CH. 8 OWNERSHIPAP Language

Veronica Cruz, Vianna Olson, Alyssa Perez

WHO OWNS WORDS AND IDEAS?

Is it cheating if a student learns by working together with a classmate?

Do students always learn by themselves?

If a student learns by getting help from someone else, does that mean that the work that student submits to a teacher does not belong to that student?

COLLABORATIVE LEARNING

Students have a higher academic achievement when students work together

According to researchers Roger T. Johnson and David Johnson, “The fact that working together to achieve a common goal produces higher achievement and greater productivity than does working alone is so well confirmed by so much research that it stands as one of the strongest principles of social and organizational psychology” (“Cooperative Learning: An Overview”)

Do you feel that you learn more in groups or as individuals?

PLAGIARISM

Plagiarism rests on the idea of originality; stealing someone else’s words or ideas

Originality is not much valued in consumer culture; social trends reflect the impulse to look, act, or think alike

Your status, or fame, reflects your success in acquiring what everyone else wants to acquire or wants to be

However, creativity can prosper thanks to copyright laws that protect the most blatant acts of plagerism

WHAT’S YOURS? (OWNERSHIP OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY)

The protection and identification of what’s yours has been vastly complicated by technology, as media distributes ideas and makes intellectual property ambiguous

Designers know the danger of letting work go unprotected – theft by competitors or negligence of managers

Intellectual property is a work or invention that is the result of creativity to which one has rights and can apply a patent, copyright, trademark, etc.

“What’s mine is yours” is the posture of a saint; “What’s yours is mine” is the ideology of a mugger

TRADEMARKING WORDS

Any business, organization, or private citizen can acquire a trademark for a slogan or symbol to protect the possibility that someone else will use it without permission

The saying “Let’s Roll” by 9/11 victim Todd Beamer was trademarked by the Todd M. Beamer Foundation to control its uses and raise money for programs

WHO OWNS YOUR BODY?

When prenatal testing is done, who has the right to the results of these tests?

Who determines the social location of care?

Is it moral for someone to conceive a

child to be a donor to their ill child?

Should women have access to

contraceptives?

Consider the one-child policy in China

PRENATAL DIAGNOSTIC TESTING

Parents are able to discover whether or not their child will be born with a disability while the child is still in the womb

With “soft eugenics” parents and scientists hope to create the perfect child

Disability Rights Activists raise the issue that the prenatal screening is being used to prevent the birth of disabled children

Some families use the prenatal testing to determine

if the child they have next will take on the same

condition as the one they already had

DESIGNER BABIES

Many fears derive as a result of soft eugenics, some of these being: The religious fear of hubris “Playing God” Damnation, sacrilege The fear that doctors will use the opportunity to take control of our bodies and form some sort of master race

Parents buying into the fantasy of perfection and being disappointed with anything less

Creating a monster instead of an ideal specimen

BODY OWNERSHIP RIGHTS

In order to be in full control of one’s body:

One must have contraceptives available to them

Right to complain if medical care is poor (as in the

doctors and staff)

Ability to campaign for changes in legislation when

necessary

Consider for the Frankenbaby issue, the Aryan

master race the Nazi party attempted to create