L.4 Identify plagiarism
A meme is any "concept or idea that spreads virally from one person to another via the internet" (Biel).
No, It is not plagiarized.
According to Anton, the future has always mattered more to Californians than the past. To a Californian, the past only matters insofar as it offers a future reward.
No, It is not plagiarized.
According to Brooke, "between 1841 and 1866 about 350,000 people used what had become the most famous wagon route across America," leaving ruts in the terrain that are still visible today.
No, It is not plagiarized.
According to Coughlin and Yoquinto, if our highways consisted mostly of self-driving cars, a person riding in one could complete a commute from Bennington, Vermont, to Manhattan, New York, in just an hour and a half.
No, It is not plagiarized.
According to Filipovic, in Louisiana, women make only "66 cents to a man's dollar"; meanwhile, "African-American women make just 49 cents to a white man's dollar."
No, It is not plagiarized.
According to Hirsch's definition, the verse novel differs from the long poem in the way that it borrows certain patterns of language and stylistic elements commonly found in novels.
No, It is not plagiarized.
According to Seabrook, "not a single one of the major agricultural crops grown in this country" actually originated here.
No, It is not plagiarized.
According to Wisniewski, "our universe has likely never grown as quickly as it did" during the cosmic inflation that occurred roughly fourteen billion years ago.
No, It is not plagiarized.
According to one theory, "climate upheavals that transformed dense forest into open savannah" played a major role in ancient humans' development of technology for hunting grass-eating animals (Callaway).
No, It is not plagiarized.
An anthropologist visiting the Biami people in Papua New Guinea found them to be unfamiliar with mirrors and noted that they found their own reflections frightening (Castro).
No, It is not plagiarized.
Astronauts who experience the so-called overview effect will potentially rethink their relationship with planet Earth and view life on Earth from a different perspective after the experience (Beaver).
No, It is not plagiarized.
Divers in Seattle took an octopus census recently and reported that in Puget Sound there were forty-one giant Pacific octopuses, five fewer than they'd counted in the previous year (Doughton).
No, It is not plagiarized.
During the month of August, male salamanders engage in a fierce—and sometimes fatal—battle to fertilize female salamanders' eggs (Purvis).
No, It is not plagiarized.
Expressionism as an artistic movement reached its height between 1905 and 1920. The works it produced are generally characterized by bold or even brazen colors, sharp angles, and flat shapes (MOMA).
No, It is not plagiarized.
Hummingbirds metabolize their food extremely quickly. If humans had a similar metabolism, they would need to ingest about 155,000 calories a day (San Diego Zoo).
No, It is not plagiarized.
In 1927, Washington state created a monopoly by granting just one company the right to run a ferry boat service in Lake Chelan (Will).
No, It is not plagiarized.
In their inability to move against the current, plankton differ from other sea creatures. Instead of swimming, they merely float or drift (Twilley).
No, It is not plagiarized.
Jimi Hendrix, like so many African-American blues musicians before him, signed away a huge chunk of his music royalties to his manager (Kaadzi).
No, It is not plagiarized.
Making hats was once a dangerous enterprise because mercury, a poisonous substance, was used to make felt, so hatters breathed mercury fumes while they worked (Wilkes).
No, It is not plagiarized.
Much like chimpanzees, aquatic mammals, and four-year-old children, African grey parrots have a rudimentary understanding of numbers (Millburn).
No, It is not plagiarized.
Our brain, according to Conley, has two separate "circuits": one that is used for deliberate focus and one that attends to new information without our deliberate intent.
No, It is not plagiarized.
Punch cards caught on in computing thanks largely to Herman Hollerith, who developed a system using Jacquard's punched cards to help compute data for the 1890 census (Kopplin).
No, It is not plagiarized.
Rembrandt was a master of painting light and shade; nevertheless, not everyone admired his style. In fact, his emphasis on realism led "some critics to claim that he preferred ugliness to beauty" (Wetering).
No, It is not plagiarized.
Stories of UFO sightings may be most common in Illinois, which is a "hotbed of extra-terrestrial speculation, with six of the 10 most widely-spotted UFO events" (Cromidas).
No, It is not plagiarized.
The advent of cassette tapes encouraged more experimentation and creativity by making it possible for virtually anyone to record and distribute music (Hix).
No, It is not plagiarized.
The effects of El Niño in Peru, Chile, and Ecuador are dramatic: in addition to record rainfall, El Niño brings warmer water that sends marine life north and south in search of colder waters (Live Science).
No, It is not plagiarized.
The single-celled organisms known as Archaea, which today "live in hot springs, deep-sea vents, saline water, and other harsh environments," have many features in common with the first organisms that lived on Earth (Smithsonian Institution).
No, It is not plagiarized.
Though it spent billions of dollars, the WPA (Works Progress Administration) boosted the American economy by providing "relief for an estimated 30 million people, roughly one-fourth of the nation" (Ladenburg).
