On The Beach

[LunarsRevenge]

Anyone read the book On The Beach? I need to know where to get a book report for it, can someone help me out?

[Sniklac16]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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"Stories just show the writers imagination but poetry is writing from the heart"

[ZutAlors!]

You need to know where to get a book report for it? Far be it from me to pass judgment on anothers motives, but can't you, you know, write one yourself? Or is the reading part too hard?

[mathgrant]

Here's a book report for you. Send it to your teacher, and you'll surely get an A.

On the Beach is a book about a beach. If you like beaches, then read this book!

[LunarsRevenge]

Thought this section had smart people in it that were professional about things?

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"Live By The Rules, Dont Fight By The Rules"
"Rules are made to be broken"

[Lilifreid]

Yes, there are smart people who are professional about things. I am a professional educator. Part of that is not aiding plagarism.

[Sniklac16]

Be careful Lunar or you'll get banned again.

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"Stories just show the writers imagination but poetry is writing from the heart"

[Quailman]

Originally posted by Antrax in the announcement for this forum:

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Also, to the younger GLers, a part of the idea behind creating this forum was a place where you can get help with your homework.

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So Lunar's just seeing if it works. Can;t say I blame him.

[ZutAlors!]

Heh. The operative word is "help", Quailman. I believe Antrax was assuming that younger GLers wouldn't be semantically challenged enough that they would think "help" meant "a link to a book report that I can print out, scrawl my name on the top of, and turn in sans attribution, thus saving me the effort of actually doing any work and saving my teacher the effort of actually grading it, as he or she will quickly determine that the complexity of the prose is far beyond anything I could produce."

[Antrax]

The idea is simple; anyone can ask for help with homework. However, much like Lilifreid said, I can't force anyone into giving someone help they think is unfair. Personally I'd rather everybody helped anyone who asked for help of any kind, and left the moral considerations to the people asking. Many people used my homework as their own last semester, and I had no problem with it -- it just meant they were less prepared for the test, which they had to take alone. And even if they cheat on the tests, they're going to know the material less well, so they'll impress future employers less, and again I benefit on the long run.
Antrax

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"Look, that's why there's rules, understand? So that you think before you break 'em" - Lu-Tze, Thief of Time

[LunarsRevenge]

Wow interesting discussion this turned into... and for those of you who didnt want me to get it... to late I already did...

[roley]

I'm not convinced that you get it, LunarsRevenge.

[LunarsRevenge]

Im not talking about the convo, Im talking about the free bookreport .

[Hitchhiker]

Antrax: you don't really want the GL to be known as a place where plagiarists can come and get their work handed to them without even the minimal effort of websearching for it, do you? It's an image thing.
Lunar: I hope your teacher finds the site you got the report from.

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Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll spend every weekend in a rowboat with a buddy and a case of beer.

[zeek]

I remember reading On the Beach back in high school. I rather liked it. And that's saying something since I was never a big book fan. I think it was the dark apocalypse theme that fascinated me.
I identified with the professor who fatalistically bought the sports car.

[LunarsRevenge]

The teacher isnt smart enough to locate the site besides its a student teacher anyways.

[Vegetable]

Lunar, it's not so much that we are not able to help you, it's that some of us have certain morals. We're not going to stop you from cheating (well, i can't guarantee that some member won't track down your teacher's email) but if you try to get us to help you, you can expect us to be condescending about it. Asking people to do your homework for you is a good way not to make friends around here.

[Antrax]

Track his teacher's email and do what, exactly?
"Dear Teacher,
One of your students, whose name I don't know, has probably cheated on his book report. You may rely on my information, as I'm a complete stranger who has no bearing to anything whatsoever. Also, I am named after a germ.
Yours,
Antrax"

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"Look, that's why there's rules, understand? So that you think before you break 'em" - Lu-Tze, Thief of Time

[This message has been edited by Antrax (edited 03-19-2004 04:14 PM).]

[Vegetable]

"Hey snik, what's lunar's name?"
"Hey teacher, would you mind just googling for phrases in such and such's essay?"

[extropalopakettle]

And he said:

[Chuck]

I didn't read the book but I have a paperback copy that came with the most recent movie. I saw both movies.

[Hitchhiker]

Ever heard the phrase "measuring the grain in your own half bushel?"

It means only stupid people assume automatically that everyone else is too stupid to outsmart them.

Enjoy the fruitcake.

[Agamemnon]

I'll do a book report on this book for you. I'm realy heavily into reading this type of stuff, and would no doubt enjoy it to the point of self implosion.
Just let me know when you're ready.

[Vinny]

heeheeheehee, fruitcake. mmmmm....

[LunarsRevenge]

Damn seems I was wrong, I hate the student teacher but now I hate her even more, she got me for plagurism and gave me a zero and I failed the 9 weeks because of the zero. Only reason I failed was because another kid in the class had the same exact paper and she looked into it..oh well damn...I still can pass though.

[Antrax]

Bleh, it's because people like you that they changed the entire homework structure in my combinatorics coufse. If you cheat, at least do it properly.
Antrax

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"Look, that's why there's rules, understand? So that you think before you break 'em" - Lu-Tze, Thief of Time

[Quailman]

[ZutAlors!]

[Homer] Mmmmmm, schadenfreude! [/Homer]

[Vinny]

I am with Quailman on this one.

AHAHHAHAHHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAH!

You stupid daft.

[extropalopakettle]

What a fvcking moron. But damn entertaining.

[Lilifreid]

You know the warm fuzzy feeling you get when someone blows past you on the freeway, right into the speedtrap, and then you pass them after the cop pulls them over?

This feels a lot like that

[Tahnan]

[The Cruciverbalist]

Anyone else laughing at the "and she looked into it" part?

"Dum de dum, I'm grading some papers, hum de hoo... Oh, look! Two identical book reports! Must be a full moon or something. Ah well, back to work! La da dee..."

[extropalopakettle]

That's classic. He doesn't see his cheating as the reason he failed - just that some other kid bla bla bla and the teacher bla bla bla.

[Tahnan]

To say nothing, of course, of the fact that LunarsRevenge hates his teacher for this. How dare she go and uncover his cheating? How dare she give him a zero for it?

Honestly, LunarsRevenge, if we've learned anything from Richard Clarke, I thought it was that sometimes the right thing to do, after making a mistake, is to sigh and say, "All right, I admit it, I was at fault."

[Vegetable]

I don't really want to say we told you so...
Oh wait... Yes i do. Neener neener neener!

[Vinny]

I want to meet the Student Teacher. She sounds uberhot. I love her even though I don't even know nuthing about her.

[Hitchhiker]

[Legend of Tenshi]

I thought when I read

quote:

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Im not talking about the convo, Im talking about the free bookreport .

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I would never laugh harder in my life. It just describes him completely. "I don't care that I can't understand you, I got meself something free!". But in the true habit of free stuff either being [invisble]crap[/invisible] or broken we hear

quote:

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Damn seems I was wrong, I hate the student teacher but now I hate her even more, she got me for plagurism and gave me a zero and I failed the 9 weeks because of the zero. Only reason I failed was because another kid in the class had the same exact paper and she looked into it..oh well damn...I still can pass though.

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Sucks to be you Lunar!

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"I'm even a bit worried about her with her own basil. I don't think she realises it doesn't live forever. If there's nothing else you learn this year, it should be not to get too attached to basil." - Jacq '48 shades of brown'

[extropalopakettle]