Hello!
I believe I have caught my student plagiarizing. She makes no
reference to Feshbach, neither throughout the paper, nor in the end
notes. What should I do? Is this plagirism? If not, please define
plagiarism for me.
Student:
No other industrial society so impartially poisoned its land, water,
air, and citizens while at the same time so loudly proclaiming its
efforts to improve human health and the condition of the natural world.
Feshbach page 1:
No other great industrial civilization so systematically and so long
poisoned its land, air, water and people. None so loudly proclaiming
its efforts to improve public health and protect nature so degraded
both.
Student:
"We cannot expect charity from nature," the Stalinists used to say.
"We must tear it from her."
Feshbach 43:
Stalinist planning justified itself with a forthright slogan: "We
cannot expect charity from nature, we must tear it from her."
Student:
Where surgeons were forced by supply shortages to perform
appendectomies with safety razors rather than scalpels.
Feshbach 222:
Ranging beyond Moscow, they could have mentioned the surgeon in a
distant part of the Russian Republic who told his colleague, the head
doctor of a Moscow hospital, about regularly performing appendectomies
with a straight-edge razor, as no scalpels were available.
Student:
Soviet joke: What would happen if the Soviet army conquered the Sahara
Desert? For fifty years, nothing. Then it would run out of sand.
Feshbach 56:
Hence the stinging joke Soviets told about the likely results of a Red
Army conquest of the Sahara: "For fifty years nothing would happen.
After that we would have to im****t sand."
Student:
Where factory directors guilty of willfully discharging polluted water
into the drinking supply were fined fifty rubles, enough for two packs
of im****ted cigarettes.
Feshbach 115:
In the Krasnoyarsk region, bordering Kansk, seventy factory directors
were personally assessed during 1990 for discharging polluted water.
The fee in each case was a mere fifty rubles, enough to buy two packs
of im****ted cigarettes.
Student:
Where people were so enthused over humankind's new technological
prowess they named their daughters Elektrifikatsiya and their sons
Traktor
Feshbach 134:
In those early years, some enthusiastic Soviets actually named their
daughters Elektrifikatsiya (and their sons Traktor).
Student:
Soviet joke: Two doctors are examining a patient. One doctor looks at
the other. "Well," he says, "what do you think? Should we treat him or
let him live?"
Feshbach 218:
They came, after all, from the ranks of a profession where the
standing joke had doctors examining a patient asking one another:
"Well, shall we treat him or shall we let him live?"
Student:
Whose minister of health in 1989 advised, "To live longer, you must
breathe less."
Feshbach 260:
For at least several more perilous years, it will be easier to point
to the size of the ecological danger than to define the most
cost-effective ways to reduce it and to say with a hollow laugh, as
the Russian Republic minister of health had in 1989: "To live longer,
you must breathe less."
Student:
The Soviet Union was a country where, in 1990, remembering Nikita
Khrushchev's boastful promise to overtake and surpass American
standards of living, angry, abused, and exhausted protesters marched
past the Kremlin carrying placards that read: "Let us catch up with
and surpass Africa."
Feshbach 267:
In 1990, however, the crowd carried not Gorbachev's ****trait but signs
that read: "70 Years on the Road to Nowhere" and in scornful memory of
Nikita Khrushchev's boasts about overtaking American standards of
living: "Let Us Catch Up with and Surpass Africa."
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