"Something Borrowed"

                     After reading the article the first thing that came to my mind was wow, so glad that wasn’t me. Haha. I think it is wrong for Byrony Lavery to use someone’s life and make it into a play without that person’s permission. What is the difference between stealing someone’s identity? To me, it seems like the same thing. Though, Lavery did use it to create something new, fresh, and interesting for people to see but still it was wrong of her to just copy without Dorothy Lewis’s permission. If I was Lewis and my life has been copied and used as a play and heard about the play from a third party since I didn’t know about it, I would be really mad and upset. I think most people would be. Knowing that my life is being shown to many people and yet I know nothing about it. Plagiarism can ruin someone’s life, though it didn’t really ruin Lewis’s life but it still have an effect on her. Like in the article it did say that Lewis is scared that people may think some part of the play is what she really do in real life, the play can ruin her reputation. Then again, Lavery was creating something new, she twist some parts of Lewis’s life to make it more interesting and more exciting which she just borrowed or got her inspiration from Lewis’s life. Though, there are many parts in the play that was similar to what Lewis did in real life and her study but most of them were opposite of what happen in real life or Lavery twist it. Yes, she did borrow Lewis’s life without her permission but she did create something new and it wasn’t a boring play. It was a play that everyone actually loved. So in a way I believe that Lavery somewhat did Lewis wrong but Lewis can’t be truly mad at Lavery.

Another part I think Lavery did wrong is that she credit the victim, that Lewis used as her study and was talked about in her books, yet Lewis’s name was not mention. We talked about this in class, I feel bad for Lewis, she put so much effort into interviewing and studying these victims, and out of nowhere came this play and those victims are credit and yet she wasn’t. Though, she interview them for her study since Lavery already credit the victims might as well credit the person who interview them.There are so many types of plagiarism, no wonder it is so complicated to keep track about it.

I thought the part about how artist or musicians plagiarism too because of parts of the song sound the same. There are many songs that have similar parts and sound alike that doesn’t mean they purposely copied another’s person’s music. Since I am really into Korean music and there are so much rumors of so and so copy this so and so, so that person is going to be sue. The article had me thinking that it is not necessary to actually go to court and waste people’s time and money because a couple of keys are alike. I just think it is really stupid to sue someone because of couple notes are alike. They can find other ways of resolving it.

ESSAY???

What is an essay? hm... what is an essay? seriously what is it? before I might answer it as a 5 paragraph paper that is assign by a teacher to see what we think of a book or article. hm... maybe half of that is true. Essay is never something I really want to do, unless the topic is something i am interested on. Just like in my senior year for high school in my ap english class, my teacher assign many books for us to read. I remember there is this one thick book that everyone hated because the words were small and the chapters were long. I thought i was going to be like everyone else who hated the book instead i like the book so much that i read ahead many times. The book is call "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens. I forgot what was the prompt for that essay that we have to write about. But that was one of the essay that i have so much ideas for. I was really into the book, so when it came to the essay, it was fun. I had a good grade on that essay but i struggle a lot just to gather all my ideas together.I also know why i hate essay because i always get stuck on some part and don't know how to transition it. I remember back in my english class again, there was this one time where my english teacher was sick so she couldn't make it to class. She left the substitute teacher an in class essay for us to write. Before the substitute came in, one of my classmate took all the paper that was related to the in class essay and hide it. So during that class we didn't write an essay yet we just sat around and talked. When  my teacher came back she was mad that we didn't write the essay and blame the substitute for not giving it to us. That was a funny day. But yea here is what essay means:

So on Wikipedia it says that an essay is "....usually a short piece of writing which is quite often written from an author's personal point of view. Essays can consist of a number of elements, including: literary criticism, political manifestos, learned arguments, observations of daily life, recollections, and reflections of the author. The definition of an essay is vague, overlapping with those of an article and a short story."
There are many different forms and different meanings for an essay, it can be short and it can be long. But i realize that when I first knew about "essay" it was just a 5 paragraph essay, however, as we grew up it seem to add more meaning into the form of "essay."

The verb definition of essay is "an attempt and to try," from dictionary.com. When I read the definition of essay the verb one, I was surprise! I never or even thought about the verb meaning of essay. It goes right along with the noun meaning of essay though. No wonder teachers been telling us to at least just try to do your essay or do our best. Just trying our best is writing an essay already. haha.

