Brains vs Brawns: A Summary In Gerald Graff’s “Hidden Intellectualism,” Graff explains that having “street smart” (244) does not mean one is not intelligent. Graff mentions schools and colleges might be the reason for why students are missing an opportunity to be both academically smart and street smart at the same time. Graff implies that knowledge comes in many different forms (246). Graff argues for the use of non- topics in a school setting, because the non-academic topics start healthy competition and bring students together.
“America Needs Its Nerds” an article created by Leonid Fridman, puts forth a pertinent issue in today’s society: intellectually adept students are ostracized. Fridman argues that smart, curious students need to stop feeling ashamed for being smart and curious. Society needs to change because their current philosophy towards intellect is one of pessimism. Fridman develops these arguments in his essay by utilizing the rhetorical strategy of parallelism, drawing conclusions, and through his use of diction.
Similarly, it shows how slowly news traveled, preventing these citizens from staying current and informed. Though the cliché saying, “Ignorance is bliss” may come to mind, it is not the blissfulness of life that is being argued but rather the wisdom of society. As people stay in their area of expertise for such a long period of time they begin to gain “wisdom.” As described by the author, they learn about human nature in their field as well as the processes of life as they go through them. These lessons, however, can be learned over time regardless of a person’s depth of knowledge in a topic.
Both The Odyssey and Cold Mountain parallel each other in many things such as character, plot, and theme. An instance of this analogous relationship are the characters Junior and Polyphemus. Junior and Polyphemus embody inhospitality, demonstrate brutality through cannibalism, and leave their respective victims with lasting troubles. Junior and Polyphemus are the epitome of inhospitality within their respective books. Junior displays his unwelcoming nature by inviting Inman to come to his house after he helps Junior remove his bull from a river, only to repay Inman by selling him out to the Home Guard for “five dollars a head for every outlier [turned over].”
The law has dictated what is allowable within the realm of euthanasia. Dr. Jack Kevorkian is the most infamous physician associated with euthanasia. MacKinnon and Fiala state “For eight years, starting in 1990, Kevorkian assisted more than 100 suicides” (Physician-Assisted Suicide). His role was active though and he used a variety of methods.
Lastly the mass media television has inflicted on humans has taken over their social life and will to speak to others. “Television and popular magazines have reduced our society to mediocre tasks” (Sisario). This evidence shows how we have become lazy and are not willing to do harder tasks.
Naval War College, in his article, How We Killed Expertise (And why we need it back) describes how citizens of America are killing expertise by assuming that they know everything about a topic. Nichols article was published by Politico in 2017; it was originally published in Politico’s magazine. The purpose of this article is to inform American citizens how we as people are killing expertise by believing that we know everything. For example, our President Donald Trump does things without consulting with politic experts because he thinks he know everything which is not true since he’s a business man not a
When individuals are told that there is a problem with themselves and society, the reaction could be either anger or confusion. Since this generation never made a transition from analog to digital, a reader from this generation would be offended. This change to Carr’s mind has always been the mind of a person from this generation. Almost as if, Carr is depicting this generation is strange and unusual. As young children, fitting in was what most aspired to do because of the fear of ridicule and isolation.
“Hidden Intellectualism,” by Gerald Graff starts off with an older argument between being book smart and street smart. Throughout the reading, Graff uses his own life experiences to critique the education system today. Points made focus on the idea of overlooking the intellectual potential of those who come across as being, “street smart”. Different authors cited in the reading to show how to accept another’s different intellectual. However, we realize that people who come across as being intellectual weren’t always labeled as that.
Leonid Fridman writes about the disrespect and ridicules smart people get for how they live and how it greatly impacts our country's future. Smart people are bullied and then in a lot of cases thought
”(Bradbury 80). What Faber is saying is that when people watch television, they tend to learn the characters actions and attitude, but it does not get the actual person anywhere in life, just trouble. For example, Mildred she watches television everyday listening to what the characters are saying, but she is not learning anything just how to be an ignorant snob. Children today watch so much TV and barely do any homework, and that gets them nowhere and no
The reason Lunsford includes this account of events is because it proves that while mass media might seem like its dumbing down the younger generation it is actually teaching them different kinds of writing and when to use different contexts. Although Lunsford provides great research, mass medias effects are not simply grounded in
The Rhetorical Analysis of the “America Needs its Nerds” The mental capacity is treated as a disadvantage in the America, despite the fact it already helped the country many times. This long-term problem became the main topic of the Leonid Fridman’s essay “America Needs its Nerds”. The work first appeared on January 11, 1990 in the New York Times as a part of the series “Voices of the New Generation”. The author spoke about the negative attitude the American society has to smart people and demonstrates it with the usage of words like “nerd” or “geek”.
Ernest J. Gaines novel “A Lesson Before Dying” demonstrates how the author uses the first person point of view to tell a story about racial intolerance. What would one expect when an innocent black man is at a crime scene with 3 men killed on the floor. Even though Jefferson (man being charged) knows he didn’t do anything he is still convicted to the death penalty. They call him a hog and begin to believe it. On the other hand, Gaines incriminates the society as racist.
“These soap operas are works of fiction, even if simplistic and meaningless ones, and such, are “about non-existent people” about the non-living, and their sole purpose is to distract people 's attention from lives of other people.” The schools are no different, when it comes to being as engaged in technology as the adults in their homes. According to Anna McHugh, schools of the future exploit the television’s effect of “quick and wide spreading” of current and often emotionally charged information which is designed and destined to be forgotten at the instant of its reception. Communication between people is the ideal way to commence this process, but in TV class, the communication is monodirectional, and the resulting material transmitted to the student remains data rather than knowledge. “Thinking of technology broadly constructed as a man made tool or object - they “do not know” but they can teach us humanism.”
