Anti-intellectualism

author, Blow supports only one side of his argument; that President Donald Trump is a white supremacist and is doing more harm to our country than good. Although his main audience and focus is on anti-Trump supporters and democrats, his argument is also an attempt to sway Trump supporters over to the anti side. His evidence is weak because it is not factual, yet rather opinion based (i.e. surveys, polls, tweets, etc.). His arguments don’t open any new doors on the subject/topic, rather he just…

The book Hidden Intellectualism by Gerald Graff helps us adapted to his assessments on the different direction that schools and colleges take to approach the way they teach literature. He completely disagrees that students with street smart are not being able to apply the knowledge and skill they need in schools and colleges, in addition, to the way he displays the indication that using dissimilar methods in schools and colleges will help allow students to flourish in their writing. The purpose…

What exactly is womanist theology? According to Stacy M. Floyd-Thomas, womanist theology reveals itself to be an organic discourse inasmuch as it is faithful to the church while also seeking to remake this most central and cherished institution. This is not viewed as an innovation by womanist theologians but is deemed a continuation of Black women’s traditional culture of struggle survival and, and celebration that represents the likes of womanist muses such as: Maria Steward, Sojourner Truth,…

Five lyrics. Skeet introduced Robert to the music with his rides through town, and like Dr. Moore music is a reflection of the culture. According to Dr. Moore there is five things present in Hip-Hop culture: instant gratification, materialism, anti-intellectualism, violence and misogyny. Skeet saw his son being bullied by another child on the playground, but Jackie saw…

collection of eclectic ideas about literature, philosophy, religion, social reform and the general state of American culture. It was an American literary and political group wherein their views acted as a protest against the accepted status of intellectualism and spirituality at that period..The tenets of Transcendentalism would be non-conformity, self-reliance, individualism, nature and simplified life. Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau were two of the most famous and influential…

This paper examines the figure of Jesus as portrayed in the Gospel according to Mark. I will seek to examine whether the religious teachings introduced, or actions displayed by Jesus were at odds with contemporary Greco-Roman and Jewish traditional practice. I will argue that Jesus as represented in the Gospel of Mark was, in both action and doctrine, the antithesis of what the Greek scholar, Celsus, would idealize as proper religious practice. To explain and defend my stance I will conduct a…

courage of those who helped the Jews can be viewed differently creating opposing viewpoints. While one thinks of the way in which Jews were treated during World War II, two contradictory feelings can be produced: disgust for the malevolent actions of the anti semitics or pride for the ongoing loyalty of the people. The same thing can be said about the behaviors of those who hid Jews. One (such as myself) may believe that it is courageous of the group to gallantly risk their lives for the Jews.…

is not necessarily a reflection of one person’s intelligence. In “Hidden Intelligence”, Gerald Graff argues for the merging of the “street smarts” students adequately into the classroom curriculum, stating that student’s interests are identified as anti-intellectual, and that the educational system ignores the potential that might emerge from their areas of interest. Graff also calls into question the legitimacy of the educational system that favors more notable literary books or subjects…

In the article “Hidden Intellectualism” by Gerald Graff, he writes about how the American society views street smarts in the lines,” Nor do we consider one of the major reasons why schools and colleges overlook the intellectual potential of street smarts: the fact that we associate those street smarts with anti intellectual concerns. We associate the educated life, the life of the mind, too narrowly and exclusively…

training. 2. The ability to make use of knowledge, handle complex ideas, and be able to express them effectively is valuable to all, not just to the scholar or the scientist. 3. Training in the intellectual disciplines is appropriate for all, and it is anti-intellectual and undemocratic to deprive children of this training. Lack of intellectual and cultural background should not be confused with lack of mental…