Please add/correct as you wish and explain why, GREATLY APPRECIATED!!!
Moe T.
March 27, 2009
Newt Gingrich was born on June 17, 1943, an American politician who played a role as a speaker of the United States of Representatives. He was chosen by Time magazine as the person the year for his role conducting the Republican Revolution in the House. During his time as a Speaker, he symbolized himself to the public with a fuss with Bill Clinton. Despite the fact that someone may be a grossly immoral person, he or she can still be a successful politician and Newt Gingrich is one of them.
Newt led the Republican Party to victory in 1994 by seizing the majority in the U.S. Afterwards he broke up the situation by moving power out of Washington and back to the American people. Beneath Newt's leadership, congress passed welfare reform, passed the first balanced budget, and passed the first tax cut in several years. There seems to be more than just a "grossly immoral person" but there is an author behind it, published sellers the people noticed him not as a political but a inspirational speaker. Extensively recognized for his commitment to a more improved system of health for everyone, his directing helped save Medicare from bankruptcy, propelled the FDA to reach out and help the seriously ill and focus on research for prevention and such. Due to his donations he was rewarded by American Diabetes Association. Now he assists as a board member at the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. Newt Gingrich is well on his way as an advocate of increased Federal supporting for basic science research. He is a spectacular contribution to developing the public about science and benefiting to society.
I suppose people tend to look at him as an immoral person; Gingrich has been married three times. He admitted to have an affair during his second marriage at the approximately the same time he was leading congressional investigation of Bill Clinton's affair kind of a hypocritical don't you think? Gingrich also indorses the idea of permitting illegal immigrants to become citizens. I think that's a big step for immigrants into giving a new step to them. Should his affairs have an effect on how we judge Newt Gingrich? Personally I think it does. Why? Well, he's personal life are like second thoughts of a choices. So my question is do you think a choice like that will reflect on Newt's alternatives for America decision for the American people, in-both positive to negative and negative to positive decisions? Gingrich plead guilty for claiming tax-exempt status for a college course run for political purposes. Newt had been accused of violating federal tax law and had lied to the ethics. But that has been dealt with the IRS.
Gingrich's career ended in 1998 when he abruptly resigned from Congress after poor showings from republicans in elections and after being reprimanded by the House ethics panel overcharges that he used to tax-exempt funding to advance his political goals.
Despite the fact that someone may be a grossly immoral person, they can still be a successful politician. Being grossly immoral is an attribute well suited politician. With all the successful achievements and on how he helped the republican gain strength in Congress also improve its electoral fortunes generally. And all the bad the fact he was an immoral person that he is; yet he was still successful. A pattern of Newt can be Hitler, and huge important political model. He was very fortunate, and possibly the one of the most influential men in modern history. Followed by, Newt Gingrich is an important political figure in history. The point is even especially, repugnant people can make a huge impact in politics.
Be more specific throughout: "he symbolized himself to the public with a fuss with Bill Clinton" What fuss? "he broke up the situation" what situation? And so on. You really want to delve more into what sort of an impact he had on American politics. What was it like before he came along? How did he change it? In what ways are we still feeling the effects of his career?
In keeping with that, you might want to drop the "grossly immoral" aspect of your essay, especially given all of the accomplishments you list for him. It's fine to mention that he was married three times, had an affair, was accused of hypocrisy, etc. However, your goal should be to analyze his impact on American politics, and so you should mention them specifically in terms of how they impacted his ability to get out his message and to influence the political landscape.
Overall, then, your essay is a brief biographical sketch of Gingrich, with some personal judgments of him mixed in. But this is supposed to be for a poli. sci. class. So, you need to do analysis of his political impact (which involves doing more than just listing his accomplishments and failures) and should avoid value judgments for the most part.
Good luck with your second draft.
will do boss thanks alot bro!
The career of Newt Gingrich shows that, despite the fact that someone may be a grossly immoral person, he or she can still be a successful politician and Newt Gingrich is one of them .
