Plaigarism Debate

I agree that it is plagiarism, though Viswanathan paraphrased what McCafferty said she did not give credibility to her. I really do not find the difficulty of putting other authors words in parentheses, say the author, and put a page number at the end of the quote. These little things are easy to forget but by not putting these little things can get someone into serious trouble. An excellent situation is the argument between the two ladies above Viswanathan and McCafferty. This controversy is increasing appearing after every year in high school students. New high school students are continuing to do the same thing over the years at an increasing rate with new students following the same process and getting low grades for plagiarizing on their school papers. Even if you go do some research for your paper and you found an author phrase what you meant to say and their is no other way to word what you want to write. Most of the students will just copy and paste what the author said and insert it into their paper and do not give the proper parts needed to make it a quotation rather than plagiarism. These little things on a paper with quoting authors can easily change your grade from an A to an F just by adding the quotation marks, page number and the author who wrote it. Just me writing about this can be very infuriating, these little things that we need to add to consider it a quotation and we don't is just frustrating.

The article from the Inside Higher ED "Skimming the Surface" is showing us what students do on their papers from plagiarism, quotation, citation, and summary. As a result the way that the students do their quotations and such all turn out to be in improper forms comparing what they are suppose to look like to what they have found. Out of the 15 colleges they looked at for surveillance to keep a tally on the number of students that plagiarized on a paper was overwhelming. Almost all of the students had committed a way of plagiarism without realizing what they have done. Most of the colleges would kick students out of their university if they were caught plagiarizing. Their are so many incidents of plagiarism and the only way to resolve this reoccurring issue is to start with the youth so when they grow up they will know what to do and will not be accused of plagiarism.

chapter 12

The thing that I found interesting was the fact that Humes followed a family throughout the entire chapter along with the length of the cahpter as well. Some of the points that Humes discusses in this chapter is very real and can be fixed by little things that a family can do to reduce their waste production. Most of the key points that is discussed can all be fixed by simply reducing what we spend. Some of the phrases that is said makes sense and creative, such as the fact that their are infact 4R's rather than three.These  4R's stand for reduce, reuse, recycle, and refuse which in our reality the government hides taht last "R" so it would make it feel like it is all about recycling when there are so much more that could be done. Anotehr thing taht was interesting was the fact that "The American Dream" is not what we thought it would be it is in fact a case of how much financial freedom one person has, that is the true American Dream.  Another thing that I found shocking was that everytime we buy something 10percent of the price is for its packaging, that indeed is interesting and a sneaky way to get some profit in our products. Seems to me that those big corporations has found all of these little tricks toget money out of everything. This is just a sneaky way to make more money then they already do, this is indeed infuriating and tomake matters worse their is nothing we can do to stop it. The big corporations control more than half of the money the U.S. has, more than the government. Their is no hope for us anymore because we will never get the big companies to take action and clean up there products that they make us buy and doesn't suffer the consequences of improper disposal, all they do is expect us to take care of ourselves along with the waste we produce when infact it is teh big companies materials and we are deliberately throwing it away with no care for it at all.

chapter 11

In chapter 11 the interesting about it was the little title that Humes gives it, Green Cities and Garbage Death Rays. I was surprised that out of the entire U.S. there is only one city that has ranked the top or near the top of every survey and sustainability every since the 1970's. Throughout all of cities in the U.S. Portland, Oregon is in fact the one city that has more eco-friendly projects that are still active and are substantially effective. They produce about 59percent of recycled material which is right under San Francisco with 77percent. Though this is better than the American average of 24percent, most of the recycled material is either thrown away or burned for energy in 2010. Metro (Greater Portland Metropolitan Area) produced 1.3tons of trash the last time their statistics were released.  Metro sends 60 massive trucks everyday filled with trash to the Columbia Ridge Landfill to the border of Washington, that is approximately a trash truck every 24minutes. I find to be very frequent and that is almost 400miles away so why would we do that? We can't just minimize our consumption so it will reduce the amount of waste we produce. In Arlington, Washington they are working on a new way to dispose our waste by the process of plasma gasification. This "new" process of disposing our waste would be a technology that vaporizes garbage with arcs of electrical energy that will heat the material to 25,000degrees. It sounds like they are burning the trash but their is no presence of oxygen therefore it wont combust. It instead uses a synthetic gaseous fuel and a lump of shiny rock like volcanic glass and it is locked up safely. This new process of disposing trash reduces 99percent of the original trash volume with remains of obsidian that weighs about 20pounds worth for every ton of trash. That sounds cool and I think this method should be used in all landfills or incinerators so it would resolve almost everything. The only thing that we still need to worry about is the leftover waste from this process and what are we going to do with all of the obsidian. I believe this is the best solution yet, but another question is how long can we produce this synthetic gaseous fuel.

