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believes that in order for a person to become successful in the world they must be book smart; however, I believe that some students are challenging that belief. In “Hidden Intellectualism”, Gerald Graff, tells his story about how he once was an anti-intellect who later in life became a true intellectualist. In Graff’s early teen years he was only interested in reading from sports magazines, but…

Popular culture, or Pop Art was a time when simple objects of everyday life were made into fine art, but more often Pop art is a statement on mass advertising and the customer culture after WWII. It also was a means to demonstrate against future conflicts as well. During the world’s recovery of WWII magazines and newspapers were full of advertisements of what to buy, and how the perfect house hold should look like. People tried to live above their means in order to fulfil what they thought they…

Since the dawn of time, people have always been interested in things that are free. It seems like a kind and harmless thing that would make the world that much better, but this is unrealistic. Everything costs something, whether it is time or cash, everything is worth something. That one game you play, with all the advertising on it; the free toy in the overpriced cereal; and even the YouTube video that was worth staying up until midnight for. But there are ways around this; Stealing, blackmail,…

Introduction Is the internet today as we know the playground that has no rules? Are copyright infringers’ taking advantage of the internet and allowed to violate copyright laws without any repercussions? Many copyright owners that feel their works of authorship are being broadcasted through the world of the internet without their permissions. This copyright material is being displayed not only on US websites but foreign websites. How can these copyright infringers’ be held accountable?…

Udemy, a stage for specialists to offer instructive courses, has been blamed for not doing what 's needed to expel stolen content from its administration. 2.1 What is going on? Udemy.com is a stage or commercial center for internet learning. It gives a stage to specialists of any sort to make courses which can be offered to the general population, either at no charge or for an educational cost expense. Udemy gives apparatuses which empower clients to make a course, advance it and gain cash…

Affirmative action was first introduced by President Kennedy in 1961 as a method of readdressing discrimination that persisted in spite of civil rights laws and constitutional amendments. This lead to profound civil rights battle. The debate on affirmative action brought up an excellent question such as “is it righteous to support affirmative action?” The answer is of course all people should be granted an equal chance to succeed in life despite of their cultural background. In order for future…

Intelligence comes in many different ways; it does not just mean having above average grades or getting a higher education. A “street smart” individual is intelligent because they have common sense and have the ability to overcome problems of everyday life through the gained knowledge of experience. English and education professor Gerald Graff from the University of Illinois at Chicago uses his article, “Hidden Intellectualism” to discuss the importance of integrating “street smarts” with…

“Article1, Section8, Clause8 of the constitution gives congress the power to make laws: to promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited time to authors and inventors exclusive right to respective writings and discoveries” (U.S. Copyright Office). Formerly, claims were registered by clerks of U.S. district courts, however in today’s time the Copyright office is a separate department of the library of congress. The mission of the Copyright Office is to promote…

and 28th of 1788. The debates were dominated by speeches from the Federalists and Anti-Federalists regarding the concerns and opinions about how the country should be governed as well as the contents of the Constitution. Among the notable Federalists were Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and George Washington while the Anti-Federalists included Thomas Jefferson among other figures. Although the Federalists and Anti-Federalists had the same goal in mind, they differed on the approaches and…

Merging the Traditional and the Modern Introduction Throughout the history of art, a variety of artists made contributions in expanding the definition of art. Some dedicated their energy in a restrained way as a personal practice, some devoted their energy into fiercely challenging the society’s current aesthetic conventions. The two artists I am going to discuss in this essay are Marcel Duchamp and Gerhard Richter. Even though they lived in different time periods, they are both influential to…