plagiarism

Here are the guidelines for the Plagiarism Assignment:

 

Go through your assignment and color-code the plagiarism. Highlight (using a readable color) the portion of the text (words, phrases, or sentences) that you copied and match each to the source from where it came.

 

Then, write an essay on the topic of plagiarism. Your essay must

 

1.    
Have a clear introduction, thesis statement, supporting paragraphs, and concluding paragraph.

2.    
Thoroughly define plagiarism.

3.    
Give examples of the consequences of plagiarism from various professional genres (i.e. higher level institutions, newspaper/magazine journalists, business world); in other words, what are their consequences for plagiarism?

4.    
Give examples of professionals who have plagiarized along with the consequences; answer who, where, when, why he/she did it and what happened as a result.

5.    
Cite sources in MLA format when and where needed.

6.    
Be double spaced, use a standard font (Times New Roman 12 or Arial 12 point), and have 1” (one inch) margins on all sides.

7.    
Use effectively the conventions of written English (grammar).

8. Meet the minimum word count you were assigned.

 

9. Be submitted by the date assigned or this incident will be turned over to the Administration to process removal from the course with a failing grade.

 

Your color-coded paper and the essay you write must be uploaded as separate attachments.

 

NOTE: The zero given for this assignment will be
permanent, without the opportunity of resubmitting the lesson.

 

This assignment will continue on your record as your 1st Plagiarism Warning.

Satire and Society, Assignment 12

an ideal of womanhood-that women are self-sacrificing, pure, noble, and passive” Damrosch, Dettmar, and Wicke the editors of The Longman Anthology of British Literature argue that Shaw designates the excitement, vigor, and advancement behind women who have exploded out the confines of domestic duty and into the work force of Britain by sidelining them with the newest ideas’. However, Shaw is suppressing women; the main character in Pygmalion is Eliza Doolittle is a poor, young woman and Professor Higgins is influenced by a bet to turn into a fine young woman by teaching her to speak correctly. Although Higgins is giving her the chance to learn how to speak like a lady, it is not through grammar one moves through social classes but by connections and hard work to gain money. By giving Eliza the gift of grammar, Higgins says she could get a job in a flower shop and pursue her dreams from there. However, Higgins is forcing her to pretend to become a typical Victorian lady; one who courts and then marries a gentlemen like Freddy and stays at home conforming to the Victorian ideals of womanhood. 
Pygmalion introduces Eliza as a poor flower girl, hurrying for shelter against the rain. While under a music hall awning for shelter, she interacts with a number of people, including Professor Henry Higgins and Colonel Pickering. Higgins is able to pin point where every one under the awning was born by the dialect they speak in. He is appalled by the sound of Eliza’s speech and says, 
You see this creature with her kerbstone English: the English 
that will keep her in the gutter to the end of her days. Well, sir, 
in three months I could pass that girl off as a duchess at an 
ambassador’s garden party. I could even get her a place as 
lady’s maid of shop assistant, which requires better English. 
(2224) 
Shaw intends to bring Eliza up the social ladder and break the ideal Victorian woman by Higgins coaching her in speech and etiquette. Pronunciation is the object that will enforce admiration or cause disapproval; that will produce esteem or end friendship; that will lock the door or make them fly open. Eliza is transformed into a proper lady and accepted into high society because of her outward appearance and articulate speech not for who she really is on the inside, a poor flower girl. 
Appearance is just as important as speech to groom Eliza into a well brought up woman. Mrs. Pearce tells her, “Well, don’t you want to be clean and sweet and decent like a lady? You know you can’t be a nice girl inside if you’re a dirty slut outside. I want to change you from a frowzy slut to a clean respectable girl fit to sit with the gentlemen in the study”.Mrs. Pearce implies that appearances and first impressions are what high society is all about, if you do not have what it takes the first time around, you will never get a second chance to redeem yourself. Once Eliza is clean, she wants to take a taxi to show off in front of her street friends. But Higgins argues this saying, “Besides, you shouldn’t cut you old friend now that you have risen in the world. That’s what we call snobbery” (2242). Eliza has not risen in the world as Higgins said; she has only put on clean clothes and taken a bath. Also, Higgins is implying that Eliza may not be a lady for very long. Once she is presented at the garden party and passed off for a lady to outsiders, she is cast away and Higgins wants to think nothing of her. Bernard Shaw and his character Higgins know that Eliza can never truly be a lady; she is stuck in a limbo of social classes. Either Eliza gets a job in a flower shop speaking like a lady or she marries into high society with Freddy and conforms to the Victorian ideals of women. 
The true test of Eliza’s learning to behave and speak like a lady is at the Embassy in London. She is dressed “in opera cloak, evening dress, diamonds, fan, flower and all accessories” The Hostess of the party demands her linguist Nepommuck to find out who Eliza truly is. They come to the conclusion that she is Hungarian, not English because she speaks English too perfectly and only foreigners speak English well. They also come to the conclusion she is of royal Hungarian blood. Nepommuck asks how the Hostess is sure Eliza is of royal blood and the Hostess replies, “Instinct, maestro, instinct. Only the Magyar races can produce that air of the divine right those resolute eyes. She is a princess”.Higgins succeeds in passing Eliza off as royalty and wins the bet. Eliza is considered royalty by the true royalty in Pygmalion because of her outward appearance and presentation of herself. The Hostess and Nepommuck would be appalled to find that Eliza is truly a poor flower girl who learned how to speak and act properly all in order to gain a better job. 
The next day at Mrs. Higgins’ house, Eliza and Higgins quarrel when they are left alone. Higgins states he treats a flower girl like a duchess and a duchess like a flower girl. He continues, 
The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good 
manners of any other particular sort of manners, but having 
the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as 
if you were in Heaven, where there are no third-class 
carriages, and one soul is as good as another” 

Higgins claims that while he may treat her badly, he is at least fair in that he has never treated anyone else differently. Pickering on the other hand, always treated her like a duchess, even when she was a flower girl. Through his treatment he has taught her not phonetics and speech, but self-respect. 
The self-respect Eliza is talking about involves standing up to her bully, Higgins, while conforming to the ideals of a married woman with Freddy. Freddy has not done anything wrong to Eliza and is enamored with her. Eliza has never experienced anything like this and wants it to continue. Although she says the two of them will support themselves by taking Higgins’ phonetic methods to his chief rival “the hairy-faced Hungarian”); once Eliza becomes pregnant she has not choice but to conform to motherhood, child rearing, and housewife. 
Eliza seems to have stood up for herself against Higgins and support Shaw’s theory of Victorian women breaking the ideals of the housewife and child-rearer but once she is married to Freddy, or to anyone else, and starts a family she will have to go behind the scenes and keep the house and tend to her children. Pulling Eliza from the gutter and making her into a duchess revolves around a friendly bet between Higgins and Pickering. Eliza is passed off as a duchess but as the play draws to a close the bet is uncovered and Higgins and her squabble. The play ends ambiguously, we are told she is going to marry Freddy but their marriage is left up to the reader. However, it is with the understanding of Victorian ideals the reader can hypothesize what is going to happen once they are married; which is taking on the original roles of men and women in the Victorian era.