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Plagiarism:  I feel it has become stylish to reject the idea of absolute objectivity on the grounds that objectivity cannot be achieved.

Even editing the passage as I've done above would constitute plagiarism. While you have changed some of the words--"stylish" for "fashionable", "idea" for "notion," etc.--the idea being expressed, along with many of the phrases, have been taken from someone else, without acknowledging that fact.

Leaving off "I feel," by the way, wouldn't absolve the sin. Anything you write in a term paper, unless you indicate otherwise, is assumed to be your own, original thought. It's fine to have original thoughts, incidentally. In fact, we encourage it. We're happiest when your thoughts and opinions are based in evidence and reasoning rather than rumor and belief, but don't feel that your professors are somehow perversely thrilled by the mindless parrotting of ideas they already know about. (I know it sometimes seems like that.)