MCOM 4003 - Colby Clinton

Plagiarism: Often Accidental, Never Good. Plagiarism is something. It's an awful, terrible, no-good something that everyone deals with at least once in their life, especially college students. As I'm about to demonstrate, plagiarism is the act of stealing someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as your own. I, of course, came up with that definition myself and definitely didn't steal those words from anyone or anything else as the image below will prove. I totally stole that definition from Google. On a much more critical scale, stealing other's work and claiming it as your own is a very big deal. It leads to a lot of trouble for everyone involved. University students who are accused of plagiarism essentially go through a courtroom-esque trial with members of the school board to defend themselves. Sadly in the case of plagiarism, it seems as if the defendant is guilty until proven innocent. I have a pretty extensive list of encounters with ...

False Advertising and Other Fine Hobbies. Advertisements are everywhere. They line the walls in supermarkets and bus stop benches. Television advertisements play for nearly ten minutes in gaps between television show segments, so would you believe that cable television had so few commercials in the past that it was feared that TV would be  taken over  by advertisers? It feels like all of these blog posts are connected in some way or another. Just like in cable news bias, you have to worry about what version of the truth you're getting when it comes to advertisements. Will this juice from the nectar of an extinct fruit only indigenous to three trees in the African savanna really increase my IQ by 6.2 points? "You're our 1,000,000th visitor! Click here for $1000!" What markets do you find false advertising and a lack of ethics? My mind wanders directly towards the video game industry. If you check the dictionary under 'empty promises', you'll fi...