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Plagiarism: Civil Disobedience

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Plagiarism can be an act of civil disobedience
Plagiarism, one of the fundamental issues of academic life, is a basic subject to portray, yet difficult to maintain a strategic distance from. According to Merriam-Webster dictionary: plagiarism is the action of using the words or ideas of another person as if they were your own words or ideas. As defined previously, plagiarism is only taking someone else work without giving credits. I believe plagiarism cannot be an act of civil disobedience because it is not a political act and does not envision a change in the law or policies in the government.
What is a civil disobedience? John Rawls defines it in A Theory of Justice (as cited in Civil Disobedience,2008), as: “a public, nonviolent, conscientious

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