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Summary and Analysis

Dawson is a good student. He always gets a high grade on exam. He had a girlfriend. One day, the girl friend came to him and gave the exactly exam about PSAT. PAST was very important exam and it is only take once, but Dawson did not want to take the exam papers, because he is honest. However, he takes the exam papers from his girl friend. He brings the papers to the school. At that time, fire alarm sounded. So, he had to leave his stuff in the class room. After he comes back, the papers were gone. He tried to find the paper, but he couldn’t. One day before take the exam, he fought with his friend Pacey, because of the problem of girl friend and the lost papers. In the next day, they gave the exam up and they came out and discuss why they did fight. In episode 15, Joey painted a picture on the wall. She was good at painting. She finished painting, and at the showing day, the picture was screwed up by someone. Her friend finally found the culprit. The culprit was white and rich and his father is a policeman. He is often breaking the school’s rule. So the president of school, he decided to kick him out of the school. Also, Andie told to the president of school that she plagiarized, but he forgive her, because she is honest and she knows her fault.

Relation to Case Study

In the case study from chapter 9 and chapter 10 and in this movie, I can see the big part of the plagiarism and small part of racism. In general in this movie, Andie stole the exam paper and plagiarized on the PSAT and get a high score. However, she recognized her fault and told the truth to the school president. Also the episode 15, the culprit told that he is white and rich, so he doesn’t think he have to following the school rules in front of the black school president. In my opinion, it is a part of the racism.

Reaction to Film

I was very interested in this movie, because I have watched the film that related to American high school. I could learn the American high school student’s informal communication and there also has action, sport, love and truth. This drama was fresh to me and good to watch, except their takings were very fast. I was little bit hard to understand. In the next time watch this drama, I will try to understand and listen carefully what they saying.

Definition of Plagiarism

American Culture
03.01.10
Edy

Definition of Plagiarism


I am going to describe my country’s rules about a writer’s citation of sources by answering the several questions. In my country, there has lots of citation such as a news, stories and books. In my opinion, they do not use the considered words in the property of the writer. They almost use easy words when they do a citation of sources and they almost do use the footnotes after the words of the source that where did they get the information. Sometimes, it could be a short summary of the news, stories and books and sometimes it could be an opinion of them. Actually, they do not usually use quotation marks. If there has any important words or represent sentences of the essay on the essay, then they do use on the sentence. And then, some of people might use a bibliography or list of references on the citation of sources, but, most of people do not use bibliography and list, because it is not too general and annoying to them.

Actually, I did not contact with many of essay which is related to plagiarism and citation in the United States and Korea, but according to my experience, Korea and the United States’ plagiarism and citation of sources are not very different. In my opinion, both countries many students are trying to avoid that is not plagiarism. Some of Koreans are often forget to copy the essay, news and books without citing the source, but, broken rule for citation is not a big deal, so it is not a big issue and problem in college, but in the United States, citing source is very important. If you do not citing source when you copy something, it may change as a plagiarism. So, when you copy someone’s essay or idea, you must citing the source and be careful.