May 17, 2010

We have to really look at our selves and think how much we plagiarize each day and not realize it. Before you say not me I would never do that, stop and really think on what I am saying. How many of us have used a saying from a movie jokinly and not cited the movie, person who said it or even the writer of the movie. If you look at the meaning Merriam-Websters dictionary to plagiarize means:

• to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own
• to use (another's production) without crediting the source
• to commit literary theft
• to present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source.

Huh makes you think!

www.plagiarism.org/plag_article_what_is_plagiarism.html

Lets take a look at my week and then you would know why there is an advantage for me to take online classes. I have cancer so in the many months past and future I have had procedures that would interfered with my classes. This last week I have had another surgery and with the pain pills that I have been on I have been knocked out for days. Just these last few days the fog like feeling has left me enough that I have been able to concentrate on some of my assignments. If this was a class that I had to take at a college I would have never made it for the next 3 weeks due to the restrictions I am under.

May 4, 2010

Today is the day for surgery. Spent most of the night tossing and turning scared I was going to sleep through the alarm and not get up at 4am. Carl says its cold outside, which is shocking considering its Texas. Need to go have to be there in an hour and its an hour drive. I will be so glad when everything is over with I am tired of traveling all over the state for different procedures but all for the same thing.