“nonintellectual” due to his lack of interest in academic literary subjects. Graff also discusses how his interest in sports actually led him into academic intellectualism as an adult. Graff’s theses that intellectualism should not be restricted to just the “intellectual” academic subjects but instead should include popular interests of students into academic studies. Graff effectively debates that his childhood conversations with his friends are
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fans become great intellectuals? Well when speaking in forms of intellectualism‚ Gerald Graff considers Sports and other forms of “street smarts” do seem to be their own form of intellectualism. The new Hidden Intellectualism that is found within these “street smarts”. Hidden intellectualism to Graff in early life was the argument/debate on who is the toughest and what sports team was the best. When arguing about these things graph found himself doing the things intellectuals do in “academic” conversations
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paragraph Graff tells us of how “we associate those streets smarts with anti-intellectual concerns”. Graff explains that young persons who are impressively street smart do not do well in school‚ and in return schools and colleges overlook the intellectualism potential of the street smarts kids. This appeals to readers logically because people know as sad as the matter is it is true most times street smart kids are intellectual within what they know‚ instead of being intellect in school which is Graffs
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realize that their class produced Arizona’s first national champion in Lincoln-Douglass Debate. After all‚ why should they? He and his teammates were “just the nerds.” This instance finds plentiful company in the experiences of everyday life; intellectuals almost constantly see their efforts trivialized in the rush to lavish compliments elsewhere. However‚ such occurrences present only a faint silhouette of true anti-intellectualism; trivialization seems insignificant when compared with the outright
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sports. He was the typical teenage anti-intellectual or so he believed for a long time. While being very analytical of sports team movies‚ and the toughness he and his friends engaged in‚ he was unknowingly before now trained to be intellect in a class room and other school subjects. After coming to an understanding of what these conversations helped Graff establish‚ the idea that “the sports world was more compelling than school because it was more intellectual than school‚ not less” began to sink
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Courage is a word many would connect towards someone who is brave and willing to fight for something in which they believe‚ but possessing courage means to know when to take a more passive approach towards a conflict. History shows that many famous individuals have showed courage by displaying peaceful protests‚ and which these protests turned into success. Courage has always been part of history through the protest of Gandhi‚ Martin Luther King Jr‚ and Nelson Mandela which lead to a better world
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modern literature‚ courage is the characters of Tris in Divergent and Harry Potter and Hermonie Granger in Harry Potter. Another example in modern literature of a courageous individual is found in the unlikely character of Nikolai Kreztsky‚ who is a Siberian camp guard in the novel Between Shades of Gray. Nikolai Kreztsky’s courageousness is exhibited in his compassionate acts many times throughout the course of the novel. One example of Kreztsky’s courage and compassion would
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the duration of their life. In his article Hidden Intellectualism‚ Graff states‚ "I believe that street smarts beat out book smarts in our culture not because street smarts are nonintellectual‚ as we generally suppose‚ but because they satisfy an intellectual thirst more thoroughly than school culture...... " (Graff 248). This announcement could be contended that both intellectualisms are imperative and street smarts don’t fulfill a scholarly thirst for each person. It could likewise be brought up that
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Mockingbird by Harper Lee‚ courage is a message depicted very strongly. Scout and Jem are siblings living in the early 1930’s‚ and the world is dramatically revolutionizing right in front of their eyes. From a sickly woman in their neighborhood breaking herself of a painful addiction‚ to the children’s lives later being saved by a seemingly non-existent friend‚ bravery and audacity seem to rise up everywhere in the Finch children’s’ world. To Kill a Mockingbird shows that courage is about having the
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solider that was seen in The Red Badge of Courage to the courageous and honorable man shown in The Veteran. Henry Fleming entered the war against his mother’s wishes. He believed that he would prosper and gain honor as a solider. “He had‚ of course‚ dreamed of battles all his life (Thoughtco.com). Henry believed in the
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