Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Glass vs Lehrer


http://www.ithenticate.com/plagiarism-detection-blog/bid/89793/Top-Plagiarism-Scandals-of-2012   

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/07/jonah-lehrer-book-proposal-plagiarism_n_3404133.html


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonah_Lehrer



 Many people plagiarism but another big one besides Steven Glass was Jonah Lehrer. Lehrer was a was a well-known science journalist. He wrote for New York Times, The New Yorker and Wired Magazine. Lehrer would sell his work twice. Also during interviews Lehrer would use quotes mostly from Bob Dylan with out quoting Bob Dylan himself.      

 The difference between Glass's plagiarism and Lehrer's is that Glass took his stories too far. Glass lied and took his lie in to a greater level. Lehrer still didn't do the right thing, but he didn't take it out of proportion. 

  Although both Glass and Lehrer both didnt do the right thing there stories are smiwlar and also very different. They both worked for major news comapnys, and both plagiarised. I bealive Glass's situation was a bigger deal. Glass made up most of his stories. They even made amovie out of Glass's story. They both had punishments and both have plagirisum on thier records. 

Tuesday, November 12, 2013

The Imposable Review


http://wegotthiscovered.com/blu-ray/impossible-bluray-review/

    The review written by Margot Harrison was a good review she talked about how the tsunami effected the family. She never directly said if she liked or disliked the movie. She talked about how the movie had phenomenal scene's and great action.     I agree with Harrison, the movie The Imposable was suspenseful and had some really heartwarming scnce's. The movie had me teary at some points and at the end of the movie I felt different as well as Harrison. We bother really enjoyed the movie and both made us feel warm indies at the end of the movie. 

http://www.patriotledger.com/entertainment/movies/x2105865064/MOVIE-REVIEW-The-Impossible-a-shallow-story-about-a-natural-disaster

  The review By Al Alexander was about how he didn't like the movie. He thought that it was took a rich white family and showed their story and not the other people who went though a lot worse. Others lost their homes and family's for good. 
   I somewhat agree with Alexander, he was right about how others had it worse but he doesn't know is that the movie was trying to relate to the viewers. Most likely people with more money will go see a movie in theaters so I think the directer wanted to relate to the people watching the movie. 
       Other than that I don't agree with him, he was saying that the other people may have had better, more important stories that we should have seen. But they showed the people who lived on the coast and kind of showed what they went though. The movie was focusing on the family but also showed how the tsunami effected the other people. 

I feel that Critics judge to much, I know that's what their supposed to do but they think about the bad to much and don't try to sit back and enjoy the movie. People want to go and relax when they watch a movie. You won't enjoy the movie as much if all you're doing is hating on it

Monday, November 4, 2013

Personality Profile:Ms.Bollinger


When it comes to teaching English, Emily Bollinger at Roosevelt high school is always giving an extra effort to help her students reach their goals.

Bollinger attend and graduated from Drake University with a major in Urban Education,and Couching enforcement. Her degree is in English, and Secondary education.

Bollinger teaches Freshman english at Roosevelt. She has only thought at Roosevelt and enjoys her job here so far because of the diversity.
The students here open my eyes to real life.”
They gave me the job!” Roosevelt gave her the job of an english teacher. Shes happy they did because she couldn't think of not working with the people people she does today.

She was inspired to teach english by her good teachers. She wants to pass on her love for reading and writing.
because I wanted to make an impact of the world. I like to read and write.”

Her students love her energy in the class room. Shes always trying to keep the students having fun while learning.
She shows music videos, then we write about it. She brings things we like to our class room.” (Elizabeth Zanders).

In collage Bollinger was always working hard. She got A's and B's.
I was a rockstar when it came to school.”

I had a great collage experience.” She loved Drake, the teachers,classes,and campus.
My past teachers inspired me to teach english.” Bollinger was inspired to teach english by her teachers she had in the past.

Ms.Bollinger is fun and so is her class, but she sometimes annoys me just like any other teacher. Her class goes by fast because were always doing something” (a current student)

Ms.Bollinger is good at what she does and Im glad I have her as a teacher! She makes the class fun and I enjoy going to her class every other morning.