Thursday, July 29, 2010
Plagiarism
Plagiarism is really serious. I wonder if it is considered plagiarism when a elementary student copy something from a book word from word. My daughter was in the third grade last year and she had to do an social studies project. She copied the information from the book word from word, and I fussed at her for doing it and told her it was plagiarism. She looked at me and asked 'What is that?" That's when I realized that she didn't know anything about it nor the teacher never explained to them what plagiarism is. In my opinion, they shouldn't be held accountable for something that they have no knowledge of: especially if it is not taught to them yet. I wasn't sure if they would get in trouble for writing it word for word, so I had her to write it over. The instructions for the social studies project didn't say anything about not copying the information from word to word.
Monday, July 26, 2010
Change of topic
Hello
I just decided to change my topic to asthma in children. I was struggling with the other two topics that I previously chose, but this topic just hit me all of a sudden. My other two topic s was preventing teen pregnancy and fetal alcohol syndrome. Asthma in children hit close to home too, my daughter has asthma. You talk about scary it is real scary. Her asthma is controlled now. She takes so much medicine to keep it under control. She takes less now than she used to. Most of the medicine has steroids in it. She was a tiny baby, and all of a sudden she just blew up; now she's over weight. I think the steroids in the medicine has caused a lot of the weight gain, and the rest is her appetite. She's had the flu twice in her life and you talk about scary. She had it once when she was 1 year old and again last year at the age of 9. Last year was really scary for me because the doctor told me it was the swine flu. I never left her side. She has never had pneumonia thank God. She had the pneumonia vaccine. She had flu and the swine flu vaccine earlier this year. She seems to be doing fine, she is getting burned out on taking the medication everyday. I tell her it is a necessity not a choice.
I just decided to change my topic to asthma in children. I was struggling with the other two topics that I previously chose, but this topic just hit me all of a sudden. My other two topic s was preventing teen pregnancy and fetal alcohol syndrome. Asthma in children hit close to home too, my daughter has asthma. You talk about scary it is real scary. Her asthma is controlled now. She takes so much medicine to keep it under control. She takes less now than she used to. Most of the medicine has steroids in it. She was a tiny baby, and all of a sudden she just blew up; now she's over weight. I think the steroids in the medicine has caused a lot of the weight gain, and the rest is her appetite. She's had the flu twice in her life and you talk about scary. She had it once when she was 1 year old and again last year at the age of 9. Last year was really scary for me because the doctor told me it was the swine flu. I never left her side. She has never had pneumonia thank God. She had the pneumonia vaccine. She had flu and the swine flu vaccine earlier this year. She seems to be doing fine, she is getting burned out on taking the medication everyday. I tell her it is a necessity not a choice.
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