The essay Cutting and Pasting: A Senior Thesis by Brent Staples is about the prevalence of cheating and plagiarism in high school and college. Students tend to view these two academic dishonesty with indifference. Observers brought together some reasons for the prevalence of plagiarism. One which is new technologies that allows access to different sites,another which is the result of declining personal morality and the unavoidable consequence of the pressures students may feel.
Schools have responded to the problems by taking actions. One such action is by using turnitin.com to scan students essays for plagiarism. Brent Staples stated that when young individuals think of writing they don't think of making original sentences a complete thought, instead they think of making a collage of found passages from the internet. In essence Brent Staples is posing a question whether parents,teachers, and policy makers can keep the methods through which education at its best teaches people to think critically and originally other than to plagiarize.


The essay The You tube Effect by Moises Naim is basically giving background information on YouTube. YouTube can be good and it can be bad at times. YouTube effect is the phenomenon whereby videos clips produced by individuals acting on their own are dispersed on on worldwide websites. Moises Naim states that YouTube includes videos posted by terrorists, human rights group,and U.S. soldiers in Iraq. He said that some videos reveals truth which is why I said YouTube can be good and he also said that others spread propaganda and outright lies which makes YouTube have a bad effect. CNN has had an effect fifteen years ago but YouTube effect is much greater.  One good news is that the YouTube effect is already creating a strong demand for reliable guides that we can trust to help us sort facts from lies.

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