He admitted to have an affair during his second marriage at the approximately the same time he was leading Congressional investigation of Bill Clinton's affair -- kind of a hypocrite, don't you think?
Yes, I see what Sean means.. you need a stronger argument. Make your thesis say not only that he is "immoral" but something more specific. What kind of immorality? Is he a hypocrite? Uncaring? Weak in his convictions?
When you say good things about him, you still have to be supporting your thesis. Everything you write must support your thesis... so, change the thesis so that it can be supported by the points made by these paragraphs.
thanks
I got introuble asking help in here from my professor and failed me can i post my intro and can you del it after you can look at it man=/ ?
That's most unfortunate -- a professor shouldn't punish you for seeking to better your writing. Did you explain to him what this site does? If he simply ran your essay through anti-plagiarism software, then he might not have realized that your work appearing here was not a sign of cheating.
Unfortunately, our policy is to leave anything posted on the forums on them, unless the comment is in someway offensive or a violation of one of the site's other policies. After all, the point of the forums is for people to be able learn from what other students have done.
yeah i know, im going to speak to him tomorrow man to lift the F and remember that newt paper you helped me with? he think it was plagiarized! and i was pissed off and going to talk to him tomorrow. but i just did my intro and doing the paper ill post when im done man!
Unfortunately, teachers and professors sometimes peg a student as only being able to produce a certain level of work, and if they suddenly improve beyond that, they assume the reason is dishonesty rather than hard work. That is unfortunate, because the whole point of getting educated is to improve yourself, so really such improvement is a sign that the system is working. On the other hand, plagiarism is now rampant, because it is so easy to do, and many of the forms are untraceable, so it is unsurprising that some faculty members are becoming a bit cynical and jaded.
I see, well i went to the museum read up on the paintings and used your help and just finished the 5 page essay!
Well, I hope the essay turned out well for you. It's a pity you can't post it here, but until you resolve things with your professor about the other essays, you really shouldn't risk it.
Hey, this is one of those situations where you have to correct the professor. If he has made the mistake of discouraging your proactive effort to improve your writing by participating here, it is his mistake. Tell him I would like him to take a minute to get a membership and post his explanation for what he has done. This is the first time I have ever heard of a professor or teacher doing such a thing, and, in fact, we have had many members who are teachers!
When I was in school, my professors were not immune to error. This may be one of those situations in which the prof ends up learning from the student. Unless you copied someone else's essay or did something else that was underhanded, I think the prof owes you a grade adjustment and an apology. At this site, we make it very clear that we do not do people's work for them! I'm a little angry to hear that he would do something so harsh and discouraging as to fail you for collaborating in a scholarly forum. By punishing you inappropriately, he is working against our effort to improve education.
man, listen to this hes such a jerk!
he told me I did no such work last semester and the paper i did was a makeup for the final exam so he told me to find a topic from the semister so how was I suppose to get any work from semisters ago? so I found out on my own, found some topics he told me to do a page or two (QUOTED FROM HIS MOUTH) and said how he impacted on politicians. I did and he said i playgeried it off of ww.newt.org he showed me a sentenced and it was a totally different line and I paraphrased it myself..
Am I that dumb enough to copy from HIS own website?
and he told me what did Hitler got to do with it and I said even though Hitler was a hatted person everywhere he made a huge impact and so did newt but still succeeded there achievements. and he didn't say anything after that.. and was like " i aint not argument you anymore its done... " go appeal to the committee i said you wanna go through all that hassle?
i said is it going to kill you? to accept my paper..
