Martin Luther King, Jr. once said, "Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." Ray Williams wrote the article “Anti-Intellectualism and the ‘Dumbing Down’ of America,” Williams argues that people are anti-intellectuals who dismiss the art of science, and humanities and replaced by entertainment, ignorance, and gullibility. These individuals believe they know and understand everything when in reality, all we are aware of happens to be replaced by
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The reading Hidden Intellectualism establishes Gerald Graff’s theory that our culture creates a negative outlook on streets smarts as opposed to traditional academic smarts. Graff goes in depth to explain his belief that intellectualism is hidden in the shadows of common interests and that students are more likely to improve their budding intelligence if they were inspired to work with things that intrigued them. I concur with Graff’s outlook on today’s approach to academics. I have come across
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Klodd Moore Mr. Vauhn EN 1320 8/7/13 Piracy vs. Copyright Violation The ongoing dispute over illegal Internet-based file sharing between the entertainment and software industries and the vast, online pirating community has been one of the most debated topics. Gripping public attention for the past decades. Napster, a website created by a college dropout became an empire. Used by hundreds of millions of people, that robs billions in revenue each year. Although these rogue websites claimed to
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Music piracy on the Internet has become a major issue because of the invention of Napster, software that allows people to share Mp3s, compressed CD-quality sound files (Greenfeld 57). Since this program provides currently 38 million users throughout the world the ability to share pirated music Mp3s, it has become the object of many lawsuits by music record companies. Napster should be regulated in order to control music piracies. Firstly, the piracy is simply against the copyright law. Secondly,
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The controversial argument among the federalists and anti-federalists was crucial for the constitution proper ratification. The anti-federalist’s goals were to prevent excess power in the central government and instead allow states to ultimately govern. Federalists promoted a larger national government for protection of the people, law enforcement and unification. The anti-federalists had the more sensible argument and plan highly supported freedom. A crucial issue the federalists had was that their
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visual form such as painting or sculpture” (Oxford Dictionaries). However, this is a traditionary explanation about art. It has no longer apply to the modern art in various aspects. Since the Dadaism movement started in Europe in early 20th century, anti-art works had been prevalent among the modern artists. The art theory had an enormous transformation during this period. Art was not only painting and sculpture anymore, many new forms of art springed up. Fountain is one of the new art forms invented
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How important was the part played by the Catholic rulers of Europe in the struggle against Protestant in the years to 1600? It is not unreasonable to state that the Catholic rulers of Europe played an important part in the struggle against Protestantism as rulers like Philip II of Spain can be seen to be fighting against Protestantism very strongly, with events taking place such as the Spanish Armada in 1588. However, whether the most important part in the struggle against Protestantism was played
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media policy brief 1 Creative Destruction and Copyright Protection Regulatory Responses to File-sharing Bart Cammaerts and Bingchun Meng London School of Economics and Political Science Department of Media and Communications LSE Media Policy Project: Media policy brief 1 Creative destruction and copyright protection Acknowledgements The authors would like to thank Professors Robin Mansell and Sonia Livingstone for their insightful editorial contributions on earlier drafts of this
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The government is made up of two groups: federalists and anti- federalists. When the time comes to ratification the two groups usually have two very different opinions. Being an Anti- Federalist myself doesn’t mean that I am against the federation. It means that I don’t think we should have a strong central government. “…affirm that bills of rights… are not only unnecessary in the proposed Constitution but would even be dangerous.” This quote is completely one sided and is very biased. What it’s
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Summarize the reaction of the public to Michelangelo’s David and Marcel Duchamp’s Nude Descending a Staircase. The Marcel Duchamp’s Nude Descending art work became one of the controversial works because people thought he was mocking the audience because they could not find a woman in the painting. The public did not like the Michelangelo’s David art work. They were offended by the nudity. People wanted to destroy the work. They had to put a skirt around to cover the nudity. What did viewers
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