

Please! Please! Put another judge on the bench that had to struggle for what they achieved. Struggling to achieve generally brings an awareness of the value of what one has. Give me a Justice that earned their seat and I’ll give you a Judge that thinks twice about abusing it.

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A while ago, we did a series of articles on the 5 most marketable degrees, according to an article in Encarta. We figured this would be helpful, especially in difficult economic times. However, in retrospect, it seems that even in the worst job market in 25 years, we were misguided. According to career specialists across the nation, marketability is not the key for success. What is? Doing what you love.

Career counselors that discussed hiring criteria with major employers found out that while resumes, education and grades are attractive, what employers really look for in college students is trust, clear thinking and the ability to show results on projects. An article in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, cited a Human Resource Manager at Texas Health Resources, one of the region’s largest employers in Texas, as stating, “Do those results really support treating other people with courtesy, dignity and respect? And communicating clearly and earning people’s trust? And thinking before they act?”

In order to build trust, enjoy other people, communicate efficiently and have dignity and respect in your life, you have to love what you do. Your happiness is what drives results. Loving what you do is the only way to be good at what you do.

Marketable degrees are wonderful but if it is not what you love or want to do, forget it! If communications is your passion, look for a job in a marketable field such as engineering, in a communications sector of engineering companies such as human resources or technical writing. College students need to do what they love and earn their degree in what will fulfill them. That is a recipe for true life success.

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Sunday, in the Miami Herald, an article ran concerning wind power and environmental problems. It naturally caught my eye and my first reaction was one of disbelief, then disappointment. Apparently, as reported by the Miami Herald, the infrasonic waves that are caused by the motion of the windmill causes a varied amount health concerns for those who live near wind power fields. Symptoms include headaches, insomnia and stiffness of shoulders, to name a few. It is ironic that as we try to clean up the world we messed up, we still can’t get away from harming ourselves. Large wind turbines, often congregated in large wind farms, use the power of the wind to create energy. Wind turbines are capable of producing adequate amounts of power, but are constrained by geographic location and the inevitable need for wind. As a solution to these problems, many countries have begun creating off-shore wind farms. By placing large numbers of wind turbines on the ocean, many countries are able to conserve land as well as place their turbines in an area with a constant source of wind. This may be a viable alternative to land-based wind power farms that are affecting the health of near-by residents.

What needs to be done is more research on those that claiming adversary health effects from wind turbines. No formal research studies have been done on the effects of wind turbines on human health, though a causal relationship has been established by other wind farms besides those implicated in Japan.

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