state to become fragile. Socrates questioning the citizens on their ideals only adds to the fragility of the state‚ pushing it closer to a state of crisis. In the play Oresteia‚ Athena warns the Athenians to be weary of internal threats. During the Apology‚ Socrates is called and can be viewed as an internal threat‚ jeopardizing the safety of other Athenians and drawing on their fear to start an uprising against the government. Socrates also shows the virtue of arrogance in Plato’s piece‚ choosing his
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Detecting Plagiarism Sarah Crowhurst GEN/105 5/10/2013 Elicia Brannon-Little The paper that was written for this assignment was found to be 97% similar to another article found online. Academic honesty is important because the whole point of academics is learning the subject. If you take material from the internet and just copy it‚ you’re not learning the subject‚ you just copy and pasted what was already available online. Next time for your paper please put information into your
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Plagiarism means presenting someone else’s work as your own. Using material from outside sources is a good and important part of research; however‚ you must cite and quote the source material‚ otherwise it is considered plagiarism‚ even if it is not intentional. Quoting means placing the outside source material in quotation marks. " " Citing means telling the reader who wrote this material and where you read it. Then you are supposed to write your own analysis of the material‚ using your own
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In 399 B.C‚ Socrates‚ a 70 year old teacher of rhetoric and speech‚ had been declared the wisest by the oracle at Delphi‚ however‚ he hadn’t considered himself the wisest. He figured that someone else was wiser than himself so he began to talk to poets‚ artist‚ educators and he realized that when they claimed that they knew the answers that didn’t. He had been the only one that had acceptably admitted that he didn’t know the right answer. People were infuriated because he had pointed out that the
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When writing essays‚ most people eschew away from the abhorrent topic of plagiarism. It wasn’t until I became older that I realized I was copying someone else’s work without crediting it to them. Why do teachers wait until high school to explain to students about plagiarism? They are trying to prepare us for thepestiferous place known as “the real world”. When you are at a developed age‚ the implied action of plagiarism should be indemnified in consequences. Many times have I been in trouble for
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Assignment: Some governments say how many children a family can have in their country. As they control the number of children someone has through taxes. It is sometimes right for the government to control the population this way. Do you agree or disagree? Charging for Better According to science‚ humans have evolved‚ and throughout history we see evidence of how these social animals have habituated to different situations. As things got discovered and inventions were made‚ they grew civilized
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he expressed through Socrates’s example that the wisdom that man can achieve is incomparable to that of god and “the unexamined life is not worth living for man.” In the series of books that examine the story of Socrates’s final days‚ namely The Apology‚
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I honestly never gave you an apology for the disrespect I have done. So I’m going to try my best now. I’m sorry the lack of respect I shown to you. So‚ Steve I’m really sorry for what I did. I feel soo bad because all you were doing was try and help us not get into this situation. My stupid actions not only hurt me‚ it hurt a 14 / 15 year old boy who has now grow up‚ you‚ Kecia‚ my parents‚ and many more. I should have been smart and thought with my head‚ but I didn’t and I’m sorry for that. I can’t
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Before one can examine a path to knowledge‚ one must try to understand‚ and define what knowledge is. In Plato’s Five dialogues‚ Socrates critiques the individuals who are thought to be the most knowledgeable‚ specifically in the Apology‚ when Socrates is explaining a conversation he had with a well-respected intellectual in the community. Socrates states: "When I began to talk with him‚ I could not help thinking that he was not really wise‚ although he was thought wise by many‚ and wiser still
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Why Plagiarism is Wrong By: Akshar Patel Plagiarism is essentially taking someone else’s work or ideas and taking false credit for them. Plagiarism can have many negative consequences because it denies credit of the person who actually did the work. It is basically stealing someone’s ideas and acting as if they are your own. One can take a paper off the internet and put their name on it‚ taking credit of work that they did not do. If someone uses a source from online or a book and does not cite it
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