...guidelines, rules and punishments students of today have been reduced to cheating, forgeries and out blatant plagiarism. Many students take advantage of copying fellow classmates work whenever the opportunity presents. Other times, students will simply have someone else complete their work and present it as their own, not realizing the ramifications and consequences of their action. This fosters a lack of creativity; no sense of responsibility and the students then block the opportunity of new experiences and knowledge. This practice of cheating, copying and forgery by students are unethical and should be brought to the surface whenever possible. Students aren't the only ones who haven't cheated. Politicians, athletes, and even those who are close to you. Cheating, for the most part, is wrong. There are a few small examples where cheating can be good, but nonetheless it is something you shouldn't be doing. I will explain why it's not a good idea, especially for students. First, everybody cheats. Some may justify it, others proudly proclaim it, and others will deny their cheating vigorously. Their creativity level drops every time they copy or have someone else do their work. After a while of copying and forging, the student's ability to think creatively and successfully becomes next to nothing. Unfortunately, today's school system has become a playground where students have developed more and more ways of cheating. The internet is a huge blame. Other way is having students who have...
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...and should not be used for any sport for numerous reasons. These types of drugs come with serious health risks. First, there are many dangers to the body from steroids. Second, it is just unfair to other players and athletes. Thirdly it could possibly cause a crash in an athlete’s career if getting caught. Steroids and other performance enhancing drugs, PED’s, are very harmful to the body. It is not worth the risk of permanent damage to the body and organs. Most PED’s contain hormones which will cause extreme behavioral changes. People who take PED’s act more aggressively, are more likely to sexually harass somebody, and are generally more violent. So just from taking these drugs the users are effecting their and people that they are with lives outside of sports. The use of any PED is unfair to other players because they are not competing against a person its, the drug. It takes out the spirit of competition. A player that has been on a steroid has an unfair advantage due to the power gained from the drug and not the body. It is basically a form of cheating. PED use can cause a crash in an athlete’s career if they are caught using the drug, because if it gets on the news it would give him/her a bad reputation, the drug will cause the downfall of the athletes career and possibly get the player kicked off the team, it’s a shocking matter for the fans to find out and also winning without relying on drugs is a real accomplishment to a player, because you didn’t need any help...
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...Constance, do you think that Dee might actually understand what the quilt means in regards to their heritage? She probably can not appreciate the quilt as much as Maggie can and will, but I do not believe that means she does not understand it, just a thought.Is cheating always wrong or is it ever acceptable? If this question was as cut and dry as it sounds, then as the prompt states “cheating has mainly been publicly condemned.” The problem seems to be closer to question, what is considered cheating. Take baseball for example, they have many “unwritten” rules. The one that comes to mind for this example is sign stealing. Some believe that sign stealing is cheating, others believe it is part of the game. I believe that cheating is never...
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...played, not to mention they are banned in most, if not all, professional sports around the world. There are multiple ways to look at this issue, but regardless of which way you choose there are concrete facts about steroids that should make you think twice before choosing a side. The use can halt growth in adolescents, cause behavioral side effects, psychological issues, and inflict major physical distortions. These conditions apply to both males and females and include acne, clotting disorders, liver damage, premature heart attacks, strokes, and elevated levels of cholesterol to say the least. With all of that being said, some might question why anybody would consider taking this drug. Due to our modern love for sports and competition, athletes around the world are willing to do almost anything to make it to the top. They have devised methods of taking steroids without getting caught and will continue to do so as long as they leave with a win or a gold metal. According to Dr. Richard T. Bosshardt, a medical expert on the subject, “Sports can teach children to young adults so many valuable lessons: the value of hard work, consistency, and goal setting... To have this undermined by doping among those...
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...agree that the primary cause of cheating is the pressure and obsession from society to do well, succeed and basically be perfect. Although these authors view these things in common, the conclusions they reach on the morality of cheating is different. In Too Much Pressure by Collen Wenke, she defines cheating as “taking work done by someone else . . . and writing your name on it and saying that it is your own work.” The article draws from her experience growing up in a school, where everyone cheated. At first she came to the conclusion that students cheat because they are...
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...12 December 2012 Steroids are the death of sports Steroids are the worst thing when it comes to competition because during this can cause a serious problem as far as your health goes and your reputation if caught. (ballislife.com). In these cases thing always change because athletes do this in every sport then when caught never know what to say or how to apologize for their actions. Sports should be something that is fun and not something were you cheating your competition by medicine instead of hard work in the gym. In sports when athletes go down the wrong route there careers are affected when caught and sometimes universities are punished for their actions if the university knew about the drugs all along. Drugs in sports are nothing to play with. Your family and fans will be hurt by your decision if you were a really big Icon. You can’t do the crime and be afraid of the consequences (Barry Bonds). (www.espn go.com) in competition if you have to cheat to when then who is the real winner? The truth will come out eventually and your pride will be hurt more than ever because your caught red handed and the local and if good enough nationwide news will make an example out of you. If a professional athlete you will be stripped of championship rings and more because In the league eyes they weren’t earned, they were cheated (www.sportsfax.com). All sports have there best players and people that have did wrong things just because at the end of the day were all human. Its when you’re...
