Cutting and Pasting.

 In Brent Staple’s Cutting and Pasting: A Senior Thesis by (Insert Name), (12 July 2012) he explains the theory of what happens when you plagiarize someone else’s work and use it as your own. The author uses his friend as a source to develop his theory on plagiarism. Staples purpose for writing this is to express the seriousness of plagiarism and how college professors have to become more like cops now when grading their student’s work. The intended audience would be college students so they can see why plagiarism is so wrong, but anyone could benefit from reading this exert so they are less likely to do it themselves.

            I agree with Brent Staple’s thesis on plagiarism. He expresses thoroughly the consequences of committing plagiarism throughout his paper. Staples uses a direct source to base his thesis paper on which makes the paper a reliable. He explains that the internet today is an easy way to access information and use it as your own causing teachers to do unnecessary work. He points out that professors have to be more like enforcers than teachers to make sure their students are not committing plagiarism. He also mentions that plagiarism is such a serious offense now that professors are exposed to websites to check if a student used someone else’s work.

            As a college student, committing plagiarism has such serious consequences that if caught you will be put on probation, but more than likely expelled, along with failing that class. Plagiarism is easily accessible through the internet that it is done accidentally without realization. Even though it is done by accident, it is still a major problem and is affecting college student everywhere. 

Critique of The Deer at Providencia by: Maitreyah Bell

Ann Dillard’s non fiction essay The Dear at Providencia, expresses that pain and suffering are interwoven into the tapestry of life are inescapable no matter how unexplainable they are. Dillard makes these points by reflecting of memories in an order that connects general themes. She describes scenes from her personal experience in order to insinuate the connections between hardship and longevit y.  She is writing for any one who feels empathy for suffering.

This reading insinuated the connection between life, suffering, and the necessity of both.  On Dillard’s journeying through the Napo River Valley, she came upon a cultural confrontation with her understanding of cultural normalcy. Like other metropolitan people she too possessed a slightly separated understanding of meat and where it comes from. So when she came to witness a deer being painfully restrained in order to make the flesh more palatable.  This made me feel that human nature is naturally empathetic and does not enjoying inflicting pain on another life form , but through the disassociation between meat and living being it easier to do with animals as we please.

The text is well written because it provokes the reader to think out side the normal frame of reference. Dillard allows the reader to draw their own conclusion and, simultaneously leads the reader into drawing the conclusion she wants. She accepts that death and suffering are apart of the Napo Valley culture when she states “It ha given up ; now it will die(Dillard, 149).” She also draws a subtle distinction that the deer trapped in the rope continued to struggle for its life   but the man considered ending his own after being burned twice. I feel she was make the point know that blaming God for ones fait does no create a desired affect on the human psyche.