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    Erving Goffman was born on 11 June 1922 in Canada and died in Philadelphia on 19 November 1982. He was a professor at the University of Pennsylvania. The most important books wrote by Goffman are: Asylums‚ Stigma‚ Encounters‚ Frame Analysis‚ Behavior in Public Spaces and Interaction Ritual. The book Asylums is divided into four essays: On the Characteristics of Total Institutions‚ The Moral Career of the Mental Patient‚ The Underlife of a Public Institution and the Medical Model and Mental Hospitalization

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    What makes a patriot? People through the ages have carried out both horrible and wonderful acts under the banner of patriotism. How then are we to define it? The concept of patriotism is just as debated and relevant today as it was during the Civil War. If our nation is to survive its current challenges‚ the definition of a true patriot must be clear. So‚ what is true patriotism? Only 57 percent of U.S. citizens over 18 described themselves as either “extremely” or “very” patriotic in a study

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    Numerous individuals contend whether it is ideal to have street smarts or book smarts. In the wake of doing some exploration‚ it is to trust that having both is critical to a person’s intellectualism. As per Graff’s paper‚ Hidden Intellectualism‚ he suggests that in extra to simply book smarts‚ understudies who have more road smarts have the capacity to amass their insight into book smarts also. He underpins this contention with his childhood encounters with unique hobbies in perusing games rather

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    The assignment this week was to write a two-page paper describing how the Victorian Movement‚ Arts and Crafts Movement‚ and Art Nouveau Movements were related and/or impacted each other. In order to accomplish this task‚ one would have to explore the origins of Art Nouveau. Upon reading the selected reading and reviewing the required videos it was clear that it could be argued as to which was the last movement of the Nineteenth-century or the first movement of the Twentieth-century. Additionally

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    Robert Hobbs tells us in his article Early Abstract Expressionism and Surrealism‚ that over the years the Abstract Expressionists were stumbling through a number of half understood truths about modern art and attempting to find a way to communicate their feelings about the apocalyptic state of the world. The Abstract Expressionism movement is similar in many ways to the 1920’s Surrealism movement. There are similarities and differences between the two styles. Hobbs tells us that although both Surrealism

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    Musician Tom Lehrer said “I have always found it interesting… that there are people who regard copyright infringement as a form of flattery.” (n.d.). Although flattery was probably not on the mind of 2 Live Crew when they released “Pretty Woman”‚ the group’s intent for the song was to be a parody of Roy Orbison and William Dees’s version of “Oh‚ Pretty Woman” (Deutsch‚ 1995). The facts and legal reasoning behind this case will be discussed to show how the court reached its decision. In addition‚

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    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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