Archive for April, 2010
Gulf Oil Rig Explosion
Monday, April 26th, 2010
The petroleum industry is rife with instances of corruption, mismanagement and unsafe practices in the field. The recent oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico is a good case in point. The Coast Guard and other officials do not yet know why the oil rig, The Deepwater Horizon, exploded but, interestingly enough it was operated by British Petroleum or BP which was also responsible for the refinery in Texas City, Texas in 2005. While these are clearly two separate and unique incidents they are indicative of both the inherent danger in the petroleum industry as well as the hubris that can seep into large conglomerates and their operations in the industry. The topic of BP’s oil rig explosion, sinking, and subsequent drill leakage is one that many business programs will assign for project management courses, operations classes, ethics classes, as well as crisis management programs for their research papers, essays, and dissertations.
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Payment Security thru PayPal
Thursday, April 8th, 2010
Numerous custom writing companies engage in credit card fraud and clients are constantly worried about whether they will actually get their projects after making payment. Companies in both India and China abound that do nothing but create churn by culling the internet for clients, charging a fee and then failing to deliver a project. Clients have little recourse when this happens but still must find a way to produce an essay, term paper, research project, thesis or dissertation on time. We utilize PayPal for all or most of our transactions because it protects us and the client. For example, if you order a paper and do not receive it you can apply to PayPal to have the money refunded. If we cannot show that we emailed you your paper then you get your refund. But if we show PayPal that we emailed you your project then there is no refund. Everyone wins because you are protected and we can offer you a great deal of peace of mind knowing that you will receive a quality essay, thesis or dissertation on time.
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Catholic Church Sex Scandal
Sunday, April 4th, 2010
The Catholic Church has been mired in a sex abuse scandal for years. Until recently, the largest perhaps was the wave of priest abuses of altar boys across the US for years that went unnoticed by the public but was brushed under the carpet by the Church hierarchy. In the US the Catholic Church’s leadership simply moved abusive priests around from one market to another never warning new dioceses of the danger their children faced. This is a travesty. Presently, the sex scandal within the Church has now enveloped Ireland and Europe where the same series of events has been found to have occurred. In fact, even the Pope is now subject to claims that he personally assisted in ignoring, hiding, and covering up these abuses. My types of college and university courses are now utilizing these events within the Catholic Church for material in their classes. Courses on religion and theology, philosophy as well as crisis management are using the Catholic Church’s sex scandal to assign essays, term papers, thesis projects and dissertations and it is producing a mass wave of new research on the subject. We have writers available who have developed a deep knowledge of the Catholic Church sex scandal ready to assist you.
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The Waltz: An Epic Journey
Friday, April 2nd, 2010
THE WALTZ
Prologue
Gilgamesh, being of Sumerian descent, has grown tired of his life of luxury and excess in heaven and decides to leave heaven after dreaming about finding a perfect lover. The following pages describe Gilgamesh’s attempt to find this lover on Earth and of the people that he meets during his adventures. Gilgamesh is chased by God who is angry that he had the audacity to reject heaven but God cannot navigate the world he created very well and is himself victimized. Gilgamesh seems caught between two worlds, one ancient and archaic where idealism is rampant and a world of civilization and technology; a world that he can only communicate with in dream-like states. Gilgamesh is assisted in his quest for his Mycenaean Queen by the Hunter who rescues him but who is on his own journey to save his wife captured by the Necromancer; by Atropine who was killed in a ritualistic sacrifice but saved by God in order to chase down Gilgamesh; by Valkyrie who seeks absolution from death and defeat in battle; by Odalisque, a former prostitute now stricken with leprosy who longs for a lover from her youth. They are all besieged by Necromancer who captures souls for his own ends and seeks to keep Gilgamesh from finding his perfect lover. In doing so, Gilgamesh would substantiate a life of idolatry that both Necromancer and God require in order to keep the status quo; what are their seats of power.
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University of Phoenix Sucks
Thursday, April 1st, 2010
One Student’s Account:
“In 2009, the U.S. Department of Education provided a preliminary report to the university that cited untimely return of unearned Title IV funds for more than 10 percent of sampled students. The report also expressed a concern that some students enroll and begin attending classes before completely understanding the implications of enrollment, including their eligibility for student financial aid. As a result, in January 2010, its parent company, Apollo Group Inc., was required to post a letter of credit for $125 million by January 30 of the same year” –BusinessWeek
Subject: University of Phoenix Business Practices
I enrolled in the University of Phoenix in November of 2009 in its Doctor of Management in Organizational Leadership program. At the time, the intake counselor (let’s call him salesman) advised me that the program entailed residencies that were held at various points around the United States. Additionally, he stated that if I could not make one then I could schedule an alternate residency. I explained to him that this was important as I travel internationally quite often and, of course, this would be a logistical problem. Again, this was BEFORE I agreed to register in the program. I completed several courses in the program and my residency was coming up for March of 2010 and informed the salesman that I would need to reschedule my residency as I would be overseas at that time.
Suddenly, rescheduling the residency was a problem. Several parties told me that I could not do it. Finally, when I threatened to quit the program they said I could do it. This was after being brow-beaten by my academic and financial aid counselors on a conference call wanting to know why I could not cancel my travel plans and attend the original residency. At any rate, they finally said I could reschedule but that I would need to WITHDRAW from school and start up again with my regular schedule after the residency.
Let me re-emphasize that rather than simply letting me take another course on the curriculum which, I might add, not every course is a pre-requisite for the next, contrary to what these sales people say, they told me that I would need to withdraw. Any other graduate school worth the appellation would have just let me take another graduate level course however the University of Phoenix forced me to withdraw. The school was stating that I would need to withdraw (fall out of compliance with financial requirements regarding full-time attendance) because the school would not allow me to take another doctoral course instead.
Rather than go through this ordeal every time I might need to reschedule a residency I chose to withdraw. Thus, since the University of Phoenix was forced to return some of the financial aid monies that it received from the government it is now stating that I owe tuition for a course which was supposed to have been paid for and for which this entire ordeal started because the salesman told me that I could reschedule residencies “no problem.” Of course, he disputes this now as one would expect but I can tell you that this institution is driven purely by the amount of churn it can generate through billing the federal government for federal financial aid funds. The actual treatment and outcome of the students is purely secondary which is why the graduation rates are so pathetic.
While I am certain the University of Phoenix might be able to rationalize its billing me for $2,301 in tuition in spite of it being the reason I withdrew, I am just as certain that there are inconsistencies in its accounting of my financial aid application, dispensation, and adjudication through this process. Please look into this particular case and add my official complaint of this University’s practices to the long list I am sure that you have already compiled.
My chief complaints are the following:
The school required me to withdraw to change my residency date
The school “auto-withdrew” me from a course-whatever that is but I question the methodology because the school uses something it calls the “Course Exit Tracking Checklists” to determine attendance or withdrawal apparently which I neither signed, approved, or was made aware of in advance
The salesman than enrolled me in the program ensured me that I could change my residency dates yet never mentioned that I would need to withdraw in order to do so
These and other issues are why the University of Phoenix Sucks.
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