Term Papers - What Do They Mean?

Term Papers - What Do They Mean?'Martin decided to write his term paper on the topic of animal rights.' That's a line from the e-book - Animal Rights for Dummies - that I'm selling, and it's a sentence I've never heard before. This is actually my fourth term paper (two at school, one in university), and the first one where I ever put the phrase 'animal rights' into my title.The phrase 'animal rights' has become incredibly popular in recent years. It has taken on a life of its own.When you're writing a term paper, sometimes you just need to put that one phrase into your title to make the rest of the paper seem like it's got legs. My third term paper had this as its title: 'Mental disorders and their implications for rights.' Other times, a title can stand alone as a statement about a specific issue, or it can be used to draw parallels between one issue and another. Other times, the title itself becomes the whole point of the paper, so that it becomes a bit of a verbal shout out to peo ple who read it.I like the phrase 'animal rights' because it evokes a broad range of emotions. It conjures up images of wild animals, pet kittens, the purity of a mother bunny, and it captures the feeling that there's something morally wrong with killing an animal (in some way, though obviously not in all cases).The same goes for 'mental disorders and their implications for rights'. It captures the idea that every human being is essentially a human, and therefore some human issues are intimately tied to other human issues.This is why I use the phrase 'animal rights' in my term paper titles. For me, it always brings up the images of animals in the wild. It also sometimes brings up similar feelings about people. That's what happened with my third term paper; the title 'mental disorders and their implications for rights' became 'rights and Mental Disorders'.Because I thought it was such a great title, I started to put it into the titles of all my term papers. That led to a lot of succe ss at school, because a lot of my peers were looking at my term papers and starting to pick up on the metaphor, and were asking me if they could borrow them. I didn't have many to give them, so I'd have to share. People would send me their term papers, and I'd have to choose which ones I was going to read.This is the reason why my term paper on animal rights just happens to be my fifth. Sometimes a phrase can capture something so fundamental, and once you see it, you don't want to miss it.