In-Class #14

Partents helg their son make up with his girlfriend.

One day the parents heard yelling and screaming coming from outside of their front door, which sounded like their son and his girlfriend. All the parents could hear was their son saying I am sorry please do not be mad it just has to be this way, then he walked in the front door. The parents had their son sit down on the couch to take a breather from what had just happened, then they tried to have him explain what happened to him and his girlfriend and why did they break up. The son just sat there in silence not wanting to speak a word of what had happened to him. Finally, after a couple minutes went by, he started explaining why they break up and it was because he needed to think about what he was going to do with school and what he is going to do in his future. The parents tried to convince their son to go tell her why he needed to think and to let her know how he really feels about her and everything in his life. He took their advice to talk to his current ex-girlfriend; they were outside for what seemed like eternity but was only two hours. After their “talk”, he came in holding her hand with a big smile on his face for being about to tell her what he feels and that they can still be together thanks to his parents caring so much about him and his relationship with his girlfriend.

In-CLass #12

My reflection in the film was that I never realized how easily you can copy someone else’s work and not even know it. It makes me think that if an invention can be copied that easy when someone writes a story or says something, could that be considering coping? What draws the line between coping and your own work and how does anyone know if it is coping when someone thinks of it themselves. There are so many questions that come to my head when I watched these films on coping and your own thoughts and /or inventions. I know when I think of some I get an idea from another thing that helps me writing my paper or start brainstorming but I never thought that would be considered coping. I also never thought that if you get your idea from something or someone the making or the person that thought of that specific thing could possible sue you, which just boggles my mind. That makes me think maybe that is someone’s job, suing people for coping or taking ideas from other people. Can I get in trouble for talking about the clips in this blog without their consent? Where is the line drawn either in coping or plagiarism in the United States today? It is just crazy what people would do with things they thought of, would I go as far as suing someone for using my idea or would I think, “hmm maybe my idea will making something better, and I might get money for helping production that specific thing. There are so many different question with many different answers!