ch. 8 ownership ap language veronica cruz, vianna olson, alyssa perez
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CH. 8 OWNERSHIPAP Language
Veronica Cruz, Vianna Olson, Alyssa Perez
WHO OWNS WORDS AND IDEAS?
Is it cheating if a student learns by working together with a classmate?
Do students always learn by themselves?
If a student learns by getting help from someone else, does that mean that the work that student submits to a teacher does not belong to that student?
COLLABORATIVE LEARNING
Students have a higher academic achievement when students work together
According to researchers Roger T. Johnson and David Johnson, “The fact that working together to achieve a common goal produces higher achievement and greater productivity than does working alone is so well confirmed by so much research that it stands as one of the strongest principles of social and organizational psychology” (“Cooperative Learning: An Overview”)
Do you feel that you learn more in groups or as individuals?
PLAGIARISM
Plagiarism rests on the idea of originality; stealing someone else’s words or ideas
Originality is not much valued in consumer culture; social trends reflect the impulse to look, act, or think alike
Your status, or fame, reflects your success in acquiring what everyone else wants to acquire or wants to be
However, creativity can prosper thanks to copyright laws that protect the most blatant acts of plagerism
WHAT’S YOURS? (OWNERSHIP OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY)
The protection and identification of what’s yours has been vastly complicated by technology, as media distributes ideas and makes intellectual property ambiguous
Designers know the danger of letting work go unprotected – theft by competitors or negligence of managers
Intellectual property is a work or invention that is the result of creativity to which one has rights and can apply a patent, copyright, trademark, etc.
“What’s mine is yours” is the posture of a saint; “What’s yours is mine” is the ideology of a mugger
TRADEMARKING WORDS
Any business, organization, or private citizen can acquire a trademark for a slogan or symbol to protect the possibility that someone else will use it without permission
The saying “Let’s Roll” by 9/11 victim Todd Beamer was trademarked by the Todd M. Beamer Foundation to control its uses and raise money for programs
WHO OWNS YOUR BODY?
When prenatal testing is done, who has the right to the results of these tests?
Who determines the social location of care?
Is it moral for someone to conceive a
child to be a donor to their ill child?
Should women have access to
contraceptives?
Consider the one-child policy in China
PRENATAL DIAGNOSTIC TESTING
Parents are able to discover whether or not their child will be born with a disability while the child is still in the womb
With “soft eugenics” parents and scientists hope to create the perfect child
Disability Rights Activists raise the issue that the prenatal screening is being used to prevent the birth of disabled children
Some families use the prenatal testing to determine
if the child they have next will take on the same
condition as the one they already had
DESIGNER BABIES
Many fears derive as a result of soft eugenics, some of these being: The religious fear of hubris “Playing God” Damnation, sacrilege The fear that doctors will use the opportunity to take control of our bodies and form some sort of master race
Parents buying into the fantasy of perfection and being disappointed with anything less
Creating a monster instead of an ideal specimen
BODY OWNERSHIP RIGHTS
In order to be in full control of one’s body:
One must have contraceptives available to them
Right to complain if medical care is poor (as in the
doctors and staff)
Ability to campaign for changes in legislation when
necessary
Consider for the Frankenbaby issue, the Aryan
master race the Nazi party attempted to create