GAIA: Incinerators

I do not see the point of burning our trash other to save space when we throw it away, but does anyone ever think of the amount of harm that we are doing to our planet when we do so. By burning our trash we are doing nothing but polluting the environment, us, seas, food, and we are potentially releasing harmful chemicals into the atmosphere. There is just a over flowing amount of negative things that comes from burning our trash, and the main thing is that when we do so we pollute the air when we burn it and we also ruin the soil when we place the ashes into the ground. Not only the fact that its harmful to both land and air but it is the most expensive to maintain out of all of the ways to handle our trash as the least of their worries but they also have the worst job ratio beyond comparison to anyone else. All of the harsh chemicals that we put into our materials have been disposed of incorrectly and has been polluting the land and the air if we burn our trash. I am just hoping to find a way to resolve our trash epidemic before it gets to a point that we can not go back.

Continental Drift

In the UK, they are planning to open a public residual waste plant but by doing so they will over produce their regular waste amount. This has evolved into a big war between SRF(Solid Recovered Fuel) versus the RDF(Refuse Derived Fuel) along with the issue of exporting our trash over seas.  The thing that Eunomia fears the most is that they will encounter a shortage and overwhelming amount of trash flow to their shores. Another issue that they are worried about is that they are afraid that they will not have enough funding for this plan to take its full shape. Europeans are terrified that they if they go through with this plan they have predicted a  surreal number that could ultimately over flow the UK with so much trash that they could possibly be drowned in trash.  The Europeans have saved thousand of dollars to construct their incinerators but by doing so they have exceeded their maximum capapcity. In their graph that they have shown, proves that the Netherlands has surpass the overcapacity limit and they are the highest number imported from the UK. Though the UK has the space for all of the trash they will increase their landfill tax for imported trash. I was hoping that we didn't have to conclude to putting our trash into other countries but we are already doing that with China and our scrap paper, so the vibe that I am getting is that paper to China so plastic to Europe, our most allied nation that we have. I was just hoping to have someone to resolve our trash crisis and put an end to this before it goes to far that it would be impossible to reverse, lets not end up like Wall-E.

chapter 10

The interesting thing about chapter ten was in the first paragraph when they asked if anyone ever thought of going to the landfills with leftovers from your front lawn and come home with one of your wildest imagination. Well this came true for Andy Keller, his dream came true. they both came home and got pushed into the middle of a heated argument between bag manufacturers and multiple cities wanting to ban plastic bags. Keller use to be a software trade, selling enterprise-grade code for a company in San Francisco with the occasional call home to Chico, CA. Later after he got laid off, Keller decided to redecorate his home. As it turns out when he was done digging in the yard he had no where to put all of the waste from the digging, that would lead him to go to the landfills. The thing that grabbed his attention from the trip was the odor, yet I had the same response, the smell was unexplainable and horrendous. Aside the odor or the endless piles of trash the thing that truly stuck to him was the amount of plastic bags that were there and how it got caught in almost everything. By the time Keller left he began to plan how can he avoid these bags of mayhem, during his drive home he thought of ways to use reusable bags rather than plastic. By the time he got home he was finding ways to put his new knowledge to a way that would translate into a new career. While he thought about this he realized that there was a minority of people doing this but they always complained about them so Keller concluded to create a new reusable bag that would be easy to use and it can fold up. The next day he began creating his idea, endlessly working on it for days on end with prototypes, materials, and sketching's. Finally he came up with a bag that was durable, foldable, and effective which soon launched him into a company of reusable bags "Chico Bags" with almost $100,000 of credit and the credit card that he used for the company maxed out at $5,000. After the years in his company he created a super-villain alter ego that would be known as Bag-Monster. Not to long after the creation of this super-villain came a flood of requests and demonstrations for it and it eventually lead into a program of borrowing the suit. This sure sounds like a dream come true.

chapter 09

In the beginning of this chapter follows a female worker in the PDA we sort of follow her routine at work, before, and after which was a good anecdote to start off this chapter as a new section. The thing that got my attention about this chapter was its little title he gave, it sounds like he/she was actually part of the process of the landfills. Niki Ulehla sounds like she could be a worker for the PDA or a dumpster diver, i was unsure of by the fact that she was scuffling through the trash and found a little piece of something that she was looking for. Later in the chapter they reveal the fact that she is a neighborhood artist by constructing her artworks from pieces that she finds in the junk yard. This was an artist that wanted to make something from other peoples trash to inspire people to see what they are throwing and what they can be used instead. In San Francisco they have developed the AIR program to raise awarness fo the amount of trash they are tossing into the trash and how much is going into the dumps. This program started in 1990 as a southside oddity.Unfortunately this has turned into a unlikely icon which has led to many places attempting to imitate it. As an attempt to imitate this it works but it does not last as long is the original does. In comparison to all of the other dumps around San Francisco the PDA is the one that has dominated all others with a 20ft deep football field indoor swimming pool of trash. As it turns out it is a loud, stinking dangerous place, filled with an ever-shifting whirlpool of debirs and heavy machinery 24/7, due to these factors no one has figured how to attract dancers and an audience into the facility with any reasonable of comfort or safety. I hope that someone will see what we are doing to our planet and make a difference.