Web Site Resources: The Best Aid for Cheating? 背景知识/background information

1. San Francisco is a California port city on the US Pacific coast. The city has a population of over 1.6 million, 30 percent of which is Asian. More information about San Francisco can be found by following links listed on http://sfpl4.sfpl.org/local_links.html.
　
 
 2. CNN stands for Cable News Network, an AOL Time-Warner company located in Atlanta, Georgia with offices worldwide. CNN is a world leader in online news and information with more than 4000 news professionals gathering global news. Its news reporting strongly reflects American views of the world.
　
 
 3. Collegiate Care (http://www.papers-online.com) is an online company that sells term papers online from its database of over 3000 reports and essays.
　
 
 4. Genius Papers (http://www.geniuspapers.com) is yet another online company that sells high school and college term papers through its website.
　
 
 5. Hamlet is the famous tragedy written by Shakespeare. Hamlet, a Danish prince encouraged by his father's ghost, is considering getting even with his uncle and mother for his father's murder when a trick set up by his uncle leads to the deaths of all three of them. For more information about Hamlet and Shakespeare, check out the website at http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/, http://www.dmax.com/Shakespeare/, or http://www.learn.co.uk/guardianarchive/webguides/shakespear.htm.
　
 
 6. Jane Morrison is identified in the article as a Teaching Assistant (TA). A TA is a student who helps a university professor with teaching duties such as grading papers, advising students and proctoring examinations, etc.
　
 
 7. Berkeley is a city in California on the north eastern shore of San Francisco Bay, where University of California, Berkeley (UC, Berlekey) (http://www.berkeley.edu) is located. Widely known as "Cal," UC, Berkeley is renowned for the size and quality of its libraries (with a collection of more than 7 million volumes) and laboratories, the scope of its research and publications, and the distinction of its faculty and students.
　
 
 8. Gary Handman is head of the Media Resources Center in the Moffitt Library at the University of California, Berkeley.
　
 
 9. Arianne Chernock is a graduate student in the Department of History at the University of California, Berkeley.
　
 
 10. Leslie Farmer is a media teacher in a library, according to the article.