Plagiarism is a crime

Plagiarism is an act of fraud. It involves both stealing someone else's work and lying about it afterwards.

Here are some of the latest cases of plagiarism:

• ·         Doris Kearns Goodwin: Goodwin, a former Lyndon Johnson aide, was accused of using phrases from other books in her own, including the popular The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys. Goodwin claimed it was accidental and withdrew unsold copies of the book to correct it.  

• ·         Jayson Blair: Jayson Blair was a young reporter at The New York Times before it was revealed in 2003 that he fabricated quotes, sources and datelines. Blair even submitted falsified receipts for reimbursement to back up his falsified datelines. The Times published a front-page piece on May 11, 2003 explaining what had happened. Blair was 27.

• ·         Rand Paul: The Kentucky Republican and potential 2016 GOP hopeful had a brush with plagiarism in 2013 in both speeches and in his book. Journalists accused him of lifting from Wikipedia, Focus on the Family and the Associated Press in his speeches. His book lifted heavily from studies produced by the Heritage Foundation and the Cato Institute. Paul, who said he was the victim of “haters,” admitted that he hadn’t properly used footnotes. 

People can’t avoid copying things especially in today’s society, most of the time people have their same thoughts and same opinion about things.

As a student I cannot avoid getting information to the web especially when it comes to research papers, project, and assignments even in a simple quotation. Because I have to find a way to be informed about the things I still have to know as well as for the professors out there they can’t avoid doing research about their topics that they supposed to be teaching their class or references that can be a help for them to be an effective educators.

As long as you put a copyright in it or just a simple credit to their work, I know it will be much appreciated by them because you took time looking for their creation, it’s not fair that you’ll be just getting something that is not originally yours, think about the time and heart of the person who did all his/her effort for doing something impressive. Right? What if that happens to you, would you feel happy about it ? 

Credits:

http://www.politico.com/gallery/2014/07/10-high-profile-plagiarism-cases-001770?slide=1

http://www.google.com

Virginia R. Moreno an inspiration

Virginia R. Moreno (born 1925) is a Filipino writer.
She was born in the Tondo neighborhood of Manila and studied at the University of the Philippines, where she was editor of the campus newspaper, and at the Kansas Institute of International Education.

Virginia Moreno is a feminist. She is recognized not only as a poet but as a Philippine woman artist whose vision of art includes both aesthetics and politics. She is a poet whose works are deeply imbricated in her country’s socio-political and cultural milieu. Moreno has, however, managed to marry form, content and create texts whose polyvalence of idioms allow readers to contend with their very own historicity. She is a poet who has an interest in French Impressionism and Symbolist poetry while the rest of her generation, having been immersed in English and American Literature.
Tough and tender poets have installed Virginia R. Moreno as Philippine poetry's high priestess. Batik Maker and Other Poems is her sole and much-coveted book of poems. Of the 13 handcrafted copies made for its 1975 CCP-launching, 5 vanished altogether, spirited away by those possessed by its lush dream work and haunting strains. Moreno herself chose the batik-cloth cover, in the famous broken-sword motif of Javanese royalty, and flew it in from Jakarta. Her brother, Jose Moreno, supplied the Kyoto rice paper for its pages, bought from one of his Osaka sojourns.
In 2004, Virginia Moreno allowed the Ateneo library to craft the copy on display, a meticulous reproduction of the original-on the occasion of ALIWW's anniversary tribute for Moreno's lifetime work in poetry, theater, and the art of cinema.

Virginia Moreno was one of the reasons behind every successful poetry and cinemas here in the Philippines. If people didn’t recognize her works like “Order for Masks” people won’t have ideas to make their works more effective.

So as a Multimedia Artist student that will be taking filming as a major I would like to thank her for making such creative and fantastic work of arts and also for being an inspiration to student like me and passionate people when it comes to this industry.

 

Credits :

http://www.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_biography_of_Virginia_r_moreno

http://post-warperiod.blogspot.com/2008/09/post-war-period-1945-1960-in-year-1941.html 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_R._Moreno

Meant to be

                                                                  Turn left, turn right

                                                                          

                                                                           Destiny

Denotation: the events that will necessarily happen to a particular person or thing in the future.

Connotation: Something that is meant to happen.

He comes, she goes, He leaves, and she turns back …

 Two professional person we’re played by love using unwanted events.

Destiny plays a big role to this film even timing.

John Liu (Takeshi Kaneshiro) is a violinist who works from job to job while Eve Choi (Gigi Leung) is a translator for a book publishing company.

John and Eve meet by accident at the park fountain, when he helps her pick up her papers that have fallen into the fountain. They find out that they had met each other when they were younger at an amusement park, when both their schools had organized a field trip to the same place. Then, Eve had asked John for his telephone number, but the two never got in touch because she left her school bag on the train and lost John's phone number. The two laugh about the past and exchange phone numbers without asking for each other's name before parting quickly because of a coming rainstorm.

Like this scenario, this two people find it hard to see each other again. Comparing this in the real life it’s like you had him or her on your hand but it’s just destiny that doesn’t agrees with you the love you are willing to give to a person on that exact time.

 So my tip to people who already think they found the one don’t have second thoughts never let them go ,never leave, never find someone else  to replace  them because you don’t know when will be the time you’re going to be sorry of what you did . Cherish them and love the much as you lose your family and yourself.

 

Credits

https://www.google.com

     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turn_Left,_Turn_Right