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March 14, 2006

Confused Americans for Truth - 123 Help an Idiot

by Ferdinand T Cat

Peg-Eye Nate recently informed us of a web site called 123 Help Me. The site offers essays on a wide variety of topics that can be copied and pasted into a word processor for eventual use as a homework assignment. In the cynical manner of cigarette cartons that come with medical warnings, the website includes a page on plagiarism.

Nate was asked by his Rhetoric teacher to critique this paper on Environmental Pollution. Bruce read the thing to me and I was quite frankly appalled. Amongst the many crimes against clear thinking committed by the paper is the declaration that since the legal standard for banning a chemical is "indication of harm" rather than proof, it's not necessary for the paper to back up any of its wild assertions with actual facts.

This is beyond criminal, people. If the papers at 123 Help Me are being used by students to get good grades, then the teachers who are accepting this worthless drivel need to be found and punished. It's one thing for students to get away with cheating, but it's ten times worse if the bogus plagiarized papers are total crap!

Respectfully submitted,

Ferdinand T. Cat

Trackposted to Is it Just My Homework?, Third World Research Paper, Mark My Term Paper, and Pursuing Good Grades.

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*sigh*

" ...includes a page on plagiarism..."

A "How-to" no doubt...


Posted by: David at March 14, 2006 9:37 PM

...proof of the specific cause of a given cancer may be a long way off. However, I firmly believe, and so do many others, that there is sufficient evidence to indicate that the hot air and excrement emanated by moonbats are cancer causing. Furthermore, given the levels observed on a regular basis in our MSM and our airwaves, many moonbats deserve immediate phasing out.

^Reads better with these corrections ;-)


Posted by: Mark at March 14, 2006 9:46 PM

Perhaps it was deliberate? Maybe the whole site is a trick on students who would plagerize their papers. "yes come here, get good grades!" and really the papers are all so horrible that the student fails.

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nah, that can't be it. Because that sounds like every other environmentalist i know. When I try to point out Kyoto will not lessen pollution, only move it to China and India, they say "we have to do something even if it doesn't work"


Posted by: PlutosDad Author Profile Page at March 15, 2006 9:22 AM

I had a student guilty of double plagiarism. He bought a paper online that was itself plagiarized; whoever wrote it simply took passages from the very work we were reading.


Posted by: Bill Ramey at March 16, 2006 12:53 AM

Ya' get what ya' pay for, right?


Posted by: Harrison at March 16, 2006 1:16 AM

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