Evaluation:
Published: 23.11.2002.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
Literature: n/a
References: Not used
  • Essays 'Originality', 1.
Extract

"Originality, does not mean thinking something that was never thought before, it means putting old ideas together in new ways." There are a lot of people out there who think that similar ideas and products, that resemble one another, are not original. What about the button and the zipper? Imagine how much money the person made that took the idea of the button to close a shirt in the front, and thought up the zipper. I wish I were that guy.
I can see how people can say that similar ideas are not original. …

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