The Negative Consequences Of Cheating

One of the most shameful actions among celebrities done by Tiger Woods who cheated his wife Elin Nordergen. He was in the middle of scandal after 'The National Enquirer' announced that he had a relationship in 2009 with hostess Rachel Uchitel. Evidences showed that Woods slept with 19 hostesses during his marriage with Nordegren. Woods apologized to Nordergen in public but she refused his apologize which led to divorce in 2010. (Hollywood,2014). Cheating is getting worse because of social media and internet. They have many negative effects on students, families, and businesses. The three reasons why cheating is getting worse are, cheating has become a main problem in schools and universities , social media plays a huge role in making

Cheating in this field can be divided into two parts. The first part is what experts called plagiarism, which means copying others' words and phrasing the ideas. (Rebecca Levey,2012). Students use internet or copy their assignments from others to enhance their own assignments. They copy their assignments from their friends or they let their friends do their assignments. According to The Josephson Institute, Youth Ethics surveyed 43,000 high school students in public and private schools found that 59% of high school students admitted cheating on a test during the last year. 34% self-reported doing it more than two times. (Donald McCabe , Fall2011 ). For example, Writer Alex Haley wrote a novel, and eventually he admitted that he had plagiarized information from a book entitled The African written by Harold Courlander. The second part is cheating in exams. The old cheating way small paper written by hand has changed to mobile data. Moreover, kids can store a lot of data in their phones. They can also search for answers using the internet during the test without getting caught. According to surveys in U.S. News and World Report: 80% of “high-achieving” high school students admit to cheating. (Rebecca Levey,2012). For instance, Miley Cyrus announced to program called the Insider that she was addicted to cheating during her exams (

The divorce happened because James had a relationship with tattoo model Michelle McGee. McGee wasn't the only mistress to James but he had had an affair with not less than 25 women. He was also contact with girls from many websites and had a sexual relation with them. ( NDTV,2012). My recommendation to decrease the amount of internet and social media cheating is by having some control on them. Which means put all these websites under the control of governments or the companies. They should also panelize the cheaters especially students and spouses. Li Ping Wu, China a professor in Lowa state University in USA said that " Actually, cheating is an ignorant act. if someone try to cheat in order to get a good grade, that means he or she gives people a false impression. people will take offense".(