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    The (DMCA) Digital Millennium Copyright Act was implemented to enforce copyright laws of the digital age of music downloading and sharing. The congress determined to promote the electrical commerce by the use of distribution of digital works by giving the copyright owners the legal rights to prevent piracy while maintaining the statutory limitations of the exclusive rights. The DMCA has many issues to address such as imposing rules that would prevent the circumvention in technological protection

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    Copyright Infringement

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    Elliott Shroat What is Copyright? • Copyright means that you own something and no one else can edit or change it without permission Why Should I Care About Copyright? • You should care because you want credit for what you did, not others. Which Works Are Protected by Copyright? • Mostly anything that can be seen, viewed, or heard like books, plays, and music. Which Works Are Not Protected by Copyright? • Ideas, Trends, phrases, or conversations are not protected. • Mainly just made up things that

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    In “Hidden Intellectualism” , Gerald Graff explains his views on the topic of being smart. His explanation was you are either smart in the streets or in the educational system . During Graffs younger days how he hid his intellect during his days so he wouldn't have to deal with any bullying or being labeled as a weird person. He also was scared of a beating if he proved he was smart . Instead of showing he was smart in the educational system, he showed his intellect by arguing about the cool stuff

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    nerds and geeks in America; instead of shaming and stereotyping them. In the first half of this essay, Fridman’s passionate, almost outraged diction is clearly brought into light when he says, “… [a] prestigious academic institution like Harvard, anti-intellectualism is rampant.” which impacts the reader in that even at one of the most difficult college campuses to attain admission in America, “students are ashamed to admit… how much they study.” This makes the reader feel almost hopeless because

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    In Hidden Intellectuals, Gerald Graff writes how “street smart” kids are actually smart, but schools do not play to their strengths. To persuade readers, the author uses emotional connection to childhood, and logical reasoning. He also points out various ways schools could change the way they teach students. Graff’s main target audience throughout the article is school educators and younger generations of learners. An obvious point Graff starts off with, is that kids are always trying to fit in

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    necessarily mean being academically smart, it can also mean being “street smart”. He says that many times people over look someone’s “intellectual potential” of those they consider street smart, because most people believe that “street smart” people are anti-intellectual. Graff suggests that teachers should start teaching subjects that students would actually enjoy learning, giving them a topic they can enjoy and making them look at it through ”intellectual eyes” When explaining Graff talks about his

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    opportunity to learn using things that spark their interest students are more likely to develop intellectual identities. He offers his experience dealing with streets smarts and his love for sports magazines to support his claim. In his teens, Graff was anti-intellectualism and growing up in Chicago, literacy was seen as disrespectful. He comes to realize that even though he tried not to be articulate, exposing himself to the arguments, and discussions presented both in the streets and magazines absentmindedly

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    The general argument made by Gerald Graff in his essay “Hidden Intellectualism” is that, All people are intellectual but that intellectual side is hidden, People’s intellectual side usually emerge when they focus on things they are inquisitive in, maybe in academics or in sports as long as the person doing it is really passionate about it. More specifically, Graff argues that students in school should choose the subject that they believe will assist them and applicable to their skills because once

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    Surrealism Surrealism was created in the early 1920s in Paris, France. Surrealists created strange creatures and painted scenes that don’t make much sense. They painted dreams as reality and were very creative with their work. They took everyday objects and turned them into much more. One Surrealist painter was Max Ernst. Ernst was born on April 2, 1891 in Bruhl, Germany and died on April 1,1976 in Paris, France. Creating his own style, he used pictures from medical and technical magazines

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    Summary: “Hidden intellectualism” In Hidden Intellectualism, Gerald Graff begins with the age-old arguments of the difference between “book smart” and “street smart.” Graff writes about the lost potential in street smart, and how the intellectual world does not seem to capitalize on the topic, explaining the title “hidden” intellectualism. Graff then states, “Nor do we consider one of the major reasons why school and colleges overlook the intellectual potential of street smart.” (957). This is a

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