Francheska Sanchez Professor Charles French ENG255 Literature and Film August 4‚ 2010 A Sequence Analysis: “The Bamboo Forest Fighting Sequence” in Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger‚ Hidden Dragon Perhaps‚ the powerful storyline of the Crouching Tiger‚ Hidden Dragon was what encouraged one of the greatest cinematic martial arts directors Ang Lee‚ to make a film out of the Chinese novel. In this film‚ Lee’s primary function is not only to portray skillfully choreographed fighting scenes‚ but also
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Liz Jansen From Dryden to Blake British English 10-01-2013 1415 words Hidden Messages of the Dressing Room Satires On Jonathan Swift and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Jonathan Swift is one of the most famous poets from the eighteenth century. He has written many satires including “The Lady’s Dressing Room”. This poem is about a man named Strephon and a woman named Celia. In the poem‚ Celia tries to make herself presentable to society while Strephon sneaks in her dressing room and there discovers
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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 book smarts. Gerald Graff
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Chapter 1 - Solutions Overview: Problem Length {S} [M] 1.{S}(i) Problem #s 1 to 23 24 Short-term lenders are concerned primarily with liquidity. Accounting standards would focus primarily on near-term cash flows and might include cash flow forecasting. Performance reporting would likely emphasize cash-based measures. (ii) Long-term equity investors are primarily concerned with the earning power of the firm. Income measurement would be the focus of standards for such users. (iii)Tax authorities
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Patrick Wyszynski Doctor Todd Bruce ENG 111-68 5 October 2014 Hidden Intellectualism: A Summary During my lifetime‚ I’ve been referred to as “book smart” once or twice. For many years I thought this was preferable to the less flattering “street smart” label. However‚ Gerald Graff‚ a professor of English and education at The University of Illinois at Chicago‚ argues in his writing Hidden Intellectualism from his 2003 Book Clueless in Academe: How Schooling Obscures the Life of the Mind that
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as sports‚ video games or the Internet. What if these interests were brought into the classroom and taught? Gerald Graff‚ the author of “Hidden Intellectualism” argues that there is more than one way to measure intelligence. This essay significantly considers how Graff’s beliefs on “Hidden Intellectualism” can be related to today’s education system. While I somewhat agree with Graff I find it difficult to completely believe that children should be taught only of topics that interest them for
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Umair Zia Houghton English June 30th‚ 2013 Book Smart vs. Street Smart In the article‚ “Hidden Intellectualism‚” Gerald Graff discusses the topic of book smart versus street smart. Being street smart means having interest in other activities more than in school work‚ while being book smart is the complete opposite of that. Graff believes that having the personality of a street smart person can benefit society if one knows how to channel their potential correctly. He persuades his views
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How television is making people smarted. People all over the world turn on their television each night and watch a few moments to a few hours of television and it is hard to miss a reality show which on almost any channel. If they were to pause on one of these shows they might not know it but they would bettering themselves on a personal level. Based on the ideas of Steven Johnson the average person could learn a thing or two from reality TV. In his article called‚ “Watching TV Makes You Smarter”
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for famous magazines Vogue‚ Seventeen‚ and the New Yorker‚ and Gerald Gaff‚ professor of English and education at the University of Illinois at Chicago‚ discuss the ever-popular debate on modern technology and the role in plays in schools. Goldwasser and Graff’s articles‚ “What’s the Matter with Kids Today?” and “Hidden Intellectualism” approach the topic in a different sense. Goldwasser expresses her thoughts through technology and Graff expresses his mainly through sports‚ yet both authors discuss
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what is taught through experience. I feel like a mix of both would be the best combination for a student. Gerald Graff‚ author of “Hidden Intellectualism” in the book They Say‚ I Say explains in his writings that intellect does not only exist in the educated form of thinking. He explains that besides the traditional academic intellectualism there can be some forms of hidden intellectualism that does not come from “book smarts‚” or academics‚ but come from “street smarts” such as things learned
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