Tompkins

I found the Tompkins' article on the relationship between European settlers and the Native Americans living there at the time. She described mainly on how each group was sort of shown in a negative light at first but also threw in some positives as well. I agree with the fact she brought up and I agree that history is based on the perception drawn from it. The Europeans, for example, were shown as harsh settlers pushing the Native Americans from their land, showing their ways of trickery to get the Indians to sign over the land which they later regretted. Like for example giving the Indians alcohol which sort of skews judgement as we all know. Yet Tompkins brings up the facts that Indians were not so innocent either. They have always been shown as a deceiving, harsh, group of people, for example: the story of the little girl. The Native Americans were shown burning the tip of her nose to wake her up until it was no more? How exactly does that show these are the people not at fault.

I think it's true people tend to make assumptions about things they feel strongly about, and I feel this is sometimes reflected on the history of, not only our country, but history as a whole. This being so, is the main reason why we find it so hard to retrace what is true and what are opinions of some historians. I feel that it might never be known the true relationship between these two groups of people, as well as other cases in history too. We need to watch out for putting our own perspective into it and instead use the hard facts and merely put those out there for people to decide on their own.

word war III

There are man good sources on the internet to get information from. You can go to the libraries website of your school for cerified sources, you can get online book, or you can go to a website most people use every so often liike myself, Wikipedia.
This is a website that was made to put up factual information on a subject and to keep it that way by having monitor on it making sure people keep the information free from opinions... not to argue over. The whole ordeal began with the wiki page of the Iranian Presidential candidate Ahmadinejad. I never knew that the mediation of a website would cause such drama and agrumentative cases on one's biography. The mediatiors would post back and forth changing as some would say what should be on the site. But getting onto the site to call Ahmadinejad a fascist is too much. It shouldn't be left to college students and bickering on the internet to decide what to believe about a presidential candidate. That power should belong to credited sites and doing such war on a website about a person is damaging to a career. He did speak some pretty controversial things when running, and yes controversy brings up arguing and not everyone agreeing, but seeing as to argue on Wikipedia for people to take information from shouldn't have happened and brought to that extent
I initially thought the article was going to tell me that Wikipedia is not a credible source, that it cannot be backed because it is just facts people put up; shared articles and what not. And now I know this fact to be true that even though one might think something is true they could be completely wrong in taking ideas from a site that ANYTHING on it can be monitored and changed. I guess this, in a way, opened a light on Wikipedia I need to look at more often than none, because this information seems less credible than ever as of now.

Sondra Perl Assignment

1.)
a.) As i looked for my original topic i wished to write about I noticed that many other things and ideas came into my head that I never would've thought about writing about if I hadn't have done this assignment, more interesting topics to say the least.
b.) I noticed that often times I would get extremely off track, or find myself "taking a different path" than expected. i would continue on these paths until they brought me to that road block or dead end, and from there I would either retrace myself back to the original thought street or make a new path off of my path I got lost on.
c.) basically what I did here was that I started writing, and didn't stop. Anything and everything that came to mind was put down on the sheet. Some thoughts were a bit ridiculous and I knew that I wouldn't be writing on them in anyway but I wrote everything down to keep everything sort of "flowing." If I were to monitor what I were to write down, I would start to concentrate too much and begin getting the road blocks more often which is exactly what I attempted to get away from.

2.)
a.) Before, I would think for about five minutes on what topic I could write the easiest about and stick with that even if I didnt really enjoy the topic; as long as it got done with the good grade and the fastest time, I would use it. With this form, where I would write them all down, it was different. By thinking about anything and everything to write, I foud that there are subjects and topics that I could write about that are both interesting to me and don't have to take as long. It made me sort of realize that not all writing should be done just to get it done but to instead sort of put some thought into it.
b.) Alot of the time I had some troubles with picking which topic was the best one to continue off of because of the amount of things I wrote down but I feel as if that only made my center of attention and gravity stronger than when it was before hand.
c.) I didn't feel much of a path myself. It gave me a bunch of different questions to ask myself which i used to its advantage and learned from them and narrowed by topic to the one word.

