Platypus Questions, Questions Galore, plagiarism, and you
Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 3:33 pm
The examples have been cleared to post. All Platypus questions come from Kaneland's Varsity Tournament in 2008; all Questions Galore questions come from Wheaton North's Frosh/Soph Tournament in 2009.
PLATYPUS WIKIPLAGIARISM
1TR2: “What type of physical laws state that a particular measureable property of an isolated physical system does not change as the system evolves?”
Wikipedia (“Conservation law”): “In physics, a conservation law states that a particular measurable property of an isolated physical system does not change as the system evolves.”
3T12: “At its peak, his Hunnic Empire stretched form [sic] Central Asia into modern Germany.”
Wikipedia (“Huns”): “The Hunnic Empire stretched from the steppes of Central Asia into modern Germany, and from the Black Sea to the Baltic Sea”
3T13: “Located east of the Dominican Republic and west of the Virgin Islands…”
Wikipedia (“Puerto Rico”): “Puerto Rico is…located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of the Virgin Islands.”
4T18: “The surrender of Lord Cornwallis’s army to Washington and de Rochambeau caused the British government to negotiate an end to the Revolutionary War.”
Wikipedia (“Siege of Yorktown,” http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?tit ... d=53720616): “The surrender of Cornwallis's army caused the British government to negotiate an end to the American Revolutionary War.”
QUESTIONS GALORE WIKIPLAGIARISM
3T14: “This English author was gifted in mathematics, photography and making up fanciful stories.”
Wikipedia (“Lewis Carroll”): “…was an English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer.”
6T10: “This American artist made solitude and introspection a vital theme in his paintings of American landscapes. Loneliness, emptiness, and stagnation of town life are seen in this realist’s work. He was an intensely private individual and once declared, ‘I don’t think I ever tried to paint the American scene; I’m trying to paint myself.’”
WebMuseum (http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/hopper/): “Thereafter, however, he gained widespread recognition as a central exponent of American Scene painting, expressing the loneliness, vacuity, and stagnation of town life. Yet Hopper remained always an individualist: ‘I don't think I ever tried to paint the American scene; I'm trying to paint myself.’”
7T13: “Known primarily by his last name, this artist was baptized with a series of names that honored saints and relatives: Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Clito.”
Wikipedia (“Pablo Picasso”): “Picasso was baptized Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Crispiniano de la Santísima Trinidad, a series of names honouring various saints and relatives.”
8T5: “Connecticut's State Hero was part of a literary fraternity at Yale that debated topics in astronomy, mathematics, literature, and the ethics”
Wikipedia (“Nathan Hale”): “The Hale brothers belonged to the Yale literary fraternity, Linonia, which debated topics in astronomy, mathematics, literature, and the ethics of slavery”
8T9: “This 19th-century, American artist came to define the popular image of the West in his paintings and sculpture. His subjects included cowboys, American Indians, and the military.”
Buffalo Bill Historical Center (http://www.bbhc.org/wgwa/remington.cfm): “The art of Frederic Remington defined the American West during his lifetime and played a major role in creating the popular image of the West that persists today. In both painting and sculpture, he portrayed the action and drama of the West. Remington's subjects, the military, the cowboy and the American Indian, centered on conflict.”
PLATYPUS WIKIPLAGIARISM
1TR2: “What type of physical laws state that a particular measureable property of an isolated physical system does not change as the system evolves?”
Wikipedia (“Conservation law”): “In physics, a conservation law states that a particular measurable property of an isolated physical system does not change as the system evolves.”
3T12: “At its peak, his Hunnic Empire stretched form [sic] Central Asia into modern Germany.”
Wikipedia (“Huns”): “The Hunnic Empire stretched from the steppes of Central Asia into modern Germany, and from the Black Sea to the Baltic Sea”
3T13: “Located east of the Dominican Republic and west of the Virgin Islands…”
Wikipedia (“Puerto Rico”): “Puerto Rico is…located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of the Virgin Islands.”
4T18: “The surrender of Lord Cornwallis’s army to Washington and de Rochambeau caused the British government to negotiate an end to the Revolutionary War.”
Wikipedia (“Siege of Yorktown,” http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?tit ... d=53720616): “The surrender of Cornwallis's army caused the British government to negotiate an end to the American Revolutionary War.”
QUESTIONS GALORE WIKIPLAGIARISM
3T14: “This English author was gifted in mathematics, photography and making up fanciful stories.”
Wikipedia (“Lewis Carroll”): “…was an English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer.”
6T10: “This American artist made solitude and introspection a vital theme in his paintings of American landscapes. Loneliness, emptiness, and stagnation of town life are seen in this realist’s work. He was an intensely private individual and once declared, ‘I don’t think I ever tried to paint the American scene; I’m trying to paint myself.’”
WebMuseum (http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/hopper/): “Thereafter, however, he gained widespread recognition as a central exponent of American Scene painting, expressing the loneliness, vacuity, and stagnation of town life. Yet Hopper remained always an individualist: ‘I don't think I ever tried to paint the American scene; I'm trying to paint myself.’”
7T13: “Known primarily by his last name, this artist was baptized with a series of names that honored saints and relatives: Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Clito.”
Wikipedia (“Pablo Picasso”): “Picasso was baptized Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Crispiniano de la Santísima Trinidad, a series of names honouring various saints and relatives.”
8T5: “Connecticut's State Hero was part of a literary fraternity at Yale that debated topics in astronomy, mathematics, literature, and the ethics”
Wikipedia (“Nathan Hale”): “The Hale brothers belonged to the Yale literary fraternity, Linonia, which debated topics in astronomy, mathematics, literature, and the ethics of slavery”
8T9: “This 19th-century, American artist came to define the popular image of the West in his paintings and sculpture. His subjects included cowboys, American Indians, and the military.”
Buffalo Bill Historical Center (http://www.bbhc.org/wgwa/remington.cfm): “The art of Frederic Remington defined the American West during his lifetime and played a major role in creating the popular image of the West that persists today. In both painting and sculpture, he portrayed the action and drama of the West. Remington's subjects, the military, the cowboy and the American Indian, centered on conflict.”