First thing first, the number of times I've had to unwillingly listen to Alan Walker's Faded in the past year is obscene. What I consider mainstream music is those songs that are overplayed on the radio, with simple (and sometimes cringe worthy) chords and rhythms. Most will be present somewhere in Billboard Hot 100. Just as the category suggest, they're there because they're "hot". Not amazing or intricate or sophisticated, just "hot" matters. This hotness is achieved through either a catchy beat
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The court also addressed the issue of personal use as it pertains to fair use. A previous court for the case Williams & Wilkins v. United States (1975) decided that under the 1909 Act, copying for personal use could be considered outside the scope of copyright protection. Their reasoning for this was that “it is almost unanimously accepted that a scholar can make a handwritten copy of an entire copyrighted article for his own use.” (Williams, 9th Cir. Cal. 1975) The supreme court found there to be
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Sacco was a shoe maker and Vanzetti was a fishmonger in Italy. They both departed from Italy to the United States at a young age. In 1920, Sacco and Vanzetti were both convicted of murdering a guard and paymaster during an armed robbery of the Slater and Morrill Shoe Company. Authorities failed to conduct evidence linking them to the robbery and the murder of the postmaster. All appeals were denied by Judge Thayer. By Sacco and Vanzetti being Italian and anarchism, it had ruined their chance of
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“Disliking Books” by Gerald Graff outlines his belief that debate gives rise to critical thinking. Graff works as a professor of English and Education in the University of Illinois. First, he recounts his childhood aversion to books due to not being able to find their application and potentially being beaten by his peers for indulging in them. Graff then references Lives on the Boundary, which refers to how working class finds knowledge as a saving grace; however, he takes for granted his middle
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In Gerald Graff essay "Hidden Intellectualism" he contends that there is a probability of some type of shrouded intellectualism other than the conventional scholarly intellectualism. He suggests that in extra to simply book smarts, understudies who have more road smarts have the capacity to amass their insight into book smarts also. He underpins this contention with his childhood encounters with unique hobbies in perusing games rather than excellent writing. He then infers that it is conceivable
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A wise man once said “A man can live on his wits and his balls for only so long” (Hunter S. Thompson, 1998) meaning that book smarts will only get you so far . In Gerald Graff article “ Hidden Intellectualism,” Graff states how intellect doesn't only come in scholarly form but can also come in the form of “streets smarts”. In today society Graff feels that “schools and colleges might be at fault for missing the opportunity to tap into such starters smarts and channel them into good academic work
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In Gerald Graff’s excerpt, “Hidden Intellectualism” he explains how the school systems are to blame for the kids not wanting, or not being interested, in learning new material. He first discusses how there are two different types of smarts; “street smarts”, which is having the knowledge and experience to survive in a city, and “book smarts”, which is having knowledge by being well educated. Graff discusses how unusual it is for someone to be so intelligent and have such “street smarts”, but is not
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Internet Censorship - SOPA In the past twenty years, the Internet has grown to become an integral part of human function. The unique beauty of the Internet is that it enables its users to share their views and data to a worldwide audience and have their voice heard instantly. Unfortunately, the flexibility of the Internet also allows it to be exploited for illegal activity such as the distribution and theft of copyrighted content. Many governments find this problematic to their economies and are
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scribbles until the 20th century. I’m going to give you a little history and perspectives in this type of art, known as dada art. You will understand why this art form is much speculated to not be an art form but something that is being portrayed as “anti-art”. With similar acts of great self-expression shown throughout history, always comes some form of hate towards these expressions. Georges Hugnet the author of The Bulletin of the Museum of Modern Art Vol. 4, No. 2, Dada and Surrealism states that
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CASE STUDY The Pirate Bay: The World's Most Resilient Copyright Infringer? he Pirate Bay (TPB), a Swedish Web site (Piratebay.org), is one of the world's most popular pirated music and content sites, offering free access to millions of copyrighted songs and thousands of copyrighted Hollywood movies. In June 2011, The Pirate Bay reported that it h ad about 5 million registered users, and 25 million non-registered users (so-called "free riders"). To put that number in p erspective, consider
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