1 - you didn't give me a specific length of a paper
2- you didn't even give me specific topics to choose
3- you said i did no work? on that course.. so why do i have papers and notes from your class with your handwriting and checking..? he glazed and said nothing...
i don't get it if he doesn't changed my grade im getting dismissed from school... like if i didn't give two shits about it i wouldn't bother but i did... so i lucky found all my notes and papers in a bag from that course and going to appeal to his committee and hopefully I win and get a grade change..
also I jus did a 5page paper on that art paper with compare and contrasts two paintings on my other thread.. and i did it this morning till 5am i read over it to make it perfected and I did as told on the assignment, i failed because my friends copied a paper off of me and he forgot to change it around.. so i was accused of plagiarism.. i gave in my paper and I hope she doesn't accuse me I did everything in my own words and such when I receive it back ill post it and let me know what you guys think.
Letting other people copy off of you is plagiarism, even if they change it around, and it is in fact traditional to punish both of the people involved, unless the person who had his work copied didn't know that it had been. Apart from that, I just looked up the version of your Newt paper that you posted here, and it doesn't seem to have any citations in it. Did you add a bibliography after you were finished, but before you handed it in? If not, you may have been guilty of unintentional plagiarism, which sort of sucks. Essentially, even if you paraphrased information from other sites, and didn't mean to plagiarize, if you didn't give credit to your sources, it is still considered plagiarism. So, the same essay, only with parenthetical citations and a bibliography, would be considered solid academic work, whereas the essay without those citations would be considered an act of academic dishonesty, even though the essays were identical otherwise.
If this was the case, then you can probably save yourself by pleading that you acted out of ignorance rather than our of a desire to deliberately cheat, and by asking for a chance to be allowed to redo the coursework in question, this time with full knowledge of the necessity for citation. I realize that this probably won't make you very happy, as it involves a lot of extra work you thought you had got behind you, but it is much, much better than an dismissal from university with a mark of plagiarism on your record.
Moe
March 27, 2009
Newt Gingrich was born on June 17, 1943, an American politician who played a role as a speaker of the United States of Representatives. He was chosen by Time magazine as the person the year for his role conducting the Republican Revolution in the House. During his time as a Speaker, he symbolized himself to the public with a fuss with Bill Clinton. Despite the fact that someone may be a grossly immoral person, he or she can still be a successful politician and Newt Gingrich is one of them.
Newt led the Republican Party to victory in 1994 by seizing the majority in the U.S. Afterwards he broke up the situation by moving power out of Washington and back to the American people. Beneath Newt's leadership, congress passed welfare reform, passed the first balanced budget, and passed the first tax cut in several years. There seems to be more than just a "grossly immoral person" but there is an author behind it, published sellers the people noticed him not as a political but a inspirational speaker. Extensively recognized for his commitment to a more improved system of health for everyone, his directing helped save Medicare from bankruptcy, propelled the FDA to reach out and help the seriously ill and focus on research for prevention and such. Due to his donations he was rewarded by American Diabetes Association. Now he assists as a board member at the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. Newt Gingrich is well on his way as an advocate of increased Federal supporting for basic science research. He is a spectacular contribution to developing the public about science and benefiting to society.
I suppose people tend to look at him as an immoral person; Gingrich has been married three times. He admitted to have an affair during his second marriage at the approximately the same time he was leading congressional investigation of Bill Clinton's affair kind of a hypocritical don't you think? Gingrich also indorses the idea of permitting illegal immigrants to become citizens. I think that's a big step for immigrants into giving a new step to them. Should his affairs have an effect on how we judge Newt Gingrich? Personally I think it does. Why? Well, he's personal life are like second thoughts of a choices. So my question is do you think a choice like that will reflect on Newt's alternatives for America decision for the American people, in-both positive to negative and negative to positive decisions? Gingrich plead guilty for claiming tax-exempt status for a college course run for political purposes. Newt had been accused of violating federal tax law and had lied to the ethics. But that has been dealt with the IRS.
Gingrich's career ended in 1998 when he abruptly resigned from Congress after poor showings from republicans in elections and after being reprimanded by the House ethics panel overcharges that he used to tax-exempt funding to advance his political goals.
