@gailcalled: Lol, it seems that whenever I ask any kind of educational question, a debate in the comments gets started. Probably because since I mark all such questions with the tag of education, school, etc, my other questions show up in the “siblings” section. If one actually looks at most of those questions, they are all related to a really interesting aspect of chemistry and were in the space of a couple days, and thus all like a month old. As evidence, I offer up the “siblings” section. While there are indeed three questions one could construe as possibly “homework”, when one stops to think logically, one would realize that using fluther as a homework resource for three questions probably isn’t the most productive/easiest way to complete my homework. Even assuming I only have one question I need answered per homework, what are the chances that all three questions would be in the space of a week and how would I get through the rest of the school year without asking any more? My latest question is actually here: http://www.fluther.com/disc/11752/affirmative-action-yes-no-somewhat/
I’m being kinda longwinded here, but I plan to link to this post if this comes up in the future, so I will try to be as comprehensive as possible so I don’t need to explain myself over and over again.
Firstly, I’ve never seen any rules against questions about homework, and while some of the chemistry questions could be homework questions, they are not, and I don’t really see how reading the answer on the internet vs. a textbook (though, I guess the internet could be wrong) would be any different. Wouldn’t I not learn anything either way if I just copied it down? And this could just be me, but as a high school student, I think those questions are pretty advanced stuff that (at least mine) my chemistry course never covered. It seems that for example, here: http://www.fluther.com/disc/9455/why-dont-refrigerated-foods-spoil-as-quickly-as-food-at-room/
These kind of questions would be unlikely to be asked as homework, and if anything, would be discussion questions, which I can’t exactly predict…?
As for this particular question, if this was homework, I could just google British war poets or something, and I already came up with some. I just wanted to learn about some that are lesser-known. I am looking for an essay topic where I can discuss stuff like the significance of _____, and I don’t want to do whomever everyone else is doing.
In conclusion, if I wanted answers to homework, I would probably just copy off my friends, I wouldn’t only ask one possibly homework related question a month, I wouldn’t tag all such posts with the same tags, and as for term papers…unless you think my affirmative action question was a topic for a term paper…well…it isn’t and I’m pretty sure if one looks at my own answers for that question, you will see that I myself am quite knowlegdeable about the topic, and can use google and other resources (look at the statistics I quoted). This question can’t be a term paper topic either, because even if I were to talk about significance or something, I can’t write a term paper on it, maybe only a short essay…
I’m not mad at anyone, but this is the third time this has come up, and I really don’t wantto have to resort to mistagging my posts, so nobody sees the “siblings” section…
P.S. When I was looking for past questions as evidence for this post, I had to resort to looking through my lurve and the activity I’m following. Is there any other way?