Same Paper, just edited. Prolly better

The last post featured a very bad paper of mine. It had no direction, was too rambly in the academic sense, and the title had nothing to do with its contents. I really did not want to submit anything like that but time, laziness, and it being a group effort forced me to pass whatever I could produce. I was kind of itching to edit it but it was done, no sense in doing that anymore.

Until somebody said that we need to pass an edited form of it.

So I stayed up really, really late editing this paper. And then I find out I passed  this edited thing

way too late to be part of the final class output. So right now, I’m a bit sad about that. Anyway, this thing shall live on in the Internets, it shall be read by the non-existent people who read this blog, it will LIVE.

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Yet another bad paper. This time on Confucius

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A *bad* paper on some ethical theories

 What follows is a crappy attempt at passing some academic requirement. I generally suck at requirements and I’d rather not do them. I just like the idea that I could’ve done something great if I wanted to, I just didn’t. I like that better than the harsh reality of crating something stupid and crappy. Yep, real nice and mature of me.

So, this is what happens when I cram:

I heard from one of my professors that the immortal answer of a UP student to almost any question is, "It depends." A pretty safe answer that doesn’t choose any sides until it has sufficient facts. It also allows for the moderate relativity of a situation. This statement has allowed me to join some discussions where I know virtually nothing about the topic.
    I remember "It depends." now that I am faced with questions like these:

What is the Good?
How will we know the Good?
Are we free?
Is the Good based on God’s Will, or is God’s Will based on the Good?
Is the Good relative?

    What the fudge is the Good? The meanings may be as many as the stars. There may be shallow answers, deep answers, answers that make sense, and answers that just make you scratch your head while going, "Huh?" But since this is an Ethics paper the answers are limited to the definitions of Good in the field of ethical philosophy. "It depends" comes into the picture, offering a seeming veil of objectivity as we hope to scrutinize ethical theories.

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komiks, manga, organizing, translating and ZOMG the deadline’s today!

I'm currently abusing the benefits of friendship again by trying to do a short term paper for Kom1 in my very good friend Gene Paul's house. "Trying" since I can't seem to put all the things I've read into a coherent and organized piece of crap. I just stare at the screen and the blinking thingy thinking of how to write what I'm thinking. Usually I'd think of a sentence, I'd follow the thought given by that sentence and end up at a dead-end; like, bam! there's nothing more to say. So… I'd rather not think about how sucky my writing process is and I just surf the net (They have blessed DSL!) for more research sources and some more stuff. I hit another problem there since all the sources I see interest me a lot and I only just see that I wouldn't need much of them 'til after I've read them.

I'm doing a term paper on komiks by the way, and I am SO loving it that I can't get it on paper right.

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