After the Spill (Break HW #3)

The article After the Spill by Laura Leigh Davidson, is about the aftermath of the great oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. On April 20th, 2010 an oil rig had exploded in the Gulf of Mexico. As we all know the oil spill caused a great amount of problems. The water became filled with oil, turning it black, which affected all the sea life in the water. This is a big problem because the animals had been mutating! Mutating animals cause a big problem because the seafood that the fishermen have been catching are such an usual sight. It is another big problem because it can cause a big change in the future for the sea animals. The oil spill is a humongous problem because thinking about the future of those animals aren't that great.

Fishermen in the Gulf of Mexico been catching sea animals... weird sea animals. Due to the oil spill, the animals had been mutated! They have been capturing shrimp with no eyes, crabs without claws and fish with sores covering their bodies. Davidson explains that "These new traits usually prove harmful." The oil that is getting into the animals is causing new traits in the animals cells and offspring. This is a bad problem because since there are MANY mutated sea life which aren't good to eat. It could cause a lot of problems for markets also. Since they are catching the bad mutated animals, they wouldn't want to put something so unusual and nasty looking to sell. No one would buy it! A fisherman, Sidney Schwartz, had said “We've fished here all our lives and have never seen anything like this."

The mutated animals are very bad for the future. They are because crabs are known for having claws as well as all of the other mutated animals. We don't know which animals would be bad and which would be good. There could reproduce and crate a whole different kind of unknown species. They could be very harmful also because of the oil which is inside of them. Some of the sea life could get transported to all over the world which could be a threatening event because we don't know what they could mutate into then!

The oil spill is a real bad event. It could cause many other problems that people wouldn't even think of. It could hurt the market sales. It could possibly harm people. And who knows, it could endanger a bunch of species. Even though the oil spill was in just that part of the world, no one knows what could happen.

Response on Plagiarism (Break HW #2)

Plagiarizing could be and is a big thing. Taking other peoples' work and making it seem as if it is yours is not a good thing to do. There could be certain consequences. What the student did wrong was he/she copied and pasted the passage into his/her post which made it seem like his/her own work. In my opinion, its makes the student seem kind of lazy. What the student could have done to site the source correctly was to put the sentence/quote he/she wanted to use in quotations to show that someone else wrote that sentence. Then he/she could have sited the source at the end of the quote.

This is a way the student could have incorporated the text;
The stars in the night sky are surrounded by their own orb of light. In "A Brief Understanding of the Starry Night Paintings", the author describes the painting as "a scene we can all relate to, and also one that most individuals feel comfortable and at ease with. This sky keeps the viewer's eyes moving about the painting, following the curves and creating a visual dot to dot with the stars. This movement keeps the onlooker involved in the painting while the other factors take hold."

There are plenty ways to avoid plagiarism. One way is to just put it in quotes and site the source! That is a very simple easy way. Another way is to summarize/paraphrase the work and put it into your own words. A third way is to just gather a bunch of information and put it together. I'm not saying take information from different sites by copying and pasting, but look all over the internet. Sometimes there is better info then the one you were planning to take! There are other ways to avoid plagiarism. It could be easy to get caught also because maybe the vocabulary used in the work is obviously not yours. These are some ways to avoid the consequences of getting accused by stealing someone else's work.

Break homeworkkk ! #1

As reading a couple of the reading responses, one of them that stood out to me was Izzy's response to Romeo and Juliet. Izzy's blog post was about why Romeo and Juliet love each other and if they really do! Izzy starts off by using her text evidence to show how Romeo loves Juliet. He compares her to many things for example, a jewel. Izzy uses many other evidence. Another thing that I liked about her response was that she explains HER thoughts on their relationship.

Another blog that I really liked was Alli's review of "Much Ado About Nothing". Alli first focuses on what she thought about the characters. She explains how each character had a very different personality which was very similar to my opinion about the play too. She explains deeply on how each character did and what she liked about them. As she continues, she focuses on the set designs and costumes. Alli talks about all the sets and props that were used in the play. For example, the moon in the background that showed the time of day with colors too! She explained how the music which were played set the mood which I had connected to.

These two responses had really caught my eye. The focuses in these responses were really good and showed me how I should improve in my blog entries. They have paragraphs which were about the same topic just a different focus, which had did great and connected with everything throughout the response. Izzy's post taught me that using a lot of textual evidence really helps me understand what she is explaining. Alli's post taught me that one little topic can turn into a really good understandable post which helps you really think about the topic more.