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I'd go for it...
do the research from both sides and write a balanced paper. If your views don't match those of the instructor, just make sure that you back them up with facts and logic. I think it would be a great subject, but all the books I've read are either by someone totally brainwashed in the LDS church, or totally hateful against the church. Wouldn't it be a great story from an impartial observer?
posted by
DarrkeThoughts
on September 8, 2006 at 11:21 AM
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DO IT
everyone involved will be informed.
get both sides
find some elders to give you a slide show and their history -- very interesting
then get outside perspectives
don't forget the persecution by other Christians.
posted by
Xeno-x
on September 7, 2006 at 1:22 PM
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That should read, I wrote dozens of papers.
posted by
Talion
on September 7, 2006 at 9:57 AM
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SuccessWarrior
Pick another subject. Your goals in this class are to learn how to write a good research paper and get a good grade. That's it. I majored in English in college and wrong dozens of papers. To this day, I remember none of them. Don't make life more difficult than it has to be. Life doesn't need your help in this regard.
posted by
Talion
on September 7, 2006 at 9:55 AM
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SuccessWarrior - If you can imagine, I have faced this situation before
What is the right thing to do, or should be your right to write about a topic of your choosing, does not deal at all with reality. There will not be an asterix beside your low mark if you offend your instructor. Always keep in mind what your own personal goals are when taking a course of any kind. If it is to set the world right and make a stand against those who would censure others based on religious belief, more power to you but walk into it with your eyes open. If it is to garner as much knowledge as you can and improve your overall resume, issues of sticking to your convictions must be weighed in respect to acheiving these goals. Doing the right thing is not always the best thing but I do know that 10 years from now, the potentialy higher mark in this course, will have a lot more value to you than any battle won or lost.
posted by
gomedome
on September 7, 2006 at 9:11 AM
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Yep -- I've been warned off lots of stuff, but I tend to ignore the naysayers. I always go with what God and my gut tell me. He's the one that I am to please -- not the people on this earth.
posted by
RiFDaws
on September 7, 2006 at 9:06 AM
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I've done this myself. When I was in grade school, I wrote a work of fiction with some mild sexual content in it - nothing pornographic, just an indirect reference to sex. (I was actually in junior high - what our area calls middle school - at the time.) This was at a Lutheran school, so you can "bet the ranch" that I took a lower grade for doing that. I was willing to do that. I hope you are, too.
posted by
kidnykid
on September 7, 2006 at 8:39 AM
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