The Impact of Music Piracy According to the Recording Industry of America (RIAA) the record industry loses $4.3 billion dollars‚ worldwide‚ due to music piracy (RIAA‚ 2003). The American Federation of Artists claims that on-line music piracy has caused some record store sales to drop by 20% and that 20.6 billion illegal downloads occur every month (AFM‚ 2004). Many experts believe that music piracy is currently the number one threat to the music industry. RIAA sources claim 278 million people
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November15th 2013 In “Anti-Intellectualism: Why We Hate the Smart Kids”‚ Grant Penrod makes the argument that academic achievement should be rewarded just as much if not more than athletic achievement. He gives out on the fact that today’s society tends to glorify non-intellectuals‚ such as athletes and celebrities‚ while the intellectually skilled individuals get left on the sidelines with little recognition for their accomplishments. The intellectuals‚ typically seen as “nerds”
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going to arise. But this was soon proven wrong when the debates between the Federalists and Anti-Federalists in 1787 and 1788 stir into a two party system. This soon led to a permanent feature in American policies. In early times‚ groups of people formed temporary assembly and voted together either for or against a specific policy. When the policy was settled‚ the assemblies would dissolve. The Federalists and Anti-Federalist was sort of like these assemblies‚ but they didn’t dissolve that easily. The
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more beneficial for them to be introduced to more modern skills that will interest them and make them want to learn. In the essay Graff incorporates his own personal experience with being interested in baseball. He says that sports affected his “anti-intellectual” actions because what he was learning in school was not stimulating his mind while sports and baseball were. Graff states that he experienced something that eventually made him realize that being academically smart can be very beneficial
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escalate. College students began protesting on campus across the country leading to class cancellations. In 1968 anti-war demonstrators flocked to the Democratic National Convention to protest the nomination of a pro war president. Between the large groups that formed and collaboration from significant public figures the anti-war protests were no longer ignored and had a powerful effect (“The Anti-War
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Until I entered college‚ I hated books and cared only for sports.” (Graff 199) He later reflects his newfound thoughts on intellectualism as he states‚ “I have recently come to think‚ however‚ that my preference for sports over schoolwork was not anti-intellectualism so much as intellectualism by other means.” (Graff 200) He then allows the reader to
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and vowed to destroy the existing order and reconstruct it. The Dadaists embarked on their crusade by trying to shock the public by constructing offensive or outrageous works of art and literature. They expressed themselves with creations that were “anti-art”‚ meaning that they ignored aesthetics‚ had no underlying meaning‚ and sought to offend.
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Avatar and Capitalism: The Conflict of ‘By Any Means Necessary’ Civilization was born from the human need to evolve from savages. Throughout history humans have deemed our great civilizations as what separated us from savages‚ but as Mark Twain’s once said‚ “The only very marked difference between the average civilized man‚ and the average savage is that one is gilded and the other is painted” (Vowell‚ 2005). A relation can be drawn between Twain’s remarks and Director James Cameron’s film Avatar
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racial barrier between black and white people but remained only reserved for black listeners. And with arrival of the First World War came the first forms of anti war songs against the U.S.A.’s decision to enter the European war‚ like “I Didn’t Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier‚” (1915) by lyricist Alfred Bryan ‚ thus music became a major factor in the anti war movement that had been born in the period which influenced the public at the time. And though music began to emerge in the first quarter of the 20th
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Whitehouse.gov‚ n.d. Web. 8 Mar. 2014 Harenber “History of the Internet Piracy Debate.” Congressional Digest 90.9 (2011): 258-288. MasterFILE Premier. Web. 19 Mar. 2014 King‚ Jamilah and Jorge Rivas Masnick‚ Mike. “How Much Is Enough? We ’ve Passed 15 ’Anti-Piracy ’ Laws In The Last 30 Years.” techdirt. Floor64‚ 15 Feb. 2012. Web. 8 Mar. 2014. “Minneapolis Division.” The FBI Federal Bureau of Investigation. U.S. Department of Justice‚ n.d. Web. 8 Mar. 2014 “Piracy.” Dictionary.com “Piracy by the Numbers
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