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...To answer this question, one must first define “cheating” outside of a dictionary. At the core, to “cheat” is to obtain an advantage that you wouldn’t normally have. The method by which the advantage is gained doesn’t matter as much as the reason for the advantage. Digging a little deeper, a person or team may encounter a situation that they are unable to overcome with their current skillset, or that the time constraints do not allow them to resolve. In these cases, they may turn to outside assistance to achieve the objective. Is that wrong? It may or may not be, depending on the specific situation. Case-in-point: a student must complete a trigonometry exam in order to graduate. While the student received high marks in every other class, and has managed to complete the trigonometry homework without extra assistance, they struggle with the time constraints of tests and exams. Given no time constraint, they have always been able to complete the work. To help with this, they jot down notes from every section of the course material in a single sheet and bring it with them to the exam. In most cases this would be considered “cheating”, because the student is using something that they were not provided at the time of the exam, even though the notes do not specifically reference the exam materials. The rise of technology has further clouded the barrier between “cheating” and preparedness. In a computer-based classroom, there are monitoring tools that allow the educators...
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...Cheating. It’s a word that can trigger reactions of an unlimited variety. A roll of the eyes, a shake of the head, or a hand raised in class are all common. Less forgiving, are the reactions of professional sporting associations, olympic committees, or even the Federal Government. Fines, suspensions, and even banishment from ones chosen craft are becoming more and more common. Students plagiarize, songwriters steal copyrighted work, and politicians all over the world are rigging elections. But why cheat? Is cheating ever justified? I personally believe that cheating is never justified, because at the end of the day the biggest victim of cheating is the cheater himself. The conscience is a very powerful thing. Even if the cheater is never caught, he will still live the rest of his life knowing he has been anything but genuine to those around him. For the purpose of this essay I will focus on cheating in professional sports, as these incidents tend to be the most well known and widely reported. There’s a saying in sports, “if you’re not cheating, you’re not trying.” We’ve all heard the stories - performance enhancing drugs, point shaving, deflated footballs, the pumping-in of additional crowd noise - all have become commonplace in the world of professional sports. But what is the incentive to cheat in sports? Winning, of course. Winning brings fans through the door. Winning puts money in the owner’s pockets, which in turn puts money in the athlete’s pockets. Sure, the records...
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...Is cheating wrong, that is a question I ask myself every day. Many people ask this same question. Some people think this question is too easy to answer. This question has many views. I think this is a great question to ask. I think cheating is wrong because not only are rules being broken but the only person you are cheating is yourself. The best thing to do is do the work put the effort and hard work in and not cheat. The reason you only cheat yourself is because you are the only one that doesn’t know the answer and other people do. This works for sports and school. This works for sports because if for example you use performance enhancing drugs not only are you cheating yourself but rules will be broken and consequences will be taken for this. Also you ruin your credibility as a person, and you could be known as a cheater for this. This could lead to not playing for the team or suspensions and fines. Also punishment can be brought upon you for cheating from the organization that you are playing the sport for. This works for all types of school work. Let’s say that you cheat on all of your homework assignments and get a hundred on all of them. After all the homework has been completed you have a test on what the homework was on. On the day you receive your test you earn a failing grade. This failing grade was earned because you cheated on all the homework assessments and you did not know what the homework was about. So if you cheat you are only cheating yourself. ...
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...& Islamic Values in Business Section (53) Course number (0302350) Assignment 1 Written by Araam Jamal U00035221 To Dr. Alaa-Aldin Abdul Rahim A. Al Athmay For this assignment, you will carefully read the story below that summarizes the incident, behaviors associated with cheating using technology, and how you can relate this story to your own situation. You should incorporate answers to the following questions into your assignment, as they are related to issues of integrity, ethics, professionalism, and personal reflection: - Why do students cheat? What can be done to address cheating in schools? - What lessons have you learned from the case? Has learning about this case inspired you to make changes in your own life? - How do you relate this behavior to ethics from the Islamic perspective? Assignment Requirements: Length: Minimum 750 words (Approximately 2.5 typed pages, 12 pt font, 1.5-spaced) Style: This paper should be written in an academic style. The tone of your work should be thoughtful and respectful. Be sure to edit your work for grammatical and spelling errors. Papers must be submitted to the instructor by 11:59 pm on the stated due date. Reading Case: Cheating and Technology Cheating in the classroom has been happening since the first schoolhouse was built; however, it has more than doubled in the last decade due to the emergence of new technologies that give students high tech alternatives to looking at their classmate's paper. "A 2002 survey by the Josephson...
