Plagiarism


                               Since highschool, I know what is plagiarism is all about. According to the Webster dictionary, plagiarism is stealing and passing off ideas or words of another as one's own or use it without crediting the source. We're not only talking about copying word by word when we are describing plagiarism. I knew this even before because we studied it, I read something or related with plagiarism and I know the consequences if you will commit plagiarism. Stealing is something that I really condemn and whenever I remember the guy who were stealing from a drunk guy in the jeepney when I was commuting going to work, It really sucks because I cannot afford to see how desperate people to get money. They don't know how people work so hard to get that money and some bad, desperate and annoying people just want to steal. Stealing is never new for me, I am known in the family who always experience losing cellphones before. It is so sad, that if you leave your bag somewhere and order a food the next thing you know your bad is not there anymore. When will be time that we feel secure in our community. I believe this is just the same with plagiarism. It is easy to copy ideas now, we all can access in the internet, blogs, tweets and books for free and just one click away, you can get a lot of ideas in the internet. But in the case of Senator Sotto, he copied the speech of late Kennedy of America and translate it in tagalog. He did not change anything or even add new ideas from it, but he simply change it to tagalog and pretend that it is his own speech. I do not know if he just missed to acknowledge or credit during his speech but I believe that when you are in the highest position in the country, added responsibility is necessary and finding out the author or writer of he is reading.

                             There are so many bloggers bashing out Sen. Sotto, but what really is shaming is that it was an American who noticed his speech and the news came immediately to Kennedy's family asking him to apologize. For me, our country shall not pass on this but make an appropriate action for Sen. Sotto. This will  be a lesson for all of us that intellectual rights shall always maintain in our country. The younger generation are watching the news and we do not want them to see that we only make this issue small, maybe someday they will also badly imitate the senator thinking that it is alright to change a little words of someone or para-phrase someone's work and make it his own. This issue is necessary to be resolve immediately.

   

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