i liked these speeches i want to write about more things like this!

I think I will like these speeches! Ok I read the Gettysburg address first. That was a very uplifting speech and so dedicated. What I got out of this speech is that he is telling us that through the trials that our country will face that we need to stand by our country and only become strong as a nation through these trials. Also when he said that the dead shall not have died in vain I think he is saying don’t let the problems that our men went to war for happen again because if we do that means that those men died in vain or for no reason. That is what I understood from that speech. The second speech that I read was the “cast down your bucket where you are” I liked this one. I felt that it was basically saying that for the people of his time that were distressed and felt that they had no one that they should look around and not judge people by race and they would find many more people willing to help them or be their friend. Also I think that when he said the cast down your bucket where you are I think he was showing that help can come in unexpected ways. The ship asked over and over again for water from their neighboring ship yet all along the help that they needed the most was right there underneath them. The third speech was “the solitude of self” this speech was about women’s rights. One thing that caught my attention was when she said that women must rely on themselves and that no matter how much we prefer to lean or be supported by men that we must make the voyage of life alone. I think that is very true because if you spend your whole life relying on other people to do things for you what will you do when those people are gone? Where will you be when your mom isn’t there to cook your dinner. I experienced this when I moved into the house I am in now. Haha and so far I have made like 3 actual meals in the past 2 months of living here. But this speech wasn’t just about women doing things on their own it was about them being allowed to do things on their own and not having to have the approval of a man in order to make a decision. I didn’t understand a few things in this speech it was very deep but I did enjoy reading it and it felt very inspiring and I think it is amazing that she spent most of her life fighting for women’s rights. i cant imagine working my whole life towards something and then never seeing it resolved. it's hard for me to imagine a time when women didnt have rights though. i cant imagine not being able to do things just because i am a woman. im not married or anything but if someone told me o i'm sorry i cant let you do that but if your husband wants to do it for you thats fine i would laugh at them. or if i was told that i was not able to vote because i was a women. i think we are all lucky to be born in a time that is not so much having to deal with these issuese. Its unfortunate that many women who fought so long for the rights that we have today do not get to experience the liberties that we take for granted…

2nd blog post

well I’m not going to lie. I did not understand a single word. I felt really confused when I was reading this because I know absolutely nothing about elections or any of the presidents. Just when I thought I understood what was going on and thought they were talking about our current president bush I got confused again and thought they were talking about his father. They were weren't they? This article seemed to me like the author was trying to point out flaws that president bush has made or things that he has done that the author doesn’t agree with. I remember when it was talking about how he was in a tent yet he and all the men with him were wearing floor length fur lined robes and watching news on a plasma screen tv. I guess this was trying to say that he is very materialistic and not as concerned about the middle east as we would like to think.
Ok and on to the second article. James k Polk was not black , he owned quite a few as slaves but he was not black and neither was Thomas Jefferson. Hmm both of these articles have really confused me so far.. so after the beginning of this article I kinda assumed this guy didn’t know what he was talking but when he was talking about AL Sharpton accusing squirrels and end tables of racism I thought that was really funny! Also when he insulted being called french I thought that was funny too but I like France. And when he mentioned rock of love that was funny too. I like that show sometimes its kinda weird though. I didn’t really get when he said that the cartoonist would be working at Arbys if Obama was elected. I felt like both of these articles were really trying to bash the presidency and let other people know what they disagree with. I really cant think of anymore to say..

Ok so here goes my first blog post!
Well I was very surprised to find out that copying recipes was not plagiarism even if they came out of a cookbook. I guess I just always considered that copying anything out of a book would be plagiarism without giving reference to the author. But that does make sense because so many recipes have similarities and there are billions of recipes. Unless someone said they had invented a recipe and it was what their book was based or something like that I think it is ok to copy recipes.
I thought it was really funny when the author was talking about how the chef at the restaurant Interlude had committed culinary plagiarism. I think this shows how much of a fine line there is between plagiarizing and not plagiarizing. Because had he changed the plating of the dish to where it did not look the same but used all the same ingredients I’m sure his dish would have gone unnoticed. I think a lot of plagiarizing goes unnoticed mostly by the people who do it. Like if you use a website for facts about like an animal or something you have to cite the websites you used or that’s plagiarism. I think I remember someone last year in this class getting in a lot of trouble for doing that but she didn’t even realize that she had done anything wrong at all. It’s hard to say whether or not someone should be punished for unintentional plagiarism. It’s still plagiarism so I guess the best advice for that is to make sure that you are fully informed on what plagiarizing is and isn’t before you use a website for anything.
But anyway, about the cookbooks, I agree with the author when he says that the cookbooks were not much of an original idea. There are only so many ways that you can hide vegetables in kid’s foods and I’m sure that the cookbooks like these that came out before the two mentioned in the article had very similar recipes. I don’t think that Ms.Seinfeld plagiarized in the book that she wrote I just think that they both had similar recipes because of the type of cookbook that it was.
Ok so about the other article first off WOW I didn’t realize there were so many websites for free term papers. I don’t think I would ever trust those websites because I don’t think anyone ever gets their money’s worth. I mean you pay like $80.00 for a paper that you may still have to fix and rewrite and spell check a lot of things I just don’t think that’s worth it. I could write a really bad paper in like a couple of hours if I just absolutely had to and that’s a lot better than getting expelled for wasting your money.
The website had some questions that we could answer and one was Why do you think high schools allow (and even encourage) the act that society disapproves of? Is there a mixed message there? Is this talking about plagiarism because my high school was pretty strict on plagiarizing I remember my English teacher reporting quite a few people to the principal for plagiarizing papers… well that’s the end hope I did ok