Proposal

I have Chosen L. Ron Hubbard for many reasons. My favorite is that he was a highly controversial person, I like representing as many sides to an argument as I can. Considering he was the author of Dianetics and founder of the Church of Scientology, which is also a highly controversial thing; as Scientology has been marked by many as a scam.

But, Hubbard also wrote 1,084 works in his lifetime, some of which have been translated into 71 different languages. However, most of those were little short stories in pulp-fiction magazines. His most famous works include Battlefield Earth, Mission Earth, and Fear. So, I will have plenty of information to base my book on. Another fun aspect of this paper is reading his biographies. I will have to read at least one “Official Biography” and one “Unofficial Biography”, as he was so controversial to the extent that the Church of Scientology officialized versions of his biographies to portray him better.

I feel that L. Ron Hubbard is important because he is the cause of random religious conflicts throughout the united states recently. As a Philosophically-Taoist Agnostic, I find religion and the conflicts it causes and the problems that it fixes to be a very interesting subject.

With a man like L. Ron Hubbard as my author for this paper, may I ask; is there anyway I cannot make a 10 page thesis-based argument? He's made over one thousand works, most over a page in length. I should be able to do this project, I mean, according to Scientology; I know too much and should of been dead a long time ago. I wish I was kidding.

I plan on reading 2 books, Battlefield Earth and Dianetics, and a few Biographies. Let's put it this way, it's his most influential book, so it kind of needs to be read. Also, by a few Biographies, I mean that these things are so opinionated that I'm going to need to read maybe 3-4 to get a general consensus of what the man was really like. First, I plan on reading Battlefield Earth to get a feel for his capability as a science fiction writer. Then I'll shift over to Reading Dianetics: The Modern Science on Mental Health while reading a biography or two to get a feel for him as a philosopher. From there, I will develop my thesis and begin working on my paper.

Mr. Wells, I hope you will let me cradle this time-bomb of an author to the doorsteps of my academic career. Because, as you commented about my personal statement, I maintain an open mind to people that others would instantly judge as crazy. I really want to read Dianetics so that I can learn the secrets of government mind-control, sounds pretty sweet.