Despite the fact that someone may be a grossly immoral person, they can still be a successful politician. Being grossly immoral is an attribute well suited politician. With all the successful achievements and on how he helped the republican gain strength in Congress also improve its electoral fortunes generally. And all the bad the fact he was an immoral person that he is; yet he was still successful. A pattern of Newt can be Hitler, and huge important political model. He was very fortunate, and possibly the one of the most influential men in modern history. Followed by, Newt Gingrich is an important political figure in history. The point is even especially, repugnant people can make a huge impact in politics.
I honestly didn't mean to I just gathered information and structured what i got from here and implemented it in the essay, what should I do?
The problem is that you obviously did do research. You didn't just happen to know all of this about Newt Gingrich -- you looked it up somewhere. So, you should have cited the sources of the information, even if you were paraphrasing. In fact, if you had cited, you could have even used direct quotations, and it would have involved less work for you!
Hmmm . . . I was going to give you an example, but I just noticed something
"Newt Gingrich was born on June 17, 1943, an American politician who played a role as a speaker of the United States of Representatives. He was chosen by Time magazine as the person the year for his role conducting the Republican Revolution in the House."
Compare with this quotation from wikipedia
"Newton "Newt" Leroy Gingrich (born Newton Leroy McPherson on June 17, 1943) is an American politician and author, who served as the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999. In 1995, Time magazine selected him as the Person of the Year for his role in leading the Republican Revolution in the House"
This would in fact seem to be a clear case of plagiarism, in as much as you have copied the material almost directly from wikipedia. You were smart enough to change a few words, but the copying is still quite noticeable once both sources are compared side-by-side. You might have ameliorated this a bit by doing something like this:
"Born on June 17th, 1943, Newt Gingrich eventually grew up to lead the Republican Party to dominance in the U.S., House of Representatives, where he served four years as speaker (Wikipedia.com). In 1995, the year Newt first became Speaker of the House, Time Magazine named him Person of Year, saying 'because of Newt a balanced budget is no longer a question of if, but when' (Time Magazine 38)."
The last quotation is actually from a conservative website, but you could have tracked down a 1995 issue of Times and quoted from it if you had wanted to. The revised version would probably pass muster as a work that had avoided being an act of plagiarism, though even now it would be even better if the order in which the ideas were presented didn't follow the Wikipedia article quite so closely.
I asked him to do a re-do because I miss interpreted it, and he just kicked me out with a I'm not discussing thins further more =( I cant get dismissed from college! I don't know what to do! And how would you do the the 2nd paragraph by into your own words without paraphrasing it?
I'm pretty sure that you are misusing the word "can't" there. I'm certain it is perfectly possible for you to be dismissed from college. In a world of cause and effect, all actions have consequences. On the bright side, this is a valuable life lesson, and as university is a place people go to learn valuable life lessons the system seems to be working as it should.
That said, I understand that, while you *can* be dismissed from college, it requires a great deal more effort than you have so far put into it. There should be deans and student organizations and all manner of bureaucracy in place to allow you to appeal your case. Then committees will gather and discuss and debate, and, if you blubber and weep and beg enough, and generally swear up and down in-between your tears that you really, really, really have learned your lesson, they'll probably give you another chance.
As for how I would put the 2nd paragraph in my own words, I wouldn't. That would be giving you something you could copy without fear of being caught, enabling you to commit more plagiarism. That would only teach you that cheating is okay if only you don't get caught, which isn't a valuable life lesson at all, but the first step towards developing a sociopathic personality. If you were to put into your own words yourself, though, I would be happy to edit it for you.
Yes, for sure, if you are seeking help from everyone possible, and if you show them that you really care and have good intentions, it will probably become clear that the prof was unfair -- especially if you are willing to do a good, original paper to show your seriousness. I recommend getting a questia membership and writing a brilliant paper. Pass it around to the people involved, and I'm sure they'll see that you are not dishonest. Do twice the amount of work that was required; that will show that the proff had judged you wrong.
