Why is it important to credit your sources properly even if no one is likely to find out?

It is important to credit your sources because if you don't, your'e plagiarizing. Plagiarism is considered a felony under certain state and federal laws. For example, if a person copies and earns more than $2,500 from copyrighted material, he/she could end up facing $250,000 in fines and up to ten years in jail.

In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown”, Faith’s pink ribbon that she places on her cap represents her purity. Pink is associated with innocence. The ribbons are a very modest and innocent decoration themselves. Hawthorne mentioned her pink Robbin a lot in the beginning of the story, edifying her characters cheerful spirit and pure aura. We later see the ribbons in the forest with Goodman Brown while he is struggling with doubts about the goodness of those around him. When one falls from the sky, he sees it as a sign Faith fell into the realm of the devil and she lost her signs of purity and innocence. At the end, when Faith and Goodman meet again and Faith still has her ribbon, leaving Goodman with doubts about his previous experiences.