Word: cheating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Working at home, however, is hardly problem free. People often miss the intellectual stimulation and socializing that occur in office settings. Many report that they have trouble sticking to the business at hand, especially when no one is around to see them cheat by taking a nap or turning...
...tech-noir gloss, this is still a traditional thriller, eager to deliver moral lessons with its frissons. Cheat on your wife, and maybe she gets hurt. Leave your family, and maybe they get kidnaped. Go to bed with a woman you work with, and maybe she dies. These are New Hollywood's scary metaphors for sex in the high-risk '80s. Last year The Fly said that a woman could get involved with a nice guy who metamorphoses into a slavering insect. The current hit Fatal Attraction preaches that no man is safe from a fling who gets flung...
...system has a more insidious effect beyond making cheating like a crap shoot in which you win (steal the answer) or lose (get caught). It creates a situation in which the cheater is not committing a crime again his next-desk neighbor, but against a group of obnoxious people who bump his chair while he is trying to write his essay. It's not that proctors aren't nice people--and it is good that someone will do the task--but they really shouldn't have any effect on someone's decision to cheat or not. A student should have...
...same time, it would be unrealistic to think hard-core cheaters would stop cheating just because the word "honor" is attached to the monitoring method. After all, if you cheat well, you can be an "honors" student...
...there is a tension because people are torn between the knowledge that they can cheat and the fear that their fellow students would tell on them...