Anti-clericalism

In Grant Penrod’s “Anti- Intellectualism: Why We Hate the Smart Kids” essay, he argues that academic achievements should be acknowledged equally just as an athletic achievement. Smart kids do not receive the acknowledgment that they deserve since society has a negative look regarding smart kids. Anti- Intellectualism is hostile feelings towards intellectuals or intellectual thoughts. Society tends to celebrate non-intellectuals. The essay talks about smart kids being labeled social outcasts for the

Rhetorical Analysis Essay: Past president of the Modern Language Association, Gerald Graff, in his essay “Hidden Intellectualism”, adapted from his 2003 book, Clueless in Academe: How Schooling Obscures the Life of the Mind, puts in perspective the idea that schools in general all focus too much on the respected literacy stereotype. Graff’s purpose is to convince his audience that you, as a student, will get more out of writing about something you are interested in rather than writing about a boring

his adolescent years when he absolutely abhorred reading. He talks about how the only reading he did back then was when he read his sports magazines and sports novels written for boys. Graff says, that at the time, he believed himself to be a sort of anti-intellectual because of his behavior towards the more classical approaches to learning. I know this is not a totally

In speeches the real and ideal values are the enduring values of the past (as what Paul Keating sees it which the real) playing a key role in the present and future (the ideal that Paul Keating speaks of) similarly, fact playing a key role in fiction (how Geraldine Brooks portrays the difference in mathematics and English). The dichotomy of these values allows for speeches to retain textual integrity. Paul Keating’s ‘Redfern Speech’ demonstrates textual integrity as it has dichotomy of real and ideal

In reading Gerald Graff’s short essay Hidden Intellectualism, I agree and disagree with some of what Graff argues. He emphasizes that by having students write about something they are passionate about, it will inspire them to write more academically and be willing to focus on their studies and academics. He informs the reader that “It was in these discussions with friends about toughness and sports, I think, and in my reading of sports books and magazines, that I began to learn the rudiments of the

3 Piracy in Australia 3.1 Current Issues, Problems and Challenges Enforcing anti-piracy laws have always been a challenge. For instance, blocking piracy websites has been an endless game of cat and mouse as websites keep reappearing under different domains. Moreover, pirates can use Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) to get around the blocked sites. 3.2 Current Statistics and Future Trends According to the Australian Site-Blocking Efficacy Report produced by online analysis company INCORPO, there

LimeWire, as many know, was a free peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing program. In August of 2006, LimeWire found themselves in some major legal trouble when the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) demanded LimeWire be ceased for good. In the suit, the RIAA accused LimeWire of operating a web service ““devoted essentially” to piracy by allowing users to upload and download songs without permission.” (“Major Record Labels Settle Suit with LimeWire”). The question of law before the court

“Hundreds of Internet users are suspected of illegally trading music using file-swapping services” (www.joelcomm.com, year). This surge in the illegal trading of music is having a major impact on the music industry this is why we should have harsher punishment of the illegal download of music .Many smaller and lesser known artists are suffering because they are not making any money form the downloading and illegal trading off their songs. The illegal download of copy righted music and the easy access

that people have oh so precariously followed for centuries. Before Marcel Duchamp even existed on this planet, the term art has been taken for granted for thousands of years, because nobody had ever really questioned art until Duchamp produced his anti-art. Ukrainian businessman Victor Pinchuk says, “What is extraordinary about contemporary art is the energy - it has our energy. New energy. Pieces hundreds of years old are beautiful from an aesthetic point of view, but without our modern energy.”

When interpreting Herman Melville’s Bartleby, the Scrivener, many critics like to look at Bartleby and the mental workings that make him say “I would prefer not to”. However, I believe it is much more interesting to look at the lawyer in the context of a capitalist society. Bartleby, the Scrivener begins with a classic capitalist scene: An 1850’s law office on Wall Street. The protagonist, an unnamed lawyer, commences the story by telling the reader about how for thirty years, his life has been