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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's pretty easy to spot plagiarism if you know the student. It's interesting that the student newspaper she was news editor for broke the story, I would assume some of her fellow students looked at the speech and could tell she didn't actually write parts of it. Then all you need to do is google the parts that don't look correct.

Duke has been known as a rich kids from the northeast school for a while. [/quote]

But would google have caught this? Is the text of the 2014 speech posted online? I still want to know the chain of events that discovered this. So many speeches are unmemorable, it’s really surprising that it was someone who heard them both in real time. Maybe it was someone in her friend/family circle. [/quote]

Someone probably had a thing against her.  Must have run her speech online to check for plagiarism and hit the jackpot.  Seriously though, who really cares about these speeches to such an extent as to remember speeches from another school from years ago!  It's more important to see how this speech was received by the crowd.  If it went over well, it's a success, regardless of the plagiarism.  The message (the original message) just reached a new audience. [/quote]

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