What's up, people?
Put a little thought into these things! Or at least reword it. Lots of your teachers are smart enough to Google.
2007-09-30 20:57:04 · 4 answers · asked by Anita 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
I feel disinclined to help someone out when I see this.
2007-09-30 20:57:40 · update #1
A good question, and I am glad you asked it here in the History category! This seems to be the second most popular place for students to ask their homework questions - and not in the correct Homework Help category. I have pointed this out to many, ignored their homework questions, and given thumbs up to all those who so bluntly tell them to "Do your own homework!"
Some obviously deserve to be reported.
I have also written twice to Yahoo Answers about multiple History categories (perhaps a History Homework Help category is needed), and while they have listened to my suggestions - nothing has been done...yet. It gets pretty sad to see the History category getting filled up with Polls & Surveys questions (like this one!), cooking questions, Homework Help questions, computer game questions, and Trivia questions when categories for all of those already exist!
Lastly, I am also amazed at the numbers of clones who actually answer the Homework help questions by only posting a link to Wikipedia. If this isn't dumbing down, I do not know what is...!
Welcome to the Age of Information - thinking is optional.
2007-10-01 00:12:37 · answer #1 · answered by WMD 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is easier to relate to our homework or topic in the book and it is easier rather than thinking of questions on our own. There comes a time in our lives when we feel lazy of thinking because we practically started our lives studying and end up learning new things. Sometimes, it's just our human instinct to be inclined to the convenient things in life, such as not thinking too much, because we feel that we have been doing that all our lives. Nevertheless, it's just a stage just like most of our experiences in life. Since you have raised this question, it means that you realize the very nature of people, but it also means that we can control it and do otherwise, if we want to.
2007-10-01 08:13:32 · answer #2 · answered by archangel 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is sheer laziness and the person asking the question gets no benefit from another doing his/her homework. History is about being able to research and with the internet at questioners' fingertips they have one of the best research tools ever invented. They should learn to use it - I just wish it had been available when I was at school. But what also annoys me are people who answer by just cutting and pasting from wikipedia - some are not even smart enough to delete the word 'edit' which sometimes appears!
2007-10-01 04:26:22 · answer #3 · answered by rdenig_male 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Perhaps a generation ago the kids asking these questions would be the fat bully who sat on you until you coughed up your homework, or the jock who payed you to write his paper. Now it is the kid who can simply access yahoo answers
2007-10-01 09:33:47 · answer #4 · answered by wackywallwalker 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