is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree‚ it will spend its whole life thinking it ’s stupid”. As stated by one of the greatest minds of all time‚ every individual has the capacity to be an intellectual‚ but the way society currently measures intellect purely based off of one’s “book smarts” not everyone’s genius is fully realized. As stated by Gerald Graff In his essay “Hidden Intellectualism” Graff states that our current system of teaching does by no means try to foster
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The story ‘Among the Hidden’ and the article ‘China Lifts One-Child Policy Amid Worries Overy Graying Population’ are similar because they both include a limit on how many children a person and/or family is allowed to have. In each article it mentions being able to have two children. However‚ in China people were legally only allowed to have one child. In the story ‘Among the Hidden’ if you had more than two children‚ any more children you had (third child‚ fourth child‚ etc.) they would be taken
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In the book “Hidden Figures” by Margot Lee Shetterley‚ the story follows the American Space Race‚ showing us how women and people of color also impacted the success of the mission‚ even with the many social judgements and obstacles represented. Their impact can be shown in 3 different social groups: Women‚ People of Color‚ and The World. In the book Hidden Figures‚ we can see the efforts of Mary‚ Dorothy‚ Christine‚ and Katherine influence the future of women alike with their incredibly helpful
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The film Hidden in Silence is based on a true story. During WWII‚ while Jews are sent to ghettos‚ Catholic teenager Stefania Podgorska (called Fusia in the movie) helps 13 Jews to save their life while raising her little sister. Every day‚ she risks execution by given food and water to the silent individuals living above her. The film is not very explicit in the violence against the Jews; instead‚ it conveys a message of hope for mankind‚ despite the horror humanity shows itself in sensitive ways
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think of how book 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
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COWLEY COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE Project Implicit Hidden Biases 11/15/2013 Unbiased: not having or showing an unfair tendency to believe that some people‚ ideas‚ etc.‚ are better than others : not biased 1: free from bias; especially : free from all prejudice and favoritism : eminently fair 2: having an expected value equal to a population parameter being estimated (Webster) Hidden Bias Tests measure unconscious‚ or automatic‚ biases. Willingness to examine
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Soranlly Jardines Ms. Hickey Critical Essay-First Draft June 3‚ 2011 The Truth Hidden in Silence Adrienne Rich once said “Lying is done with words‚ but also with silence”. This quote means that lying is done when someone is not only saying the truth‚ but knowing the truth and keeping it to themselves and not saying anything. It can also mean keeping a secret from someone and not knowing the consequence that can happen. I agree with this statement because now and days people either lie or
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Hidden figure summary. The movie " Hidden figures " was made to acknowledge the forgotten efforts and successes of three African American women‚ who fought for what was right even with the opposition they faced. These three women have been forgotten but their works are to be forever remembered. Katherine Johnson‚ a physiatrist and a mathematician who contributed to the United States space program; Mary Jackson‚ the first African American female engineer; and Dorothy Vaugh‚ NASA’s first African American
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all over the country. Americans can learn to love one another‚ but they must first discover the roots and causes of racism and stop it before it spreads. In order to deal with racism‚ Americans often: refuse to accept the facts‚ accept it as a way of life‚ and do not do enough to stop its practice. All over the United States‚ the terrible reality of racism is ever more present today than in history. Sharon Blake‚ author of “Racial Injustice; Is America Ignoring the Truth” argues that evidence of racial
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Gerald Graff‚ however‚ expresses his different perspective in his article‚ Hidden Intellectualism. By looking back at his childhood‚ he realizes that his non-academic interest‚ which is reading sports magazines‚ is the actual foundation to his current social position as a professor and a writer. Similarly to Graff with his interest in sports magazines‚ the first batch of brownies that I made was the discovery of my hidden intellectualism
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