posted March 21, 2003 06:42 PM              

Fukiyama (plagiarizer of Hegel), "It is the end of history, The battle of the ideologies is over. Liberal Democracy has won over communism(Cold War) & fascism(WWII)"

Nations, being Asian, Western or Eastern European, or North or South American (& even Africa once they stabilize) have all started to liberalize their economies & governments in hopes of interconnecting the world & globalizing, which would hopefully raise the bar for standard of living in all third world countries (still theory & still debatable, but so far the theory is working).

Now Rumsfield, probably the staunchest conservative in the government has expressed this ideal since the 80s to liberalize gov'ts when the opportunity presents itself.

Right now they are seeing an opportunity to have this dream realized & possibility the reverse of the "domino theory" of the Cold War will occur. Instead of one democratic gov't falling causing more to fall, one more liberal democratic government rises & then more follow.

Liberalization includes the advocation of a state governed by the people, a gov't elected by the people, & an economy of free trade without government actors that exploit their country's natural resources for their own gain. Essentially liberalize control over economy which spreads the wealth of a country's natural resources among the people.

What Rumsfield, Bush, & the Western gov'ts are genuinely attempted to do is integrate the world as one liberlized democracy & economy where all countries are interconnected & eventually the sovereignty of the "nation-state" (even the USA) yields the a higher int'l authority following the rules of economic prosperity for example: (Which I'll post later)

Destruction of Islamic fundamentalists, War on terrorism, search for oil, disarmament of Iraq, are all faulty reasons to advocate the one greater ideal, that has quite a vision for the future. But one of positivity & a collective prosperity for the world.

I'm sure there are a million & a half arguments to demonize the US & our gov'ts & their political actors which would make this idea seem futile.

But I just wanted to present this vision of the future so people may at least know of it & consider it.

I mean THERE IS a h*e*ll of a lot the governments of the world do not tell the people of the world what their true goals are, they are REALLY EDUCATED & STUDIED in these matters & it wouldn't be too bad to...
just for a moment...
Consider maybe they do have a plan for the future & these pithy events are simply stepping stones to its realization???

posted March 22, 2003 01:21 AM            

Bingo, someone who doesn't really understand the issues and has to resort to quoting someone else's thoughts probably isn't to be taken seriously.

There is no shortage of people who will tell you what to think.

posted March 22, 2003 02:09 AM              

This is still not Plagiarism.

posted March 23, 2003 10:17 PM              

1) To USE and PASS OFF (the IDEAS or WRITINGS of another) as one's own.
2) To appropriate for USE AS ONE'S OWN PASSAGES or IDEAS from (another).
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=plagiarize

posted March 24, 2003 02:13 AM              

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To USE and PASS OFF (the IDEAS or WRITINGS of another) as one's own.

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To appropriate for USE AS ONE'S OWN PASSAGES or IDEAS from (another).

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posted March 24, 2003 11:29 AM              

I think enough fire has been turned up in these threads already, justified or not... lol

posted March 24, 2003 06:47 PM              

5.1.4 Plagiarism 

The University is committed to quality academic research and scholarship and the rights and responsibilities of staff and students in upholding these standards. The University encourages good scholarship and supports the rights of a scholar's ownership of their ideas and research – their intellectual property. Good scholarship requires knowledge of current thought and research in a field of study in order to develop one's own ideas. The authors who have developed this knowledge and research deserve the right to have their work acknowledged. Without this acknowledgement, such practices are the equivalent of stealing.

Acts of plagiarism may occur deliberately or inadvertently. The University views inadvertent plagiarism as an opportunity to educate students about the appropriate academic conventions in their field of study. The University views a deliberate act of plagiarism as a serious breach of academic standards of behaviour for which severe penalties will be imposed.

The University undertakes the responsibility to ensure that students are made aware of accepted academic conventions in their field/s of study and the consequences of failing to follow these conventions. It is the responsibility of students to learn academic conventions appropriate to their field and to acknowledge the intellectual property of others.

Plagiarism

Plagiarism involves submitting or presenting work in a course as if it were the student's own work done expressly for that particular unit when, in fact, it was not. Most commonly, plagiarism exists when: 

* the work submitted or presented was done, in whole or in part, by an individual other than the one submitting or presenting the work 
* parts of the work are taken from another source without reference to the original author; or 
* the whole work, such as an essay, is copied from another source.

Plagiarism refers not only to academic writing, but also to other forms of presentation for assessment such as performance, design, composition, electronic media, etc.

Inadvertent plagiarism

An incident of plagiarism by a student that occurs through inappropriate application or use of material without reference to the original source or author. It is clear that the student did not have the intention to deceive.

Deliberate plagiarism

An incident of plagiarism by a student who has the intention to deceive.