Anti-Zionism

In this essay I will be summarizing the article “Hidden Intellectualism” by Gerald Graff. He argues that not only are book smarts good to have but also street smarts. He touches on how he thinks schools systems have killed our interest and passion of being intellectuals? And what subjects are better to write about, sports, cars, fashion, Plato and Shakespeare? In the article the author states “Everyone knows some young person who is impressively “street smart” but does poorly in school” (Graff…

File Sharing By: Ella Bates 5th Hour DLMD File sharing is the practice of distributing information or providing information throughout the internet. Some examples would be, pictures, videos, documents, school work, and online books. But, there are different ways for you to share files. Some examples may include, peer file sharing and file sink and sharing services. Peer sharing, also known as P2P, allows them to access “media files” like books, movies, and…

Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton were two Founding Fathers with contrasting backgrounds that shaped their views and desires for the new nation. Jefferson, an anti-federalist from a wealthy, agricultural background advocated for the protection of states’ rights and the limitation of federal power. Hamilton, a federalist born from a poor family and who established himself through the military, advocated for a strong, central government. Both Jefferson and Hamilton would find themselves at…

The illegal downloading or called torrenting, which means sharing the movie & TV series through peer-to-peer on the internet, has been an open secret for a long time. Many people use it as a tool to entertain themselves, but there are also many people against it. Though all these argumentative thoughts from different people, the article “Is downloading really stealing? The ethics of digital piracy” by the author Christian Barry gives his answer very persuasively Firstly, the use of logo seems…

Does Barbro have the right of Re-sale ? In the Usedsoft case the CJEU held that the grant of an unlimited license together with the possibility to download a copy of a computer program is tantamount to a first sale, which exhausts the right of distribution, so that a further resale of that copy cannot be opposed by the right holder in this case ,Network Inc . This is to mean that Barbro would enjoy the benefits of being part of a first sale contract and as such she can resell the albums…

J Buchanan Activity 6 V1 Edwards Weston’s ‘Pepper No.30’ fits into ‘Modernism’ because: This new way of expression through the medium of photography rejected emotional intent and painterly effects for real, sharp actual images. The change was due to society thinking the past was outdated a new social and political emergence of the industrial world was reshaping our outlook on life. A group of American Modernist photographers called themselves the F64 club. F64 relating to long exposure…

Realism in film is neither a rigid genre nor is it an isolated structure in filmmaking and reflects our daily lives projected onto a screen, with a plausible narrative in place and characters we can relate to. Realism films are often devoid of style, or lack an aesthetic and instead focus on the content within the story, which tends to fall towards subject matter surrounding everyday life situations and sometimes addresses societal issues. Realism can combine with a variety of genres such as…

In his critical essay, “America Needs Its Nerds”, Leonid Fridman attacks the rampant anti-intellectualism in American pop culture through juxtaposition and rhetorical questions in order to reform the misdirected society into one that upholds “nerds” so that the country can be successful in its competition with foreign countries that already have that mindset. Furthermore, Fridman elaborates on the problem by demonstrating the derogative origin of “geek” and its unjust application to the…

The first sentence of Everybody Is Ignorant, Only on Different Subjects got me hooked as soon as I read it. The third word was a word that I was not familiar of. I searched it up and it means doing something without permission. This was a brilliant idea is incorporate this word in this sentence because it made me become very curious. Eliot A. Butler is right though. Who in the world has permission to discuss the educated person. Only people that come into mind is a schologist. I learned that…

How has file sharing in the digital age affected the music industry? What is a file sharing? Recent developments in information technologies have revolutionised the way we listen to music and share it with people around. The new cutting-edge technologies, such as file sharing, has weakened copyright protection, causing the increase of the amount of music shared on the Internet illegally violating copyrights. As a result, the copyright-related companies have lost customers and revenue. This…