HOLLYWOOD BOWL 2010

OMG!!!!! the tickets!!! This years the tickets went by with an blink of an eye. I couldn't get them but was suppose to, luckily Jenny got the GB tickets. The site crash right when it was time the tickets went on sale. I was on the site was about to refresh it when it was 9:59 but stupid me click the wrong button and went some where else going back to the KMF page it crash! It sucked so much n ppl on soompi was complaining like crazy. But anyways im excited its that time of year again!!!!! So Jenny and I are planning to leave on April 29th at 2:35 in the afternoon and coming back on May 2nd~ i can't wait to go to Korea Town to do some shopping!!! i am sooo curious to know whose coming this year. Last year the theme was Above and Beyond~ this year is "The Year of the Idols" there are many rumors saying that Big Bang and 2pm are coming. Which made people even more crazy, if big bang really goes.... i think i will be too happy to sleep! lol

Any who, after half a day with thee boyfriend went home and did some hw and kinda got bored since it wasn't time to go to work yet. I was being dorky to tally what was people's choice of whose coming to HB. Here is the list in order:
1. 2pm
2. Big Bang
3. Shinee
4. Super Junior
5. 2NE1
6. SNSD
7. Beast
8. MBLAQ
9. SS501 & FT Island
10.F(x)
So that is the top 10 that people picked to come. Everyone on that list i have at least one song from them or the whole album. Well of course Big Bang and Super Junior i have their concert! lol I just can't wait til i go to LA again since this year we going their earlier to rome around LA and do some shopping. Oh yea Olivia will be going too. Hopefully she doesn't embarrass us. well thats it for now. Gotta talk to thee boyfriend and sleep.

Goodnight San Francisco! =]

~Sherry

Plagiarism

Plagiarism is a word that I have heard of ever since I was young but never really knew the exact meaning until later when I got into high school when I sort of understand what it meant. Through the book "My Word," Susan Blum gave out a lot of samples of how people portray the word plagiarism. I thought it was interesting and how some people like Martin Luther King Jr. plagiarized too. So I really want to know what the line is or boundaries for plagiarism are.

In the introduction of the book, I like how Blum describes teenagers as being the wordiest generation ever. "They email, blog, and text message day and night. In some ways this is the wordiest and most writerly generation on a long while." when I was reading this part, I thought it was pretty funny, interesting, and yet true at the same time. It is funny because it is true how we text an email and Twitter a lot, but I never expected us teens today to write more than those of the other generation. Blum also mention how there is so much going in a teen's life that it is hard for us to actually sit down and think about each word we type and say is plagiarizing at all.

It is true that taking other people's work and taking the credit for yourself is wrong.  But citing normally people don't learn it until maybe they hit college. Just like me I didn't know the proper way of citing until I was a freshman in college. Yet I still don't know the "right" way of citing sources. Hopefully the book gives me some idea of citing the right way. It is interesting how Blum did her research, also knowing the fact that many intelligent people have also plagiarize on some way. Chapter 1 gave me a bit more understanding of what plagiarism is and yet in a way confuses me at the same time. Going back to my previous paragraph, I still don't know what is the boundary or line for plagiarism, which part is in the grey area and which part is not. 


Sherry

SPRING SEMESTER

how i love to be back in school NOT! though, winter break was kinda long in a way that i did wish to go back to school to see all my friends but then again i wished i had more time to do my own thing. the whole winter break i literally just worked. everyone who came back wanted to hang out but i was too busy with work. by the time they start school again i had time to hang out and everyone was back to school already... how sucky is that. but at least i get to see vivian before she went back to santa barbara. had a really fun time with her just like old days.
Vivian and me best friend since thee 8th grade. tho both of us kinda went different ways and lost touch couple of times but we still manage to have a good relationship with each other. n Vivian i will definitely go to Santa Barbara to party with u lol 

it was my grandma's birthday last Sunday. its been a while since us cousins got together. but still missing ben. hopefully one year we will definitely get a pic of all the us. difference between the last cousin pic was that ben was in it n shirley wasn't instead, auntie Cindy was in it to replace Shirley. Also, Justin is in this one. the newest family member we have. n also watching Kaylee grow in each picture.

time to sleep
gnite

So its been a while now since i last blog... its 2010 now and hopefully i have a new beginning. like everyone said 2009 isn't all that great. no excitement at all. 2009 is sooo last year lol. So for the past... 7 months i have been working at moonstar... in the beginning no one really talked to me or ask me to go anywhere. mayb i was embarrassing... iono. but these couple of weeks or maybe a month or so i've been getting closer to them people. everyone is really nice and friendly.. n guys... its the typical me saying if a guy talk to me they like me. I don't even understand why my brain functions that way. maybe because i never had someone who like me for me n not fell in love with thee o so sweet personality. lloyd doesn't count im actually trying to look for someone my parents would actually approve of. since i know for sure lloyd isn't someone they will approve. plus i know for a fact that lloyd n i isn't going to last with our schedule soooo packed...

long time

so its been a while... everything has calm down and it became the best part of my life. we got back together and i can't be anymore happier. knowing the fact that i have my best friend and my boyfriend with me and supporting me all the way. taeyang is gonna have his solo soon!!!! can't wait. Jaebeom is gone from 2pm... which made me no longer loving them like i use to. Now i am somewhat into beast... b2st same shit. there songs are pretty nice. wanting 2pm to be at hollywood bowl but now.... if b2st was there i wouldn't mind. i would love to meet AJ and that other too. Im acddicted to oasis and bad girl. lol somehow those two songs are really appealing to me. i had a wonderful night with thee boyfriend. although it was just 2 3 hours but i still had fun. i love how we make fun of each other and talk about random stuff. that is the life i want to have... thats it for tonight... gnite all