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.