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419 Eater (includes archives of real 419 letters)
Where I originally saw the Hank Paulson bailout plan 419 parody letter
The original...
Abby Duin
C & C: Bullshit!
Policy Paper
Federal Law for Having School 4 Days a Week
3-18-09
This past spring and summer the gas, electricity and other prices sky-rocketed. The oil price has...
January 18, 2009
Sugarland is the Best
By Abby Duin
When most people think of country music they think of George Jones, Dolly Parton, Kenny Rogers, Kenny Chesney and Faith Hill, but when it comes...
Allison Von Ehwegen
Rachael Robison
BULLSHIT
January 19, 2009
Opinion Column
Males are better drivers than females. This is a common assumption among many people in today’s society, particularly...
Allison Von Ehwegen
Rachel Robson
Bullshit
March 9, 2009
The Current Drinking Age
It’s a commonly heard story. A bunch of college kids decide to have a party. The college kid that decides to have...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_reliability
According to this link there are sometimes errors because it is a wiki. But it also says that the error rate is very similar to that of an...
Helmet law in Nebraska
Background : In 1967, the United States government required states to form a motorcycle helmet use laws to qualify for federal funds. 40 made their own universal helmet laws...
Brady Lakes
Rachel Robson
Formal Writing 1
January 18, 2009
Legal Consumption
One of the most controversial questions of this day and age is, “What should be the legal age to consume alcoholic...
Brady Lakes
Rachel Robson
C & C Bullshit
March 8, 2009
Drug Testing
When people are asked what they think of professional sports, many people would say they depict the wrong values. Many people...
Policy to Enforce Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act
Diabetes is becoming an ever increasing epidemic that is at the highest of all time. The Department of Health and Human Services Center for...
Caleb Caboth
Rachel Robson
1-19-09
The nation’s team, there the crimson and white, this team hold the most consecutive sold out home games in the nation. They have five national championships and...
Caleb Caboth
Policy Paper
Rachel Robson
Policy Proposal for Making Smoking Illegal
BACK GROUND:
Smoking is the leading cause of death in the United States today, not to mention the leading cause of...
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Curt Maassen
3/15/09
C&C Bullshit
Policy Paper
Background:
I was watching the news the other day and they were talking about the economy and its current state. One man brought up the subject of...
Curt Maassen
4/8/09
C&C Bullshit
Policy Paper
Background:
I was watching the news the other day and they were talking about the economy and its current state. One man brought up the subject of...
Dan Foreman
Rachael Robson
Composition & Communication: Bullshit
March 12, 2009
Testing and Policies Concerning Illegal Use of Steroids in the MLB
Steroids in today’s society are used and...
Dan Foreman
R. Robson
C&C Bullshit
1/22/09
The USC Trojans. You are either with them or against them. In many cases, the people that are against them will try to say that the Trojans are indeed...
The Reason why wikipedia is reliable as explained by wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliability_of_Wikipedia wikipedia
:Edit: by the illustrious Bryce...
Refer to your syllabus for specifics on this assignment. No, you're not
supposed to be writing on the same topic as any of the articles, but just
on a topic that is interesting to you (and that you...
Dan Foreman
Rachel Robson
Composition & Communication
19 April 2009
Curse of the Chicago Cubs
The Chicago Cubs are known to be the ‘cursed’ team in the MLB. This curse dates back to 1945...
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Jaime Parkinson
C&C-Robson
Paper #2 Draft #1
Euthanasia
Karen Ann Quinlan fell into an irreversible coma after consuming alcohol and tranquilizers at a party in April, 1975. She had severe...
Joel Van Wyk
Rachel Robson
Composition and Communication: Bullshit
March 11, 2009
Policy Paper
Motorcycle Helmet Use in Iowa
When the spring temperatures start to rise, motorcyclists are going out...
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Diet Pills
By Maggie Karns
All across the world, everyday, someone is buying a dietary supplement. It’s almost impossible to sit down and watch a regular television program without seeing a...
Maggie Karns
CNC:Bullshit
March 8, 2009
Laws of Euthanasia
Euthanasia is the act of ending the life of an individual suffering from a terminal illness or an incurable condition, as by lethal...
Wikipedia has become one of top websites visited even though it was created just six years ago. This online encyclopedia is educational and has viewpoints from various sources, but it may also...
Melissa Cruise
Policy paper
March 7, 2009
Abortion Policy
Background:
In 1973 the U.S. Supreme Court legalized the controversy of abortion. This case was called Roe vs. Wade. Most of the abortions...
Michael Gruber
Rachel Robson
C&C Bullshit
March 20 2009
Policy Paper/Speech
The Legalization of Marijuana
The legalization of Marijuana has become a fairly controversial subject due to...
Cheerleading is a sport
In every group of friends, schools, communities and parts of the world there are opinions. While everyone’s opinions may not be correct, people are still entitled to their...
