September 6, 2022 / Posted in  Adolf Hitler, American Nazis, Baptist Convention, Baptists, Bible, Bible, Blog, Bolivia, Brazil, censorship, Christian Terrorists, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormons), Donald Trump, Education, Evangelical Christianity, Evangelical Pastors for Trump, Evangelical Protestants, Franklin Graham, Gov Greg Abbott (R-TX), Holocaust, homophobia, Homosexuality, Jesus, Ku Klux Klan, LGBTQ, LGBTQAI+, Martin Luther, Nazis, Papacy, Pat Robertson, Patriot Front terrorists, Pope Pius XII, Proud Boys, racism, Religious fundamentalists, Republican Party, Republicanazis, Roman Catholicism, Satan, separation of church and state, Southern Poverty Law Center, Third Reich, Transgender people, violent overthrow of USA government, Vladimir Putin, white chiristian conservative evangelicals, white privilege, white supremacy racism, White women for Hitler, White women for Trump

Southern Baptist Convention Nashville TN

This essay is dedicated in appreciation to

Paul Pearson

Southern Baptist pastors have been spiraling downward  into the abyss of fiction and fraud for generations, pushing the iniquitous sword attacking civil rights, women, people of color, and the customary whipping boy for ignorant people: the LGBTQIA+ community. From Billy Graham and G...

October 27, 2021 / Posted in  AIDS (disease), Barrack (President), Christian Terrorists, Critical Race Theory, Donald Trump, Education, Evangelical Pastors for Trump, gay marriage, Homosexuality, Jesus, LGBTQ, Misinformation, Obama, racism, Religious fundamentalists, Rep. Bob Good (R-VA), Republican Party, Republicanazis, Rick Scarborough (preacher), separation of church and state, Shepard-Byrd Hate Crimes Act, Southern Baptists, Texas, Trump Donald J, white privilege, white replacement theory, white supremacy racism

Extremism is the reality that Texas has lovingly preserved: in politics, in religion, in enforcement (there are more crimes against humanity by police and sheriffs in Texas than in any other state) while education, health, family life and security remain low. The more hate a person can spew is the passport to political office, and ideas on working for the common good, raising education levels, acknowledging a racist past and precedents is laughed at and openly scorned.

Texas pastor Rick Scarborough (The Independent UK)

Rick Scarborough, from Pearland, Texas, a self-described “Christocrat,”¹ strident anti-LGBTQ² activist who declared AIDS to be a “homosexual disease”³ a loving (sic) god sent to punish⁴ “sodomites”⁵]–even thought AIDS strikes both genders and was found to have been diagn...

October 17, 2021 / Posted in  1861, Black Americans, Black athletes, Blog, Bob Rowling, Confederate Constitution March 11, Dixie flag, Domestic terrorist, Donald Trump, Education, Eldon Larry Wilkinson, Flag of the Confederate States of America, Gina Peddy, Gov Greg Abbott (R-TX), Proud Boys, racism, Republican Party, Republicanazis, Rick Perry, Texas, Texas legislature, Texas Tribune, white privilege, white supremacy racism

At a training session last week, a school administrator with Carroll ISD in Southlake, Texas, tried to advise elementary school teachers on how to follow new district guidelines for the vetting of books. The guidelines were issued in an attempt to align with a controversial law in Texas that seeks to restrict discussion of race and history in schools. There are no opposing facts to the Holocaust except in the twisted minds of white nationalists, American Nazis, and untrained historians. There are no opposing facts to racism in the USA except by the KKK, white nationalists, white supremacists and Republicanazis in Texas and the Deep South...

November 24, 2013 / Posted in  Critical Thinking, Critical Writing, Education, Ethics, Intellectual Property rights, Interpretation, Investigation, Language, Perú, Research, Third World nations

Index

•     I. Introduction
•    II. Antithesis
•   III. Testing the thesis
•   IV. Investigation and research
•    V. Thesis
•   VI. Addressing the problem of Tradumatica
•  VII. Direction and focus
• VIII. Summary
•   IX. Recommendations
•    X. Bibliography
•   XI. Web links annotated
•  XII. End Notes

I.  Introduction

I was reading a student essay in the eighth cycle at a university in Perú where I have taught for several disappointing and discouraging years.  To my dismay, after having the son of an evangelical minister complain when I failed his paper that was 100% plagiarized, his lamentation equaling that of the other student. Both young people attempted to justify the theft of intellectual property by stating that he had been taught that in the local schools...

