book smarts. He demonstrates that while some people come across as very street smart‚ with knowledge on a variety of subjects‚ they do poorly in school and seem like they are not smart. Also‚ schools overlook street smarts as they associate it with anti-intellectual concerns. But what truly makes someone a good thinker‚ Graff challenges‚ is they can turn any subject into something thoughtful through the implementation of good questions and thoughtful responses. Graff insists that in order for children
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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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Music Piracy is a Good thing Pirating music is one of the most common crimes in the world that happens everyday. However‚ ones you read this essay‚ I hope you will see this issue from a different perspective‚ it may not look like such a terrible crime after all. Most successful artists make in the tens of millions every year according to eHow.com. If that’s the truth‚ how badly is piracy really hurting these people? If music piracy is effecting the artist so much then why do majority of
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Gemini Studios Gemini Studios was one of India’s pioneer movie factories. Situated in the present day Chennai‚ owned by S.S Vaasan and worked by over 600 staff‚ the GS made movies for Tamilnadu and other southern Indian states. Pancake[TM] was the makeup material used by the GS. Asokamitran Asokamitran was one of the staff whose job was to collect information such as news events from newspapers and magazines and to paste them in files. The other staff considered his job out of place and most
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what is now seen as one of the most powerful anti-war paintings of the century‚ ‘as one commentator puts it: “Picasso often stressed the need for the modern artist to be a visual kleptomaniac‚ and with Guernica he didn’t disappoint.” ’ After having the pleasure of seeing this outstanding piece myself at the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid‚ it is immediately understandable how this piece is the focus of a great amount of criticism and is often described as anti war propaganda. Unlike war artist‚ Xavier
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What was 1920’s art like? By: Marisol Menendez and Libby Davis Art Influences • Art in the 1920’s was mainly influenced by two movements: Dada and Surrealism. Dada Art • Dada was an anti-art movement . Anti Art painters rejected in some way the conventional artistic standards. • It was born out of negative reaction to the horrors of World War I. It rejected reason and logic‚ prizing nonsense‚ irrationality and intuition. Many Dada artist scattered across Europe after Great War ended. Dada’s
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“I was never an American. I was immediately a New Yorker.” How is Changez’s sense of identity altered over the course of the novel? Identity is as much about public perception as it is self-perception. In Mohsin Hamid’s novel The Reluctant Fundamentalist the reader is confronted with this fact in a bid to understand what it means to be American and Pakistani. The narrator Changez is unsure of who he is‚ and whilst certain personality traits remain‚ his sense of identity is changed significantly
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Street Smarts over Book Smarts Gerald Graff is a Professor of English and Education in the University of Illinois at Chicago. In Graff’s essay‚ “Hidden Intellectualism”‚ Graff compares street smarts to book smarts. Graff debates the common belief that having book smarts gives one an intellectual advantage over other forms of intellectualism. Gerald Graff supports this belief by telling a personal story‚ explaining where the education systems fails‚ and stating that people stereotype intellect with
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Kristeena Gonzalez Gonzalez 1 Smith Eng. - 50 September 28‚ 2013 Pop Culture in Academics In Gerald Graff’s “Hidden Intellectualism‚” Graff argues that schools should encourage students to think critically‚ read‚ and write about areas of personal interest such as cars‚ fashion‚ or music but as long as they do so in an intellectually way. I happen to agree with Graff and his perspective for many different reasons. I personally
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PHL/320 Douglas Reed Sweatshop labor is something we hear all too often but do you know what a sweatshop really is? A sweatshop is defined by the United States Department of Labor as company that breaks 2 or more federal laws. Sweatshops are inhumane‚ companies force people to work in unsafe‚ unsanitary‚ for low wages‚ and use children as well. Companies make millions each year off of sweatshop labor. Are the items you purchase made in a sweatshop? If you shop at places like Walmart
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