Example #1

Because my neighborhood is considered suburban it often gets a bad rap. A lot of people

think that suburbs are boring and aren't interesting. As this suggests, the problem is also

cultural. For the most part, American culture and opinion are still created, even in the

Internet age, in cities at either edge of the continent. If intellectuals do deign to look at

the suburbs they assume that so much banality must be hiding something deeply evil.

This excerpt is plagiarized and as such the essay would receive no credit. Explain why

you think this is so: