for free) the music and turn around and share it with friends and family members. Illegal downloading and sharing is the reason for loss of income in the music industry. Global music piracy causes $12.5 billion of economic losses every year (RIAA - Anti Piracy, 2014). If the amount of money that goes in to the music industry is not coming in, artists might feel as though it is not worth the time and effort to continue their craft. The successful partnership between a music label and a global superstar
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Blogging is a dynamic part of the internet information sharing experience, and it is up to everyone to understand the role that bloggers play in sharing information responsibly. Bloggers started in the late 1990’s as an online movement challenging conventional journalism and creating an outlet for personal expression due to the lack of need for conventional publishing support. This explosion led to thousands of new voices in the public forum commenting on any number of subjects at a time. The
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Europe between World War I and World War II. It was founded by a small group of artists attempting to unlock the power of imagination and heavily influenced by Sigmund Freud. Surrealism evolved from the Dada movement, which created paintings of anti-art that purposely defied normal reasoning to the viewer. However, Surrealism focused on positive expression of the unconscious mind not blocked by rational thinking (Voorhies). Surrealism focused on the exposing of dream-like atmospheres by using
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| Adverse Reactions to Prescription Drugs | 32,0002 | Suicide | 30,6223 | Incidents Involving Firearms | 29,0001 | Homicide | 20,3084 | Sexual Behaviors | 20,0001 | All Illicit Drug Use, Direct and Indirect | 17,0001, 5 | Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs Such As Aspirin | 7,6006 | Marijuana | 07 | Since the 1930’s there have been many debates about hemp and its legalization. There is a lot of propaganda behind marijuana, but if there is one fact that should be known about marijuana
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Have you heard the term copyright? I think yes, but you may be wonder what it means or what it does. Copyright is a form to protect your work against plagiarism or any kind of misuse. But should copyright penalties be tougher? My answer is no. Tougher laws won’t solve the problems that copyright is fighting in today’s world, like piracy. Increasing the penalties will only make the problem bigger. Like Oscar Wilde said: “the best way to get rid of temptation is drooped into it.” This means that people
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government. While the anti-federalists claim to want to improve the government, but instead puts powers into the hands of the states. A centralized government that “is a system of democratic rules and institutions in which the power to govern is shared between national and provincial/state governments, creating what is often called a federation.” Even giving the constitution a certain amount of power, it created a method of checks and balances to prevent dictatorship. Anti-federalists wanted to
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Many people have shared a problem that has kept them from reaching their full potential in academic studies. One place where students have trouble is when they are unable to relate to course work material, but have a knowledge of their own. Communities may also feel the same affect when someone’s intellect is not accepted as the norm; in this case, street smarts is looked downed upon. In the essay, “Hidden Intellectualism” Gerald Graff explains the troubles these students face when trying to apply
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In Gerald Graff’s “Hidden Intellectualism” he goes into detail as to why intelligence is not just about book smarts but also street smarts. He goes on to state that “…schools and colleges might be at fault for missing the opportunity to tap into such street smarts and channel them into good academic work” (264). Many people discredit students all the information that street smart students possess since now days’ intellectualism is only accredited to subjects such as philosophy or historical wars
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In the article “Hidden Intellectualism” by Gerald Graff, he speaks an abundance about his experiences with being an intellectual, and feeling satisfactory with it. When he was young, he never thought it was “cool” to be smart, or into reading, and he tried to “fit in” with the different crowds of people in his school and neighborhood, who were not known to be the brightest. Ultimately, bold figures in society no longer popularized this “idea” of street smarts being the means of knowledge, and started
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Last year was the best year in North Carolina's history with a graduation rate of “85.4 percent” (NC State Board of Education). The title of the article is “Hidden Intellectualism” from the book Clueless in Academe; How Schooling Obscures the Life of the Mind by Gerald Graff. The book was written in 2003. The purpose of this text is to teach people that people can be taught to use academic methods and thoughts for items in the domain of “street smarts” Graff tries to tell readers about different
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