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    MKT9M6 – Living Outside The Box A report to the founder of the new online company 16/04/2013 Executive Summary This report aims to establish the appropriate business model to adopt for a new online retailer. The content of this report will cover the changing trends in the current market environment that will affect the prospects of this new company‚ focusing on four key areas‚ technology‚ ethics‚ population and the recession. The technology

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    are able to love‚ work‚ and act as responsible members of the community” (pg 9). Although education serves a role in a person’s life‚ is the material provided to educate these students sufficient though? Gerald Graff argues in his article‚ Hidden Intellectualism‚ that if school systems would incorporate more youth culture into the lessons‚

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    Summary of Hidden Intellectualism In his essay‚ Hidden Intellectualism‚ Gerald Graff asserts that although many overlook it‚ street smarts are as important to a person as book smarts. He demonstrates that while some people come across as very street smart‚ with knowledge on a variety of subjects‚ they do poorly in school and seem like they are not smart. Also‚ schools overlook street smarts as they associate it with anti-intellectual concerns. But what truly makes someone a good thinker‚ Graff

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    Why Watching Tv Is Bad

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    question that comes to mind‚ but is it ever really thought about? Does television make people smarter? According to Steven Johnson’s “watching TV makes you smarter” he states‚ “The relationship between the explicit violence and the post 9/11 terrorist attack anxiety is not the only element of 24 that would have been unthinkable on prime time network twenty years ago”(278). Personally I don’t believe that television makes you gain knowledge. I have never heard of anyone stating that until now. All my life

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    Cultural Intellectualism In Gerald Graff’s essay Hidden Intellectualism; he criticizes those who do not put appropriate value into "street smarts." Graff persists that knowledge extends further than academic learning and carries into the everyday life. He writes about some of his precollege experiences with being as a “nonintellectual” due to his lack of interest in academic literary subjects. Graff also discusses how his interest in sports actually led him into academic intellectualism as an adult

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    part and its function‚ tell you what’s wrong and how to fix it‚ and spit endless facts about car brands that don’t even sound like English to me. However‚ he never did very well in school. Everyone‚ his teachers included‚ said that he lacked “book smarts‚” and encouraged him to attend technical school for a mechanics certification rather than a university for a degree. This is very common and probably sounds sensible to you. Gerald Graff‚ author of‚ “Hidden Intellectualism‚” an article published in

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    Does The Internet Make You Smarter? Brentney Davis Ivy Tech Community College Cover Letter Dear Professor Downton: In my peer responses‚ I noticed a lot of the students said I didn’t have the questions I proposed answered for them so I went back and included that into my final draft. I also made sure to state the article in the introduction that I am summarizing and responding to. Problems I encountered while revising my draft were the compatibility of the computer I was using with the Microsoft

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    Smetanova ulica 17 2000 Maribor Android TV Box (Technical review paper) Author: Arne Korsika Mentor: Izr. prof. dr. Matjaž Debevc Maribor‚ 9.11.2012 Abstract: In this technical review paper‚ the object of observation and testing is Android TV box. All tests will be carried out objectively and without our own point of views. From research and review we expect to expand our knowledge of the Android TV devices and try to develop the first Android TV application. We expect investigate the advantages

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    interact with each other in a global society. Choose another technological innovation that you think is important. Give specific reasons for your choice. Advances in transportation and communication like the airplane and telephone have changed the way the nations interact with each other in a global society.Another technological innovation that I think important is the television. Television or the so-called ’idiot box’ has changed every aspect of our life. It is a very good mean of entertainment. It is

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    A summary of “hidden intellectualism” by Gerald Graff: In his essay “Hidden Intellectualism” Gerald Graff offers a critique of the education system for overlooking the intellectual potential of those who possess unconventional “street smarts”. We as a society assume that only the inherently weighty academic subjects grant us “true” knowledge‚ and that knowledge in subjects such as fashion‚ sports or even dating holds no intellectual tenor. The problem with this assumption‚ Graff insists‚ is that

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