3.)
I enjoyed this form of writing a whole lot more than any other different way. I felt more connected to my topic and learned that by keeping the opinion open minded and knowing the topic could change at any second really helped me find the strongest thing to write about. I learned more about my writing by having the writing be more relaxing istead of a stressed thing I just had to get done before class. I approve.

revised

When going about doing a paper, writing a song, creating any sort of work for yourself, you must be sure that when doing so, you are not taking down what others have already stated and using it with your name, giving them no recognition. Plagiarism is a problem in the modern world today because people have their ideas stolen from them daily and published as someone else's. This loses the original owner recognition, and with some things like Malcolm Gladwell stated money. Take for example record companies. They create a song, show part of it to the world as a preview, and a bigger company finds this, puts it in their song, and it becomes famous in a week. The original owner of this piece receives no recognition for his work, and loses all profits that he could have received with the piece he made thanks to plagiarism. There are many instances that this happens Gladwell says, and it is a problem. People steal ideas and diminish the hopes of someone who actually came up with the idea beforehand. It should be something that should be taken more seriously because in modern times, people lose more than just time they put into it, and there should be harsher punishments in schools if students are caught doing so.

Although, can plagiarism really be pinpointed to be correct? The rule is seven consecutive words used in a row show that you took them from another piece of work. But then again what about, say for example, the Beatles from Gladwell’s piece. How can you justify a beat of a song, or lyrics? It doesn’t exactly have a defined line in between plagiarism and just borrowing an idea.

Some types of work being stolen is credited and allowed to happen though. Take Gladwell’s example of breast cancer. He said that let’s say you create a cure for cancer. This cure is allowed to be taken by a variety of different companies because it is, “in society’s interest to let as many people as possible copy your invention.” Some people might get upset that their invention was taken because they might’ve wanted to start a monopoly of some type but this cannot be credited because it’s in the good of the people. Plagiarism is bad, stealing someone’s work without asking is bad, but if in any way you can twist it into your own idea or product, I say this helps the community, and go for it.

something Borrowed

When going about doing a paper, writing a song, creating any sort of work for yourself, you must be sure that when doing so, you are not taking down what others have alreadys stated and using it with your name, giving them no recognition. Plagiarism is a problem in the modern world today beacuse people have their ideas stolen from them daily and published as someone else's. This loses the origional owner recognition, and with some things like Malcolm Gladwell stated, money. Take for example record companies. They create a song, show part of it to the world as a preview, and a bigger company finds this, puts it in their song, and it becomes famous in a week. the origional owner of this piece recieves no recognition for his work, and loses all profits that he could have recieved with the piece he made thanks to plagiarism. There are many instances that this happens Gladwell says, and it is a problem. People steal ideas and diminish the hopes of someone who actually came up with the idea before hand. It should be something that should be taken more seriously because in modern times, people lose more than just time they put into it, and there should be harsher punishments in schools if students are caught doing so.

Managing College

Cheating, in my life, has always been exemplified as a word that describes something that is un-loyal, is degrading, and should never be done. I felt differently toward it, and this article has gotten the same view as I myself do. In no way am I saying that cheating should be done and abused, but what I am saying is that if one doesn't understand the material distributed to them, there should be something in the students power to do in order to understand it. Cheating is a term that when used correctly, can describe how a student can get away without doing their own work merely because they forgot to or had no initiative to do it and decided it easier to just take the work of someone else and use that instead. But if you look at it in the form of where a student might not understand the subject and asks another student who does for assisstance in undersatanding of the subject doing the work together, that shouldn't be penalized. If a student needs help from someone who is taking the same class that understands the subject, it should be taken advantage of the situation and use the resources you have.

-Frogger