Well, from what I've seen in our group- we have a lot of research to go through. It's going to be a difficult task to do. Some of the difficulties we face are that some of our group members are not available whenever we try to meet, but I'm fairly certain we can manage. Another challenge would be trying to focus on what particular point of the whitewashing issue to light on. The Academy Awards? Stereotyping certain roles on diverse groups? Or maybe even those two combined together? We have certain points that we would like to talk about, but on how to bring it all together is going to be a challenge... I usually don't like to work in groups, one main point being that not all of the time can we all come together, but I am willing to make this group work. The expectations that I have for this group is that we need to stay focused throughout the entire two weeks, we all need to bring in creative ideas- any ideas that can make this information interesting and can catch people's attention. We all agreed on my topic, which is Whitewashing in the Media, which is a big issue and one that everyone should know, also it seems to be the fairly 'easy one'? But, I am being optimistic about this- which is a good thing, I want to be optimistic about our group working together and making our one true goal work: Getting it Done Right.
After reviewing some of my past work, and the way I'm thinking about plagiarism, I think it's such a dishonest thing to do to not only to your professors or to the original creator, but to yourself when you cannot come up with something original or even take some of the original work and make it into your own words- its dishonest and horrible. I think plagiarism is such an overlooked issue, especially in the day-and-age that we are in, with such advanced technology we students have, I think that plagiarism is still an issue. Not only with "Copy & Paste" existing in technology, but the fact that students can go into the deep web and find citations that are- "untraceable", making it difficult for professors to look to see if what the student says is legit and not simply copied, I think that it's getting easier and easier as the years go by. By the time you know it, plagiarism can be looking at you right in the face and you wouldn't know it. Knowing myself, when I was much younger, I might've committed plagiarism unintentionally, since I didn't know what that term meant. After I learned what it means, I completely stopped because I always wanted to treat everyone fairly.
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