Mamiamato24
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Let's get started.
I go to school.
That's pretty obvious.
My french teacher made us read this random novel about this Egyptian girl that moves to Canada and hates her father and her father meets this other girl but she likes her son so it's incest but not really. Anyway, that's besides the point. After we completed the reading of the book, she began to explain to us one of her dreaded projects she assigns from time to time after we finish a novel in class.
This project entails stuff like explaining the meaning of the title, elaborating upon the main character's origins and her relation between the other characters in the story and how they impacted her life. What makes a project like this so dreadful is the fact that we have to include multiple quotes from the book for each tiny individual section, which there are around 10 of.
However, we aren't allowed utilizing the novels for this project, even though we need quotes directly from it. She gave us two (well one and three-quarters) classes to start our projects. Even if you had no idea what you were doing, you had to look through a 250 page book and try to find relevant quotes.
"Yeah,
good luck.
With that."
I thought to myself. Me being the semi-intelligent-but-not-really person I am, I decided to breeze pass the horror of these two classes, and skip right past the worried and stressed students that didn't get all their quotes and decided to purchase the book. It might be a waste of money, one may argue, but keep in mind this project counts for 40 percent of my term, which counts for 60 percent of my year. I guess you could say it's pretty huge.
Onto the actual question of this thread, do you think that purchasing the book and having it with me when writing my project, compared to the others who will solely have a few quotes on a sheet of looseleaf paper, is moral?
While having the book with me may get me a better mark, one side of me, the more "logical" side, tells me that it's completely moral, since we should utilize all the tools we could get our hands on, and it's not like the book is super rare. Anyone in my class could have purchased it, if they were willing to invest the money. I just happen to be willing to invest some money into my education.
The other, more emotional side, thinks the opposite, that my actions were immoral because I am, in essence, buying myself a better mark (since I can consistently reference the book and pull out quotes others may have overlooked in two fast-paced, rushed periods). It is also immoral to take the fast way out of things while everyone else suffers.
And so, I ask for your insight. Were my actions moral?
I go to school.
That's pretty obvious.
My french teacher made us read this random novel about this Egyptian girl that moves to Canada and hates her father and her father meets this other girl but she likes her son so it's incest but not really. Anyway, that's besides the point. After we completed the reading of the book, she began to explain to us one of her dreaded projects she assigns from time to time after we finish a novel in class.
This project entails stuff like explaining the meaning of the title, elaborating upon the main character's origins and her relation between the other characters in the story and how they impacted her life. What makes a project like this so dreadful is the fact that we have to include multiple quotes from the book for each tiny individual section, which there are around 10 of.
However, we aren't allowed utilizing the novels for this project, even though we need quotes directly from it. She gave us two (well one and three-quarters) classes to start our projects. Even if you had no idea what you were doing, you had to look through a 250 page book and try to find relevant quotes.
"Yeah,
good luck.
With that."
I thought to myself. Me being the semi-intelligent-but-not-really person I am, I decided to breeze pass the horror of these two classes, and skip right past the worried and stressed students that didn't get all their quotes and decided to purchase the book. It might be a waste of money, one may argue, but keep in mind this project counts for 40 percent of my term, which counts for 60 percent of my year. I guess you could say it's pretty huge.
Onto the actual question of this thread, do you think that purchasing the book and having it with me when writing my project, compared to the others who will solely have a few quotes on a sheet of looseleaf paper, is moral?
While having the book with me may get me a better mark, one side of me, the more "logical" side, tells me that it's completely moral, since we should utilize all the tools we could get our hands on, and it's not like the book is super rare. Anyone in my class could have purchased it, if they were willing to invest the money. I just happen to be willing to invest some money into my education.
The other, more emotional side, thinks the opposite, that my actions were immoral because I am, in essence, buying myself a better mark (since I can consistently reference the book and pull out quotes others may have overlooked in two fast-paced, rushed periods). It is also immoral to take the fast way out of things while everyone else suffers.
And so, I ask for your insight. Were my actions moral?
