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While high school in reality is full of surprises and twisty roads, teen television shows and movies are based off a strict set of conventions that allude to other teen films. In David Denby 's "High School Confidential: Notes on Teen Movies," he describes the typical movie storyline and characters: the blonde, superficial cheerleaders that make up the popular crowd, along with the buff, handsome jocks versus the social outcasts comprised of geeks and freaks. Denby continues to explain the nature of these two social standings, including how the “cool group” bullies anyone below them. Denby goes on further to discuss how a particular outsider usually becomes the hero or heroine of the story, despite their social discomfort or awkward

Leonid Fridman, the author of the article,”America Need Its Nerds” in the New York Times, addresses how geeks and nerd are portrayed negatively in American society. He asserts the faults in American society’s values in order to convince the readers of the New York Times to appreciate the intellectually curious instead of degrading them. Fridman integrates logos,ethos, and pathos to support his objective of persuading the readers of the New York Times to acknowledge the intellectuals rather than patronizing them.

In today’s society, constant judgement as to how well you fit in achieves nothing, rather distinguishes hope for improvement. Ideas including being looked down upon for an individual’s intelligence or being pushed aside from groups due to one’s academic ability are becoming an epidemic as those who seek to better themselves are seen as inferiors. The United States today is accustomed to issues as far as the negative deterioration towards those who possess higher mental values. In America Needs Its Nerds by Leonid Fridman, a look into how geeks and nerds are identified, the reality of childhood dilemmas, and the problem in the broad spectrum of the globe are all noted and questioned as to why America as a society expresses such a negative position

The Big Bang Theory has been on CBS television since September 24, 2007. The premise of the show revolves around two brilliant physicists who work together at Cal Tec: Leonard Hofstadter and Sheldon Cooper. They are not only colleges but also roommates and best friends. Sheldon is eccentric and introverted while struggling with obsessive compulsive disorder and unique, yet very scientific, approach to the world. Leonard is a combination of the extrovert personality and introvert personality. He keeps his friends close and tries to maintain peace but is not always comfortable in confrontational situations and is the leader of the group. They are surrounded by mostly likeminded friends’ mechanical engineer Howard Wolowitz, and astrophysicist

Author, Alexandra Robbins, in her novel The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth, describes her quirk theory and establishes its credibility as she centers her theory around seven different characters as she narrates their high school experiences. Robbins focuses on the negative effects of popularity and how social norms can affect an individual, regardless of what social group they belong to. She creates an amusing, informative tone in order to appeal to the geeks, freaks, and popular crowds with relatable experiences and strong essays in regards with the social scene, exclusivity, and how one handles a given situation.

Fridman, an activist in the fight to revive the “nerd”, gives real world examples and comparisons to help develop his argument that America needs nerds. In his piece Fridman writes this,

Fridman described the way nerds are seen “ ostracized”, meaning banish or outcast to identify the social role a nerd is. In other words, nerds are view as a discrimination. Fridman, later on, reveals that being smart can change your status from cool to loser/outcast. He introduces to the reader’s that in U.S elementary school’s, is where it all begins (when people are starting to label other’s), clarifying that it starts on an early age. Then it leads up to high schools to college. Fridman reveals, when a book is chosen over an activity, your put in a group call “ social outcast”. People also state that books can be a problem to their communication with other

In his essay “America Needs Its Nerds”, author Leonid Fridman discusses the stigma against so-called “nerds” and how these nerds are essential to America in keeping up with other countries. He does this providing several examples. However, this essay is ultimately weak because of the broadness of his examples, as well as the overarching strawman he creates to represent “society”. By relying solely on these examples, he creates a very simple one sided argument

Nerd culture has been predominant within the recent decades and such had gradually begun to receive a great following. But, the way people see nerd culture today is vastly different then what it was seen as before the 21st century. Modern culture appropriates nerd culture and enhances it into something in which the individuals are not necessarily ousted or shunned by society. Instead modern culture has taken nerd

Most relationships, whether they are romantic or not, usually start off harmoniously. Then as time passes conflicts arise. When these conflicts arise, one feels and expresses a variety of emotions that result in positive or negative relationship behaviors. When negative behaviors erupt, the relationship becomes threatened if positive behaviors do not form. This was the situation between Leonard and Penny on The Big Band Theory. I will discuss the conflict, how they began to handle it, how they ended up handling the conflict, and my opinions of

Nowadays, television has become one of the most influential sources of entertainment due to its ability to shape our society’s ideals and beliefs. Through its ability to allure viewers with its humorous yet realistic depictions of everyday life in sitcoms, television can easily communicate stereotypes of issues such as gender. In shows such as “New Girl,” a situational comedy revolving around an eccentric teacher named Jessica Day and her four newly acquired male roommates, Nick, Winston, Schmidt, and Coach, as they all try to deal with their career, relationship, and life choices, aspects of stereotypical gender roles often come into play. In the episode “Thanksgiving III,” Nick starts to feel insecure in his own masculinity as Coach criticizes

In old television; the role of a misfit was one of comedic effect, an excellent example is one of the first and certainly one of the most popular comedy shows of it's era; the three stooges. In which, almost every gag is either violent slapstick, a farcical joke, or demeaning jokes centered around the main cast's stupidity. As one approaches modernity; the role of a misfit changes significantly, over the decades, society becomes more tolerant of difference and more accepting toward individuality, imposing less expectations on youth to replicate their parent's lives, around this time shows such as Freaks and Geeks and The A Team. Eventually, television and society begin celebrating differences, seen in modern television in many shows, especially

Watching television is one of usually pastimes for people, especially watching reality television. According to the Oxford dictionary reality television is a “television programs in which real people are continuously filmed, designed to be entertaining rather than informative” (Oxford). Beauty and the Geek pairs together "Geeks" (socially inelegant nerd breeds) and "Beauties" (beautiful women handpicked for depicting bimbos), who then take on challenges. Each week one couple is forced to leave the house and the last remaining couple wins $250,000 in prizes. Along the way the geeks are renovated, and the beauties learn various things about geek culture. Beauty and the geek amplifies a negative stereotype of men and women enforced by pairing smart, nerdy men with women focused on looks.

I am a nerd. I always have been and always will be. I love playing video games where a little Italian plumber becomes a knight in shining armor as he has to save his sweet princess. I love sitting on the edge of my seat as I watch adventures take place in a galaxy far far away. I don’t party, play sports, or find enjoyment in gambling my money away with fantasy football; it just isn’t my thing. I much rather spend Sundays watching a young queen take back her kingdom alongside her three dragons. I rather go on long banters for hours at a time with my friends as we talk about why Batman can hands down beat superman in a fight or what Star Wars movies were better, the prequels or the originals and sometimes things can get heated but it’s because

Astronomers believed the Universe was created about 14 billion years ago. During that time, the entire Universe was inside a bubble that was thousands of times smaller than a pinhead, and it was insanely hot and dense. Out of nowhere this little bubble started expanding. This expansion created what we know as the Universe. In such little time the Universe went from the size of an atom to the ginormous galaxy we have that is continuously growing.