Beauty and the Geek

like-minded people that shared an interest in something. High school is full of stereotypes: the sporty jock, the flirty cheerleader, the quiet band geek. We assume that all people that like the same things are the same. We put people into boxes like prison cells. Humans are not clones. We do not have an original that we base all of our actions off of. The beauty of the human race is our uniqueness and

ethics and philosophy to study science and mathematics. A humanist educator called the need for liberal education “because they make men free (Rice 104-105).” Humanist also studied the human body and form; meanwhile, medieval scholars did not. Beauty and health were emphasized as important qualities of people to Humanist. Vergerio descried the necessity for liberal studies as “worthy of a free man (King

Since the fateful, technological end of World War II, humankind has known that geeks are damn useful in warfare. With the new platform, Arduino, sweeping the DIY geek community by storm and featured on such sites as Make Magazine and Instructables, it was only a matter of time before capabilities for espionage surfaced. Regardless of your feelings towards violence, the 6 Arduino-based gadgets below are really freaking cool. #1 UAV Spy Plane hacknmod.com Do you need an unmanned plane to take

in from New Jersey, and I was excited to see him. Over mashed potatoes and the smell of turkey cooking, the subject of my glasses came up, probably provoked by my pupils which were still enormous. We joked about it, and talked about the scores of geeks, famous people, and world changers that had glasses. Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Teddy Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Harry Potter, John Lennon, Elton John, Mohandas Gandhi all wore glasses. These were the people that I aspired to be like, that I looked up to

Once upon a time, you probably liked your body and appreciated the many things it could do, but the route to adulthood, doubts and insecurities may have crept in. The images the media exposures the society to are of thin and beautiful women and extremely muscular men. There are negative affects to what the media is showing the body image and mood states of young women and men. The mass media is designed to reach large audiences through the use of technology. From the moment nations wakes up until

person. Being an individual is beautiful and refreshing, not something that should be punished. Many celebrities have been victims of bullying in their childhood because they were different. Zac Efron notes, “I wasn’t a heart throb at school; I was a geek, I was into musical theatre, which isn’t perceived as the coolest thing. There were guys who were 6’ 1” with beards and big muscles and I was a gawky 17-year-old, a skinny, awkward kid. I was a late bloomer. Growing up was hell.” There are billions

down. Strength is not a trait that can be defined in a dictionary. So often, I find that strength is believed to be a universal word; that it means the same thing for every being on the planet. But strength is a feeling, it is relative just like beauty, love, happiness, and every other trait humans have conceived.

It was a gift from my parents when I was 15 but I had waited until I was 16 to drive it, I didn’t want to crash this beauty. I headed over to Rainbow Road, yes that is my street name, and Mario does not race here. The clock on my dashboard said 9:00 pm wait wasn’t it just 6? Today had been a long day I couldn’t wait to get home. Once I arrived at my house I could still

ever so lasting. From Coco Chanel’s simple designs to Victor Hugo’s enchanting prose to Claude Monet’s detailed paintings, it is clear that the French have an unmeasured value for artists, innovators and people who appreciate the intrinsic value of beauty. France has always been the epicenter of the art world; being the birthplace of the greatest forms of art and renowned artists. One of the artists

glasses doesn’t make someone ugly, and it certainly doesn’t change the fact that Taylor Swift is a perfect representation of most beauty standards in America. She ever perfectly pulls off also playing the pretty popular girl in the music video, who is supposed to represent everything nerdy Taylor isn’t. Further confirmation that these glasses problematically symbolize beauty standards in today’s society comes at the end of the video, when nerd Taylor shows up at the dance without the glasses and suddenly