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    Hidden Intellectualism Growing up where I was raised street smart was having the experience and knowledge necessary to deal with the potential difficulties or dangers of life in an urban environment. Like you know people actions and how to read body language and get the sense something isn’t right here. It even can be starting your own busy be and entrepreneur. If you were book smart you’ll get call a nerd and picked on in rough area of the city. I saw some of my peers try to dumb down the way

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    “We are punished for our refusals. Every impulse that we strive to strangle broods in the mind‚ and poisons us. The body sins once‚ and has done with its sin‚ for action is a mode of purification. . . . Resist it‚ and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself‚ with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful. (25).” In the beginning of the book‚ Lord Henry initiates a conversation about the act of sinning to Dorian. Lord Henry venturing out

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    In “Hidden Intellectualism” Gerald Graff explains his view on intellectualism and how the education system only limits intellectualism to book smarts. Graff also enlightens the misunderstanding on society with “street smarts.” He explains that everyone including “street smart have potential and they are overlooked. Graff explains that we only associate the educated lifestyle with texts and subjects. He argues that the education system assumes that its possible to “wax intellectual’s about

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    Mitchell Canaday Prof. Brininstool Eng 131 The Anti-Anti-Bullying Campaign There are few things that people can agree on when it comes to bullying in the school or the workplace. It was only recently that people have seen bullying as anything but a childhood rite of passage. In the past four years‚ all but two states in America now have anti-bullying laws that provide criminal punishment for students and adults that violate these laws [1]. Many people in America see these laws as a step

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    Connor Martin 1/31/2017 Sonny Haynes ENG 111 760 Timed Writing Assignment When reading "Hidden Intellectualism" by Gerald Graff‚ I noticed that he used a lot of examples and illustrations. Throughout this article‚ he uses this rhetorical strategy as a way to create a mental image in the reader’s head. One example of this is where he states "In the Chicago neighborhood I grew up in‚ which had become a melting pot after World War 2 our block was solidly middle class" (Graff 246). For me‚ it not

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    In “Hidden Intellectualism” composed by Gerald Graff‚ Graff argues how sports play a big part in the intellectual world because they contain components ranging from debates to evaluations‚ to intellectual systems. He states how sports made him a more intellectual being‚ and how schools should consider sports intellectual. Gerald Graff’s arguments that sports build intellectualism are ineffective because he lacks outside arguments‚ and backup to make his argument more credible. Graff states that sports

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    three to four pages in length‚ of Gerald Graff’s essay‚ “Hidden Intellectualism.” Getting Started: Make sure you understand the meaning of analysis; according to the Norton Field Guide‚ “Your goal in analyzing a text is to lead readers through careful examination of a text to some kind of interpretation or reasoned judgment” (69). Consider it your job to attempt to define and explain what you see in Graff’s “Hidden Intellectualism.” Rather than just answering the question‚ “What is here?” Think

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    media‚ and there are many debates that whether or not it has a positive or negative effects on society. Graff‚ Gerald. “Hidden Intellectualism.” “They Say/I Say” The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing with Readings. Gerald Graff‚ Cathy Birkenstein‚ and Russel Durst. New York: Norton‚ 2012.

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    different identities‚ street-smart individuals are lacking any real intelligence and substance‚ good “Hidden Intellectualism”‚ by Gerald Graff is an article in which the author suggests that intelligence cannot only be obtained by being school or being “book smart" individual but can also be achieved by what he describes as being "Street smart‚" Graff argues that intellectualism is not only the knowledge you obtain through school or through all the high cerebral books you read but also through

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    Context Journal for “Hidden Intellectualism “ Undoubtedly‚ some of the language in this week’s assigned reading challenges readers. The context journal helps students meet this challenge by identifying: • the basic features and structures of the text; • unfamiliar words and references; • reproduce good text; • explain their thinking‚ • and fill in their vocabulary gaps by connecting the language they have now with the language they need to navigate academic

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