Street Smarts over Book Smarts Gerald Graff is a Professor of English and Education in the University of Illinois at Chicago. In Graff’s essay‚ “Hidden Intellectualism”‚ Graff compares street smarts to book smarts. Graff debates the common belief that having book smarts gives one an intellectual advantage over other forms of intellectualism. Gerald Graff supports this belief by telling a personal story‚ explaining where the education systems fails‚ and stating that people stereotype intellect with
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Kristeena Gonzalez Gonzalez 1 Smith Eng. - 50 September 28‚ 2013 Pop Culture in Academics In Gerald Graff’s “Hidden Intellectualism‚” Graff argues that schools should encourage students to think critically‚ read‚ and write about areas of personal interest such as cars‚ fashion‚ or music but as long as they do so in an intellectually way. I happen to agree with Graff and his perspective for many different reasons. I personally
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Dada From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation‚ search For other uses‚ see Dada (disambiguation). Cover of the first edition of the publication Dada by Tristan Tzara; Zurich‚ 1917 Dada /ˈdɑːdɑː/ or Dadaism was an art movement of the European avant-garde in the early 20th century. Many claim Dada began in Zurich‚ Switzerland in 1916‚ spreading to Berlin shortly thereafter but the height of New York Dada was the year before in 1915.[1] To quote Dona Budd ’s The Language of
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Modern Art There is no way to simply define Modern Art into a sentence or so‚ for the collaboration of genres within Modern Art expand from the 1890’s to1970 with many influences of philosophy and other styles and denotations. Modern art is known as intellectual and individual where the idea is primary‚ and the object is secondary. Formal filters were used‚ such as line‚ shape‚ color‚ form‚ and texture. These filters were created among traditional formats‚ such as easel painting‚ pedestal sculpture
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1968 by Tom Brokaw “Documentary: 1968” covered all the usual events of that year‚ protests over the Vietnam War‚ the assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King‚ the race riots‚ women’s lib‚ black power‚ hippies and drugs. This documentary was a little different in that it was more of a personal take on the events as Tom Brokaw was already working as a reporter at that time and these were his personal recollections. Also‚ he interspersed many interviews with contemporaries of the present
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challenging writings such as George Orwell; we have to encourage them to do subjects first on things that interest them. Graff served as an example by sharing his own experience‚ he hated books and cared only for sports. He was the typical teenage anti-intellectual or so he believed for a long time. While being very analytical of sports team movies‚ and the toughness he and his friends engaged in‚ he was unknowingly before now trained to be intellect in a class room and other school subjects. After
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Modern Interests in Schools Modern technology has become a wide topic of debate among many people including‚ college professors and teachers‚ concerned parents‚ and old-fashioned elders. Over the past 30 years‚ technology has progressed into a part of a person’s every day social and business life. With a sky-rocketing progression in new technology‚ come many concerns about the effects technology has on current society. Authors Amy Goldwasser‚ a freelance editor for famous magazines Vogue‚ Seventeen
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Decolonization of Algeria and Mozambique Essay Preparation Draft Today‚ Algeria and Mozambique are independent countries in Africa‚ but before that‚ since the early 1900’s and earlier‚ both countries were under colonial rule. Before Algeria and Mozambique gained their independence as a country‚ Algeria was under the French rule‚ while Mozambique was under Portuguese rule. However‚ eventually in 1962‚ Algeria gained its independence and in 1974 Mozambique gained its independence. In terms of the
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binary distinctions in his work and its lack of sensitivity and its rigidity in terms of how mental health is understood. Michel Foucault‚ on the other hand‚ was a post-structuralist and sociologist. His role as a post-structuralist was evident in the anti-psychiatry movement‚ where his primary concern was on relations of power and how almost all aspects of modern psychiatry relate back to power‚ or ‘disciplinary power’. He also concentrated profoundly on the history of psychiatry‚ in what he refers
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also from the media and our surroundings‚ hence the “hidden” intellectualism. He goes onto explain that “schools and colleges overlook the intellectual potential of street-smarts” (198) because these types of intellectualism are actually considered anti-intellectualism. Graff then begins to discuss that intellectualism is often looked down upon within schools‚ and people that are considered “school-smart” are seen as nerdy‚ or boring. We learn that as a child‚ Graff was afraid of bullying and name-calling
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