Watching TV Makes You Smarter Steven Johnson’s argument in “Watching TV Makes you Smarter” that television increases intellectual and enhances our cognitive faculties‚ therefore making us smarter Johnson’s states that‚ “For decades‚ we’ve worked under the assumption that mass culture follows a path declining steadily toward lowest-common- denominator standards‚ presumably because the “masses” want dumb‚ simple pleasures and big media companies try to give the masses what they want. But as that
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In the article Watching TV Makes You Smarter by Steven Johnson‚ the author argues that by watching television shows various television shows‚ people actually become smarter and how it has a big impact in our lives. He feels that watching TV makes us smarter because why we view things we might have never heard of before. He also uses dialogs to explain for example he used dialogs from the show ER to break down what’s happening between the characters‚ what words and sentences there using. On response
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Watching TV Makes You Smarter By STEVEN JOHNSON The Sleeper Curve SCIENTIST A: Has he asked for anything special? SCIENTIST B: Yes‚ this morning for breakfast . . . he requested something called ’’wheat germ‚ organic honey and tiger’s milk.’’ SCIENTIST A: Oh‚ yes. Those were the charmed substances that some years ago were felt to contain life-preserving properties. SCIENTIST B: You mean there was no deep fat? No steak or cream pies or . . . hot fudge? SCIENTIST A: Those were thought
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“Hidden Intellectualism” is all about being smart in different ways rather than just in academics. Gerald Graff talks about how boring school was for him and compares school to two uncompetitive sports teams. Watching uncompetitive sports gets extremely boring and makes someone not want to pay attention anymore. I tend to agree with the author to a point. After reading “Hidden Intellectualism” it definitely supported my feelings of what smart can be. I know academics is a part of smartness‚ but
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Advantages of thinking outside of the box As a leader‚ one of your key roles is to anticipate and make change in order to ensure that your organisation continues to achieve sustained success. If a an organisation is performing well‚ it is tempting for leaders to fall into the trap of believing that if something is not broken‚ it does need fixing. Yet in truth‚ leaders need to be able to continually innovate so they their organisation and they personally achieve success. Innovation requires leaders
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favorite TV series early in the morning. Girls giggling over the cheesy scenes and boys reenacting the fictitious. It is nice to see them do so but heart-wrecking to see failing scores and undone assignments. The entertainment that the television‚ referred to as the idiot box by one of my colleagues‚ offers have made them stagnant and‚ for a lack of better words‚ irresponsible. Another thing which I want to point out is the character alterations that we can see from our pupils. Some TV shows which
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NURSES ON THINKING OUTSIDE OF THE BOX In the Clinical Set-Up: As a staff nurse‚ thinking outside of the box may not be as usual or as routinely as we do every shift‚ like doing endorsements or administering medications. On the floor‚ not every issue‚ challenges and patient’s problem requiring nursing intervention necessitate out of the box thinking. We incorporate the nursing process‚ with adequate knowledge‚ nursing skills and attitude learned from getting the degree and through our mere experience
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In the article‚ “Hidden Intellectualism”‚ Gerald Graff‚ is arguing that street smart people are unable to apply their intelligence to academic work. Graff wants schools to expand avenues of what is taught in class. Graff expresses that the educated life is narrow and exclusive with subjects and text that are boring and heavy. I believe schools should allow students to learn about topics that interest them. Schools should create a setting where no subject is discriminated. If we talk about actual
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I believe this essay "Hidden Intellectualism‚" by Gerald Graff is a very persuasive argument. It seems to be a sound‚ strong argument for the authors point. he not only lists exactly what he is talking about‚ but also what could help other; specifically how street smarts can very well be more intellectual than book smarts. Gerald Graff’s essay‚ "Hidden Intellectualism‚" is a critique on how schools are missing out on a valuable opportunity to encourage students to learn more academically. Graff
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should stay the same. The popular saying‚ “If it’s not broke‚ don’t fix it” demonstrates this. However‚ our society demands open-mindedness to revolutionize education and media to institute a more involved level from the public. In the essay‚ Hidden Intellectualism‚ written by Gerald Graff‚ he supports the argument of education becoming more open minded when he says‚ “The challenge‚ as college professor Ned Laff has put it‚ ‘is not simply to exploit students’ nonacademic interests‚ but to get them to
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