Best of the Week: Prostitutes

Recently in class we watched a film about children in India in the Red Light district. If you are not familiar with the red light district it is an area where women sell there bodies to men in a sexual way. This got me thinking that in the U.S. prostitution is illegal. In the inner cities of New York, Chicago, Miami, and even more prostitution exists in other cities. It seems like in other countries prostitution is an easy way to make money maybe to feed kids and family. So why would countries not just make it illegal and enforcing it to the point where those women have to get other jobs and giving them more rights? 

I feel that prostitution is bad and should forever stay illegal in the U.S. If other countries wanted to keep it legal then that is their choice, but i prefer to stay in a country where women have more rights. It is very disturbing how it even crosses women's minds to even think about selling their body for sex. They must come up from seriously bad backgrounds which in those area might be considered more normal than in any other area around it. 

In order to fix this problem, education needs to become more of an option when young so dreams can become a reality and when everyone is educated we become a more civilized nation and world. I am proud to say that prostitution does not affect me directly.

Connection: Televisionary and Modern Televison

Recently in class we read and discussed the article "The Televisionary" in the article it talked about a man named Philo T. Farnsworth. According to this article back in the 1910's he originally created the first television which is nothing like today's televisions. Unfortunately Farnsworth was not recognized as the creator until later in the 20th century. His product was stolen by a bigger corporation, which improved his idea and turned it into a product for the public.

Television was originally in black and white and the screen was as big as a today common laptop computer screen. It had what is now know as basic cable, only a few channels by major companies like NBC and ABC. Over the years more and more stations and shows appeared on TV, like the Ed Sullivan Show and many other late night shows that would be live. These shows would showcase famous people, or up and coming famous people. Think about it as an early version of Saturday Night Live.

Live shows like that grew into prerecorded shows which would be filmed, edited and aired later. This was the development into modern television. Almost all shows are prerecorded to be aired later after many edits. Television has only gotten better after the decades it has been around. Some of the greatest shows ever from the past are being topped by many shows like, The Office, Breaking Bad, and How I Met Your Mother. Television will only get better and better as time goes on.

- Andrew Bennett

What if: Plagiarism

Today in class we talked about academic dishonesty and plagiarism. I want to start out by saying I am not okay with cheating. It just got me thinking because in the past many other people have obviously cheated on a test or stolen a paper. Teachers also have turnitin.com which allows them to know if a student copied and pasted a paper and would know based on how the anti-cheating website works if it was not the students own work. Before turnitin.com i have no idea how teachers would know if a student was cheating.

What if students created a website where you could post, from around the country, papers for others to use freely? Would that still be considered cheating? Yes it is not your own work, a valid case to claim the student is cheating, but the website is okay with the papers being used. Unfortunately, I think the school could probably careless about where you got it versus the fact that the kid used it.

What if there were a company that for a price would right your papers for you? I hear in the news kids getting caught taking the ACT or SAT for another friend, who might not be as smart, or is just to scared to try. This also occurs on the hit TV show Suits on the channel USA.  The company would be different because they would just email you the Word document that the student would have to turn in. There is no easy way for teachers to know that the student is cheating.

"Rules were meant to be broken." A man said that once and if you think about all the news on CNN, FOX, ABC, and NBC it is full of people breaking the rules. Rules are what gives us the ability to be free. In a sum up, I foresee after I have graduated from high school or even college, students will have found away around turnitin.com or any other website like it.
I believe it is inevitable.

- Andrew Bennett