Eng 101

I think this story is basicly based on the character called “Stew”. He actually has a collision of ideas within himself but tries to burden his daughter with his conflicts. For instance, when he recieved a phone call from his friend Norm informing him that his daughter had written an article about him in Self magazine, first he tought that the article is about how wonderful he was. Due to this beautiful thought, the author took us to his happy memories. Then, the author started to talk about the complicated thoughts and suspects of Stew and took readers to the bad memories that they experienced. According to these examples, we read the story in the way of Stew’s point of view by the writer.

Questions while reading

1. What type of narrator is telling the story? When is the story based?
2. What type of story is it?
3. What sort of a portrait does the narrator create of his daughter?
4. How did the father feel after he received a phone call from his friend Norm informing him that his daughter had written an article about him in Self magazine that he had no idea was published by her?
5. How did the daughter mention about his father in the article?
6. Why does this conflict exist between the daughter and her father?
7. Do you thing that is easy for a parent to watch the changes in their child’s appereance and behaviour ? Explain.

How about the relationship between the main character and her mother?

Connie thinks that her mother is jealous of her youth and beauty. She thinks that when her mother look at her she remembers her old days, the dynamism and peppiness of 15 year-old state. Connie and her mother hang out sometimes. They go to drink a cup of coffee together like friends but connie never talk about the secret part of her life which is behind their house’s walls. Also most of the time they fall into a conflict. According to this, Connie does not want to spend much time with her mother.

People choose various of ways including studying hard, working for hours, copying or stealing someone else’s work to reach their goals. Plagiarism is a one the way of convenience that makes human’s aims more accessible and possible. Besides, plagiarism is not only illegal under copyright legislation as music piracy, but also becomes an injustice for other people again as music piracy and they are spreading due to unawareness of people.

Downloading music files from internet or saving bands from radio stations is absolutely mentioned as theft in terms of constitution. Because of the copyright legislation, people cannot use the melody of a song for their own works. In addition to this, people cannot use another writer’s sentences by changing their verbs to compose their essays or compositions because this is plagiarism. Although all the legislations and crimes, plagiarism is widespreading day by day due to the thought of people that they cannot get cought. Plagiarism is not only cheating, it is also being unfair to other people by deceiving them. Hence, the way of using other’s rights is behind the boundries of honesty as well as music piracy.

Most of the people are unconscious about the arangements about copyrights or do not care about the laws. Especially file sharing is very popular in the modern world. According to Charles W. Moore young adults are the most careless part of music downloaders and sharers. Also the main part of users of plagiarism becomes from people who are not use writing for trade. Because of the necessity of being original, creativity is ignored by people and made insensiblity.
In conclution, the similarities of plagiarism and music piracy are having copyright legislation, being unfair to other people and spreading away. There are lots of available technics that make possibble to reach individual’s goals but the most common ways are plagiarism and music piracy and due to ignorantness they become more popular.

References

https://sucourse.sabanciuniv.edu/access/content/group/ENG101-A4B4C4D4-200801/week%202/The%20Copycat%20Syndrome%20Plagiarists%20at%20work.pdf

Moore, C.W. (2008). Is music piracy stealing? 242-249.