Gerald Graff Essay

starts by explaining his childhood troubles. The divide between his peers with the need to appear ‘street-smart’, and his future with the need to be academically smart. Like many children, his primary interests laid outside of school bounties. For Graff, the interest was sports though not merely just the act of them also the discussion of them. He recalls his interest in sports magazines, novels, and the discussions/debates of them between his friends. Graff’s point of bringing up his childhood…

that is the goal of true education.” Individuals are continuously learning on a daily basis and are not focused on lifelong learning, but rather the present grades they earn themselves. All of the sources, such as John Bridgeland, Rong Chen, Gerald Graff, Bob Herbert, and K. Robinson support the basic theory of the need for change in schools. Beginning with the faculty staff and working towards making the students feel like there is a purpose. All of these authors use analytical tactics such…

get a better education. Similar to Gerald Graff, the author of ¨Hidden Intellectualism¨, some people can not afford to get a good education. This is also because Graff had to impress the hoods and not show too much interest into school, if he wanted to be accepted by the people he lives around. Graff stated this on page 959, when he said ¨between the need not to jeopardise my respectable future and the need to impress the hoods.¨ Also, school was not for Graff, he was strictly street smart and…

In the article, New Orleans Is Wrong to Remove Its Confederate Monuments, Daniel Davidson argues that it was wrong for the confederate statues in New Orleans to be taken down. He advocates his argument by using a numerous amount of rhetorical strategies- slippery slope, parallel structure, rhetorical questions, ethos, pathos, and logos. In Davidson’s article, he starts off with using a story of the first confederate stature being torn down- in the story, Davidson uses pathos to connect with the…

before and improving one’s intellectual thought process. A similar quote my math teacher used to say: “It’s the same thang with another name,” brings out an argument that education is learning to think about what one knows in a different light. In Gerald Graff’s essay, “Hidden Intellectualism”, he responds to the educational system, arguing that street smarts are just as important as book smarts. He insists that what students know could help them develop stronger intellectual skills in how they…

development. In “IMHO: Is Digital Communication Good or Bad – or Both,” Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein employ respectful diction, logical proposals, and thorough understanding of the larger conversation to convey digital communication’s shortcomings and apathetic affect on literacy development.…

achieve this understanding is directly interfering with today’s society, and the only way to avoid this neurological recession is by being aware of how much you truly rely on technology and asking your self is it worth it? In They Say, I Say by Gerald Graff, Cathy Birkenstein, and Russel Durst technology and human exist is described as an obligate relationship, there will always be advances but with this there are also disadvantages to the human brain and the way things are perceived. The…

that encourages success. In order, for both Wes Moores’ to be successful they need parental guidance, self-discipline, and positive mentors. In these articles “‘Bros Before Hos’: The Guy Code” by Michael Kimmel and “Hidden Intellectualism” by Gerald Graff they relate to Wes#1 and Wes#2 growing up and learning to be a man that is acceptable in “guyland”. Kimmel discusses “the guy code” as the expectations and rules of being a man. “‘The Guy Code’ is the collection of attitudes, values, and…

A large number of American undergraduates are uncertain of what their true passions are. Generally, high school graduates are expected to continue their education in a 4-year bachelor program at a university. This common process, however, would prove to be exceeding complicated for the young scholars. In most cases, they are not equipped with the ability to decide the path of their career at the age of 18. One cannot simply make such crucial decision whilst being in an environment that requires…

Bullets of sweat started running down my face as it is my turn to read a page from a book out loud to the class. Although the book was a simple elementary level book, to me it had the complexity of Shakespeare as I looked down at the words. For many kids my age reading skills seemed to come naturally to them, they could read through pages and pages without the slightest flaw. This made me question if there was something wrong with me or if I would ever be able to read as elegantly as others…