Gerald Graff Essay

In the excerpt “Hidden Intellectualism” Gerald Graff, professor of English and education at the University of Illinois in Chicago, aims to define the way in which he believes schools are failing…

schools that they should. With the ever changing world that we live in, author Gerald Graff writes in his article 'Hidden Intellectualism ' that we need to think more about what happens in the future in our school, so we need to teach more street smarts in our schools. In Gerald Graff’s Hidden Intellectualism he talks about why we should recognise book smarts and street smarts equally in schools and in society. Graff talks about how when was a kid and how he was not really that interested in…

Other Rooms” by Gerald Graff, he discusses the different styles of teaching and why some work and some set students up for failure. As a college student, I agree with a lot of what he states and I understand his meanings completely. He points out that the way students are taught makes students struggle. Teachers will give students tons of information in each class and it is hard for them to distinguish what is what. They become confused and can’t focus on the big picture. Graff points out bad…

Three professors Richard Rodriguez, Mike Rose and Gerald Graff give problems students encounter in the United States and the entire world through their own experiences. Though the experiences are similar with small variations, they view their challenges in different regards and outline solutions to what according to them are the main difficulties students face in school. This article, therefore, gives an analysis of encounters of the three professors throughout their education including the…

Check and Balance means the influence and participation of each branch to other branches which prevents one branch is overpowered. The Legislative branch is a branch of Congress, which made up of the House of Representatives and Senate. Their main responsibility is to create laws. They have the power of impeachment towards the President and override vetoes with 2/3 the majority vote. Executive branch is where president work. Their job is to enforce the laws that Legislative branch creates. They…

“True leadership is modeled by those who live by proper application of Godliness and principles found in the Word of God, and being consistent with those principles that they teach” (M.Moore, et. Al, 2003). Readings state that Nixon knew about the Watergate Espionage operation before it happened but he tried to cover it up, raising “hush money” for burglars, and in a persistent effort to stop the FBI from investigating the crime. Was it biblical to pardon him? Was it ethical? “All have…

Even though three presidents faced impeachment charges, only one president left office. Richard Nixon, the thirty-seventh president of the United States, a man in the public eye for many years as both a U.S. representative and Senator (“Richard”), was a well-educated and around sixty when he resigned from the position as president. On the evening of August 8, 1974, Nixon delivered his resignation speech over a public broadcast from his Oval Office to the people of the United States. The…

Laughing has been proven to assist people in becoming healthier both mentally and physically. Americans have come to crave this happiness, especially when it comes to the humorists that people listen to. These humorists create this happiness through their critiques of ideas by stating ideas that people don’t always say directly according to author Alain de Botton. It is clear that it is the job of humorists not merely to entertain, but to put a positive spin on events that subsist as serious…

Although the word “Watergate” directly refers to the Watergate Hotel in Washington D.C., it is an umbrella term used to describe a series of complex political events and scandals between the years 1972 and 1974. These events started when Richard Nixon ran for reelection (“Watergate”). In such a harsh political climate, a forceful presidential campaign seemed essential to the president and some of his key advisers. Their aggressive tactics included what turned out to be illegal espionage. In May…

Student Activism and the Vietnam War Following the actions of the U.S government in carrying out North Vietnam bombings a sense of responsibility in ending this outright senseless acts of war emerged. A wave of activism by intellectuals and peacemakers alike spread across the country; initially only what started as a small group of protesters in higher institutions having one agenda in hand: stop the war, spread its ideas to the mass American populace who also shared their views. The protests…