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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Max Fischer cannot be summed up with a few simple words. A plethora of descriptive definitions are still incapable of summing up such a Renaissance man. Max is such an extraordinary student that he can be compared to Paulo Freire’s idea of a student, as explained in The Pedagogy of the Oppressed. In it, Freire disparages the modern education system, “the banking concept of education,” by noting its destructive abilities of creating complacent students who regard themselves as inferior by those above
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“Disliking Books” Gerald Graff begins his academic article with the statement, “I have a certain advantage as a teacher of literature”. He began his literary career as a person who disliked and feared books principally history, philosophy, science, and social studies. Graff disliked history for the most part. However he is fond of science since it had a practical application and to him it was enjoyable to solve the problems in the textbooks. Literature in history had no apparent application to his
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In“ America Needs Its Nerds,” Leonid Fridman argues that the culture needs nerds. His society is very anti-intellectual; they care about whether you have good physical skills and social skills over academic skills. His purpose is to have more intellectual people in America, to encourage those who are, break out of their shell and be proud of who they are. To convey this argument, Fridman uses several devices that encourage his audience to understand the importance of needing more nerds. Fridman
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In Grant Penrod's "Anti-Intellectualism" Essay at the Arizona University Printer’s Devils Competition in which his essay won him second place out of hundreds of other essays; Mr. Penrod’s main point and thesis argument was that today’s intellectuals are being highly mistreated and sadly disrespected. To make a clear understanding on what he really means by this, Mr. Penrod gives prime examples of this unfortunate time for intellectuals including the extremism of anti-intellectuals, how some celebrities
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To Be or Not To Be One of the Smart Kids In the article, Anti-Intellectualism: Why We Hate the Smart Kids, Grant Penrod writes how society stereotypes intellectuals and how their efforts are trivialized. He states that the football players are held up on a pedestal and treated as if they are gods, that they receive all the attention. Intellectuals are on the other hand are treated as outcasts because they are smart. That they are left out of all social aspects of high school. Or that they are
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Associate Level Material Appendix G Ethical Actions Worksheet Write a 100- to 150-word response to each of the following questions: • Was there anything in either the University Of Phoenix Student Code Of Conduct or the Student Code of Academic Integrity that surprised you? If so, what was it? Why were you surprised? If not, why not? From reading the texts outlined in the ethics game I am surprised but not as you think I should be. I am surprised actually that the writings should
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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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Recognition, Edited by Peter M. Corcoran p. cm. ISBN 978-953-307-368-2 free online editions of InTech Books and Journals can be found at www.intechopen.com Contents Preface IX Part 1 Chapter 1 Statistical Face Models & Classifiers A Review of Hidden
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International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR) ISSN (Online): 2319-7064 Writer Adaptation for Handwriting Recognition in Hindi Language – A Survey Nupur Gulalkari1, Shreya Prabhu2, Anjali Pachpute3, Rekha Sugandhi4, Kapil Mehrotra5 1,2 , 3, 4 5 Computer Department, MIT College of Engineering, Pune, India GIST, Center for Development of Advanced Computing, Pune, India Abstract: With the advancement in technology, there is an increased use of pen-based touch screen devices and
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