I found the laugh tracks article interesting and I seemed to find it very true. When watching those sitcoms you do hear the background laughing, which then tends to make us laugh. I can also say I have been watching t.v. where someone I watching it with laughed, I however may have not found it too funny, but found myself laughing as well. Also when you hear a background audience laughing, it makes the real audience laugh. I like how he gave the Friends example, and then later said that it is similar to the human you would find while filling out a mad lib. It is like it made completely no sense, but the actors are laughing along with the laugh tracks, which then lead us to laughing.
While reading the plagiarism article I can agree how it is so much more common these days because of our technology. While sitting at the computer it is so easy to just copy and paste from the internet onto our very own document and it takes nothing but seconds. Back in the day they would sit in libraries with a book or journal or some type of article that you could not do that with. I feel as though many of us do that without even acknowledging we are. It also said how many of us were not really taught the correct way to write and/or site your findings. I can say when I was in middle school and high school, I was taught it once and when I got to college I had to learn it all over again. I like how Ms. Wilensky said, "It's kind of an insult that that ideal is gone, and now we're left only to make collages of the work of previous generations." I likes that because I find it very true, i'm sure many people just take ideas from many others and put it into their own paper that then, make it a collage if this is also being done by authors and scholars.
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