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plagiarism, often described as an “academic crime,” is the act of taking another person’s work and presenting it as one’s own. most schools, at least in the united states, take a very strong stance against plagiarism and make use of automated tools to detect content that may have been taken verbatim from or that overly resembles content catalogued by their web crawlers.
as someone who was herself deeply traumatized by the American school system and has known many other victims of similar trauma, i feel very strongly that absolutely nobody should feel obligated to play by its rules. nobody should be invested in their report cards, nobody should give a damn what their teachers or administrators think of them, and nobody should take their schooling remotely seriously. if you are currently trapped in the American school system — or any abusive school system anywhere in the world — your only concern should be getting out alive.
you should feel no obligation to obey any academic authority figure, teacher, principal, or superintendant. you should feel no guilt for “cheating” a fundamentally dishonest, manipulative, and totalizing institution, and you should only care about your grades insofar as they have an impact on the life you hope to build outside of school. middle school kids: your grades have no impact on that life, and don’t let any parent or teacher make you think otherwise.
therefore, i give you full permission and encouragement to take and use any portion of this site and present it, without crediting me, as your own creation, provided the following criteria are met:
my robots.txt has blocked turnitin.com from indexing my site from the beginning, and it always will. anything copied from this site should be safe to submit or include in your work. please note however that while i have taken every possible measure to make my work safe to plagiarize, this DOES NOT MEAN you will not face potentially severe consequences if caught — nothing in this license will keep teachers and principals from punishing you, so exercise discretion and make sure to change any wording that doesn't sound like you. teachers are known for googling lines that seem out of place, and this website is indexed by Google. but for the record, if you are a teacher or administrator and you intend to punish a student for plagiarizing this site, you are doing to in direct and total contradiction to the wishes and intent of the author.
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notwithstanding the above, any company, organization, or individual who seeks by any means to use content from this site for the purpose of providing a tool to detect plagiarism is absolutely forbidden from using or archiving content from this site in any fashion. these forbidden uses will be treated as a violation of the author's intellectual property rights to the full extent permitted by law and dealt with accordingly.