No, It is not plagiarized.
Up to eighty-eight percent of the surface of all five oceans is covered by plastic debris, the majority of which is in the form of microplastics (Lewis).
No, It is not plagiarized.
Whereas many musical instruments have been around for hundreds of years or longer, the synthesizer is a recent invention that opened the door to many new musical possibilities (Holmes).
No, It is not plagiarized.
Whereas the federal government tracks the number of homicides that take place in the U.S., "no official, reliable tabulation of civilian deaths by law enforcement exists" (Ford).
No, It is not plagiarized.
Wind power, which helps reduce carbon emissions, "accounts for less than five percent of the total electricity generated in the U.S." (Timmer).
No, It is not plagiarized.
The bilingual brain, "thanks to its developed ability to inhibit one language while using another," is more adept at multi-tasking (Marian and Shook).
No, it is not plagiarized.
The two-million-year-old remains of Homo habilis, "a meat-eating creature with a larger brain who used crude stone tools," were discovered around Olduvai Gorge (Lonely Planet).
No, it is not plagiarized.
Free jazz presents a challenge to traditional jazz that some audiences may find pretentious or obtuse because it tends to be avant-garde and formless, eschewing structure in favor of experimentation.
Yes, because it fails to cite the source.
Given that Buddy Holly played rock and roll for such a short time, the extent of the influence his work has had on popular music is incredible.
Yes, because it fails to cite the source.
Over the course of his long life, Chief Spokane Garry endured the comings and goings of fur traders, missionaries, and others who meant to settle permanently in the region occupied by his Spokane Tribe.
Yes, because it fails to cite the source.
Proton therapy may offer the safest way to remove a tumor, "especially where there's an urgent need to spare healthy tissue" located near the tumor.
Yes, because it fails to cite the source.
Some ancient peoples believed that our dreams forecast our futures and connected us with gods.
Yes, because it fails to cite the source.
The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine, a document from 100 BCE, may have been the first to discuss the medical practice of acupuncture.
Yes, because it fails to cite the source.
W.E.B. Du Bois's phrase "beyond the veil" refers to the world of opportunities enjoyed by white Americans, who never experience the limited set of opportunities with which black Americans contend.
Yes, because it fails to cite the source.
Zebras, which "have evolved superb early-warning mechanisms, such as peripheral vision far superior to other horses'," are adept at evading predators.
Yes, because it fails to cite the source.
It has been said that the new technologies of the digital era have yielded great headlines, but modest economic results.
Yes, because it fails to use quotation marks and fails to cite the source.
More than 160,000 convicts were transported to Australia between 1788, when New South Wales was founded as a penal colony, and 1868.
Yes, because it fails to use quotation marks and to cite the source.
Not only is light rail comparatively affordable to build, but when extensively used, it saves energy compared to cars.
Yes, because it fails to use quotation marks and to cite the source.
According to Pritchett, composer John Cage thought of percussion as a way to introduce sounds that more accurately reflected the nature of the industrial culture he witnessed around him.
Yes, because it fails to use quotation marks.
Natural nanomaterials are those that occur naturally in the world, such as volcanic ash, smoke, and the hemoglobin in our blood (National Geographic Society).
Yes, because it fails to use quotation marks.
Pacific Chorus Frog tadpoles have developed an interesting defense against predators such as the predaceous diving beetle: their tails become enlarged to distract strikes from the body of the tadpole toward the tail, which is less vulnerable (Benard).
Yes, because it fails to use quotation marks.
The henro route on Shikoku, a Japanese island, attracts traditional pilgrims as well as young Japanese interested in boosting their fitness or their spiritual energy by visiting (Nippon).
Yes, because it fails to use quotation marks.
Those who are on the border between youth and adulthood are most likely to provide fresh points of view. Members of older generations, by contrast, usually stay loyal to the perspectives that they grew up with.
Yes, because it is an insufficient paraphrase and to cite the source
Napoleon's 1812 invasion of Russia ended in a disastrous retreat. It was then that the tide started to turn.
Yes, because it is an insufficient paraphrase and to cite the source.
The French Quarter was founded by Jean Baptiste Bienville, a French Canadian naval officer. What began as a military-style grid in 1718 has since charted a course of dynamic urbanism for parts of four hundred years.
Yes, because it is an insufficient paraphrase and to cite the source.
Today, the chance that a tornado will be identified by forecasters and accompanied by a warning is about seventy percent, whereas it was only thirty percent in the 1980s.
Yes, because it is an insufficient paraphrase and to cite the source.
According to Cornish, Britain had a policy of maintaining a balance of power throughout Europe. It aligned with its traditional rivals, France and Russia, because Germany's manifest pursuit of global power status was seen as a threat.
Yes, because it is an insufficient paraphrase.
