Thursday, September 22, 2011

Blog 3 - Students Get Caught in Plagiarism Cases

Plagiarism Lines Blur for Students in Digital Age. This article illustrates the current epidemic spanning across the academic professionals and universities on how serious this issues is becoming with students “copying and pasting” without any regard to the true author of the subject matter or attempt to disclose.

Within the discipline of writing it is not easy coming up with new ideas or correctly citing the authors content. The present generation is accustoming to the internet as source of content. Its’ how they use the content and how they perceive its content value.Many times students cut and paste section of articles from various sources taken directly from the internet without even thinking of citing the source of the articles they use.


The August 10th New York Times called,

This is where Plagiarism lines blur andaccountability issues begin when students cut and paste so many articlestogether, collectively it morphs content. This is where the plagiarism issuecomes into play, the usage of whose lines are they? When the cutting and pastingof the content is morphed by the student this issue of citing gets blurred.

However "Within the discipline of writing it is not easy coming up withnew ideas or correctly citing the authors content" even if the end resultis morphed content citing is still the proper discipline used in the English language

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Blog Post 1 - Heigh Ho, Heigh Ho off to work we go

Heigh Ho, Heigh Ho off to work we go. The animated Heresy kiss rolls down the assemble line finally wrapped in foil it's blessed to be launched into a sorting selection of spread love, share happiness or send a smile portal into the "real world". Don't we all have this opportunity in our lives to spread love, share happiness or send a smile? Life is 90% attitude and this commercial is a positive vibe message, like a kiss.

Monday, September 5, 2011

Posting 2 The excited Shout

The excited shout “Grandma” next to the Aquarium entrance made my wife Jennifer’s head spun in a nanosecond with an immediate open arm’s and bright smile and equal amount of glee responded “Natalie”, that was the beginning of a great day.

It’s not often the my family gets together, we are spread out over the East Coast, but sometimes we get lucky and manage to squeeze in a day together. Matt and Mary (my youngest son & wife) flew into to Tampa to attend Mary’s Grandmother Funeral on Saturday, which left Sunday wide open. Their flight back to Chapel Hill NC didn’t depart until Monday morning 10AM.

Not wanting to miss an opportunity, my first born, Mike Brenner and wife Miranda along with 2 year daughter Natalie agreed to meet Uncle Matt and Aunt Mary, Grandma & Grandpa at the Tampa Aquarium, take in the exhibit get some lunch and take a little break from school (we all are University students) and enjoy each other’s company if only for the day.

Both Mike and Miranda are full time students at FGCU, both work part time jobs and raising the world’s most perfect grandchild – they have very busy schedules. Yeah it’s weird attending the same school as your kids…

Younger son Matt has been fortunate to work with NOUA and Webinar-internet conference in on staff meetings in DC allowing Mary to go back to school and earn her second Masters. Mary’s fatigue from studying each day the past week from 7 AM till Midnight to “Ace” her first Finance midterm in grad school at Chapel Hill paid off.

So we all arranged to spend the day together first at the Tampa Aquarium, then back to Matt and Mary’s Safe Harbor Resort room for a pool side play time to catch up and hang out, swim, have a beer and some pizza. Mary’s sister was in town for the funeral so Emily and her boy friend Zack joined us.

Then later in afternoon Mary’s mother Cathy and Uncle Frank to joined us poolside to relax and unwind, and get some much needed rest and relaxation.

My Granddaughter Natalie, who is now half fish, craves the attention of Uncle Matt and Aunt Mary as they play with her in the pool. Natalie shows off her swimming skills and new found abilities with a flouting noodle. Much the liking of both Matt and Mary they both compete for Natalie’s attention, who’s her favorite Matt or Mary? As They spoil her with each other affection and play all afternoon.

Natalie’s favorite comic super hero is Spiderman, taking after her father who brought along a Spiderman costume to surprise her with later in the evening.



As the sun went down and Natalie was starting to get sleepy, Mike quickly made the change into the Spiderman costume. wearing his Spiderman costume he walked out to the swimming pool liani where all the kids at the swimming pool in unison shouted “Spiderman”! Mike walked up to Natalie as she buried her head into her mother arms and apprehensively looked at “Spiderman” and said “Daddy?” then reached out and touched his hand and took his arm and said with concern said again “Daddy”.
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That was it! The hood came off and Mike showed Natalie it was him and gave her a fatherly hug. That’s my boy’s aren’t they great.