Anti-clericalism

“Book Smart vs. Street Smart”, a phrase that can describe two kinds of people in this world that perfectly fits the present and the past. This statement perfectly describes two great founding members George Washington and Thomas Jefferson there are considered to be as fire and water. There are those who are “Street Smarts” like George Washington who adapts to any situation, and any environment using their experience as a guidepost to light their way to survive. Then there are “Book Smarts” is someone

The essay Hidden Intellectualism is based upon whether street smart should be considered equal with academic intelligence. Many people have remarkable street intelligence, but have very little academic intelligence. The author of the essay, Gerald Graff uses his personal examples before college of possessing street smarts then developing academic intelligence. More often than not students prefer video games, clothes designers and sports. “It’s a good bet that students get hooked on reading and writing

also from the media and our surroundings, hence the “hidden” intellectualism. He goes onto explain that “schools and colleges overlook the intellectual potential of street-smarts” (198) because these types of intellectualism are actually considered anti-intellectualism. Graff then begins to discuss that intellectualism is often looked down upon within schools, and people that are considered “school-smart” are seen as nerdy, or boring. We learn that as a child, Graff was afraid of bullying and

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) filed a lawsuit accused LimeWire of creating and running a Web service “devoted essentially” to piracy in 2006. LimeWire used peer-to-peer file sharing networking technology to allow their users easily download distribution of copyrighted songs at no cost. The LimeWire peer-to-peer client software was downloaded over 50 million times in two years since the suit was brought up and an estimated 200 million copies in total. According to this result

The Marvelous Irrational The Surrealists believed that the conscious mind repressed the power of imagination and dreams, weakening it by norms or taboos. They utilized unusual and untraditional techniques and phenomena to achieve subconscious creativity, eradicating the line between dream and reality. The film “Un Chien Andalou” was extreme for 1929, because non-traditional art was passion of both Buñuel and Dali; therefore, they were driven to shock the common movie viewers by using bizarre surrealistic

MGM v. Grokster (2005) Supreme Court of the United States Facts: Grokster, Ltd. and another company, StreamCast Networks Inc, created software that allowed users to share electronic files through a series of peer-to-peer networks on computers without using a central server. This software allowed users to share any type of digital file, but most people used the software to share and distribute copyright music and video files without permission of the copyright holders, which was encouraged by the

Is sharing always caring? You, ethics, and the music industry The music industry much like every other industry has found ways to connect their product to the people through technology. Now music is readily available to the public through many avenues ITunes, YouTube, and so much more. As music has become more available to the public the industry now faces the threat of illegal downloading and sharing of music files. Many people will purchase an album through a download

United States copyright law recognizes that certain portions of software are protected by copyright law. Like other items protected by copyright law, copyright protection attaches to software as soon as it is "fixed in a tangible medium"--for instance, when written to a disk.Copyright law requires a work to be presented in a "fixed, tangible medium." When computer software first appeared, courts saw it as intangible and labeled it a "utilitarian good" that arose from the running of source code on

The most important concept on Ted Talks, is when Erik Brynjolfsson is explaining that the new machine age is digital, exponential, and combinatorial, and that we have to race with the machines instead of racing against them. Digital goods can be copied easily at a high quality. So people spend less money on buying music, tv shows, and movies digitally, because they can attain all of these digital goods for free. Even though copying and distributing digital goods is illegal, people can still easily

In February 7, 2007, Stephanie Lenz posted on YouTube a twenty-nine-second clip of her young son dancing to Prince's song "Let's Go Crazy". The audio was poor quality, and the song was audible for only part of the twenty-nine second video. In June 2007, Universal, the copyright holder for "Let's Go Crazy", sent YouTube a takedown notice claiming the video was a copyright violation. YouTube removed the video and notified Lenz of the removal and the suspected infringement. In June 2007, Lenz sent YouTube