The Power Team

The Power Team was an interesting read about evangelical Christianity. They seemed to mix the traditional revival with a sideshow. The power team used their muscle and power to attract new audiences to hear their version of the gospel. With that power they mixed it with sharing their fears and emotions with the audience to prove that they were men and the only way they could overcome their fears is through the word of God and the of power of Jesus Christ.

Along with the power and muscle they used conversation to spark interest in what they were saying. They appealed to the emotional state of the people there to here them. They even used their children to inspire the feeling of needing to donate money to their cause and travels. It seemed to me that they were just a traveling circus and sideshow that used interesting and appealing ways to coax money and false inspiration from the working class people that believed in every word that they said. I'm not so sure that this is a legitimate church service to serve the beliefs of the devout, but an elaborate scheme to generate money from religious hard working people.

Government Crimes

In my research paper I want to explore the lies and crimes that the government ha been committing over the past few decades. More specifically I am trying to expose the continued to use humans as guinea pigs to test some new drug or technique that would never be sanctioned by ethical means. I want to share the testimonies of these human lab rats that lived through the outrageous side effects and are speaking out against the unethical government that administered the tests. Most of these experiments were done on the military without the servicemen’s knowledge because all they are told to do was follow and carry out orders handed down to them without questioning them. Being a Marine myself I want to find out the truth about these tests and see if any kind of regulation or change has occurred throughout the years.

The United States government has been committing unethical human experimentation crimes on innocent people for decades and it’s time to find out the truth of the actual regulation behind the experiments.

What I know is that the government has been subjecting the military to various experimental drugs over the years to supposedly help them become better warriors in the field. Most of these experiments were thought to protect Marines, Soldiers, Sailors, and Airmen from various ailments they might run into overseas. Some were even thought to protect against chemical war fare and even nuclear fallout. Most of these “protectants” were either given in pill form or even by injection under the skin. Most of these miracle cures had terrible side effect such as birth defects, blindness, deafness, sterilization and even malformation of some appendages. In some cases the participants suffered terminal side effects that lead to death most of the time.

I need to find out exactly how long this has been going on behind the backs of Americans. I want to hear the testimonies of those who survived the trials and see if it is true that most of the participants were in the military. I want to know what the human guinea pigs family’s had to endure through the trials. I want to know how far up the chain of command the knowledge of these experiments goes. If there are test sites out there that were of the top secret nature that not many people know about or if they were done in some veteran hospital somewhere in the United States.

Some might say that there is no such thing and I’m just paranoid. That our government would never do anything to intentionally harm any citizen.

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Plagiarism Epidemic

This is a response to Plagiarism Lines Blur for Students in Digital Age by Trip Gabriel. Gabriel talks about how students now don’t see a problem with copying a passage off the internet and passing it off as their own thought in a research paper. That this is a growing epidemic throughout colleges in the U.S. the lines blur because doing research and finding material on the internet seems different to most people because some of the information they find doesn’t list an author so it seems to them that no body really owns it and it is up for grabs by anyone. That as opposed to actually putting some work in and finding a book with real pages in the library that has a listed author that needs to be cited in their papers.

Another thing that this article hit on a little bit was that plagiarism can lead to laziness with the increasing amount of information that is available through the internet. I think that is very true for all aspects of technology especially dealing with plagiarism. With the increasing amount of information available at the figure tips of most students, they see it as an easy way out not to do the leg work that needs to be done off their couch and away from the video games. I think to avoid this, plagiarism needs to be looked more forcibly upon and push the students to get off their butts and get out to a thing called a library, that most people never really get to see anymore.

My research Topic :)

The topic that I chose to do research on is cries by the government, more specifically the government using people as human guinea pigs. This topic is interesting to me because being a criminology major I find that these topics to be more interesting because the government is always up to something that we don't know about. It's also interesting to me because the government likes to use the military as guinea pigs in the past to test some kind of new drug, and me being a Marine, I would like to know what kinds of experiments they have out there and might be trying to do to me.

In this paper I will cover any kind of human experiment that I can find. This will help because we need to educate ourselves about how shady the government is. I will discuss the history of human guinea pigs to give a long term idea of how long this has been going on. Especially try to examine the history of human guinea pigs in regards to the military.

Human guinea pigs can be used for a variety of things, from mind control to medical research of super drugs or miraculous cures that will cure anything. They have been used for centuries but have come to the surface more in the last century possibly because of the media and our rights to know whats going on in our country.

Annotation

The article "Making Space for Theory:The Challenges of Theorizing Space and Place for Spatial Analysis in Criminology" is basically saying that the process of using spatial analysis needs to be more widely used among criminologists to try and explain the growing "youth homicide epidemic". They believe that if more criminologists used this spatial reasoning, they would discover a trend in how each crime affects one another in that particular area. This process is necessary for people in the criminology field to understand because it can lead to more effective policing techniques in areas that are affected by high crime rates.

Radil, S.M. (2010). Making Space for Theory: The Challenges of Theorizing Space and Place for Spatial Analysis in Criminology. Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 26, 467-479.

Attached to Technology and Paying a Price by Matt Richtel

Basically this article was saying that people are more attached to their electronic devices than anything else around them. Technology takes precedence over everything in their lives even family. Matt Ritchel also states that people who multi task on their technology devices also have a hard time concentrating and filtering out information that they are trying to take in.
I think that this article is absolutely true. Technology is taking over everyones lives and they are also suffering the consequences. Me personally i don't like technology all that much. i think its going to be the downfall of society very soon as technology gets "better". I don't think that a machine should take over ones life completely. There are more important things in the world than checking your "facespace" or "mybook" (or something like that). I think that people just have to much time on their hands to mess with all these things. I think evreyone needs to get a hard labor intensive job so that they have to unplug and get out in front of the computer or phone.

Intro to Me

My name is Mack and I'm a quiet and simple guy. I'm not fond of any technology and really don't like using computers unless I'm researching something interesting or looking for jeep parts. I'm a diesel mechanic for the Marine Reserves and am Assistant Supervisor of Security at the HUB. I hold two other jobs as well, paid under the table of course. I'm real into the dark side of history that you dont read about in any school text book. For example I have sufficient evidence that John Wilkes Booth didn't die in 1865, but in 1905. I'm also a big Civil War nut because I have ties to the great south and regretably the union in my family. I do all my own mechanic work on vehicles because its easier and whole lot cheaper. That's me in a nut shell.