Penn State University Libraries - Plagiarism Quiz

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Adult criminals and youth involved in illegal activities have reported that guns are not difficult to obtain. Illegal or unregulated transactions are the primary sources of guns used in violent acts; stealing, borrowing from friends or acquaintances, and illegal purchasing of guns are the most common. Less than 1 in 5 guns used for illegal activities were purchased from licensed dealers.

Source: Page, Randy M. and Hammermeister, Jon. “Weapon Carrying and Youth Violence.” Adolescence 32.127 (1997): 505-513.

Paragraph from a student paper on gun control:

According to Page and Hammermeister, adults and youth involved in criminal activity have reported that guns are easy to obtain. Illegal transactions are the main source of guns used in violence. Stealing, borrowing from friends, and illegal purchasing are the most common. Less than 1 in 5 guns used for illegal activities were bought from licensed dealers

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It is not difficult to see tomorrow's sophisticated computers rapidly processing complex data from animals and transmitting it in a useful form to humans via an earpiece, handheld device, or spectacle-lens display. Similarly, computers are likely to be able to translate messages from humans into stimuli that suit the cognitive style of the intended animal recipient.

Source: Lloyd, Bruce and Susan Clayton. "Doctor Dolittle for Real? Raising Questions About Interspecies Communications." The Futurist March/April 2004: 40-43.

Paragraph from a student paper on inter-species communication:

In the future, will humans communicate with animals? Lloyd and Clayton theorize that the super computers of tomorrow will be able to transmit comprehensible information from animals to humans through small devices such as ear pieces. According to their theory, not only will animals talk to us, but we will talk back by using computers to translate our speech into "stimuli that suit the cognitive style of the intended animal recipient" (42).

Lloyd, Bruce and Susan Clayton. "Doctor Dolittle for Real? Raising Questions About Interspecies Communications."  The Futurist March/April 2004: 40-43. Print.

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The phenomenon of extremely violent video games is a dubious leap forward in the ability to mainline violence into the minds and lives of young people. Players of violent video games are not simply passive viewers of realistically depicted violence. They instead become the glorified, gun-in-hand, on-screen perpetrators of murder and other criminal acts.

Source: Worthy, Kym. "Why Violent Video Games May Be Worse Than Other Media Violence." Michigan Chronicle 5 Oct. 2005: A1.

Paragraph from a student paper onviolence in video games:

Worthy claims that players of violent video games are not simply passive viewers of realistically depicted violence. They instead become the glorified, gun-in-hand, on-screen perpetrators of murder and other criminal acts.

Worthy, Kym. "Why Violent Video Games May Be Worse Than Other Media Violence." Michigan Chronicle 5 Oct. 2005: A1. Print.

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