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: