What Might Be Some Of The Related Consequences For Blake In The Big Picture?

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SLO Questions:
1. Stop and think to determine the facts. Write a short description of the main issue of this situation.
Answer: Three students are researching an assignment while doing so one of the students thinks he has found a clever way to cheat. The other two students are conflicted about their feelings about cheating and now have to make a hard decision on how to handle it.
2. Identify options. Identify the choices you might have to consider if you were in this situation?
Answer:
Choice One: Telling the professor about Blake’s plan to cheat and dealing with the atomicity that might come from that.
Choice Two: Staying out of it. However, since I am present I might still be named and get in trouble anyway for not reporting it. Although
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This may be a little more time consuming but, it would be helping someone.
3. Consider consequences for yourself and others. a. What might be some of the related consequences for Blake in the big picture? b. How about Sharon and Jennifer, could their friendship become compromised?
Answer: Blake could be I a lot of trouble with the professor and maybe even the school and face disappointment from himself, family, friends and loved ones if caught.
Answer B: If they really are friends then yes! Generally all of our friends expect us to automatically be on their side if the two have different ideas on how to handle the situation with Blake this may cause a drift between them.
4. Make an ethical choice and take appropriate action.
a. What are some of the actions you might take?
Answer: Provide some options to Blake Ideas on things he finds easy to write about or things that help me when I write. Try to explain to him why it’s not a good Idea to cheat. (Yes you have to tell some people this.) If I really wanted him to think about it and I wasn’t getting through to him I’d probably lie and tell him a friend of mind got caught using a website to cheat and the worst thing happen to them. Maybe that would get him

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