Intellectual giftedness

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 apply culture" (CITE), but this comically broad definition risks "diluting the object beyond…

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 subject how ever lightweight it may seem, into gist for their mill through the thoughtful questions they bring to it. Whereas a dullard will find a way to…

through brains and physically. Whereas Gerald Graff in Hidden Intellectualism believes that “street smarts” can turn into successful academic people. In Graff’s story he does a great way of listing the ideas to support how his mother still learned intellectual ideas by not going to college. Whereas Rose, tells stories about the ways that he thinks street smart people can be turned into successful people along with a little bit…

the an intellectual and what intellectualism is about. Intellectuals believe that they know everything and that what is stated in or what they might read, view on TV or anything of that matter is correct and is the only logical explanation for anything in the world even if the topic is way over their barriers of knowledge. An example of what is deemed to be the embodiment of an intellectual and their views would be Trump our now current president. People believe him to be an intellectual based…

disadvantages in order to know how can they affect human being perspectives. Everybody has different forms of intellectualism and some of them have not even noticed that they possessed it, for example, most people would not realize they were being intellectual while reading magazines, newspapers, or even comic books; since they find the reading enjoyable, they do not think of it as challenging.…

intellectually curious is derogatory. Fridman references Webster’s New World Dictionary, providing a definition for the term “geek.” This reference demonstrates how disrespected intellectuals are treated in America. These derogatory terms are not just insulting to intellectual people, they are also damaging the way we see those intellectuals and place them in society. As long as we continue to degrade the intellectually curious with such harsh names, we will never be able to…

Utilitarian theorists generally endorse the creation of intellectual property rights as a means to foster innovation. The rights are permitted for a limited duration of time in order balance the social welfare loss of monopoly exploitation the protection of utilitarian works, particularly, technological inventions. Principally, the social value of utilitarian works lies in their ability to perform tasks (for example, a better can opener) or satisfy desires more effectively or at lower costs.…

The United States policy regarding trademarks, known officially as the U.S. Trademark Law, is incredibly important to the way American society functions on a daily basis. Not only does the law encourage competitive business, but it also plays an important role in both American culture and the legal system. A trademark is some type of symbol that points “distinctly to the origin or ownership of merchandise…and [is] legally reserved for the exclusive use of the owner” (in text). Oftentimes a…

Coca-Cola 's External Technology Assessment and Acquisition (ETA) programs have achieved a broad range of innovations for the company aimed at lowering production costs and maximizing profits (Flynn & Okuonzi, 2016). The company’s 3M Technologies Light Tube Technology creates improved and new lighting for the coolers. The technology is expected to double the company’s chilled space without increasing its carbon footprint. Additionally, it would reduce the coolers’ energy requirements, thereby…

recording, paintings, photographs, films and radio programs. This right protects individual rights and economic interests of the author in relation to this work. Partly it speaks also of the intellectual property intellectual property and thus is placed on the physical property protection and intellectual property, but together, but this concept is being fiercely debated. Copyright does not need to be registered and belong to the author when a work is recorded retain at least once on a storage…