In the article “Anti-Intellectualism and the ‘Dumbing Down’ of America‚” Ray Williams draws attention to a very pressing and controversial idea‚ the anti-intellectual ignorance of modern American culture. Williams claims that Americans have developed a caustic standard of entitlement without representation. This political and social issue has only been worsened by the age of modern technology and social media. While less than 40% of Americans under the age of 44 have not read a book on their own
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Hidden Champions in China Pearl River Piano Group Pearl River Piano Group (PRPG) was established in 1956‚ and it now owns the largest piano factory in the world. PRPG’s factory‚ which produced approximately 83‚000 pianos around the globe in 2008‚ is located in Guangzhou‚ China. PRPG now exports to more than 80 countries all over the world. Now PRPG dominates the domestic market‚ has a market share of 13% in America and enjoys a high growth. By the beginning of the 1980s‚ PRPG had become
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the day‚ Luke gets cabin fever. Longing for contact with the outside world‚ he regularly watches the new neighborhood through vents in the attic walls. Doing so‚ he makes the surprising discovery that one of their neighbors appears to have a third‚ hidden child as well. One day‚ after weeks of careful observation and planning‚ he sneaks over to their house‚
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Is Brawn is Better than Brains?: A Response to ¨Anti-Intellectualism: Why We Hate the Smart Kids¨ “Anti-Intellectualism: Why We Hate the Smart Kids” by Grant Penrod is an essay written by a college student from Arizona State University‚ who writes about his perspective on a particular high school ideal. His thesis explains the three reasons he believes society dislikes intellectuals. His first reasons are the social stereotypes that are present early in high school with physical activities and
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Sederra Ross Mrs. Wilson English Composition 105-06 23 September 2012 The Cult of Anti-Intellectualism Discussion Questions 1. Define the term “Cult of Victomology.” Then explain how it works as a factor in encouraging poor academic performance. “Cult of Victomology” is defined as the black Americans fixation upon remnants of racism and resolutely downplays all signs of its demise which becomes a keystone of cultural blackness to treat victimhood not as a problem to be solved but as an
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short simple story I’ll tell unto ye Concerning two (2) men who started to rove And dig for Kidd’s treasure down in Fortune Hill Cover. Being asked to speak about hidden treasures in the Bahamas is like being asked to speak about the heat in the Sahara Desert‚ or the cold at the North Pole; the Bahamas is itself a veritable hidden treasure in the opinion of many. If‚ for a moment‚ you believe that I am exaggerating‚ then ask the average tourist that comes here; especially one coming from some
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“No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin‚ or his background or his religion. People learn to hate‚ and if they can learn to hate‚ they can be taught to love‚ for love comes more naturally to the human heart than the opposite.” Nelson Mandela‚ a leader of the fight to end apartheid in his home country of South Africa helps shed light on how racism can be fought in the United States. Even though America has come a long way from the times of slavery‚ racism continues to
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Hidden Figures a box office success exemplifying the socio-political climate of modern cinematic developments in the West. With the Hollywood stamp of approval‚ “so to speak” this unprecedented portrayal of a not so long ago time is gaining momentum to these current matters‚ non-discriminatory ideas‚ the enduring black history month‚ and a social media boom of enthusiasm for LGBTQ and female empowerment. Any‚ who are susceptible to an enticing film predicated on social and civil movements‚ along
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Hidden Figures‚ a 2016 film based on a true story by the Director Theodore Melfi. The film follows the lives of three female African-American women who endured racial discrimination‚ segregation as well as the patriarchal American society of the 1970s. These women acquired temporary jobs in National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and were the brains behind launching the Friendship 7 into space. The Friendship 7 was the first rocket the Americans successfully sent to outer space. During
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all K-12 classrooms. However‚ while the classroom materials advance and new methods of teaching trickle in‚ there is still a problem. As Jean Anyon (1980) would point out‚ “there exists a hidden curriculum in the classroom”. This idea resides in the fact that while schools are advancing there is an issue‚ a hidden curriculum‚ in which students are taught according to their social class. This idea reinforces the class struggle that Karl Marx had become an advocate for. The idea that capitalism only
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