reasonable amount of critical thinking ability in order for someone to be able to recognize their shortcomings on this aspect. Being aware is not a sufficient condition for being unbiased but it is far less dangerous than a situation where anti-intellectualism is rife. Irrationality‚ racism‚ xenophobia‚ hatred‚ ignorance and intolerance leads to tribalism‚ violence‚ and ultimately destruction. We fear and want to destroy what we do not understand / do not want to understand. And it is this fear that
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an English professor who has been teaching for several years at the University of Illinois in Chicago‚ argues that “street smarts‚” which can relate to popular culture‚ have educational value and can help young students show and develop their intellectualism. On the other hand‚ Mark Bauerlein‚ an English professor at Emory University since 1989‚ believes pop culture‚ especially modern technology‚ has no benefit to education and even stupefies young students. Others‚ such as Andrea Peacocke who is
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ENGLISH 101—Essay #6 Argumentation LENGTH: 1000 words DUE DATE: For your argumentative essay‚ you will use the readings in They Say‚ I Say‚ Chapter 14 entitled “Are 24‚ Family Guy‚ and Grand Theft Auto Actually Good for You?” We have already used some of the readings in this chapter for the Annotated Bibliography‚ and we will discuss the remaining essays in class. You will be required to use a minimum of four of the essays listed below for your chosen topic‚ meaning that you have quoted
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be solved into an identity in itself.” Then there is the Cult of Separatism‚ in this cult‚ the uniqueness of our history is used as a justification to exempt us from the rules that govern the rest of American society. While in the Cult of Anti-Intellectualism‚ an affinity toward education is seen as running counter to an "authentic" black identity. In trying to explain these three cancerous aspects of black American cultural groupthink‚ McWhorter also addresses how these three “cults” have led African
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diploma that he or she does not realize the true value of education. It does not matter what one learns in college‚ as long as he or she applies what he or she learns and question ideas with intellectual approaches. Gerald Graff emphasizes in “Hidden Intellectualism” that "one of the major reasons why school and colleges overlook the intellectual potential of street smarts: the fact that we associate those street smarts with anti-intellectual concerns" (264). People relate education with how much the
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illustrates that the movie "Dead Poet’s Society" echoes Transcendentalist notions in content in that self-reliance and individualism must outweigh external authority and blind conformity to custom or tradition‚ intuition is superior to deliberate intellectualism and rationality and in structure through the idea that one can find truth and beauty in nature. One of the main ideas of Transcendentalism is that one’s own opinions should prevail over deliberate conformity. Emerson wrote concerning that notion
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However‚ “organizationally they [new evangelicals] were within the broader fundamentalist/evangelical coalition” (27). From 1942‚ “The National Association of Evangelicals” created four significant issues: unity/separation‚ social‚ scholarship/intellectualism‚ and evangelism. Ellingsen describe the unity/separation issue well‚ he says‚ “In many ways this desire to present the old fundamentals of the faith in a positive not merely defensive‚ way was to set the agenda and rationale for the emergence
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Gage would agree with this because he had his teacher‚ Miss Hurd‚ try to help him improve with his writing skills. The next author was Malcolm X. His writing was also about his life. He wrote about how he was illiterate while he was in prison‚ but to pass his time he decided to learn how to become literate. He started this by reading the dictionary. While he read the dictionary‚ he would copy each word down so‚ with time he would memorize the words in the dictionary. Eventually‚ he learned better
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Compare and contrast the moral outlook of Socrates and the Sophists Although both the Sophists and Socrates are considered philosophers due to their interest in human morality‚ their outlook regarding the subject of Truth differs greatly. The sophists were sceptics on the matter of the existence of eternal Truth‚ whilst to Socrates Truth was an absolute. This can be clearly seen in their varying epistemologies. The Sophists were a group of intellectuals that travelled extensively throughout the
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Darwinism After Darwin made his theory of evolution the theory of Social Darwinism was created. Susan Jacoby in her book‚ “the Age of American Unreason”‚ was very critical of this theory and attributed its popularity it to the rise anti-intellectualism and anti-intellectualism in the United States culture. She describes how the pseudoscience was created from the actual scientific theory of evolution in order to push American elitist views on why there is inequality in society. Social Darwinism is the idea
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