Why I Hate the Mall I hate shopping malls. No‚ you don’t understand. I really hate shopping malls. I think sitting at the Food Court near the Burger King for one hour has served only to heighten my displeasure with these gaudy monstrosities. The only reason I’m here is because nothing else in the town of Poughkeepsie‚ NY. seems to catch my interest long enough for me to take notice. I got here noon-ish I think. I had to take a taxi since none of my non- pedestrian friends were willing to roll
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“Hidden Intellectualism” Gerald Graff‚ Professor of English and Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago‚ stated in "Hidden Intellectualism‚" that in every student‚ there is intellect that is trying to break out and encourage them to discover their own intellectualism‚ that was hiding within (Graff 23). “Hidden Intellectualism” is a teaching article directed towards schools and teachers to try and help kids bring out their intellectualism at a young age or bring different types of smarts to
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Paper on Freedom for the Thought that we Hate In the book Freedom for the Thought that we Hate‚ author Anthony Lewis takes a simply phrased law‚ the First Amendment and shows how complex freedom of speech really is once put into the real world of freedom‚ as we know it. He shows through his rejections of absolutism‚ strong support towards freedom restriction‚ and objective analysis of Chief Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes‚ that the United States press is unlike any other in the world. Lewis rejects
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3 May 2012 Why People Hate Musicals There are many different reasons why people could hate musicals. Maybe they had a bad time at the theatre once and that scarred their outlook on musicals forever. Many people think that musicals are “gay” and they don’t want to see guys “prancing” around on stage. Some people cannot stand the fact that people are singing instead of talking. Whatever their reason for disliking musicals is‚ they’re wrong. I’m only joking. Everyone has the right to his or
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I used to hate greasers. They had tried to pick up Cherry and Marcia‚ Bob and my girls. We were so mad that they thought they had the right to do that; they were no-hopers. The night we went to find Ponyboy and Johnny we just wanted to put them back in their place. We wanted the power restored to our superiority‚ because as typical socs we believed this was our right. Socs will always have more power than greasers because the socs had money and the greasers didn’t. There was a constant war between
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Serrano‚ Edric “HIDDEN INTELLECTUALISM” Reading Response Journal In the article “Hidden Intellectualism” by Gerald Graff‚ The Author is telling us that knowledge can be seen not only from academic thinking but also in the form of “street smarts”. Graff explains that we know some “impressively street smarts” but does not do well in school‚ but Graff argues that “street smarts” are just as important as “book smarts”. Many people think that it is such a waste‚ that “street smarts” should be taking their
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Association president‚ Gerald Graff argues that if a student’s individual interests are incorporated into learning techniques‚ they will gain more academically. In his essay “Hidden Intellectualism” published in 2003‚ he suggests having interests in things besides standard common core curriculum is not anti-intellectualism. People gravitate towards certain interests because it perhaps requires more of their intellect in a way they can easily comprehend and engage. Furthermore‚ valuable real world connections
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A critical analysis of Why We Hate: Understanding‚ Curbing‚ and Eliminating Hate in Ourselves and Our World By: Rush W. Dozier‚ Jr. In the world today‚ young teenagers are bringing guns to school‚ people are flying airplanes into buildings‚ and riots are erupting in the city streets. Frighteningly enough‚ these actions find their origins deep within the regions of the human mind‚ the amygdala (Dozier‚ 2002‚ p.5). When this part of the body perceives a particular object as a threat to its survival
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According to Gerald Graff’s essay‚ Hidden Intellectualism‚ street smart students are often thought of as anti-intellectuals because of educators limited and narrow views that intellectualism is only associated with book smarts instead of realizing that students can develop their intellectual and academic way of thinking through non-traditional subjects that interest them. Graff conveys that by making students non-academic interests the focus can attract and motivate them to learn but acknowledges
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When someone is called intelligent‚ people automatically think of how book smart someone is. Book smart relates to how much information about math‚ science‚ and english a person knows. In Hidden Intellectualism‚ Graff brings up the idea that intelligence isn’t all about a scholarly form of thinking. “Everyone knows some young person who is impressively “street smart” but does poorly in school” is the first line of Graff’s essay (Graff 787). Nowadays‚ it is popular for a person to have the experience
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