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Gun Control Essays
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010
Gun control and gun regulation in the United States is a hot-button issue. Gun control advocates argue that the Constitution does not protect gun ownership for individuals but rather argue that it supports a well-armed militia organization. Not surprisingly, gun advocates argue that the Constitution does protect gun ownership for individuals. Colleges and universities often use this topic for assignments in ethics, philosophy and law classes as an exercise in rights or Constitutional studies among other topics. In fact, this is such an important issue in the US that Starbucks has recently been drawn into the battle because in the US common citizens can receive conceal to carry permits to carry concealed weapons and, in many states, citizens are allowed to go out openly armed. If you need an essay, research paper, or even a thesis or dissertation on this topic let us arrange a model project for you.
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Administrator Pay-Up Again!
Monday, January 18th, 2010
College administrator pay is up again! Enough is enough. International students already pay as much as 3X what regular students pay for tuition in the US and in the UK as well in most instances. A recent article in the New York Times points out that despite the global recession and ongoing financial hardships that many students face, college and university administrator pay went up by an average of 1.1%. This might not seem like much but what the article also points out is the ridiculous amount of money that these administrators make. For example, the President of Ohio State University makes about $1.6 million! $1.6 million! Furthermore, many community college Presidents make in the area of $400 thousand annually and up! There is nothing that college and university Presidents do that deserve these types of exorbitant salaries. This is especially alarming considering that while these administrators are giving themselves raises, increases in student tuition, fees and college texts are going up even higher to pay for their ridiculous salaries. Where will it end?
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Yuk! McDonald’s Crappy Meat
Thursday, December 31st, 2009
I’ll bet that you did not know that when fast food restaurants such as McDonalds say they use 100% real beef that they are not being entirely truthful. Well, being a large, unethical corporate giant you might actually have thought that but you’ll be surprised just how far McDonalds and other purveyors of hamburgers are willing to go to widen their corporate margins.
An article in the New York Times reveals that a company known as Beef Products has been selling its core product, a beef fat derivative, to fast food operators and even school lunch facilities across the US. What exactly is a beef fat derivative you ask? Well, and I was as surprised as you, it is a liquified derivative of beef fat trimmings from slaughterhouses that used to be destined for dog food and other non-human uses because it was deemed unfit for human consumption and it was susceptible to e-coli and salmonella infections.
However, apparently an enterprising entrepreneur named Eldon N. Roth figured out that if a person injects enough Ammonia gas into this liquified mass of beef fat trimmings then it becomes less susceptible to e-coli and salmonella infection. Nice. But, as the story points out, apparently it also causes beef products that this crap is mixed in with to reek of Ammonia. That’s right. Because this very enterprising gentleman injects this beef fat derivative with Ammonia he was able to gain USDA approval to have it mixed in with regular hamburger products targeted for human consumption.
Thus, restaurant chains and school lunch programs purchase hamburger that has been diluted with this crap because it reduces the overall cost of the hamburger allowing the purchasing parties, such as McDonalds, to actually produce more end products (hamburgers) for the same amount of money. The downside of this is that we have been eating hamburger products that are now diluted with nasty beef fat trimmings that used to be fed to dogs and livestock. But it has also increased our potential exposure to e-coli and salmonella infections and, as the article discusses, there are many documented cases of Beef Products’ derivative meat products now testing positive for infection.
Oh, and if you wonder why this company has been allowed to remain in operation–one need look no further than Eldon Roth’s political contribution records in which, you guessed it, more than $31,000 in 2008 went to Republican representatives for office with some of them being directly involved in formulating food safety policies. It might also interest you to know that Eldon, responsible for the production and treatment of millions of dollars worth of meat products annually which we feed to our children, “invented” the Ammonia treatment process and equipment used in his company.
While this might seem fairly innocuous or even admirable, you might also want to know that the man that is responsible for contaminating the majority of the nation’s meat supply has no scientific or engineering background OR education and thus does not understand the full ramifications of what he doing from a health or scientific perspective. In fact, he has no college training at all. What he is good at is maximizing profits. That should get you worried if you have children or are concerned about your long-term health.
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Administrator Pay-Outrageous!
Thursday, December 24th, 2009
A recent article in the Chronicle of Higher Education in the United States (US) discusses the level of pay for many of the nation’s top private universities. In this global recession when many families the world over a struggling to simply purchase food and many of people are returning to school in order to improve their economic outlooks, the barriers to gaining a better education or new job skills through training are constantly going up. The article notes that university presidents such as Rensselaer’s College President, Shirley Ann Jackson, receives more than $1.6 million annually. I’m sorry, and what the hell does a college president do that’s worth $1.6 mllion annually–provide strategy? This is ridiculous and people wonder just why college and university tuition rates are skyrocketing in a manner that is far outpacing inflation. Until the egregious (some might say almost fraudulent) salaries of these top university and college administrators are reigned in the cost of higher education will certainly continue to rise at a rate higher than inflation making it far more difficult for people to begin or complete the higher educations.
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