Charles McGrath, "At
9.95 a Page, You Expected Poetry?"New
York Times, Sun. 10 Sep. 2006.[Rodger]
Rodger Armstrong, Fall
2006
In this article, the
author looks at term papers for sell on the web; how they are made to order
and “completely non-plagiarized”. The author tested three of the internet
sites with three English literature papers. The results were dismal.
The Professors that were looking at the term papers gave both papers bad
grades. One company never sent the requested work.
1. What were the Results
of the paper that they ordered
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Ordered three sample English
literature papers from three different companies.
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The two papers that were
received were poorly organized, awkwardly phrased, thin on substance, padded
and stating and restating the obvious.
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Two Professors that looked
at the papers said that they would ask the students to either meet with
them or give the paper a failing grade.
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One essay was never delivered
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Basically an electronic
version of “The dog ate my homework”
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Asked for a 24 hour extension
2. What were the response
of the companies that wrote the papers?
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One offered a full refund
and 10% discount on a new paper.
Nathan
Thornburgh, "The Kidnapper's Trick", Time, 10 Sep. '06)
[Kim
B]
by Kimberly Barnhart
This article discusses the mental and psychological
effects on a child is irrevocably poisoned against a parent. This
can occur in the case of an abduction where the kidnapper tells the victim
that his/her parents did not want them or that the child has been forgotten.
More commonly, in the case of a custody dispute, one parent will try to
turn the child away from the other parent. This is called “parental
alienation syndrome.”
• Two case studies on abductions.
• Natascha Kampusch—Austrian child abducted
8 years ago at the age of 10. Recently escaped her captor but had
not reunited with her parents just yet. Captor told her that her
parents had “simply forgotten about her.”
• Steven Stayner—Californian child abducted
at the age of 7. Held captive for seven years, living as the abductor’s
son. Abductor told him that his dad had died and his mother gave custody
to the abductor.
Parental Alienation Syndrome
• One parent accuses the other of brainwashing
their child and turning him or her against the parent.
• Brutally effective way to secure child’s
allegiance.
• In extreme cases, parents can implant false
memories of abuse or stir a child into a permanent and irrational rage
against the targeted parent.
Treatments
• Reconciliation therapy—look through photo
albums to humanize the parent again.
• Show children how easily their minds can
be tricked and it’s not their fault.
End Results--Counterintuitive
• Natascha has not returned home to her parents.
She visits with her mother, but not her father.
• She is angry with her father for speaking
for her regarding the death of her captor. Her father said that she
would celebrate his death. In fact, she mourned her captor.
• Steven returned to his childhood home,
but struggled to fit back in.
• Nine years later, he died in a motorcycle
crash.
• It’s a long, hard road to recovering the
relationships with the parents.
Ron
Susskind, "The Unofficial Story of the Al Qaeda 14: Their Torture by
the CIA ...", Time, 10 Sep. '06 (see second half)[Cheryl
R]
by Cheryl Roy, Fall 2006
* Secret prisons and the Interrogators treatment
of the al-Qaeda operatives
* Techniques with odd names like “water boarding”.
* CIA’s 14 high-value detainees moved
* Trial will be in the coming months
* Treatment of these detainees, Was it justified?
Is it ever? Do you care?
* Remember 9/11 and our nation’s broken heart.
* Afghan fighters moved to Guantanamo in
early 2002 and first al-Qaeda operative was picked up.
* Debate on what would produce highest-quality
yield from interrogation with greatest speed.
* U.S. intelligence was panicked with fear
of 2nd attack.
* FBI interrogation experience in 1990 led
to numerous prosecutions of 1st World Trade Center and other bombings.
* FBI Learned al-Qaeda members assumed they
would be dismembered.
* FBI presented a human face to detainees
and patience was rewarded:
Agent’s Knowledge of Koran
Access to unlimited videos
Operation for an al-Qaeda member’s child
* CIA wanted to do whatever necessary and
President Bush went with CIA’s ways
*----I could leave out everything above (Is
this the 2nd half you were talking about-below?)
* President Bush brought Captives out of
the darkness of CIA “black site” prisons to get things started legally.
Proposal for military tribunal to dispose
of them
Harsh interrogation methods are not illegal
16 “old school” ways of interrogation.
* Learned from early errors.
March 2002-Abu Zubaydah-experiment in righteous
brutality produced very little.
Ramzi Binalshibh provided little info under
duress
9/11 planner Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM)-little
info.
* Bush-creative liberties with information
gathered. One capture and info lead to another and another
* Many sources of information led to capture
of KSM. Information taken from al-Jazeera reporter-Binalshibh was
captured in September 2002.
* KSM guided CIA agent’s to terrorists safe
house and collected $25 million reward and was relocated somewhere in the
U.S.
* Abusive interrogations of the 14 led to
actionable intelligence.
* Unnecessary costs of resorting to abuse
Lost opportunity to gain more information
by forming captor-captive relationship
Loss of moral authority
Poisoning of eventual legal proceeding-disallow
evidence gained through torture.
* Americans are eager to get an unfiltered-read
nonpoliticized look at “high value” captives.
* Administration against an authentic legal
process.
* Republican Senator’s challenging the President’s
narrow tribunal plan.
