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    claimant is filing a DIB claim alleging disability since 01/20/2010 due to depression, borderline intellectual functioning, borderline diabetes, hypertension, morbid obesity, sleep apnea, migraines, spine issues, glaucoma, and asthma. There is a prior ALJ denial dated 04/10/2013. The ALJ determined the claimant retained the capability of returning…

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    Carrie Stangis Case Study

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    Integration • Community • Services Coordination • Community Employment Services • Job Development • Job-Site Training • Job Supports • Employment Services Coordination • Organizational Employment Services The human problems that Carrie work with in her job are • Intellectual Disabilities • Cognitive Disabilities • Developmental Disability • Chronic Illness Describe the human problems this person works with in his/her job. I asked Carrie if it was possible for her to give me an idea of how…

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    He encourages me and sometimes even pressures me to obtain the highest form of “book smart” while using my observations of street smarts from him. Therefore, I agree to the extent that schools should incorporate the students’ passions into scholarly subjects to help transition the “rudiments of the intellectual life” within the main subjects in school, but not with his idea about “developing classroom units on sports, cars, fashions, rap music, and other such topics,” (Graff, 64). Schools should…

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    People have one or many types of intellectual knowledge on a topic and/or subject that's interesting to them, driving them to intake and learn as much information as possible. However, at the end of the day, those people discovering their interests often use it to benefit themselves, motivate and teach others, or even debate. English Professor at University of Illinois and coauthor of "Hidden Intellectualism", Gerald Graff, uses sports and his childhood to illustrate how street smart is much…

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    Graff then reveals the logical conclusion behind his adolescent story, “I see now that in the interminable analysis of sports teams, movies, and toughness…I was practicing being an intellectual before I knew that was what I wanted to be” (383). Through the analysis of street smart subjects, Graff discovers the basics of critical thinking. Thus, Graff is living proof that street smarts have intellectual depth. This in turn, reinforces the reader’s earlier insights and solidifies Graff’s argument…

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    subject is just as academic. I agree with Graff’s main point, however, I take umbrage with small details used in the essay. In any other world of that has interests or hobbies, that specific brand of intellectualism is just as important as academic intellectualism. Graff writes that colleges and schools argue that subjects that are not inherently weighty and academic are not worth improving our intellects: “We assume that it’s possible to wax intellectual about Plato,…

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    the mask of normal discussions about sports, soap operas, and fashion, among others. Most students harbor intellectual resources that go untapped by formal schooling. According to Graff, book smarts may take various forms and hide in what is commonly referred to as “street smarts”, hence the phrase “hidden” intellectualism (Cooke, 2013). For this…

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    This paper is about Russian Intellectuals. There are a lot of things to talk about on this topic, but to save some time here is a short list of the information. First is what the word intellectuals is and how it was for the people and government of Russia. Second would be about the first Intelligently and how it started, under the Soviet rule and many other things. Third would be about Russia’s Intellectual problem or problems, and fourth is Origins of Russian Intellectual Culture. Fifth and…

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    Intellectual Foucault

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    We are really looking forward to tomorrow's discussion and are hoping it will clarify some of these points for us further - however, we have done a lot of thinkinng about these topics in the last few days and this is how we hope to steer the conversation. Firstly, our readings for this week were centered around intellectuals and universities. But what is an intellectual? We encountered several definitions from diverse sociological standpoints. We started with "those who create, generate, and…

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    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…

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