September 5, 2013 / Posted in  Critical Thinking, Critical Writing, Education, Ethics, Intellectual Property rights, Investigation, Perú, Research, Third World nations

Contents

I. Abstract

II. Caveats

III. Introduction

IV. Encyclopedic Theses

V. Narrowing the Research Topic

VI. Narrowing the Question

VII. Critical Reading

VIII. Critical Writing

IX. Succinct Academic Writing

X. Attracting the Reader’s Attention

XI. Critical Composition

XII. Paragraphs in Composition

XIII. Correlative Paragraphs

XIV. Connections, Conjunctions, and Transitions

XV. Clarity of Expression

XVI. Punctuation

XVII. Conclusion

XVIII. Recommendations

XIX. Bibliography

XX. End notes

Abstract

All academic theses have abstracts.¹ Abstracts let the reader decide whether or not to continue to read the thesis, and show the reader what to look for if he or she does read the thesis.

No abstract should be inserted merely to repeat the outline of the thesis...

September 4, 2013 / Posted in  Critical Thinking, Critical Writing, Education, Ethics, Research, Third World nations

Contents

I. Abstract

II. Introduction

III. Educational Costs are Limiting Academic Learning

IV. Religion is Circumscripting Learning

V. University Ratings: Worldwide with Focus on Perú

VI. Low National Scores

VII. Wealth and Fear of Progress

VIII. No Books, Bad Books, Pirated Books

IX. Intellectual Property and Degree Mills

X. For-profit Universities: Murdering Education for Money

XI. Benchmarking: Steps to Successful Scientific and Academic Research

XII. Identifying Potential Partners

XIII. Identifying Data Sources

XIV. Establishing Process Differences

XV. Targeting Future Performance

XVI. Communicative Process

XVII. Adjusting Research Goal

XVIII. Review and Recalibrating Research

XIX. Calibration and Recalibration in Learning Areas

XX. Conclusion and Recommendations

XXI. Bibliography

XX...

August 22, 2013 / Posted in  Critical Thinking, Critical Writing, Education, Investigation, Language

Contents

I. Introduction to this essay

II. Abstract

III. Encyclopedic Theses

IV. Narrowing the Research Topic

V. Narrowing the Question

VI. Critical Reading

VII. Critical Writing

VIII. Succinct Academic Writing

IX. Attracting the Reader’s Attention

X. Critical Composition

XI. Paragraphs in Composition

XII. Correlative Paragraphs

XIII. Connections, Conjunctions, and Transitions

XIV. Clarity of Expression

XV. Punctuation

XVI. Conclusion

XVII. Bibliography

XVIII. Citations (Footnotes)

Introduction

When it comes rising to the challenge of writing anything, many people are afraid. Those catechized with the opportunity to present themselves and their ideas in written format, frequently stammer the time-worn cliché: “I freeze up”...

August 11, 2013 / Posted in  Education, Ethics, Intellectual Property rights, Investigation, Researcn

Contents

I. Introduction

II. Background

III. Antithesis

IV. Antethesis

V. Protothesis

VI. Synthesis

VII. Reiteration of Rubric: Reality of Academic Writing

VIII. Peer Review

IX. Adversarial Reviews

X. Meeting the challenge in mastering the English language

XI. Academic Writing Requirements

XII. Summary

XIII. Recommendations

XIV. Bibliography

XV. Footnotes

Introduction

In academia, investigation, research (research is frequently confused with investigation, although in Academic English they mean different aspects in the conduct of inquiry), writing, rewriting, editing, redacting, and publishing is conducted in several sets of forms and genres, not all that are geared, directed, responsive to or a part of the author’s field of specialization to the lamentable loss of true scholarship...

August 3, 2013 / Posted in  Education, Ethics, Intellectual Property rights, Opus Dei, Researcn

Introduction

In cases where I am called on to review a thesis or dissertation, I hesitate, frequently decline, and (with rare exceptions) I feel fear, then ultimately despair at the puerile paucity of knowledge that is contained in poorly invested, investigated, and roughly researched papers that aspire to the title and name of thesis—yet have nothing in common with a real thesis.¹  The theses that I have read over the past fifty years have been at best blatant, bland, barren, crass “cut-and-past”, or more precisely, bypassing deliberate plagiarism to outright theft of intellectual property rights.²  This has become so common, that I walk away with an apologia at best, or just express my “regrets” that I am not capable of weighing in on the theses as most writers assume that “by pa...

July 28, 2013 / Posted in  Education, Ethics, Investigation, Researcn

Contents

I. Introduction

II. Abstract

III. Introduction

IV. Asking Questions, Initiating Investigation

V. The Investigative Process

VI. Original Sources not Understood or Ignored

VII. Established Opinions vs. Truth

VIII. Barriers and Authorities

IX. Interrogation vs. Interview

X. Interview Preparation

XI. Communication Skills

XII. Ethics and Investigation

XIII. Group Think

XIV.  Bibliography

XV. End Notes

Abstract

Investigation is commonly defined in the current era as being associated with criminal (White collar¹  and Blue collar² behavior, actions, and various consequences ranging from theft to murder-for-hire and assassination, and more,³ while the practitioners of this sleuthfoot/gumshoed/shamus⁴ operation do use basic principles of investigation...