Greg Gutfield sure has the guts to say what he said about black presidents. Who is he to set the "ideal" president for our people? Like all people, he has the right to have his own opinion, but with an opinion one should back it up with facts and reasons. Especially when he is so againest Obama and people of his "kind". We have had black presidents before, it isn't anything new but now our society is freaking out over the idea of having another one. Why? What makes a white president better than a black one? ( Obviously, nothing).
Honestly, I'm ready for a change in the presidents. If a White male president is the perfect president in people's eyes, then im down for anything else! Plus what happend to the saying "Don't judge a book by it's cover?" Obama for example, just because he's not white doesn't mean he's not as intelligent and capable of doing a good job as a white man. (Note: I don't care much for him though) A person's skin color shouldn't set out red flags, the individuals character and actions should though. For Gutfield to say all this and especially add the ignorant remark about Hitler shows us how narrow minded he is. For me, I absolutely loved Clinton! yeah he made his mistakes, and has had fingers pointed at him but overall I think he was the man!! plus his good looks didn't hurt.... :D
The other article didn't surprise me, I mean why would it? Bush has done nothing but destroy both America and the Middle East. Thanks to him the United States is far into debt, and the innocent lives of thousands of people rest because of his actions. I'd rather not get political and spill the beans on how I feel about him and this subject ( Even though I think i've dropped enough hints) but overall I'm ready for a change. Seriously. I'm sick of death, war, and agony. I know I can't ask for complete world harmony but anything is better than what it is now. The new president can't possibly outdue Bush, so black or white, what do we have to lose???
Friday, January 25, 2008
Thursday, January 17, 2008
Plagiarism these days
As human beings I think we're always searching for easier ways to get things done. We're always taking shortcuts to reach our final destination. A perfect example of that is plagiarism, the most common form of cheating. Instead of doing it the good old fashion way with a pen paper and your own thoughts, now completing a ten page paper is just one click away.
After reading the "Adventures in Cheating" article I was amazed at how much trouble some people go through to get the job done. At the end of the article I thought to myself, why not just cut to the chase and write the essay yourself if your putting that much effort into it. But I'm not going to lie sometimes I'm tempted to do it because all you have to do is copy paste the information and then you're done. Now that I've gotten older though, I've realized how severe plagiarism really is. There are a few times where I honestly can't tell if I am plagiarising or if I am just getting key facts from a site, so to be certain I ask someone. Sometimes I wonder what a teacher does when she finds plagiarism in a paper. By that I mean how can she tell if it was intentional or not. Off course plagiarism is plagiarism but there are times where it's unintentional. An example of this is when you need to get key facts about a subject like an exact number, many copy and paste this from a website not knowing whether they should cite it or not. With that said, I think that it's better to be safe than sorry so to eliminate a possibility of plagiarism it's better to double check before handing it in.
As I read through the first article I found it hard to believe how much work people put into looking for the right site to buy their papers from. The most outrageous thing had to be the whole "get papers that were written in 1981!!" how crazy is it. Is our society really that lazy? Let's say that plagiarism is 100% intentional and the people that do it are either too busy to write the paper, too lazy, have several deadlines on that same day or have a family emergency. There is another alternative to getting the work done without plagiarism for each of these excuses. If you've got time to order a paper written by your grandmother's classmate, then you've got time to write your own. If there are too many deadlines approaching, start on your essay in advance and set a daily goal for yourself. Let's say that there is a family emergency that you have to deal with, then email your teacher and let her know the situation and more than likely she will understand and work with you.
The argument in the article "Not That There's Anything Wrong With That" was a too extreme. Missy Chase Lapine sued Jessica Seinfeld for plagiarising some of her ideas. I think that's ridiculous because just because Missy Lapine mentioned that idea in her cookbook doesn't mean others didn't think of it. As I read about Jessica Seinfeld I noticed that she didn't really come up with those ideas and that it was a vast team of nutritionists and art directors that did. That seems a little weird. Why would she get credit for the book if she didn't write it or give any credit to the people that actually wrote it and more importantly why didn't they get the blame?
After reading the "Adventures in Cheating" article I was amazed at how much trouble some people go through to get the job done. At the end of the article I thought to myself, why not just cut to the chase and write the essay yourself if your putting that much effort into it. But I'm not going to lie sometimes I'm tempted to do it because all you have to do is copy paste the information and then you're done. Now that I've gotten older though, I've realized how severe plagiarism really is. There are a few times where I honestly can't tell if I am plagiarising or if I am just getting key facts from a site, so to be certain I ask someone. Sometimes I wonder what a teacher does when she finds plagiarism in a paper. By that I mean how can she tell if it was intentional or not. Off course plagiarism is plagiarism but there are times where it's unintentional. An example of this is when you need to get key facts about a subject like an exact number, many copy and paste this from a website not knowing whether they should cite it or not. With that said, I think that it's better to be safe than sorry so to eliminate a possibility of plagiarism it's better to double check before handing it in.
As I read through the first article I found it hard to believe how much work people put into looking for the right site to buy their papers from. The most outrageous thing had to be the whole "get papers that were written in 1981!!" how crazy is it. Is our society really that lazy? Let's say that plagiarism is 100% intentional and the people that do it are either too busy to write the paper, too lazy, have several deadlines on that same day or have a family emergency. There is another alternative to getting the work done without plagiarism for each of these excuses. If you've got time to order a paper written by your grandmother's classmate, then you've got time to write your own. If there are too many deadlines approaching, start on your essay in advance and set a daily goal for yourself. Let's say that there is a family emergency that you have to deal with, then email your teacher and let her know the situation and more than likely she will understand and work with you.
The argument in the article "Not That There's Anything Wrong With That" was a too extreme. Missy Chase Lapine sued Jessica Seinfeld for plagiarising some of her ideas. I think that's ridiculous because just because Missy Lapine mentioned that idea in her cookbook doesn't mean others didn't think of it. As I read about Jessica Seinfeld I noticed that she didn't really come up with those ideas and that it was a vast team of nutritionists and art directors that did. That seems a little weird. Why would she get credit for the book if she didn't write it or give any credit to the people that actually wrote it and more importantly why didn't they get the blame?
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