Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon CHIN 1088 12/15/2015 Fang 1 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Let’s look back to the title of this essay. Yes, it is the very film’s name that I would like to talk about. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was released in China in 2000, and directed by Ang Lee. I believe that lots of people are not unfamiliar to this person. Ang Lee was born on October 23, 1954 in Taipei, Taiwan. His titles are not only a film director, but also producer and screenwriter. Early
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Yoshino’s Essay Summary In The Pressure to Cover, Kenji Yoshino’s essay that was published in the New York Times magazine on January 15, 2006, he informs his audience about the term “covering”. This term was taken from Erving Goffman’s book “Stigma” which is about how people handle their differences and disabilities (34). Yoshino writes educated claims from his experiences as a Japanese homosexual. He introduces his audience to two different terms, passing and covering. Passing applies to an individual
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Social class puts us all in separate groups, depending on our experience with wealth and power. In the articles “Blue Collar Brilliance” and “Hidden Intellectualism,” we are exposed to a different form of intellectualism that is not entirely based on academics. Authors Mike Rose and Gerald Graff describe how education plays a significant role in today’s society. The amount of money one has and the type of area one lives in affects the type of school a student attends. Those that live in a richer
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Kelsey Helmer English 131 Amber Carver 29 September 2015 Hidden Intellectualism Analysis In his eight page essay, Gerald Graff argues that street smarts can very well be more intellectual than street smarts. Street smarts should be encouraged to learn in a way that interests them so they have the same equal opportunity to be just as or more intelligent to book smarts who benefit from school in a different way. Back in the 1950’s, you had to choose whether you were a “hood” or a “clean cut”
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which it is written. It should use adequate evidence to properly augment claims made by its author. When comparing Mike Rose’s essay “Blue Collar Brilliance” and Gerald Graff’s essay “Hidden Intellectualism,” the more effective essay is Graff’s due to the examples and comparisons that he uses. “Hidden Intellectualism” begins with a relatable example of a student who is very smart when it comes to non-academics but does not perform well in school. “We associate the educated life, the life of the mind
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Summary and Response September 16, 2014 In Hidden Intellectualism Gerald Graff’s argument is about “book smarts” (intellectualism) and “street smarts”. His argument is that most people look down on the street smart people thinking that they don’t know anything and are not smart and if you were “book smart” they also look at you as being too smart to hang out with certain people. He also puts many examples and even his own experience as growing up. This quote says it all and even in his own experience
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Salem Saleh 10-13-13 Summary Composition 800 Hidden Intellectualism In recent discussion of, intelligence, a controversial issue has been whether or not schools provide equal opportunity for students of all interests. The schools believe there is a certain standard in which students will become successful and smart. However, Gerald Graff, in Hidden Intellectualism, argues that students who are considered, “street smart” should also be acknowledged as, “intellectual” but do not meet that
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Name: Instructor’s Name: Course: Date: Amish Life Introduction The Amish are a group of Christians famous for their simple style of living. They originated from a group of Christians that followed Jakob Amman during the religious schism in Switzerland of the Alsatian Anabaptist. Membership into the Amish starts with a baptism, which often occurs between 18-25 years of age and the member, is expected to follow the Ordnung, which are guidelines on the Amish way of living (Clark 97). Every
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Victoria Barkon December 15, 2014 ENG 890 Reflection Essay- final draft Reflection essay Writing has not always been my strongest subject in school; in fact it has always been my weakest just because I had always struggled with grammar, spelling, sentence structure, etc. I have always end up with bad grades in whatever writing classes I took. But as the semester is coming to an end I can honestly say I have learned and
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English 1301: Rhetoric and Composition I Fall 2014 Instructor: Cathy Corder, Ph.D. Course Information: Section 043, TH 119, TTh 8 – 9:20am Office/Hours: Carlisle Hall 523, M 1 – 2pm, Tues 10am – 12noon, and by appointment Email: ccorder@uta.edu ENGL 1301 RHETORIC AND COMPOSITION I: This course satisfies the University of Texas at Arlington core curriculum requirement in communication. This course will require students to read rhetorically and analyze scholarly texts on a variety of subjects
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