Anti-Rightist Movement

Back in 1999, a program was released called Napster, unbeknownst to its creators that they would be starting a domino effect in the world of piracy and the growing internet culture. Napster started a peer-to-peer file sharing revolution, which has become a perpetual machine in the present day. There are a limitless amount of websites these days that you can go to watch or stream television shows, movies, and music. The piracy community that exists on the internet could be compared to a Hydra…

Purpose At the end of my presentation, the audience will favor purchasing entertainment, as opposed to illegally downloading pirated material. Introduction Let’s be honest, we’ve all downloaded a form of pirated entertainment at least once in our lifetimes. It could’ve been your favorite pop album, or a 20 minute TV show you’re enjoying at the moment. But what we fail to realize is how it actively hurts the creators, and everyone involved. Illegally downloaded entertainment hurts many without…

Before attending Heidelberg University all first-year students were asked to complete a self-assessment, called The College Student Inventory (CSI). The CSI contains approximately 100 questions that are based on one’s academic motivation, coping skills, and support services. The reason why first-year needs to answer this online survey is because so one can recognize their strengths and weaknesses academically, in coping strategies, and in support services. After answering those questions The CSI…

another instance of love of country described in Rabindranath Tagore’s novel The Home and The World. Nussbaum talks about how was a young wife called Bimala fascinated by the patriotic discourse of her husband’s friend Sandip who founded Swadeshi movement that calls for a “boycott of foreign goods” (Nussbaum 3). Bimala talked about her husband’s cool and cosmopolitan devotion to this idea when he thinks that he is ready to serve country but he is looking for “right which is far greater than his…

The Founding Fathers on rights: Comparing the Federalists’ and Anti-Federalists’ views on rights, and what ended up in the Bill of Rights. In the year 1776, America was at the threshold of nationhood. There was debate and discussion about every aspect of this project because this new nation was a chance to change the things that the Founders disliked about the British rule. One of the divisive issues, was the necessity of the Bill of Rights. America was founded despite the fact that the…

Module 9 Reading Response Introduction and Questions due November 14, Midnight (4 points) From the Lecture: 1. What is the Prison Industrial Complex and how does it generate profit? Prison Industrial Complex (PIC) is private industry that run prisons by using a business model. PIC’s main goal is to generate as much profit as possible. That explains the ongoing expansion of prison. It is not different than any other hotel chain business. PIC generate profit from the prisoners. They receive…

Anyone can be intellectual? At any educational level, different groups and types of students exist. Intellectualism can be approached and understood in many forms, varying from regular study works, vast literature, and knowledge provided at educational institutions. Often believed that it was only practiced by selected few persons, such as scholars with great academic “intelligence” but as we progress in society, many of the social constructs built over the years, have turned a whole…

represented the anti-federalist party and what this party wanted for America. Throughout the writing known as, “Observations on the New Constitution” Mercy Otis Warren expressed many beliefs and ideas that suggested the Constitution and Federalist Party stripped America of many rights that they had once battled…

The Effects of Piracy (by Jake Brisk) Steal This Film spends a great deal of time covering some of the effects of piracy. The interviewees claim that file sharing and piracy promotes creativity, because intellectual property owners need to come up with new and creative ways to earn a profit from their work. Additionally, the interviewees say, piracy is promoting creativity in the general population as well. File sharing has created thousands of new singers, rappers, and DJs, because anyone can…

Hidden Intellectualism has been become a controversial topic for educators of late and needs to be assessed so that educators can address this particular issue and modify classroom teachiwhether or not a person with a highly evolved “street smarts” and who does poorly in an academic environment should be considered any less intellectual than one who is well acclimated to academia and categorized as an excellent student On the one hand gerald graff argues that “real intellectuals turn any…