Analysis of Gerald Graff’s Essay “Hidden Intelligence” Most people‚ when asked‚ say that a person is intelligent if they have “book smarts.” People that are book smart can write and converse about subjects taught in school. On the other hand‚ people with “street smarts” aren’t seen as intellectuals because the subjects they are knowledgeable about are not traditional. In his essay called “Hidden Intellectualism‚” Gerald Graff insists that schools and colleges are missing an opportunity to translate
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Academic VS Cultural Intellectualism In Gerald Graff’s essay Hidden Intellectualism; he criticizes those who do not put appropriate value into "street smarts." Graff persists that knowledge extends further than academic learning and carries into the everyday life. He writes about some of his precollege experiences with being as a “nonintellectual” due to his lack of interest in academic literary subjects. Graff also discusses how his interest in sports actually led him into academic intellectualism
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1. Do you think the internet as a technology helps or hurts musical artists? Why do so many musical performers differ in their opinions about the internet? With the development of the internet and the influence that technology has on musical artists‚ it has become a convergence that now run hand in hand. Before the internet‚ artists were recording their music in studios and producers were selling their CD’s to customers in person. Ten years ago‚ the biggest record labels were worried about online
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Salvador Dali: Vision of Hell Surrealism was the 20th century phase in art and literature of expressing subconscious in images without order or coherence‚ as in a dream. Surrealist art went beyond writing or painting objects as they looked at reality. Their art showed objects in distorted forms‚ colors‚ and movements‚ like in a dream. Dali’s surrealistic art was based on the belief that there were treasures hidden in the human mind. The word fantasy cannot accurately describe surrealism. Rather
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Advocates of Realism theory contend race and ethnicity are truths that contribute to an over arching make-up that equals an innate social identity. The rudimentary proponents of an individual’s identity must then suffice as pragmatic and permanent from birth. Subsequently‚ when humans build relations perceivable features allow us to understand similarities and disparities. According to Realists‚ no two individuals are the same and therefore the ensuing natural propensity creates categories for placing
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Although DJ Earworm is using copyrighted material that is illegal to use in the opinion of most people‚ DJ Earworm deserves to be credited for his work regardless of copyright and should not be sued for his creation of art. To begin with‚ DJ Earworm has the same right as anyone to use these pieces of music even though they are under copyright. As he mentions in the article‚ DJ Earworm believes that he follows the “U.S. Principle of Fair Use”(Morse) ; therefor‚ allowing him to not be attacked
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By the time Surrealism emerged as a recognized artistic movement‚ several influential film genres had begun their push into a global cinematic conscience. Such genre-defining films as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) and Nosferatu (1922) for German Expressionism‚ and Battleship Potemkin (1925) for Soviet Montage‚ were all released within a few years of Andre Breton’s First Manifesto of Surrealism in 1924. But Surrealism itself would not see its first film with popular recognition until later in
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Hidden Intellectualism Essay Could sports fans become great intellectuals? Well when speaking in forms of intellectualism‚ Gerald Graff considers Sports and other forms of “street smarts” do seem to be their own form of intellectualism. The new Hidden Intellectualism that is found within these “street smarts”. Hidden intellectualism to Graff in early life was the argument/debate on who is the toughest and what sports team was the best. When arguing about these things graph found himself doing
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of writing that gives nature a whole new meaning. Essentially saying that there are spiritual connections to nature. Thoreau’s story “Walden” shows Thoreau’s love for nature. While Hawthorne was known for romanticism writing style. Hawthorne was an Anti- Transcendentalist. In other words‚ Hawthorne was known for his power of blackness. He uses evil in his stories such as “Young Goodman Brown”. He uses evil by his use of allegories and symbols. Thoreau’s love for nature is greatly present in his story
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Anti-bullying laws “When people hurt you over and over‚ think of them like sand paper. They may scratch you and hurt you a bit‚ but in the end‚ you end up polished and they end up useless”. A quote by Chris Colfer. The number of kids that get bullied everyday are increasing in the state of Arizona. In order to stop the bullying in the schools of mesa‚ Arizona must create a stronger anti-bullying law. To begin with‚ over the years the percentages of kids getting bullied are getting tremendously
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