Tanning Law Changed to the Age 18
Although tobacco purchasers in all 50 states must be 18 years of age, only three states have restrictions on youth tanning use. Evidence shows that young age is...
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The New York Times: Courts Turn to Wikipedia, but Selectively: "A simple search of published court...
Jaime Parkinson
C&C-Robson
Buzzed Driving is Drunk Driving
It is a familiar story - a girl goes to a party to have some fun. She enjoys the night by dancing and having a few beers, maybe a few...
STUDENT 3
The Potential of Adult Stem Cells
Stem cells are unspecialized cells that can self-renew as well as differentiate into specialized tissue types(Blanpain et al. 2004) . Stem cells from...
Jaime Parkinson
C&C-Robson
Paper #2 Draft #1
Euthanasia
Karen Ann Quinlan fell into an irreversible coma after consuming alcohol and tranquilizers at a party in April, 1975. She had severe...
"so, if we ask the subject to guess heads or tails for each of 100 coin flips, we'd expect about 50 of the guesses to be correct. Suppose a new subject walks into the lab and manages to guess heads...
On March 2, 1972, humankind did one of the most memorable things in our bloody and banal history. The spacecraft Pioneer 10 was launched. (Smith 2003)
Its task was to gather information about...
Journal Nature study 'fatally flawed', says Britannica
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliability_of_Wikipedia
by Rachel Robson. Copyright 2003.
Some issues just won’t die. But the people they impact will.
Take, for instance, the tortured question of whether practicing gay men should be allowed to donate...
by Rachel Robson. Copyright 2003.
This column will not tell you how to make a bioweapon. This column will not provide instruction in making germs more deadly, or in manufacturing brand-new viruses...
In today’s society, nearly twenty five percent of all elderly people have a mental illness that goes untreated. Anti-psychotic sales are increasingly on the rise while criminal disobedience and...
Water is everywhere! In the media, on the news, people everywhere are being showered with the happenings of water. However, there seems to be a quite a stir in the discussion of bottled water...
Policy Proposal for Enacting a Mandatory Motorcycle Helmet Law
BACKGROUND:
Motorcycles have come a long way since their invention in 1885 by Daimler (Total Motorcycle, 2003). Originally being...
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January 18, 2009
Why is cheerleading a Sport?
By: Natasha Hemmelrick
When people hear the word cheerleading, they automatically think of girls on the sidelines of real “sports.” While in the...
Here's a link to the Colbert Report archive of all of "The Word" segments. Your final speech will follow this format.
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Frenetic: At a very rapid pace
Ant: Slow, stolid
Syn: Hectic
Sent: Dr. Robson's frenetic gestures were distracting.
Peregrinate: traveling around from place to place
Ant: stationary
Syn: journey,...
Catatonic: in an immobile or unresponsive stupor
sent: Cam was in a catatonic state after Ferris helped to destroy his father's car.
synonym: motionless
antonym: moving, active
part of speech:...
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Google bomb:
definition: refers to practices intended to influence the ranking of a particular page in results returned by the google search engine.
sentence: Hugedisk Men's...
Sock puppet
Definition: an online identity used for purposes of deception within an online community.
sentence: Jim used a sock puppet when playing online poker.
example: puppy77
part of speech:...
Phishing
definition:In the field of computer security, phishing is the criminally fraudulent process of attempting to acquire sensitive information such as usernames, passwords and credit card...
Hathos
Feelings of intense pleasure derived from the act of hating a particular basketball player, team, etc.
Players like Kobe Bryant and Ron Artest fill me with a deep sense of hathos; I just...
mission creep
n. The process by which a mission's methods and goals change gradually over time.
The expansion of a project or misssion beyond its original goals, often after initial success
ex: UN...
If you're a student in Dr. Rachel Robson's Composition and Communication class on Bullshit at Morningside College, Spring semester 2009, this is the place you'll post your second and final papers,...
According to Wikipedia, the world largest wiki site:
A Wiki ([ˈwiː.kiː] <wee-kee> or [ˈwɪ.kiː] <wick-ey>) is a type of website that allows users to add, remove, or otherwise edit...
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/17/wikipedia-tries-approval-system-to-reduce-vandalism-on-pages/
This article is talking about how they are cutting down one the vandalism on Wikipedia.
They...
This site shows that the accuracy of wikipedia is 1/3 worse than the Encyclopedia Britannica on...
This site shows that wikipedia is less reliable than the encyclopedia.
http://news.cnet.com/Study-Wikipedia-as-accurate-as-Britannica/2100-1038_3-5997332.html
Jaime P.
I found a New York Times article that shows how reliable Wikipedia could be. It makes a really good point when it states that how can a site be reliable when you can get on and change information...
The BBC news reports on a the accuracy of wikipedia vs the Britannica encyclopedia.(http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4530930.stm)
"The free online resource Wikipedia is about as accurate on...
