Anti-intellectualism

Kyle Arnold Honors English 11-2 Research Paper Final Draft 27 January 2017 The Struggle to Be Heard Attitude and action is the direct result of any situation. When leaders take into consideration the opinions and expressions of their followers, they have created a condition where the followers are in good spirits and continue to trust in their leaders. However, when leaders enable quick decisions without consulting their supporters, they have given their supporters no voice in the matter; this…

Since the invention of the printing press made copies of works easily reproducible there has been worry by content creators about having their works copied for someone else's financial gain. Through time other mediums have been introduced with song, films and books all now at risk of being copied and the creator having their work stolen and not having any financial compensation. But with the advent of laws to protect works and their creators, a fine line has developed between protecting original…

Wrist and upper-arm blood pressure monitors are mainstays of the blood pressure monitor industry, but some people find them a little bit too bulky or intimidating to be of any use. Finger blood pressure monitors provide a welcome and handy (no pun intended) alternative to these more popular models. A lot of people are suspicious of finger blood pressure monitors and believe them to be unreliable and ineffective when it comes to delivering a reliable reading of one’s blood levels. While it is…

Of all the movements America has gone through since its inception, I believe the realism movement best-aligns itself with who I am as a person. I believe that we, as humans, are nothing more than a collection of atoms, just like every space-occupying thing in our universe, and that we are no more significant than any other object. A way this belief translates to my every-day life is how I am not a religious person. Most of the popular religions teach that humans are somehow “special”, and they…

Surrealism is an art movement that began in the early 1920s in Paris, France. The effect it had on art all around the world is still very much alive today. There were many famous surrealism artists during the movement. Also, some of the most famous works that are still admired today were created during the surrealism art movement. Surrealism is an art movement that stemmed out of the movement known as Dada, which was a movement meant to deliberately defy reason and logic when it came to…

As a result, from this initial modern revolution in painting initiated by Picasso, other artists began to explore new ideas and visions of their own. One of the most outrageous and psychologically obtuse painters of the Twentieth Century was Salvador Dali. His works revolutionized a genre of painting referred to as Surrealism. Summarily defined as an abstract representation of true to life images placed in unconventional settings, as if the person viewing it was in a dream like state. When…

Since the birth of the computer, people have partaken in many activities based on the web. Some positive, some negative, and some down right illegal. The most common incident of illegal activity online is through what some would call modern day piracy. The more accepted term used is file sharing, and it is just that: sharing files over the web, typically illegally. File sharing has been a controversy who’s legality has been frivolously debated since Napster in 1999. (Oberholzer) File…

Born in the late 1910s and early 1920’s, artists sought out to release their unrestrained imagination of the subconscious through experimenting with a new form of expression called automatism that in turn led to the birth of the surrealist movement. Martinez-Conde et al state that the movement blurred the line between the real and imagined which was most evident in the works of Salvador Dali (2015). Salvador Dali is a surrealist artist whose name became synonymous to the word surrealism. Dali’s…

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,…