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...Tangled Web #2: Were the punishments for James Gansman, Donna Murdoch, and Gerald Brodsky fair? This is an opinion question in which everyone has their own judgment on. I personally think that the punishments for James Gansman and Gerald Brodsky were somewhat fair because they both did something wrong. The sentence for Gansman should have been harsher because he was really the one who gave out the information. Gansman was being really unfaithful to Ernst and Young by giving out private information. He had agreed that he wouldn't leak anything when he first joined the company. His sentence was not very big, but the fact that he was not allowed working for Ernst and Young anymore seemed very fair and a good punishment for him. I am sure that in the future if he tries to find another job it would be difficult for him. On the other hand, Donna should have gotten a sentence too because she shared the information to Gerald. She also was breaking the law. If she got a sentence, it definitely should have been harsher than Gansman's. Murdoch being freed is somewhat ridiculous. #3: Is Ashley Madison based on an ethical business model? In my opinion Ashley Madison is somewhat based on an ethical business model. They have turned the business into something that is in the limit of the law. It also replicates rules like any other business. Though, since it is a dating site it is also not totally on the business side. In my opinion it is kind of half and half. On one side...
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...Academic dishonestly in online courses With the prevalence of online classes in today’s academic climate, I believe cheating occurs more frequently when students are enrolled for online classes. Because students have access to books, internet, and other sources of information in their own homes, many times students will take online exams with the aid of such resources. Also because there is not an easy way to monitor the actions of students during an online exam, there is more opportunity for students to cheat. Coming from a four year institution where many students opt to take online classes instead of regular lecture classes, I have seen students become very resourceful in the ways they go about cheating. For example, I have seen students copy the online homework and exam questions and forward them to friends in order to have another, maybe more knowledgeable, person give them the answers. Another example of cheating would be that some students copy the online questions, complete the answers correctly, and sell them to other students so that those students will also have the correct answers. Lastly, I have seen groups of students taking an online class, meet together and complete an exam together, helping each other figure out the correct answers to the questions. In order to become more effective in preventing cheating in the realm of online classes, I believe that some limitations should be put on these students. If the school were to implement a...
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...Available Utilizing a Culture of Trust to Promote Academic Integrity Who is the author or authors? By: Staats, Sara; Hupp, Julie M.; Hagley, Anna M. Journal of Psychology. Jul2008, Vol. 142 Issue 4, p357-372. 16p. 2 Charts, 5 Graphs. Robyn Hulsart Victoria McCarthy When was the article published? Final version accepted September 4, 2007 By: Hulsart, Robyn; McCarthy, Victoria. Journal of Continuing Higher Education. May-Jul2011, Vol. 59 Issue 2, p92-96. 5p. DOI: 10.1080/07377363.2011.568827. Was the article peer reviewed? Yes Yes Outline three major points the author made in the article. Honesty and Heroes: A Positive Psychology 1. The study in both experiment 1 and 2 that Academic Heroes were less likely to report cheating in themselves or others. Where as nonacademic heroes ( people more inclined to cheat ) were found to report a higher percentage of others or themselves. 2. The authors argue that students who are in the minority by not engaging in academic dishonesty show considerable character and are examples of everyday heroes. 3. Although the majority of college students report that they have cheated (S. F. Davis et al., 1992; Rennie & Rudland, 2003), not all students cheat. Lack of academic misconduct, though rare,...
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...Cheating on exams in online courses Proctored exams are necessary in order to maintain the credibility and integrity of currently offered online degree programs. There has been much written on the subject of cheating by students on the college level and studies conducted to support the conclusions. With the advent of the internet and the recent trend of colleges pressured to offer totally online degree programs the opportunity to cheat has expanded with the same exponent. “Academic integrity has been a perennial issue in higher education. Undoubtedly, the advent of the Internet and advances in user-friendly technological devices have spurred both concern on the part of faculty and research interest in the academic community regarding inappropriate and unethical behavior on the part of students. 73.6% of students in the sample held the perception that it is easier to cheat in an online versus traditional course.” (King, Guyette and Piotrowski 2009) Internet based classes are experiencing a growth surge. With the recent employment crisis, and the increased weight on academic achievement, more adults are now able to enroll in online classes, and still maintain full time jobs and meet the demands of busy families. In a study conducted by Oskar Harmon and James Lambrinos they used a “model that predicts exam scores from independent variables of student characteristics. In one course, the final exam was proctored, and in the other course, the final exam was not proctored...
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...dignity.. College faculty along with teachers should have a system in place to deal with students who are cheating. The punishment should be failing the student in that course, and hopefully in a result it will discourage them from cheating because they are there to learn, and not to became scam artists also disciplining the cheater will provide an example to others. Students cheat for many different reasons. Many cheat because they rather go and hang out with their friends instead of studying. Some student feel the need to cheat because they missed too many days of school, and there are some that do not understand the material, so they cheat to get a passing grade. How can they be dealt with,or what should be the consequences for their actions. The way young minds processes things should be taken in to consideration for example lets take a young boy who stole a chocolate bar from the corner store,and the store clerk catches him. Hopefully the clerk feels sympathy for him in some strange way and instead of calling the police he'll call the boys mother. Now that boy will get in to so much trouble at home from his mother as well as from his father that he will never steal again. Same principal is used here, when the student gets caught cheating, he/she will automatically be failed in the course.That sort of a threat followed by action should discourage anyone from cheating. This sort of action will promote integrity which mostly everyone are thought form young....
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