Young Jang

Blog #4

EDU106

1:30-2:18

According to the movie, "Finding Forrester", Jamal Wallace is a sixteen and had attended a high school in Bronx where he was born. He is an african-american and has his mother and brother. While he was an average "C" student in the school, he has remarkable writing skills and he is good at playing basketball. For his good score on the state standardized exam, he was suggested to go to a prvite school, Mailor-Callow school, and was sent to there with full scholarship. Jamal met a famous author, William Forrester, and they became friends.

In the article of "Are Your Kids Cheating", Haley Lodge was a junior at Hawken school in Gates Mills. She has blue eyes and blond hairs. Her family is wealthy: her fathe, David, is president of Home Savings Bank in Youngstown and her mother also does voluntter work. Her older sister was attending at college and her younger brother was staying at home.

In "The Politics of Remediation", Marita was a freshmen student at UCLA. There are not much information about her background. Her father has influenced Marita and he suggested her not to speak unless she knows everything. Based on that, her plagirism happened.
After sent to the Mailor-Callow school, Jamal has faced a big problem with his professor, Robert

Crawford. Professor Crawford considered Jamal's papers were too good to consider as high school 's students' works. Therefore, he asked Jamal to bring his another own works to prove. Even though promising with William that he will not take any papers working in William's house, Jamal turned in one of them. Professor Crawford found plagiarism from his papers. Jamal had to work something out to overcome.