I have a 1500 Word Essay due tomorrow on Scientology!!! Yet I'm still on the Outline!!! Please Help.?

Question

I kinda let this one sneak up on me.I've had 2 weeks to do it but I've been terribly busy. Its due tomorrow and I'm still writing the outline. I have to pick a religion and talk about how to acquire new followers, Benefits of joining and then I have to reflect on how I would respond on the methodolgies prescribed. The religion I chose is Scientology, but I don't want to plagiriaze. How do I describe the religion in my own words if its a research paper? Do I just still research on the web and in the book and just use quotes?? Its been so long since I've written an Essay I'm confused. Someone please help.
thanks a bunch my Yahoo Answers Community!!!

by the way I wasnt suggesting I plagiarize we all know thats wrong to do and a serious crime.. (geeze) , I was asking how do you quote someones words properly. I didn't blame any of yall or trying to get someone else to do my homeowork, as the hard part (doing the outline is already over) just needed help on where to start from the outline.. thanks for those that actually are reading what I'm asking. and Yes I said tomorrow, I'm taking summer college Classes.
Thanks a Million :)

Answer 1

Don't obsess on doing an ultra-detailed outline, just figure out a bare-bones structure and start writing. You can always go back and edit after you've finished.

Don't be reluctant to say what others have already said. You just have to cite your sources. Try not to use quotation marks or exact quotes from those sources, but get the idea of what they're saying and write what you understand in your own words, even if the words are very similar to those in the book. But most importantly, get it done. I'd much rather turn in a bad essay on time than no essay at all.

Answer 2

first of all, you procrastinated, it's your fault, you can't depend on other people to do your work, you have to do something called research, people in reality use it. It's your fault not ours, and you can't make us help you. Its summer time, and today is a Friday, so it can't be due tommorrow, if you really meant monday, then you have all weekend to do it. You can't slack your way through life. For Gods sake don't plagarize, that's wrong and that is a very bad thought even to be thinking about thinking that.

Answer 3

goto Wikpedia. It has all the info you could need as well as a list of other resources.

Answer 4

Here's an overview of Scientology in my own words (along with many other answers I've provided over time on Scientology and many resources you can reference):

Scientology, which questionably calls itself a new "religion", is the brainchild of science fiction writer & occult enthusiast L. Ron Hubbard. The organization, by means of Hubbard’s self created psychotherapy technique called “Dianetics”, claims to be able to help rid members of any & all mental constraints including but not limited to emotional scarring (from this & "past" lives) due to "engrams" (past negative experiences stored in our unconscious mind), psychological disorders & chemical imbalances (the solution is to convince members that these things don't actually exist) & drug dependence (including legally prescribed psychopharmaceuticals which counteract the effects of psychological disorders Scientologists believe to be nonexistent).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dianetics#Scientific_evaluations
Dianetics review: http://dir.salon.com/story/books/review/2005/06/28/dianetics/index.html
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,812852,00.html

The official Scientology organization is composed of a number of “levels”. One begins as a “preclear” & works their way up. One must purchase virtually every service crucial to advancement directly from the "church" & at staggering prices. "Auditing", for example, is purchased in 12½ hour blocks, costing anywhere from $750 for introductory sessions to between $8,000 & $9,000 for advanced sessions. Visit this link to see how $380,000 is a conservative estimate for the total cost of moving all the way up the Scientology hierarchal ladder: http://www.xenu.net/archive/prices.html
These are the total costs for auditing alone: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientology_as_a_business#Costs
Here’s an explanation of what “auditing” is: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20061224182319AA2nnd6

At level OT III (Operating Thetan 3), some very strange & fiercely guarded secrets are imparted upon worthy members who have paid enough money to advance to such a level (and no, this isn't a joke): the evil alien ruler Xenu killed millions of aliens (Thetans) from around the universe by kidnapping them, bringing them to earth in golden DC-8 “space-planes” & blowing them up inside volcanoes with hydrogen bombs. Scientologists believe the souls of these aliens (these souls are "Body Thetans") were captured, brainwashed & released; they then attached themselves to our ancestors (and according to Scientology’s belief in Thetan immortality, they also attached to us during “past lives”) & cause many of our mental & physical ills to this day. Auditing is said to “clear” us of these Body Thetans as well as the “mental implants” they supposedly impose on our minds. http://sf.irk.ru/www/ot3/spaink-ot3.html
http://www.spaink.net/cos/essays/atack_ot3.html
http://xenu.net/archive/leaflet/Xenu-Letter.pdf

Scientology has taken a very hostile stance towards psychiatry & psychiatric drugs irrespective of the fact that some people require medication to remain adequately functional during everyday life. They don’t recognize legitimate conditions like autism, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, etc, and the “church” has been known to withhold prescription pharmaceuticals from members (often with harmful & deadly results). Suspiciously, it was discovered upon Hubbard’s death that the anti-anxiety drug hydroxyzine (Vistaril™) was present in his body, which several of his assistants would later attest was only one of many psychiatric & pain medications Hubbard ingested over the years.
http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2005/07/01/sci_psy/index_np.html?pn=1
http://www.clambake.org/archive/ronthenut/16.gif
(visit this link to read about the uses of hydroxyzine: http://www.drugs.com/mtm/v/vistaril.html )

To be blunt, Scientology is a cult. It employs semi-legitimate psychotherapy & self-help methods to keep people loyal & convinced of its merit while it simultaneously sucks them dry financially & attempts to keep them far away from ANYONE, even friends & family, who would dissuade them from remaining in such a harmful situation. It’s a particularly greedy as well as manipulative & dangerous cult that takes its anti-psychiatry fanaticism to deadly limits. See these links for more information: http://www.lisamcpherson.org/
http://www.sptimes.com/2006/06/24/Tampabay/The_unperson.shtml
http://www.factnet.org/Books/SocialControl/scs.html#toc http://www.freedomofmind.com/resourcecenter/groups/s/scientology/pignotti/

Answer 5

isn't SUMMER YOU DON'T HAVE HOMEWORK??!!