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 starts
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Aiza Daud Lucinda Channon English 1301 5 September 2011 Interest Initiates Learning In Gerald Graff’s essay‚ Hidden Intellectualism‚ one is exposed to the author’s view of different means of intellectualism. Graff gives the reader an uncommon perception of what it means to be an intellectual. He expresses his views by stating that a person can be an intellectual in fields that have nothing to do with academia‚ such as street smarts or particular interests. He also states that if you incorporate
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choose between using drugs or not‚ to boost his grades‚ he probably would. Moller feels that people expect too much of athletes. “Look‚ you and I both understand that the majority of the best players in baseball are steroid users.” (Moller and Birkenstein 548) When faced with the option of whether to do right and fail horribly or‚ to use drugs and have a great life; most people would use the drugs and cheat. Athletes have a choice of using drugs and becoming a legend‚ or not using them and risk
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Timed Writing Assignment When reading "Hidden Intellectualism" by Gerald Graff‚ I noticed that he used a lot of examples and illustrations. Throughout this article‚ he uses this rhetorical strategy as a way to create a mental image in the reader’s head. One example of this is where he states "In the Chicago neighborhood I grew up in‚ which had become a melting pot after World War 2 our block was solidly middle class" (Graff 246). For me‚ it not only creates a mental image but it also sets up an interesting
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“Hidden Intellectualism” by Gerald Graff‚ The Author is telling us that knowledge can be seen not only from academic thinking but also in the form of “street smarts”. Graff explains that we know some “impressively street smarts” but does not do well in school‚ but Graff argues that “street smarts” are just as important as “book smarts”. Many people think that it is such a waste‚ that “street smarts” should be taking their knowledge into academic work. But Graff argues that schools should take and
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Gerard Graff’s Influence on Edmundson’s Argument What is Education? It is clear to us that education is an essential part of everyone’s lives and our future depends on it. Despite the differences found in both Edmundson and Graff’s works‚ Graff supports the different ideas Edmundson has toward education. Edmundson‚ who writes “On the Uses of Liberal Education”‚ tells us that today’s priority of education has changed; colleges have turned into a market mentality. Graff’s focus in “Other Voices
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Graff is aware of Ender’s capabilities and truly cares about his feelings. In the example‚ Graff learned to take advantage of an opportunity by defending Ender. By doing so‚ he created a personal bond between them and now Ender feels like he will always have someone to rely on. This bond could potentially
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I want to appeal are people who do not know who is Gerald Graff and are not familiar with his Intellectualism essay. B.) How you like the readers describe the personality you present? The personality I want to convey in this summary is someone who has read Graff’s essay and is able to comprehend what he is trying to say. C.) What questions does your paper answer? Some of the questions I answer in my summary are who is Gerald Graff‚ How he came to philosophy his theory or thought of street
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definition of a marriage? Author E.J. Graff explains what marriage is in her book “What is Marriage For?” Graff starts off by discussing how the majority of states are finally starting to come across the idea of gay marriage and giving marriage rights to same-sex couples. She mentions that over twenty states and countries have passed the same- sex marriage law and that it has opened up so many opportunities for same- sex couples to finally get a marriage license. Graff says that “marriage has always been
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smart someone is. Book smart relates to how much information about math‚ science‚ and english a person knows. In Hidden Intellectualism‚ Graff brings up the idea that intelligence isn’t all about a scholarly form of thinking. “Everyone knows some young person who is impressively “street smart” but does poorly in school” is the first line of Graff’s essay (Graff 787). Nowadays‚ it is popular for a person to have the experience and knowledge for an everyday environment but lack knowledge in educational
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