Mr. Obama's Speech: A More Perfect Union

On March 18, 2008, then-Senator Barack Obama made a speech that is already a piece of rhetorical history. I urge you to read it. You can access it, in video and in print, at

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/03/18/obama-race-speech-read-th_n_92077.html

The audio-and-video of the speech is available at the American Rhetoric Society
americanrhetoric.com. It will be remembered by the ages.

Against Plagiarism

Plagiarism is passing off someone else's ideas or materials as your own, or failing to credit their owner properly.  Can you identify plagiarism in words and pictures?  To find out, take a ten-minute online quiz designed by  Ted Frick at Indiana University in Bloomington:

http://www.indiana.edu/~tedfrick/plagiarism/index2.html